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by nickt 5y ago
Some good comments from the last time around: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25093704
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by nickt 5y ago
Lighthouse of Doom from earlier this week: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26946130
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by nickt 5y ago
Not sure if you’re talking about Berkeley Software Distribution of Blue Screen of Death but I suppose either would be right!
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Thanks Steve, that's a great little project. Thanks for clear comments in the code too!
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Radeon RX 6800/6900 support coming to macOS 11.4(tomshardware.com)
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Useful Spy Books(berthub.eu)
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by nickt 6y ago
Invests in high speed rail as per... https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26746487 (Interesting these are on the front page at the same time)
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Africa’s Carbon Gigabomb(news.sky.com)
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by nickt 6y ago
Thank you. Yes, maybe a bit too generous but certainly long, colourful and complex.
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I have no idea of the percentage of English speakers, but I didn't have a problem. This Quora answer [1] mentions that younger people are more likely to speak English, and I saw that but the interactions with middle-aged people was OK
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by nickt 6y ago
As I said, I recommend going and making your own mind up. That includes about going. Everything you mention can be worked around, should you chose to go down that path. I met folks from each of your classifications in Iran. True, not easy f
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by nickt 6y ago
We heard plenty of stories pre-revolution too. I get the feeling that the Iranians understand the long-term, almost like a lifetime or two is not really that significant. A few decades or centuries mean nothing to them. I suppose having ~80
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by nickt 6y ago
Wow - the bike stuff looks amazing. The problem with travel - travel begets travel...
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by nickt 6y ago
I agree with that. Within a couple of hours of being back in the US, at dinner, folks were disagreeing with me over things I'd seen with my own eyes in the previous week. I've talked about it a lot at events, and there's ofte
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by nickt 6y ago
Thanks - not seen that. Extra points for the Noel Edmonds!
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by nickt 6y ago
PS while I’d wanted to visit Iran for many years, I was pushed over the edge once I read Paul William Robert’s book - The Journey of the Magi (not the TS Eliot poem, but that’s good too). https://www.goodreads.com/book/
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by nickt 6y ago
This never seems to be a popular sentiment, but here goes anyway. A few years ago I spent a month traveling overland in Iran from Astara in the north (we started in Azerbaijan - that’s a story in itself) to Bandar Abbas in the south (and th
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Is Performant a Word?(isperformantaword.com)
4 points by nickt 6y ago|5 comments
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by nickt 6y ago
For anyone wondering, 8601 is the time and date format one.
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Future Today Institute's Annual Tech Trends Report for 2021(futuretodayinstitute.com)
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by nickt 6y ago
https://xkcd.com/1053/
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Stuck in the Suez Canal for 8 Years – The Yellow Fleet(en.wikipedia.org)
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by nickt 6y ago
It’s probably important to point out that a “lab leak” is a result of human-clumsiness or similar, and not the sci-fi movie bad guys engineering a virus. A lot of the non-HN crowd don’t get the difference.
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The LS3/5A Studio Monitor(en.wikipedia.org)
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David Cross: Why America Sucks at Everything(youtube.com)
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by nickt 6y ago
Hush performs a similar function for Safari users. https://oblador.github.io/hush/
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by nickt 6y ago
That’s why in non-American English it’s called earth. :) I had no idea. Hackaday explains as well as some other things I’d not though about. https://hackaday.com/2017/08/17/living-on-mars-the-stuff-you...
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by nickt 6y ago
The Fifth Edition (from 2012 - the latest edition is the sixth from 2017) is available as a free download from the ACM. PDF link: https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.5555/1999263
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Optical Antennas Promise ‘Unlimited’ Data Capacity(eetimes.com)
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by nickt 6y ago
I can't remember where I first heard it, but there are a few variations of "don't let the process get in the way of the end result". I usually remember it when in large and long meetings...

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