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New comment by aYsY4dDQ2NrcNzA in "The Road to MS-DOS 2.0"

aYsY4dDQ2NrcNzA — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 04:39:48 +0000

640

New comment by aYsY4dDQ2NrcNzA in "US citizen charged after GrapheneOS phone wipes during airport search"

aYsY4dDQ2NrcNzA — Mon, 27 Jul 2026 03:00:02 +0000

It’s impossible to remove (even just nearly) all ambiguity.

People already complain that there are too many laws on the books.

New comment by aYsY4dDQ2NrcNzA in "Why Are There No Empires in Age of Empires? (2019)"

aYsY4dDQ2NrcNzA — Tue, 21 Jul 2026 17:16:09 +0000

Oof

New comment by aYsY4dDQ2NrcNzA in "How Has Roman Concrete Lasted for Millennia? 1,900-Year-Old Latrine Offers Clues"

aYsY4dDQ2NrcNzA — Fri, 17 Jul 2026 08:22:24 +0000

I’m passing my latrine down to our great grandchildren.

New comment by aYsY4dDQ2NrcNzA in "Today is when the Amazon brain drain sent AWS down the spout"

aYsY4dDQ2NrcNzA — Tue, 21 Oct 2025 15:42:59 +0000

That’s an interesting topic. In most states, homeschooling is almost meaningless because there are no required assessments to demonstrate student proficiency in any subject. And 11 states don’t even require a parent to simply notify the state that they’ve pulled their kid out of school.

New comment by aYsY4dDQ2NrcNzA in "Palisades Fire suspect's ChatGPT history to be used as evidence"

aYsY4dDQ2NrcNzA — Tue, 14 Oct 2025 05:34:20 +0000

I wonder why he contributed $2 ($1 on two separate occasions). Did $1 get you access to a political blog or something back in 2020?

New comment by aYsY4dDQ2NrcNzA in "Cormac McCarthy's personal library"

aYsY4dDQ2NrcNzA — Thu, 02 Oct 2025 05:07:54 +0000

Yes.

New comment by aYsY4dDQ2NrcNzA in "Cormac McCarthy's personal library"

aYsY4dDQ2NrcNzA — Thu, 02 Oct 2025 02:17:36 +0000

It’s quite a stretch.

New comment by aYsY4dDQ2NrcNzA in "Cormac McCarthy's personal library"

aYsY4dDQ2NrcNzA — Thu, 02 Oct 2025 02:16:01 +0000

It’s the only book I’ve read where I came upon a passage that literally caused my jaw to drop.

New comment by aYsY4dDQ2NrcNzA in "Cormac McCarthy's personal library"

aYsY4dDQ2NrcNzA — Thu, 02 Oct 2025 02:13:27 +0000

I think that’s an allusion to the Gnostic demiurge.

New comment by aYsY4dDQ2NrcNzA in "If you are harassed by lasers"

aYsY4dDQ2NrcNzA — Sat, 27 Sep 2025 08:02:47 +0000

New anxiety source: not that I will move into such a situation as yours, but that I do so and not remember to check.

New comment by aYsY4dDQ2NrcNzA in "The Counterclockwise Experiment"

aYsY4dDQ2NrcNzA — Mon, 22 Sep 2025 16:38:29 +0000

I agree it’s a crisis, and I’ve wondered what we should do about this. Any thoughts?

New comment by aYsY4dDQ2NrcNzA in "Doom crash after 2.5 years of real-world runtime confirmed on real hardware"

aYsY4dDQ2NrcNzA — Wed, 17 Sep 2025 16:41:50 +0000

Should have resulted in jail time. A monetary fine is no deterrent.

New comment by aYsY4dDQ2NrcNzA in "FBI arrests US Army veteran for 'conspiracy' over protest against ICE"

aYsY4dDQ2NrcNzA — Tue, 02 Sep 2025 20:15:49 +0000

It was always just a mask.

New comment by aYsY4dDQ2NrcNzA in "The Onion brought back its print edition and the gamble is paying off"

aYsY4dDQ2NrcNzA — Fri, 22 Aug 2025 02:31:41 +0000

Area Man

New comment by aYsY4dDQ2NrcNzA in "JavaScript retro sound effects generator"

aYsY4dDQ2NrcNzA — Sat, 02 Aug 2025 05:21:44 +0000

FutureSplash?

New comment by aYsY4dDQ2NrcNzA in "Study finds 46 percent of U.S. counties have pharmacy deserts"

aYsY4dDQ2NrcNzA — Mon, 17 Mar 2025 01:41:15 +0000

I use a mail order pharmacy for most of my needs, and I live in a major metro.

New comment by aYsY4dDQ2NrcNzA in "Fixing E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial for the Atari 2600 (2013)"

aYsY4dDQ2NrcNzA — Sat, 01 Feb 2025 01:44:46 +0000

Adventure was captivating.

New comment by aYsY4dDQ2NrcNzA in "Let's Quit X"

aYsY4dDQ2NrcNzA — Mon, 13 Jan 2025 18:40:07 +0000

Apart from HN, which other sites do you continue to participate in?

New comment by aYsY4dDQ2NrcNzA in "If you've got it, don't flaunt it in Sweden"

aYsY4dDQ2NrcNzA — Tue, 10 Dec 2024 23:04:33 +0000

I'm not unlocking my phone for a cop.