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Re:Writing Is Closer to Thought Than Code on Monday October 26, 2026 @10:30AM (#50244380)
I’ve gained great utility from a colloquialism in certain circles of mine and feel it may be of some value: “writing is a euphemism for thinking”

Used in casual rebuttal when anyone in the group declares they want to write or become a writer, whether it be prose, music, code or even extrapolated to art.

Pedantic fyi: Solar is nuclear…

I’ll see myself out

Its not big truck you cant just dump something on it! Its… its a series of….oh my! LOL!!!
Citation needed
Idk… the comments so far a just dismissing this out right as AI slop… and then some comments about Elon Musk and some anecodatal experiences… Any ways this is a real person you can contact if you take the time to click to the site… and here’s the author’s bio on said site.

“In 2014, after teaching in schools for over 25 years and working with hundreds of gifted children and their parents, Maya Sissoko founded Whole Child Education. She earned her undergraduate and graduate degrees in education and worked in schools on the East Coast before serving for 15 years as a lead teacher and teacher trainer at The Nueva School in the Bay Area. Her original curriculum design on ancient Egypt was highlighted by Pulitzer Prize-winning author Thomas Friedman of The New York Times in his book, “That Used to Be Us,” in the chapter “Average Is Over.” Her perspective on giftedness was also featured in The San Francisco Standard on the increasing use of IQ testing for preschool admissions and the limited public support for gifted children in California.

She is also the parent of a Nueva and Harvard Law School graduate, who worked as a federal prosecutor and now practices law in Washington, D.C.

Whole Child Education (WCE) is continually evolving to respond to the ever-changing educational needs of children and parents. WCE has always promoted learning outside the traditional framework and offers expertise to parents curious about child-centered, individualized educational options. Maya is available for private teaching, parent coaching, educational advising, and homeschool design.”

Re:Extra Big Ass Intelligence on Saturday October 03, 2026 @03:41AM (#49942182)
Yeah we still haven’t figured out cryostasis
Re:Things that apparently cause cancer on Saturday October 03, 2026 @02:02AM (#49941715)
Yeah but the burnt hydrogen products are not capable of being separated making it all the more insidious
I’ve taken to sharing this clip [1] with anybody expressing the kind consumer behavior you outline… once they’re done laughing I simply say “now replace wa’er with [insert item of debate]” if they’re still arguing with me I share this clip [2]…

Maybe cruel, but I haven't found a better way to get someone to realize the error of their ways… because logic has obviously failed them.

[1] https://youtu.be/GceNsojnMf0 [2] https://youtu.be/-fC2oke5MFg

Re:I said no and Apple said yes on Tuesday September 22, 2026 @11:17AM (#49802740)
Yeah linux is awesome! … But for me personally after spelunking distros… getting past the immense learning curve… again and again and again… settling , tweaking with stability, getting past foundational philosophical approaches, tweaking some more… and some more and some more… Finally getting somewhere and then… only then after starting to get to a place where i’m feeling some semblance of holy shit this is gonna work!?! Only to sit down and discover that Copy/Paste is this fucking dramatic cluster fuck… that yeah I could go through and I’m sure people have work arounds and it could arguably be solvable… or maybe I just need to get over my muscle memory yeah i’m the problem… Or… I can just build a hackintosh… and would you look at that, even a janky hack that came together in literally two hours just fucking works…and I didnt have to spend six month of my life for it, and omg I can copy and paste across every application with the same key binding that I never had to tweak…

So yeah, I love linux but fucking shit if it aint ridiculous on some pretty fundamental issues that (looking at my watch) were solved forty years ago!

Adults have piñatas… theyre called starups
Re:What will our economic future look like? on Wednesday September 09, 2026 @10:10PM (#49637482)
And I think the apprehension can be summed with “good luck with that”
Manually post without curl by editing this link below

https: //gettogether.dev/post?name=name&text=

Re:An Alien Mind on Monday September 07, 2026 @07:29AM (#49597042)
Lol thousands?!?! Try roughly 250 and even then Hume only opened the door for us…
Re:An Alien Mind on Monday September 07, 2026 @07:19AM (#49596954)
Game mechanics and evolutionary biology would like to have a word with you.
Well we all know now that the greatest crime is owning zines
The history of burning man is well documented and predates the playa…

The head of the original man is still preserved by one of the original co-founders and I have personally seen it and touched it.

https://presidio.gov/explore/blog/then-now-burning-man-at-ba...

Re:But yak shaving is fun on Tuesday June 16, 2026 @03:55PM (#48561035)
Maybe the most beautiful examples of the joy and importance of yak shaving that I’ve ever come across is inheritance machining on youtube. [1]

But truthfully part of the process of creating in general is yak shaving… as is so often said “trust the process”.

Arguably, the entire concept of tech debt is owed to the lack of yak shaving.

[1] https://youtube.com/@InheritanceMachining

Re:Banned Book Library in a Wi-Fi Smart Light Bulb on Monday June 15, 2026 @10:36PM (#48549850)
Why stop there? While meshtastic would require additional hardware, tor entry exit nodes would not. Nor would other mesh protocols… also as for hosting ideas… the text files? Def cad and related models… skies the limit with space the only limiting factor.
Re:Your ePub Is Fine. Kobo Disagrees. Blame Adobe on Monday June 15, 2026 @04:51AM (#48538449)
Vocally public yes… but they wanted to see what the diy scene created, how the power users were using the device and letting them develop the ideas and implement… they would open up and co-opt… boss tools is your drag down for all your settings case in point. This has been openly admitted to in interviews after the fact.
Re:FarOutCompany on Monday June 15, 2026 @02:27AM (#48537365)
The reasons are varied… groups implode or become cults… people move on often times when kids get involved for all the reasons other have stated already… but also things get co-opted way faster now given less time for groups and movements to gestate and coalesce… but theres still groups like this and there probably will be in perpetuity…

they either implode or get so successful that they assimilate and morph… The early US was rife with utopian societies whose stories are legion, onieda and the mormons to name two contrasting early examples. More modern and infamous inline with the time period of this post is drop city… they got too successful as they were a stop on the way out to sf but they went onto do great things.

Is there an unskipable minigame thats crucial to winning that majorly objectifies women and is beyond obnoxious with terrible animations and sound effects?

Because if not, I’d love to check this out… but never again in my life will I subject myself to that mini-game!

This is gonna be wild in a few years when these things are parted out the way tesla motors have been… Everything about these is crazy!

If you’re not caught up https://youtu.be/m507ryWhc6c?si=Hq3dfjXYxEIlYzeo

Re:Sagrada Família Lego set on Thursday June 04, 2026 @03:02PM (#48403128)
And/Or halfway through have to change the design
Re:"They're made out of weights" on Thursday June 04, 2026 @01:10PM (#48401555)
In fallout it would turn out to be a human brain kept artificially alive… or if were going with canon a hapless fellow who falls into fev and morphs with a computer…

Not too rule your addition outright in future installments.

Re:Ask Hn: Is Hacker News the Real Backrooms?? on Sunday May 31, 2026 @10:46PM (#48352095)
Endlessly Beige, product of the internet, people and concepts you’ll almost never interact with, the looming threat of some cosmic karma, ai monsters, rehashed copies of copies of ideas and postings, no escape…
Well… finally… Now man is poised for one of the greatest moments in time.

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