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ribs··on Easter egg in flight path of last 747 delivery flight
My friend notes that the logo covers Grand County Int’l Airport, containing the 2nd-longest runway in the US, where JAL and FedEx both have 747 pilot training facilities.
ribs··on An unexpected benefit of unit tests
As others have noted, this is basically TDD, and his idea of what TDD is was faulty.
ribs··on Long Covid: major findings, mechanisms and recommendations
From my experience, this stuff isn’t limited to COVID-19, and I don’t mean that to minimize your experience with it. I just want to note that I had the flu in 2013; my temperature got up to 104F, and I was sub-par for about that same amount of time; it was about 6 months before I felt back to 100%.
ribs··on The Peking Duck Exemption
When I first tried making it in...1994, I believe, the instructions I had from cookbooks didn't say anything about refrigeration. Looking briefly on the internet right now, I see a mixture. What I know for sure is that I hung it from a fixture on my ceiling. I wish I could remember exactly what I thought of this at the time.

(It came out great BTW)

ribs··on Monica: Open-source personal relationship manager
Monica seems like a pretty pedestrian contact management app to me. I’m struggling to see what’s impressive about it over, as you say, my iPhone, or, say, Notion.
ribs··on Ask HN: Was anyone working at Apple during Steve Jobs' return in 1997?
How could Apple could have gotten a real OS more quickly? The Mac OS of the time had no preemptive multitasking or protected memory, so software running on it was doomed to be made unstable by all the other software. NextStep, maybe it was what you say, but they needed to make a change.
ribs··on Batman easter egg (click the bat signal)
Looks sharp on iOS Safari
ribs··on How to Do Nothing with Nobody All Alone by Yourself (2014)
"[The Internet] also grows exponentially worse at helping us discover what we don’t yet know we ought to know, those invaluable unknown-unknowns."

Really? Has the author ever been to Hacker News, I wonder.

ribs··on Former Japan PM Shinzo Abe Unconscious After Shooting; Man in Custody
That film of his, Evil Will Hunting, did poorly
ribs··on The Mysterious Return of Imposter Syndrome
I thought this article was going somewhere interesting, but then it just sort of petered out, after a number of paragraphs of increasingly dismaying academic language. Not that academic language doesn’t have a purpose sometimes. I just didn’t see it here. Maybe it’s my bad (to use a very non-academic phrasing).
ribs··on A picture of me
Hells yeah. Show up. People will eventually start expecting you. Then inviting you to things.

Then you’ll make plans. To do things together. And when the time to meet up approaches, sometimes you’ll feel like you don’t want to go. And that’s when you say to yourself “oh, you don’t feel much like going. How interesting. Now get off your ass and go do what you said you were going to do.”

ribs··on A picture of me
Posted here on HN by the author?
ribs··on New ultra-stealthy Linux backdoor isn’t your everyday malware discovery
An attack that requires access to LD_PRELOAD, and root access to do great damage - this is nothing new.
ribs··on Coinbase employees petition to remove execs
It’s tempting to make a joke like “I don’t lakh the odds of that”…oh dear, consider it made
ribs··on Feeling uncomfortable when leaving phone at home shouldn't be normal
Mobile phones, particularly smartphones, are incredibly useful devices, particularly while mobile, and it doesn’t seem weird to be uncomfortable when one doesn’t have it.
ribs··on Tell HN: iOS Signal eats your disk space
Eh, sometimes going hyperbolic does the trick, but yeah, it’s not the most beneficial tactic, overall
ribs··on Phenethylamines I Have Known and Loved (1991)
Seems like a good time to link to the Fireside Project, who do psychedelic peer counseling over the phone. Non-profit, free. https://firesideproject.org/
ribs··on I wasted $40k on a fantastic startup idea (2020)
“Over the next nine months I would quit my job, write over 200,000 lines of code”

That stretches credulity. It’s, like, 750 lines of code per day, working every day.

ribs··on Twilio employees, associates charged with insider trading by SEC
No doubt there are lawbreakers in AP, just as they are in every other state, in every other place. That you’ve heard more or remembered more or paid more attention to those reports is of little to no material importance for grasping what is going on in the world or predicting what will happen next and who will do what.
ribs··on Italian scientists hacked pizza physics to make dough without yeast
“Rules lawyering” being a term from the role-playing games world, where players try to achieve their aims partly by arguing with the game master about the rules…I love the use here. I don’t know if I’ve seen it applied to the eruv, but it’s quite appropriate.
ribs··on The Big TDD Misunderstanding
I have always thought that.
ribs··on The Big TDD Misunderstanding
The author has described what they thing would make the practice of TDD better. The rationale presented isn’t ridiculous. Reasonable people could disagree on it.
ribs··on The Shameful Decline of Scientific American
Medium is where the piece we’re talking about was posted - “The Shameful Decline…”.

While the article in SA does seem appalling, I don’t see this single article’s publication as justification for this broad indictment of SA. It’s concerning, yes. But it’s ONE ARTICLE, and that’s all the piece talks about. OP may well be right, but they haven’t shown it by the citing of ONE ARTICLE.

ribs··on Cryptoland [video]
Is pinball making a comeback?

Either way…I can see it being real. I can see it being a parody. I can see it being a parody funded by parodists but created by true believers. I can perhaps see it the other way.

All the possibilities are open, just like crypto or something

ribs··on 7k varieties of apples and the 18 you need to know about (2013)
I’ve got no idea why people eat anything else. Says on Wikipedia that it only got to the public in 2019, so maybe that’s why this older article omitted it.
ribs··on Bad News
Russia is another foreign power whose interests often run counter to those of the US and which often acts accordingly. That does not make it a “hostile” power, at least in the sense the term has been used for decades; there is not even saber-rattling. Sure, its government is a bag of dicks and its people seem to like strongmen and authoritarianism and persecuting gays, but that’s not hostility.

The evidence of collusion - whose existence you assert without naming, not that there isn’t any - wasn’t as persuasive to me as it was to you.

ribs··on Bad News
I think it’s likely that ‘conservatives’ (and New Age enthusiasts, and others) wanted to hear anti-elitist messages, messages that discredited experts, which anti-vax messaging is congruent with.
ribs··on Bad News
What seems likely to me is that it’s faster with social media. That maybe every form of social change is faster with the internet. Whatever is going to happen without social media can happen faster than it would have.
ribs··on Bad News
Indeed. I’m reading now - wait, that’s obvious - and the comments look broadly positive to me.
ribs··on The Linux Desktop Is Studded with Grifters
I assume the author doesn’t want to make accusations for fear of liability. Which makes the piece kinda weak.
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