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acheron

6,959 karmajoined 15 anni fa
The crows seemed to be calling his name, thought Caw.

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acheron
·l’altro ieri·discuss
One great genre of HN comment is where people insist subscriptions are the only way a software business can work, as if commercial software sprung into existence fully formed in 2012.
acheron
·5 giorni fa·discuss
This is what HN is now, sadly.
acheron
·7 giorni fa·discuss
Netcraft confirms it.
acheron
·12 giorni fa·discuss
Yes, I remember, I had lasagna.
acheron
·16 giorni fa·discuss
The article is about a marketing data breach, not passwords.
acheron
·17 giorni fa·discuss
It’s always great when years of medical and scientific studies are instantly debunked by HN’s top JavaScript developers. One wonders why we even bother having research universities.
acheron
·18 giorni fa·discuss
Maybe you should have looked it up before posting?
acheron
·18 giorni fa·discuss
TVs were unsubsidized by ad tech up until 10 years ago, and I’m pretty sure most people bought TVs back then.
acheron
·18 giorni fa·discuss
Pretty easy.

1) Have a phone number with an area code from a place you haven’t lived since 2004 and nobody legitimate would ever call you from.

2) entirely block that area code.

That takes care of 98% of it.
acheron
·21 giorni fa·discuss
> ununionized

Wouldn’t that just be “ionized”?
acheron
·26 giorni fa·discuss
“Suddenly”? Remember all the “net neutrality” bullshit years ago that was all about begging the government to regulate the Internet? This has been going on since the early 00s probably. If you’re old enough to remember the 90s and earlier Internet then yes, it’s a strange thing to see, but that ship has sailed, circumnavigated the globe, and been decommissioned.
acheron
·28 giorni fa·discuss
Hope all your programs are written in machine code. Wouldn’t want to be proud of compiler output.
acheron
·mese scorso·discuss
Wait, he didn’t have to import 237 NPM packages?
acheron
·mese scorso·discuss
I know laptops have a bit of a different standard, but for real keyboards, IBM perfected keyboard design in 1985 and all deviations from that are a mistake.
acheron
·mese scorso·discuss
There are several? Venues around here use AXS, Seetickets/Eventim, Opendate. I buy more non-TM tickets than TM.
acheron
·mese scorso·discuss
There’s also the one that almost ate the Enterprise. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Immunity_Syndrome_(Star_Tr...
acheron
·mese scorso·discuss
“So you hate waffles?”

https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/no-bitch-dats-a-whole-new-x-w...
acheron
·mese scorso·discuss
More formally that's an "F attachment", lowering the key of the instrument (assuming a standard tenor trombone) from B♭ to F. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trombone#Valve_attachments

See also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brass_instrument#Trigger_or_th...
acheron
·mese scorso·discuss
On iOS you don't have to do anything, -- gets autocorrected to an em-dash. This has been in iOS for almost 10 years IIRC.
acheron
·mese scorso·discuss
“I used to hate writing assignments, but now I enjoy them. I realized that the purpose of writing is to inflate weak ideas, obscure poor reasoning and inhibit clarity. With a little practice, writing can be an intimidating and impenetrable fog!”

https://www.gocomics.com/calvinandhobbes/1993/02/11