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by pkdpic 5y ago
Hey just wanted to say a late thank you for the links!
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by pkdpic 5y ago
I like identifying debate as a dirty word, or at least one to be very suspicious of. Reminds me of a Chomsky quote I'll never find again about how the acceptable parameters of a "debate" can be infinitely more important than
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by pkdpic 5y ago
I wish higher education or the arts or social media were the open forums of intellectual debate they seemed to be when I was younger. But personally it seems clear after devoting decades of my life to all three that they aren't and fun
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Ihatovo Monogatari (1993)(en.wikipedia.org)
1 points by pkdpic 5y ago|0 comments
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by pkdpic 5y ago
Can I officially request that Boston Dynamics put on this play with a bunch of Atlases?
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by pkdpic 5y ago
Somebody should make thiscityshouldexist.com
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by pkdpic 5y ago
It gave me hope for humanity in 2016, it gives me hope for humanity now. Not totally sure why.
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Ukrainian Soldier Playing Piano(youtube.com)
3 points by pkdpic 5y ago|1 comments
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by pkdpic 5y ago
It feels like a good time to watch encounter at farpoint. I cant think of the right Picard quote to pull from it but the general sentiment seems appropriate for the moment.
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by pkdpic 5y ago
Explanation for the Fermi paradox?
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Transluscent Car from 1940(designboom.com)
2 points by pkdpic 5y ago|4 comments
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by pkdpic 5y ago
If anyone can find a video of this amazing thing please post a link.
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by pkdpic 5y ago
Not sure whats going on here but interested. Anyone have a TLDR for the non-Cyrillic readers?
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Ask HN: How is Silicone synthesized / manufactured?
5 points by pkdpic 5y ago|1 comments
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by pkdpic 5y ago
Me too, but for some reason I wasn't confused. I just rolled my eyes. Mildly disturbing.
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66M Years Ago(dinosaurpictures.org)
2 points by pkdpic 5y ago|0 comments
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by pkdpic 5y ago
Further reading suggestion, Ants and Dinosaurs by Liu Cixin. Pretty full explanation.
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by pkdpic 5y ago
But does 9/11 times 100 equal 91,100 or 81.818181...?
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by pkdpic 5y ago
Not sure this is of help for enormous files but slapped this ffmpeg script together with a friend a while ago for a similar need to split images for printing. Might point you in a direction at least. Excuse the virtue signaling vibe on the
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by pkdpic 5y ago
Well this is just fantastic. Appropriately humbling. I'm dumb though I need more clues.
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by pkdpic 5y ago
I was under the impression (from other HN threads) that the simplest explanation for their erratic seeming rebranding / behavior was related to some kind of red herring optics narrative manipulation for stockholders or something. Like
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Old Computer Manuals Archive(archive.org)
5 points by pkdpic 5y ago|0 comments
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by pkdpic 5y ago
I wonder if torvalds had something like this on a whiteboard at some point. Or just in that big juicy brain of his maybe.
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by pkdpic 5y ago
I feel like someone smarter than me is going to point this out. But was this monopoly ever a reality? ie Microsoft, Amazon etc. Maybe the article gets into that too. Regardless I like that the article represents a possible shift in public n
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by pkdpic 5y ago
> you should always use the weakest technology capable of solving your problem I knew there was a reason I got on HN at one in the morning. Pointless night redeemed. Also duh I guess, Im just stupid.
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by pkdpic 5y ago
Thats really interesting, I never thought about the fact that restrictive seeming mobile apps shift focus from local file storage to remote db file storage via apps.
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by pkdpic 5y ago
Too bad all those jobs got automated.
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by pkdpic 5y ago
And it blurs the line between programming and art. As if there needs to be any line at all.
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by pkdpic 5y ago
I like what I see on the site and in the comments here. Im looking forward to checking this out more maybe. Im kind of surprised that as a species we dont have a conclusive ubiquitous solution to the foggy problem of digital photo storage
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by pkdpic 5y ago
I'm usually very wary of this kind of post, narrative building and all that, but I like this. And I feel like the honesty at the end of the authors success / path leaves room for the reader to put it all in context. > If you yo

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