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Not to mention that the bombs dropped on Japan were primitive and small fission bombs and pale in comparison to today's thermonuclear warheads.

To be fair, few could have anticipated that Tesla and Musk would be unaffected by valid scrutiny and criticism. This is also addressed in the article: > E. DON’T TRY TO SHORT SPACE…

Yes, while the article makes some good points the first paragraph was puzzling.

> Unfortunately, they're blinded by their beliefs and can't think things through even one step further. Yes, our new generation of overlords seem to be socially and emotionally stu…

May be too specific but as a European in the US, I would love to be able to see temperature in F and C at the same time!

> Bias towards action. Ship. …The quest for perfection is paralyzing. Unfortunately for users this is more often used as an excuse to ship buggy / badly done software.

Nowhere is this urge (and the reward for it) stronger than HN. In the majority of comment sections, the top comment is one that pounces on a few words from the posted article, howe…

I feel this so much. I am always amazed how so many software engineers seem to dislike coding, which seems to be a major underlying theme in the AI-coding cheerleading. Coding neve…

Yeah, I use goto all the time in C, mostly in the “goto cleanup before return” pattern but sometimes in jumping to different points of a loop. And I know I’m not the only one.

> The authors of the study also propose alternative ways of thinking about the dog-human bond, blending the characteristics of different human relationships – not only the child-pa…

I love the Apollo 11 computer stories but by today’s standards it was more of an MCU than a computer. And sure, in the embedded space it is true that in a lot of cases error recove…

> These seats will increase passenger capacity on airlines by 20 per cent > Ryanair CEO Michael O’Leary […] wants his Boeing's 737 and 800 fitted with 10 rows of them, and 15 rows …

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It’s really not a book review either.. I posted this to give people an idea of what the article is and is not. I was disappointed how little of the actual letters there is in this …

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> I discovered interesting music like Aphex Twin, Squarepusher, Portishead, Tricky, Orbital, Takako Minekawa, Hooverphonic, Poe, Veruca Salt all from sporadically listening to one …

> wishful thinking that AI will stop before whatever they're good at What is AI good at already — I mean apart from making a few people very rich and using tremendous amounts of re…

> The cynical view of America’s educational system—that it is merely a means by which privileged co-eds can make the right connections, build “social capital,” and get laid—is obvi…

Weather forecast is best told as a narrative and reducing it to a sports score like temperature / rainfall will always be problematic for many regions. I’m in SF and I have not loo…

If you were an immigrant with legal status who lives in the US, would you feel OK traveling? What precautions would you take, what information would you memorize?

Age is another differentiator. Take young men out of the equation and you get a much better picture. Another interesting stat is that the majority of motorcycle crashes are single …

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Tbh it’s not just nostalgia (at least for me). That machine (and related machines) had such a unique combination of limitations and possibilities that 35 years on, I still find a l…

Exactly this, though for me a lot of boilerplate is actually a comfort zone that I often look forward to, the way an athlete might to a light jog. Earbuds in, forget about everythi…