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That's an important distinction — and here's why.
What's that quote about essential Liberty and temporary Safety again...
Re:The Letter S, by Donald Knuth [pdf] on Thursday May 21, 2026 @09:51AM (#48222545)
How would Knuth opine on consummate Vs, I wonder...
Re:SDF Public Access Unix System on Monday April 20, 2026 @11:33AM (#47835813)
But where am I gonna run my eggdrop bot??
I noticed Guitar Center also using a TUI when I was in there last.
My dad recently retired but his company was still using Pick as of a year or two ago. They also had a one-dude maintenance plan. I wonder if it was the same dude.
Just the fact that you can use the keyboard is brilliant. I teach high school and most of my computing tasks are in lowest-bidder web GUI messes (lousy UX, no hotkeys) and take so much longer than a keyboard interface would. Even taking roll takes a minute or two longer than it used to.
In Florida, condominium associations (COA) and homeowners associations (HOA) are not legally the same thing, but in discussions like this people often refer to them interchangeably. There is a big difference between an HOA requiring mowed lawns and paint colors and a COA that maintains roofs, pools, playgrounds, common elements, etc. People will refer to Surfside as a reason HOAs are important but the Champlain Towers was a condo.
Re:Getting a Cease and Desist from Waffle House on Wednesday May 28, 2025 @09:01PM (#44122065)
If McBroken.com can stay up...
I've been using IRC for almost 30 years. We communicate pretty easily
Re:Mark Zuckerberg Says Social Media Is Over on Thursday April 24, 2025 @12:44PM (#43784775)
*** Ja mata!
Re:Mark Zuckerberg Says Social Media Is Over on Thursday April 24, 2025 @12:00PM (#43784298)
Mark Zuckerberg Says Social Media Are* Over
I'm driven by all four. That's why I'm here! My point is that current culture as a whole allows for a large deficit in individuals' understanding the humanities. Especially around here, you will see comments suggesting that the humanities are not necessary, or are not viable career paths, etc.

It's not that one drive is more important than the other. It is that we as a contemporary society often treat arts that way. Your drive is vital too!

Your comment will rattle a few cages here but I honestly think about this all the time, as one of the minority of music educators around HN. The blind spots (or perhaps a STEM vs STEAM upbringing) are unfortunate. We are possibly the only — or one of an incredibly small number of — species that even makes sounds solely for enjoyment and aesthetics. The humanities are what make us us.
One of HN's few(?) music appreciation professors here: in fact, I start every term posing this question. It's hard to teach music appreciation before a group of humans can agree where music begins and ends :) At the end of the day, like everything else it's a certain degree of statistics and a certain degree of subjectivity.
Many are probably already in HMDB.

https://www.hmdb.org/

Re:Warner Brothers Cartoon Companion on Tuesday September 10, 2024 @08:37AM (#41500132)
Just remember, you can't watch a Warner Bros. movie without a Warner Bros. ball cap: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YSMj5M9w2qA
This all feels very MCAS to me.
Re:'What do you mean, the tower is gone?' on Saturday February 10, 2024 @11:40AM (#39327602)
The one in the article looks like a stripped down Long Lines[0] microwave tower, not anything at all like a radio broadcasting tower.

[0]https://long-lines.com/

Re:Sudo for Windows on Friday February 09, 2024 @09:08AM (#39314974)
They'll be sent directly to -- MARK --.
Re:Gemini Ultra now available in Google Bard on Thursday February 08, 2024 @01:47PM (#39305848)
What is the best way for an amateur to synthesize a similar site? I have used Google My Maps for a much smaller, manually updated map of air hockey tables.[0]

[0] http://floridaairhockey.com/table-finder/

Azul also has 40 ATRs and (naturally) Embraer. They actually do operate 2 Boeing 737-400 for cargo use.
It absolutely happens, I had a WN flight on a MAX 8 last week that was changed to a 737-800 the day before.
Re:Judge blocks JetBlue from acquiring Spirit Airlines on Wednesday January 17, 2024 @09:03AM (#39027779)
They also have free wifi, which even Southwest still doesn't offer.
That doesn't mean it's fast

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