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hithereagainon Show HN: Hacker News em dash user leaderboard pre-ChatGPT

Older people, say folks in their forties or older, grew up with the em dash.

hithereagainon Show HN: Turning books into chatbots with GPT-3

This was interesting, but for the Stephen King On Writing Book, when I asked it what Chapter 5 was about, I got a different answer each time.

hithereagainon Unapproved books now a felony in Manatee County schools

He did not.

hithereagainon Poll: What's the best laptop for Linux these days?

I recently paid for Dell's next day service with a new PC purchase. The PC arrived broken, and Dell refused to send anyone out to fix it. Instead, I waited weeks for a replacement, feeling like a chump.

When I complained to Dell, none of their employees seemed to understand that they had failed to honor their warranty, or why I would be disappointed.

The replacement machine works fine, but Dell violated their agreement with me and so I can no longer recommend them.

hithereagainon Pixie – A full-featured 2D graphics library for Nim

But "Pixi" == "Pixie" when evaluated by humans

hithereagainon The greatest privilege we never talk about: beauty

I tell you honey, it's a crying shame; All the pretty girls really look the same. -- Iggy and the Stooges

hithereagainon US Senators Introduce Resolution to Allow Remote Voting During Emergencies

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whataboutism

hithereagainon Colornames.org – A collaborative effort to name all 16.7M colors

And a nightmare job for some other creative artist.

hithereagainon France proposes upload filter law, “forgets” user rights

Don't give up already ;-)

hithereagainon I Used to Be Homeless

In its majestic equality, the law forbids rich and poor alike to sleep under bridges, beg in the streets and steal loaves of bread.

hithereagainon We’re Measuring the Economy All Wrong

Perhaps the problem is using money as a tool for valuation?

hithereagainon A Web Design Crash Course: From Developer to Developer

A lot of designers are now using tools like Sketch which help with this process, providing exportable CSS for various elements.

hithereagainon Dungeons Tome – Tool for generating dungeons for RPGs

There is a System Reference Document for 5e available here: http://dnd.wizards.com/articles/features/systems-reference-d...

hithereagainon Bay Area cities are cracking down on free food at tech companies

Aren't these free meals essentially untaxed compensation for employees?

hithereagainon The Lifespan of a Lie – Why can’t we escape the Stanford Prison Experiment?

[2] Brain activity appears to continue after people are dead, according to new study. (9 march 2017)

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/what-happens-die-...

hithereagainon Show HN: Slate-md-editor – A markdown editor that allows live editing

I hope you'll share it anyway. I enjoyed working on this in school. My thesis advisor worked on a couple papers on your very topic, but as far as I know, nothing was ever turned into a product: https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/6d34/878442dfde070ada9846fb...

hithereagainon Untangling the WebRTC Flow

Although this doesn't quite answer your question, I had a lot of fun playing with TogetherJS a few years ago; it made taking advantage of webrtc for a collaborative web game/tool pretty straightforward.

https://togetherjs.com/

hithereagainon Breitbart, other conservative outlets escalate anti-SpaceX campaign

BB&T, through its "BB&T Charitable Foundation", spent a lot of money injecting Ayn Rand into college curricula:

https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2015/10/16/new-paper-det...

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=9010409...

hithereagainon How the British aristocracy preserved their power

Also interesting, this article about Venice, where (apparently) the wealthiest families in 1427 are still the wealthiest families

https://qz.com/694340/the-richest-families-in-florence-in-14...

http://voxeu.org/article/what-s-your-surname-intergeneration...

hithereagainon On Being a Science Writer and Managing a Mental Illness

>The suggestion that there are other kinds of valid thinking besides scientific thinking is way off.

That's a very religious attitude you have about the scientific method. ;-)

Might we say that, based on our tests so far, the scientific method has produced reasonable results for explaining shared reality? (Defining truth is a different matter entirely.)

hithereagainon Ask HN: Which sites you visit on a regular basis for knowledge and inspiration?

If you start with Mathematics, you'll end up in a loop: Mathematics > Quantity > Magnitude (mathematics) > Mathematics.

Ignoring this backlink, though, it would work:

Mathematics > Quantity > Magnitude (mathematics) > Mathematical object > Abstract and concrete > Referent > Linguistics > Science > Knowledge > Fact > Verificationism > Philosophy

hithereagainon Self-Compassion Works Better Than Self-Esteem

The song Devil Town was written by Daniel Johnston, whose work you might enjoy. Bright Eyes certainly did a solid version of it!

hithereagainon Science Fiction Interfaces

You and your kids might enjoy piloting the ship using Artemis Spaceship Bridge Simulator (http://artemis.eochu.com/)

hithereagainon The History of Computer RPGs

There was a game like that available on MS/DOS (and apparently other systems) in that era called DND. https://www.classicdosgames.com/game/DND.html

My thanks to the grown ups in the local college's IT department who gave me the shareware version.