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1832··on Mozilla to shut down Pocket and Fakespot
Pocket users in shambles until they realize Ctrl + D exists
1832··on Android phones will soon reboot themselves after sitting unused for three days
Also bad news for my megayacht (use's an old android phone to monitor location and detect movement)
1832··on How to Win an Argument with a Toddler
I'll remember this for my Faceit solo Q lobbies.
1832··on Zelensky leaves White House after angry meeting
> FYI: you can end up in jail for posting "wrong" things on Facebook in Europe and the UK.

What do you mean? What can you currently not say in Europe and the UK without getting put in jail for it?

1832··on Why hasn't commercial air travel gotten any faster since the 1960s? (2009)
weird flex but o.k.
1832··on AI Demos by Meta
I get

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1832··on Station of despair: What to do if you get stuck at end of Tokyo Chuo Rapid Line
Even on weekdays there is public transport running with buses all night, and as far as Berlin is concerned Schöneweide is still pretty central.
1832··on What's happening inside the NIH and NSF
I proclaim that no such preference exists in the US in 2025!
1832··on WikiTok
This is similar to a popular game we used to play in recess (or sometimes during class) in high school, when IT rooms first started to become a thing. The idea was to start on a random article and try to reach pages of famous historical political figures by clicking as few links as possible, or by being the fastest.
1832··on Over 90% of U.S. airport towers are understaffed, data shows
Encouraging talented people from underrepresented or marginalised groups to apply, for example through DEI programs, will help find the best candidates to ensure safe and efficient operation.
1832··on There are 1,022,703 films
This takes a bit of playing around with. You can explore the entire letterboxd movie catalogue and apply various filters and sorts, ideal for discovering new movies.
1832··on I am offering mentoring: In which I help you
Yeah, coaching and mentoring are totally different things. Coaching is more structured—you teach people a skill or process you’ve mastered. Mentoring is way more personal. It’s about actually understanding someone, their goals, their struggles, and helping them figure stuff out.

That’s why good mentoring is so hard to find. It takes real effort and emotional investment. You can’t just scale it up infinitely. But even a little bit of good mentoring can be life-changing.

1832··on I am offering mentoring: In which I help you
>Then they write geopolitical analysis or whatever with enormous confidence, frequently calling out the experts in the field as idiots.

Slightly OT, and of course only half anonymous but for example G.S. Bhogal really fits that bill. His posts come up here occasionally and I get a kick out of them but the real gold is in his twitter (1) Don't listen to the haters and make sure to follow for quality life advice (like don't listen to politicians and journalists because they're all corrupt liars, or that "below average IQ" people should reproduce as to not spread their genes, and the really smart people don't need friends or go outside, what they need a "circle" of other highly intelligent people like themselves on X

(1) https://x.com/G_S_Bhogal

1832··on [dead]
It reached the title cap on the free HN plan unfortunately
1832··on Fascism shattered Europe century ago – historians hear echoes today in U.S. (24)
Thanks, edit to the title!
1832··on Battle Scenes depicted in moving pictures before CGI
>The film was controversial even before its release and it has remained so ever since; it has been called "the most controversial film ever made in the United States" and "the most reprehensibly racist film in Hollywood history." The film has been denounced for its racist depiction of African Americans. The film portrays its black characters (many of whom are played by white actors in blackface) as unintelligent and sexually aggressive toward white women. The Ku Klux Klan (KKK), a white supremacist far-right hate group, is portrayed as a heroic force that protects white women and maintains white supremacy.

(from Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Birth_of_a_Nation)

1832··on All clocks are 30 seconds late
I agree this is an interesting take and fun to think about. But if clocks rounded to the nearest minute instead of truncating, the average error would be still be greater than 0 I think, and not 0, as the author claims. Assuming a sufficiently large number of measurements taken at random times, I think the average error would be 15 seconds.
1832··on I am rich and have no idea what to do
Not just "smart people." The smartest people on the planet, the smartest people he met in his life, maybe ever!
1832··on Is Iceland getting ready to join the EU?
Voting for this once in a lifetime opportunity was smart; maybe the smartest ever. The smartest people in the UK voted for brexit. You will totally see in a few years when they made Britain great again!
1832··on Is Iceland getting ready to join the EU?
Actually, I am surprised Island hasn't joined the EU yet. IMO they should.
1832··on Jimmy Carter has died
F
1832··on 38th Chaos Communication Congress
1 point by joeig 5 hours ago | discuss
1832··on Amid cuts to basic research, New Zealand scraps all support for social sciences
> Also note that profitability influences stock price, so taking away control from the people who made a company profitable, has a high likelihood of making the company less profitable, which in turn will almost certainly result in each stockholder becoming poorer.

Absolute clown

1832··on Nightclub stickers over smartphone rule divides the dancefloor
From what I've seen they are just regular circle shaped stickers. If you're using a case usually you wouldnt get sticker glue on your lens but if you do you can rub it off with the inside of your tshirt sleeve.
1832··on Sitters and Standers
Its the first one