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by laxd 3y ago
'Halla is “a forbidden planet of sorts,” said Marc Hon' This guy obviously knows how to talk to big media. But maybe NYT is not the right place for you to read science news?
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by laxd 3y ago
Show the results and declare a golden age later. The "golden age" label is not for contemporary journalists.
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by laxd 3y ago
Just publishing on the web wasn't an option at the time. But damn! I remember reading at the back of a C64 manual as a kid. Trying out the various "commands". I had no concept of "programming" or "basic".
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by laxd 3y ago
Some use stack for syscall params.
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by laxd 3y ago
> Now you can run postgres and kubernetes in your Chrome tab. This is what the world has come to.
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by laxd 3y ago
> Compiling native application to operating systems that Wasmer is compiled for including the browser and have the code seamlessly work in all of them. And thanks to stuff like this, contemporary browsers are now so complicated that they
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by laxd 3y ago
"...maybe we shouldn't compare terminology across countries." That sounds like cromulent use of HN.
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by laxd 3y ago
... and overlapping the the Late Heavy Bombardement. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Late_Heavy_Bombardment
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by laxd 4y ago
Yes, out of the uncountable unlikely coincidences, some are bound to happen. The comment was mostly a joke. Still, the evidence keeps piling up - that you're all just agents in a humorous world that revolves around me :)
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by laxd 4y ago
Holy smokes! I had the book recommended to me 15-ish years ago. Today I incidentally grabbed it from our book shelf and read half of it. The lion thing stood out to me. I've never heard of lions at a beach. And now this. There is somet
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by laxd 4y ago
Ok I misinterpreted you then. It ticked me off when you seemed ask people to not mistake "real" physical stuff from mere mental stuff. Sorry.
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by laxd 4y ago
"Stop telling people who have serious physical symptoms that it's all mental" As someone who has serious physical symptoms stemming from mental disorder, I think you're being a dick. The experience is the same even if th
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by laxd 4y ago
Even if it worked, ordering flowers from port 80 just wouldn't be the same.
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by laxd 4y ago
Disappointed to not find a flower shop at branch.com:1080
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by laxd 4y ago
Yes! Finally got back to noscript (for firefox) after a break and I think the "enable js from this domain" is the lesser burden compared to all the other nag that just seem to disappear. Also, it's a positive feedback loop fo
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by laxd 4y ago
Hah, this concept sounds like something you'd find named in Meaning of Liff.
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by laxd 4y ago
Nuclear energy? Geothermal heat? Tidal energy? ...
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by laxd 4y ago
Hacker News. It's worse because it's better.
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by laxd 4y ago
I just cancelled my plan of paying a graphics designer to prepare an android app (personal project) for launch. After playing with dall-e I'm confident that "I" can make a logo and some artwork "myself". Edit: ment
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by laxd 4y ago
What if the object you are observing are redshifted? Does compensating for the redshift give you a more or less "authentic" image? What if you were to be a species distinct from whatever you are now? With different eyes, perceptio
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by laxd 4y ago
I feel like "what would it look like if I was there with my own eyes?" is a question that is decreasingly interesting the more you think about it. Your wall would look very different depending on whether the sun or your lamp shine
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by laxd 4y ago
It's hard to predict the consequenses of fundamental sciences. Nevertheless, it's the ground where applied sciences and engineering grow.
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by laxd 6y ago
"You have reached your free article limit" on a site I've never heard of. Bye bye
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by laxd 6y ago
and 33.000 on bsdstats.org. I guess this is a new and unrelated endeavour
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by laxd 6y ago
I'm shure alot of you have seen this already. If not, it's an entertaining 45 minutes https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=45X4VP8CGtk (Here's What Happens When an 18 Year Old Buys a Mainframe)
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by laxd 7y ago
I'm on episode 4 as we speak, taking it for what it is (low brow entertainment). Still waiting for it to live up to the hype. I've seen far more engaging junk.
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by laxd 7y ago
Article doesn't mention if he was actually infected by the spanish flu or if he just survived the times. Anywho, fun happy news, worth the 5 seconds. Maybe not hn material. Edit: Free from memory of a spanish flu documentary I watched
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by laxd 7y ago
In norwegian we have an expression: En ulykke kommer sjelden alene. A misfortune/accident seldom comes alone.
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by laxd 7y ago
This study lists some combinations of material and viruses https://www.journalofhospitalinfection.com/article/S0195-670...
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by laxd 7y ago
Does it work? I had a look outside after writing the comment. The ones I saw where either plastic or wood. (small sample) Edit: I guess the handles we have in our private homes doesn't matter as much as those for public buildings. I&#x

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