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Rewriting the whole OS sounds like a really bad idea

Are you sure your needs aren't bring met by the products that already exist? If you really need a disposable inner layer, just put nitrile gloves underneath your normal gloves. The…

Survivorship bias

Hopefully this will make helium supplies last longer for medical and industrial applications

See: S.T.A.L.K.E.R.

Finally, a distribution for Microsoft apologists

This guy is a huge loser

The idea is that it maximizes simplicity.

Little fish get eaten by bigger fish

Thank god. Now I can finally sleep at night.

I could see it being useful for when you want an easy way to get a high voltage spike out of a 5v power supply. For example, if you wanted to build a board for igniting the gas in …

It's possible that it could actually work, meaning, average Joe thinks its kind of cool and buys some pepsi.

I made a chatbot for the website Omegle one time. It just randomly selected messages to send from a list. It was sort of like the emacs psychotherapist but dumber. Some people woul…

probably because a large portion of HN users are basically STEM nerd incels

Those are not "because it allows us to get more profit." They are arguing that non-free Mathematica is completely in the best interest of their users. Of course it's not. At the en…

Interesting that money is not even on this list

the answer is COLD HARD CASH MONEY!!! WE GOTTA GET PAID, Y'ALL!!! CHING CHING DOLLA DOLLA!!!! C.R.E.A.M!!!

So it goes

This is because at one point the Tasmanian devil population completely crashed and much of the genetic variation in their population was lost. This is literally a textbook example …

this is peak pettiness

Google can be very difficult when it comes to approving add-ons for their add-on store as well. They approved my add-on that blocks porn ads on a certain website, but won't accept …

Digital textbooks aren't going to catch on. The problem is that it is more profitable for publishers to have DRM, so there are legal barriers. The one digital textbook I rented thi…

This is the most trivial program on the entire OS. Hooray for Microsoft, I guess.

Many games have a modding community. A lot of these mods are usually suprisingly detailed model packs.

I support the Google play model- if you want to have your app on the Google Play store it has to conform to certain standards, but the operating system allows you to install arbitr…