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muthdra | 4 years ago | on: Two conspiracy theories about cola

I thought they were going to mention the "new coke" conspiracy theory which states that coke ditched the old flavor for a new one in 1985 and then changed it back later but this time with corn syrup instead of sugar in just enough time for people to forget what exactly it tasted like before and not complain about the change.

muthdra | 4 years ago | on: DuckDuckGo as a TTY

I wonder how bash would handle that.

muthdra | 4 years ago | on: Let's hope nobody copies Apple's ridiculous MacBook notch

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28938184

muthdra | 4 years ago | on: Apple took down Quran app and Bible app in China on request of Chinese officials

The CCP has their own censored version of the texts and you can only get them through official channels. They call it a "comprehensive evaluation of the existing religious classics aiming at contents which do not conform to the progress of the times". Holy shit.

muthdra | 4 years ago | on: How my ivermectin research led to Twitter death threats

It's not a treatment option, that's the problem; it's being presented as if it was.

muthdra | 4 years ago | on: What Rust could learn from Kotlin

There it is.

muthdra | 4 years ago | on: Ask HN: How do you stay motivated and productive?

Thanks for the tip.

muthdra | 4 years ago | on: Facebook-owned sites were down

Lichess Android app is also down but not the webpage. Infinity app for Reddit is down. HN is super slow and "having trouble serving requests".

muthdra | 4 years ago | on: Facebook-owned sites were down

Lichess Android app is also down but not the webpage. Infinity app for Reddit is down. HN is super slow.

muthdra | 4 years ago | on: Stack size invisibility in C and the effects on "portability"

https://github.com/titzer/virgil I assume.

muthdra | 4 years ago | on: Private companies will launch a new fleet of moon landers

Just advertise for telescope enthusiasts.

muthdra | 4 years ago | on: “One Day Longer and Those 13 Boys Would Be Dead”

I respect Musk more than many commenters you see around. I understand he's not the billionaire savior many people seem to believe. I remember him mentioning something about how the sub couldn't go wrong because if the kids got there and the water rose, it should get where the kids were. How feasible was it, really?

muthdra | 4 years ago | on: Kaspersky Password Manager: All your passwords are belong to us

31536000 seconds in a year. Sounds crackable.

muthdra | 4 years ago | on: Mark Zuckerberg reaches a new level in July 4 Instagram surfboard video

You can actually defame presidents and never give a chance for rebuttal in your platform if you want to. That's worse than forbidding participation and happens literally all the time. The president doesn't have a right to participate in a platform that doesn't let him. Some presidents around the world can dictate the contents of their country's media platforms and it's not that great a regulation as you make it sound.

I hate Zuckerberg as much as the next guy but I don't buy that argument. If hypothetically he wanted Trump to be reelected and thought it was a good idea to call for every left leaning person to be banned from the platform, that's his prerogative. Nobody is forced to use it and base reality on it. Facebook is not a government, that's why it's so good at it.

muthdra | 5 years ago | on: SQLite: Code of Ethics

Gatekeeping internet account lifetimes.

muthdra | 5 years ago | on: Google translations from a language that doesn't specify gender

Maybe he meant he'd like to be able to speak the language in question. Anyway, I guess you could just translate verbs to hungarian and then back, using the genderless pronoun.

muthdra | 5 years ago | on: Charles Koch Says His Partisanship Was a Mistake

That's Tyler Barriss' defense.

muthdra | 5 years ago | on: Pixel 5

Same in Brazil. Google Nest Mini and Chromecast.

muthdra | 5 years ago | on: Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion

I've been thinking this phenomenon is so common it should have a name. Traffic expands as to fill the time people are willing to spend in traffic. Software slows down as to be as slow as we can bear and grows to be as big as the medium it's transferred allows. It seems like we are good at collectively optimizing systems for the least individually bearable optimization; natural-born procrastinators.

muthdra | 5 years ago | on: A mysterious radio burst that keeps repeating

That wasn't a joke on units of measurement. It was a joke on grammar.