anon_cow1111

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by anon_cow1111 6d ago
Gonna hijack you real quick and post a courtesy NYT link for other readers. https://archive.is/55YK9
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by anon_cow1111 6d ago
Stupid, but related amusing nostalgia: By default. Unreal Tournament 2003/4 used to have in-game text chat that would use the "Microsoft Sam" voice synthesizer to read player messages aloud to everyone in the room... MS Sam t
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by anon_cow1111 6d ago
Ah I haven't played in a long time, though it's good to see there's still some active updates
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by anon_cow1111 6d ago
If you still like video games and are a bit of a masochist you might try playing Noita sometime, a lot of the late game is basically built around this type of logic. For example there's a wizard-type enemy that temporarily debuffs your
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by anon_cow1111 6d ago
I think it could be an unpopular opinion, but I like seeing these completely stupid link-to-a-wiki with no context whatsoever posts. Things that force you to actually RTFA of some obscure bit of tech trivia feel a little bit more like how u
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by anon_cow1111 6d ago
Yes, I'm very aware of that effect. The difference is that this was so aligned with the general attitude of HN users[*] that it stuck out as an anomaly; similar posts almost always hang around for a little while, usually several hours
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by anon_cow1111 6d ago
I don't know all of what dang has said personally, but in most cases where I see new topics getting killed it's pretty obvious what the reasoning is; political ragebait, shady sources, plain junk articles or other low-quality thre
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by anon_cow1111 6d ago
>as that ranks pretty low on the list of potentially damaging threads, don't you think? Yes, exactly . That's why it struck me as being so weird; something so innocuous on its face getting hammered that badly suggests some kin
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by anon_cow1111 7d ago
Personally the first HN algorithm anecdote I really noticed was when the "stop destroying videogames' petition hit the front page a couple years ago. In the first hour it got a modest ~100 votes and comments with some organic disc
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by anon_cow1111 9d ago
The first thing I do with a real ID is widen the reference bars on the sides so the checkout scanner can't read it. If they want my birthday they can type it in manually, I don't need all my info in some store database.
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by anon_cow1111 1mo ago
The railgun guy might have been having a giggle with you, but you gave him some actual numbers so I'll give you some actual math to go with them. Your biggest problem here isn't the launcher, it's the projectile. It's go
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by anon_cow1111 1mo ago
Well I'd recommend you get out there on a mountain with a trebuchet and try it, because you're certainly not convincing anyone in this thread so far.
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by anon_cow1111 1mo ago
>This is false and unimaginative. A good one will weigh about 5 pounds and not have moving parts to break. Ferment your own alcohol from plants you grow yourself. You can at least do that much, right?
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by anon_cow1111 1mo ago
Do you not understand your argument is exploring a made-up scenario where we're no longer an industrialized civilization where these things are manufactured cheaply by the billions? And if you INSIST on making everything completely low
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by anon_cow1111 1mo ago
Guns are already ~20-50% efficient at turning chemical energy into kinetic energy. If you're not using a direct chemical reaction for energy, then you're using a human which is a lot less energy-dense than a backpack full of ammo.
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by anon_cow1111 1mo ago
There is an 18MB gif playing on this page. What the hell is wrong with Wired?
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by anon_cow1111 6mo ago
Look at it this way: The boiling point of ammonia is -33 C. Would you drink a jug of household cleaning ammonia just because it's been heated to +20C? But anyway, I don't think there's hazardous levels left after normal disti
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by anon_cow1111 7mo ago
I despise smartphones (and related), but they're really incredible hardware and software, I SHOULD like them, a lot. Imagine being a nerd in the 90s and getting access to this tiny computer running on 3 volts of battery power that&#x27
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by anon_cow1111 7mo ago
Probably the most obvious for this community is being very enthusiastic about technology but loathing anything with "smart" in the name. (I still use a flip phone and 15+ year old appliances) Similarly I grew up always enjoying vi
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by anon_cow1111 7mo ago
I think I will attempt to just eat the negative eggs because at least I recognize, and can define what both "negative" and "eggs" mean. Can't say the same for literally half the words in the OP's graph.
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by anon_cow1111 7mo ago
I think it should be hopefully obvious to everyone by now, that bashing your neurons with a bunch of chemicals during critical formative years always carries some risk of later consequences. That applies to alcohol and nicotine and HFCS a
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by anon_cow1111 7mo ago
Just saw this and tried logging in and got locked out, "please reset you password", but then the page fails to load after completing a captcha. So now I'm completely locked out? good job paypal.
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by anon_cow1111 7mo ago
What email provider are you using? I can confirm some of them do trigger "phonewalls".
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by anon_cow1111 8mo ago
I'll reply for both you and GPP, I don't know if this will personally affect any servers I use since they're not obviously adult, but I assume the slope will be slippery and if they're doing a faceID system now it will o
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by anon_cow1111 8mo ago
Wow, this is... kinda like the Noita engine but without the exploding yourself every 5 seconds. Probably going to spend the next several hours getting zero useful RL tasks done now, thanks again Neal.
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by anon_cow1111 8mo ago
It should go without saying but, *CANCEL YOUR NITRO SUBSCRIPTION NOW IF YOU'RE PAYING FOR ONE* (for whatever reason) This was just announced today and a flood of canceled payments within the next 24 hours are the easiest way to send a
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by anon_cow1111 8mo ago
I read the article and was disappointed that the full "word" got cut off, but I know that somewhere, there's a German out there who will post something even longer.
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by anon_cow1111 8mo ago
>an influencer marketing company I really, really, really wish this sequence of words did not exist in modern society. /my unsubstantiated reddit-tier comment which I'm only posting because I'm sure someone will piggyback
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by anon_cow1111 9mo ago
Mildly related, but I think this is a good time for our yearly moment of silence for Radioshack. The OLD Radioshack, obviously.
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by anon_cow1111 9mo ago
I was there, 3000 years ago when Walmart didn't even sell groceries, I still remember mom commenting "It feels weird buying food at Walmart now and not even going to [regional grocery chain]". And now, decades later everythin

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