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New comment by canadianfella in "America desperately needs more air traffic controllers"

canadianfella — Thu, 06 Feb 2025 02:08:37 +0000

>There are plenty of jobs that you can't pay people enough money to want to do.

Name a few.

New comment by canadianfella in "Australia: Kids under 16 to be banned from social media after Senate passes laws"

canadianfella — Thu, 28 Nov 2024 15:15:17 +0000

> I'd guess that some games should be banned too but not everything. Something like Street Fighter is widely different from Roblox for example.

Which one do you want banned?

New comment by canadianfella in "Two upstart search engines are teaming up to take on Google"

canadianfella — Wed, 13 Nov 2024 01:07:04 +0000

Compared to what?

New comment by canadianfella in "Starship's Sixth Flight Test"

canadianfella — Wed, 06 Nov 2024 22:27:28 +0000

Democracy happened in 1930s Germany as well.

New comment by canadianfella in "CapibaraZero: A cheap alternative to FlipperZero based on ESP32-S3"

canadianfella — Wed, 16 Oct 2024 11:56:28 +0000

What part was a typo?

New comment by canadianfella in "Ask HN: What's the "best" book you've ever read?"

canadianfella — Mon, 07 Oct 2024 14:06:36 +0000

Right. That’s why it’s helpful to get recommendations.

New comment by canadianfella in "Ask HN: What's the "best" book you've ever read?"

canadianfella — Mon, 07 Oct 2024 14:04:12 +0000

The Selfish Gene was published in 1976, not 1989. I read it as a teen in the 90s and it is probably my favourite book of all time.

Also,

Bill Bryson’s “Short History of Nearly Everything”.

Brian Greene’s “The Fabric of the Cosmos” (and all of his other books)

Richard Dawkins’ “The Ancestor’s Tale” and “The Blind Watchmaker” are also amazing.

Fiction:

Adrian Czajkowski‘s “Children of Time” and Orson Scott Card‘s “Ender’s Game” are both anong my favourites.

New comment by canadianfella in "Playstation 5 Pro"

canadianfella — Tue, 10 Sep 2024 16:48:42 +0000

Based on what calculation?

New comment by canadianfella in "A post by Guido van Rossum removed for violating Python community guidelines"

canadianfella — Thu, 29 Aug 2024 01:06:07 +0000

Try posting something critical of the cult on r/conservative. There’s nothing uniquely leftist about censorship.

New comment by canadianfella in "After 12 years at Google, I have decided it is time to move on"

canadianfella — Wed, 28 Aug 2024 21:15:40 +0000

What happened to Google search?

New comment by canadianfella in "He created Oculus headsets as a teenager, now he makes AI weapons for Ukraine"

canadianfella — Fri, 19 Jul 2024 14:46:53 +0000

> See Boeing doing military stuff and now their planes and ISS shuttles don't work.

Explain please. How does one lead to the other?

> Also so Cheney transferring the military biodefense budget to Fauci and the NIH and now we have lab leaks and covid

That’s a bold claim.

New comment by canadianfella in "PowerShell: The object-oriented shell you didn't know you needed"

canadianfella — Mon, 29 Apr 2024 23:36:44 +0000

I think you mean “prefer” and not “rather”.

New comment by canadianfella in "Self-hosting forms, the sane way"

canadianfella — Sat, 27 Apr 2024 15:14:42 +0000

> Impressum aka imprint.

What does that mean?

New comment by canadianfella in "Manipulating Chess-GPT's World Model"

canadianfella — Tue, 26 Mar 2024 23:51:33 +0000

That’s not the right answer. The real answer is it was playing against a stockfish at a low difficulty setting.

New comment by canadianfella in "Shattered Pixel Dungeon is an open-source traditional roguelike dungeon crawler"

canadianfella — Fri, 22 Mar 2024 07:34:47 +0000

Use magic on snakes. They can dodge.

New comment by canadianfella in "Intel to Receive $8.5B in Grants to Build Chip Plants"

canadianfella — Thu, 21 Mar 2024 04:52:46 +0000

Calling it slave labour is an insult to the people who had to live with actual slavery.

New comment by canadianfella in "The many flavors of edible ants"

canadianfella — Tue, 19 Mar 2024 09:32:43 +0000

Who is her?

New comment by canadianfella in "Antarctic English"

canadianfella — Fri, 01 Mar 2024 05:16:45 +0000

> Americans invented punk, but early American punk, created by bands like the New York Dolls, the Stooges, the Ramones, and arguably the Velvet Underground, was a musical protest rather than a political one, railing against the silliness and pomposity of 1970s arena rock with tight, messy, three-minute pop songs.

What does “tight and messy” mean here?

New comment by canadianfella in "Unearthing the oldest forest on Earth"

canadianfella — Thu, 29 Feb 2024 22:19:38 +0000

What does secession mean here?

New comment by canadianfella in "dotLang – A minimal but powerful programming language based on C, Go and Haskell"

canadianfella — Mon, 26 Feb 2024 04:52:32 +0000

What are the downsides to using LLVM?