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New comment by lordleft in "Everybody’s home. No one’s coming over"

lordleft — Tue, 29 Sep 2026 11:52:34 +0000

When I met my wife, I discovered very quickly that she had savant-level hosting skills. She is an amazing cook, she prioritizes space to dine in our home (we made sure to have a dining table in our NYC apartment) and she thinks carefully about the experience of her guests. It's a quality that I benefit greatly from, and I'm grateful to her for it.

New comment by lordleft in "Disney+: New user agreement allows ads before movies in all subscriptions"

lordleft — Mon, 21 Sep 2026 10:49:00 +0000

Something I really dislike about modern consumer products is that companies simply don’t care if their decisions leave their customers embittered and feeling negatively about their decisions. It seems like that used to be a salient factor in how firms designed, sold and pitched their wares.

New comment by lordleft in "Pre-Greek: The lost language hidden within Ancient Greek"

lordleft — Fri, 18 Sep 2026 10:41:29 +0000

I don’t agree with this characterization of the article at all. What you see as clickbaity I see as using a reductive idea to set the stage for a more complex one. I just think this is good, engaging writing.

Windows Task Manager's Creator Rebuilt it 30 years later

lordleft — Fri, 28 Aug 2026 11:59:15 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c3EEs-O3bGE

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49477269

Points: 11

# Comments: 9

New comment by lordleft in "Principia Mathematica is modern and insightful"

lordleft — Thu, 13 Aug 2026 10:53:30 +0000

It blows my mind that Russell invented (formalized) types. Such an elemental concept, but so useful.

Aristotle's Physics: A Physicist's Look

lordleft — Tue, 11 Aug 2026 22:22:33 +0000

Article URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1312.4057

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49265291

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by lordleft in "Everything I Know (1975)"

lordleft — Tue, 04 Aug 2026 12:00:32 +0000

While 42 minutes would be hard to beat, I think that stenography was and remains a highly mature and impressive skillset.

New comment by lordleft in "KOReader"

lordleft — Wed, 29 Jul 2026 12:42:18 +0000

I’m a heavy KOReader user and absolutely adore it, but I think it definitely trades user-friendliness for power and flexibility. The Kindle proprietary store has a far more user friendly UI imo, though it’s getting progressively worse (and the fact that kindles now default to showing you the store pisses me off to no end). KOReader plugins really close the gap though.

New comment by lordleft in "Which Odyssey translation wins a blind reading test?"

lordleft — Tue, 28 Jul 2026 12:27:46 +0000

Fagles was what I read when I first read the Iliad/Odysseus years ago, and I was happy to see him pop up as my revealed preference via the test. I'm also a big fan of Lombardo.

New comment by lordleft in "How to write English prose (2023)"

lordleft — Mon, 27 Jul 2026 10:55:10 +0000

It's almost refreshing to see intense debate about something DBH wrote that isn't about theology.

New comment by lordleft in "LG monitors silently install software through Windows Update without consent"

lordleft — Sat, 18 Jul 2026 15:29:49 +0000

Not only Linux/BSD, but MacOS. Not that Apple isn't annoying either, but it tends to avoid the windows bloatware stuff.

New comment by lordleft in "Vāgdhenu: A Sanskrit Chanting TTS System"

lordleft — Sat, 18 Jul 2026 02:41:50 +0000

Forgive my ignorance; I'm not a Sanskrit speaker (Malayalam is my first language) -- but I love the sound of Sanskrit.

I have lots of questions: what's the use case for this? Primarily religious / liturgical? It also seems that the fact that this tool works means that any arbitrary Sanskrit sentence can be translated into a chant by some sort of procedure (dare I say algorithm)? I'm terribly curious and fascinated by this!

New comment by lordleft in "AWS: Inaccurate Estimated Billing Data – $1.7 billion"

lordleft — Fri, 17 Jul 2026 12:47:00 +0000

Got a message that I owe 37 million on an account that I haven't used in probably...6 years?

New comment by lordleft in "N+1"

lordleft — Tue, 14 Jul 2026 00:20:03 +0000

Naomi is an awesome writer and she's been doing many of these deep dives into literary journals. She's also reviewed entire historic genres (like old westerns), IIRC. She has a really unique ability to plainly grasp what's special about a group of related writing.

New comment by lordleft in "Late Bronze Age Collapse"

lordleft — Fri, 10 Jul 2026 13:14:28 +0000

Beware the Sea Peoples

New comment by lordleft in "Cambridge Elements"

lordleft — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 11:02:35 +0000

All Cambridge Elements volumes are made free to download 2 weeks after publishing.

Cambridge Elements

lordleft — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 11:01:54 +0000

Article URL: https://www.cambridge.org/core/publications/elements

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48843910

Points: 2

# Comments: 2

Switch from Arch to Fedora [Chris Titus]

lordleft — Wed, 01 Jul 2026 13:43:13 +0000

Article URL: https://christitus.com/switch-from-arch-to-fedora/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48746662

Points: 3

# Comments: 1

SSPX Consecrates Bishops in Defiance of Rome's Schism Warning

lordleft — Wed, 01 Jul 2026 13:30:35 +0000

Article URL: https://www.ncregister.com/cna/sspx-consecrates-bishops-in-defiance-of-rome-s-schism-warning