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neonnoodleon Things I've Heard Boomers Say That I Agree with 100%

I STILL don’t get this obsession with “participation trophies.” I’ve never seen one, I’ve never met anyone who says they’ve awarded one to someone, and I’ve never met anyone who received one.

I’ve seen very minor “door prizes” that say, thanks for attending this event, etc. But this “participation trophy” canard has coasted for 30+ years now.

neonnoodleon Ask HN: Is this the fast take off?

> Would you think humans and their error-prone systems had led to this by a series of accidents and greedy investments?

Yes, especially if we don't have (0) enormous productivity gains suddenly appearing out of nowhere.

neonnoodleon Radiant Computer

Next you'll tell me urbit, nock, and hoon never caught on

neonnoodleon Addiction Markets

> Wonder how all of the focus seem to happen at the same time

Because this practice was made legal very recently in most places in the US and a concomitant advertising boom has saturated the media. Before the last few years, your average American couldn't bet on sports without visiting a casino sports book in person, or having a bookie (i.e., entering into a risky relationship with organized crime). TV sports coverage now openly refers to how you can use their analysis to make bets.

neonnoodleon Is Sora the beginning of the end for OpenAI?

prompt records = mass blackmail generation

neonnoodleon ‘Robber bees’ invade apiarist’s shop in attempted honey heist

Ironic coming from someone named "mead"!

neonnoodleon My Workflow Is 70% AI, 20% Copy-Paste, 10% Panic. What's Yours?

If I were your boss I would fire you.

neonnoodleon U.S. added 911k fewer jobs in year through March than reported earlier

past times of stagflation didn't have such a tight housing supply.

neonnoodleon Notion releases offline mode

"It's true, we inserted disks into our beige towers and installed desktop software..."

"Let's get you to bed, grandma..."

neonnoodleon Eleven Music

No, that would be useful, and as such AI is incapable of doing it.

neonnoodleon Scientific fraud has become an 'industry,' analysis finds

Go read about the rates of simony in early modern Europe.

neonnoodleon ‘No Other Land’ consultant Awdah Hathaleen killed by Israeli settler

the First Nations of North America

neonnoodleon The HTML Hobbyist (2022)

>Which then got me thinking about if there could be a special Web Classic experience we could voluntarily hook into.

This is kind of like what the Gemini protocol is trying to do.

neonnoodleon British naval dominance during the age of sail

APRIL 1805

NAPOLEON IS MASTER OF EUROPE.

ONLY THE BRITISH FLEET STANDS BEFORE HIM.

OCEANS ARE NOW BATTLEFIELDS.

neonnoodleon I maintain a 17 year old ThinkPad

hell same

neonnoodleon Zildjian, a 400-year-old cymbal-making company in Massachusetts

The Armenian Zildjians might be displeased to be called Turks.

neonnoodleon After decades, FDA moves to pull ineffective decongestant off shelves

Don’t forget to use the tweaking umlauts:ő

neonnoodleon Ask HN: What old video games did you love that haven't left a large footprint?

I loved Acrophobia.

neonnoodleon Robot dentist performs first human procedure

It’s called a cuspidor. :-)

neonnoodleon Pop culture has become an oligopoly (2022)

I have this occasional daydream of two internets, one global (the one we all know and love), and one local, where you can only see content from within a 10 mile radius.

neonnoodleon Ask HN: Why aren't personal/office databases a solved problem?

My frustration is that there isn't a desktop product midway between a spreadsheet and spinning up a dev environment for a custom CRUD app for a small group of users.

neonnoodleon Ask HN: What's an old software that you would like to have again?

Corel Painter 6

neonnoodleon Mini ponds are 'tiny universes' of biodiversity for gardens and windowsills

Sweet Flag (Acorus calamus) is a similar aromatic grasslike plant that grows aggressively in ponds. I planted a few thin stalks a couple years ago and now it has outgrown five planters and the rhizomes are 2 inches thick. One other advantage of this plant is that the stalks provide a molting place for dragonflies.

neonnoodleon Mini ponds are 'tiny universes' of biodiversity for gardens and windowsills

This is correct. I added dunks exactly once, and the following years the predatory insects and frogs have done the job. I do regular spot-checks for mosquito larvae and haven't seen one in years.

neonnoodleon Ask HN: Which skills are least likely to be replaced by AI?

High manual dexterity in cramped, wet, poorly-lit environments.

neonnoodleon Is Emacs dying?

M-x betteridge-mode

neonnoodleon Ask HN: How to improve your memory permanently

Personally I am suspended in a tank of concentrated spice gas

neonnoodleon The invention of a new pasta shape (2021)

My startup Nūdl is using AI to iterate trillions of pasta shapes for optimum twirlability, semolina coefficient, and hospitaliano. While it is still early days, we project that with our current runway and model capabilities, our pasta may become sentient in time for the 2026 Feast of St. Anthony.