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macmac··on As a sci-fi writer just starting out, what suggestions do you have for me?
No, we were not "considered both monkeys". Monkeys and humans share an ancestor that was not a monkey or a human.

Could you expand on what you mean by:

> The divergence must've happened down the hill somewhere. So, in the eyes of those in the future, we may or may not remain human.

I really cannot make sense of this.

macmac··on Autonomy founder Mike Lynch can be extradited to US
The US UK extradition treaty is a product of post 9/11 and comically imbalanced as persons may be extradited from the UK to the US for crimes committed in the UK which would be a crime in the US but not the opposite. See further: https://www.stokoepartnership.com/bambos-tsiattalou-discusse...
macmac··on Gibraltar, world’s only airport runway intersecting a road
It used to have an overhang with a net at one end. I found that slightly disconcerting.
macmac··on Ask HN: Contract Versioning and Tracking
You can contact me here: https://www.linkedin.com/in/martinalbertclausen/
macmac··on Ask HN: Contract Versioning and Tracking
Thanks
macmac··on Ask HN: Contract Versioning and Tracking
I have some experience with contract management but I would need to understand the scenario better to offer any meaningful advice. Is the change tracking for the negotiation process, are the contracts bespoke or based on some standard, what are the management requirements after signature etc. Feel free to DM me.
macmac··on How to Run Linux GUI Apps on Windows 10 with WSL and WSLg
Unfortunately you have to accept full surveillance mode (including which websites you visit) to run the required Windows 10 Insiders Dev version of Windows to test this.
macmac··on Shipping Containers Plunge Overboard as Supply Race Raises Risks
Those are separate problems. Weather can become more extreme without becoming more unpredictable.
macmac··on Shipping Containers Plunge Overboard as Supply Race Raises Risks
Me too. Especially if we compensate for the sharp increase in the quality of prediction and observation technology.
macmac··on Shipping Containers Plunge Overboard as Supply Race Raises Risks
Looking at the graphs and knowing how much they are affected by any one major casualty I don't find the hypothesis that many more boxes are being lost due to vessels operating at capacity very well documented.
macmac··on Shipping Containers Plunge Overboard as Supply Race Raises Risks
They often stay floating for months.
macmac··on Shipping Containers Plunge Overboard as Supply Race Raises Risks
Unfortunately not many goods survive the experience.
macmac··on Trans-Pacific deteriorating, brace for shipping ‘tsunami’
Yes, but they primarily service the USN.
macmac··on Trans-Pacific deteriorating, brace for shipping ‘tsunami’
Interesting to note that the US only really has one container shipping line: Matson. It is an insignificant carrier in terms of capacity (less than 0.5 % world market share) which primarily services Hawaii.
macmac··on Initial preview of GUI app support for the Windows Subsystem for Linux
For now unfortunately you have to turn on "Optional diagnostic data" - aka "full spy mode" - to access this feature.
macmac··on The TeX tuneup of 2021 [pdf]
Ironically the link to Knuth's website found in the References [1] is broken due to a linebreak in the url.
macmac··on Oracle Statement Regarding Oracle vs. Google
So much bitter.
macmac··on I, Leah Rowe, have taken over the Libreboot project
libreboot.org is not reachable at the momement.
macmac··on Show HN: I Built a Chrome Extension to Make Me Tweet More by Hiding Distractions
"Tweet More by Hiding Distractions" - seems like a contradiction in terms.
macmac··on Why Clojure? (2018)
I would agree with all of these points except "pattern matching". Yes several libraries implement it, but it is not built in and even the best libraries feel clunky compared to for instance the built in destructuring. Rich explicitly rejected pattern matching ala ML for the reasons provided here: https://gist.github.com/reborg/dc8b0c96c397a56668905e2767fd6...
macmac··on GTK4 for Graphical User Interfaces
The text rendering seems very poor. Is that an artefact of the font used, the platform or something else?
macmac··on Russia’s space chief cannot seem to get “gentle” SpaceX out of his mind
This is just an extension of the fairly common Russian idea, that the West and Americans in particular are weak, mostly because they do not face hardship of any real kind.
macmac··on Sponsoring Open Source Developers
Great move.
macmac··on About Google's approach to research publication – Jeff Dean
I would respectfully recommend that you read "Getting to Yes" by Roger Fisher and William Ury. Effective negotiation is often about expressing interests, not specific actions or ultimative positions.
macmac··on Tree Notation
This is very reminiscent of the Readable Lisp S-expressions Project https://readable.sourceforge.io/
macmac··on Head of Danish intelligence suspended after whistleblowers hand over information
High Court judge, not that it makes a huge difference.
macmac··on F (2006)
> There are no side-effects

Yet it prints stuff to the terminal.

macmac··on The Many Faces of an Undying Programming Language
No, I agree. I was pointing out a general challenge with the EPL that people tend to overlook. In the Clojure environment many use EPL for Clojure libraries, many without realising that it might, depending on your intentions, be an issue.
macmac··on The Many Faces of an Undying Programming Language
The problem with the EPL is that if your software is a derivative work of EPL licensed software, the EPL applies your software, including the obligation to provide access to the source of your software to the entities to which it is distributed. Determining if a work is a derivative work in software is far from straightforward. The EPL FAQ for instance points out that this might be an issue when using software that generates code.
macmac··on Bill Gates' Twitter also hacked
That is not my experience. For instance right now there are several posts regarding the EU Court ruling on Safe Harbour. And it does not explain where the points the post had already got have gone.
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