Hacker News: mlang23

New comment by mlang23 in "The rise of South Korea's virtual influencers"

mlang23 — Thu, 04 Aug 2022 05:13:31 +0000

That is the future. Robotic caregivers for the elderly, and AI chatbots for the mentally challenged. Humanity is about to dehumanize itself, in the name of technological advancements.

New comment by mlang23 in "Beyond Smart"

mlang23 — Fri, 22 Oct 2021 06:16:15 +0000

Nice posting, thanks for that. I still cant really understand the hype around Gould and its goldberg interpretations. Yes, they are good. But no, they are far from the best I know. If you ever get the time and a recording, listen to Ragna Schirmer playing Goldberg. Her interpretation blows Gould's out of the water, IMO :-)

New comment by mlang23 in "DuckDuckGo as a TTY"

mlang23 — Thu, 21 Oct 2021 06:30:30 +0000

Thanks for taking the time to explain what you see. This sort of confirms my initial suspicion. Weird.

New comment by mlang23 in "DuckDuckGo as a TTY"

mlang23 — Thu, 21 Oct 2021 05:59:23 +0000

As a diehard terminal user, I think this headline should interest me. However, I am assuming this is some sort of JavaScript perversion? Visiting the link with lynx gives an empty page. Can anyone explain whats going on there to a non-GUI user?

New comment by mlang23 in "DuckDuckGo as a TTY"

mlang23 — Thu, 21 Oct 2021 05:57:15 +0000

It looks like it doesnt respect $LINES (or something similar). On first try, the top 2 results scrolled off the screen.

New comment by mlang23 in "FreeBSD switches the default root shell from csh to sh"

mlang23 — Wed, 20 Oct 2021 22:22:09 +0000

Source?

New comment by mlang23 in "Overly analytical guide to escorting"

mlang23 — Wed, 20 Oct 2021 05:50:46 +0000

This is so weird. In some US states, you can buy weed legally but hiring a prostitute is illegal. Where I come from, its the other way round. Go figure.

New comment by mlang23 in "I get abuse and threats online – why can't it be stopped?"

mlang23 — Tue, 19 Oct 2021 10:13:33 +0000

There is a difference between refusing to fall for manipulative writing and lack of empathy. Since we're already on such a personal level, I advice you to concentrate on your Torrent download and Crypto hobbies, instead of lecturing others about empathy.

New comment by mlang23 in "People in present-day Austria drank beer and ate blue cheese 2,700 years ago"

mlang23 — Tue, 19 Oct 2021 09:29:31 +0000

Not the most constructive comment, but: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xfN6VwPWMds

New comment by mlang23 in "L0phtCrack Is Now Open Source"

mlang23 — Mon, 18 Oct 2021 06:29:36 +0000

I envy you for your age... There was a time when everyone and their dog knew what L0phtCrack was.

New comment by mlang23 in "Most Canadians believe Facebook harms their mental health"

mlang23 — Fri, 15 Oct 2021 19:05:08 +0000

Apparently, canadians are a smart bunch!

New comment by mlang23 in "Carp – A statically typed Lisp, without a GC, for real-time applications"

mlang23 — Fri, 15 Oct 2021 10:17:10 +0000

Lisp is definitely not as functional as for instance Haskell is. Side-effect-freeness was never really a topic for Lispers.

New comment by mlang23 in "Global Climate Report – September 2021"

mlang23 — Fri, 15 Oct 2021 10:08:07 +0000

So the acronym should be changed to BI then. And if it is not U, I dont care supporting it politically...

New comment by mlang23 in "Carp – A statically typed Lisp, without a GC, for real-time applications"

mlang23 — Fri, 15 Oct 2021 09:34:02 +0000

The name is strange. Reminds me of a product-naming story I heard years ago. Papenmeier from Germany was once planning to create a small notetaker with built-in braille display. They originally planned to name it "Braille Assistant", but the US distributors objected on the ground that they can already see users shortening the product name to "Braille Ass". I have a similar feeling with Carp, isn't the obvious transposition an issue? :-)

New comment by mlang23 in "OpenBSD Webzine Issue #2"

mlang23 — Fri, 15 Oct 2021 09:30:54 +0000

No idea, never tried. I went from SuSE straight to Debian, and haven't bothered to check any other distros out since.

New comment by mlang23 in "OpenBSD Webzine Issue #2"

mlang23 — Fri, 15 Oct 2021 08:27:06 +0000

This brings back fond memories. When I came back from CCC Camp 2003, OpenBSD got me interested. So I gave it a try, and had a real fun time in the ensuing 12 months. The simplicity, pretty good docs and the installer ("Do you want to edit /etc/hosts with ed now?") got me really hooked. I eventually didnt make it away from Linux for several reasons, but I still miss playing with OpenBSD. It felt so right and unbloated, something I cant say about Linux anymore these days.

New comment by mlang23 in "Global Climate Report – September 2021"

mlang23 — Thu, 14 Oct 2021 22:21:17 +0000

But how would you force people to vaccinate if they are on UBI and dont have to jump when their employer says so? Or do you crack the U of UBI then, attaching strings to the basic income to make people comply to what you want them to comply with?

New comment by mlang23 in "Obsidian mirror used by Elizabeth I’s court astrologer has Aztec origins"

mlang23 — Thu, 14 Oct 2021 08:09:52 +0000

Oh the irony. Hyper superstitions people (read: beliefers) claim they are against superstition. That is almost a newspeak example.

New comment by mlang23 in "Nobel Prize: We will not have gender or ethnicity quotas – top scientist"

mlang23 — Thu, 14 Oct 2021 06:45:34 +0000

I need no nobel prize, thank you. That is reserved for great peace makers like Kissinger and Obama.

New comment by mlang23 in "Bitcoin Addiction Hospital"

mlang23 — Thu, 14 Oct 2021 06:36:12 +0000

Wrong. I am not defending Bitcoin. But I am opposing people like you who think they have some kind of monopoly telling other people what to use their silicon and electricity for. In fact, I couldn't care less about BTC. But I hate private police like you.