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blatantly··on Published Doesn't Mean Paid
If I did a book for money (bad idea yes!) I'd try at least to self publish and make it a premium thing with upsells. Like the Total Typescript course.

Selling 100 for $50 (no mean feat but still modest) copies would probably beat any publisher earnings!

You could also get away with less perfect grammar etc. BYO editor or just edit yourself. The goal is to teach after all.

blatantly··on Electron band structure in germanium, my ass
That this is the chosen path says alot about how we as a society allocate money and value things.
blatantly··on Electron band structure in germanium, my ass (2001)
I appreciate it just from reading enough HN and XKCD
blatantly··on Electron band structure in germanium, my ass (2001)
Nice chart. Can't rule out the old null hypothesis eh!
blatantly··on Glubux's Powerwall (2016)
Don't try this at home kids. I'd at least keep those batteries at least in a dedicated steel structure 100m from the house.
blatantly··on Doge Is Trying to Gift Itself a $500M Building
Which is a polite way of saying the GP doesn't know what the fuck they are talking about. Or they are trolling or filling airspace for the machine.
blatantly··on Doge Is Trying to Gift Itself a $500M Building
In what f'ng way does it seem reasonable. That is almost colonialist logic.

They invaded the premises.

blatantly··on Doge Is Trying to Gift Itself a $500M Building
Right now, regarding US news, if it sounds like satire, it probably isn't.
blatantly··on Show HN: JavaScript PubSub in 163 Bytes
23 byte version:

    // Lib code>>
    s={};call=(n)=>{s[n]()}
    // <<

    s.hello=()=>console.log('hello');
    call('hello');
    delete s.hello;
blatantly··on Show HN: Nue – Apps lighter than a React button
How does it involve Rust? Server side or wasm?
blatantly··on The case against conversational interfaces
I remember Picard barking out commands to make the ship do preprogrammed evasion or fight maneuvers too. This seems like another good use.
blatantly··on 'A hostile state': Why some travellers are avoiding the US
Don't a lot of countries airports ask for that?
blatantly··on 'A hostile state': Why some travellers are avoiding the US
Tourism alone probably won't affect those people but everything around the trade wars and everything else probably will.
blatantly··on Don’t let an LLM make decisions or execute business logic
That is search. Like Google, you need to verify accuracy of what you get told. An LLM that talks then quotes only government docs would be best so you can quickly check. Any conclusions the LLM makes about tax are suspect.
blatantly··on WhatsApp web overrides basic text box functionality
Ctrl Delete is mac for "Del" right?
blatantly··on Charlie Javice convicted of defrauding JPMorgan in $175M startup sale
Federal https://apnews.com/article/frank-javice-fraud-schools-f6058d...
blatantly··on Charlie Javice convicted of defrauding JPMorgan in $175M startup sale
Thanks for the downvotes anyone going to say why an arbitrary minion will get a presidential pardon? Even if they bribed. Any bribe is nothing, Trump has Elon.
blatantly··on Charlie Javice convicted of defrauding JPMorgan in $175M startup sale
A person or group working there benefited from it, which is enough for it to happen.

2008 was that at an endemic scale.

blatantly··on Charlie Javice convicted of defrauding JPMorgan in $175M startup sale
Why?
blatantly··on Charlie Javice convicted of defrauding JPMorgan in $175M startup sale
She was small enough to fail and jail.
blatantly··on The <select> element can now be customized with CSS
Ooh I can render arbitrary pixels outside the viewpoint. Like a system dialog asking for a password.
blatantly··on The <select> element can now be customized with CSS
> Changes the browsers HTML parser

Sounds like you can create loops. If the select had a style element that turns this off again would it keep changing state?

blatantly··on The average college student today
Hold on. I thought no phones K-12 all day was normal?
blatantly··on A decision to eject from a failing F-35B fighter and the betrayal in its wake
Yes. There is a finite $ value on a human life from a government point of view.

For your loved ones it is infinite.

But for a government with X funds and Y lives to save, there has to be a price.

If someone ejects on every little problem, you spend billions more on that and billions less on some other life saving initiatives.

Putting aside the bad ejection survival stats.

blatantly··on A decision to eject from a failing F-35B fighter and the betrayal in its wake
There was also some talk of feeling like he was falling but of course with no vision you will have no idea what way you are going based on you senses.

Don't these planes have the basic instruments as a backup to the helmet display?

blatantly··on A decision to eject from a failing F-35B fighter and the betrayal in its wake
Cynical take would be it is a free soldier behind enemy lines.
blatantly··on How Each Pillar of the First Amendment Is Under Attack
If a different party did the same thing it would be the same.
blatantly··on How Each Pillar of the First Amendment Is Under Attack
Trump the person or Trump the family or even Trump the idea.
blatantly··on How each pillar of the First Amendment is under attack
This is a brilliant article because it is summarising how bad it is. They don't want you to know how bad! Lots of paper cuts and hopefully no one sees the amputation.

We need one on attack on working class including all the loss of services esp. education and inflation caused by tariffs.

blatantly··on Claim for a missing tooth
If it doesn't cost $200 of your time to claim $12, what is government for?
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