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EGKW··on Tell HN: Last night, I had a dream
What seems just as concerning is that when you remove a text or a document from a website, there is no way for the outside world to retrieve it. There is not even any material or physical evidence that it ever existed.
EGKW··on Kremlin envoy proposes 'Putin-Trump tunnel' to link Russia and US
No love for InterBering? https://www.interbering.com/Bering-Strait-Tunnel-Plan.html
EGKW··on Guess a random number between 1 and 50
Well, that didn’t quite go as you predicted. Claude (Sonnet 4) and Copilot (Think Deeper) both came up with 27. Deepseek (Deepthink R1) claimed it used a random number generator and came up with 17, same as Mistral/LeChat. Then there’s Grok3 (DeepSearch), who suggested 42; the meaning of life. I’m not surprised — Grok’s still in full puberty.
EGKW··on The joy of reading books you don't understand
I get the point. Only a few days ago I watched the restored version of "Jeanne Dielman,...", to its full length of 3 hours and 20 minutes. Nothing happens in that movie, absolutely nothing at all, except for the registration of a housewife's daily routine and a few conversations with her son. Until the last quarter of an hour. You start with boredom, wanting to stop and forget all about it. But then curiosity kicks in, and you learn to appreciate the innumerable small details.
EGKW··on Coalition of Humans for the Advancement of AI Rights
Trolling for what?
EGKW··on Kelvin–Helmholtz Instability
( ) I know what you read last night. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/379363270_First_Dir...
EGKW··on Patterns, Culture and Theft
In the words of Kirby Ferguson, Everything is a remix. https://www.everythingisaremix.info/
EGKW··on Jared Kushner, Elon Musk Spotted Together at World Cup Final in Qatar
Quite sure that's Elon Musk and not a lookalike or a doctored image?
EGKW··on Comics The last human-created art
Mind the notes below, absolutely brilliant!
EGKW··on Why doesn't Hacker News have images to give more context? Does it need it?
No, please no. Rather than 'giving more context' images (or thumbnails FTM) would just distract from the subject given in title. I'm 15YO on Reddit and I still use the <old.reddit> interface.
EGKW··on How to Brew Better Coffee with a V60 (2018)
Amen to that!
EGKW··on How to Brew Better Coffee with a V60 (2018)
This boomer here is speechless from all the bullshit techno-babble about coffee these days.
EGKW··on When did “disturb” became the default mode?
I have never ever used push e-mail, because I'd hate it too if (paper)post delivery would come with a bang on the door every time there's a letter in the mailbox. So I have never ever been disturbed in my sleep for that reason. You people bring it upon yourselves, nuff said.
EGKW··on RIP John Conway
This is just...(beyond genius)
EGKW··on A wave-powered ferry aims to forge a new path for shipping in the Philippines
'Wave-powered' my ass. 'Subsidies-powered' is what this is.
EGKW··on Nano-nonsense (2010)
"Maxwell-Demon"? :)
EGKW··on [dead]
April 1st, 2019.
EGKW··on Ask HN: If HN didn't exist, which other community would you default to?
Old Reddit, with limited/selected subReddits, no thumbnails.
EGKW··on They are going to print vegetables
Yep, SPAM, pig in a can.
EGKW··on Ask HN: Is it just me or did Google search recently get a lot worse?
Totally! Actually not 'worse' as such, but search results are more centered around earnings, rather than around providing information. You can't blame them for that, but by shifting focus they can expect a shift in public too.
EGKW··on Miniature Norwegian enclosed velomobile could replace cars
LOL not with the Sinclair C5 still on our mind. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sinclair_C5
EGKW··on Ask HN: Has tech flatlined or is it just HN?
Drug tolerance, where you need increasingly more of a substance to experience the same elation.
EGKW··on Skyscraper suspended from an Asteroid
An April fool's joke if I ever saw one.
EGKW··on New theory of gravity might explain dark matter
(1)http://www.d-itp.nl/news/list/list/content/folder/press-rele... (2) short video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ynRVnIh6wq4
EGKW··on You inspired my sci-fi novel. Care to download a free copy?
No link?
EGKW··on NSA Plans to 'Act Now' to Ensure Quantum Computers Can't Break Encrytion
Now that's true definition of a "wicked problem". See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wicked_problem
EGKW··on Spintronic Memories to Revolutionize Data Storage (2010)
2010? SRSLY?
EGKW··on Virtual Desktop on Oculus Rift
(RL) Real Life in (VR) Virtual Reality,... poppycock.
EGKW··on The Biggest Lesson from the Sony Hack? We Need to Replace Email
No we don't. Like [greenyoda](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8779346) says, not for corporate email.
EGKW··on Jacques Derrida Interviews Ornette Coleman (1997) [pdf]
The original transscript of that interview, in French. http://www.lesinrocks.com/1997/08/20/musique/ornette-coleman...
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