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ohnoitsahuman··on Can Style Be Timeless?
I love Monty Don and his clothing is awesome. Just make sure you can pull off being Tom Bombadil too if you go that route.
ohnoitsahuman··on The Gen X Career Meltdown
Gen X here. This author found the marginally productive people who can't read the room and adjust.

Us punk kids who photocopied their 'zines are doing just fine because we paid attention and moved on and then moved on again.

And the kids say: "skill issue, get gud"

ohnoitsahuman··on DoorDash Offering Payment Plans for Food Delivery Sparks Backlash
Because for me, overspending is a bad habit, even if there's no interest.
ohnoitsahuman··on DoorDash Offering Payment Plans for Food Delivery Sparks Backlash
Depends. If your poor in America, then spending is often part of the equation. If your poor in India then perhaps not.
ohnoitsahuman··on Executive Order Shutting Down Department of Education
Public schools are so good that nobody would use their vouchers for private school.

Right?

ohnoitsahuman··on Doge Social Security Closures: Recipients Need to Visit Offices to Get Benefits
A good portion of people in such situations will have children or loved ones who will walk them through online portion.
ohnoitsahuman··on [dead]
Apparently hyperbole works too.
ohnoitsahuman··on Tesla Will Die
Many of us upper-class liberals have moved to the right.

Shitty cities filled with crime and weirdos after your kids will do that to you.

ohnoitsahuman··on [dead]
It's a shame that terrorism works.
ohnoitsahuman··on Global sales of combustion engine cars have peaked
The BMW links says zero to 30 mph in 2.6

Not bad but it's not zero to 60 mph in 2.6

ohnoitsahuman··on Hive Roaster Handheld Smoke Incinerating Coffee Roaster
There's only one way to properly enjoy bean juice.
ohnoitsahuman··on Apple pulls data protection tool after UK government security row
Let's vote Labor and Liberal to keep the UK from going fascist on our data.

Oh wait....shit.

ohnoitsahuman··on A drill bit that can also drive screws
You've been missing out.

At first blush it does seem stupid to use an impact driver in a wood screw, but they just don't strip or cam out.

They're the same size as drills now.

ohnoitsahuman··on New DOGE site update breaks down government jobs by salary/age/headcount
Austerity is horrible for those that don't produce goods and services that are desired.

For those that do, it's fine.

ohnoitsahuman··on The Physicians Are Healing Themselves, with Ozempic
>>No one is saying that being overweight is healthy.

Uh...

https://www.uchicagomedicine.org/forefront/health-and-wellne...

ohnoitsahuman··on Palantir designed to 'power the West to its obvious innate superiority' says CEO
The west is a culture not a race. For example many Asian people are more western than many white Americans.
ohnoitsahuman··on Air traffic controller 'left work early', one was left to handle the air traffic
There should have more controllers to fill the gap. People should be allowed to leave work early now and then without having to worry if it's creating an unsafe situation.
ohnoitsahuman··on Air traffic controller 'left work early', one was left to handle the air traffic
Here's one person's claim

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/us/news/2025/01/31/diversity-hir...

ohnoitsahuman··on Pimping my Casio with Oddly Specific Objects' alternate motherboard and firmware
I got lazy and ran a list of points through a language model. The key is to give it direction, like "be succinct".

(NB Just did this)

ohnoitsahuman··on [dead]
If your quilt depicts a giant bundle of blood, I'm not going to get upset when the normies decide they don't want to see it.
ohnoitsahuman··on The Dumbest Bike Lane Law Just Passed in Canada [video]
Good.

Roads should be used for maximum benefit to the public. That sometimes includes bike lanes, but from what I've seen, should not include rarely used lanes in poor parts of town for the benefit of a few people doing exercise at the expense of the actual residents ability to drive and park.

ohnoitsahuman··on Why you should never kiss a baby on the head
Why would anybody with cold sores put their mouth on anything, let alone a baby?

Nobody wants that infection.

ohnoitsahuman··on Europeans spend 575M hours clicking on cookie banners a year
AND we'll make fun of the guy that's trying to fix it.
ohnoitsahuman··on Ask HN: Life-changing purchases since 2020? (Under $100 and under $1000)
Secret bidet is secret.
ohnoitsahuman··on Rumors on X Are Becoming the Right's New Reality
Crazy stuff gets community noted really quick. Frankly, I like it as it's taught me to be quite a bit more suspicious about crazy stuff.
ohnoitsahuman··on Floating points between zero and one
Counterpoint: Pick a random number between 0 and Infinity.

What set of infinite numbers are you more likely to wind up with?

Do this a million times.

Therefore 1 to Infinity is significantly larger than 0 to 1

ohnoitsahuman··on Employers used return-to-office to make workers quit
Here is the states, it's pretty common to search the public court records for civil suits. Be careful.
ohnoitsahuman··on ESA report shows unsustainable levels of orbital debris
No
ohnoitsahuman··on When are SSDs slow?
Can confirm about ZFS - at anything above 85% space utilisation under high load it gets bad on FreeBSD and impossibly weird on Linux.
ohnoitsahuman··on Ask HN: What was your most humbling learning moment?
Sorry for the delay:

In both time I knew it was happening, but I was too busy to fix it.

It almost happened again - I pulled the employee off the job, made him document everything, and put a team of people back in. He was banned from the job.

Kept both him and the customer.

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