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speedcoderon Ask HN: Why isn't there a Google competitor emerging?

Evidence?

speedcoderon Nvidia Research Turns 2D Photos into 3D Scenes

Would this make "I Dreamed a Dream" from Les Miserables less moving https://youtu.be/RxPZh4AnWyk ?

speedcoderon Light mode, Dark mode, and Gen-Z mode?

Don't pigeonhole users to a specific theme based on age. Sure, use age to set an intelligent default theme, and provide a way for individual users to overide that and choose the theme they want.

speedcoderon I cannot write software outside of Google anymore

Did you mean NAGMA, as in they won't stop nagging you?

speedcoderon Ask HN: Any recommendation for a good History of Science book?

James Burke's "Connections" series also has books by the same name. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Connections_(British_documen... Noteworthy in that they show discovery and invention happen in context.

speedcoderon Ask HN: What is the freest rock and roll song of all time?

In a pathgorithmically defined tragectory would it be "10 years gone" by Led Zepplin?

speedcoderon Ask HN: Why is Firefox losing marketshare and how would you save it?

Perhaps Mozilla could partner with DuckDuckGo and PureOS Librem and make a privacy-centric mobile smart phone with: - PureFireDuck OS - PureFireDuck search - PureFireDuck voice & text - PureFireDuck email - PureFireDuck maps - PureFireDuck app store (an app store unfriendly to spyware apps)?

speedcoderon Ask HN: How do you deal with getting old and feeling lost?

Yes. Get whatever bike fits you. And I love my Tern [1] foldable bicycle. It folds into a bag which I can take anywhere in my car or on the bus or train and bike when I get there.

[1] https://www.ternbicycles.com/us/bikes

speedcoderon It could be years until we see a normal housing market

Hmm. How do RVs fit in all this?

speedcoderon MariaDB to go public at $672M valuation

"Bait fork-and-switch"?

speedcoderon Why does my diet soda taste off? Aspartame hydrolysis

Try https://sodastream.com . The soda can be sweetened with syrups they sell, or sweeten with anything you like, like Mangrove Honey which is salty and rich in itself. Add Scotch for a new drink called a "Southern Bee Sting". Squirt of lemon optional.

speedcoderon Sega quits arcade business after 50 years

Held my kid's birthday party at a used-arcade-machine dealer: https://tntamusements.com . It was a blast.

speedcoderon ISO C became unusable for operating systems development

Can you still compile gcc code with -O0 (gcc option to turn optimization off) to get completely defined behavior? When doing so does it actually still turn off all optimizations? Also does -Os (optimization for size) still produce defined behavior?

speedcoderon Pine64 should re-evaluate their community priorities

What are Pine Phone plans about the swtich from 3G to 5G?

speedcoderon The PinePhone Pro brings upgraded hardware to the Linux phone

My 3G phone will soon be obsolete as 3G is being phased out in the U.S. in favor if 5G. What non-apple non-google 5G options exist?

speedcoderon The PinePhone Pro brings upgraded hardware to the Linux phone

Does it support 5G?

speedcoderon United States Pirate Party

Gee. How about a license to be able to live? Isn't that where it is at?

speedcoderon United States Pirate Party

So why do cooporations have equal rights with individuals and not equal responsibilty with individuals?

speedcoderon United States Pirate Party

So what is the inception of ownership?

speedcoderon United States Pirate Party

Pirates actually helped in the Revolutionary War: https://www.historynet.com/pirates-of-the-revolution.htm . Many pirates considered themselves free and held that legitimate comity between 2 people can exist without 3rd party control such as the Crown.

speedcoderon Supreme Court blocks federal mandate for private workers to vaccinate or test

Any idea when that may be heard by the Supreme Court?

speedcoderon Supreme Court blocks federal mandate for private workers to vaccinate or test

"All: please don't take HN threads into tedious flamewar on eternal flamewar topics. "Vax versus antivax" is one of the most tedious of them all. If you're tempted to post angrily about how wrong and bad the other side is, please inhibit that impulse. If your comment was going to repeat something we've all heard many times before, please don't post it.

Obviously the vax theme is topical in this case—that makes this a good chance to apply discernment and distinguish between thoughtful, substantive comments and shallow, dismissive ones. As that is what we all should be doing on HN anyway, practice is good."

Per dang https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=dang on a previous similar post.

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speedcoderon Supreme Court blocks federal mandate for private workers to vaccinate or test

Ask HN: what does this mean for non-healthcare workers for federal contractors?

speedcoderon We need to reclaim our attention

Well, "The Biggest Rock" back when Onion talks were funny: https://youtu.be/aO0TUI9r-So

speedcoderon We need to reclaim our attention

https://www.tvbgone.com meant as a prank. And I love using it almost anywhere.

speedcoderon DuckDuckGo's daily search queries surpassed 100M, a 47% increase

Woot! Super cool. Thank you. That like also refers to https://github.com/iorate/uBlacklist. Will check them out.

speedcoderon DuckDuckGo's daily search queries surpassed 100M, a 47% increase

Yes. It would be pretty cool if we could include a blocked-site list saying "please exclude these sites from my search results."

speedcoderon Ask HN: What is humanity building towards?

Reminds me of "A Beautiful Mess" by Jason Mraz (video): https://youtu.be/ECFFNKELnIU

speedcoderon GPT-3 APIs are now in public beta

Does "moderation" require bias? For that matter, can knowledge exist without bias?

speedcoderon Bird populations declining fast across North America

Ask HN: anyone know how to buy bird seed not full of weed seeds: https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2020/03/200320132239.h... ?