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sofetchon Evidence that Neanderthal and Homo sapiens engaged in cultural exchange

I expect it was a joke referring to the Pauley Shore vehicle Encino Man: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0104187/

sofetchon I record myself on audio 24x7 and use an AI to process the information

> By that logic

This doesn't follow at all. It's not what I said and I find it difficult to believe that you even think it's what I said.

sofetchon I record myself on audio 24x7 and use an AI to process the information

> you can take an inventory of what skills have been written (and/or are installed), and y'know... document them somewhere.

Sure. I didn't take exception with anything except the standard HN middlebrow dismissal.

sofetchon I record myself on audio 24x7 and use an AI to process the information

> why you felt the need to make a comment just to make yourself look smart.

I hardly think it made me look smart. It's borderline trivial. The parent comment was insanely reductive in the stadnard HN style. I was hoping to help reduce the appearance of future such comments.

Sibling comments indicate that it had no positive effect. Such is life.

sofetchon I record myself on audio 24x7 and use an AI to process the information

> (Ok, so obviously the possibilities aren't endless, right?)

This does not follow from the above. The set of positive integers is countably infinite. So is the set of positive even integers. Even if "half of the positive integers are missing!" there are still "endless" even postive integers.

sofetchon Did a Cuttlefish Write This?

Perhaps not an HN-friendly link, but I love zefrank's "True Facts about the Cuttlefish": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GDwOi7HpHtQ

sofetchon James Webb Space Telescope launch [video]

AS much as anyone, yes. Your total energy expenditure is reduced lose to the equator. And having un-inhabited/-developed area below the dangerous early stages of launch is a bonus.

sofetchon James Webb Space Telescope launch [video]

It's their launch facility.

sofetchon Ask HN: What things has tech made worse in your life?

Sounds like the São Paolo Clean City Law: https://newdream.org/blog/sao-paolo-ad-ban

sofetchon Tech-savvy audiences block Google Analytics

Yes. I clearly know the literal meaning. I assume this means trusting client-supplied strings. That's not an inspection.

sofetchon Tech-savvy audiences block Google Analytics

> The best you can do is use server side UA inspection

No, the best you can do is to stop caring. A distant second is this "server side UA inspection." Whatever that means exactly.

sofetchon Crypto and NFTs are a absolute disaster for so many more reasons than ecological

> But without the early movers incentive to increase the coin value, how could that work?

Are you seriously asking how having the value distributed out to a large number of people could ever have utility without oligarchs to "set the value" to some "proper" value?

sofetchon Goodbye PowerDNS

> Do you have proof that the opposite is true?

Why would this be necessary with the big gaping hole in the assertion?

> except for addressing security and abuse.

I expect Google and I have very different conceptions of what qualifies as "abuse" and how to "address" it.

sofetchon New youtube-dl release: v2020.11.01.1

Unless I misunderstand git-ssb does this.

sofetchon Mailing lists are resistant to censorship

git-ssb has interesting properties.

https://github.com/noffle/git-ssb-intro

sofetchon You advocate a ________ approach to calendar reform (2013)

What's not so standard, in my opinion, is that people be required to restrict their use of language to the noted restrictive sense of a definition as used "in [that] document."

Yes, yes, all of the adjectival disclaimers were used to try to align the discussion directly to how words are used "in [that] document." While the document is highly important, there are many technical contexts in which it is completely appropriate to talk about decades without the slightest consideration of how the same term might be used therein.

sofetchon You advocate a ________ approach to calendar reform (2013)

I feel like this entire thread has been an elaborate attempt to demonstrate that you know an ISO definition. With the carefully constructed adjectives used to describe the definition ("standard technical meaning", "In a technical context") leading inexorably to the "ISO" gotcha.

To save others time, here's the ISO-8601 document which is apparently being referenced: https://dgn.isolutions.iso.org/obp/ui#iso:std:iso:8601:-1:ed...

"decade" is defined in 3.1.2.22:

decade time scale unit (3.1.1.7) of 10 calendar years (3.1.2.21), beginning with a year whose year number is divisible without remainder by ten Note 1 to entry: Decade is also used to refer to an arbitrary duration (3.1.1.8) of 10 years, however decade is not used as such in this document.

sofetchon You advocate a ________ approach to calendar reform (2013)

When I do this rant, I like to note that "the 1800s" and "the 19th century", while very similar, are not the same 100 year interval.

sofetchon Why are people getting worse at “The Price Is Right”?

The physical printing is smaller.

sofetchon Itch.io – Marketplace for Indie Games

> I'm idly curious why Itch popped up now, since it's been around for years.

I expect this comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19012083

sofetchon Programming Languages

I guess the https://mythryl.org/ dream died with its creator.

sofetchon The Cuttlefish, a Master of Camouflage, Reveals a New Trick

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GDwOi7HpHtQ

Here are True Facts about the Cuttlefish

sofetchon Erlang/OTP 20.0

Nerves boots into the ErlangVM, but runs on a buildroot Linux. This makes it possible to run on a wide variety of hardware, but with the associated baggage.

GRiSP uses RTEMS[0] as its base which should make its performance more predictable.

[0] https://www.rtems.org/

sofetchon Erlang/OTP 20.0

Pretty decent chance: https://www.grisp.org/