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asimovfan··on US boy names that became girl names and vice versa
Stevie is a girl's name now?
asimovfan··on Ask HN: What are you reading?
Just reread all of Nero Wolfe by Rex Stout. 40+ books. Didn't even breathe.
asimovfan··on Bing Wallpaper showing Ad for Harry Potter and Fantastic beasts box set
You'll have to admit both those comment types are at least tangentially relevant.
asimovfan··on 2004 RuneScape fit a multiplayer RPG into 56k dial-up
Still no better MMORPG.
asimovfan··on Casio F-B100W-1A
Where have i written "smart"? Also they already put in all those stuff so it is obvious that I don't mean that.
asimovfan··on Casio F-B100W-1A
G-Shocks could be so much better, and it has been this way for at least a decade.
asimovfan··on Build a Game That Fits on a Single Floppy Disk: 1.44MB Game Development Contest
A well written, well thought out text based game would crush this competition
asimovfan··on FreeBSD 16 Retires the Last of Its GPL Code from Its Base System
how so? could you please elaborate?
asimovfan··on Men in their 50s may be aging faster due to toxic 'forever chemicals'
If you mean just a skillet / frying pan, i found that a cast iron pan is much better (for non stick), have been using a €10 one for about three years now. You can ignore all warnings about keeping it oiled etc. They also have glass air fryers now (borosilicate glass, quite durable). You can scrub both with a steel sponge.
asimovfan··on Fix the iOS keyboard before the timer hits zero or I'm switching back to Android
120 days and 2 years? Lame.. You might as well just use your iphone in the meantime.. Stupid to get a phone for 2 years just to buy an iphone again later on..
asimovfan··on Honey's Dieselgate: Detecting and tricking testers
People do not make choices in a vacuum.
asimovfan··on Pebble Index 01 – External memory for your brain
i am also waiting for this so i can order a pebble.
asimovfan··on The "confident idiot" problem: Why AI needs hard rules, not vibe checks
we're inching towards the three laws of robotics
asimovfan··on iOS 26.2 to allow third-party app stores in Japan ahead of regulatory deadline
Do you 'really not understand' that they only want to maximize profit?
asimovfan··on Tenacity – a multi-track audio editor/recorder
They have a new logo for the new release that is quite ugly in my opinion. I think that one is meant here.
asimovfan··on Galaxy XR: The first Android XR headset
Cardboard was great, and except a lack of software there were no problems about it in my opinion. I remember playing flight simulator on google earth and thinking how much potential this had. I have a meta quest 2 now and it is still not clear to me whether it is really that much better than cardboard.
asimovfan··on Ovi: Twin backbone cross-modal fusion for audio-video generation
Probably will depend on how good the writing is.
asimovfan··on No I don't want to turn on Windows Backup with One Drive
He's saying its not very good if thats the case. Which is not the case. I am satisfied with GNU+Linux. It doesn't work against me. It would be great if there were FOSS alternatives to the remaining proprietary software on my computers. Making it sound like linux is almost just as bad, does sound weird. Also nothing about what's actually that bad about "linux".
asimovfan··on Show HN: I Hid Labubus in World Labs' AI Worlds
have you ever heard of Hello Kitty? Sanrio has 13B market cap.
asimovfan··on Ford CEO on his ‘epiphany’ after talking to factory workers in 2023
"modern culture of company hopping".. don't you mean simply going to another workplace for better wages? when you say "ridiculously stupid HR practices" don't you mean not paying them as much? do you really think it's a "cultural" thing to change jobs?
asimovfan··on Awakening Bell
Mindful Notifier on F-Droid serves a similar function and works great.
asimovfan··on I feel Apple has lost its alignment with me and other long-time customers
people will sell their things and buy it. especially now that it seems to have this epithet that it is for "people who want the best camera array and have money to burn"
asimovfan··on Majority in EU's biggest states believes bloc 'sold out' in US tariff deal
no. there isn't. there is also no anti-america far left. especially not in the context of any future negotiations with the US.
asimovfan··on Meta suppressed research on child safety, employees say
i think if there is a crime authorities care enough about, they seem to immediately get to the true identity and contact info of the criminal.
asimovfan··on Show HN: I'm making an open-source platform for learning Japanese
the UI is very good. Especially on my touchscreen laptop.
asimovfan··on Nuclear: Desktop music player focused on streaming from free sources
far left used to mean communists when i was young.
asimovfan··on Glow-in-the-dark houseplants shine in rainbow of colours
there is no normative legality of these things.. or anything.. its just whatever people decide the law to be at the time..
asimovfan··on MIT Study Finds AI Use Reprograms the Brain, Leading to Cognitive Decline
An asimov novel is not a homework, i explicitly referred to homeworks. People write a lot of stuff other than homework.
asimovfan··on MIT Study Finds AI Use Reprograms the Brain, Leading to Cognitive Decline
People write a lot of stuff that is not for homework. Maybe they should make a measurement of something else they write. I would even say that writing for homework is a special skill in bullshitting that does not (cannot) exist in other forms of writing.
asimovfan··on MIT Study Finds AI Use Reprograms the Brain, Leading to Cognitive Decline
Writing long texts for school is stupid and it is a skill that is in practice purely developed in order to do homework. I am not surprised it immediately declines as soon as the necessity is removed.
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