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I'm confused -- what would you be going back from, given your preferred VSCode extension is abandoned?

"differ"? did you mean "default"?

I imagine "defer"

Yes, and that's a major reason so many just use us-east-1.

"same as the minimum wage"

... an hour's wage? a week? a month? annual?


From context it was clear to me that they meant the entire income.

Minimum wage in brazil is 280/month. I don't know how much of it would be taken by taxes, but even if it's 0 then ozempic in Brazil still costs almost 70% of that amount each month.


It’s not so straightforward, though. In the U.S., wages are usually discussed in terms of hourly pay or annual salary, whereas in Brazil, they’re typically expressed as monthly earnings.

Doesn't matter.

$(recurring dose of drug) ~= $(recurring income)

However much you need per unit time period, compared to how much you make in that time period.

The definition is independent of time.


Yeah, sorry, it's just here we just talk about monthly wages. A month!

I haven't had a chance to play w this yet, but thank you for building and sharing this -- great writeup, sounds v useful and compelling!

IMHO Garfield is to comics / humor what Monopoly is to games / fun.

You or one of your siblings flipped the Garfield comics over after your father bled you dry with his savvy real estate plays?


Sorry, I don't get it. whats with the terydactl substance

The caption is what really sells it for me. It is the classical farside experience.

Looks at comic, (shrugs) it's weird but not funny in any way. Reads caption

"Art assignment: Paint a house on a hillside overlooking a bay or valley. Stay loose; play with color. Try to capture a mood. Think of something to add."

Literal spit take and laugh. Yep he still has the touch.


Yes. The word choice is exquisite; "loose" got me, right as I was visually interpreting the scene. Larson is a genius.

Hmmm - my interpretation is that this is an example of a "prompt" for a generative AI "artist", and the result was something that "craps" over the original intention of the "house on a hillside"... (so, a bit of a commentary on generative art from someone who was professional cartoonist)

I think you are applying the wrong decade(s) of thought. This is a man who had to clean his pen to use it - it is very likely he is using artists "prompts" to practice his digital art (as he mentions its very new to him), which is something that was normal before the current era.

For the benefit of me 30 minutes ago baffled by the responses to this down thread, this is perhaps a r/BirdsArentReal thing? e.g. https://old.reddit.com/r/BirdsArentReal/comments/1n1yr3d/wha...

Nah, its just absurd Larson humor.

Oh I get the Larson humor, I mean Physkal's comment and iancollmceachern's implication that a reference was missed by stickfigure

This is my favorite too.

The caption reads like an AI prompt. The last instruction, "think of something to add" resulted in the AI adding a pterodactyl on the house, dropping bird poop on it. Probably not what the prompter meant, but technically correct.


Same here. My first though was 'This is an AI prompt.'

Pretty sure it's bird shit.

This exact chain of interactions is what I come to HN for.

When Meat Loaf died, I commented "His name was Robert Paulsen" (you know, because in death membersbof project mayhem do have names, his name was Robert Paulsen". Someone commented something to the effect of no it wasn't, meat loaf wasn't his real name it was Marvin Aday, and then someone else commented to their comment "It's literally a fucking line from the movie".

I dont know why these layers of weirdness delight me so, but they do.

Thanks for the pterodactyl shit commentary folks.


Was gonna say, I thought Robert Paulsen was the guy who did Yakko's voice?

His name was also Robert Paulsen.

I posted the same thing on Reddit and got downvoted to hell.

Reddit is turning more into hn everyday.

Better hope it’s not the other way around!

This is sort of the inverse “Don’t say HN is becoming Reddit”

Reddit has been declining for a long time and even more so the way the algorithm works with the Front Page. Politics and activism there is super amplified


AskReddit has turned into Progressive Anxiety News, with every headline followed by "What do you think?"

That's better than what it usually is, teenagers asking "women, what's the sexiest sex you've ever sexed?" once a week.


winged reptile shit

Let's call it "early bird" shit …

Well actually pterosaurs were way different from birds, and don't even count as dinosaurs. Though they had a downy covering similar to feathers. But they're not bird ancestors.

I agree it seems like a better-structured effort than many others. But its shortcomings go beyond a shallow and incomplete foundation in psychology. It also has basic errors in its execution, eg a "Geography" question about centripetal and centrifugal forces. Color me extremely skeptical.

Dennis Rodman is a famous counterexample (tall, no particular talent, became an All-Star for rebounding and shot-blocking)

Fair point. OTOH, amphetamines are effective medication for ADHD.

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