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0des··on Why America can’t build
If there are people erratic enough to be a source of danger from mere eye contact, thats a good reason to be carrying concealed.
0des··on Swag in the Tech Industry
nokia will always have a special place in my heart
0des··on Swag in the Tech Industry
I'd rather they just not make swag and put that money into their employees so they can be happier and stick around longer. The best services I've used have the same faces when I need something. They build better projects that stay true to the core objectives.
0des··on Energy crunch concerns lead Japan’s government to call for reduced AC use
hydroelectric
0des··on Energy crunch concerns lead Japan’s government to call for reduced AC use
I want to love the idea of large battery banks. However I'm getting a lot of angry faces for what seems like logical questions of a layman:

- What communities do those minerals come from, and what ailments arise from the sequestration and disposal of them? How are those people taken care of for their effort in comparison with modern wage standards?

- What changes are happening to emergency services and fire now that we have a battery, similar to car or marine batteries, which are difficult to extinguish en masse?

- How are these recycled? I dont mean, just ship it to X company for rebate, I mean what actually happens to the waste products and how are those neutralized?

Please help me feel better about these so I can transition off my current (unreliable) hydroelectric power source without losing sleep. Bonus points if you can reply without treating me as a shit-starter or idiot southerner, I'm asking completely with clean hands here.

0des··on Energy crunch concerns lead Japan’s government to call for reduced AC use
This is happening in my area as well in rural southern USA, and I can't help but just say:

- first: This feels like manufactured BS.

- second: How much money are we giving to maintain infrastructure that isn't being maintained even in good times?

- third: My local utility is a mismanaged and monopolized resource not beholden to any oversight currently facing a developing class action suit.

Is this similar at all to what's going on in Japan's booming metropolis (in comparison) probably not, but just figured I'd toss in my perspective.

0des··on Blood pressure e-tattoo promises continuous, mobile monitoring
You can also stimulate it directly by stroking the scalene muscles of the neck which lay over that nerve.
0des··on Thank you to our maintainers
The term originates from the concept of receiving a free horse and having the audacity to check its teeth so as to judge the quality and value of the gift as that was the means at the time of judging a horse's age, longevity and health.
0des··on Crypto Is Crashing, But Companies Aren't Acting Like It
Posting cryptoasset focused articles on HN is such a weird thing. Do you expect level headed unbiased commentary or are you trying to reaffirm some internally held biases? HN's response is not variable with regards to crypto, it's predictable, but in a world where you can't buy anything with karma, what is the point? Be more interesting than that.
0des··on The fall of Reddit: Why it’s quickly declining into chaos
I don't know if it is the same person, but there was a quite disheartening story posted by a person who due to internally misunderstood depression transitioned at the suggestion of people on reddit, regretted it, then later went dark and everyone assumes took their life.
0des··on Thank you to our maintainers
This is the part where I can take a page out of your book and laugh at the paltry sum of your donations in comparison to what you earn..

Or..

I can say "thank you for your supporting open source" and skip all the stuff about acting like a sanctimonious jerk on HN for magic points.

Right now, you're being that guy in a lot of these comments.

0des··on Thank you to our maintainers
I lost respect for a lot of you today who had the nerve to suggest that these amounts aren't enough money. For the OSS contributions I've made, I've never been given a penny or even so much as a single coffee for the things I've created, but if someone did, it could be a nickel and I'm not going to say anything but thank you. Nobody owes you anything in this world, and a little grace goes a long way in this industry.

For those of you who complained about the money, you people need to reflect on your attitudes and what brought you to this point.

Ugly.

0des··on Thank you to our maintainers
That depends, how much do you make each year? If that question seems out of line, effectively that's the question you're asking Github.
0des··on Thank you to our maintainers
Stop looking a gift horse in the mouth.
0des··on EverQuest’s long, strange 20-year trip still has no end in sight (2019)
p2w
0des··on Whatever happened to the bee apocalypse?
neem in my experience is most effective when applied to both sides of the leaf as well, since most critters like clinging under the leaf.
0des··on I Finally Found a Solid Debian Tablet: The Surface Go 2
you can install firefox on linux and run it as an app in chromeos but the performance isn't great on pixelbook i7. I ran into a lot of issues with regard to networking between the chromeos layer and the linux layer, its like they're nat'd or something rather than bridged, so good luck running a test environment for some things without extra steps.
0des··on I think the GNOME designers are incompetent
what do you mean Lennart doesn't have our best interests in mind?
0des··on I think the GNOME designers are incompetent
XFCE is the real deal
0des··on I think the GNOME designers are incompetent
This guy needs Acme + Rio + Plan9 with all this middle clicking he's doing.
0des··on Ask HN: Any certification that is worth it? Legitimately helped your career?
red cross first aid and CPR
0des··on At the Bored Ape restaurant, your ApeCoin is no good now
its just a dumb-phone you get at the grocery store. it makes calls and does texts, but in some cases you pay per text.

edit: am i getting downvoted for not having a smart phone or for asking a dumb question? i cant tell what i've done wrong here, I'm just not a phone person.

0des··on LMN 3, an open source DAW in a box [video]
I can't tell if I'm cut off or you got downvoted for this comment that also came across my mind. Either one is bad news!
0des··on BrachioGraph – the cheapest, simplest possible pen-plotter
Wait a second, how'd they upload a video to Vimeo? I thought Vimeo shut down.

Edit: Well I guess I just made that up somehow. I swore I read something about people moving their content because Vimeo's over.

0des··on Maccy is an open source lightweight and searchable clipboard manager for macOS
When in doubt, DOD wipe.
0des··on ffsend: A fully featured Firefox Send command line client
I am very interested in hearing this. I always wondered what's what with MW.
0des··on At the Bored Ape restaurant, your ApeCoin is no good now
Ah my phone doesn't have apps, that makes sense though.
0des··on At the Bored Ape restaurant, your ApeCoin is no good now
There are much faster cryptoasset networks, which I'm sure you already know, but the problem then becomes liquidity and volume required to not create slippage in the process.
0des··on At the Bored Ape restaurant, your ApeCoin is no good now
Wait how do I do text over wifi?
0des··on Lost USB with 460k city residents’ personal data found
wow sweet jesus, they get away with that?
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