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earth-adventure··on Student discovers fungus predicted by Albert Hoffman
The person you reply to sounds like someone who kknocks it without having tried it. I base this on the full comment, and more specifically on the fragment "tripping on shrooms". Drugs all enhance and alter what's inside you, for better and for worse, controllable or not. If climbing Mt Everest was your most eye opening and amazing experience, does that somehow reduce the value of your wife and kids? Such a strange premise...
earth-adventure··on Mastering Delphi 5 2025 Annotated Edition Is Now Complete
Really cool seeing you here Marco, as a teenager I got into Delphi and a part of that were your books (and some local Delphi forum). So thanks for being part of my 14 year old self spiraling into programming!
earth-adventure··on Backblaze seemingly does not support files greater than 1 TB
Encrypted disk volumes from virtual machines for example.
earth-adventure··on How extreme car dependency is driving Americans to unhappiness
Your "b" just makes me think of The Amish and the like in a way. Once the kids find out the rest of the world, totally unequipped for it, it's either retreat to the suburbs or go bananas
earth-adventure··on Life in India is a series of bilateral negotiations
Density within cities, and a countries' population density are not comparable
earth-adventure··on ByteDance’s Bytespider is scraping at much higher rates than other platforms
Pretty sure he meant the typo.
earth-adventure··on Show HN: Fire for the Wall – A Guide to Censorship-Resistant Tools and Networks
It's completely empty with everything being Work In Progress. Not sure what you expect here?
earth-adventure··on Owners of 1-Time Passcode Theft Service Plead Guilty
What's the books name?
earth-adventure··on NIH cancels ‘Havana syndrome’ research, citing unethical coercion
Most likely a funny woman or a woman who went out of her mind, then some people laughing and copying her as a joke. Then others see a group of people dancing uncontrollably and now you have rumors going around aaaand it's mass hysteria. Some maybe even copied it to other parts of town or restarting the next day in a kind of flashmob way. My 2 cents.
earth-adventure··on Windows 98 Disk Defrag Simulator
Different drives which you can choose trough the settings button, have different sounds. Try the E drive.
earth-adventure··on Language is primarily a tool for communication rather than thought [pdf]
The mandarin guangxi encompasses a whole lot more than just your network. That would be considered a very bastardised translation, losing all the extra meanings such as good luck created by having that network, possibilities to fortune, a kind of karma, and more.
earth-adventure··on What Is a Personal User Manual? (2022)
"Users on HN are outraged over suggested positive feedback manual".
earth-adventure··on This Message Does Not Exist
Thats a great movie, if you are just making that statement.

That was a great movie, if you've just finished watching it.

earth-adventure··on Tracking Illicit Brazilian Beef from the Amazon to Your Burger
A picture is worth a thousand words, so the voice of the industry would become too expensive (bribes, oh excuse me, lobbying and consulting) if the public can use pictures. Hence, pictures are forbidden.
earth-adventure··on Microsoft PlayReady – Complete Client Identity Compromise
So this is pretty much about breaking the client side DRM, with a bad side effect of abusing someone else's Identity (as used within the DRM context) for nefarious purposes. Did I understand this correctly?
earth-adventure··on Breaking down tasks
Seriously asking : how? I can't cheat my brain into not automatically seeing the next steps after that and the cascading relation between the all. Within a second or less.
earth-adventure··on Montage fallacy
Could you elaborate on making a new choice daily? I understand the concept but can you make it practical
earth-adventure··on CitrixBleed.curl
Are you referring to the insane and specific amount or "a" in the exploit?
earth-adventure··on ChatGPT with voice is now available to all free users
Bing app already has gpt4 with voice input and voice output.
earth-adventure··on Persuasion through status rather than argument
Isn't it "the market" rather than "the masses"?
earth-adventure··on Firefox tooltip bug fixed after 22 years
Cold fusion is new concept within science, it's never been proven to work or be possible (my laymens interpretation). Whereas humans being able to decipher the Firefox code base, as per the example, is no more than an extremely complex set of 'calculations' and functions in our brain - which, with enough time and resources, can be replicated by a computer or sorts.

One is an idea for which there is no ground to base it on, the other is an existing thing which can be recreated. Quite the difference.

earth-adventure··on Patience for after-hours work socializing is wearing thin
One statement relates to inter personal relationships. The other relates to the employer - employee relationship.
earth-adventure··on ChatGPT turned generative AI into an “anything tool”
I'm really stunned by the fact that, it seems, so few people get this. It's not a robot in the dense of Commander Data from Star Trek. It's a recursive software method that just has unfathomable amounts of data to base it's guess for some correct sentences on.

There is no logic, no reasoning, no nothing. Yet people complain it's 'giving me wrong answers'. Well, it doesn't know what's it's giving you either way. It only knows the statistics or odds about the sentences it creates being similar to what others have said before.

earth-adventure··on Mullvad Browser
With TOR, even the middle men don't know who you are (not considering some large entity controlling too much of 5he TOR network). With a VPN, the middle man sees all your (encrypted) traffic.

Considering your question from a host/website point of view, connections trough TOR endpoints are blocked way more often than connections trough a VPN.

earth-adventure··on Catching up on the weird world of LLMs
It's in the url (fyi)
earth-adventure··on Why can’t you just roll back from a bad macOS update?
Somehow I prefer that over Windows' infamous installer always flying trough to 99% in 1% of the time, only to waste the next 99% of total install time to finish up that last 1%
earth-adventure··on I won't pay on your website
It's all to stop bad actors.
earth-adventure··on Ask HN: Rest Doesn't Help with Burnout
Your words are like an epiphany.
earth-adventure··on Experiences won’t make you happier than possessions
This is a false dichotomy. There is jo binary choice. This brings forth useless statements like money can't buy happiness.
earth-adventure··on Ask HN: Why are we more and more talking about the past here on HN?
You completely missed his point.
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