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901.
by acheron 7y ago
> Much of the rest of the world takes for granted architectural principles of how to build life-affirming human settlements. These principles evolved over thousands of years, and it’s no accident that so many cultures reached the same co
902.
by acheron 7y ago
Yes, this seems mostly sourced from that Laphram's Quarterly article. I submitted it to HN a few years ago (although the article was a few years old itself) and there was a bit of a discussion back then: https://news.ycombin
903.
by acheron 7y ago
There are still other tick-borne diseases. Let’s see if we can treat alpha-gal allergy too.
904.
by acheron 7y ago
I see no problems in Google continuing to replace basic protocols. In fact, why not get rid of the open Internet altogether and just use all Google products all the time? It'll be like the good old days of AOL.
905.
by acheron 7y ago
"In the 24th century...." https://abstrusegoose.com/323
906.
by acheron 7y ago
Virginia already closed for the rest of the school year, fwiw.
907.
by acheron 7y ago
Wow, I had no idea that the Lemmings developers went on to become the Grand Theft Auto devs. That now becomes the craziest connection I’ve learned about in this blog series. (Previously it was that a weird French shareware game called “Popc
908.
by acheron 7y ago
I see you’ve stepped out of a time machine from 1999. You’ve got some catching up to do.
909.
by acheron 7y ago
“Blue blood” has nothing to do with argyria: https://www.etymonline.com/word/blue-blood
910.
by acheron 7y ago
> Has that ever happened to you? Yes, and it flooded three floors of my house and required months of renovations. Thanks for asking about it. I briefly considered giving up on indoor plumbing altogether.
911.
by acheron 7y ago
This is awesome. Who would have guessed of all the games I was playing in 1993 that ZZT would be the one where the creator went on to become a billionaire...
912.
by acheron 7y ago
"Stop using" blog posts considered harmful.
913.
by acheron 7y ago
Ian Fleming’s James Bond in Sunlight is Forever
914.
by acheron 7y ago
I only ever see movies at Alamo, so I just use their app.
915.
by acheron 7y ago
> Is there a reason they can not walk to school? Sounds like a good way to get yourself a visit from CPS. https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2015/04/13/parent...
916.
by acheron 7y ago
Reddit hasn’t opened the chat API so third-party apps can’t use it.
917.
by acheron 7y ago
The founder was last seen stroking his Persian cat.
918.
by acheron 7y ago
He converted to Anglicanism, not Catholicism, to the dismay of his friend Tolkien.
919.
by acheron 7y ago
This is a decent possibility, yeah. Other companies keep old trademarks active that way too. "Standard Oil" in the US is one still used like that. It was split up between different companies for different states, and the current c
920.
by acheron 7y ago
Sad news. RIP. I haven't listened to Rush for a few years, maybe time to pull some of the albums back out and do some air-drumming.
921.
by acheron 7y ago
I have loved this since it came out and use the PxPlus VGA9 font for day to day programming and console use. I have a very strong association between that font and what the computer is "really" doing.
922.
by acheron 7y ago
Yes. > “The World Is Not Enough” is an English translation of the Latin phrase Orbis non sufficit , which in real life was the motto of Sir Thomas Bond. In the novel On Her Majesty's Secret Service and its film adaptation, this is
923.
by acheron 7y ago
Everyone needs to stop this hypercorrection nonsense. That only applies to centuries and millennia because they're ordinal numbers. You say "20th century" and "21st century". But you say "1990s" and "
924.
by acheron 7y ago
Same, and I thought that was an odd thing for them to be interested in. They use .gov and .mil. n.b.: it's "Number Resource Organization".
925.
by acheron 7y ago
Unless you’re 80, you’re not going to spend the rest of your life at Facebook or Google. Imagine someone in 2004 saying they’re going to work the rest of their life at MySpace or Yahoo.
926.
by acheron 7y ago
I was into ZZT and so I got the first version of MZX back in 94. I played with it a lot, though never really finished and released anything major. Some version of the game I’m in the credits as a beta tester. While I was doing BASIC and stu
927.
by acheron 7y ago
I set up a whole separate style with Stylus to get rid of the autoplay videos on Serious Eats. Also fixed up their site in a couple other ways as well.
928.
by acheron 7y ago
This has nothing to do with “millennials”. See, e.g., the Rush song “Subdivisions”, which describes exactly that dynamic, and was recorded before any millennials were even born yet.
929.
by acheron 7y ago
One that got worse and then better again at least in my experience is boot up time. Old computers running MS-DOS I remember booting up very quickly (unless you waited for the full memory self test), then for quite a long time it took foreve
930.
by acheron 7y ago
> Installing a web server from a package manager and configuring it in a repeatable way is not simple and boring. A single person startup doesn't have the bandwidth to do that. Indeed, which is why there were no web startups before

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