thewarpaint
Re:Twitter's new encrypted DMs aren't better than the old ones
on Thursday June 05, 2025 @11:02AM (#44192364)
The source of that comment is provably not someone with deep technical expertise so take that with a grain of salt.
Elon Musk's DOGE Posts Classified Data on Its New Website
Re:The Startup Trap (2013)
on Saturday December 07, 2024 @07:08PM (#42353896)
Re:Five or Ten New Proofs of the Pythagorean Theorem
on Friday November 01, 2024 @12:00AM (#42013949)
> a job at McDonalds
> far less time and effort
Pick one
Re:The first nuclear clock will test if fundamental constants change
on Wednesday September 04, 2024 @05:36PM (#41451130)
> So is there really dark matter and dark energy, or is our understanding of the laws of the universe incomplete?
These propositions are not mutually exclusive, the former implies the latter, right?
Instagram starts letting people create AI versions of themselves
Re:H.264 Is Magic (2016)
on Friday June 14, 2024 @11:30PM (#40687297)
> they weren't stupid technically, just stupid from a business sense
I wouldn’t call them “stupid technically”, but assuming that there was a hard limit to codec efficiency and to internet bandwidth would at least make them technically naive in my opinion.
Re:Woman set up a table to share her collection of washers. Nothing wa...
on Sunday June 09, 2024 @10:20PM (#40629523)
Thomas Midgley Jr
Re:Deutsche Bahn Introduces "MetaWindow"
on Thursday May 16, 2024 @06:54PM (#40384319)
Care to explain how trains being delayed or canceled is related to a new technology reducing sound pollution?
Stripe Valuation Jumps to $65B in Employee Share-Sale Deal
The only viable alternatives [to Big Tech AI] are Elon, startups and open source
List of best-selling mobile phones
Re:Days Since Incident (2022)
on Thursday February 08, 2024 @04:30PM (#39307989)
Implicitly what it’s saying is: “Hurricane reaching a maximum category of X”
List of best-selling mobile phones
Re:How the placenta evolved from an ancient virus (2020)
on Sunday January 21, 2024 @12:40AM (#39075923)
What’s your theory/understanding then?
Catatumbo Lightning
A List of Hacker News's Undocumented Features and Behaviors
Twitch is cutting one-third of its staff
Carta to exit secondary trading business
Re:The Mystery of the Coin That Shouldn't Exist
on Monday January 08, 2024 @01:59PM (#38916476)
I can’t help but mildly cringe when I read sentences like “the X that shouldn’t exist”, for example when applied to the Antikythera mechanism. It’s a weird way to mask our ignorance about the item being discussed.
Why many rules-loving Germans love rogue New Year's fireworks
Re:IP over Spaghetti
on Saturday December 23, 2023 @09:02PM (#38750379)
For the curious: https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/spaghetti
I had a chuckle when I read the plural “spaghetties”.
Re:OpenAI announces leadership transition
on Friday November 17, 2023 @04:42PM (#38310869)
> the most successful company of all time
Source? According to what metric?
Re:Placemark is going open source and shutting down
on Tuesday November 14, 2023 @11:27AM (#38265462)
Either the snippet has a bug, or he changed his mind and removed it, but it’s not working.
Re:The Laptop That Won't Die?
on Monday November 13, 2023 @10:43PM (#38258838)
Thank you!
Re:Desert Island Tourism
on Wednesday October 25, 2023 @11:41AM (#38013983)
How?
I guess “Australia-shaped cookie cutter” would be more accurate