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Low quality comment here, but this line in the article " Back in the day, a computer was something so special and expensive that you only had one, and it was set up in a way that e…

Our track coach would do the same thing! And he got really frustrated with me because the foot that I led with seemed to vary by day. I'd be fairly consistent on any given day, but…

Came here to make the same comment. I have a copy of The Red Atlas. Fantastic. Here's a link to the comment thread about it here on HN https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15378422…

Re >> Can you check this is correct for me? That's the part that really gets to me. It's one thing to say Hey friend, you could have quickly gotten the right answer yourself . It's…

I'm similar. I do very little with both hands, but I'm split between left and right on individual things. Throw is right, write is left. Where I especially get hung up is learning …

I think I heard somewhere (can't find reliable source right now) that he created Captain Planet as a revenge. He had some renewable energy initiative/deal that he was trying to get…

Came here to say the same thing. Folks have been saying for a while "it's a tell tale sign of AI!" and I've been thinking - have people forgotten about Microsoft Word (and other wo…

Agreed. Although alternative to a chunk of Earth as a result of a natural impact, I wonder if it could have been a poorly sanitized space probe from the 60s or 70s?

The Author also missed the fact that in the 2001 Movie they went to Jupiter, whereas in the book they went to Saturn. https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/177/why-is-the-des..…

I learned a long time ago to be very careful with mock, dummy, or test data.... because some people will just push anything to prod, take screenshots during your demo and paste it …

It might be appropriate if you're a children's cartoonist/artist and you're sending out proofs? But yeah, I get your point and agree.

Agree. It's social, but also semi-anonymous. It's a nice balance. It's not anonymous like 4chan, because on Reddit you still have a username and post/comment history, so you have a…

Regarding "work out of the box".... I started using Ubuntu with Breezy Badger (5.10). In those days, I had been goofing around with Mandrake (RIP, now Mandriva), Fedora Core 4, Kno…

Regarding Reddit, I completely agree. I recognize that it is technically "social media", but I consider it to be a different animal from the majority of social media (Facebook, Twi…

Just speaking for myself. Facebook was fun when it was the underdog to MySpace. But I closed me account just a few years later and haven't looked back. Was never engaged on twitter…

And then they have OneDrive, SharePoint, Office365, and Teams as ways to share files... which are all the same thing/infrastructure under the hood .

But what are electrolytes!? Da ya even know ?

I went there as a kid. One visit was actually a school field trip. I have not been to one in nearly 30 years. And I should have more clearly said that I've only actually been to on…

I remember paying $200 (in adjusted 2025 dollars) for a 32GB USB thumb drive.

Speaking of nature parks instead of zoos, the San Diego Wild Safari Park is just that. Very large enclosed pastures with multiple species living alongside each other.

Big Zoos, yes. And they do some great research, as well as preservation and rehabilitation. But I've also been to a few small zoos in rural America that are essentially someone's p…

I was commenting to my wife the other day... it seems to me that there are very few wild animals that just die from being too old. Not an expert, but it seems to me that most anima…

Same. The only thing that sticks is converting from format X to .mp4. Everything else I need to look up every single time. Relevant XKCD https://xkcd.com/1168/

I'm not a KSP pro, but I have tried and tried to fly into the sun and have yet to succeed. Even if I do my best to lose as much of the planet's orbital velocity as I can until I'm …

I hear you. And thank you for posting the archive link. It's like buying gas in California. Before you can start pumping, you've gotta answer 20 questions. 1. Are you using grocery…