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by kick 7y ago
It's not just a humorous work, it's also genuine criticism. dmr could find the humor in it, why can't you?
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by kick 7y ago
You can use NVIDIA cards with Wayland, you just can't use NVIDIA's proprietary driver with wlroots (which is by no means the only Wayland compositor). Wayland is the default in many distributions, and if you're using one of t
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by kick 7y ago
ATEC handles basically everything under the sun. I'm not that familiar with him, but he mentions a couple of types he's helped test for ATEC in this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qOTYgcdNrXE https:/
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by kick 7y ago
Conflating "missile" with "ICBM" is a bad habit.
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by kick 7y ago
The source Wikipedia cites says he's still employed there: https://mmee.uah.edu/people/destin-sandlin Destin is studying Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering at the University of Alabama in Huntsville. He has a B.S. i
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by kick 7y ago
While both are bad, there's a difference between "This abstractly might harm someone," and "I'm helping develop something that is absolutely going to kill someone and of which the intent is to kill someone."
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The Call of the Ocean: Hypertext, Universal and Open (1988)(archive.org)
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by kick 7y ago
This is probably the most interesting thing I've read since the outbreak started; it's a really fantastic read. I think it gives a more authentic look at what's actually happening in China compared to the average news outlet&
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What the coronavirus forcing me into lockdown's taught me about cooking(reddit.com)
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by kick 7y ago
Condescending remark aside, it's not important because of the effect or lack thereof; it's important because of how it was done.
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by kick 7y ago
They created consent where there wasn't any, and attempted to sway the emotions of hundreds of thousands of people at once for the negative. It's not important for the effect, it's important and period-defining because A: it
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by kick 7y ago
The value of the paper is that it's where Facebook first started getting creative: a massive ( N =689,00!), barely-consented-to (successful) attempt to sway the emotional states of hundreds of thousands of people. That's both
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by kick 7y ago
Past coverage (though using the abstract at the time): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7956470 I think this is one of the most important, period-defining papers of the past ten years, and it seems like a shame how few
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Evidence of massive-scale emotional contagion through social networks (2014) [pdf](pnas.org)
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Many Hits, Some Misses: The Post-Crash Web Rush (1996)(nytimes.com)
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Mastercard investing in technology to identify commuters by gait, heartbeat(marketwatch.com)
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The Call of the Ocean: Hypertext, Universal and Open (1988)(archive.org)
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by kick 7y ago
archive.{is,today,fo,li,vn,md,ph} allows arbitrary content, which means that most corporate firewalls will block it as a matter of principle, assuming you're using the MITM part of Umbrella.
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by kick 7y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chronic_traumatic_encephalopat... Chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE) is a neurodegenerative disease caused by repeated head injuries.[1] Symptoms may include behavioral problems, mood
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by kick 7y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dr._Nim
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by kick 7y ago
Ego in his case, though modern forms of it are generally what the above throwaway said.
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by kick 7y ago
That's a bit revisionist in every sense. https://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc/2005-11/msg00888.html
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by kick 7y ago
None of the comments in this submission's thread so far seem to be related to the article's content (the headline was tantalizing, but the article itself is really cool), so to try and counteract that, here's one that'
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by kick 7y ago
Wow, thanks for answering! More recent than I expected!
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by kick 7y ago
The character limit is 80. Many abbreviations on the front-page are almost certainly caused by the low character limit making it difficult to express concepts that don't have a singular word for them.
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by kick 7y ago
PostScript does take a lot from Lisp, too. And (kind of) Smalltalk. 'DonHopkins has posted a lot about it on here; I really love hearing him talk about it: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=tru
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by kick 7y ago
Congratulations, you picked proprietary software and bet on LIDAR, then died because of those choices. The death count is still significantly lower than it was in 2020, and life is considered better for most. For a serious answer: even if t
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by kick 7y ago
It's much higher level, chooses the worst bits of high-level languages to throw in, NeWS's spin of it was object-oriented which has since been shown to be a mistake, it's not as extensible, has too many stacks, introduces sig
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by kick 7y ago
"great white hope" is an English idiom. While originally having racist connotations, it's entered common usage and is no longer tied to racism, or anything in particular.
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by kick 7y ago
The root cause, is why a human was in that situation in the first place - stress, crazy work hours, car maintenance etc. All three of these are solved with self-driving cars. The human is the least-manageable part of the equation. Take ou

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