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by hanoz 7y ago
I once overheard a doctor say something which has always stayed with me, along the lines that after a certain age then once you're off your feet for any length of time, then that in itself puts you in big trouble.
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by hanoz 7y ago
I frequently get imposter syndrome, or terrible realisations that I am in fact an imposter, I'm not sure which, but one situation in which I would be supremely confident that the imposter was the one sitting on the other side of the ta
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by hanoz 7y ago
It's hardly vitriol. I just thought that the headline and opening paragraphs ( "a news story for every constituency... all written by a computer", "the BBC's biggest test of machine-generated journalism so far"
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by hanoz 7y ago
> How computers wrote Hmmm... Googling: "elected as the MP for" "was created using some automation", reveals very little variation. We're not exactly talking AI powered journalism here. More mail merge than ML.
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by hanoz 7y ago
I disagree, I think it would completely redefine the human experience forever.
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by hanoz 7y ago
> It blows my mind to think that another human species walked on this same planet and drew this art. To me, that's as profound as the discovery, if ever, of another intelligent species in the universe. Well, it's certainly some
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by hanoz 7y ago
> and at long last be intractable Freudian slip? Sounds about right though. The usability of huge portions of the web has deteriorated markedly in the last few years due to the over use of client-side frameworks.
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by hanoz 7y ago
Where does he mention that? I don't see it.
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by hanoz 7y ago
There's no reason to be jumping straight in with "why" in this situation at all, one can perfectly reasonably ask "have you tried using sshd". Why doesn't the author just try putting it that way?
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by hanoz 7y ago
>> To [students], [the equals sign] doesn’t signify equality, but instead means “put the answer here.” Imagine their confusion when, in algebra, they first encounter problems with numbers on both sides of the equal sign. Is this rea
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by hanoz 7y ago
I knew I was going to get picked up on that. I mean brought the web out of academia and made it the universally recognised platform it is today.
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by hanoz 7y ago
Interesting to read that "the largest gap occurs among workers ages 35 to 44”. This is the first wave of internet professionals, the people who built the web as we know it. Above that age range and you're getting into old school I
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by hanoz 7y ago
To which the recipient might be thinking E, E... no wait the first E must have been something else then... ah H, so: H E... slow down a bit... why isn't this person using the same phonetics as the other callers...?
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by hanoz 7y ago
Arresting. Thank you for that.
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by hanoz 7y ago
I have little comprehension of what you've just said, but for any other philistines like me, who like their poetry like they like their coffee - regular, and in black and white - your first stop with Auden should be aboard this: https
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by hanoz 7y ago
For those asking what's wrong with renting, some problems from a UK perspective are: 1. Security of tenure. You can be a model tenant who never misses a payment, but if a landlord wants to do something else with your home for any reaso
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by hanoz 7y ago
I think I had a better intuition for how fast this star would appear to move across our sky from the headline alone (which is just as well because I can't see the article) than how fast "tracers at the Knob Creek night shoot"
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Sir Tim Berners-Lee: The World Wide Web – A Mid-Course Correction(bbc.co.uk)
32 points by hanoz 7y ago|1 comments
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by hanoz 7y ago
> I long ago had a hobby of getting people out of consumer credit situations by writing letters... Whilst you're here, I must thank you for the wonderful advice in your article on that subject, which was posted in this place some ye
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by hanoz 7y ago
That settles that then, thank you. So what's it like on the inside, worth queuing for? I am intrigued. It's a terribly clunky name mind.
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by hanoz 7y ago
This article is all over the place. It can't possibly be that everyone is expected to pay around $10 a month because: 1. Obviously almost nobody is going to be prepared to pay that, and 2. He wouldn't be talking about it not makin
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by hanoz 7y ago
Good job the violinist works in the music industry not the software industry, or he might find after all his sessions of focused deliberate practice that now no-one wants to hear the violin anymore, and he must in future focus his efforts o
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by hanoz 7y ago
Sounds like a recipe for Legionnaires' Disease to me.
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by hanoz 7y ago
Ah. I should have suspected that and phrased my query accordingly. Apologies for any slight on your good name.
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by hanoz 7y ago
Why has the title been changed from "Venice Battles Flooding Amid Highest Tide in 50 Years" to "Venice Floods Because of Highest Tide in 50 Years"? It hasn't flooded because of the record tide. I thought for a mom
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by hanoz 7y ago
"Stephen Hawking has died": Bad: 0.9727 - Good: 0.0322 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16582136
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by hanoz 7y ago
Though a comment is not a post title.
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by hanoz 7y ago
More like a lot of people find it interesting, feel completely unqualified to comment themselves, but are interested to see what Hacker News' resident experts in the subject have to say on the matter when they appear, as they unnerving
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by hanoz 7y ago
> With that in mind, how does the library system reward good actors -- those that return books on-time, that sort of thing? A reward of an increase in their simultaneous loan allowance might be warmly received perhaps, whilst not actuall
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by hanoz 7y ago
The whole debate is predicated on the belief that we are running out of earth's capacity to accommodate our waste CO2, so it doesn't make any sense to mockingly cry "Malthusian" at the suggestion that further capacity is

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