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paparushon Show HN: Random Aerial Airport Views

Can confirm. I live a couple of miles from Mountain Air and that is the runway up there on the mountain.

paparushon Loneliness reshapes the brain

Loneliness is not a phase.

paparushon Ask HN: Disabled and out of work for years, but need some side income

This is America. Don't catch you slippin up.

paparushon Ask HN: Books you read in 2022 and recommend for 2023

https://hackernewsbooks.com/

paparushon Ask HN: Has anyone here turned around their life in their 40s?

I became committed to running at age 40. I'm 56 now and running is still a large part of my life. Exercise helps improve my mood, gives me time to just focus on myself, has helped my self esteem as I've improved and taken on longer distances, has given me some sense of community among other runners.

paparushon Ask HN: What is the best thing you read in 2022?

Holy shit, that was a great read.

paparushon Ask HN: What is the best thing you read in 2022?

Oh! I'm about 1/4 of the way through book II. Can't recommend enough for history nerds!

paparushon Ask HN: What is the best thing you read in 2022?

Fiction

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Termination Shock - Neal Stephenson

Station Eleven - Emily St. John Mandel

Shards of Earth - Adrian Tchaikovsky

Project Hail Mary - Andy Weir

Gnomon - Nick Harkaway

The Gone Away World - Nick Harkaway

The Apollo Murders - Chris Hadfield

Nonfiction

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Mindf*ck - Chris Wylie

1776 - David McCullough

Apollo 8 - Jeffrey Kluger

paparushon Apple TV+ to adapt William Gibson’s cyberpunk novel Neuromancer

Apple: Mr Gibson, how many zeroes feels right?

Bill: About THIS many.

Apple: Done. We begin principal photography in 90 days.

paparushon Apple TV+ to adapt William Gibson’s cyberpunk novel Neuromancer

My question is, how do you make Neuromancer almost 25 years after The Matrix, which was built on the precepts of Neuromancer, and not just end up with a road-worn Matrix movie?

paparushon Apple TV+ to adapt William Gibson’s cyberpunk novel Neuromancer

They went so far afield from Gibson's story that I ended up very disappointed.

paparushon Federal Reserve to increase interest rates by 50 basis points

See Alan Greenspan's entire tenure as Fed Chair.

paparushon Splashdown NASA’s Orion Returns to Earth After Historic Moon Mission

Because Twitter is a huge distraction as apparently Musk has made himself moderator in chief.

Besides Tom Mueller actually makes the rockets go brrrrrr.

paparushon Memories: First exposure to computers

My first computer was a TI-99/4. In 1980, I have no idea where my parents got the $$ for it. I'm 56 years old now and have supported myself and my family by programming for nearly 25 years.

paparushon American Data Privacy and Protection Act

Sadly true.

paparushon FB feed is 98% suggested pages and barely any friends' posts

so, garbage. Got it.

paparushon To uncover a deepfake video call, ask the caller to turn sideways

Face left. Face right. Recite Asimov's 3rd law.

paparushon Abandoned railroad routes in North America

this is a really nice asset!

paparushon NASA will test SpinLaunch's ability to fling satellites into orbit

Neal Stephenson nods in approval.

paparushon Elon Musk makes $43B unsolicited bid to take Twitter private

I think Scott Galloway is right, Elon doesn't add value, just volatility.

paparushon Elon Musk makes $43B unsolicited bid to take Twitter private

Agreed. It's just another example of his incessant market manipulation.

paparushon The Influence of Neuromancer on Cyberpunk

You wanna talk about contact patches?

paparushon Show HN: I Made a Stupid Game

Feedback Highlight Correct in green, Incorrect in red

paparushon CAD/CAM constraint-based geometry sketcher for Blender

Thanks for contributing to Blender!!

paparushon Children in the Garden: On Life at a 3,100-Mile Race

I hope they changed direction periodically. Running curves put different stress on the outside/inside legs. It's good to reverse the direction and balance out those stresses.

paparushon Show HN: Looptap – A minimal game to waste your time

that's a great little game!

paparushon Microplastics found to be harmful to human cells

Someone please convince me we all aren't completely fscked. No, really. Please convince me. I'm 55 and envision living out my last decades with clogged lungs and and brain full of rotted toys.

paparushon Whistleblower to Congress: Facebook products harm kids and democracy

What we learned is that Facebook knows it's platform is a huge conduit for spreading lies and disinformation and FB chooses to do nothing about that while raking in dump truck loads of cash.

paparushon 9/11 changed architecture and urban design forever

I think that really started after the Timothy McVeigh bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City in 1995.