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scooter_deon “Blade Runner” has its own look, and a place in film history (1982)

From the recent movies, I think "The Matrix" was more influential than "Blade Runner". You can split the history in movies before Matrix and the movies after.

scooter_deon FFmpeg 4.3

I wrap it in shell scripts or batch files.

scooter_deon Rules of thumb for a 1x developer

As he said: He's a 1x developer.

scooter_deon Apple is looking for engineers to convert its code from C to Rust

The same is true in Germany. "Ingenieur" is a protected title. You need to graduate from an engineering program.

scooter_deon Show HN: Sourcery – get a free, self-updating website

The most minimalist that I'm aware of: http://txti.es/

scooter_deon IBM acquires Red Hat

My understanding of WSL is that Linux software runs natively on Windows by virtue of a compatibility layer. Eg. if there is a fork() in my code it will be translated into CreateProcess() or something like that.

scooter_deon Ask HN: How did you become fluent in English?

Get a girlfrind from the UK, USA, Canada or Australia. That has worked best for me.

scooter_deon 1.1.1.1: Fast, privacy-first consumer DNS service

Too bad this was announced on 1st of April.

scooter_deon Snow shovelling can kill

My wife wen't out first to shovel this morning and she's 54 :-).

scooter_deon Bitcoin and almost every other cryptocurrency crashed hard today

Welcome to the future market. Now can make money on falling prices!

scooter_deon Google Maps' Moat

Almost every Sunday morning I put my kayak at mere.digests.undergo. I could say "at the 8th line bridge North of West Montrose, ON, Canada" or I could say at "43.624987N, 80.447249W" or I could say let's meet at OLC "86MXJHG3+247" or "JHF3+X4 Inverhaugh". Yeah - some of the clones sound funny but not useful in real world social interaction.

scooter_deon Google Maps' Moat

I don't understand your "what it means" statement. Can you elaborate a little bit plz?

scooter_deon Google Maps' Moat

The problem of "under addressed" places in the world is addressed (no pun intended) by several companies. Eg. What3Words (w3w.co) has created a grit of 3mx3m squares which cover the entire planet. Each of this squares is identified by three words. Post/Mail organizations in several countries already accept those addresses. Google also has the OLC (Open Location Code) to address an area of adjustable size on earth. I find w3w very convinient to communicate a place over a voice connection (radio) or by writing it down on paper. Nothing you couldn't do by sending latitude and longitude, but more convinient.