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901.
by scandox 8y ago
When I saw the column called content my face went a little bit sad.
902.
by scandox 8y ago
The poster I responded to was mooting 4 digit length lifespans. This isn’t about living a longish life. Maybe super normal would have been a clearer term.
903.
by scandox 8y ago
Because life is given meaning and focus by its brevity. Because generations give us the constant possibility of change and new ideas.
904.
by scandox 8y ago
I’m amazed that anyone thinks above normal individual longevity is a good idea. In my view it will be the end of human progress morally and scientifically rather than the beginning.
905.
by scandox 8y ago
> No amount of money or effort is going to change the physics of diffraction gratings. On the other hand there is an amount of money and effort that will persuade people to pretend the physics has changed.
906.
by scandox 8y ago
> It seems that the returns to entrepreneurialism in cities remain high: Hong Kong, Singapore, Dubai, and others, have improved the lives of millions of people and appear much more contingent than inevitable. I’m interested in this as a
907.
by scandox 8y ago
You’re going to enter into a relationship with the people you’re talking about (on a public forum) for the rest of your life.
908.
by scandox 8y ago
Good to know.
909.
by scandox 8y ago
I want these things as highly regulated as possible. I found it extremely uncomfortable to have drones flying about over my kids head in the park. What do I know about the competence of the pilots? Or the onboard AI? Nothing. They're b
910.
by scandox 8y ago
Of course. In the past. Now. And long into the future. It's vastly easier to project a convincing illusion than it is to sustain a reality. Self interested, shrewd people will always put their energy into the illusion. Illusions give y
911.
by scandox 8y ago
Kevin O'Sullivan - I'm sure he's a nice man - just didn't have any guts or vision. First day of his editorship they ran the first ever hint of Advertorial I ever saw there: a lottery ad in columns that slightly bled down
912.
by scandox 8y ago
On Hacker News everybody's five year old kids: 1. Configure and run their own Minecraft Server 2. Are fully proficient with the linux commandline 3. Are skilled in basic safe cracking techniques such as auto-dialling, weak point drilli
913.
by scandox 8y ago
> If winter is coming for quantum, it’s going to surprise a lot of invested people. I've never liked these kinds of statements. They're merely statements - statements of the obvious in fact. However, they're positioned in
914.
by scandox 8y ago
Crap DNS not supporting CAAA records can be an issue too
915.
by scandox 8y ago
Oh how well I remember "Namerazor"..."so good it named itself".
916.
by scandox 8y ago
If you've made the right choice for your workflow and project type then you'll never be alone.
917.
by scandox 8y ago
That was the most extensive invocation of Poe's Law that I've seen someone write in some time
918.
by scandox 8y ago
I think you're right...but knowing what glory hounds most writers are, it's possible we're overlooking an important factor: the motivating aim of the authors. In 1800, say in England, there were probably some thousands of peo
919.
by scandox 8y ago
Minor quibble: a lot of businesses go bust unable to pay redundancy and there are very rarely consequences for directors unless reckless trading can be proven. That at least is my experience in Ireland and UK.
920.
by scandox 8y ago
This reads as if you paid absolutely no attention to what this person was saying.
921.
by scandox 8y ago
I'd like this function except it would add a section to the existing man page. That way my knowledge and the canonical information would be in the same place.
922.
by scandox 8y ago
I just find the touch experience on Surface to be completely lamentable and the hybrid desktop-tablet interface boggles my mind. I agree the hardware is fantastic but I find Windows 10 intolerable.
923.
by scandox 8y ago
> hanging around You make them sound like junkyard dogs :) Edit: Added smiley face to show I was merely amused by the phrasing.
924.
by scandox 8y ago
They've just had a hell of a long time to polish their excuses :)
925.
by scandox 8y ago
I'm sure that some more fully articulated and sophisticated version of what you've said forms the basis of YC's decision to continue pragmatically pursuing its goal of being big and important (and incidentally making lots of
926.
by scandox 8y ago
But before you do that it's worth just asking them what they think comes after everything else and see what they say. Because kids often have really interesting ideas on those kinds of topics and once you tell them something, then thei
927.
by scandox 8y ago
Well there is GPGME: https://gnupg.org/software/gpgme/index.html But yes I mostly parse colon separated text.
928.
Multiple-Image Network Graphics and how it came to be(libpng.org)
20 points by scandox 8y ago|17 comments
929.
by scandox 8y ago
Young Frankenstein was written and developed by Gene Wilder. It was definitely not born out of Brooks’ obsession with Mary Shelley’s novel and even Brooks would hardly say so!
930.
by scandox 8y ago
Tierchen is surely cuter than just Animal? Like maybe like critter or beastie?

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