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New comment by jcaprani in "Owners report rust forming on Tesla Cybertruck"

jcaprani — Sat, 17 Feb 2024 01:08:17 +0000

In the marine industry, 316 is standard.

New comment by jcaprani in "Iran crash: Ukrainian passenger plane crashes with 170 on board"

jcaprani — Wed, 08 Jan 2020 07:57:48 +0000

You mean the reputable journalists at BuzzFeed?

New comment by jcaprani in "Let me give you a list of the top scams coding bootcamps use to steal your money"

jcaprani — Tue, 07 Jan 2020 02:47:07 +0000

You don't understand!

Austen has zero intention of answering you!

If you could please stop bothering him with your plebeian concerns, that'd be great!

New comment by jcaprani in "Ask HN: Has anyone ever been hired from “Who wants to be hired?” threads?"

jcaprani — Tue, 02 Jul 2019 07:20:18 +0000

Depends on the place.

I happily biked for years in London (considered a dangerous cycling city).

I gave up in fear of my life in Fiji (tiny and sparsely populated).

I wouldn't even consider it in Dublin (which has a lot of cycle lanes).

New comment by jcaprani in "Undervalued Engineering Skills: Writing Well"

jcaprani — Fri, 31 May 2019 18:19:39 +0000

Is anyone else seeing the irony of the poor writing in this article?

New comment by jcaprani in "Floyd Martin retires after nearly 35 years as a mailman tomorrow"

jcaprani — Fri, 24 May 2019 23:28:04 +0000

At least once a day

New comment by jcaprani in "Pilotwings demos act differently depending on when the cartridge was made"

jcaprani — Sat, 11 May 2019 13:33:12 +0000

Discrete

New comment by jcaprani in "Bill Gates promises to add his own billions if Congress does nuclear power push"

jcaprani — Sat, 26 Jan 2019 23:57:58 +0000

Centuries

New comment by jcaprani in "Rainbow Warrior on shipbreaking beach in Bangladesh"

jcaprani — Sat, 29 Dec 2018 03:36:57 +0000

Raising Awareness is the contemporary 'last refuge of a scoundrel'. Greenpeace lost any broad credibility as a maverick campaigning organisation a long time ago, it's now just another MOTR 'charitable' org that overspends on admin, salaries and PR.

New comment by jcaprani in "Rainbow Warrior on shipbreaking beach in Bangladesh"

jcaprani — Sat, 29 Dec 2018 03:32:27 +0000

Probably both... I've worked with a lot of people from Bangladesh; idealistic stated goals, paired with deeply cynical actions is a good, succinct and fairly generalisable summary in my experience.