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papa-whiskyon AI-generated posters don’t have to be horrible

And low-skill graphic design had already been mostly replaced by Canva, so I don't think AI is really having as much impact on the design industry as people might suppose.

papa-whiskyon Most people prefer traditional architecture

This point is addressed in the article...

papa-whiskyon Most people prefer traditional architecture

~1580, large windows: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wollaton_Hall

papa-whiskyon OpenAI's Sam Altman says it would be 'ill-advised' to go public in 2026

I'm assuming it means "citation needed".

papa-whiskyon Music for Programming

I've really been enjoying this series of Mozart concertos on Alpha, highlighting young(er) performers: https://outhere-music.com/en/collections/next-generation-moz...

papa-whiskyon Mayor of Paris removed parking spaces, reduced the number of cars

Well it's very possible to blast music from a bike too https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLANhJNOIis5SrYZkIbN4MDJia...

papa-whiskyon Dell admits consumers don't care about AI PCs

We used to call those 'desktops'...

papa-whiskyon The Surreal Magnificence of Fatherhood

My wife and I found this super helpful for introducing foods: https://solidstarts.com/ (no affiliation)

papa-whiskyon JSON5 – JSON for Humans

I think the name just means that it sits in-between JSON and ES5 (i.e., it's a superset of JSON and subset of ES5).

edit: well as this comment thread indicates, the name is pretty confusing for everyone :)

papa-whiskyon The Architecture of London Pubs (1966)

Tweedy Pubs on YouTube has many videos detailing historic pubs in London, worth a watch if you found TFA interesting: https://youtube.com/@tweedypubs

(No affiliation, I just enjoy the channel)

papa-whiskyon Open-source utils for devs who don't like ads

https://jam.dev/utilities/ gives more useful info than the git repo.

papa-whiskyon Lewis Lapham has died

The same thing happened to me, unfortunately.

papa-whiskyon A Swiss town banned billboards. Zurich, Bern may soon follow

Give me convenience or give me death...

papa-whiskyon How Olympics officials try to catch “motor doping”

There is a company trying to make this happen (no affiliation): https://enhanced.org/

papa-whiskyon The loneliness of the low-ranking tennis player

The essay that the book takes its title from is particularly relevant to this discussion and freely available online: https://www.esquire.com/sports/a5151/the-string-theory-david...

(As an aside, I'm surprised to see this in Esquire, do they still publish writing like this or was it a very different magazine "back in the day"?)

papa-whiskyon Life Aboard a Nuclear Submarine

It's a joke. Every time there's a thread on HN about nuclear power someone inevitably comments something like the above about solar.

papa-whiskyon European Parliament votes to ease regulation of gene-edited crops

papa-whiskyon 280M e-bikes and mopeds are cutting demand for oil far more than electric cars

There are tons of options for carrying kids on a bike. Made even easier when you add electric assist.

papa-whiskyon A failed AI girlfriend product, and my lessons

I've read that payment processors don't like dealing with porn companies because of the very high rate of chargebacks they attract, not because the processors are Puritans...

papa-whiskyon Finding that lead emissions from aircraft engines contribute to air pollution

As the sibling comments have pointed out, power-to-weight is the main reason, but it doesn't make diesel engines completely unfeasible for light aircraft.

Diamond Aircraft have had success selling planes with diesel engines recently, and even started a subsidiary company to manufacture them: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Austro_Engine

papa-whiskyon New world record with an electric racing car: From 0 to 100 in 0.956 seconds

I wonder if they'd go any faster if the rules allowed overhead cams!

Even though these cars have disastrous efficiency and need to be completely rebuilt after every run and have backwards rules that leave them using "ancient" technology, I can't help but be awed by the effectiveness of the sledgehammer approach.

papa-whiskyon New world record with an electric racing car: From 0 to 100 in 0.956 seconds

I don't think it's a "trick", it's purely for safety reasons. The distance change was made following a fatal crash.

papa-whiskyon The End of the Googleverse

I'm curious what you're expecting to be returned here. How can there be "quality" results when the information you're searching for doesn't exist?

papa-whiskyon Google Maps has become an eyesore

https://www.google.com/maps/place/Murder+Cove/@57.0310912,-1...

edit: also this one made me chuckle https://www.google.com/maps/place/Tim+Hortons/@82.4982691,-6...

papa-whiskyon Paris to bring back swimming in Seine after 100 years

papa-whiskyon Ferrari designed a car that won Le Mans on its first attempt

Hmmmm, the article conveniently fails to mention the extremely large helping hand Ferrari received from the ACO's "balance of performance" changes [1].

It was really nice to see so many cars in the top class, with multiple different teams leading at different points, but it all just feels a bit hollow/manufactured to me. I guess it depends on why you like motorsport; is it the engineering achievement or the pilot skill that matters more?

[1]https://www.motorsportmagazine.com/articles/sports-cars/sand...

papa-whiskyon Bob Lee, former CTO of Square, has died after being stabbed in San Francisco

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2005_Cronulla_riots

papa-whiskyon Show HN: A HN clone writen in Go

Mega nitpick and completely off topic; it's just "&c". "Et" translates as "and" which can be replaced by the ampersand, "cetera" is "the rest".

papa-whiskyon Caroline Ellison Plea Hearing Transcript (12/19/2022) [pdf]

> So, one bad/corrupt juror could render anyone not guilty?

No, they need to unanimously agree on either guilty or not guilty. A hung jury would result in a retrial.