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ForOldHack

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https://gunkies.org/wiki/User:ForOldHack Thank you for laughing at my jokes. I have given lectures in OMG. Orbital Mechanics Group, and Calculus, "Misuses of Infinity"
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ForOldHack··on Epic vs. Apple AU:Court Orders Alt App Stores,Sideloading and 3rd Party Payments
"Apple has lost major, high-profile appeals before the European Union courts in two primary landmark matters, while also winning an earlier round in one of them."
ForOldHack··on Epic vs. Apple AU:Court Orders Alt App Stores,Sideloading and 3rd Party Payments
Where is my pop-corn?
ForOldHack··on Why Windows 11 still ships with Windows 95's memory manager hidden inside it
A hidden z80 emulator...
ForOldHack··on Why Windows 11 still ships with Windows 95's memory manager hidden inside it
I wouldn't be surprised by windows components that use this. Wish I could run 16-bit apps tho.
ForOldHack··on 900-Page Pre-Pantone Guide to Color from 1692 (With Complete High-Res Scan)
Except for egyptian blue, not known at that time ... "Egyptian blue—the world's oldest known synthetic pigment, created nearly 5,000 years ago and lost to history after the Roman Empire—has been systematically recreated by modern researchers and historians."
ForOldHack··on Show HN: WallHop – 12ft.io is gone, so I built a replacement
Yahoo.com's advertisers are a great source of drive bys, so much so, I scrape it for places to block.
ForOldHack··on WallHop – 12ft.io is gone, so I built a replacement
Most of the real good software is driven, mostly by p*ssing someone off, then go home on a friday, and by monday... its a wrap. This is how UNIX was written.

This is the way.

ForOldHack··on WallHop – 12ft.io is gone, so I built a replacement
Thank you! Thank you very much.
ForOldHack··on The EPA is planning to scrap public review rules for data center pollution
> except the high priests of the LLMs / nascent Cthulhu-oid godlings...

I did not say that, but is so obvious, like looking through a plate glass window. There is no pressure, its just a natural transition to the end of bipedal life.

ForOldHack··on The EPA is planning to scrap public review rules for data center pollution
This just simply removes the last vestiges of the old Republic, and leads the way to the common deployment of Chinese designed AI reactors, which while designed by AI, are really for the burning of the sky in preparation of a Matrix future. It has been foretold: It is the way.
ForOldHack··on Tell HN: OpenAI brings back 5 hour limit for plus and business standard users
Your intelligence is good, but mine is better. They could easily raise their prices until their user base falls to zero, and the offer steep discounts, but then... so could everybody else. We need to pimp all the speculators until they are bankrupt. Welcome to web 4.0b. "We will bury you."
ForOldHack··on Vancouver strip club's Instagram taken down over sign featuring lake joke
I am sorry that you had to explain that, and even sorrier that many people failed the third grade. The fault lies not with the teachers, but the parents who do not know who's geologic fact either... it's stunning, but par for the course given the countries leadership.
ForOldHack··on Topologist's Map of the World
Yourube search for strange borders. The number of enclaves is staggering. Upon further inspection... fail.
ForOldHack··on Google Maps Now Shows 'Lake America' in US, Not 'Lake Ontario'
And Google maps does not show: 1600 Pennsylvania Ave, House of Ill-repute? And Mark Zukerburd telling everyone he is going to spend $600 billion on AI in the next five years? Google maps will make itself insignificant. ( see my review of the North Atlantic ).
ForOldHack··on Afterglow: Run classic After Dark screen savers on modern macOS
Everyone needs Lunatic Fringe.
ForOldHack··on Show HN: How much of Hacker News is AI?
If you read a lot, you start to get a feel for phone typos vs AI hiccups. I can guarantee that is post was made by a brain designed to eat berries in a cave. Almost all the another posts look a bit scary.

I think I misunderstood - how many posts were about AI vs how many posts were written by AI.

I obviously am suffering from berry fog.

ForOldHack··on Wiped out: US faces surging toilet paper prices amid trade war with Canada
Nothing you have ever thought or said in your life is more disgusting than the idiot who is causing this problem in the first place.
ForOldHack··on Wiped out: US faces surging toilet paper prices amid trade war with Canada
You must mean switch to bamboo based products from wood based paper. Way more sustainable, and not much more expensive, but as more switch, although it should become cheaper...
ForOldHack··on Wiped out: US faces surging toilet paper prices amid trade war with Canada
The Fraiser River Valley is one of the very most sustainable forests on the planet. The mineral extraction at Ft MacMurry has very little usable wood for lumber, and even less for paper, I believe that its a lot of manzinata that is used for OSB. I have not looked at this in a while, because my father studied forest management at UBC. Would you like for me to prove this with say 15~20 references?
ForOldHack··on Wiped out: US faces surging toilet paper prices amid trade war with Canada
Which is just going to make it more expensive to mail rolls to your congressmen. Congressmen and diapers should be changed often and for the same reason.
ForOldHack··on Coconut oil jet fuel matches kerosene's efficiency in engine tests
France's HSR network extenda into both Germany, and into Britans rail network. California just does not really care about HSR, and I live here. I have been a fan of BART since the day it opened and will be a fan until the day it closes which will be sooner than I think. Bus systems suck too.
ForOldHack··on Coconut oil jet fuel matches kerosene's efficiency in engine tests
"dubious climate histrionics." See Dr Jamie Abarca, MD et al, to put those claims into a real perspective. Published decades ago.
ForOldHack··on Coconut oil jet fuel matches kerosene's efficiency in engine tests
Brazil grows sugarcane just for this purpose, and Russia uses a weed... the Jerusalem Artichoke, grown as a weed, and made into biofeedback. I made biofeedback from both of these plants. But coconuts? That is coco nuts.
ForOldHack··on One corner of China’s internet is insisting that the Tang Dynasty never existed
"I firmly believe that there is an all-knowing being guiding the universe, except for certain parts of New Jersey." -Woody Allen.
ForOldHack··on One corner of China’s internet is insisting that the Tang Dynasty never existed
They made orange drink powder for the Apollo Missions. I KID YOU NOT!
ForOldHack··on Vintage Artificial Intelligence: Before It Got Awkward
Yes, this is very comprehensive, but only missing two things: Intelligence (IBM Mainframe ), Lotus H.A.L. ( Lotus 1-2-3 heuristic language processor ). ELiza came from LISP, MIT.

RACTOR wrote a book, "The policeman's beard is half constructed."

ForOldHack··on Banksy works cost public almost £150k
This thread should be nominated for the best of Hacker news.
ForOldHack··on Banksy works cost public almost £150k
Rediculous government ineffiency is multiple redundancies. Just government. They could replace it with another commissioned Banksy for half of that.
ForOldHack··on Banksy works cost public almost £150k
Oh the irony. Oh my.
ForOldHack··on Banksy works cost public almost £150k
It costs only 150k? Pay the man. Its public art. Its art, and a damn sight better than the advertisements, wait... are you comparing art to ads? Get the ads to pay for the art? This article is merely government propiganda. Oh Charles... wake up! Knight Banksy noe..
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