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Re:Ask HN: What're You Reading? on Wednesday September 30, 2026 @06:28AM (#49906894)
INELUCTABLE MODALITY OF THE VISIBLE: AT LEAST THAT IF NO MORE, thought through my eyes. Signatures of all things I am here to read, seaspawn and seawrack, the nearing tide, that rusty boot. Snotgreen, bluesilver, rust: coloured signs. Limits of the diaphane. But he adds: in bodies. Then he was aware of them bodies before of them coloured. How? By knocking his sconce against them, sure. Go easy. Bald he was and a millionaire, maestro di color che sanno. Limit of the diaphane in. Why in? Diaphane, adiaphane. If you can put your five fingers through it, it is a gate, if not a door. Shut your eyes and see.
Re:Apple Reference Image: A New Approach for Verified Photography on Wednesday September 16, 2026 @03:06AM (#49723012)
Won't the focus length of the camera be wrong?
Re:Count Binface on Monday July 13, 2026 @03:19AM (#48889037)
A contest between on one side a comedian with joke policies and on the other side Count Binface!
Re:The last Romans are still around on Friday June 26, 2026 @07:26AM (#48685349)
The citizens of Byzantium identified as being Romans. Interesting, many Greek Christians still did at the time that the modern Greek state was created. When told they are "Hellenes" they responded that they have always been "Romioi".
Re:Two days of oatmeal reduce cholesterol level on Friday January 30, 2026 @05:19AM (#46822667)
Being pedantic the only nuts we generally eat that are actually nuts are hazelnuts. The rest are seeds, drupes, or as in the case of peanuts legumes.
Re:Venezuela's capital hit by explosions, smoke seen on Saturday January 03, 2026 @08:54AM (#46476650)
Yes and as a corollary, it has nothing to do with Venezuela having the largest oil reserves of any country.
Is one reason that Russia is an empire, created as the same time as the British and French empires, ruling over countries with their own long histories and separate cultures that would break apart without an autocratic government?
Re:The C++ standard for the F-35 Fighter Jet [video] on Monday December 08, 2025 @10:39AM (#46193524)
Sure, but my point was that RAII doesn't need to involve the heap. Another example would be acquiring abd releasing a mutex.
Re:The C++ standard for the F-35 Fighter Jet [video] on Sunday December 07, 2025 @01:56PM (#46184067)
Open a file in the constructor, close it in the destructor. RAII with 0 allocations.
Re:Charlie Kirk shot at event in Utah on Thursday September 11, 2025 @03:36AM (#45208883)
If they are trans or not he still "died for his beliefs", as he had said:

"I think it’s worth to have a cost of, unfortunately, some gun deaths every single year so that we can have the Second Amendment to protect our God-given rights."

Reminds me of parts of Service Model by Adrian Tchaikovsky:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Service_Model

Re:C++: Maps on Chains on Sunday July 13, 2025 @03:47AM (#44548347)
Why can't you use this for the comparison operator:

  bool operator<(const interval& x, const interval& y)
  {
     if x.min < y.min return true;
     if x.min > y.min return false;
     return x_max < y.max;
   }
Possibly however homo erectus used the same design for their hand axes for over a million years. This implies the design was hardwired in their brains, in the same way the design of nests are hardwired in bird brains, as opposed to a rationally thought out design.
Re:The Ghosts of Gaelic on Wednesday April 23, 2025 @05:30AM (#43770175)
English and Scots are also of course remnants of a foreign invasion.
"Beware of bugs in the above code; I have only proved it correct, not tried it."

Donald E. Knuth

Re:MIT evolves virtual eye from scratch on Friday February 14, 2025 @07:49AM (#43047820)
Single cell organisms can be light sensitive. Can move away or towards light. The signal cell erythropsidinium even has an "eye":

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erythropsidinium

Re:Rob Pike: On Bloat on Friday February 14, 2025 @04:10AM (#43046416)
It also the fault of the guys in Marketing and Product Management who want features to match a competitor's, or to beat a competitor on some pointless metric, or to create different versions for different market segments, or because some corporate big wig made an off the cuff remark wouldn't it be nice if ...
Re:Advanced Civilizations Could Be Indistinguishable from Nature on Thursday December 19, 2024 @04:53AM (#42460007)
Also there would be the use of new materials, such as diamond films.
Re:John Kinsel used his own language to fool the Japanese on Wednesday December 11, 2024 @06:42AM (#42386830)
An amnesty for what, mass murder, a policy of multiple genocides?

Also the Nazis claimed the German army was not losing WW1, but were betrayed by politicians. Perhaps WW2 would not have started if WW1 ended in unconditionally surrender?

Re:Stupidity on Wednesday October 30, 2024 @05:32AM (#41993220)
No doubt he is intelligent but intelligent people can still behave stupidly, a "wise fool" to quote Gandalf.
Dropping a lump of plutonium on the heads of the inhabitants of Europa might be seen as an unfriendly act! :)
Re:The Centrality of Stupidity in Mathematics on Wednesday September 18, 2024 @05:20AM (#41577586)
You could argue education is wholly about the transfer of knowledge, but research isn't. The fundamental difference between research and education is the discovery of new knowledge. You can be educated without doing research, and you need an education to do research, but without this discovery of new knowledge you are not doing research. You can also do research without communicating the results, just like you can write a book without publishing it.
Re:The Centrality of Stupidity in Mathematics on Tuesday September 17, 2024 @10:48AM (#41568141)
I don't disagree with what you have just said except I understand education to refer to the transfer of knowledge while research is the discovery of new knowledge.
Re:The Centrality of Stupidity in Mathematics on Tuesday September 17, 2024 @09:52AM (#41567600)
But he is not talking about education, about doing a course, where "getting the right answer makes you file smart". He is talking about research where nobody knows the right answer.
Re:How the Hourglass Won on Thursday September 05, 2024 @10:43AM (#41457112)
Just clicking the "continue reading" link worked for me, no email address needed to be entered
when each competitor would use one of their country's official languages and poetic forms.
$30.59 per ounce (current)

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