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Re:Florida's HOAs and condo associations are making the housing crisis...
on Sunday October 18, 2026 @03:11PM (#50144270)
This comment effectively places a lien on the article - check the article to see the analogy!
Re:Ask HN: To anyone who cares to read this. How old are you roughly?
on Friday June 27, 2025 @06:19PM (#44400800)
Through scientific collaboration mostly - HN now!
Re:Ask HN: To anyone who cares to read this. How old are you roughly?
on Friday June 27, 2025 @07:22AM (#44395879)
Age 77.. started with Fortran in '68 on an IBM1130, assembler on a Linc-8 in '70, then at UofWaterloo on IBM360/75 with (omg) 3MB ram. Then scientific programming mostly Fortran or asm, switched to turbo Pascal in 88-89, then Delphi and MATLAB. Currently mainly work in VsCode using markdown codeblocks in a way a bit like Jupyter (see VsCode extension Hover-Exec) for a range of stuff including art installations.
Re:I Made a Chair
on Sunday June 01, 2025 @11:20PM (#44155585)
Some ideas here! https://www.martinogamper.com/project/a-100-chairs-in-a-100-...
Re:The Backrooms of the Internet Archive
on Saturday June 08, 2024 @11:40PM (#40621849)
Re:Show HN: I Made a Books Recommendation App Based on Your Mood
on Tuesday March 26, 2024 @05:02PM (#39832819)
Just tried 'lonely' and it returned Olivia Laing's The Lonely City, which I read a few years ago and loved... I'm now going to read it again.. thanks!
Re:How to center a div in CSS
on Tuesday February 13, 2024 @07:28PM (#39364774)
Noting your comment, I couldn't resist linking to some more CSS art:
https://css-art.com/the-girl-with-a-p-e-a-r-l-css-earring/
Not sure how many centred divs are in it though...
Re:Which word begins with "y" and looks like an axe in this picture? (...
on Wednesday January 17, 2024 @11:28PM (#39037855)
The term 'paint pot' is perhaps confusing, the drawing represents the end of a 'tube of paint' out of which yellow paint has been squeezed. The 'y' word is indeed 'yellow'.
Re:Ask HN: Do you use RSS? If yes, which reader do you use?
on Thursday March 09, 2023 @02:40AM (#35079097)
After a fairly exhausting search of alternatives, I ended up with Newscracker https://content.jwplatform.com/previews/r4mQDJMt .. it copes well with a large number of feeds, has good capability for classification, and I can tolerate the single ad up front (on about 60% of starts).
Re:Ask HN: How long until AI shows general intelligence without failures?
on Sunday February 05, 2023 @02:03AM (#34662658)
er.. how long till humans show general intelligence without any apparent failures..?
Re:The case for bad coffee (2015)
on Sunday July 17, 2022 @09:52PM (#32133638)
Just spent a pleasant hour looking through machines and paraphernalia on AliExpress.. when my Silvia dies again (repaired twice now @ $500 a time) I'll get one from here.. didn't see any double boilers though (mine is single boiler anyway..)
Re:Installing a payphone in my house
on Friday June 03, 2022 @02:27AM (#31604923)
Thanks for this article and the comments.
Reminds me of a trick we kids did in the early 60s (yeah, sorry) with the British 'phone box' pay phones. We called it 'tapping the phone', but it wasn't spy style listening. Passed from kid to kid the amazing trick was you could dial the number by tapping the handset (10 taps for zero, 9 taps for 9, ..) and the phone would ring the number but you didn't then have to 'press button A' to speak.. you simply made the call, spoke normally, hung up, and pressed button B to get your money back! Sadly, I never tried international calls...
When we moved to New Zealand around '63-4, I discovered the phone dial was reversed, in the UK it was 1-9,0, in NZ it was 9-1,0. (So emergency calls were 111 not 999 as in the UK.) The trick still worked but, except for 0, you had to '10s complement' the taps. Maybe because of that none of the kids I knew at the time in NZ appeared to know the trick...
Re:Ask HN: How do I easily catalog a couple thousand physical books?
on Wednesday September 22, 2021 @04:55AM (#28614293)
'My Library' by Julien Keith, is great for Android users... Over 1m downloads and 4.6 star average... My own library is only about 600 odd books, but it was easy to use, interesting, and great now it's done!
Re:Show HN: Nothingly – The gift of nothing
on Friday January 15, 2021 @01:55AM (#25787816)
I don't save many quotes, but that's going to be one of them! Thanks!
Re:Behind Pfizer's vaccine, an understated husband-and-wife “dream team”
on Wednesday November 11, 2020 @03:04AM (#25056422)
Sincere thanks to Ugur Sahin and Oezlem Tuereci for their dedication, hard work and incredible achievement.
Re:The abolition of mandatory retirement, and how it changed America (...
on Sunday July 19, 2020 @03:31AM (#23887665)
US Presidents need a mandatory retirement age.. perhaps 70 is a suitable round number...
Re:The best teacher I never had (2016)
on Sunday December 22, 2019 @02:54AM (#21855846)
Re:Ask HN: Which is the best book on nutrition?
on Monday December 16, 2019 @01:58AM (#21801264)
"How not to die" by Michael Greger .. nearly half the book is the list of references...
Re:Earth and Sun
on Friday October 18, 2019 @03:08AM (#21289267)
Thank you! A beautiful article!