Y
HN Search
Hacker News Search
new
|
comments
|
top
|
jobs
FooHentai
searching PlanetScale…
1.
▲
2.
▲
3.
▲
4.
▲
5.
▲
6.
▲
8 ms
·
31.
▲
by
FooHentai
4y ago
The language shipped on a computer the BBC released. This should fill in the gap: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BBC_Micro
32.
▲
by
FooHentai
4y ago
One weakness in the report (unless I just missed it) where it covers 'essential inputs' and their costs: it does not address what proportion of those inputs are imported. Considering a hypothetical where the UK is isolated, it see
33.
▲
by
FooHentai
4y ago
6 months and 12 hours later (or earlier) would be my rough guess.
34.
▲
by
FooHentai
4y ago
>For a company like FedEx I don't see the advantage of owning their own data centers. They just don't have the scaling challenges that would require that. Depends how seriously they're locked onto the postman/route in
35.
▲
by
FooHentai
4y ago
I agree that long-term, outsourcing of compute capability is probably going to be a negative for everyone. That said, when your organizations point of difference isn't rooted in computing, and you're not a producer of compute plat
36.
▲
by
FooHentai
4y ago
Try sprinkling some chili flakes on top. I didn't expect it to be good but it's amazing.
37.
▲
by
FooHentai
4y ago
If you take a 'planetary boundaries' view [1] we're outside of the safe operating limits for several factors: Extinctions, land system change, novel entities, biogeochemical flows, and climate change. 'Solving' emis
38.
▲
by
FooHentai
4y ago
Hah, that's great. Hawaiian pizza always made sense to me since I grew up in the UK in the eighties, where pork/gammon with canned pineapple rings was an ordinary evening meal (bear in mind, this was close to the era of Salmon Mou
39.
▲
by
FooHentai
4y ago
Interesting to see this particular issue crop up so much lately - Big Clive did a video on microwave inverters and how dangerous the fractal wood burning process is, and I've seen several other creators coming out and speaking about ei
40.
▲
by
FooHentai
4y ago
Reducing op's post to your own summary, then attacking that summary, is not making a point in good faith. Besides, it's not pure speculation, it's sitting on very solid foundations of reasoning that were outlined in the earli
41.
▲
by
FooHentai
4y ago
Something I believe is that persistent satire and sincere belief are indistinguishable in many settings, and that persistent application of satire tends to cultivate sincere belief in the same thing as the idea spreads around. Not that I th
42.
▲
by
FooHentai
4y ago
I certainly agree it's not an ideal option, if one exists at all. What you propose is a different path that could be taken, thought I'm not sure the outcome would be better. Just different. I have left many discord servers because
43.
▲
by
FooHentai
4y ago
Me too, but then I miss a great deal about the earlier internet environment as well, just before all the spam and viruses meant you were no longer going to use that webmail host with the cute domain name, join that chat room, run that execu
44.
▲
by
FooHentai
4y ago
Yeah, I've been interested in the long-term effects of this kind of thing for a while and AI posts have been part of the landscape for a long time already. Occasionally you see posts where the image tells you to respond in a particular
45.
▲
by
FooHentai
4y ago
>The minute, someone uses VR to gain/master skills 5x-10x times faster than regular users, everyone will switch to VR. I have little doubt that this is the killer VR app that we just haven't found a way to deploy yet - Imagine,
46.
▲
by
FooHentai
4y ago
Yep, I witnessed the effect when living out near Kapiti island, which is pretty big, quite tall, and very close to the mainland. The effect some evenings was drastic, especially when you had the moon and island on the horizon. It reminded m
47.
▲
by
FooHentai
4y ago
>Conversely, if the more distant object did subtend the same angle as the nearer object then it is normally perceived to be twice as big. herein lies I think the real cause of this illusion - It's the way our brain perceives size in
48.
▲
by
FooHentai
4y ago
I know that it's common to stabilize in middle age once you stop growing, but can't find any info about it being common to reverse. Regardless, congratulations! That's a great outcome.
49.
▲
by
FooHentai
4y ago
Anecdata, but I lived in a low light environment for most of my life (North UK), then spend the last ~15 years in a much brighter environment (NZ). My prescription has dropped from a mid -5 to a low -4 in that time, which is a fairly large
50.
▲
by
FooHentai
4y ago
You'll have to forgive me that my thoughts are a little muddled on the whole issue right now. My core point is that one aspect of the situation feels quite appropriate to discuss here, while the other more intimate (and central) one do
51.
▲
by
FooHentai
4y ago
I found out overnight my dad passed away. Here's the thing - I might come here and post some thoughts about the big clutter horde at his place that'll need to be sorted out. I'm certainly not coming here to talk about how I f
52.
▲
by
FooHentai
4y ago
The same Ronald Reagan that had the White House solar panels taken down. Kinda ironic (to me, at least).
53.
▲
by
FooHentai
4y ago
Even if it's roaches fighting over twinkies, likely still true.
54.
▲
by
FooHentai
4y ago
It comes back at us in all kinds of weird ways, too. Biofuel production, for example. Farmers make choices all the time to switch their production to be maximally profitable (example: Almost all of NZ shifting from lamb to milk production i
55.
▲
by
FooHentai
4y ago
I nuked pretty much all my comments and walked way from my account perhaps a year ago now. That sounds kinda absurd in the context of a website, but I personally did need that kind of 'clean break' in my head to put it behind me.
56.
▲
by
FooHentai
4y ago
Good wireless is expensive, and not maintenance free. This is at least true in any business setting. At home, wireless is simply fantastic for mobile devices, but wiring in fixed items (PC, consoles, TVs) is 100% the way to go. Also, being
57.
▲
by
FooHentai
4y ago
(Some) timers can at least be learned, I can still instinctively time RA, MH, YA on Quake 3 tourney maps even after not playing seriously for about 20 years now. It was something you learned. Reaction speed not so much, I recall taking test
58.
▲
by
FooHentai
4y ago
I threw down the money for Plex lifetime pass after repeatedly keying in movies and shows on Netflix search, and not finding them. New stuff, classic stuff, it didn't matter. Always just some offbrand substitute junk coming up. Their c
59.
▲
by
FooHentai
5y ago
The Quake engine BSP format precompiled visibility and lighting elements into the level file data. So at runtime you had a precomputed 'potentially visible set' (PVS) for any position a player could be within the playable area, an
60.
▲
by
FooHentai
5y ago
>This result could be less tight; for example, if you had a long corridor with many side rooms, and that long corridor was a single cell, then in Quake it would always try to render all the side rooms, whereas Thief would only try to ren
More ›