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My uncle gave me an uncut sheet of dollar bills as an xmas present when I was maybe 9 or 10. Many years later, I still remember that feeling of astonishment -- ranks among one the great Christmas gifts of my childhood.

+1000 for VueScan. And they have perpetual licensing -- take that, Adobe.

"Area Satirists Acknowledge Death Of Irony; Diversify Into Creatine Supplements"

It takes a lot of courage to write what you've put into words out in the world, even if anonymously. You have value and it is possible to find the help, support and love you need. You can do it; you are strong enough. Please reach out: https://988lifeline.org/

Fairly certain it won't be switched off by default in most corporate environments. Recall is one of the more impressive foot-bazookas to come out of MS since WebDAV in Windows 2000!

Absolutely! I feel like I better understand your original comment as well, and I don't think you deserved to be piled on so aggressively. So many of our potentially thoughtful conversations are turning into circular firing squads these days.

Words do matter, but intentions matter more.

I appreciate the link -- hadn't actually seen that Carlin bit before!

To be clear, we weren't "Japanese" victims. 2/3 of us were American citizens, and the remainder of the imprisoned first-generation immigrants -- many of whom had lived in the US for decades prior to the war -- were barred from naturalization because of their race. This would remain the case until the passage of the Immigration Act of 1952[1].

And while I don't wish to be overly prickly about it since you are obviously approaching this from a place of good intentions, you might want to read up on what we call the "model minority myth"[2]. The "success" of the Japanese American community in surmounting the challenges of the exclusion and incarceration experience has been used repeatedly as a cudgel in US cultural and political discourse wielded against other groups for their perceived failures in achieving the "American Dream." From what you have written here, I know that is not what you support.

1. https://encyclopedia.densho.org/Immigration_Act_of_1952/ 2. https://densho.org/learn/model-minority-myth/

I was replying to say the same -- I even kept the shipping box which he decorated as well.

He embodies so much of the genuine intellectual curiosity, creativity, and joy of the early Internet. A really good human!

Username checks out. Your comment really does tie the thread together.

"Don't [Stop] Be[ing] Evil"

The reference to Rawls's work is really spot-on.

> The point is that a liberal pluralistic society needs to learn to accommodate people with different worldviews. A key part of that is getting people to understand that their own worldview is subjective, and that other worldviews are possible and acceptable.

And, to state the obvious, this is specifically why the "outrage engagement economy" incentive models that drive almost all of our at-scale communications channels (Twitter, TikTok, YouTube, FoxNews) are inherently dangerous to that liberal pluralistic society. For all of the lip service that these players pay to values like, "civic discourse" and "the town square," they only exist by subdividing their users into "affinity groups," and then pushing them content that triggers maximum emotional response and affirmation of group identity.

The platforms don't simply reinforce commitment to particular worldviews; over the last few decades, we have seen them create worldviews to increase user engagement and ad revenue.

But that just means that it's done its job in teaching you geography!

"My team has spun this as a huge cost saving, when really we just applied a fire extinguisher to the pile of money that we had set alight."

I love this so much

I miss summer Saturday afternoons watching golf with my father-in-law. Pretty sure the rest of the family had a multi-decade betting pool on which one of us would fall asleep first.

Ooof...that's a bummer. OP should forward the reddit thread to the Seattle Times.

We've been seeing 5xx errors ever since this incident started on 9/24. The really strange part is that it is only affecting one of our subdomain properties, where we were experiencing intermittent downtimes every six hours or so that would last anywhere from a few minutes to around two hours.

It seems like we resolved the problem, by blocking an ASN in Singapore (16509 - AMAZON-02) that hosted Bytedance IPs spraying us with spider requests. But of course, correlation always implies causation[1].

I'd be curious if any other CF customers have seen anything similar?

[1] https://xkcd.com/552/

What company would I trust less than Google to deploy wearable technology with potentially staggering privacy issues?

OK, it's probably Twitter; but still, I'm sure as hell not buying anything tied to Meta, either.

This has appeared many times on HN through the years, but worth referencing again:

https://www.kalzumeus.com/2010/06/17/falsehoods-programmers-...

Same for Industry Nine and a couple of others. But you really have to re-dish the wheel if you're going from 142 to superboost or 157.

True, but pigeon-net may also be subject to catastrophic packet loss:

https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/otm/segments/curious-ca...

I'm really sorry that you experienced this. If you're still in Seattle and it ever happens again, know that caste discrimination is now formally banned as of March of this year. Please spread the word that claims can be filed with the city's Office for Civil Rights.[1]

1. https://www.seattle.gov/civilrights/civil-rights-enforcement...

Alternate story link since MSN seems to be redirecting to their homepage. Jerks.

https://www.mlive.com/news/ann-arbor/2023/08/despite-progres...

Thanks for posting! I was just thinking about how I was going to confirm this on mine.

And, yeah, the software is hot garbage.

From. My. Cold. Dead. Fingers.

I'd buy this t-shirt

[golf clap]

The Washington State ferry system uses double-ended vessels with a pilot house on each end with the crew swapping between them at each crossing. Whichever end the crew are at becomes the bow.[1]

Funny -- I've ridden the ferries a lot and never really thought about it.

1. https://www.sailnet.com/threads/double-ended-ferries-which-e...

Good lord...not even sure where to start with this:

1) The ebooks available through IA's Open Library are offered under a controlled lending scheme similar to a commercial service like OneDrive and Amazon. Users are limited to 10 books at a time, and can borrow the items for up to 14 days. After that period, the ebooks -- which use Adobe's DRM tech -- are disabled.

2) The number of "copies" available for lending are restricted to the actual number of physical copies that IA has in storage, permanently out of circulation.

3) Hachette, HarperCollins, Macmillan and the rest of the publishing industry is fairly hell-bent on "squashing lending" that doesn't happen through their exclusive and extremely lucrative ebook channels. The steep increases in pricing along with tightening restrictions on access have public library institutions such as the ALA concerned about the very existence of book lending in the future.

4) In their PR blitz, the publishers talk a lot about the "National Emergency Library," which did allow for unlimited lending during a 12-week period at the beginning of the pandemic; but the suit is not confined to this short-lived program.

But do I get a blue check mark?