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qu-everythingon Kids might be digital natives – but a study shows they aren’t computer literate

tldr; a battery can power a DC engine with some copper coils magic.

qu-everythingon Kids might be digital natives – but a study shows they aren’t computer literate

OK I agree with this thread, but man, IRQ ? those are some low level shit

qu-everythingon The endless browser wars

> if I want to run an open source, free browser, I don't want it phoning home to Google every day.

Exactly, it feels more like a win than a loss from where I stand

yea, the amount of times I chose to do the hacky thing just to get it working, thinking I'll fix it later... Let's just say I never learn

qu-everythingon Why countries with 'loose', rule-breaking cultures have been hit harder by Covid

but muh freedom /s

qu-everythingon Trump Pardons Anthony Levandowski

it should hardly be a thing at all

qu-everythingon Trump Pardons Anthony Levandowski

presidential pardons shouldn't be a thing after the november vote ...

qu-everythingon Open-source Visual JavaScript platform – TotalJS

spent 5 min on there, couldn't figure out (and still can't) what it's about...

qu-everythingon Context switching costs more than we give it credit for

It's totally different when you can plan for everything, like when things are deterministic like a game. In real life, when you need to constantly switch to new problems to solve, it gets really time consumming, and saps motivation.

qu-everythingon Internet 3.0 and the Beginning of (Tech) History

if they break rules, yes

qu-everythingon Internet 3.0 and the Beginning of (Tech) History

Fuck lawmakers. it's their platform, they can ban whoever break their TOS.

qu-everythingon Show HN: Dataset of Sarcastic HN Comments

seems you could easily filter out <digit>/s or units/s

qu-everythingon Malware on My Android Phone

I just tried with my Samsung s9+ and the camera app picked up the qr code, don't know what you are saying

qu-everythingon Steaks Grown from Human Cells Spark Interest and Outrage

It's still cells, get down from your pedestal

qu-everythingon We’re Optimizing Ourselves to Death (2019)

Dunno about that job, but at mine, it's important somebody is there at the end of the day, I can't just leave early because I got there early

qu-everythingon Unethical human experimentation in the United States

So many horrors.

qu-everythingon A JavaScript function that makes $40k/year

Clickbait 101

qu-everythingon Ask HN: Why can't nuclear waste be launched into the sun?

great! Now if there is an eruption, we have radioactive ashes in the atmosphere. perfect!

qu-everythingon Ask HN: Why can't nuclear waste be launched into the sun?

Totally different, a space ship failling would mean tons of nuclear dust in the upper atmosphere, wich would mean radioactive material spreading everywhere in the world, poisonning everything.

qu-everythingon Show HN: I made an app for designing Embedded Systems and code generation

but what about sources?

qu-everythingon Time spent programming is often time well spent

Not really programming, just scripting. I thought I liked programming, but in the end I just like doing small scripts, not maintaining garbage apps

qu-everythingon Our data centers now work harder when the sun shines and wind blows

Just a marketing device. Carbon neutral since 2007? Let me laugh in CO2, "green energies" are nowhere near carbon neutral. See planet of the humans by Moore.