criddell

47 ms·

1.
by criddell 3d ago
Do you consider yourself to be part of the retro computer scene? > That’s ok! The retro computing scene is delightful, full of people building and exercising old skills for the love of it.
2.
by criddell 4d ago
Traveler’s cheques? Who even sells them anymore. American Express was the biggest issuer and they stopped years ago.
3.
by criddell 4d ago
The people I follow are mostly people I actually know along with a couple of musicians whose work I'm interested in. Discovery isn't something that I've ever really thought about because it's not a problem I have. The in
4.
by criddell 5d ago
I've been wondering if mathematics is going to go the way of particle physics in that it will start to take a lot of money to make advancements.
5.
by criddell 5d ago
The $5,000 dividend he's promised will buy a lot of gas.
6.
by criddell 5d ago
Did it look like this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Trak Doesn't have a pen, but maybe it was a modified version of that toy?
7.
by criddell 5d ago
Exactly. HN hasn't really changed, the industry has. The community does a pretty good job of following the guidelines and that's helped to suppress the echo chamber effect that any personalization would add to. AI is novel and exc
8.
by criddell 5d ago
What makes you think this, out of the non-stop parade of Trump crazy bullshit, is the issue that will finally sink him?
9.
by criddell 5d ago
I think Instagram has gotten quite a bit worse over the past few years. I really only want to see posts from people I follow and they've made that more difficult. The service that totally baffles me is Tik Tok. I know it's suppose
10.
by criddell 6d ago
What bag does a cable with HDMI on one end and USB C on the other end go into?
11.
by criddell 7d ago
Do they pair with Apple devices as easily? If I lose them, can I find them with Find My? Can I use them as hearing aids?
12.
by criddell 7d ago
Lots of people can afford it. If you keep the phone two years, that works out to less than $3 / day. The lease option is even less. They're going to sell or lease a lot of these. I think it's going to be very interesting to s
13.
by criddell 7d ago
I believe the theory is the exact opposite. A hookworm calms the host's immune system.
14.
by criddell 8d ago
But also, hookworm infections are known to suppress allergies and asthma, help inflammatory bowl disease, and improve insulin resistance in people with type 2 diabetes.
15.
by criddell 9d ago
Often we do not. The Freakonomics podcast had an episode titled The Perfect Crime where they basically say if you want to kill somebody, hit them with your car because that’s often not punished beyond a ticket.
16.
by criddell 9d ago
Any guesses why they went with that connector rather than USB C?
17.
by criddell 9d ago
I use a Kindle Oasis and love it. I’ve seen the Xteink devices mentioned here and am intrigued, but the screenshots turn me off instantly. The font rendering or hyphenation or kerning (not sure exactly what) looked terrible. Fortunately, si
18.
by criddell 11d ago
Professional sports is probably a good counter example. Major League Baseball, for example, treats the players better than any other baseball league around the world and most of the gains were achieved through collective bargaining. Or how
19.
by criddell 11d ago
Just give me some land outside of the city, where I can’t really see or hear my neighbors, where I have enough space for an enormous garden, lots of native plants for the butterflies and bees, and a giant workshop. Starry skies at night sha
20.
by criddell 11d ago
Glyphosate isn't a forever chemical, is it?
21.
by criddell 12d ago
I'm surprised they didn't use Watson.
22.
by criddell 12d ago
Are there ads on the page? If so, let’s A/B test that along with “Grandmaster Shin Savagely Beats Handicapped Opponent”.
23.
by criddell 13d ago
CNN also has a Kalshi deal. https://news.kalshi.com/p/kalshi-cnn-prediction-market-partn...
24.
by criddell 13d ago
There was also a story about a reporter who wrote a story about a missile strike and people who had bet against a missile strike applied a lot of pressure, including death threats, on the reporter to change his story. https://www
25.
by criddell 14d ago
Of the two options you presented, escalating to management or filing a complaint, which is the carrot?
26.
by criddell 14d ago
The beauty of the word performant is that any thing is performant if your expectations are low enough.
27.
by criddell 14d ago
I always blame it on the HN UI, especially on a touch device. The up/down vote arrow is a pretty small target and once you hit it, the arrows go away with no visual indication of which way you voted.
28.
by criddell 15d ago
I hate how easy it is for Trump to get people talking about stuff that really doesn't matter and ignoring stuff that actually matters.
29.
by criddell 15d ago
I have term life insurance that provides the same incentive and I'm not particularly worried.
30.
by criddell 15d ago
Maybe the strategy is to try to build up some steam behind the abolish copyright movement to move the Overton window a bit. If IP owners see actual support behind abolishing copyright, maybe rolling back to min(30, life of author) years o

More ›