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901.
by krapp 7mo ago
On this planet, humans have read HTML without parsing for years. People building their first websites without any significant technical knowledge stole HTML by reading the source of other sites and edited it by hand.
902.
by krapp 7mo ago
Satire? What even is satire anymore?
903.
by krapp 7mo ago
fair enough, but what alternatives did you have?
904.
by krapp 7mo ago
People use Markdown because it's expected, it's probably already a part of whatever library or framework they're already using, and there is no well supported or popular alternative.
905.
by krapp 7mo ago
He's already been found liable for sexual assault, and I don't doubt a case for pedophilia could stick if the standard is beyond a reasonable doubt - he drew a picture of a naked girl on a birthday card for Epstein FFS. Just his c
906.
by krapp 7mo ago
If HTML were for machines it would be a binary format. It's text so it's meant for humans to read and write, and humans did both for years without it being a problem.
907.
by krapp 7mo ago
>It is creepy as shit and I wouldn't allow him near my kids, but there is a very specific legal definition of pedophile and looking isn't the same as touching. It dilutes the term when you use it the wrong way. Then why wouldn&
908.
by krapp 7mo ago
>Everyone seems to forget Markdown was invented for humans and incidentally for machines. We already had plain text for that. Markdown was invented to be converted to HTML. It has no utility over plain text otherwise. The link and image
909.
by krapp 7mo ago
It wouldn't stop what's coming. It's far too late for that.
910.
by krapp 7mo ago
"quality" is something you care about if you want to virtue signal your professional or intellectual capability, usually as part of a monetization scheme. Hacker News cares so much about quality because this forum is attached to a
911.
by krapp 7mo ago
>They're sending people around the moon in a giant rocket ship. It sells itself. It actually doesn't. It didn't even "sell itself" the first time. Apollo required a massive national propaganda campaign framing th
912.
by krapp 7mo ago
That might be the one exception.
913.
by krapp 7mo ago
> The president having war powers without authorization of congress is probably desirable since congress is too slow, but some quick in the loop sanity check would be useful. I disagree. The decision to go to war should always be slow an
914.
by krapp 7mo ago
Me too. I deleted all of my posts, comments, likes and follows except for a couple of Japanese accounts (primarily Aya Nishitani, author of Shin Megami Tensei, who posts a lot of interesting stuff about Japanese and Western occultism someti
915.
by krapp 7mo ago
The argument against it is that it's futile. Banning new accounts will lead to stagnation and stop bot accounts but people will simply filter their own comments through an LLM, either to avoid steganography or to maximize their complia
916.
by krapp 7mo ago
>It's not like us mythology is a thing. It was before "Americans" came along.
917.
by krapp 7mo ago
Definitely for the dark elves.
918.
by krapp 7mo ago
The Nazis were obsessed with a fictional occult quasi-mythology of the "Aryan" race that heavily appropriated Norse mythology and symbolism. The SS symbol was a pair of sun runes for instance. I think they appropriate Tolkien (who
919.
by krapp 7mo ago
I've had dreams like this - I think a lot of people have - where you find yourself trapped in a space, an office or a mall or wherever, one common version seems to be a public bathroom - and you keep moving through an endless maze of d
920.
by krapp 7mo ago
I'm not using Youtube Music, just regular free Youtube with an ad blocker.
921.
by krapp 7mo ago
I don't know about everyone else's experience but I find Youtube to be pretty good at finding interesting content, especially for music. Curation is necessary but it does work.
922.
by krapp 7mo ago
I am an American, I do vote to make things better. I have a whole life outside of Hacker News. But if it's valid to express naive, wide-eyed optimism about how space travel will usher humanity into a utopian era of peace and love it&#x
923.
by krapp 7mo ago
The first orbit of the moon by a manned spacecraft was Apollo 8 in 1968. The first photos of the dark side of the moon were taken by the Soviet Luna-3 probe in 1959. Nothing being done here is revolutionary.
924.
by krapp 7mo ago
We're redoing things we did before most people in this thread were even born, how would any of this "push the frontiers of human technology?"
925.
by krapp 7mo ago
We actually should. By "we" I mean just Americans, though. Leave the hard science to cultures that still have an educated populace and a government that believes in it. Americans are going to need that money to fund the holy war i
926.
by krapp 7mo ago
... it's an orbital mission. They're orbiting the moon, not landing.
927.
by krapp 7mo ago
It doesn't matter that it's conspicuous if it's also unbreakable. It's a simple system that's worked since World War 1, why bother changing it?
928.
by krapp 7mo ago
>Regardless of whether this particular mission is perfectly planned, this is precisely the kind of thing that will help humanity outgrow the dark age of war, inequality and climate mismanagement. You watch too much Star Trek. This is pre
929.
by krapp 7mo ago
Most people don't have millions of options available to them daily, at least not in any meaningful sense. Anxiety and choice paralysis is very much a first world privilege.
930.
by krapp 7mo ago
Maybe there are aliens out there so advanced that they could be reading our screens right now in realtime from across the galaxy using some weird post-quantum silly sauce we can't even comprehend. But it doesn't seem likely given

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