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by 0x456 4y ago
Worthwhile reading on Easter Eggs "Why No Easter Eggs" https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/archive/blogs/larryosterman... https://hn.algolia.com/?query=Why%20no%20Easter%20Eggs ... and
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by 0x456 4y ago
Does anyone know if Hacker News comments are being used as training data? I wonder this about Gmail, Skype, Voice Conversations on Xbox Live, etc. Mostly too afraid to ask because it sounds like paranoia.
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by 0x456 5y ago
Even more sad when a Tech journal doesn't have an RSS feed, but posts to Facebook and Twitter instead. For example https://www.thenewatlantis.com/
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by 0x456 5y ago
I still miss Yahoo Pipes.
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by 0x456 5y ago
Some of these don't show up for me (like Saturn). This might work better with a web-font? Although then you'd lose the harmonious platform emojis. I wonder if there's a way to check if a unicode character exists in a font
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by 0x456 5y ago
Drag-along rights, with a waiver of appraisal rights?
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by 0x456 5y ago
On the question of "is it hated", Stackoverflow publishes a survey every year on interesting questions like this. It doesn't get a lot of attention here for whatever reason. https://insights.stackoverflow.com&#x2F
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by 0x456 5y ago
My guess is because: - lots of people don't like Javascript - lots of people don't like V8 - the guy who made Node.js (Ryan Dahl) doesn't like it either - programmers think anything without thread support is a toy I like Node
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by 0x456 5y ago
That one day that new api or programming language you're just learning will be considered not only obsolete but dangerous.
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by 0x456 5y ago
This seems very likely extrapolating from current trends.
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by 0x456 5y ago
There's S.M.A.R.T. and a lot of freeware that can read it and tell you how much has been written to the disk. If only it were built into operating systems, with a graph, then you could set up warnings, like you can for overheating CPU
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The Mystery of Coronal Heating(science.nasa.gov)
6 points by 0x456 5y ago|0 comments
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by 0x456 5y ago
The irony of a topic like this is that the algorithm will put the least contrarian opinions on top. Right now the most conventional/pedestrian opinion you could possibly imagine is listed first.
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by 0x456 5y ago
If you leave off the "to light years" conversion, you'll see that the units don't match up. A light year is a measure of distance (m). The result of this equation is 3.86×10^99 s^4/(kg^2 * m^3). How or why Wolfra
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by 0x456 5y ago
A contrarian might ask "How many bugs were there in the HTML5 APIs that replaced it?" Probably fewer considering HTML5 is an open/modern code base? Some high profile ones in Audio though...
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by 0x456 5y ago
Eventually, a grumpy old man* will show up and mention teletype and time-sharing. Someone else will incorrect him saying cloud computing is different. I'd love to hear Peter Norvig and Bill Gates talk it over. https://www.
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by 0x456 5y ago
There is also the related "Matthew effect" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matthew_effect#Sociology_of_sc...
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by 0x456 5y ago
Breakrooms also have a dark side: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peryton_(astronomy) https://www.theguardian.com/science/2015/may/05/microwave-ov...
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by 0x456 5y ago
Also available at: http://larrysummers.com/2018/10/09/36229/ https://web.archive.org/web/20210820121158/https://www.ft.co...
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Larry Summers Visits America (2018)(ft.com)
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by 0x456 5y ago
They should include C-SPAN coverage. https://www.c-span.org/video/?165916-101 https://www.c-span.org/video/?165959-2 The second link is a particularly disheartening time capsule of political disco
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by 0x456 5y ago
This article is about NFTs.
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by 0x456 5y ago
Here is the Wikipedia Article about this topic: Project Horizon was a 1959 study to determine the feasibility of constructing a scientific / military base on the Moon https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Horizon
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by 0x456 5y ago
There is also the Emmy Nominated HBO Documentary "Hacking Democracy", from 2006. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hacking_Democracy
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by 0x456 5y ago
Apparently surgeons can do something similar. The experienced surgeon you talked to is just there you get to you agree to surgery, without explicitly telling you a first year (poorly/un)supervised resident will do all the cutting.
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by 0x456 5y ago
Often you'd see HN posts near the top, with few votes or comments. Although Rust sounds amazing, it has a Submarine* feel to it. Would the project be on the front page if the title didn't mention Rust? I think Haskell had this p
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by 0x456 5y ago
2600 word lead-up to "Tarzan"|(Tarzan) This style of writing is just obnoxious.
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by 0x456 5y ago
"We want to hire people like you to go and interview at other companies." "During the interview, you'll evangelise our clients' products."
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by 0x456 5y ago
Hopefully someday this will have a companion site, like https://www.explainxkcd.com/
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by 0x456 5y ago
Shockingly, it also has an effect on the brain microbiota of owners: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3963851/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toxoplasma_gondii

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