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specialbaton Ask HN: What term would you use for the amount of time code runs past your death

Posthumous execution?

specialbaton How I Make Yogurt (2019)

I use a $20 salton rice maker on warm (not cook) setting into which I put a 2 litre glass jar of ingredients brought to 90 degrees F beforehand. No sterilizing. Takes about 10 hours

specialbaton Boeing cutting more than 12,000 U.S. jobs with thousands more planned

Accountants don't run the business. They provide accounting information to those that run the business.

specialbaton Swedish expert: why lockdowns are the wrong policy

Agree, he is not some crank. I don't understand the flagging system on this site at all

specialbaton The global oil market is broken, drowning in crude nobody needs

You can't have a free market when there is a monopolistic producer

specialbaton Super-rich jet off to disaster bunkers amid coronavirus outbreak

Anyone else see the similarity to Poe's "The Masque of the Red Death" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Masque_of_the_Red_Death

specialbaton Ask HN: What personal tools have you built?

Desktop app to keep track of time spent on different jobs

specialbaton SpaceX Tourist Flights may start as early as 2021

So the rich can burn all the carbon they can afford?

specialbaton Court rules that people can't be locked up indefinitely for refusing to decrypt

How do they know you didn't lose or destroy the notebook?

specialbaton SQLite Is Serverless

We still have a multi user desktop application that uses the Borland database engine and dbf files over a windows file server. The BDE is no longer supported but it still works

specialbaton Six cars aced new pedestrian detection tests

How about a device that pedestrians could optionally carry that would broadcast their presence to all vehicles

specialbaton What Charles Bukowski’s Glamorous Displays of Alcoholism Left Out

Glamorous? How is fishing in the toilet bowl for your wallet glamorous? I don't think he portrayed as anything but squalid. He was certainly unapologetic about it.

specialbaton Lab-grown diamonds threaten viability of the real gems

There are extensive diamond mining operations in the Canadian arctic. I always thought it ironic that people choose for a symbol of their love an object that necessitated destruction of the natural landscape and the production of toxic tailings. Often it is the government who has to do the clean up when it is done at all. It would be a fine thing if lab diamonds could stop this.

specialbaton Plagiarism software unveils one of Shakespeare’s sources

They don't speculate how the lowly Shakespeare could have got access to a courtier's unpublished manuscript.

specialbaton Universities finally realize that Java is a bad intro programming language

Not as bad as APL in 1978. It turned me off the idea of programming for 10 years