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andredzon How Not to Deal with Murder in Space (2020)

Thanks. :)

andredzon How Not to Deal with Murder in Space (2020)

Thank you. Is there a sci-fi book where NEOs are used that you'd recommend? I'm not too versed in that genre.

andredzon St. Benedict’s Rule for Monasteries (516)

I had long assumed that Project Gutenberg was based in Germany; probably due to its namesake.

andredzon Games on GitHub – A list of popular/awesome video games hosted on GitHub

I've played Endless Sky and liked it a lot; although I'm pretty bad at combat.

Some other games: https://store.steampowered.com/curator/38475471-Libre-Open-S... https://github.com/Martin-Pitt/awesome-frontend-games (<- I haven't checked if these are FLOSS, but I had this in my bookmarks)

There are also many mods for games available in GitHub such as: https://github.com/cybrxkhan/VIET-Events-for-CK3 https://github.com/kiooeht/ModTheSpire

andredzon How Not to Deal with Murder in Space (2020)

What is a NEO?

andredzon Sci-Hub Founder Criticizes Sudden Twitter Ban over “Counterfeit” Content

I've spent many hours reading Matt Might's website: http://matt.might.net/articles/

andredzon Google suggest vi for Emacs and Emacs for vi

I knew about paperclip maximizers but had never seen this game. I just spent about 3 hours playing it. It was fun.

andredzon Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (September 2020)

Location: México (Northeast)

Remote: Yes (preferred)

Willing to relocate: Yes, but I'd prefer not to.

Technologies: There are some languages I've worked with that are worth mentioning: Scheme, Racket, Python, JavaScript, Java, Swift, Kotlin, TypeScript. Some OTHER TECHNOLOGIES I've used: Godot, Unity, MySQL, PostgreSQL, Angular, Android Studio, Xcode, Emacs, Spring, OpenBSD, Git, Firebase, Latex…

Résumé/CV: Available on request, or we can talk through email.

Email: andre.diaz@gmail.com

I've just graduated with a Computer Systems Engineering degree and I'm looking for a programming job. I'm specially interested in working with any dialect of Lisp since I like them.

These are also some languages I don't have much experience with, but that I'm very interested in getting to use at work: Rust, Haskell, Elixir and Smalltalk.

andredzon Mozilla lays off 250 employees while it refocuses on commercial products

I too used Firefox Send quite a bit and told others about it.

andredzon Google discontinues the Pixel 4, nine months after release

Right, mine works fine as well. So you think that Apple should release the specs for the latests iOS that works with the iPhone 6?

andredzon Google discontinues the Pixel 4, nine months after release

I still have the iPhone 6. Since it became "obsolete" I stopped keeping tracking of iOS updates but I feel like it hasn't hurt much. I can't really install many apps anyway since it only has about 11 GB of effective space (the "System " uses 6.87 GB)

andredzon Google discontinues the Pixel 4, nine months after release

Even the iPhone 6 runs all right. I have dropped mine quite a few times and it still works fine for my needs (which are not many since I have a computer). I have to admit that sometimes it doesn't start charging without shaking the cable a bit though, and not being able to update to the latest iOS version is regrettable.

But what I'm saying is that my iPhone 6 is still running mostly fine as well.

andredzon Telegram files EU antitrust complaint against Apple’s App Store

Honest question: Why do you think people protest things in another country? I'm not saying it is a bad thing of course, but… what is the purpose?

andredzon Physical attractiveness bias in the legal system (2017)

Looking for something unrelated (retcons), I somehow ended up in this TV Tropes article that contains quite a few examples relevant to this topic: https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/BeautyEqualsGood...

andredzon John Titor

What's wrong with Steins;Gate Elite?

andredzon NHL suspending play immediately due to virus

La Liga, The Champions and some other European soccer leagues have been suspended as well.

https://www.uefa.com/insideuefa/news/newsid=2640915.html

https://www.laliga.com/noticias/laliga-acuerda-la-suspension...

https://eredivisie.nl/en-us/highlighted/eredivisie-matches-s...

andredzon America's First Banned Book

To consider as well are the Index librorum prohibitorum and the Index of Prohibited Books of the Spanish Inquisition which applied to Spanish America (the first one to Portuguese America as well?) and appeared in the 16th century.

Also, it seems that in the 15th century Itzcoatl, a Mexica tlatoani, ordered the burning of many historical codices. I was not able to find earlier instances of banned books. Also, I do not know whether Indians in what is now the US or Canada had books (that could then be banned).

andredzon Linus Torvalds: Git proved I could be more than a one-hit wonder

That's in Spain. In American Spanish computador/a is most often used: http://lema.rae.es/dpd/srv/search?key=computador

There is also informática/computación; both Spanish words to refer to the same thing but used in Spain/America.

I guess that literally they'd be something like IT and CS.

andredzon No One Knows Why Humans Can Walk

I found two verses in which a throne and clouds are related to God: Psalm 97:2 - "Clouds and darkness surround Him; Righteousness and justice are the foundation of His throne." Job 26:9 - "He covers the face of His throne, And spreads His cloud over it." Of course, I'd think that "throne" is used to evoke the idea of sovereignty rather than a literal throne. There's also the whole of Revelation—I won't try to interpret in a mere comment—but includes plenty of thrones and clouds such as in Revelation 14:14. And you can also find the Ancient of Days in Daniel 7:9-22

At the beginning of this post (starting from Begin digression), there's an exploration of anthropomorphic metaphors that might interest you: http://www.wall.org/~aron/blog/god-and-time-iv-impassibility...

Also, have you read The Everlasting Man by G.K. Chesterton? It has some ideas found in your comment regarding the Incarnation and it is overall a fun read.

andredzon Why Are So Many Developers Hating on Object-Oriented Programming?

You are welcome. Here's how to format comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/formatdoc

andredzon Why Are So Many Developers Hating on Object-Oriented Programming?

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andredzon Portugal’s Marmelada Tastes Nothing Like Marmalade (2018)

In Spanish constipado means a cold or having a cold but according to the DRAE constipación de vientre means well… constipation.

Or you could use resfriado which means a cold but also contains the lexical morpheme/root -fri- (frío which means cold) so it might sound nicer and be easier to remember.

andredzon Portugal’s Marmelada Tastes Nothing Like Marmalade (2018)

Other examples would be:

Spanish oficina (office) and Portuguese oficina (workshop).

Spanish largo (long) and Portuguese largo (wide) or even music's largo (slow), although the music one is probably part of most languages by now so it's a matter of semantics.

Spanish asignatura (subject) and Portuguese assinatura (signature).

Spanish carpeta (folder) and English carpet (alfombra).

Spanish librería (bookstore) and English library (biblioteca).

Spanish parientes (relatives) and English parents (padres).

andredzon A Walk in Hong Kong

> I catch the briefest glimpse of a woman with no protective gear, dressed normally, who is weaving her way upstream through the escaping demonstrators with a placid smile on her face.

I liked the prose in this piece; it felt like a novel. And as someone commented before, I felt myself immersed in the story.

andredzon Bullshitters: Who Are They and What Do We Know about Their Lives? [pdf]

ESL as well. I think it might have to do with tuning (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Musical_tuning) which is usually done before a concert. So it'd be: ready yourself to make a scene.

andredzon A Programmer's Introduction to Mathematics

The opposite of antipathy is sympathy.