Viewing profile — hvs

The "Great Man" theory of history is considered debunked. The idea that visionary leadership in a single organization can make a difference is very true.

Yes, I do. And it wouldn't take you that long to learn, either.

One of my great regrets in life is not knowing anything about how to rebuild an engine (and various other car parts). It's not exactly a cheap hobby, so it's probably for the best,…

That was discussed in the article.

And DraftKings/FanDuel

There was documentary about this in the 80's: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0088933/

The Patriot Act is perfect example of the adage, "Never let a crisis go to waste."

"Usury" is still a word in use but now, for legal purposes, it means "interest that a lender charges a borrower at a rate above the lawful ceiling on such charges" rather than just…

My wife, who honestly tries to avoid technology at all costs, was working on her business site and said, "It's almost impossible to find any good stock photos with all the AI slop …

As someone with extreme phone anxiety to begin with, long waits on phones are deal breakers for me. If you are a company that answers your phone quickly by a real person you've ear…

I used Rokus for years (happily) but they slowly began to degrade the experience with ads on their home screen (that were often not appropriate for children). Due to an unrelated p…

I know that as technologists we tend to think of this as "treasure" but most other people think of it as "large metal objects that are expensive to store or landfill." Maintaining,…

HN Hug of Death: https://web.archive.org/web/20260522134016/https://robida.ne...

A byte is always 8 bits. The word you're looking for is `word-size` which, in this case would be 4 bits.

In Minnesota they tend to be (or were) owned by companies in the construction / maintenance industry and plastered with full body advertisements for said services (not actually use…

Came here to say that a lot of these LLM posts make me feel like I was hit by a hammer and I can't understand the world anymore. Thankfully, the HN comments confirm that this is as…

If you want to get depressed about all the problems with trying to colonize Mars, I recommend A City on Mars: https://www.acityonmars.com/ It's by the cartoonist of Saturday Mornin…

It's not that they made more money from merchandise, it's that they sold more t-shirts than albums. Implying that more people were interested in the "image" of punk rock than the m…

Because Worse is Better. /s It's the incentives and everything is a trade off. Time to market, performance, features: none of these choices are made in a vacuum. Oh, and people lik…

Everyone made personal computers in the late 70's and early 80's. It was the latest corporate fad.

"Animal Farm" is a satire of the Russian Revolution.

* ANY consumer-grade home appliances.

I'm so old and out-of-touch that all I could imagine this was about was an ancient version control system: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Revision_Control_System

And also why a large percentage of the "content" on YouTube is YouTubers reactions to other YouTubers.