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220hertzon I switched to Brave

Maybe they meant to link to the element where it says the guy invented Javascript. That would have been more appropriate.

220hertzon 2DWillNeverDie

Seems to have been smoothed out though. The Ode to Castlevania DLC is arguably the best the game has to offer, and apparently with Konami's blessing. "Beating" the level is truly a joy.

220hertzon The Bayeux Tapestry: Woven by the Victors

I was there last year. It's outstanding. It's also a nice little town.

220hertzon I am done with this shit

Not going to lie, I thought that was the point.

220hertzon Bespoke: A programming language for people who say please

Automatic garbage collection is not assumed; one formally engages the groundskeeper.

Fantastic.

220hertzon Making Teenagers Read Newspapers. A Nationwide Experiment in French High Schools

The unfortunate part is that while a lot of people might want that information, few will pay for it. I ran a small company's paywall, like this was a small chain of local papers. We could barely give the subscriptions away.

220hertzon Making Teenagers Read Newspapers. A Nationwide Experiment in French High Schools

Your first point is true, unequivocally so. I watched it happen ... from inside the newsroom for almost two decades.

We were actually taught in journalism school to write straight-up news for a Grade 5 level audience. You could get fancy if you chose in opinion pieces.

To your second point, if it bleeds it leads. That's always been the case. Journalism is, and always has been, a business. A sensational news story of yesteryear is today's viral content. It's the same thing — both are desirable because they sell.

220hertzon My Students Think About AI

Good read. That undergrads have concern watching 10 year olds use GPT to do their math homework is at the same time precious, reassuring and terrifying.

220hertzon Higher Multipoles of the Cow

Also "A Probabilistic Challenge-Response Algorithm for Repairing All Roads in Lebanon Via Papal Visits"

220hertzon Discontinuation of third level domain registrations for the .name TLD [pdf]

By Verisign, you say?

220hertzon Retirement Is Dead

Man, I though MacLean's was dead. I haven't see one of those in 25 years. But from the article:

Forty per cent of us in this age range have less than $5,000 in savings.

That's Canadians, aged 55-64. I expect younger generations will be no different. It's an awful lot of people, given the age demographic in the country.

220hertzon Roget's Thesaurus

Outstanding.

220hertzon British Museum hosted Peter Thiel in private viewing of Bayeux tapestry

I saw it last year. It was fascinating. But, I mean, it was behind glass in a dark corridor-type room. We were not allowed to take photos of it.

I liked the town quite a bit too. Some great food and drink, I love how seedy the bar/tabacs feel there. Their Notre Dame is lovely.

As much as I'm no fan of Thiel, it is an artifact worth preserving. Thiel hopefully donates and that's the last we ever think about this.

220hertzon Google Maps Renames Lake Ontario to Lake America

Maybe this was Google being cheeky for once. When I, a Canadian, dragged over the map, the Lake remained Lake Ontario.

When I search for Lake America, the pin sets itself directly over the same lake with the text "Lake America: The smallest of the five great lakes."

I hope this was intentional.

220hertzon The Universe as a Minified Bundle

I thoroughly enjoyed that. I plan to read it again later while stoned.

220hertzon Your AI Generated Menu Triggered My Trypophobia

That is one insane eldritch breakfast burrito. I am not certain I would want to eat at an establishment capable of being persuaded that was an acceptable facsimile.

220hertzon The turbulent AI era is here

It's kind of like what us Canadians say about the U.S. sometimes — that they'll always do the right thing, after they've tried everything else.

220hertzon Is Ground News a Psy-Op? (2026)

Great article. Something has always stunk about Ground News to me, especially when I see it as a YouTube video essay sponsor for people like Hank Green or Leeja Miller. It truly is a vehicle for enabling the worst aspects of bothsides-ism and legitimizing poor journalism through false equivalence.

As a former reporter, I tell people that news can and should be biased. Why do the job of a journalist, why even get up in the morning, if you don't have values and beliefs.

If you want a completely unbaised platform, go to Facebook or Twitter. They literally don't care about anything except reflecting more of everything.

220hertzon HTML Can Do That

Here we all are in 2026, talking about HTML, like madmen.

220hertzon Study links long-term Cialis use and blindness

And hairy palms ... seriously though, I swear I recently saw an article claiming it is also potentially a longevity drug.

220hertzon Python Polars Cheatsheet (based on our O'Reilly book)

Less friction, considerably faster. I have a statistician friend who's recently made the jump away from R. I think he would agree with you.

220hertzon AI Generated 3D Models Flood Market, but Almost No One Is Buying Them

I'd disagree if it weren't so likely!

220hertzon What garbage collection actually costs

I used to write a lot of Javascript-like Extendscript scripts back when I was using InDesign a lot. The DOM's global object $ had a method to directly invoke the garbage collector. It made a difference certainly, but it was difficult to tell to what extent because InDesign itself gradually leaks memory and becomes more bloated the longer you use it in a single session.

220hertzon LinkedIn CringeBot 3000

Oh boy.

The "Request a Day off Button" is basically alert("NO"), which would indicate that functionality's probably been around since Day 1.

220hertzon Tech leaders say AI means less work – staff say they work up to 90 hours a week

When I was a dev, I didn't find the marketers greedy. I did note that they seemed to have an insatiable desire to feed management's greed. But they themselves were not. That, and they seemed incapable of accepting any solution that didn't appear to have icing on top or a clever hook to it. It really is unfortunate that both marketers and management are largely fixated on the style of LLM assistance and not the substance.

220hertzon Show HN: Open-source pixel art editor with animation and auto-tiling tilesets

I really dig the UI. Nice work.

220hertzon How Internet Fighting Works

I was actually just being a little tongue-in-cheek there. But I honestly failed to see how that strip had anything to do with fascism.

220hertzon How Internet Fighting Works

I am compelled to prove the strip's point.

220hertzon Show HN: An AI wrote and illustrated a book of fables about threads and packets

"Count me the sky, then," said the float. (to the integer)

Kinda poetic.

220hertzon Online Friends Are Real Friends

Discord's not a bad way if there's a shared interest. I met some great people on a server dedicated to a hockey team. We'd all watch the game and blather away in chat. You get to know them after a while.