silvester23

What if I write an article titled

> Can any headline that ends in a question mark be answered by the word no?

Could you give an example of such an intro? I'm not entirely sure what style you are referring to and am quite curious.

If you enjoy independent films that mostly consist of people talking in very few different locations, I strongly recommend Coherence. It's pretty different but I think I enjoyed both of these for similar reasons.

Just a note: According to Wikipedia and Spotify, that track ("Variation 15") was written by Benjamin Wallfisch [0], not by Zimmer.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benjamin_Wallfisch#As_composer...

From the last sentence, I think it's intended as showing what supposed "benefit" blockchains can bring to gaming. But up until then I honestly read it as a critique of centralization and consolidation in the industry (see: "Clash of Guilds") a and cautionary tale on what could potentially happen to the gaming landscape.

I think they only take into account intentional crashes caused by the original pilot of the plane, not by hijackings.

Interesting. I thoroughly enjoyed Outer Wilds (no "The" btw) and Return of the Obra Dinn and would say they are two of my favorite games ever, but I just could not for the life of me get into The Witness. I was just plain bored after a few hours.

Well, different strokes and all that I guess. Anyway, I strongly support your recommendations.

It depends on what you mean by "holding accountable"

Germany was financially crippled and mostly demilitarized after WW1 which of course hugely affected the population. But in terms of _actually_ holding people personally accountable, there was a much stronger and organized effort after WW2, see e.g. [0]. I think that worked out rather okay. So I don't think it's quite as simple as saying it doesn't work.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denazification

I might have missed it, but is there (or do we know of) a different model for which the velocities actually add? Essentially, how do we go from slopes to angles here?

I don't speak any Spanish or Italian, but I had French in school (it's been a while) and I presently cannot recall how the gender of the speaker is more obvious than in, say, English.

I'm curious, could you give me an example please?

Regarding cash payments, things have slightly improved due to covid. Many places that did not use to accept cards/phones now do but there's still a ways to go.

And then of course there are many smaller places that only accept cash payments for the same reason they only enter half of your order into their cash register.

That's a very interesting point, I think you are probably spot on about why Squid Game seems to resonate with people more.

Funnily enough, the inclusion of so much of the outside world is actually one of my bigger personal gripes with the series. The game itself seems so detached from reality and just formulaic that I cannot suspend my disbelief enough to reconcile that with an outside that, as you say, is so close to our own.

I think for me, such a setting works better if it is mostly self-contained, like The Platform or Cube from 1997.

But I guess that's just a matter of taste. Thanks for sharing your perspective.

> For some reason people seem to feel the need to say they enjoyed it for reasons other than just enjoying inventive, competitive death games

I guess that's because otherwise you are kind of taking on the role of the sadistic spectators. I'm not saying that's true but it might feel like that to some people.

I kind of enjoyed Squid Game but I totally agree with you, I do not think it had much to offer in terms of social commentary, it's pretty one dimensional.

Personally, I prefered 'The Platform' (also on Netflix), which is a bit of a different take on a similar theme, although it is not any more subtle about its metaphor.

> The acting is superb, I really have not seen a single actor fail to deliver.

Have you seen the episode with the VIPs? They are terrible across the board. Their delivery sounds like NPC background dialogue from a third-rate low-budget video game.

Poster for Squid Game:

> A group of students at a high school in the U.S. are forced to fight for their right to free speech when they are threatened with expulsion from the school if they don't agree to participate in a free-speech protest

That actually sounds hilarious.

> Now switch to Linux too

Yes, that seems to be the plan. Literally the first paragraph says

> and the Windows operating system is to be replaced by GNU/Linux

I think a critical piece of information is missing here, namely how many of the 470 cases last week actually were vaccinated.

It says 99,7% of the adult population is vaccinated, maybe there was a huge outbreak at a school or something.

So, they figured out they can can use os.environ within the settings.py? Am I missing something?

I think it's not a dilemma at all because the two goals are not even mutually exclusive:

- You want to spend 100% of your coding time in the editor

- You want your coding time to make up as little as possible (ideally 0%) of your total work time

Given that, the perfect code editor is obviously one that makes coding so easy and quick that it hardly takes any time and one that you do not have to leave for external information whenever you do use it.

And here's the reference, just for reference:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wvr1T1sFvEg

(2019)

Discussed at the time: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20495739

What I fail to understand is how you seem to think that you can can assess the risks associated with contracting the virus better than the risks associated with getting the vaccine.

At this point, so many more people have received the vaccine than have contracted the virus that I think it's fairly safe to say that we know much more about how people react to the vaccine than the virus (which also keeps mutating unlike the vaccine).

It's true that we don't know the long-term effects of the vaccine but

1) my understanding is that medically speaking, a few weeks after the shot every trace of the actual vaccine is gone from the body and all that remains is that your immune system has learned how to fight the virus and

2) we certainly do not know the long-term effects of the virus either

So unless you are in a position where you can completely seal yourself off and be sure you will not get the virus, it's a choice between getting vaccinated and getting the virus. Considering what I wrote above, to me that is an obvious choice.

I'm really no expert on game designers but from the top of my head I can think of at least one that I would describe as genius, namely Chris Sawyer who made Transport Tycoon and Rollercoaster Tycoon almost single-handedly.

If that's not genius, I don't know what is.

From the article:

> Dietz said the interior of the shells were coated with "antibodies specific for the hepatitis-B virus. You can think of the shells as a generic platform; depending on your selection of inner coatings, you can 'program' them to be specific for a user-defined target virus."

Excuse me but.. what?

The word Emoji makes it sound to an English speaker like it should have something to do with emotions (like emoticon does), but that is pure coincidence: it just means 'picture character' in Japanese (see e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emoji)

Yes, for itertools.groupby to work as most people would expect, the data needs to be sorted by the grouping key first. That may obviously cause a significant performance hit.

Seriously, I have rarely seen a comment section on HN that was so completely off topic. Ironically, this comment is not really helping either.

Probably does not fit the narrative of the article.

While we are on the topic, this sentence has spawned the Bulwer Lytton Fiction Contest, in which participants try to come up with the most atrocious first sentences to hypothetical novels [0].

Although I personally much prefer the Lyttle Lytton Contest [1] which is pretty much the same but with tight restrictions on the maximum length of the sentences. Highly recommend reading through some of the winners over the years, there are some gems in there.

[0] https://www.bulwer-lytton.com/winners

[1] http://adamcadre.ac/lyttle.html