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4ndrewl··on How Universities Should Prepare Founders
Clickbait title, but it boils down to

"In fact there are only two things universities need to change to be perfect at preparing founders: they need to make students feel that starting a startup is something they can do, and they need to encourage them to work on their own projects."

4ndrewl··on Children's stunted lungs show recovery in ultra low emission zone
Bloody Sadiq Kahn and his militant sharia ulez improving the health of forriners. /s
4ndrewl··on Children's stunted lungs show recovery in ultra low emission zone
Rtfa. "Stunned" is the actual word the scientist used.
4ndrewl··on Asus Bike Booster
You could replace your regular fender/mudguard with an "ass-saver" type that sticks out parallel to the ground.

But in any case wet tyres would have a negative impact on the ability of this device to efficiently drive the tyre.

4ndrewl··on Cultivating a state of mind where new ideas are born (2023)
It's called a shower.
4ndrewl··on Count Binface receives over a quarter of votes in Clacton by-election
Multiple PMs since Cameron. In fact the last PM to win a GE and see out a whole term was Tony Blair. (Cameron's first term was a coalition - even in the midst of a deeply unpopular PM and a financial crises he failed to win a parliamentary majority).

The instability means paralysis. No-one believes any policy will last the 5 years+ it needs to be implemented, so very little happens.

4ndrewl··on Every Fucking Website (2020)
Downvote all you like, if you're just using purely functional cookies, you don't need a banner.
4ndrewl··on Every Fucking Website (2020)
It's not a cookies banner. It's a request to harvest your data and share it with third parties for purposes that are not required for the service you're offering.

No harvest data to 936 partners? No need for a banner!

4ndrewl··on US strikes $1.2B deal to pay German firm to halt offshore wind projects
They know what they're doing. The next administration will give them 1.2bn to start deploying offshore wind. Money for nothing!
4ndrewl··on Go 1.27 Interactive Tour
(b Box[T]) Map[U any](f func(T) U) Box[U] _is_ for the Arts and Humanities.

Unless you're writing assembler in vim you're not STEM.

4ndrewl··on Nerd culture is murdering intellectuals
It's not nerdism, it's just a general infantilism. It suits anyone with power as the plebs now don't have the ability to reason about policy when they're infinitely doom-scrolling 15 second cat videos.
4ndrewl··on Atom is better than RSS, in ways that matter
Isn't this just VHS v Betamax again?
4ndrewl··on The AI trade now runs on borrowed money, and the lenders are repricing it
Tell me you weren't around during the dot com boom without etc, etc.

The benefit is neither here nor there - it's whether the borrowed money will ever be repaid on the lenders' terms.

4ndrewl··on Show HN: Edge Drop- #1 productivity and unique clipboard 200 stars on GitHub
First commit was only one month ago, so it's sure gained some traction...
4ndrewl··on Substack writers, you need a website
It's not really a counterpoint when it's addressed in the article.

"The biggest pushback I hear from writers is: “But my website doesn’t have an audience! Substack does.”

But you don’t have to completely abandon social media or platforms like Substack to protect your autonomy (personally, I prefer the word sovereignty but it does sound a tad dramatic)."

4ndrewl··on AI companies are shredding rare books
Just sociopaths doing sociopath things. Bugger civilization.
4ndrewl··on SpaceX at $100 Would Imply Zero AI Value, Morgan Stanley Says
Is it too late to pivot to Blockchain? https://www.cnbc.com/2017/12/21/long-island-iced-tea-micro-c...
4ndrewl··on “We have information that Moonshot distilled Fable for the development of K3”
So? Their business model requires building on the labor of others for free. Isn't that how it works?
4ndrewl··on Map of the world's great castles and fortresses
Missing all of the "moorish" forts in Andalusia...
4ndrewl··on I joined the IndieWeb, here's what I learned
Peak HN comment. Barely anyone knows what a "domain" is, no-one knows what DNS is. Very few people would even know what questions to ask AI.
4ndrewl··on Dupes took over the world
For the vast majority of human existence 'dupe culture' was the norm.

So far this is just a tiny 200 year abberation.

4ndrewl··on EU ban on destruction of unsold clothes and shoes enters into application
The invisible hand of the market will rectify this of course. Nothing to see here.
4ndrewl··on Cursor 0day: When Full Disclosure Becomes the Only Protection Left
It's curious the number of people here who can't link these two things.
4ndrewl··on Ancient Roman Board Game
New here? This is the best place to find Dunning Kruger in the wild!
4ndrewl··on Show HN: Runloom – Go-style coroutines for Python free-threaded
Code is a liability, not an asset.
4ndrewl··on War Atlas: An interactive cartography of every named war in human history
I guess the (war?) elephant in the room is that written history as something that attempts to record a somewht balanced, comprehensive account of an event is a modern, western, anomaly.
4ndrewl··on Good Tools Are Invisible
Invisibility is in the eye of the (un?)beholder.

I've used vim for decades. Tried using Sublime about 10? years ago. It just got in the way.

4ndrewl··on Punk, or why I don't stream anymore
It's more aligned with Baudrillard's concept of Hyperreality, than that I think.
4ndrewl··on Building a real-time AI tutor for 5-year-olds
Won't somebody think of the poor people's kids?!

Seriously though, it's great they're going to donate all this compute & tokens to the poor (who by definition can't afford to pay for it).

4ndrewl··on Buried Apple feature turns an iPhone into the perfect kids' dumb phone
And that is the correct response to tedious contrarinism. Thank you!
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