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Re:Every Novel Is Boring–Until It Isn't on Tuesday September 08, 2026 @07:12AM (#49608694)
The beginning of The Count of Monte Cristo was extremely boring, but gets so good once you get past it.
> rather a checkbox than a brief CPU-intensive hashing session.

oh is that why my raspberry pi 5 can't browse websites anymore without freezing for a minute.

Re:Why vibe code in Common Lisp? on Friday August 14, 2026 @09:23AM (#49298351)
hopefully in 20 years we'll get another
Re:Cyberscript on Sunday August 02, 2026 @03:14PM (#49147396)
oh behave
Re:How to stop Claude from saying load-bearing on Wednesday July 15, 2026 @05:39AM (#48918356)
I noticed I'd been doing the "Not X, but Y" thing. Kinda annoying to keep having to stop myself from doing it.
my brother who never really had much interest in computer games, could always get the high score in any game I was playing eg pinball, racing

I'd spend ages to get a point above his score, and he'd come back and get an even higher one.

He did the same thing to my dad with solitaire, my dad plays it everyday and was proud of his high score. Then my brother who was just visiting, beat my dads highscore by a huge margin, and years later my dad is still annoyed he can't beat it.

> The British Army was very upset that ragtag riflemen in the American colonies kept running into the woods and shooting from behind cover instead of standing in a Proper Formation

didn't skirmishers always do that though?

Re:Will Americans Get over Their Fear of Eating Animal Blood? on Wednesday February 25, 2026 @02:11PM (#47156293)
The idea of eating pudding made out of blood sounds gross to me, but I love dipping chips in the juices that pour out of a cooked steak.
Re:Man accidentally gains control of 7k robot vacuums on Monday February 23, 2026 @05:54AM (#47120634)
i dont want any smegging toast!
Re:How Lewis Carroll computed determinants on Saturday December 27, 2025 @12:23PM (#46403364)
That explains Major Zero and his organisation Cipher in the metal gear series
What did you think of the puzzles?
> women were a huge population of programmers

wasn't that there were a lot of women working as operators, but that job went away along with the punch cards.

Re:Steam Machine on Thursday November 13, 2025 @11:48PM (#45923952)
> You still cannot play a game C from my library while I play the game A from my own library.

I just tried it, and I could.

I started after channels started removing their own videos because they either didn't think the videos were good enough or they had a mental break and deleted their channel. So good stuff just gone.
Re:Pain Points of OCaml on Tuesday November 04, 2025 @11:39AM (#45812940)
A recent one I had was needing to include lifetimes to having to atleast specify the anon lifetime with the underscore. I forget what the actual circumstance was.
I wonder what would happen if your parents didn't leave the house to anyone, and you don't claim it but squat it.
I was going to my cousins wedding, and accidentally went in the wrong building hosting a different wedding party, and a bunch of people near the entrance looked like slightly off doppelgangers of my cousins and uncles. Like I walked in on an alternate reality.
Re:Shallow Water Is Dangerous Too on Monday July 28, 2025 @10:43AM (#44711371)
Even without the board, it's just understanding the water, and knowing all the tricks for swimming in the surf.

Like you hear people become exhausted and drown, when it is just so easy to relax and float around, even with waves washing over you.

Re:Show HN: Ten years of running every day, visualized on Monday July 14, 2025 @03:02AM (#44557200)
I started walking everyday 1-4km, and then switched to jogging 1-2.5 km everyday. It built up the muscles in my back so I no longer slouch, also fixed constipation issues I was having.
Currently with the latest pi os version, moonlight streaming's video hardware support doesn't work.

While it's the the fault of the moonlight devs (also you can compile it yourself to get it working), the binary package version has been broken for 2+ months now.

If I was using archlinux on x86 I wouldn't have problems like this.

Solving problems even if it's not fun seems to motivate me, but once they're solved, I find it hard to finish the implementation.
Makes naming functions easier, eg multiply(mat3,vec3), multiply(mat3,mat3), etc

If the language is dynamically typed, you can use it for polymorphism.

I once threw a tennis ball straight up, just as a bird happened to be flying past, it rolled right and dodged it by a cm.
> 3) Losing weight — YES, sleep apnea is worsened by excess weight

That solved it for me.

same, here in Australia
Re:Coffee for people who don't like coffee on Wednesday May 14, 2025 @11:15AM (#43985563)
Depends on the beans, if you can find some that don't have all those weird "flavour notes" nor tastes too concentrated (dark?), also have the amount of water so it isn't strong but also not diluted, then black can be really nice.

Coffee shops don't make them like that though, I used a vietnamese coffee maker and had to experiment on how much grinds to use and how much water to put through.

or use the cone of silence
The skin might be dirty, so cutting a knife through it will slightly contaminate the insides
Re:US and UK refuse to sign AI safety declaration at summit on Wednesday February 12, 2025 @05:50AM (#43024036)
computer says no
Re:Why Firing Programmers for AI Will Destroy Everything on Tuesday February 11, 2025 @05:50AM (#43011327)
It would be cool seeing non programmers using it to automate their tasks, maybe using a scratch like language.

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