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lsh··on Libraries: Where the world’s memory is stored (2018)
sounds like Umberto Eco is getting lost in his own definitions. A simple analog/digital distinction works just as well.

If you're interested there is a really excellent book on permanent digital memory called "Delete"

https://www.bookdepository.com/Delete-Viktor-Mayer-Schonberg...

lsh··on PySnooper: Never use print for debugging again
"Ram"? I went looking for a project called Ram but couldn't find one. Link?
lsh··on PySnooper: Never use print for debugging again
honestly, fuck the whole standard logging library in Python. It is the most infuriating thing to use. log4j has a lot to answer for
lsh··on Cold war experiments to find a superman in sport
Upvoted. Prayer and voodoo are the most logical, rational explanations here.
lsh··on Canada Group Sues Government over Google's Sidewalk Labs
non-English speaking down-voters I see ;)
lsh··on Canada Group Sues Government over Google's Sidewalk Labs
"not aligned" or "unaligned"
lsh··on Gnome 3.32 Released
> This release features a refreshed visual style ranging from an entirely new set of app icons to improvements to the user interface style. Many of the base style colors have been saturated, giving them a more vivid, vibrant appearance. Buttons are more rounded and have a softer “shadow” border. Switches no longer use the explicit ON and OFF text, instead using color to indicate state.
lsh··on Adapting to Windows as a Linux Developer
I really like that old windows logo. Nostalgia, perhaps, but so much more appealing to me than the current logo.
lsh··on Photo Shows How Ridiculously SpaceX's Falcon 9 Rockets Are
"ridiculously ..." what? ridiculously large? ridiculously ridiculous?
lsh··on There's an OTC drug for lucid dreaming?
Wikipedia says the authors of that study have financial ties to the 'Lucidity Foundation'.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galantamine#Lucid_dreaming

lsh··on Zig 0.4.0 Released
If you're accusing the author of something just spit it out.

> the one continuously posting links about Zig here is just self-promoting their own creation

Nothing wrong with that. If their creation fails to excite people, there won't be any conversation, it won't make it to the first page, etc.

lsh··on Zig 0.4.0 Released
The Zig language has a great premise, it's worth reading the above link or watching a bit of this video https://youtu.be/Z4oYSByyRak?t=150 just to question our assumptions that certain language features need exist at all.
lsh··on Moritz Simon Geist’s robots make technical techno
EDM is not techno, tyvm.

hurrumph. getting old.

edit: the sound is good, definitely a Kraftwerk vibe.

For a heavier sound involving robots, try Author & Punisher: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PrOTHl6Tldc

lsh··on Battery Reality: There’s Nothing Better Than Lithium-Ion Coming Soon
"Fly-In, Fly-Out" rather than a FIFO collection
lsh··on Ecuador to Expel Assange Within ‘Hours to Days,’ WikiLeaks Says
No, he really isn't. But he will almost definitely be extradited the moment he lives the embassy. It might be a refugee situation, fleeing the US in fear of his life, but he's from Australia..
lsh··on The 3dfx Voodoo1
There is a niche market for vintage gaming machines, I wouldn't be surprised if you could sell them for a few hundred each.
lsh··on Ex-Mozilla CTO: I was grilled for three hours at San Francisco airport
His 3 hour detention story sounds awful, but think of the things that didn't happen:

* he wasn't arrested or imprisoned * no cavity search or exercises in humiliation * no mention of his devices being taken out of sight without explanation or simply seized indefinitely

lsh··on Kubernetes 1.14 released
might be referring to this news item from a few days ago https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19435854 "The Cloud is Just Another Sun"
lsh··on Bloated
I'm really enjoying his blog.

Another link with some good conversation from this entry: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17655089 (The Bullshit Web)

lsh··on Why I Switched from Python to Clojure (2016)
the downvotes are funny because this was exactly the criticism Python got before it became popular. Probably still gets it.
lsh··on EU businesses sign open letter against copyright directive articles 11 and 13
+1

Keep calm and pedant on.

lsh··on Nike and Boeing Are Paying Sci-Fi Writers to Predict Their Futures
it's called a long term roadmap: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technology_roadmap
lsh··on Questions on the Future of Open Source
which libraries do you use that are older than yourself?

are you very young and do you intend to die soon?

lsh··on Dreaming of a Parser Generator for Language Design
I thought maybe he meant Lisps whose compiler isn't another Lisp, or maybe macros at a stretch ..
lsh··on Dreaming of a Parser Generator for Language Design
Aren't s-expressions all one really needs?
lsh··on Graphene-based sieve turns seawater into drinking water (2017)
you're the first only commenter to mention the waste products from desalination:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18911969

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qZ5ut_4zKug

lsh··on Notion is a tiling, tabbed window manager
chunkwm came up today and I thought I'd offer up my own preferred tiling wm that I've been using for ... er, ever, and never seems to get enough love :)

They manage their source code through Github now (not SF): https://github.com/notionwm/notion

lsh··on European Parliament set to end EU-wide daylight savings
> mandated EU-wide summer time has only existed since 2002

and this repeal only repeals the mandatory adherence to daylight savings. Their next problem is consistency and coordination of the removal of DST among member states. And the Germans seem to be dominating the vote as well, so the really hard work in negotiating with others to remove their DST is the real barrier.

lsh··on Should Data Scientists Adhere to a Hippocratic Oath
anybody can be a 'data scientist' or a programmer that deals with data wrangling, the barrier to basic competency is really low. There are qualifications you can earn but you don't really need them to call yourself a professional. There certainly isn't any formal body regulating these professions (like there are doctors and actual engineers).

Having them adhere to the Hippocratic Oath would be ridiculous and undermine the seriousness of the work actual oath-taking doctors do. Better systems and proofs of qualifications are required before you starting insisting on 'first, do no harm'.

lsh··on The password “ji32k7au4a83” has been seen over a hundred times
it's even on wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volume_licensing#Leaked_keys
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