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by dhosek 2y ago
63 comments and no one brings up Betteridge’s Law of Headlines: "Any headline that ends in a question mark can be answered by the word no." (The 63 comments essentially support Betteridge.)
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by dhosek 2y ago
The practice of having a slip that read “Five leaves left” was where Nick Drake got the title for his first album (somewhat eerily recorded five years before his death).
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by dhosek 2y ago
I’ve seen too much inaccurate info from AI to have any trust in it. From declaring the Eiffel Tower the world’s largest Ferris wheel to claiming that hippos can be trained to perform complex medical procedures, it all seems a hot mess. You
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by dhosek 2y ago
I was a bit surprised how many of the books here are by authors who are not generally known for science fiction (Margaret Atwood, Marie-Helene Bertino, Gish Jen, Colson Whitehead et al.)
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The 75 Best Sci-Fi Books of All Time(esquire.com)
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by dhosek 2y ago
I just saw a video this morning of a baby hippo using an adult crocodile as a teething ring.
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by dhosek 2y ago
I just had a flashback to the original The In-Laws film (for those who haven’t seen it, it’s a comedy masterpiece).
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by dhosek 2y ago
What deer have going for them is the ability to blend in to a herd so that when chasing a deer, if it gets in with the herd, you may end up chasing a freshly rested deer instead of the one that you’ve worn out which gets a chance to rest an
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by dhosek 2y ago
I think OP was expecting something a bit different, but nope, this is it.
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by dhosek 2y ago
I imagine that there will come a time when they’ll need to revert to horse and wagon transport at the site. Or perhaps lay down railroad tracks and use cable cars.
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by dhosek 2y ago
Safari isn’t a Chrome fork, although they do have the same roots. Other than my work machine where I use Chrome because it’s the company standard and I find that not going of the main path is usually past, I use Safari for everything and I
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by dhosek 2y ago
I got a ride on Lyft a few weeks ago where the driver had a Tesla and I had a hell of a time just figuring out how to open the door to get in.
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by dhosek 2y ago
Ah nothing like a DEK post to pull out the old TeX folks on HN.
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by dhosek 2y ago
Indeed, this doubled potential meaning of private means that “private robotic spacecraft” is one that is privately-owned, but “robotic private spacecraft” means that there’s something private about the spacecraft, like it’s naked or on anti
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by dhosek 2y ago
As I recall, there are some studies that show that a daily baby aspirin can be helpful for general heart health. I you were taking an adult aspirin, that may have been the issue.
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by dhosek 2y ago
Russia, China, Iran and North Korea all have elections too. I don’t know if there’s a single contemporary dictatorship which doesn’t have elections.
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by dhosek 2y ago
I remember reading an article somewhere which explained why this was an impractical issue. I forget the details, but I think issues like weight, ending up with a battery pack that doesn’t hold its charge well, etc. were all big concerns. We
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by dhosek 2y ago
Nah, the hamsterdance.com hamster.
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by dhosek 2y ago
Ever hear Monty Python’s Galaxy Song (from The Meaning of Life )?
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by dhosek 2y ago
I was going to say that the print magazine was defunct, but apparently they‘re relaunching it as an annual. I don’t think that the literary side of things continued during their online-only era, but I could be wrong. There used to be (not s
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by dhosek 2y ago
Hugh Hefner was a surprising patron of the arts. Playboy made so much money that he poured it into funding some amazing writing (while the standard joke was “I read Playboy for the articles,” the articles were generally quite amazing) not
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by dhosek 2y ago
In the opening, the author of the article talks about how he couldn’t live in the apartment building with all the smart-phone requirements because as an Orthodox Jew, he can’t use a smartphone on the sabbath, the reason for this being that
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by dhosek 2y ago
There’s a great scene in the movie World’s Greatest Dad where Robin Williams plays a frustrated writer. Another teacher at the school where he teaches gets a story in The New Yorker ¹ and Robin Williams’s character tells him something al
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by dhosek 2y ago
I’d go with if it isn’t Gare «something» then it doesn’t count.
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by dhosek 2y ago
“Know how to solve every problem that has been solved.” That seems a reasonable goal.
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by dhosek 2y ago
The character set we got with the advent of computer keyboards is the result of a lot of random selection since the creation of the first keyboards (both the QWERTY typewriter but also the ETAOIN Linotype keyboard and Monotype’s keyboarding
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by dhosek 2y ago
There are loads of old typewriter fonts. Just try googling “typewriter font.”
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by dhosek 2y ago
I used to work for match.com and we had a readout in the office that streamed customer feedback. 90% of it was people who had paid subscriptions complaining about intrusive advertising on the site or in the app while logged in. I raised thi
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by dhosek 2y ago
“later” as in as soon as we can get the infestation removed, which would be the bigger fish needing frying. Not to mention the open question of whether we will ever arrive at later.
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by dhosek 2y ago
VMS did, in fact have finger back in those days, although it might have not been a stock utility. In Claremont, we had the advantage of having Ned Freed (inventor of MIME) on the computing staff at HMC, so we might have had a lot of innovat

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