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Re:Ask HN: What term would you use for the amount of time code runs pa...
on Monday July 13, 2020 @11:54PM (#23828362)
Posthumous execution?
Re:How I Make Yogurt (2019)
on Wednesday June 17, 2020 @05:44PM (#23557136)
I use a $20 salton rice maker on warm (not cook) setting into which I put a 2 litre glass jar of ingredients brought to 90 degrees F beforehand. No sterilizing. Takes about 10 hours
Re:Boeing cutting more than 12,000 U.S. jobs with thousands more planned
on Wednesday May 27, 2020 @05:57PM (#23330582)
Accountants don't run the business. They provide accounting information to those that run the business.
Re:Swedish expert: why lockdowns are the wrong policy
on Sunday April 19, 2020 @11:58AM (#22916700)
Agree, he is not some crank. I don't understand the flagging system on this site at all
Re:The global oil market is broken, drowning in crude nobody needs
on Sunday March 29, 2020 @10:11AM (#22719118)
You can't have a free market when there is a monopolistic producer
Re:Super-rich jet off to disaster bunkers amid coronavirus outbreak
on Thursday March 12, 2020 @11:58AM (#22558140)
Anyone else see the similarity to Poe's "The Masque of the Red Death" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Masque_of_the_Red_Death
Re:Ask HN: What personal tools have you built?
on Wednesday February 26, 2020 @02:02PM (#22426062)
Desktop app to keep track of time spent on different jobs
Re:SpaceX Tourist Flights may start as early as 2021
on Thursday February 20, 2020 @09:35PM (#22380507)
So the rich can burn all the carbon they can afford?
Re:Court rules that people can't be locked up indefinitely for refusin...
on Wednesday February 12, 2020 @08:25PM (#22314550)
How do they know you didn't lose or destroy the notebook?
Re:SQLite Is Serverless
on Sunday January 26, 2020 @01:17PM (#22153629)
We still have a multi user desktop application that uses the Borland database engine and dbf files over a windows file server. The BDE is no longer supported but it still works
Re:Six cars aced new pedestrian detection tests
on Wednesday October 30, 2019 @02:13PM (#21400718)
How about a device that pedestrians could optionally carry that would broadcast their presence to all vehicles
Re:What Charles Bukowski’s Glamorous Displays of Alcoholism Left Out
on Friday February 22, 2019 @02:49PM (#19228496)
Glamorous? How is fishing in the toilet bowl for your wallet glamorous? I don't think he portrayed as anything but squalid.
He was certainly unapologetic about it.
Re:Lab-grown diamonds threaten viability of the real gems
on Friday March 09, 2018 @10:50AM (#16552534)
There are extensive diamond mining operations in the Canadian arctic. I always thought it ironic that people choose for a symbol of their love an object that necessitated destruction of the natural landscape and the production of toxic tailings.
Often it is the government who has to do the clean up when it is done at all.
It would be a fine thing if lab diamonds could stop this.
Re:Plagiarism software unveils one of Shakespeare’s sources
on Thursday February 08, 2018 @10:42AM (#16332806)
They don't speculate how the lowly Shakespeare could have got access to a courtier's unpublished manuscript.
Re:Universities finally realize that Java is a bad intro programming l...
on Monday April 24, 2017 @01:01PM (#14185940)
Not as bad as APL in 1978. It turned me off the idea of programming for 10 years