Sam Neill has died • Hacker News Board

Re: Sam Neill has died

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Post by ballooney » Tue, Jul 14, 2026, 7:38 AM UTC

kayo_20211030 wrote: post #81

Sam Neill did a super podcast with Marc Maron a few years ago. He came across as a really stand-up bloke - genuine, funny, smart and kind; and every obit I've seen today seems to echo all that. It's well worth a listen. https://www.wtfpod.com/podcast/episode-1202-sam-neill

I have rarely had such displeasure from hearing such an interesting interviewee having to cope with such a cretinous interviewer. I’m very surprised you recommended this.

Re: Sam Neill has died

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Post by account42 » Tue, Jul 14, 2026, 8:02 AM UTC

rbanffy wrote: post #106

dylan604 wrote: post #79

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> Spaceships are workplaces and workplaces ...with very constrained sources of power. Lighting places where humans are not is wasting that power.

You have a power plant capable of generating the energy needed to take you to relativistic speeds (at minimum) or punch holes through spacetime (a couple hundred orders of magnitude more) that’ll radiate a Hiroshima per second in waste heat (at 99.99999% efficiency converting energy into movement). You can certainly power a couple light bulbs.

Yeah but you save a couple bucks per ship if you cut the lighting to the absolute minimum required to keep crew shrinkage at an acceptable rate, and across the entire fleet that adds up to a nice bonus.

Re: Sam Neill has died

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Post by nephihaha » Tue, Jul 14, 2026, 10:35 AM UTC

donatj wrote: post #56

nephihaha wrote: post #20

Hunt for the Wilder People was fun, as was Reilly, Ace of Spies.

I honestly didn't know he was a Kiwi until I saw Hunt for the Wilder People. Absolutely fantastic movie.

He's originally from Northern Ireland and spent much of his life in NZ (although he has spent time in the USA, Australia and other parts of the UK.)

Re: Sam Neill has died

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Post by pseudohadamard » Tue, Jul 14, 2026, 11:57 AM UTC

olivierestsage wrote: post #51

Rest in peace. Like many here, his performances were hugely influential on my childhood (and adulthood). One I haven’t seen mentioned here yet is Merlin.

Or Smith in Sleeping Dogs: "I got my eye on you boy!".

Re: Sam Neill has died

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Post by IAmBroom » Tue, Jul 14, 2026, 6:11 PM UTC

wewewedxfgdf wrote: post #45

Findecanor wrote: post #39

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It is a touchy subject. When you have it, you don't want to think about it all the time.

You misunderstand - the message is he was far more interested in living and what he could do with his life and genuinely found the cancer not interesting compared to other things. He wasn't just being touchy and trying to change the subject.

You misunderstand.

When someone is confronted with something as powerful as imminent mortality, it pervades all your decisions.

Both explanations can be true.

Re: Sam Neill has died

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Post by IAmBroom » Tue, Jul 14, 2026, 6:12 PM UTC

phtrivier wrote: post #4

JodieBenitez wrote: post #2

I'm getting old, all my childhood heroes die.

Here's to "trying to be someone's childhood heroes"

I love you, wholeheartedly.

Re: Sam Neill has died

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Post by IAmBroom » Tue, Jul 14, 2026, 6:14 PM UTC

awnird wrote: post #69

JodieBenitez wrote: post #2

I'm getting old, all my childhood heroes die.

You’ll fit right in on this site then. It’s mostly elderly Americans sundowning and posting about their youth.

"Mostly"? Nah. A HUGE number of contributors are from a myriad of countries.

Using "myriad" loosely. Don't be that "Well acshually" guy.

Re: Sam Neill has died

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Post by testing22321 » Tue, Jul 14, 2026, 8:44 PM UTC

esseph wrote: post #88

testing22321 wrote: post #67

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I’m in Montana now, and I spent the weekend with a very energetic palaeontologist who has unearthed many dinosaurs.

My son isn't college age yet but is interested in this route. Any tips for potential future paleontologists?

Sorry, I’m not one myself, and the one I met this weekend I only just met