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Re:Ask HN: What's your favorite monitor for programming? on Thursday August 23, 2018 @07:35PM (#17831501)
I have one of these (https://www.amazon.com/LG-32MA70HY-P-32-inch-Monitor-Display... an external monitor for just that. It includes some pretty nice features if you choose to use them, and in my opinion is a fairly good price for what you get.
It could, given that it constitutes just under 20% of US power. What do you mean by changed? Do you mean have other countries utilize more nuclear energy or do you mean to have US and France reduce their use? Nuclear power has some nice advantages especially when we are talking about Gen IV reactors such as drastically reduced, and even re-using existing, nuclear waste as wall as a greenhouse gas emissions output that is about the same as wind energy. Renewable energy would be great but these forms of energy also have their own trade-offs.
Re:Is a Startup, Vicilook Trying to End Facebook on Thursday August 23, 2018 @07:08PM (#17831342)
Granted I only gave it a cursory look it seems like another attempt at a NextDoor style social awareness network in Nigeria (although not limited to Nigeria). I'd also like to warn anyone else who wants to check it out, it contains some graphic content. Currently there is a report of a man who was shot on the front page with an image to accompany it.
Re:A Mansion Filled with Hidden Worlds on Friday July 20, 2018 @04:46PM (#17578769)
I count myself lucky to have discovered telnet enabled BBS's shortly after becoming interested in computers. It may not have had all the nostalgia of dialing in with a modem the way I have heard others mention but I was still fairly young and broadband was already replacing dial-up in the early-mid 2000's. Discovering these telnet BBS's felt like I as a young know-nothing had found some strange seedy underbelly to the internet and I was hooked. Then I was introduced to the Discworld MUD and I think I spent months lost in this imagination driven labyrinth of text. On the other hand it may have ruined, at least a little, much of modern gaming for me as it is hard to replace the fantastical places from ones own imagination with a spoon fed world of high resolution graphics. At least I still have Cataclysm:DDA in all of its ascii goodness to meet me in the middle. Good read, thanks for sharing.