newer_vienna

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Where Is Downtown?(observingthecity.ca)
6 points by newer_vienna 3mo ago|2 comments
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by newer_vienna 3mo ago
Draw what you consider “downtown” and see how it compares to everyone else's.
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by newer_vienna 4mo ago
Love to hate on microslop but this bug seems pretty benign, saying that this update "broke stability" is not true.
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Drilling Holes in the Space Station to Fix Leaks in the Space Station [video](youtube.com)
2 points by newer_vienna 4mo ago|0 comments
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by newer_vienna 4mo ago
Any work worth consuming must be a labor of love. Current copyright prohibits people who love newer works from building off of them. I certainly would still advocate for strong anti-fraud laws (you can't claim a work as your own if it&
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by newer_vienna 4mo ago
Copyright stifles creative output. I believe that if we got rid of copyright (not just for textbooks), the quality and quantity of published work will increase.
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by newer_vienna 4mo ago
Thank you Reddit vexillology !
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by newer_vienna 4mo ago
I don't think I've met anyone who uses the word "genuinely" as much as Claude does.
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by newer_vienna 4mo ago
Thank you, these are all things I've noticed too.
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Microsoft is letting Office users remove an annoying Copilot button(theverge.com)
1 points by newer_vienna 4mo ago|0 comments
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Robotic Servicing of Geosynchronous Satellites technology to launch in 2026(darpa.mil)
3 points by newer_vienna 4mo ago|0 comments
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by newer_vienna 5mo ago
Sure, I see your point. I too read and value technical manuals, but I think them worth reading because the underlying scientific truth or technology matters and the builders/maintainers were doing important work when they crafted the m
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by newer_vienna 5mo ago
I mean "either" as "both". Yes, reading a blog is communication. And you don't need to convince me that plenty of people go about life steeped in nonsense and that listening to what they have to say is a waste of ti
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by newer_vienna 5mo ago
Maybe it falls under the "Various hobby/alternative OSes up to some very recent ones" category. I'm not going to download a one hundred gigabyte file to find out though...
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by newer_vienna 5mo ago
Is TempleOS in here?
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by newer_vienna 5mo ago
Yes, for communication to hold any meaning there must be persons at either end of it working towards a common understanding of truth. Read through Borges' Library of Babylon, it's brief and follows the readers in the infinite libr
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by newer_vienna 5mo ago
Absolutely spot on. Or maybe should I say, "You're absolutely right!"...
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by newer_vienna 5mo ago
He saw that pure focus on Fact is empty without a framework of meaning behind it. He does not mean falsehood when he says degeneration! But purpose must transcend and direct the truth from fact.
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by newer_vienna 5mo ago
Extremely rude reply. I don't want HN to be an AI article aggregator. And you sure don't seem to want to discuss anything important anyways.
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by newer_vienna 5mo ago
Always happy to discuss existentialism, but I'm not going to read through an AI generated article. The other comment I wrote today was me recommending Borges to people!
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by newer_vienna 5mo ago
By itself it's not a tell but combined with all else it's hard to pass by. Author's other article from 2025 has less than half the dashes and it's the same length
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by newer_vienna 5mo ago
Article is full of AI tells. "The two men shared surface-level similarities.", "Not X but Y", and em-dashes everywhere. I wish that people would write articles themselves, with their own style, if they expect people to r
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by newer_vienna 5mo ago
Obligatory Borges mention for magical realism. Read his Garden of Forking Paths and Lottery in Babylon. Short stories which leave you with much to think about
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by newer_vienna 5mo ago
We need a lot more tools like these to clone the data associated with personal users on these big services' servers...
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by newer_vienna 5mo ago
This was clearly written with AI help, the tells are all over the place
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by newer_vienna 5mo ago
As others have mentioned in the thread, the narrow impediments to some night sky photography affect a much smaller portion of the population compared to the benefits these satellites already provide. Returning to the cell phone example, wou
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by newer_vienna 5mo ago
I've had no issue with starlink when using it at a friend's house, and I would be happy to use it myself if my internet provider decided to charge me more than what Starlink costs. And fiber has its own costs to install and mainta
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by newer_vienna 5mo ago
Glad that Microsoft is getting the message but I doubt that an "effort" to correct the rot from the last 10 years will yield much results. There needs to be a total refocus and probably a substantial rewrite of everything in UX la
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by newer_vienna 5mo ago
It is obvious that the 9 million current customers are just the beginning of where SpaceX wants to take Starlink access. Easy to imagine Starlink serving 1 billion + customers in the near future.
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by newer_vienna 5mo ago
The rule is to build everything such that there is either 0, 1, or infinite of anything

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