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by veddox 10y ago
> OP: would this be better as an 'Ask HN'? Yes, it would ;-) For some reason, I was under the impression that HN automatically prepends 'Ask HN' to all submissions that do not include a link. Guess I was wrong...
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How much do you use the terminal?
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> What's even neater about AI is that the requirements to get involved are much lower than that of hardware and much easier to propagate. That's thinking very much from a CS point of view. Sure, if we're only talking about
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I know religion is not something one is supposed to write about on HN, but this is a personal help issue and not a technical/social discussion, so I hope I will be forgiven. But seriously: my advice to you is to find a pastor/cler
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> I have yet to see him dive deep into any of the frontiers he's focused upon: AI, energy, biotech, etc. I do admit I am still very skeptical about his views on AI. I am not an expert on that particular subject, but as a student of
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Very occasionally (once a month?) Facebook will show me an ad that actually looks interesting enough to merit following it. Apart from that, I have an adblocker to keep the obnoxious stuff off my screen.
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I once read an article describing a full-blown callcenter for scam calls operating out of Brazil. I guess that with the right connections, it's not that hard to hire a couple of people willing and able to do that kind of thing.
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> And oddly, Germany requires to to declare your religion to the government. I trust my government with my data (well, mostly) because if it abuses that trust, I know that I and my fellow citizens can vote it out of power. We have no suc
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It just takes one loud voice to start a debate.
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Yes, I'd second that. While there would no doubt be some sort of outrage from the users, I don't think it would be nearly as strong as suggested. Germans in general, and especially the more educated, tend to be very protective of
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> and it's always a bit disappointing to me to remember that our favourite writers were subject to the reality tunnels of their time As are we. Don't forget that.
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> but it is still very much an artifact of its time, and needs to be remembered as such. I think that is a good attitude. Although I do want to add about the aristocracy/common people issue: the fact that we almost only meet nobles
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Even Gandalf and Galadriel, who are the very pinnacle of "good" power, fear to take on the ring, knowing they would succumb to its temptations.
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> In his world it is usually not hard to know what it is the right thing to do, bit it can be very hard to do it. Yes, that is indeed one of the major themes of the book. Related to that, I love how Gandalf says (quoting from memory her
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I do love the style of that review - you don't find reviews like that nowadays. Pity about all the spelling mistakes in the digital edition though.
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Hey, that's interesting! We were right there ourselves two weeks ago on our family holiday :D Didn't hear about it being the inspiration for Rivendell, though. But I can well imagine it.
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In tenth grade in high school Java programming came up in IT class. Unfortunately, our teacher didn't have much of a clue herself... However, programming was something I'd been wanting to learn for a long time, so I downloaded all
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> I'd argue strenuously against Ubuntu: it's basically Debian without the good parts. Oh, please don't start that flame war! You can get work done any distro, if you are going to start distro-bashing, at least bring some
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Neat tool! Still needs some polish though: 1) The English translation feels a little bumpy (as compared to the German). 2) The presentation of the various distros should be a little more considerate of newbies (see bunderbunder's earli
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Yes, it is. Having said that, the package manager is usually associated with a repository - e.g. most distro's using apt will give the user access to the Debian and/or Ubuntu repositories. Perhaps repository size/philosophy&#
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Is that the rms responding a bit further down on that thread? Great comment either way: > News.YC does flame wars a whole lot better than the rest of the internet...
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by veddox 10y ago
Brilliant! First good laugh I've had today - thanks for sharing :D Is pg still active on HN? I can't remember seeing any comments by him in the past year or so...
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Hopefully not too much more. I come to HN for the content, not the features. Features distract ;-)
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> this written form was a new fangled technology Ehm, sorry, but by the time of the library of Alexandria people had been writing for several thousands of years. The Middle East actually has an incredibly long history of writing (both in
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Of course, the other extreme of idealizing the past exists as well, and is just as bad an approach. However, one does frequently hear people talking about people in the past in a very derogatory way ("I can't believe people used t
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Absolutely! Plus: Learning more about the past saves us from what CS Lewis called "chronological snobbery" - the belief that modern opinions (and, may I add, achievements) are better simply because they are newer. In an age withou
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Looking at what's already been around for >10 years: vim, emacs, linux, windows, mac os x, nethack (plus a whole stack of programming languages like C).
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> > In Europe, support for research and educational programmes for gifted children has ebbed, as the focus has moved more towards inclusion. Actually, that is the one part of the article I was rather skeptical about. Certainly in Germ
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"Seven habits of a highly effective Teen" (Sean Covey) - probably the book that has influenced me the most in my life so far. Read it when I was thirteen or fourteen. "October Sky" (Homer Hickam) - OK, I originally watch
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> On HN, it seems people like learning things from comments, even if those things might contradict what they thought was true. Occasionally, that even applies to one's own comments... Just yesterday I was involved in a discussion on

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