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The old saying "they've forgotten more about X than you'll ever know" is very true. A professional quite often has forgotten what it was like to be a beginnner, making them both ve…

He probably did know it, it's remarkably simple. I can't remember how to format maths in a HN comment though to put it here.

It's the Online Safety Act 2023 and was going through parliament from 2019, I'm sure the moment it becomes sufficiently unpopular in the wider public we'll see the "2023" part gain…

I watched the Tencent version after reading the books, and it's the first time I've been able to get properly engaged while reading subtitles. My goto for showing the difference be…

If they provided a plausible way to sideload then they'd be on stronger grounds. It's the same as Stop Killing Games. Apple shouldn't carry the burden of hosting forever, but equal…

There are a couple of key differences that I think could lead to a shift towards selfishness. With the size of populations, there's less feeling of individual impact. If I don't do…

In the highly educational show Cunk on Shakespeare, she's told not to wear gloves when looking at an early book since doing so tends to result in people being more heavy handed wit…

They're using satellite photography and a resolution of 10m to measure.

I think we should call them doubles

On the scale of leaders: not being needlessly cruel, trying to consider the impacts of policies beyond the immediate, and dedicating your days to ruling rather than enjoying whatev…

And I was wondering if it was in reference to the Night's Watch of Westeros, who fittingly take a vow of celibacy and dedicate their lives to dealing with problems the Southern qui…

He's right, the problem is everyone mistakenly thinks they're one of "we"

Just like the 4th of July, that most American of days

As long as the implementation still confirms to RFC 2795

To add to the list, in addition to the bookmarking system they have "quickmarks" which means to open this site I type "b hn " and that's it

The fact they exist only shows that someone makes money or benefits from them existing. Customer need is only one way that manifests nowadays

There's also a channel on the rs wiki's discord for reporting bad ads, which Cook responds to very quickly (single digit minutes from the interactions I've seen).

(2020)

I wonder how many people have pet names 'correct horse battery staple'

Use a different birthday for every service you sign up to, especially the ones like "restaurant wants you to enter details to use their wifi", same for other details that they don'…

Interesting Oldschool Runescape recently released some new bosses with a new drop mechanic. Historically a rare drop could mean a 1/5000 dice roll, some people get very lucky but o…

Counterbalances are in use all over the place, look at lifts (/elevators) if they didn't have the weights they'd need much much more energy to move the system. Almost everything th…

Yes, a very interesting one that analysed house sizes over time in ancient civilisations to show the smallest houses got slightly bigger as civilisation develops but the big houses…

It's a sad state of affairs that if I saw that message I would think positively of the website... Except that of you're only showing it once that means you're tracking me to know I…

There's a fascinating video from LegalEagle as to why Florida Man is such a meme, the answer was not what I expected. It comes down to the state having procedures for reporting eve…