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Re:US boy names that became girl names and vice versa on Monday November 02, 2026 @01:58PM (#50341795)
Loren adjacent. In high school my girlfriend was Lauren and mine is Lorin. Friends over pronounced our names to differentiate. It doesn’t bother me to get misgendered, either. It never lasts past hearing my voice or seeing me, though.
Re:Steve Jobs Next Computer: His Forgotten Exile Years on Friday May 15, 2026 @02:37PM (#48152176)
I was on the Virtuoso team at Altsys. Until Freehand was murdered by Adobe, there was still a ton of NeXT flavor in it.
Re:Sizing chaos on Thursday February 19, 2026 @11:00AM (#47075198)
Bruh. Short leg long torso bro here as well. I try to buy shirts in tall sizes. I can tuck them in!

Good news, Italian sports cars and motorcycles seem designed for our body.

They will also grab with their toes. Place your finger across their toes between the foot and the sweet little toesies and they will grip your finger pretty hard. We monkey
I did some back of the envelope calculations and it looked to me that the leakage would fill Lake Austin from empty to the brim. That’s a lot of water
Re:Website Is for Humans on Wednesday August 13, 2025 @01:14PM (#44891117)
Points off for lack of blink tag. Do better
Re:Search all text in New York City on Wednesday August 13, 2025 @09:33AM (#44888228)
Sloth returned surprisingly many results, 92 Deviant returned 5 (cmon NY, do better) Sherpa five but two false positives, two Gap ads about Sherpa fleece, two genuine including Sherpa consulting which seems pretty niche Defenestrate got zero
<Cue Borat impression>My wife</end> works at a legit, long-established, high volume retail store. Some of the time she keeps books there. They just weigh money, it’s accurate enough for them.
Re:Maslow 4: Large format CNC routing made accessible on Wednesday November 20, 2024 @02:56PM (#42197505)
This should become a verb. Mullenweged
Re:The flu shot is different this year, thanks to Covid on Thursday October 17, 2024 @02:01PM (#41872018)
A strain of influenza appears to have disappeared from the planet since COVID. As a result, U.S. flu vaccines have been redesigned.
Re:A History of Microwave Ovens on Tuesday October 15, 2024 @09:44AM (#41848540)
I remember vividly the first meal I had made with a microwave. Early 70s. Went to someone’s house for dinner. Dinner was meatloaf. Cooked in a microwave. If you like steamed ground beef you would have LOVED this meatloaf.
Re:Orion, Our First True Augmented Reality Glasses on Wednesday September 25, 2024 @02:45PM (#41650610)
Boy, not from the outside, though. There was a guy wearing one on my last flight and it’s ugly and it’s super weird to see someone “doing stuff”. All the hand waving and stuff. I can’t imagine wearing one in public. But I’m old
Re:Orion, Our First True Augmented Reality Glasses on Wednesday September 25, 2024 @02:42PM (#41650555)
Plus, “that person’s name is ‘jazzyjackson’” when you’re looking at them
What a great use case for a 3D representation
Re:No Salt on Tuesday August 06, 2024 @12:02PM (#41172162)
Crying at work from reading something on HN was not on my bingo card. Godspeed Jake
Fetch finally happened!
Re:How to get 7th graders to smoke on Wednesday May 15, 2024 @03:35PM (#40371352)
One way to ruin kids desire to drink is to offer them tastes of what you’re drinking from a relatively young age.

Whatcha drinking daddy?

A beer! Want to try it?

YUCK!!!!

This removes the rebellion portion from drinking to a degree.

FABFOB
Re:How to keep engineers out of meeting hell on Friday February 16, 2024 @11:51AM (#39399566)
“How do we know when we’re finished” is the most important question maybe ever.
Adobe has a record of acquiring products and then killing them. Fireworks & Freehand for example.
Re:Text Editor Data Structures: Rethinking Undo on Monday December 11, 2023 @05:23PM (#38606293)
If you are looking for counter examples, take a look at Excel on windows. It undoes in multiple windows.

Say you have two documents open. You make a change in the first then change the second document then go back to the first and make a change. One document has two changes and the other has one.

First undo impacts document one. Second alters document two. Infuriating

Re:Consider Writing Documentation for Your House on Wednesday November 29, 2023 @01:35PM (#38463257)
As a dad, one of my very favorite things is when one of my offspring asks me a question I have a solid answer for.

Probably, when you ask him this stuff, he glows inside.

Re:The D.E.N.N.I.S. system: Résumé tips for Senior Devs on Wednesday August 16, 2023 @04:10PM (#37153001)
What about papyrus and comic sans?
Re:Dunning-Kruger on Tuesday February 26, 2013 @05:41PM (#5289180)
I think most hiring practices are seriously broken. I love the approach Heineken took in this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j5Ftu3NbivE