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Hi HN, in the past weeks I spent a lot of time videoconferencing. However, something was missing. Classical videoconferencing works fine with a small number of people, but when the…

It turns out the premise of the brilliant game "Return of the Obra Dinn" was not unrealistic at all. Highly recommended! https://obradinn.com/

From the Dutch questionnaire (thanks for the link): Q.: Kunt u, al u dat wilt, een deel van uw werk thuis verrichten? (Zowel incidentele als structurele mogelijkheden om thuis te w…

Found it in this comment and thought it was interesting enough to warrant a submission: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21737951

Not eating meat (or eating less meat) is VERY cost-effective and very easy to do.

As a non-mathematician, for a 2d circle on a flat plane: - The edge of a circle is curved (convex) - It does not matter how small a piece you cut of the edge, there will always rem…

I trust the file signatures, but if you need to write a full article arguing something is secure then it can be made more secure by making the system simpler and more standard.

I don't care for home-brew security, I need something standard. Also... the firewall at work breaks APT HTTP pipelining. Very very annoying. It would not be able to do so if APT wa…

Interesting question. I never have. I just search for it if I need it. Usually on the web, but sometimes in the codebase. I find the idea of a personal library of code snippets qui…

> I do not differentiate between agnostic and atheistic thought. I find it very interesting that in de US there seem to be a lot of gnostic atheists (they know for certain there is…

Isn't evolution random chance + selection? That's how I've always seen it.

To be honest, we don't know either, so the agnostic viewpoint (compared to atheistic) would be that it is equally valid. Either you believe in random chance or you believe in God. …

Yes, at least I hope so. I've done my fair share of volunteer work, am involved in politics, and at work we build software for high schools.

> ...it has not really invented or discovered anything more innovative than making the lower stages of their rockets land vertically... Which is innovative enough for me. Cheap reu…

Just a simple misunderstanding/communication problem. The "DNS-only" option seems to be reached by clicking "Pause website", that will "temporarily disable CloudFlare". Seems quite…

Very cool, and somehow very creepy! This is how we will be hunted when the machines rise up ;)

> It seems to be mostly about dealing with everyone's crap, trying to fight fires and constantly battling with the other managers and tech team to get things done. I haven't even w…

Note: not the Ultramarines http://warhammer40k.wikia.com/wiki/Ultramarines

I'm just a developer who by habit starts counting from 0. I meant to start at January 1st AD 1 0:00 AM.

The definition is very arbitrary: a centi-arcsecond. Why not celebrate a galactic quarter second every 704 days? Just as arbitrary, but much more relatable. As starting point, just…

Ah, at the bottom it says: > Steven Galbraith, April 1, 2016. He got me. I do worry about some future era where encryption is impossible though.