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Re:Ask HN: What are the YouTube channel worth to follow in 2024?
on Sunday December 31, 2023 @05:17PM (#38828013)
Bobby Broccoli: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCSPLhwvj0gBufjDRzSQb3GQ
Documentaries about daring scientific fraud such as "The man who tried to fake an element" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qe5WT22-AO8 or "The man who faked human cloning" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ett_8wLJ87U
Or the epic tale of political intrigue in "The $21,000,000,000 hole in Texas" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3xSUwgg1L4g about the The Superconducting Super Collider that never was.
Re:The Air Force Has Been Trying to Kill the A-10 Warthog for 14 Years
on Saturday September 18, 2021 @09:05AM (#28575928)
> because they don't want the Army encroaching on their core skill of aviation
That's exactly what's going on. Incidentally that's one of the reasons USAF did their best to bury the promising AH-56 Cheyenne [0] back in the day, it was in direct competition with their own program that would later become the perennial A-10. [1]
[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fR-r6RR1nJM
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lockheed_AH-56_Cheyenne#Progra...
Re:Support for the IPFS Protocol – Firefox Bugzilla
on Thursday January 21, 2021 @07:06PM (#25866484)
Firefox recently added HTTPS-Only Mode setting, basically equivalent to HTTPS Everywhere.
Weirdest Bug Bounty – Getting PII from Office365
The Rise of Cash App Friday
Re:Johns Hopkins CSSE Covid-19 Global Case Dashboard
on Friday March 06, 2020 @10:34AM (#22504329)
I find this one much more intelligible: https://covid19info.live/
Re:Growers Are Beaming Over the Success of Lasers to Stave Off Birds
on Monday August 13, 2018 @05:37AM (#17748989)
>"It's like someone waving a stick in your face," Ackermann says. "At some point, you're going to say, 'I'm not welcome here and I'm going to leave.'"
Having worked a couple of summers in my youth at an apple and sweet cherry orchard, I find this quote comically naive.
“Stylish” browser extension steals all your internet history
Re:Quantum mechanics used for better random numbers
on Friday April 13, 2018 @05:03AM (#16828181)
People paranoid about randomness have been duct-taping ionizing radiation sources from smoke detectors to webcams for decades now. This is non-news.
Re:The Why of Cooking (2017)
on Monday April 09, 2018 @06:54AM (#16791904)
> It’s a shame that the standard way of learning how to cook is by following recipes.
It isn't, not where I'm from. The standard way of learning how to cook in Poland is by watching your parents/grandparents do it.
Re:Arithmetic Mean vs. Geometric Mean
on Saturday April 07, 2018 @10:44AM (#16780912)
> It is beacause human heights do not vary too much. No adult is 2x taller than another adult. (I just checked: tallest adult alive is less than 2x of shortest adult alive).
Sultan Kosen is 8ft 3in tall, while Jyoti Amge stands at 2ft 1in. https://i.imgur.com/YhL3bcn.jpg
Re:Uzi Nissan Spent 8 Years Fighting Nissan Motor Company to Keep Niss...
on Sunday March 25, 2018 @05:00AM (#16671379)
A domain name is--in a sense--property. It can be bought and sold, garnished to pay off debt.
Utilitarian logic doesn't apply here.
Re:Show HN: Automated, scheduled, website screenshots to your inbox
on Tuesday January 24, 2017 @10:08AM (#13471866)
It's interesting that even in 2017 there are still people on HN willing to tolerate signup forms served without TLS.
Re:Qt Quick Controls 2.1 and Beyond
on Thursday October 06, 2016 @12:01PM (#12653549)
Try wxWidgets or the python bindings wxPython.