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Is fiction not allowed on HN?

I gave up on Clean Architecture after about one chapter. There's a section where he's graphing the number of lines of code in a hypothetical company's codebase over time - it grows…

This is kind of like a recipe book opening with a disclaimer saying "Some of these recipes might make you ill."

Can it execute code?

The story's name is "Lena", not "MMAcevedo".

I think that observation just lends further weight to the argument that the relationship between atomic time and universal time is a dynamic and unpredictable thing, which we need …

The offered price to buy Twitter is ~220 times its net annual cash flow? Something about that does not compute.

The more surprising thing about `Array.prototype.sort` is that it both sorts the array in place and returns the (now-sorted) array. You can go a long time writing `const arr2 = arr…

Yes, actually it is negative, due to the emissions and waste involved in setting up energy production in the first place. That negative has to be offset by using the energy to do s…

> Bitcoin can use energy in places you couldn’t get to before You're suggesting a scenario where, instead of using energy at point A to do useful work, we use energy at point B to …

It's not free! You have to pay for the electricity and the expensive mining hardware! And it's less energy efficient than heating your house using conventional means.

> There is a world of untapped energy that is only restricted by isolation. So you could entirely run bitcoin without increasing global energy output, if that makes sense. No? Usin…

So by "move energy" you mean "move energy demand".

No, the creator of Dordle has not put his code on GitHub.

Octordle directly stole Dordle's code, so, yeah, not a fan.

Yes? Per the "History of Quordle": https://www.quordle.com/#?overlay=tutorial > It all started on January 29, 2022 when I saw an article mentioning Dordle by Guilherme S. Töws and …

This feels like a cheap ripoff of Dordle: https://zaratustra.itch.io/dordle If you're going to put your own spin on Wordle, have at it, many others have, but at least demonstrate s…

That's stopped working! Google is just ignoring them from time to time now. Did you even read the article?

Can a smart contract make a wire transfer with your knowledge?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Use%E2%80%93mention_distinctio...

> Unix filenames are just sequences of bytes, not defined as strings "Write programs to handle text streams, because that is a universal interface except for filenames which are op…

Why in the world does Unix allow newlines in a filename in the first place? That's just such an obviously brain-damaged idea. There's not a single rational use case for it, yet it …

> Computers are the same thing Uh, no? Computers aren't people.

This is a very bad idea because it's going to rotate ordinary characters to code points where Unicode normalization has an effect, including combining characters, whitespace, contr…