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by mimixco 5y ago
The NYT title is intentionally derisive and xenophobic. The words "comic books" and the French term bandes dessinées relate to two entirely different experiences. In the US, comics are considered by the masses to be the bane of
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by mimixco 5y ago
No.
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by mimixco 5y ago
Yes! Still scary. The realism of it is alarming to this day.
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by mimixco 5y ago
I want to add that all of this is a side effect of the commoditization of the operating system. The OS is now effectively irrelevant; a personal choice which doesn't limit one's options at all, other than to set a course for the
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by mimixco 5y ago
I think WebVan showed in the 90's that you cannot add costs to the famously low-margin grocery business and also add a layer of profitable frosting for yourself to eat. 'Cause math, that's why. Dark stores, however, could wor
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by mimixco 5y ago
MS Linux is a very clever way to keep Linux alive without disrupting Windows sales, something that's taken them a long time to figure out and isn't simple from a technical standpoint, either. Here's the rub. Devs like Linux a
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by mimixco 5y ago
I read somewhere that the most likely "alien" visitor is a bacterium, virus, or other organism that rode here on a meteor fragment. That achieves interstellar travel without the need or intelligence or intent. It w
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by mimixco 5y ago
Definitely. That's what makes it hard. The entire internet was like this at first (and may be regressing to that state!). I think Satoshi's original use case is one that's viable and has proven to be viable. Another is in blo
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by mimixco 5y ago
Thank you. That's what I meant. Would that there were some formal education available on crypto (it's sparse and the tooling is terrible) and we'd have fewer scams and schemes to worry about.
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by mimixco 5y ago
Fantastic! Surely someone will torture you for your key, no? This needs to be an episode of Your Pretty Face is Going to Hell.
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Homo Homini Lupus(en.wikipedia.org)
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by mimixco 5y ago
All quantum events defy natural explanation. Since all physical phenomena derive from quantum behavior, the physical world can neither be observed nor predicted accurately without access to the quantum view -- which we don't have.
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by mimixco 5y ago
It's countable. But you can always add 1.
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by mimixco 5y ago
That's an interesting concept which aligns well with our vernacular use of the expressions "soulless" and "selling your soul." If a soul is sensitivity to others then that certainly has to be developed. The fact t
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by mimixco 5y ago
Well, you had me at the first sentence but lost me at the second. Bertrand Russell said it's all "the random collocation of atoms." As far as anyone can tell, the meaning of Life, The Universe, and Everything is quantum phys
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by mimixco 5y ago
You've just invented a new kind of "futures trading" and the mother of all kinds of innovative financial scams. Awesome! Someone should definitely start a business trading in "souls" and NFTs seem to be of the same
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by mimixco 5y ago
Well, they're here. I think the general consensus on HN is not favorable to DeFi or other crypto projects. The bad smell from innumerable ponzi schemes and outright technical falsehoods is a real turn-off to the crowd that stalks these
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by mimixco 5y ago
This is a terrific idea that's been around since about 1995 when the idea of an "internet appliance" first started to get tossed around for enterprise desktops. Clearly, neither the bandwidth nor server power was there back t
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by mimixco 5y ago
It couldn't be less of "everything is a hammer." We had native apps before Electron. It was developed and people choose it because it saves time and utilizes skills they already have. Like another poster, I smell management-s
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by mimixco 5y ago
It doesn't really matter if Electron has code you won't use. So does your TV, your car, and your fuzzy logic rice cooker. The OP dismisses with prejudice the only reason Electron exists or is so popular: it saves dev time and le
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by mimixco 5y ago
Everything today is so inter linked it's hard to imagine a useful app that doesn't require other code or files. We had that on the home computers of the 80s but I don't think it's viable anymore.
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by mimixco 5y ago
These game engine configurators are great fun. The graphics are like Forza. Aston-Martin has one that lets you configure and see right down to the thread color amd stitch style on the leather seats.
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by mimixco 5y ago
I was definitely thinking of The Office when I wrote that comment, but in reality, all the shows that tried to "do Covid" weren't funny at all. Think of the cringy SNL skits and "specials" from other artists, filmed
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About GitHub Copilot Telemetry(docs.github.com)
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The Church of American Startups and Capitalism(ez.substack.com)
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by mimixco 5y ago
It's definitely intentional. The PDFs aren't searchable, either unless they've been OCR'd, which keeps their contents from being surfaced even in that website's own search. I was looking for Whataburger's ing
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by mimixco 5y ago
Great point! Especially true with companies in horrible locations: frozen hinterlands or cultural wastelands. Those guys used to love to make you move there for the privilege of "joining their team." Ugh.
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by mimixco 5y ago
The best quote in here is the gal who bemoans the death of "office culture." It can't die soon enough! The remote work revolution is the best thing to come out of Covid. I embraced this lifestyle 20 years ago when I started a
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by mimixco 5y ago
This is interesting but, unfortunately, not surprising. Product Hunt is social media for founders and it has all of the problems of the other social media sites.
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by mimixco 5y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recursion https://www.lexico.com/definition/recurse

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