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Re:Wes Anderson Turned the New Yorker into “The French Dispatch”
on Monday October 10, 2022 @01:46AM (#33148182)
Good to know there's a definite measure for that.
I for one liked it.
Re:Antibiotic-loaded microalgae treat bacterial pneumonia in mice
on Wednesday September 28, 2022 @02:49AM (#33004946)
I sometimes wonder if there's an evolutionary purpose to our conscious self not being able to control some subconscious and physical processes.
Re:Meta is building an AI to fact-check Wikipedia
on Saturday August 27, 2022 @03:56AM (#32616824)
Not 200, like 10. Someone added a false one, and it found its way to serious websites. German source: https://bildblog.de/5704/wie-ich-freiherr-von-guttenberg-zu-...
Re:Deutsche Bahn’s Meltdown and High-Speed Rail
on Monday July 25, 2022 @04:34AM (#32221889)
Fortunately, they'll never happen. How are you supposed to get your connecting regional train if it doesn't stop at the same station? And it's often a huge advantage of rail that your journey starts and ends near the city center.
Re:Why Beauty Matters (and how it has been destroyed by “usability”) A...
on Friday June 24, 2022 @11:26AM (#31863666)
A still from Jacques Tati's film "Playtime" (1967): http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_SS76YifzgN0/TBqlmteuTTI/AAAAAAAABY...
Re:I changed my mind about advertising
on Thursday February 10, 2022 @09:25AM (#30286376)
Probably true, but I suppose it's some sort of cognitive bias rather than a conscious thought out of greed or similar motives.
Re:The Drenching Richness of Andrei Tarkovsky
on Monday January 03, 2022 @06:25PM (#29788562)
https://www.filmingo.de/
Watched Nostalghia yesterday :)
Re:New German government calls for European ban on biometric mass surv...
on Thursday November 25, 2021 @03:53PM (#29344887)
A restaurant or company could use its own scanner app to save the data, but I assume this would be illegal
Re:Ode to a Streaming ByteString
on Wednesday October 27, 2021 @08:59AM (#29012733)
I once wrote a brainfuck interpreter in Haskell which executes even incomplete programs as far as possible. It was really easy thanks to streaming ByteStrings and lazyness in general.
Re:Major nuclear fusion milestone reached as ‘ignition’ triggered in a...
on Tuesday October 12, 2021 @01:11PM (#28842270)
I'm somehow afraid of a world in which huge amounts of energy can be wasted without having a bad conscience. Probably it would lead to some new problems.
Re:Android and iOS data collection
on Sunday October 03, 2021 @08:07PM (#28741667)
Would a transparent HTTPS proxy be able to intercept traffic (once you install the certificate on the phone), or are the certificates pinned?
Re:RFC-0082: Runnning unmodified Linux programs on Fuchsia
on Tuesday August 31, 2021 @06:20AM (#28366026)
How are rootkits possible in Fuchsia? IIUC, drivers run in user space, don't they?
Re:A 3°C world has no safe place
on Friday July 23, 2021 @06:37PM (#27936388)
FWIW Celsius and Kelvin have the same scale, they're just shifted.
Re:Show HN: Website changes design each time you blink
on Friday July 23, 2021 @09:30AM (#27930427)
What if the world is just a dream? Then an individual person's consciousness has a massive influence on the weather. And there would be new arguments for the existence of God.
Re:Show HN: Website changes design each time you blink
on Friday July 23, 2021 @08:53AM (#27930104)
- Is the lamp still on while blinking?
- Is the sun still shining during a nap?
- Is the fridge's light still on while it's closed?
- Does God exist?
Some fundamental questions, but we'll never be able to find an answer.
Re:Using WebAssembly threads from C, C++ and Rust
on Wednesday July 21, 2021 @12:48PM (#27908685)
I always thought that's what Fuchsia is about?
Re:What is the Axiom of Choice?
on Friday July 16, 2021 @06:08AM (#27854666)
All formulas and statements are expressed in first-order logic. It has no such phrase as "pick". But picking (in the axiom of choice) means: Finding a function that maps every set to an element of this set.
What is a function: It's a set of tuples where every tuple (x, y) means: x is mapped to y. Of course there must be exactly one tuple for every "x".
(Tuples btw are usually a short notion for {{x}, {x,y}}. They exist always by the axiom of pairing. By the axiom of extensionalty, they fulfill the universal property of pairs, i.e. (x, y) = (z, w) iff x = z and y = w.)
Assume x is a single nonempty set. Picking means: Finding a function {x} -> x. But this is easy: ∃y(yϵx) because x is nonempty, and then we can build our function, which consists just of the single tuple (x, y).
It also works for finite sets of sets since you can do it manually n times, the formula just gets longer.
Re:Germany fines YouTube for removing video of anti-lockdown protest
on Wednesday July 14, 2021 @04:12PM (#27837839)
Merkel grew up in a country where you could be "banned" for anything. I'm not surprised that she doesn't like the idea of private companies deciding according to their own (not democraticly chosen) rules who should speak and who shouldn't.
Re:New Kind of Paper
on Wednesday June 23, 2021 @04:47AM (#27602287)
Bad handwriting causes data loss since 5000 years probably. Whether it's an AI or a human reading it, handwriting is sometimes impossible to decipher. To avoid data loss, don't use handwriting or write very neat.
Re:A brief introduction to esoteric programming languages
on Thursday May 20, 2021 @07:44PM (#27228870)
They should extend the Shakespeare language to make all his plays compile. Computers would be the first entities to fully understand King Lear.
Re:Elon Musk, master promoter
on Sunday May 09, 2021 @12:32PM (#27097314)
> I suspect a part of the left dislike is also around the progressive anti-billionaire/anti-capitalist sentiment, it makes Elon an easy “enemy”.
He IS an easy enemy in this regard, not only to the left. All his (mis)behaviour, naming his child like that, manipulating currency rates through tweets, that's not exactly what average people could afford. If he didn't fit this stereotype of billionaire, I'm sure he would be liked more.
Re:Elon Musk, master promoter
on Sunday May 09, 2021 @12:22PM (#27097223)
I'm living in Europe, and the situation seems better over here. While going by car is cheaper and faster in most cases, train is not much worse.
At least Biden seems to be a supporter of the railway. But it could go faster if you'd build tracks instead of tunnels with Teslas.
Re:Elon Musk, master promoter
on Sunday May 09, 2021 @11:34AM (#27096820)
We were never talking about costs, we were talking about how visionary Elon Musk is. However, while it's great if money is saved, again: is it really the achievement of Elon Musk, or would any private company be able to hold down costs?
Re:Elon Musk, master promoter
on Sunday May 09, 2021 @11:10AM (#27096586)
Those rockets impress me, but Elon Musk did not construct them. The NASA (and also the soviet union) managed to do equally great things without someone like him in past.
> Tesla cars -- truly helping humanity move from fossil fuels
It would be much more effective to use bicycle and trains wherever possible, and drive small cars otherwise. But wait ... that's not luxurious enough. Saving the world is just an excuse for cool cars.
> and now StarLink
... to make the last corner of the world addicted to the internet and pay money to Musk.
Re:The global chip shortage is starting to have consequences
on Sunday May 09, 2021 @10:50AM (#27096344)
I'm always very sceptical when electronics and chips are used as a solution to problems that nobody had. Reliability seems to suffer most of all. When I hear from my parents how long their products lasted back then ...
Re:Elon Musk, master promoter
on Sunday May 09, 2021 @10:28AM (#27096150)
Is his stuff really that good? I can't shake the feeling that he has a strong tendency to exaggerate.
https://www.theverge.com/2021/5/7/22424592/tesla-elon-musk-a...
https://www.forbes.com/sites/johnbbrandon/2021/04/13/elon-mu...
Re:Child's burial 78k years ago in Kenya was a Homo sapiens milestone
on Sunday May 09, 2021 @07:29AM (#27095133)
I always wonder when I read articles like this, what people would think if they were told that 78000 summers later many people will be thinking about this specific burial.
Re:GitHub blocks FLoC across all of GitHub Pages
on Wednesday April 28, 2021 @07:27AM (#26968145)
> Also, what about github.com itself?
Don't ask, try it. curl says: permissions-policy: interest-cohort=()
Re:Green vs. Brown Programming Languages
on Thursday April 22, 2021 @11:45AM (#26904065)
It's obvious, but no one seems to notice it: These are not two lists. The list of dreaded programming languages is the list of loved languages reversed. Since the list has only 25 items, 5 languages belong to the top 15 in both directions.
Re:An Apology to COBOL: Maybe Old Technology Isn’t the Real Problem
on Wednesday April 07, 2021 @05:04AM (#26722095)
$reason = Make the microservices independent of each other, so you can rewrite and replace them without much trouble when they're getting old.