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by RaoulP 3y ago
Around the same age, I remember first hearing about the expanse of the sun, and being afraid of experiencing it.
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by RaoulP 3y ago
After this morning's earthquake I was thinking how, without any theory of plate tectonics (or previous theories, if any), an earthquake must truly feel like the wrath of god. I wonder if it's been the seed for any myths.
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by RaoulP 3y ago
I never realised until now that The Wandering Earth and The Three Body Problem are written by the same author.
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by RaoulP 3y ago
I’m on the southwestern coast of Ishigaki island (one of the closest to Taiwan), and the effects really seem to have been minimal. The harbor area here was dead silent for a while, empty streets. But things are back to normal now that the t
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by RaoulP 3y ago
Interesting, thanks. See also Fnoord's comment elsewhere in this thread.
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by RaoulP 3y ago
From what I've heard, sci-fi is popular in China nowadays. I read a remark somewhere, maybe on HN, that a nation's output of sci-fi seems to correlate with whether or not they are in a boom. Does this ring true to you guys? I&#x27
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by RaoulP 3y ago
Amazing. It’s like their “The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog” But with no repeated characters! Although since characters are words, I guess that “room for interpretation” affords some combinatorial leniency, which you can’t get whe
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by RaoulP 3y ago
You’re right, it wouldn’t be possible. I’m in Taipei now, not every intersection looks like this. But I remember seeing it at Chiang-Kai Shek Memorial Hall station ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chiang_Kai-shek_Memorial
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by RaoulP 3y ago
Agreed: > For the last 10 years I have been able to draw around 1.517 stations from different European cities, motivated by the curiosity of understanding how engineers were able to fit underground stations comprising 4 or 5 lines under
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by RaoulP 3y ago
> https://waxy.org/2011/06/kind_of_screwed/ That is crazy, and eye-opening. > It breaks my heart that a project I did for fun, on the side, and out of pure love and dedication to the source material end
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by RaoulP 3y ago
What were your feelings about part one, if you saw that back when it came out?
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by RaoulP 3y ago
I do hope so! I love Denis Villeneuve, but felt initially that Dune part one didn't live up to the standard I was used to from him. Mostly due to the structure and pacing. But Villeneuve did explicitly intend this as a two-parter, and
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by RaoulP 3y ago
It's kind of an investment. It's a chore to begin with, that hopefully pays off in the long run. Moving to a foreign country with an unfamiliar culture and language, and establishing a new life there, is a chore. Probably even mor
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by RaoulP 3y ago
This! For all my lack of journaling consistency, my habit of taking these kind of quick photos of anything noteworthy has given me lots of joy when looking back - although I do feel it can be slightly neurotic “in the moment”.
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by RaoulP 3y ago
> Bulleting feels like it would be doing an injustice. So I do nothing. I usually suffer from the same. Some periods I do bother bulleting, as reminders for thoughts to expand on later in the day. But I never do, and then only the bullet
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by RaoulP 3y ago
So lovely to read this. My late father was, in his later years, often writing in his diaries at the kitchen table. I haven’t taken the time to go though these diaries after he passed, but I did take a peek since I never really knew what he
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by RaoulP 3y ago
It is currently the 6th most popular post on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31261533
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by RaoulP 3y ago
Interesting thought!
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by RaoulP 3y ago
I’m sure GDP is a useful metric for all kinds of economic analysis. But it’s also an “easy target” in such a way where I feel it can be a huge distraction. You could appeal to man’s worse nature in all sorts of ways that reflect well in GDP
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by RaoulP 3y ago
Happy New Year!
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by RaoulP 3y ago
I find it very amusing to see this topic discussed in such detail on HN. I was born in the Netherlands, and moved to Norway in my teens. >The only word I didn't really recognize was "fouten". It might be easiest to map it
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by RaoulP 3y ago
Related: I tried a search for "gingivalis" and it turned up the following 3 submissions, all from 5 years ago and related to Alzheimer's. P. gingivalis in Alzheimer's disease brains - https://news.ycombinator.
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by RaoulP 3y ago
What do you mean by open door? In the sense of the "revolving door" through which people move between politics and industry?
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by RaoulP 3y ago
Just to be clear, this blog post follows the recent announcement that Nordic Semiconductor would join a RISC-V consortium. In terms of actual products, the first chips with RISC-V cores were announced back in April: https://news.
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by RaoulP 3y ago
It's common for people at the company (and in the rest of Trondheim) to refer to the company as just "Nordic", which I suppose gets reflected in our blogs (I work there). But personally I agree, better to spell it out. We can
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by RaoulP 3y ago
If anyone has suggestions for a smartphone scope/lens, I'd be happy to hear them.
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by RaoulP 3y ago
Thanks for linking! This one is way more up to date with regards to compatible USB hubs. It credits the project in the OP: >Original idea for this code was inspired by hub-ctrl.c by Niibe Yutaka: https://www.gniibe.org/de
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by RaoulP 3y ago
It wasn't, but I'm glad you shared this. Wow!
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by RaoulP 3y ago
I could imagine there being a human being on the other end, copy-pasting all these LLM responses over SMS - and humoring you by keeping it going for a while. I suppose that would be legal.
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by RaoulP 3y ago
No problem, thanks!

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