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by Jun8 3y ago
In a similar vein, here’s a list of canonical Reddit replies (I deleted a few naughty ones). Generating a similar list for HN would be amusing/useful. Or surprising, since HN comments are generally more substantive. Still, looking for
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by Jun8 3y ago
Ahh, time for a rambling ode to cinema of the days past and the Italian Cinema course I audited at Purdue from the incomparable Ben Lawton: Although I have admired Antonioni's great shots ( l'Avventura is picture perfect, that fi
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by Jun8 3y ago
This is one of the very few cases where adding the date in parentheses in the HN submission screws up the title of the post.
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by Jun8 3y ago
His early essays are life changing, in fact many of the early readers of HN, myself included, were drawn here by pg’s essays. Last couple of ones - not so much.
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There are a ton of resources about HW aspects of home labs for beginners but not so much for what to run on them and why. There are lists like https://github.com/awesome-selfhosted/awesome-selfhosted but they are confu
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by Jun8 3y ago
WTF, this is amazing! I think this could be a great example of experimental mathematics, some examples for which are listed in SE ( https://math.stackexchange.com/questions/264560/mind-blowing... ) but this I believ
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by Jun8 3y ago
Vihart’s videos are excellent. I’ve watched her introductory video on hexaflexagons maybe 20 times: https://youtu.be/VIVIegSt81k?si=t_qrkiqUTTfy2l4d
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by Jun8 3y ago
I've got the admit, this looks a bir ridiculous. However, if Apple had a MAcBook shell (keyboard+screen+battery) that, in place of the trackpad you can snap in your iPhone, it would be awesome. For the life of me I don't understan
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by Jun8 3y ago
“not only for building a $3 billion tech empire in 1960s England, but for doing it with an all-female, work-from-home staff of professionally qualified women who had left the work force after marrying and having children.” Tangentially, thi
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by Jun8 3y ago
OMG, I realized while reading this that (1) I haven’t heard CVS or Subversion mentioned in a long time and (2) Spolsky probably needs an introduction at this point. Both of these point to the fact that I’m getting old! I had read somewher
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by Jun8 3y ago
I’m talking about high crime areas in big cities. Here’s a data point from Chicago: in May 2021, up to that time in the year 108 children were shot, 16 of them died: https://abc7chicago.com/amp/chicago-shootings-child-s
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by Jun8 3y ago
The premise of this article is wrong: heliocentric was not rejected because ancient scientists were foolish or they were afraid to speak up to established theory. It was not accepted because egocentrism produced better results! They correct
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by Jun8 3y ago
Here’s my ask before you enter your perfectly argued comment here: if you have 30 mins read these NYT profiles of 12 children lost to gun crime: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2022/12/14/magazine&#x2
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by Jun8 3y ago
I saw this on the DataIsBeautiful subreddit and clicked on for lulz, but was amazed at the sophistication of the setup and the level of data analysis. Interesting tidbit: Scott Alexander met his wife at one of Aella’ parties where you had t
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by Jun8 3y ago
"I think for a governance structure, we should start with 5 people and I'd propose you, [REDACTED], [REDACTED], [REDACTED], and me. Technology would be owned by the foundation and used "for the good of the world", and in
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by Jun8 3y ago
Oh man, this really strikes home for me: Last month we had to shell out close to $1k to replace all four tires when a large (>10cm) nail punctured one. Costco guy said you had to change all of them, I didn't't believe him but
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From Seattle move in a straight line due East. What country will you hit?(threadreaderapp.com)
11 points by Jun8 3y ago|12 comments
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by Jun8 3y ago
Exactly. No one loves "surge pricing"m everyone loves "happy hour."
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For some reason the topic of language brings up a lot of folk theories, half truths, and downright errors. This is not a bad thing, I think a lot of people are fascinated by language and want to understand it on a deeper level. There are ma
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by Jun8 3y ago
Thanks for the suggestion; however, this is a video production device which aims for different functionality than the broad one I had in mind. The simplest useful app would be: watching a movie together with friends, have them type their co
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by Jun8 3y ago
This was idiotic on the CEO’s part, surge pricing is universally loathed by customers, only grudgingly tolerated when done by Uber/Lyft. OTOH, equating dynamic pricing with surge pricing (which the public does) is not entirely correct:
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Wendy's, burned by CEO comment, vows no price surges for burgers(reuters.com)
13 points by Jun8 3y ago|10 comments
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For the longest time (like, the past 15 years) I’ve wanted a cheap small box that can overlay custom info, eg text, on the TV. The reason such a thing does not exist, other than projects like Bunnie’s NeTV ( https://makezine.com&#
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by Jun8 3y ago
Watching this was awesome! I'd love to watch similar competitions where students (undergrad/grad) attempt to solve hard problems under insane time pressure, e.g. for Physics some more straightforward ones from Landau's Theore
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by Jun8 3y ago
Going down the rabbit hole on minutiae like this is a joy to research and read. Had Melville known about the very strong clicks that sperm whales can produce he probably could have woken in it as an interesting motif, e.g. MB "talking&
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by Jun8 3y ago
Here's another interesting post if you want to delve further into an example of undefined behavior created by gcc optimization: https://thephd.dev/c-undefined-behavior-and-the-sledgehammer... . Also, this quote comes to
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by Jun8 3y ago
This would be a great intro scene in a movie about hackers: the ominous drop off in attacks noticed by a random admin due to all bots gathering their strength to deliver a huge tsunami of attacks agains the US power grid.
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by Jun8 3y ago
The video is from 2021. It's long but the honesty and humility of this guy is amazing. Despite being dealt a really bad hand in childhood he was able to pull himself up. Some of the hacking stuff he describes from his youth (e.g. phrac
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Hacker Interview-Gummo [video](youtube.com)
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Byron was a monster, not a sexy “mad, bad, and dangerous to know” character. As one data point (out of many) consider his treatment of his daughter Allegra: https://darkestlondon.com/2012/10/19/the-short-tragi

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