dau
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3 years ago
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on: Berkeley Lab scientists develop a new method of refrigeration
The key phrase is right in the first sentence: "could someday [...]"
Usually (and especially in this case) a strong indication that reading the article is a complete waste of time.
dau
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3 years ago
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on: GIMP Turns 27
Because it's hopelessly outdated down to the very core and that's kinda secretly the reason why throwing money or workforce on it wouldn't really get anywhere. It would need to be rewritten entirely and paying for improving something existing or financing the creation of a new "FOSS photoshop" are very different things.
dau
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3 years ago
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on: Ask HN: What's the coolest website you know?
dau
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4 years ago
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on: China's Yutu 2 rover spots cube-shaped 'mystery hut' on far side of the moon
Just imagine how bizarre, unexpected and awesome it would be if in two months there was a press conference with Xi Jinping announcing to the world that they found a cube/monolith with strange inscriptions on the moon...
dau
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4 years ago
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on: There Are Aliens, but Probably Not Here
How ridiculous the ET assumption is depends on the amount of plausible alternatives. And for the Nimitz encounter to be something mundane, several very different things must have glitched or been missinterpreted and one has to put how ridiculous THAT would be into perspective.
dau
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4 years ago
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on: There Are Aliens, but Probably Not Here
How do you come to the conclusion that they are hiding badly? Assuming they are there and they are in fact hiding, I think they are pretty good at it. Or do you have reliable photo or video evidence that suggests otherwise? :-)
dau
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4 years ago
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on: There Are Aliens, but Probably Not Here
The Pentagon didn't send or release anything. They confirmed the publication of an - at least perhaps initially - unidentified object to be a genuine recording.
dau
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4 years ago
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on: Scientists Claim to Spot Fungus Growing on Mars in NASA Rover Photos
"changed shape and location then disappeared" - and how is that not the most breaking news everywhere? Where are the pictures?
dau
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5 years ago
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on: What every programmer should know about memory, Part 1 (2007)
Actually no. As a programmer I do not need to know anything about exponential capacitor discarge curves and generally anything below VirtualAllocEx().
dau
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5 years ago
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on: Do you use multiple email addresses to organize your mail?
I am using my own domain with Fastmail for years and can set as many aliases as I want. So I use an alias for every account I have that requires a mail address to sign up.
Occasionally I get a spam on one of these addresses and immediately know that the associated service/website had a potential data breach and the address and all my personal data was likely hacked/sold/leaked from there.
dau
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5 years ago
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on: Gimp is 25 years old today
No, Blenders look&feel used to be questionable in the past but then version 2.80 happened. They have an amazing UI (backend) now and keep improving.
What was my personal wow moment as a programmer, was seeing that changing the display scale slider in the app properties does actually update the whole UI tree, cascading, rearranging and collapsing things down in realtime.
dau
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5 years ago
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on: Gimp is 25 years old today
they should invite the Blender people over to fix the UI for them :-)
dau
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5 years ago
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on: Kim Dotcom can be extradited to US but can also appeal
due to an imbalance of power
dau
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5 years ago
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on: How UFO culture took over America
After having discarded every sighting reported by individuals as unverifiable and unplausible so far, this one is finally different. It's the combination of respected fighter pilots, instrument recordings with authenticity asserted by Pentagon, visual confirmation of the object and multiple observers involved that makes this incident unique and remarkable.
dau
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5 years ago
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on: GPT-3 generated blog post reach #1 on Hacker News
excellent idea!
dau
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7 years ago
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on: Ask HN: Why has stackoverflow got the 90s “annoying” theme today?
April joke?
dau
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7 years ago
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on: Can you buy your own train?
The problem with buying your own train is that you don't own the rails that you are dependent on. At least in Europe you have to submit a letter to an agency and request timeslot reservations some time in advance if you want to go for a ride.
