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sephlietz··on 1Password 8 has been formatting dates incorrectly for over a year
Neither do I, but the rest of what I wrote does.
sephlietz··on 1Password 8 has been formatting dates incorrectly for over a year
The argument is that writing the parts in a consistently increasing or decreasing precision order makes more sense.

So these are good.

- year / month / day

- day / month / year

And this is bad.

- month / day / year

sephlietz··on Archaeologists find 3000-year-old sword, exceptionally well preserved
With the caveat that I'm not an expert, that's the pommel (hilt is the entire handle) and it is at the bottom to prevent the sword from slipping out of your hand.

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

sephlietz··on Crime App 'Citizen' Lays Off Dozens of Employees
In my experience, the twitter police scanner communities are dominated by racism and general hatred towards cities and city government (excluding police and other rescue).

Is Citizen the same?

sephlietz··on Hi, hello, I’m back at it
Yes.
sephlietz··on Infosys asked HR not to hire 'Indian-origin candidates', 'women with children'
Japan's population is something like 98% Japanese ethnicity.
sephlietz··on Germany paying $5.5B for Intel fab
Didn't you and parent both say "to keep costs low"?
sephlietz··on How DALL-E 2 Works
How is this any different than any other technological innovation which has made a job obsolete or otherwise allowed fewer people to do more work?
sephlietz··on The Ecash Act
"Cash is not fungible."

What do you mean?

sephlietz··on Silenced AirTags with disabled speakers are popping up for sale online
Maybe this a dumb question, but is the AirTag configured to Notify When Left Behind except when left at your home? I've never heard an AirTag beep before.
sephlietz··on Lego Microscope
I don't think you need to search for a psychological explanation.

I think it is probable that many people think the benefits of Lego far outweigh the benefits of cryptocurrency mining.

sephlietz··on Simplifying Board Games
BoardGameGeek is usually a good resource for this. https://www.boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/125921/catan-junior
sephlietz··on Simplifying Board Games
Our family has also found this to be true for Catan Junior. It's a great game on its own with quite a lot of replay value, so we end up sometimes playing Catan Junior even though everyone has the ability to play Settlers of Catan.
sephlietz··on U.S. Should Open America’s Doors to Hong Kong’s Citizens
If anything, my comment was a false analogy, not a straw man.

Your comment was arguably a straw man, however, as it attacked a point which the article did not make (i.e., Hong Kong should not be responsible for itself) instead of any of the actual arguments (which focused on the benefits to the United States: strategic, economic, and political).

sephlietz··on U.S. Should Open America’s Doors to Hong Kong’s Citizens
At what point are the people having heart attacks responsible for stopping them? The people having heart attacks need to treat them themselves, not run away to a hospital.
sephlietz··on Authorities say Hobby Lobby's Gilgamesh tablet is stolen, must go back to Iraq
Recency.
sephlietz··on Using human brain tissue in lab, researchers show herpes link to Alzheimer’s
No (I think). https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6461191/
sephlietz··on Majority of Americans favor wealth tax on very rich: poll
Rich, powerful people are not oppressed. Taxes are not oppression.
sephlietz··on Majority of Americans favor wealth tax on very rich: poll
Your argument implies that a wealth tax has always been favored by a majority of Americans (since by definition a majority of Americans have always been not rich), which I think is not true.

I think the truth is likely that personal wealth is but one of many factors in support for a wealth tax.

sephlietz··on Have Aliens Found Us? (2019)
Discussion from the original submission about 1 year ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18923591.
sephlietz··on Away Fires CEO Steph Korey After Months-Long Search for Her Replacement
Berate doesn't mean yell, perhaps?
sephlietz··on Sea 'Boiling' with Methane Discovered in Siberia
"tornado alley moving east", fyi.
sephlietz··on Forest kindergarten
If you're talking about the one at the North Park Village Nature Center, it looks like they were already shut down. :( https://blockclubchicago.org/2019/06/20/preschool-program-ki...
sephlietz··on Apple tried to buy Tesla for more than it’s currently worth in 2013, report says
Is this meant to be parody (car => phone) or real? I honestly don't know, but if it's not parody, then I'm super curious about "no money in making cars" part.
sephlietz··on Largest Early World Map – Monte's 10 Ft. Planisphere of 1587 (2017)
See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19518292 in progress also.
sephlietz··on Eliminating Robocalls
No, but it could be preventing the equivalent of "here is a random phone number I picked, please 1000 of you dial it".
sephlietz··on Eliminating Robocalls
Are you aware of any robocallers that have answered your "simple arithmetic question" correctly?
sephlietz··on Show HN: Analysis of 2018 Hacker News “Who Is Hiring” Job Posts
I wonder if some of the "scala" hits are actually from the word "scalable"...
sephlietz··on A military technique for falling asleep in two minutes
Are they just describing Progressive Muscle Relaxation?

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

sephlietz··on A 12-mile-wide body of water lies beneath a Mars ice cap
Larger discussion at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17609327.
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