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I wish I could take full credit for this, but I'm paraphrasing Andrew Plotkin (developer for the Inform text-adventure programming language): Steam machines failed because they tri…

or as seen on Twitter[1]: "Every January: One month hiatus from work, and I could finally publish my draft of the next bestselling novel April 2020: Today I alphabetized the jelly …

No; if you look at an old rotary phone, you're counting the number of finger holes in order to determine pulses. To dial a 0, pulse the line 10 times.

> But I do not at all understand the enmity some nerds have for non-replaceable batteries. Devices exist on a repairability spectrum, from the industrial appliance which is deliver…

> There isn't one game, there are infinitely many, and different people will have success at different games. But there is also the meta-game: The game of being able to win the hig…

No math proof, but I'd favor a cluster strategy as being faster to force a (partial) solution to existing clues.

> If the author means literally everyone dead, planet gone, then obviously it won't be "apocalyptic", but the science is suggesting it's likely to be really bad. No, the science do…

>> Apple : "The icon appears for system services that do not have a switch in Settings" > ... If Location Service is enable, these services will have access to them ... > The Autho…

Also not in this thread until now, but two thoughts: First: A car can be "the means of production", if you're a driver for Uber/Lyft. Second: the issue I understand is that this we…

I'd be even more specific than that: understanding the transformation to turn a looping function into a recursive one is the key gateway into being able to comprehend code which us…

Well, that isn't the only bug in the code, just the one which is being requested for prompting the warning. It's been about a decade since I've written significant C/C++ code, but …

A search on Google turns up this Common Lisp code, which appears to define a number of SI units (both base and derived) in the sort of manner described. http://www-ksl.stanford.edu…

Well, for a SNES/NES/Atari/Genesis/etc. classic device, the issue might not be getting ROM images but doing so legally . Sure, I could find a torrent containing the entire NES+SNES…

It's not the form factor but the official FAQ page that really makes me think this is a RPi+UI, especially when the last question/answer pair is: > Can’t I just buy a Raspberry Pi,…

Came into the comments to find this, and I'm going to expand on your description: I feel like quicksort isn't [uniquely] beautiful except when used alongside bubble sort to explain…

By your logic, a labor union "strike" must also be extremely ineffective. (They require massive coordination and go against each individual's incentive to work.) Yet they do work, …

This argument seems to subtly imply that the only efficacious means to "level an uneven playing field" is government regulation, and not some other, non-government process such as …

No, that's my first initial and last name (A Krumbach). Anyway, "puzzle" is now available at https://drive.google.com/file/d/1KYDTZ2AVWQfWCSACUvfl5gAIHzA... If I counted correctly,…

I'm at work right now, but give me a day and I will design that.

Which would be to say for fluency, the proof is in the punning.

I don't know about "won't have a clue what macros are capable of before..." -- there are quite a few use cases for macros which can be described easily to any programmer, even thos…

> Which makes me ask the question: do you, gentle Hacker News reader, really want diversity of opinion and why? I speak only for myself, but the answer is an absolute, complete and…

Yep, three years' worth apparently! (Would have been nice to have a [2014] tag in the original title.)

"You will have to forgive me when I cannot fathom how actively meddling with a complex system, which requires a substantial investment by our species in terms of scientists, resear…

> Trump won't do what's needed which is the one thing that will ultimately set the country on the right course: abandon capitalism. If we abandon capitalism, what alternative do yo…