Hacker News: hithereagain

New comment by hithereagain in "Show HN: Hacker News em dash user leaderboard pre-ChatGPT"

hithereagain — Sat, 30 Aug 2025 16:54:01 +0000

Older people, say folks in their forties or older, grew up with the em dash.

New comment by hithereagain in "Show HN: Turning books into chatbots with GPT-3"

hithereagain — Wed, 25 Jan 2023 04:37:12 +0000

This was interesting, but for the Stephen King On Writing Book, when I asked it what Chapter 5 was about, I got a different answer each time.

New comment by hithereagain in "Unapproved books now a felony in Manatee County schools"

hithereagain — Mon, 23 Jan 2023 19:14:27 +0000

He did not.

New comment by hithereagain in "Poll: What's the best laptop for Linux these days?"

hithereagain — Fri, 30 Dec 2022 17:46:26 +0000

I recently paid for Dell's next day service with a new PC purchase. The PC arrived broken, and Dell refused to send anyone out to fix it. Instead, I waited weeks for a replacement, feeling like a chump.

When I complained to Dell, none of their employees seemed to understand that they had failed to honor their warranty, or why I would be disappointed.

The replacement machine works fine, but Dell violated their agreement with me and so I can no longer recommend them.

New comment by hithereagain in "Pixie – A full-featured 2D graphics library for Nim"

hithereagain — Mon, 13 Sep 2021 15:17:59 +0000

But "Pixi" == "Pixie" when evaluated by humans

New comment by hithereagain in "The greatest privilege we never talk about: beauty"

hithereagain — Mon, 13 Jul 2020 18:03:30 +0000

I tell you honey, it's a crying shame; All the pretty girls really look the same. -- Iggy and the Stooges

New comment by hithereagain in "US Senators Introduce Resolution to Allow Remote Voting During Emergencies"

hithereagain — Tue, 28 Apr 2020 18:08:59 +0000

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whataboutism

New comment by hithereagain in "Colornames.org – A collaborative effort to name all 16.7M colors"

hithereagain — Mon, 13 Apr 2020 17:18:33 +0000

And a nightmare job for some other creative artist.

New comment by hithereagain in "France proposes upload filter law, “forgets” user rights"

hithereagain — Sat, 07 Dec 2019 12:55:50 +0000

Don't give up already ;-)

New comment by hithereagain in "I Used to Be Homeless"

hithereagain — Thu, 15 Nov 2018 18:44:05 +0000

In its majestic equality, the law forbids rich and poor alike to sleep under bridges, beg in the streets and steal loaves of bread.

New comment by hithereagain in "We’re Measuring the Economy All Wrong"

hithereagain — Fri, 14 Sep 2018 20:27:32 +0000

Perhaps the problem is using money as a tool for valuation?

New comment by hithereagain in "A Web Design Crash Course: From Developer to Developer"

hithereagain — Fri, 24 Aug 2018 20:21:13 +0000

A lot of designers are now using tools like Sketch which help with this process, providing exportable CSS for various elements.

New comment by hithereagain in "Dungeons Tome – Tool for generating dungeons for RPGs"

hithereagain — Wed, 08 Aug 2018 13:59:54 +0000

There is a System Reference Document for 5e available here: http://dnd.wizards.com/articles/features/systems-reference-d...

New comment by hithereagain in "Bay Area cities are cracking down on free food at tech companies"

hithereagain — Fri, 27 Jul 2018 02:34:05 +0000

Aren't these free meals essentially untaxed compensation for employees?

New comment by hithereagain in "The Lifespan of a Lie – Why can’t we escape the Stanford Prison Experiment?"

hithereagain — Tue, 12 Jun 2018 17:27:32 +0000

[2] Brain activity appears to continue after people are dead, according to new study. (9 march 2017)

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/what-happens-die-...

New comment by hithereagain in "Show HN: Slate-md-editor – A markdown editor that allows live editing"

hithereagain — Fri, 20 Apr 2018 13:40:45 +0000

I hope you'll share it anyway. I enjoyed working on this in school. My thesis advisor worked on a couple papers on your very topic, but as far as I know, nothing was ever turned into a product: https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/6d34/878442dfde070ada9846fb...

New comment by hithereagain in "Untangling the WebRTC Flow"

hithereagain — Tue, 07 Nov 2017 20:10:10 +0000

Although this doesn't quite answer your question, I had a lot of fun playing with TogetherJS a few years ago; it made taking advantage of webrtc for a collaborative web game/tool pretty straightforward.

https://togetherjs.com/

New comment by hithereagain in "Breitbart, other conservative outlets escalate anti-SpaceX campaign"

hithereagain — Wed, 01 Nov 2017 17:17:44 +0000

BB&T, through its "BB&T Charitable Foundation", spent a lot of money injecting Ayn Rand into college curricula:

https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2015/10/16/new-paper-det...

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=9010409...

New comment by hithereagain in "How the British aristocracy preserved their power"

hithereagain — Tue, 12 Sep 2017 14:06:26 +0000

Also interesting, this article about Venice, where (apparently) the wealthiest families in 1427 are still the wealthiest families

https://qz.com/694340/the-richest-families-in-florence-in-14...

http://voxeu.org/article/what-s-your-surname-intergeneration...

New comment by hithereagain in "On Being a Science Writer and Managing a Mental Illness"

hithereagain — Thu, 20 Jul 2017 18:39:09 +0000

>The suggestion that there are other kinds of valid thinking besides scientific thinking is way off.

That's a very religious attitude you have about the scientific method. ;-)

Might we say that, based on our tests so far, the scientific method has produced reasonable results for explaining shared reality? (Defining truth is a different matter entirely.)