lizardmancan

https://www.google.nl/search?q=site%3A+news.ycombinator.com+...

i use to use these a lot but now it's just useless

have someone else put the dump behind a paywall.

gmail is still nice. I wonder when they are going to "work" on that.

i stll giggle at my ignorance thinking they wouldnt do youtube and search.

i really mis search, it was such a nice product. Now it is so bad that internet natives who could slap together a website in 20 min dont understand when i ask them why they have no website of their own. "you mean like a resume?"

they are right of course. no one would ever find it.

not as easy but more fun to ruin the usb device.

if they use mousewiggling the screensaver could use other triggers/patterns to keep the box on. say 1 google search per 15 min minimum. randomly moving the mouse seems a good reason to shut down.

chaos is just our way to say i dont understand or i cant measure this. so far it seems nothing lasts in the universe but it can be quite a while until things leave

its a poor term for it. I prefer to look at our organisations as seperate life forms that for now are symbiosis but dont have to be indefinetly. I consider them seperate since people follow their job description and the choices made or emergent behavior doesnt have to be acceptable to anyone in or outside the org

nice. pointing 2 torrents at the same folder alteady works. If they share files at worse it will be overwritten with the same content. Even if there is a lack of clients supporting it you can still force a re-check and avoid downloading everything again.

it is the dance between compilers and chip designs that unmakes hand work.

I started the "hating" when pc promised everything would work on every computer. this just seemed impossible bordering idiotic. before this every screen had the same resolution. UI was horrifically easy! The c64 had characters in the font set that allowed drawing boxes. You can imagine but it was 10 times easier.

The problem with many layers of abstraction is that it borders the imposible if the layer abstacted to poorly suports something.

Take physical screen size and simple scaling to fit? Is it a tiny 1024px laptop or a giant tv? there is no solution I can think of

i just append until the file is large enough.

i one time made a html version that takes a query. js finds the line matching the text then hides everything before the previous seperator and after the next one. if a key is pressed it seeks the next match, if there isnt a (next) match foo-07.html forwards the query to foo-08.html which might not exist (haha) it shouldn't be so hard to update the js with a max value or check if it exists first but without such luxury it worked amazingly well for the amount of code involved

we accept lots of things without questioning them. there is nothing wrong with that ofc until you refuse to entertain the idea it might not be true. religion aside, questioning that is a different story

Right! I use to think people were logic driven creatures.. until it struck me that that is just something i like to believe.

So they told everyone the earth is a ball and because they told everyone this therefore it is true? Why cant we mock this?