Simplicitas
Re:Why didn't Rome have an industrial revolution?
on Friday July 19, 2024 @06:40PM (#41012177)
This convo reminds me of .. “my contention is that prior to the Revolutionary War, the economic modalities—especially in the southern colonies—could most aptly be characterized as agrarian pre-capital —"
https://genius.com/Good-will-hunting-good-will-hunting-bar-s...
lol
Re:A Model of a Mind
on Monday July 01, 2024 @07:29AM (#40844720)
Any discussion of a model for consciousness that doesn't include Daniel Dennett's take is a bit lacking from the get go.
Re:Supreme Court guts agency power in seismic Chevron ruling
on Friday June 28, 2024 @11:24AM (#40821595)
In an ideal world, maybe. In the US, where business mostly already owns government, this decision will further erode the little control citizens have over them.
Re:Daniel Dennett (1942-2024)
on Friday April 19, 2024 @12:38PM (#40088926)
A philosopher who appreciated engineering. RIP Daniel Dennett.
Re:Feathers Are One of Evolution's Cleverest Inventions
on Thursday April 18, 2024 @12:18PM (#40077776)
Another feature that make birds really remarkable, if not mistaken, is that they take in oxygen when they inhale AND exhale. Feathers are great, but a creature such as B6 still needs a lot of energy to fly for 10 days straight.
Re:F/OSS Comics: 8. The Origins of Unix and the C Language
on Wednesday April 17, 2024 @02:16PM (#40068281)
This is awesome. Thank you!
Re:F/OSS Comics: 8. The Origins of Unix and the C Language
on Wednesday April 17, 2024 @12:07PM (#40066616)
I live in the New Jersey area where all of this happened. I wish someone could recall and mention the actual diner where UTF-8 was supposedly designed :-)
Re:Why are most sofas so bad?
on Friday March 15, 2024 @11:02AM (#39716550)
> they fail the "normal human being" test
Hahah
Re:If you die, your 100+ accounts are a nightmare for your family
on Monday March 11, 2024 @09:41AM (#39668114)
This story will naturally separate the young Hacker News readers from the older ones .. lol
Re:U.S. seeks to revive idled shipyards with help of Japan, South Korea
on Sunday March 03, 2024 @06:02PM (#39585344)
Wars between developed states, who can more easily afford this stuff, are gradually becoming (have become?) a thing of past, and thank goodness.
Go haters are in full display with this one. LOL
"go run" is yet another wonderful feature of an awesome language.
Re:Forensics Gone Wrong: When DNA Snares the Innocent
on Wednesday January 24, 2024 @01:29PM (#39120864)
The alternative being?...
Re:How to delete your data from data brokers
on Sunday January 14, 2024 @10:42AM (#38991397)
Is Permission Slip mobile app, by Consumer Reports another?
Re:NASA just sent a software update to a spacecraft 12B miles away
on Tuesday October 24, 2023 @09:06AM (#37998657)
"antidote to the darker side of our species." .. LOVE THIS!
Re:Modern Pascal is still in the race (2022)
on Wednesday October 11, 2023 @01:03PM (#37847120)
Is it just me or does hearing "Zilog Corporation" not sound like it's straight out of the movie "Blade Runner"?
Re:Why does trying to break into the NT 3.1 kernel reboot my 486DX4 ma...
on Thursday September 28, 2023 @12:15PM (#37691765)
Hahah .. I cannot stop myself from clicking ..
Re:The crash of Air France flight 447 (2021)
on Friday August 11, 2023 @12:47PM (#37090792)
This brings up an interesting question: If the control was fully automated, the computer entirely in charged, would this have happened?
Re:Modern CPUs have a backstage cast
on Tuesday May 30, 2023 @06:12PM (#36131684)
Doesn’t mention the special core reserved for the NSA and other national security agencies :-)
I stopped reading right after that silly comment - the world is full of colors!
Re:Philip K. Dick's Substance Abuse and Psychosis
on Tuesday May 23, 2023 @06:51PM (#36051837)
Good point. On his passing away right before Blade Runner was release, not even a mention that reportedly Ridley Scott screened parts of the movie, and he evidently was lost for words, saying “I’m in awe that you were able to reproduce what was in my mind”.
Re:Google Authenticator cloud sync/backup is not E2E encrypted
on Wednesday April 26, 2023 @09:24AM (#35713274)
Why don’t people use their own TOTP provider, like KeepassXC/Strongbox, storing the DB in an encrypted manner on a cloud of their choice.
Then use across multiple devices.
It took time for this to sync in, so maybe that’s why so many others do not see that there is really no need to have a third party involved in this pattern?
Re:Show HN: Gat – cat alternative written in Go
on Tuesday April 04, 2023 @01:56PM (#35443534)
Great to have alternatives, but wish there was a “Why” section in readme
Every time this comes up someone shares the joke about the European Union’s changes to the English language ..
Re:Previous: A NeXT Computer Emulator
on Monday March 20, 2023 @08:45AM (#35230695)
Was expecting this to leverage QEMU
Re:Unix legend Ken Thompson announces he's switching From macOS To Ras...
on Sunday March 19, 2023 @02:21PM (#35221914)
Love your summary. It’s more for the minority of us. For the masses, the negative headline makes the money :-)
Re:What does Silicon Valley Bank’s collapse mean for the financial sys...
on Saturday March 11, 2023 @09:58AM (#35108738)
Maybe another reminder that we Americans really need the Glass-Steagall Act back.
Re:As a US Navy fighter pilot, I witnessed unidentified anomalous phen...
on Sunday February 05, 2023 @06:49PM (#34671199)
Call me a cynic, but the most likely explanation for all of this is the Military-Industrial Complex looking for small ways to keep obscene tax money flowing into it.
The rebranding of "UFO" to "UAP" is a dead giveaway, just as it was for changing the "Department of War" to the "Department of Defense".
Re:We tried to run a social media site and it was awful
on Wednesday January 25, 2023 @09:35AM (#34518693)
Definitely a prisoner's dilemma .. an applicable take on where all this is going is Popper's Paradox Of Tolerance (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradox_of_tolerance). Not sure that Elon and many other seemingly well-intended social media free-speech advocates fully grasp the implications of this.
Re:We tried to run a social media site and it was awful
on Wednesday January 25, 2023 @09:30AM (#34518642)
I once shot a duck in my pajamas .. what it was doing there, I have no idea!
Wait! It was an elephant.
Re:Having friends in HR is fine, but HR is not your friend
on Thursday January 05, 2023 @12:57PM (#34263733)
Some have even compared them to psychopaths .. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Corporation_(2003_film) .. which seems fair.