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linehedonist··on Ask HN: Did you encounter any leap year bugs today?
Yup relativedelta https://dateutil.readthedocs.io/en/stable/relativedelta.html
linehedonist··on Forget about overpopulation, soon there will be too few humans
2060 is 36 years from now, not 100. People having kids in 2060 are alive today or will be born in the next 20 years. Not crazy to make predictions about those people.
linehedonist··on Forget about overpopulation, soon there will be too few humans
Who cares for your kids while you’re working? Who pays that person?
linehedonist··on Peter Thiel's $100k offer to skip college is more popular than ever
Lots of people have no interest in cars, just like lots of people have no interest in computers. Not sure that says anything about the people’s intelligence.

Plus on a desert island you’ll probably have bigger problems than what a transmission does.

linehedonist··on Peter Thiel's $100k offer to skip college is more popular than ever
Your link doesn’t show what percentage of undergrads receive aid. I would imagine that the vast majority of MIT undergrads come from households making >$225k, and so would receive perhaps some but not much aid. Still paying $52k / yr according to your link
linehedonist··on Explore interesting places nearby listed on Wikipedia
Agreed, lots of good options
linehedonist··on Walmart, Delta, and Starbucks are using AI to monitor employee messages
*threat protection, I think. I at least was confused for a second
linehedonist··on U.S. Hiring Accelerated in January
No idea. I left, and given that my hometown is shrinking at the rate of about -0.75% a year I’m not the only one.
linehedonist··on Explore interesting places nearby listed on Wikipedia
I agree, some kind of ranking would be helpful (length of Wikipedia article?)
linehedonist··on Git Query Language
The GitHub repo for this project was posted two months ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38498688
linehedonist··on Ex-CIA Coder Who Sent Secrets to WikiLeaks Gets 40 Years
What a claim. In all of human history? What about Cleopatra or Napoleon?
linehedonist··on Messenger Implosion Shows Journalism Lead by Visionless, Fail-Upward Brunchlords
Regional newspapers also by definition have a geographically restricted market. That worked well when there were geographical restrictions to distribution (printing and delivering newspapers), but less well in our modern age. NYT et al have found success by appealing to pivoting to larger national and international audiences.
linehedonist··on U.S. Hiring Accelerated in January
The rust belt continues to contract and perish.
linehedonist··on Is Google Getting Worse? A Longitudinal Investigation of SEO Spam in Search [pdf]
I think it’s the word ”Queen” (which is not normally used to refer to the ancient ruler). If I just google “Cleopatra” I only see results about the historical figure.
linehedonist··on A math professor who objects to diversity statements
(2023)
linehedonist··on A site that tracks the price of a Big Mac in every US McDonald's
Weirdly defensive about high hamburger prices.
linehedonist··on People have been buried behind a Mississippi jail since 2016, attorney says
Sounds like it’s a dumping ground for anyone the local police accidentally (or intentionally) kill
linehedonist··on After self-hosting email for 23 years I have thrown in the towel (2022)
This author claims to be sending alumni newsletters from his server. I hey you anything that someone has (at least once) marked one of those newsletters as spam.
linehedonist··on Becoming a go-to person gets you promoted
Press x to doubt. The oldest datable example I can find of the Wren story is from 2000: https://books.google.com/books?id=L5n_uza-hl8C&pg=PA81&dq=Ch...
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