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New comment by nntwozz in "Many African families spend fortunes burying their dead"

nntwozz — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 00:47:54 +0000

If you're lonely when you're alone, you're in bad company.

— Jean-Paul Sartre

New comment by nntwozz in "Creating the Futurescape for the Fifth Element [2019]"

nntwozz — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 13:20:16 +0000

That's amazing, you always see flooded cities in the future this is out of the box thinking.

New comment by nntwozz in "Creating the Futurescape for the Fifth Element (2019)"

nntwozz — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 13:14:17 +0000

The Fifth Element and Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets are widely considered to share a thematic and stylistic universe, with similar aesthetic influences. There are shared elements (ha!) and aesthetics, with Valerian even featuring a shop called "Korbens" as an easter egg to The Fifth Element.

Unfortunately the movie doesn't do it for me, the 90s were a better time.

Once CGI became good storytelling and creativity took a backseat in Hollywood.

New comment by nntwozz in "Creating the Futurescape for the Fifth Element [2019]"

nntwozz — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 13:07:00 +0000

LEELOO DALLAS MULTIPASS

https://youtu.be/RdqiaNsKR2E

New comment by nntwozz in "Artemis II crew see first glimpse of far side of Moon [video]"

nntwozz — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 05:02:34 +0000

“It is much safer to be feared than loved because ...love is preserved by the link of obligation which, owing to the baseness of men, is broken at every opportunity for their advantage; but fear preserves you by a dread of punishment which never fails.”

― Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince

New comment by nntwozz in "Artemis II crew take “spectacular” image of Earth"

nntwozz — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 00:11:48 +0000

For anyone not understanding the high ISO please have a look at this recent video by minutephysics.

Do you understand ISO?

It took me 21 years...

https://youtu.be/ZWSvHBG7X0w

This video explains how ISO is very different to what most people imagine, and how you can use this knowledge to take less noisy photos.

New comment by nntwozz in "Why the US Navy won't blast the Iranians and 'open' Strait of Hormuz"

nntwozz — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 01:34:09 +0000

You mean Special Military Operation, comrade.

New comment by nntwozz in "Why the US Navy won't blast the Iranians and 'open' Strait of Hormuz"

nntwozz — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 01:31:39 +0000

This is just a PSYOP to get us onto renewables quicker.

Trump is secretly an environmentalist but can't say it aloud because of his political base.

I want to believe.

— The X-Files

New comment by nntwozz in "My DIY FPGA board can run Quake II"

nntwozz — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 23:43:45 +0000

Yes, check out Radioactive Man (from Two Lone Swordsmen) - Trespasser:

https://youtu.be/Zdy9TtInX-c

Lots of Quake II samples.

New comment by nntwozz in "How Invisalign became the biggest user of 3D printers"

nntwozz — Sat, 21 Mar 2026 21:22:29 +0000

I've had good smile all my life but now at 41 I've started to feel a tightness between my teeth.

Lo and behold I read that as we age the jaws shrink which makes the teeth crowd together.

I'm going for a free mouth scan in a couple weeks.

New comment by nntwozz in "Bombarding gamblers with offers greatly increases betting and gambling harm"

nntwozz — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 01:24:13 +0000

> Same as pay-to-win freemium games. Find the whales and milk them for all you can.

This is what happened to EVE Online and many other MMORPGs.

New comment by nntwozz in "$96 3D-printed rocket that recalculates its mid-air trajectory using a $5 sensor"

nntwozz — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 15:16:43 +0000

I expect the Yautja to file a patent infringement.

New comment by nntwozz in "The View from RSS"

nntwozz — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 22:27:36 +0000

Love it, also shoutout to NewsFire from the days of yore.

https://newsfirex.com

Just look at it, NNW is still using the same great design.

New comment by nntwozz in "Apple Studio Display and Studio Display XDR"

nntwozz — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 17:35:41 +0000

I just want to know who's naming these things, it's been like this forever.

Why can't it be something simple?

New comment by nntwozz in "Smartphone market forecast to decline this year due to memory shortage"

nntwozz — Fri, 27 Feb 2026 00:58:02 +0000

On a tangent how about those sweet app updates with patch notes reading bug fixes every week or so from the likes of Xiaomi and Anker weighing in at 600-700mb.

It's all gone to $hit, efficiency is gone it's just slop on top of more slop.

New comment by nntwozz in "NetNewsWire Turns 23"

nntwozz — Wed, 11 Feb 2026 19:02:54 +0000

NNW is my happy place.

Every time I open the app I feel like I'm back in the era of Mac OS X Snow Leopard and Steve Jobs is about to reveal one more thing.

New comment by nntwozz in "London's most controversial cyclist"

nntwozz — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 19:01:55 +0000

One of my favorites, also this:

I look crazy but I'm not. And the funny thing is that other people don't look crazy but they are.

— eden ahbez

New comment by nntwozz in "Roger Ebert Reviews "The Shawshank Redemption" (1999)"

nntwozz — Mon, 09 Feb 2026 12:35:40 +0000

Translation added "back to" to the original title Cold Mountain.

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Yattee 2 – Privacy oriented video player for iOS, tvOS and macOS

nntwozz — Sun, 08 Feb 2026 21:58:26 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/yattee/yattee/releases/tag/2.0.0-250

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46938961

Points: 1

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New comment by nntwozz in "Roger Ebert Reviews "The Shawshank Redemption" (1999)"

nntwozz — Sun, 08 Feb 2026 09:22:03 +0000

On a tangent the movie Cold Mountain (2003) was translated to "Åter till Cold Mountain" in Swedish.

Now you may ask, where is the actual translation? They just added Swedish words to the original title (which just means back to Cold Mountain".

Who are these people and how do I apply for a job? It seems like a perfect workplace.