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jpfromlondon
·4 hari yang lalu·discuss
time dilation
jpfromlondon
·4 hari yang lalu·discuss
it used to be, but it's been less and less perverse over the past ten to fifteen years.
jpfromlondon
·4 hari yang lalu·discuss
Be creative, use ten simple words when one archaic or obscure one would suffice, sure, go ahead, use nonplussed synonymously with indifferent, what's most important is that you be creative in your artless murder of English.
jpfromlondon
·5 hari yang lalu·discuss
>I think it allows greater flexibility for humor and subtext than ever.

It has more ambiguity because we had many similar words for similar things that are differential in some minor way.

Now everything can mean anything, it is leaning more expressive with less precision, English's best quality is that it balances the precise and the expressive, the craft is gone and if you misunderstand what I've written because I've used the wrong words that's your fault.
jpfromlondon
·5 hari yang lalu·discuss
Plenty of important things have been born of passion without necessity.
jpfromlondon
·6 hari yang lalu·discuss
I think it was tongue-in-cheek since back then security didn't have the high gloss corporate veneer it has today
jpfromlondon
·6 hari yang lalu·discuss
I'd be surprised if the churn was as high as the subscription model.

If I buy a product and like it as-is then I don't necessarily want it to change over time.

Buy once is better, buy once with optional updates or periodic version releases is better still.
jpfromlondon
·12 hari yang lalu·discuss
There was a Knoppix STD (security tools distro), I remember using that in the mid/early 00s.
jpfromlondon
·14 hari yang lalu·discuss
Both actually.
jpfromlondon
·16 hari yang lalu·discuss
Fender own Charvel so that's okay.
jpfromlondon
·16 hari yang lalu·discuss
take your pick, health, material, whatever you want.
jpfromlondon
·19 hari yang lalu·discuss
nonsense, the lowest strata of working society has never had it so good, unfortunately things are still going to be out of reach, perhaps what the comment above said was a little harsh but there is truth to it, if what you love about the sport is merely its accessibility then find or start a new one (that the rich will appropriate in a couple of hundred years).
jpfromlondon
·19 hari yang lalu·discuss
You don't really have relative perfect pitch because as you say, you can recognise the G-ness of a note I assume without reference.

If anything I think this reinforces what I'm alluding to.
jpfromlondon
·20 hari yang lalu·discuss
I've seen nothing to convince me that "absolute pitch" is anything other than relative pitch with excellent recall or persistent observation of pitch.
jpfromlondon
·24 hari yang lalu·discuss
if that's your priority then bilberries exist.
jpfromlondon
·24 hari yang lalu·discuss
£3.85 in my nearest central-London Tesco, it even includes some premium energy drinks like Tenzing that alone would get close to the cost of the deal.
jpfromlondon
·25 hari yang lalu·discuss
it obviously knew your hn username
jpfromlondon
·25 hari yang lalu·discuss
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jpfromlondon
·25 hari yang lalu·discuss
everyone is always in such a rush to name (and define) the next sociophilosophical zeitgeist, and always with some etymologically unsound term or phrase, interesting as the content may be, the tagline makes me cringe.
jpfromlondon
·25 hari yang lalu·discuss
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