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aaronharder··on Bill Atkinson has died
More details here: https://www.folklore.org/I_Still_Remember_Regions.html
aaronharder··on The midwit home
Do you have a link to that doorbell product? My house came with the same problem.
aaronharder··on Information Camouflage
I think Google+ had already broken Google search in that several way years before Disney+ appeared.
aaronharder··on The Apple M1 compiles Linux 30% faster than my Intel i9
Micro Men! Great little TV movie, and really interesting story of the rivalry between UK golden-age home computing giants Sinclair and Acorn (Acorn being the company behind the BBC micro, and also originally the "A" in "ARM").
aaronharder··on Researchers build 700TB optical disc that can probably store all of Netflix
They use a new nanocomposite material, which combines graphene oxide flakes with upconverted nanoparticles (UCNPs) to achieve an unprecedented data density.
aaronharder··on $365B wiped off cryptocurrency market after Tesla stops accepting Bitcoin
...and so, teaching us rubes that lesson was Elon's intended 3D chess move all along?
aaronharder··on Intel outsources Core i3 to TSMC's 5nm process
Via HN yesterday, some good thoughts on that question: https://stratechery.com/2021/intel-problems/
aaronharder··on Low Doses of LSD Acutely Increase BDNF Blood Plasma Levels in Healthy Volunteers
Incorrect and vulnerable crypto is why people are microdosing LSD?
aaronharder··on Routed Gothic Font
Perhaps Forrest Mims of Radio Shack Engineer's Notebook fame?

https://hackaday.com/2017/01/18/forrest-mims-radio-shack-and...

aaronharder··on Sundar will be the CEO of both Google and Alphabet
Either way, too early.
aaronharder··on Kilo LISP
I suspect it's called Kilo Lisp because all those sizes are in the of "kilobyte" order of magnitude, rather than "megabyte." But not because any aspect of it is exactly 1k in size.

Fun name either way.

aaronharder··on How to Memorize the Largest Known Prime
Or how about the bash script that takes python's print out of the binary and converts it to decimal?
aaronharder··on Lyft Files for IPO
Don't know much about the ride share industry, but am interested and curious. Which parts of this type of app do you think would be particularly difficult to scale?
aaronharder··on Caroll Spinney Leaves ‘Sesame Street’ After Nearly 50 Years
Ah yes! The great Tom Lehrer.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dB2Ff8H7oVo

aaronharder··on AmigaOS 3.1.4
Previously on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18109930
aaronharder··on Many People Taking Antidepressants Discover They Cannot Quit
I would assume the best intentions for the vast majority of individuals working in the health system. But the economy of that system is one that favors treatment over cure/prevention. I'd like to believe that is a mistake of circumstance and not a design of human greed.
aaronharder··on Epic Games releases $12M worth of Paragon assets for free
I'd argue benevolent belongs in quotes. Not to question the very clear upside to the game development community. But rather to acknowledge that Epic is likely anticipating the benefits to itself as a company will be higher than the costs.
aaronharder··on How Firefox Got Fast Again
I find the absence of Smart Zoom on Mac Firefox to be very painful indeed. The "double right tap" gesture works in both Safari and Chrome, and zooms in exactly on the div/image you're interested in. I've searched for alternatives in FF, but even the half-working ones I found don't work in Quantum. Sad because I'm rooting for Mozilla, but just can't function in their browser without Smart Zoom.
aaronharder··on Another Ransomware Outbreak Is Going Global
Everyone would notice a nuclear attack. NSA exploiting vulnerabilities to their own ends, not so much.
aaronharder··on A proposal to move Gnome to GitLab
Definitely not 10x better. But being open source and freely self-hostable give GitLab an edge over GitHub in two respects that are very important to some users.
aaronharder··on Will Mexico Get Half of Its Territory Back?
Sorry to point this out, but Betteridge's law of headlines seems to apply very squarely in this case.
aaronharder··on Ringling Bros. circus to close after 146 years
Which, I guess, is ample justification for humans to treat these animals cruelly? Not really following the logic of your argument here. Though I definitely agree with your point about cruelties inherent in the meat and dairy industries.
aaronharder··on LoweBot
Why not just an app? Cheaper, and no scarcity issues: one for every customer.
aaronharder··on You can’t replace your face, says face recognition
...and Bob Arctor. https://filmfork-cdn.s3.amazonaws.com/content/scramble.gif
aaronharder··on Patch's new owner lays off staff in 1:39 conference call
Honest question, why is a phone firing such an insult? I may need some sensitivity training, but putting myself in the shoes of the person being fired I think I'd probably prefer phone. Maybe someone can help me see the other point of view more clearly.
aaronharder··on Kal – a clean JavaScript alternative without callbacks
OK. Better how?
aaronharder··on Firefox OS devices officially released
One big difference from WebOS is that the company behind FirefoxOS will not likely abandon it within 12 months of kicking it off. 4th or 5th place in the market might represent enough scale to be considered a "success" as far as Mozilla is concerned.
aaronharder··on Asm.js: The JavaScript Compile Target
...not yet, anyway.
aaronharder··on How I ended up with Mac
Command + Shift + G might be what you're looking for, as a kind of replacement for address bar.
aaronharder··on Why Men Can't Have It All
http://www.relevantmagazine.com.nyud.net/life/whole-life/why...
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