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New comment by pallas_athena in "'I should not have written 'A Clockwork Orange''"

pallas_athena — Thu, 01 Feb 2024 15:52:23 +0000

>The whole point of publishing an idea or art piece is to influence people

One of the topics constantly running in my mind is Alan Moore saying that writing a comic, novel, movie, is an act of magic.

You write, or say, something. Other people hear, and their brain is forever changed. They will think and/or act differently.

So he truly is a wizard.

'I should not have written 'A Clockwork Orange''

pallas_athena — Thu, 01 Feb 2024 13:56:34 +0000

Article URL: https://english.elpais.com/culture/2024-01-29/i-should-not-have-written-a-clockwork-orange-how-anthony-burgess-came-to-disown-his-own-novel.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39215920

Points: 112

# Comments: 156

Germany tests 4-day workweek amid labor shortage

pallas_athena — Thu, 01 Feb 2024 07:23:16 +0000

Article URL: https://www.dw.com/en/germany-tests-4-day-workweek-amid-labor-shortage/a-68125506

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39213534

Points: 31

# Comments: 79

A Neural Networks Approach to [...] Ask Barry C. To the Junior Prom Back in 1997

pallas_athena — Fri, 26 Jan 2024 14:02:42 +0000

Article URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1703.10449

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39142661

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by pallas_athena in "Which shows got their finale right, and which didn't?"

pallas_athena — Fri, 26 Jan 2024 09:04:41 +0000

If anyone wants to discuss the LOST finale, I'm here for it.

Let's start with the obvious:

They were not dead since the plane crash.

Basically every mystery was explained.

JJ Abrams only had input for the Pilot and very little afterwards. So no magic box bullshit.

Of course the writer were "making it up as they go", they didn't have a 6-years plan. But the themes and motives were there since the beginning. (in fact you can read the early outlines here: https://www.reddit.com/r/815/comments/13kr6ua/the_black_box/).

LOST was all about the characters _and_ it had a compelling mystery. It was perfect. Also it's one of the few media to get Time Travel 100% right (as in: internal logic).

New comment by pallas_athena in "Stop Using Opera Browser and Opera GX"

pallas_athena — Thu, 25 Jan 2024 07:28:39 +0000

Not me getting tear-eyed because I fondly remember Opera Mini as my first mobile browser on Symbian

New comment by pallas_athena in "How Euler Did It, by Ed Sandifer"

pallas_athena — Thu, 25 Jan 2024 07:13:10 +0000

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

New comment by pallas_athena in "Tens of thousands protest in Germany against the rise of the far right"

pallas_athena — Wed, 24 Jan 2024 07:24:03 +0000

>that not one of the attendees used the word "deportation"

>that not one of the attendees talked about "deporting citizens"

semantics. "remigration" means the same thing.

Decipherment of Old Persian

pallas_athena — Mon, 22 Jan 2024 08:38:29 +0000

Article URL: https://www.heritageinstitute.com/zoroastrianism/languages/oldPersian.htm

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39087557

Points: 12

# Comments: 4

New comment by pallas_athena in "Lessons learned from bringing promotional sweets to a conference"

pallas_athena — Mon, 22 Jan 2024 08:21:50 +0000

I guess "The Bear" 80€ white t-shirt: https://merzbschwanen.com/blog/blog-good-news-1/merz-b-schwa...

New comment by pallas_athena in "Lessons learned from bringing promotional sweets to a conference"

pallas_athena — Mon, 22 Jan 2024 08:20:54 +0000

Conditioning you to love Datadog, brilliant

The Lava Lamps That Help Keep the Internet Secure (2017) [video]

pallas_athena — Thu, 18 Jan 2024 14:51:53 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1cUUfMeOijg

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39042339

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

Keeling Curve

pallas_athena — Wed, 17 Jan 2024 13:00:00 +0000

Article URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keeling_Curve

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39027047

Points: 2

# Comments: 1

Chatbot Arena

pallas_athena — Thu, 14 Dec 2023 13:07:00 +0000

Article URL: https://arena.lmsys.org/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38640898

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by pallas_athena in "The Norway Model: How the Scandinavian country became a literary powerhouse"

pallas_athena — Wed, 06 Dec 2023 07:21:44 +0000

(by brain pinged with the intersection of "Norway" and "books")

New comment by pallas_athena in "Why does sleep become more elusive as we age?"

pallas_athena — Mon, 04 Dec 2023 07:23:00 +0000

Things that empirically work for me to sleep better:

Mandatory:

- separate duvets for me & my partner, so we don't wake each other up by turning

- no screentime for ~1 hr before falling asleep

- going to bed and read a book for that ~1 hr. When I get sleepy I sleep

- bedroom as dark as possible

- physical activity of any kind

Less important:

- no caffeine in the ~8 hrs before falling asleep

- glass of warm milk before going to bed

New comment by pallas_athena in "Awesome Engineering Games"

pallas_athena — Mon, 20 Nov 2023 08:10:26 +0000

It is! Thanks!

I see there's also a 2022 remake, uh.

New comment by pallas_athena in "Berlin's indoor pools"

pallas_athena — Mon, 20 Nov 2023 07:46:02 +0000

https://www.brutto-netto-rechner.info/

put 5000€/month, Klasse 1, Berlin.

Netto = 3094,05 €. That's 38,11%.

42% is not that far.

New comment by pallas_athena in "Awesome Engineering Games"

pallas_athena — Mon, 20 Nov 2023 07:38:11 +0000

HN, can you help me find a game I played in the early 2000s?

It was a browser game. You had a grid (pretty small), and components to put in like conveyor belts.

Each level had a winning condition, of course increasingly complex.

The goal of the game was, as much as I can remember, teach you some basic programming concepts (like boolean gates).

I faintly remember some red and yellow lights? I might be wrong.

I remember getting addicted to this game, then lost track of it forever.

New comment by pallas_athena in "Miyazaki's 'The Boy and the Heron' makes clear the world is a fragile place"

pallas_athena — Wed, 15 Nov 2023 07:26:40 +0000

Most of them are great but the absolute essentials are (imo): Spirited Away, Totoro, Princess Mononoke.