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What if bees were intolerant of hornets?

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dole··on A Message from Internet Archive Founder, Brewster Kahle
That's the message, basically a wikipedia/Jimmy Wales style plea.
dole··on Can I stop drone delivery companies flying over my property?
it makes an ass of u and massad ayoob
dole··on
The David Lynch Collection
In 1875, there was a sucker born every minute. Now there's 2.7 of them.
dole··on The David Lynch Collection
imho, people buy B&O for the design, not for the sound quality
dole··on Getting a Cease and Desist from Waffle House
this was massive at the time and imho what the internet was made for. strike while the iron's hot, lawyer up as much as possible fr
dole··on Why console makers can legally brick your game console
Hopefully one of these days someone legally pushes back against N and wins, the way it's going it's doubtful though. To me, this isn't a far cry from them permabanning Switches via serial from online play for cheating and piracy, just the difference of them encroaching on hardware territory now. Piracy, uh... finds a way.

edit: and come on, what other purpose do eFuses really provide besides lockin

dole··on 'Crypto king' turned NYC townhouse into torture chamber to gain partner Bitcoin
about crypto or people from kentucky?
dole··on About Asteroids, Atari's biggest arcade hit
Damn, no love for Blasteroids?
dole··on One hundred and one rules of effective living
"Franklin did not try to work on them all at once. Instead, he worked on only one each week "leaving all others to their ordinary chance." While he did not adhere completely to the enumerated virtues, and by his own admission he fell short of them many times, he believed the attempt made him a better man, contributing greatly to his success and happiness, which is why in his autobiography, he devoted more pages to this plan than to any other single point and wrote, "I hope, therefore, that some of my descendants may follow the example and reap the benefit."

[0] https://www.ushistory.org/franklin/autobiography/page38.htm

dole··on Amazon denies tariff pricing plan after White House calls it "hostile/political"
Always ironic and amusing to find these for giveaway at a food pantry. Trickle down economics at peak performance.
dole··on Uncovering the mechanics of The Games: Winter Challenge
I'd never heard of Gorgon but had to've run across Nasir's name at least once during my gaming years... and wow, what a pedigree.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nasir_Gebelli

Had 3-D World Runner for the OG NES, played it again a few weeks ago doing some handheld emu hacking and couldn't put it down.

dole··on Dolphins Communicate with 'Fountains of Pee'
Aerial urination is challenge pissing. That dolphin gets a $0 down payment on a new car.
dole··on First Successful Lightning Triggering and Guiding Using a Drone
This [1] article claims that the electricity from 115 strikes could power the entire US grid for a year, but it's surely napkin math. Awesome tech, though!

[1] https://www.treehugger.com/how-much-energy-is-in-lightning-8...

dole··on Windows File Manager (WinFile) repository archived on March 1, 2025
The newly hijacked right-click context menu I suspect is a new source of hangs, flickers and explorer.exe auto-restarts. Love they added a special “restart” context menu entry in Task Manager especially for it.

Windows 10 Explorer was a perfect vehicle then they had to go and throw a shitty wrap and other afternarket trash on it.

Edit: nevermind the times you have to manually hit F5 so the file you just renamed displays the new name, instead of auto-refreshing. What the sweet hell did they do?

dole··on Show HN: Real-time 4/20 cannabis sales dashboard using Estuary and Tinybird
I think they mean “commercialized” but considering the data is out there in the open, someone was bound to do it and the market’s ripe.
dole··on There are two types of dishwasher people
previous hn article and discussion: “Gut epithelial barrier damage caused by dishwasher detergents and rinse aids (sciencedirect.com)”

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38275060

dole··on Kermit: A typeface for kids
I feel like the lowercase lacks risers, it's kerned too tightly to be legible quickly. It's ornamental but I don't feel easier, it's more difficult to read if anything.
dole··on Kermit: A typeface for kids
It's like someone told AI we need a font that looks like a mashup of Comic Sans and Papyrus.
dole··on The last RadioShack in Maryland is closing
"You've got questions, we've got blank stares." 1994-1995 alumnus
dole··on Vacheron Constantin breaks the world record for most complicated wristwatch
A158 (Obama) for the upgrade to steel, A168 for EL backlight.
dole··on Vacheron Constantin breaks the world record for most complicated wristwatch
I can nowhere near afford them, but I love most everything about Vacheron Constantin except for that godawful, cheap, brash font they use for their logo. The font on this piece is fine, their overall design and language is great, I'm glad a company like VC pushes the technological limits and industry forward, but that Helvetica-lookin font is visual fingernails-on-a-chalkboard.
dole··on PowerToys Command Palette Utility
Replacing PowerToys Run (Windows Finder) ... read hn's top articles from windows search. Salute to the pandering, I didn't use Run but looking forward to trying this out.
dole··on RIP Val Kilmer: Real Genius .. the Film Nerd Culture Deserves (2015)
9 year old me was fascinated about what the Anal Intruder was.
dole··on Cottagecore Programmers
Twenty-some years ago working 12am-6am overnight trying to fix production database issues and meet deadlines, I told myself I didn't want to be doing this in another 10 years.

"Plato saw Diogenes washing lettuces, came up to him and quietly said to him, 'Had you paid court to Dionysius, you wouldn't now be washing lettuces,' and that he with equal calmness made answer, 'If you had washed lettuces, you wouldn't have paid court to Dionysius."

dole··on Notetime: Minimalistic notes where everything is timestamped
That's why I use AHK for my favorite timestamps like 20250321102123, I prefer year first as well but when in Rome.
dole··on Notetime: Minimalistic notes where everything is timestamped
I use AutoHotkey's text replacement to drop different date formats. Typing "]ts" in an input replaces it with 03/21/2025 10:10:48

  ::]ts::{
    Send(FormatTime(,"MM/dd/yyyy HH:mm:ss"))
    Return
  }
  
Beware the syntax differences between Autohotkey 1 and 2 when searching documentation
dole··on Commodore Invented the Mass Market Computer
I didn't get the AI vibe from the article, thought it was well-written, a good view on Jack and the industry during the era.

I always believed Osborne was a little bigger in the UK, got the feeling they had a slightly better machine in some aspects than the Sinclair and TI and as polished as Commodore but just burnt out really early, unfortunately. I had a C64 but enjoyed programming enough to flip through the books at the library for the other machines, to see the differences in language, programs and games. Thinking about it now, I wonder how many Osborne programming books got printed vs machines sold?

It's unfortunate there was no mention of the C128, but it was mostly a stopgap machine in the wars between the 64 and the Amiga, there wasn't any mention of the earlier Atari 400/800/XL, etc machines before the ST either. I wanted a C128 just for ELSE, the 64 only had IF-THEN natively.

dole··on Show HN: Psychedelic animation generator; (p)art of your next trip
been tumbling down the old Cthugha and Milkdrop visualization rabbit hole recently, nice gfx and aesthetics on yours and it's always nice to see a fresh take on code
dole··on Military grade sonic weapon is used against protesters in Serbia
Used in 2014 against protesters in Ferguson.

https://slate.com/technology/2014/08/lrad-long-range-acousti...

dole··on How many artists' careers did the Beatles kill?
Mmm Bop was brought to you by the Dust Brothers, responsible for the Beastie Boys’ Paul’s Boutique.
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