teh_klev

80 ms·

841.
by teh_klev 6y ago
See also: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Scottish_National... "Piper Gilbert Kerr (right) alongside a penguin, March 1904" https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Scottis
842.
by teh_klev 6y ago
It has for many years: https://www.inthepublicinterest.org/wp-content/uploads/ITPI_... Discussed here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23911696 And love him or hate him John Oliver boils this
843.
by teh_klev 6y ago
I think if you're going to make such a broad and sweeping statements then you need to provide some actual proof.
844.
by teh_klev 6y ago
Hey no worries Bryan. Reading your article there just triggered a re-read of Soul for myself :)
845.
by teh_klev 6y ago
It's a bit of a shame Cantrill jumps from the PDP11/70 to the Sun blob without even a brief mention of DG's finest (and the namesake company of the title of the presentation) such as the Nova and Eclipse ranges of their day.
846.
by teh_klev 6y ago
Hail Eris!
847.
by teh_klev 6y ago
I have very strong links with Spain and would have been happy to engage in a discussion explaining my points but you decided to take things in a less than civil direction, so I won't.
848.
by teh_klev 6y ago
Sure, the "government" is, as in the elected representatives, which is just a recent thing, but I think you'll find the Franco old guard lurking in many non-elected but powerful positions. And it wasn't so long ago that
849.
by teh_klev 6y ago
Sorry for not acknowledging your reply in good time, but thanks for the pointers for me to look into this myself.
850.
by teh_klev 6y ago
Not that I want to be pedantic, but that's a rather sweeping statement. The decision to scrap would depend on things like the number of flight hours and takeoff/landing cycles on the air frame and the number of other worn parts, h
851.
by teh_klev 6y ago
> If the feeler gauge doesn’t slip in with minimal force, then that tells you the gaps is smaller than the gauge. The numbers of sets of comically bent out of shape feeler gauges I've encountered in my life demonstrates that there&#
852.
by teh_klev 6y ago
Due to Brexit this is changing: https://tamebay.com/2020/07/amazon-fba-brexit-bombshell-efn-... Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23888510
853.
by teh_klev 6y ago
See also Olber's Paradox: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olbers%27_paradox
854.
by teh_klev 6y ago
Exactly. Spain's government and institutions are still riddled with Francoists despite passing away in 1975 and there's still very much a fascist element that rear their ugly heads from time to time.
855.
by teh_klev 6y ago
That's one of the things I enjoy about Adam Curtis's writing and his films.
856.
by teh_klev 6y ago
I think you could have phrased your question better: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html Please don't comment on whether someone read an article. "Did you even read the article? It mentions that&quot
857.
by teh_klev 6y ago
And to be honest, nothing wrong with the original article title.
858.
by teh_klev 6y ago
Fair enough, but I think you need to provide a counterpoint explaining why.
859.
by teh_klev 6y ago
My apologies.
860.
by teh_klev 6y ago
The article does actually point this out near the end.
861.
by teh_klev 6y ago
Repro on Chrome 83 for Windows.
862.
by teh_klev 6y ago
"Cow Tools" had me in uncontrolled tears of laughter in a bookshop back in the 80's. I thought I was going to have to be carried out of the shop as did everyone else. Larson always perfectly hit the funny spot in my brain, ev
863.
by teh_klev 6y ago
Didn't think I'd ever see The Fields of the Nephilim mentioned on HN :) I first saw them live at the Glasgow Rooftops club when they released Dawn Razor back in 1987. As you mention the music basically riffed off of the Spaghetti
864.
by teh_klev 6y ago
Is it not a bit risky naming your app with "WhatsApp" in the name? Might be worth a rethink in preparation for that day you get served papers by Facebook (unfortunately). https://whatsappbrand.com/#:~:text=WhatsApp
865.
by teh_klev 6y ago
I find the style just fine and that article is pretty easy to get through, it tells a good story. As an aside I had the pleasure of an afternoon with him and Mary & Tom Poppendieck back in ~2003'ish as an audience member at one of
866.
by teh_klev 6y ago
In the early 50's there was a proposal to detonate a nuclear device in the north of Scotland at Duncansby Head just a few miles from Wick and Thurso. Despite this only being recently reported it was well known within the Scottish Anti-
867.
by teh_klev 6y ago
With a bit of fiddling, bookmarking this wee snippet does the job good enough: javascript:(function(){document.querySelector('.lg\\:mx-8').remove();document.querySelector('.lg\\:w-3\\/5').setAttribute('cl
868.
by teh_klev 6y ago
I told Amazon's AI to go kill itself, not their employee, which part of that do you not comprehend? There's quite a distinction there and you're being quite disingenuous. Comedians are no different from regular people, they
869.
by teh_klev 6y ago
> If you jokingly told someone to kill themselves I jokingly told an inanimate piece of software to kill itself, AI's are not people, they're machines running lines of code. But I see no point continuing to justify my "cul
870.
by teh_klev 6y ago
I'm not sure that's true, I've successfully dispatched SMTP mail from their platform without it getting blocked or tagged as spam.

More ›