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seper8on Students invent quieter leaf blower

One thing i never understood: Why a blower instead of a vacuum type of device...?

seper8on Ancient Eastern European mega-sites: a social levelling concept?

So what facts do you have to support this theory?

My man, it's time to lay off the dating apps ;)

seper8on Atrazine, an endocrine-disrupting herbicide banned in EU, is widely used in US

By the way, this stuff literally makes the frogs gay.

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/article/100301-at....

seper8on Jim Simons has died

https://youtu.be/QNznD9hMEh0?si=XrLiIDUV4WMfIz2V

Interesting Numberphile interview with Jim, if you're not aware who he is

seper8on Caniemail.com – like caniuse but for email content

canianecdote

seper8on Ask HN: How to do simple heartbeat monitoring?

I use grafana. Setup an endpoint on the backend that uses things like the database to check if it can still connect. Every 10 sec. If it fails I get a text.

seper8on Are young people smarter than adults? Research shows differences diminishing

https://psychcentral.com/quizzes/narcissistic-personality-qu...

seper8on Are young people smarter than adults? Research shows differences diminishing

Ah yes, you are the messiah in this case, telling us lowly plebian group-thinking mouthbreathers how to think. Thanks!

seper8on Are young people smarter than adults? Research shows differences diminishing

Yeah, the shameless self promotion without providing any value yourself.

seper8on Bill comes due for money-losing tech companies that borrowed billions

You know what's worse? The fact that the morons spearheading these companies essentially got rich off of the backs of the common man. The Cantillon effect in action...

seper8on Show HN: Scenestamps – A website for sharing movie scenes with timestamps

All of these things (except the legal part) are trivial. You don't need a cdn, just use s3 or blob storage and put the blob id in the cdn. If you really want, you can use a cdn for responsive images based on screen width.

seper8on Show HN: Scenestamps – A website for sharing movie scenes with timestamps

Hey, why not allow adding of screen grab of the movie? I think thats fair use...

I personally would love a site like this where you can also search for cinematographically beautiful frames/scenes.

seper8on The Presidential Nuclear "Football" from Eisenhower to George W. Bush

Nuclear War: A Scenario, is being turned into a movie by Dennis Villeneuve (Dune, Blade Runner...)

seper8on Building a full Django project, starting with a single file

Am I missing something or is there no sample code...?

seper8on The last days of my type checker for JavaScript

You know you can do loose types in C# and many other "strongly typed" languages too?

seper8on Amazon grows to over 750k robots, replacing 100k humans

How detached from reality are you that you think people can make ends meet while working 15 hours a week?

seper8on Old part of International Space Station lands on family home

Lands?

seper8on Show HN: Stack, an open-source Clerk/Firebase Auth alternative

Another product name impossible to find using google :D

On a more useful note... I kind of wonder what the target audience for this is. Big companies? Dont want to roll their own auth. Startups? Dont want to roll their own auth...

seper8on Infrastructure as code is not the answer (2022)

Dumb article, written by someone who probably has never had to setup dev>acceptance>prd environments.

GL clicking your way through that buddy.

seper8on Why is it so hard to build an airport?

You are aware that DB is a logarithmic scale?

seper8on Why are most sofas so bad?

Ikea. Can't beat price/quality.

seper8on Young men and women are drifting apart

You just mentioned a bunch of areas on which women have (fortunately) made incredible progress in the past few decades. Some of these achieved mostly by voting left-leaning. So it makes sense to me that women want to keep voting that way as they have seen progress.

seper8on Young men and women are drifting apart

Damn thats actually a very interesting theory

seper8on Young men and women are drifting apart

Statistically this is proven false. Find the OKCupid research on women rating men (and the other way around) and you'll find that women do indeed rate only the top percentages of men (afaik top 20% or so) as above average. Wheres men rating women is more of a normal distribution.

seper8on Young men and women are drifting apart

When young men are falling behind on basically every metric, not hard to understand they feel resentment. Whatevers happening currently isn't working for most of us.

Career wise, dating wise, education wise...

And for women the progress they have made in the recent history, at least, feels like it has been working for them. So of course they vote for more of the same.

seper8on "Dune" and the delicate art of making fictional languages

So are you from a MENA country or not?

seper8on "Dune" and the delicate art of making fictional languages

Did you ever read the books?

Ofcourse they were inspired by MENA people considering many of them live in the desert too with traces of tribalism and colonialism...

One mans "Cultural Appropriation" is another man's "Cultural Appreciation". I'm guessing you're just another Caucasian liberal living in Seattle or California who's acting insulted on behalf of MENA people?

seper8on ASML dethrones Applied Materials, becomes largest fab tool maker

I don't work on the machines but I can provide you an example on why this wouldn't even work for simple machines like CNC machines. You could tell the machine for instance to move the drill out of boundaries, too hard, run it into a wall... All things that you can't catch with a software only unit test because the machine you're sending commands to doesn't really have any idea what else is going on in the space within it. So you can give it commands which are fine software wise but once they reach the real world, they can break stuffm

seper8on ASML dethrones Applied Materials, becomes largest fab tool maker

Yeah there are a lot of silos. Partly that's by design, partly that's a an arguably bad part of it's culture. I'm in a position where I can see a lot of them work in isolation, all choosing to use their own tooling: programming languages, frameworks ides, version control systems... Indeed no one team works quite like the other.

seper8on Eclipse viewing at 30k feet: Delta to offer path-of-totality flight

That is so cool, honestly you have probably contributed to a core memory of everyone on that flight... Really no words.