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spindle··on DreamBerd is a perfect programming language
IIRC, numbers without a percentage sign are assumed to be percentages. Numbers that are not percentages have to be followed by ;% (the semicolon is the NOT operator in DreamBerd).
spindle··on Why is a database always represented with a cylinder?
I came to the same conclusion from the fact that a typical database icon looks a lot more like a disk pack, with its smooth sides, than like drum memory.
spindle··on An Inside Look at Covid’s Lasting Damage to the Lungs
https://archive.md/jayXh
spindle··on Nokia G22 with eco design and repairability
https://archive.md/Pf993
spindle··on Mullvad Leta
From the FAQ:

> Leta is a privacy focused search engine provided by Mullvad for customers of our VPN.

spindle··on Get The TLDR Of Any YouTube Video
So much this.

And also, in many fields there is lots of professional content that's been fully paid for before it hits YouTube - for example, professors make available to the public work that they've already been paid for, and they have no need at all to get paid twice.

spindle··on Ask HN: Design of Emacs type extensible editor based on electron?
I think it's a good idea. It won't be as extensible as Emacs, though, because Emacs is lisp almost all the way down.
spindle··on Will training AI be the next front in the “culture war”?
I agree, but now we'll have BOTH :-(
spindle··on Clock
`wget https://www.literaryclock.com` gets you a structure containing all the strings indexed by time, so that's almost an API.
spindle··on A year ago, Musk asked, ‘Is Twitter dying?’ He may have his answer
> Rounds of layoffs have left Twitter ... so riddled with bugs and glitches that the site goes down for hours at a time.

I don't think that's true - is it? Parts of it keep going down, but surely "the site" means the whole thing?

spindle··on A year ago, Musk asked, ‘Is Twitter dying?’ He may have his answer
https://archive.md/L0XBj
spindle··on Intelligence leak exposes U.S. spying on adversaries and allies
https://archive.md/9aOMD
spindle··on Adding capacity to the electricity grid is not a simple task
https://archive.md/KfiUO
spindle··on Ask HN: Are you the smartest person in the room?
At work, I've never felt like it mattered one way or the other. If a colleague's ego is too big then THAT's the problem, not who is or isn't smart. I've never found all that much correlation between how smart someone is and how they handle their ego, sadly.
spindle··on GPT-4 Is Quite Stupid
Exactly. Anyone who thinks AI is unimpressive is somehow, weirdly, ignoring the trajectory it's on.
spindle··on Looming Twitter interest payment leaves Musk with unpalatable options
https://archive.md/Xe0N5
spindle··on /dev/uwurandom – like /dev/urandom, but objectively better
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uwu

> uwu, also stylized as UwU, is an emoticon representing a cute face. The u characters represent closed eyes, while the w represents a mouth. ... It is used to express various warm, happy, or affectionate feelings.

/dev/uwurandom emits bytes which are approximately random but, importantly, cute.

spindle··on Master Emacs in one year
I agree. But you should learn Emacs anyway, because mastering such a powerful tool, even if it takes a long time - and even if you don't really need it - is FUN!
spindle··on Ask HN: Strategies to handle RAW photo libraries
I use external disks (not a NAS), with ZFS. Everything gets backed up to two separate disks. ZFS snapshot replication makes backing up very fast, and ZFS can also check for bitrot.

I use my own simple backup script ... for a Hacker News person, it's a toss-up whether it's easier to write your own script or learn a high-level interface like sanoid/syncoid.

As for RAWs, I use a system more or less like yours, but I store my best photos separately from the others, which solves the filtering problem you mention.

spindle··on Alpaca: A strong open-source instruction-following model
I'm not sure about the name. In my experience, alpacas are much harder to train than llamas. They are smaller, though.
spindle··on Silicon Valley Bank’s Meltdown Visualized
https://archive.md/TasvI
spindle··on Elon Musk Is Spiraling
https://archive.is/8Otzz
spindle··on Ask HN: Taking care of someone's dog, things to consider?
Totally agree, and also:

    - how much company does the dog need?
spindle··on Zag Smalltalk [video]
Cuis Smalltalk fixes that problem (at the expense of having fewer libraries):

https://cuis.st/

spindle··on Hacking with Style: TrueType VT220 Font (2009)
Fans of this might enjoy https://github.com/Swordfish90/cool-retro-term
spindle··on Florida bill give DeSantis more power over state univ. and ban gender studies
> It would prohibit general courses “with a curriculum based on unproven, theoretical or exploratory content.”

I wish I was a professor there and I could tell the students it was no longer legal for me to teach theoretical physics.

spindle··on China's Position on the Political Settlement of the Ukraine Crisis
https://archive.is/DILqp
spindle··on The Presocratic Philosophers [pdf]
Wow!

IMO (and I am a professional philosopher), Russell was one of the most important philosophers ever, in a good way. And also extremely important in politics (as everyone knows) and in mathematics (as maybe not so many people know).

I don't say that just because I agree with him. I could list a lot of disagreements, and even places in which I think he totally lost the plot and had a bad influence. But mostly, even when he was wrong, he had an excellent influence on other people, because of the clarity of his thought and his writing.

spindle··on Ask Dang: What tools do you use for moderating HN?
There's no way I'm ever going to stop pronouncing it "dang!". I'm sure dang knows this.
spindle··on Tell HN: There are GPT-based bots on HN commenting sophisticated nonsense
We live in interesting times!
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