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Re:Mathematics has changed. Let's act like it
on Sunday November 01, 2026 @05:30PM (#50330610)
This echoes SICP's admonition that "Programs must be written for people to read, and only incidentally for machines to execute."
Which is absurd on it's face for most day to day programmers, but a critical distinction for theoretical computer scientists.
Re:Domain hacks with unusual Unicode characters (2018)
on Sunday November 01, 2026 @08:32AM (#50325542)
Was that friend Justin Hall of Wired?
There was a story about Jon Postel (pre-ICANN) and fuck.com, this might be it:
Re:The Great American Rascal: Tom Sawyer at 150
on Thursday October 29, 2026 @07:59PM (#50297985)
The passage where Tom goes to whitewash the fence is brilliant.
https://www.pbs.org/kenburns/mark-twain/tom-sawyer#:~:text=T...
Relatable to any kids forced to do chores.
Re:John Carmack on the Goose Language: multiple data stacks and relati...
on Sunday October 25, 2026 @01:13AM (#50228531)
And ... you made Lobster lang, Cube2/Sauerbraten 3d shooter and voxray/voxile and lots of other cool things.
Re:What shall I teach my son?
on Wednesday October 21, 2026 @03:28AM (#50177224)
check my profile for proton mail address.
Re:What shall I teach my son?
on Tuesday October 20, 2026 @09:56PM (#50175124)
You're reading too much into this, I think. Bad kids do exist. Be compassionate, but do not encourage involvement with them.
I have really really profound regrets about not doing this myself, with my kids.
Re:Meta's GB{2,3}00 Cluster
on Tuesday October 20, 2026 @09:32PM (#50174979)
maybe just drop them rather than reject with tcp reset
Re:Google open-sources TorchTPU, a native PyTorch back end for TPUs
on Tuesday October 20, 2026 @09:07PM (#50174839)
You can buy a Google Coral TPU, does that count?
Re:How the Elizabeth Holmes Doc 'You Can See Everything' Is Deceiving You
on Sunday October 18, 2026 @06:50AM (#50139878)
> Tyler Shultz went to work at Theranos right out of Stanford and soon noticed that things weren't as they seemed. Lots of other employees knew there was something fishy going on, but Tyler was one of a tiny handful able to resist the mesmerizing and intimidating Elizabeth Holmes and speak out about the fraud that was putting patients at risk.
https://www.thesocialradars.com/transcripts/TSR-S4-Tyler-Shu...
https://www.thesocialradars.com/transcripts/TSR-S4-Tyler-Shu...
Re:Submarine Cable Resilience
on Wednesday October 14, 2026 @10:25PM (#50098394)
Yes, I admire the restraint required to not put "unlucky" in quotes.
Re:Show HN: Brickbrag – A multiplayer brick-building world in the browser
on Monday October 12, 2026 @06:19PM (#50063878)
Mouse movement doesn't seem to work with Chrome on Mac.
Looks good though!
Re:No Man Is an Island
on Friday October 09, 2026 @08:57PM (#50028397)
I'm also reminded if "I am a rock" by Simon and Garfunkel. Last two stanzas:
I have my books
And my poetry to protect me
I am shielded in my armor
Hiding in my room safe within my womb
I touch no one and no one touches me
I am a rock I am an island
And a rock feels no pain
And an island never cries
Re:Man discovers his parents' coffee machine used 1TB of data in 10 days
on Thursday October 08, 2026 @09:33PM (#50014898)
It was sophons.
Re:The value of not getting to the point (2015)
on Thursday October 08, 2026 @09:29PM (#50014871)
Love this comment, it's simultaneously very nerdy and very non-nerdy at the same time. Well done!
Re:Animated ASCII Art for Web Pages
on Wednesday October 07, 2026 @08:21PM (#50000531)
Reminiscent of Frank Zappa's album "Ship_Arriving_Too_Late_to_Save_a_Drowning_Witch"
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from the WP article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Droodles Interesting!
Re:cp: -r or -R?
on Saturday October 03, 2026 @08:21AM (#49943651)
old cp didn't have `-a`
Anyway, just use rsync.
Re:Jacques Barzun, Cultural historian and critic (1980)
on Thursday October 01, 2026 @06:22AM (#49919921)
Re:Ask HN: What're You Reading?
on Tuesday September 29, 2026 @10:12PM (#49903557)
... how did you both misspell the title? It's the Count of Monte Cristo .. unless this is a different language.
Re:Behold the pawpaw, the tropical 'alien banana' that grows right her...
on Monday September 28, 2026 @09:13PM (#49886767)
There's a hint of rottenness to the scent -- even vomit to some. Maybe like Durian.
Re:When did Google get so f-ing weird?
on Sunday September 27, 2026 @10:25PM (#49872855)
It's weird but I always some context in so I don't see these.
i.e. I would have searched for dario quote .... or dario basketball quote ....
Re:The mystery animal on an ancient god's head
on Thursday September 24, 2026 @03:25AM (#49827391)
Borzoi?
Re:The mystery animal on an ancient god's head
on Wednesday September 23, 2026 @06:57PM (#49823788)
Aardvark to me. Similar snout, long ears. They were probably in the southern reaches of Egypt.
With regard to differences that could be explained by stylisation and the lack of familiarity due to it's rarity in most of Egypt.
Re:Did OpenAI solve the wrong Navier-Stokes problem?
on Tuesday September 22, 2026 @07:01PM (#49809484)
Re:Uber arbitration award over Emily Normandin-Parker's death
on Monday September 21, 2026 @01:07PM (#49790098)
Pretty sure they don't.
Re:Uber arbitration award over Emily Normandin-Parker's death
on Monday September 21, 2026 @01:06PM (#49790083)
And surely the DMV has far greater 'vicarious liability', as they're the ones that issue licenses.
Re:Whirlpool Washer Transmission Repair (2007)
on Monday September 21, 2026 @12:49PM (#49789773)
Top loaders are higher capacity and cost less. And open air drying is preferable to machine drying.
Re:Meta bans ads for Virginia Woolf play in Spain
on Monday September 21, 2026 @12:45PM (#49789708)
That's a problem. That the Guardian doesn't mention the regulation and doesn't give us the wording of the advertisement.
Re:What Sun got wrong
on Monday September 21, 2026 @12:29PM (#49789470)
Exactly, I used desktop Sun machines and administered many very large Sun machines from 1997 through to 2010.
I saw the end coming for Sun when I had a dx2/66 at home running Linux in the late 90s. It was brilliant.
Re:Winning the Visa Lottery
on Monday September 21, 2026 @01:36AM (#49783410)
AEA leans strongly left. I wouldn't put much store in this.