ClosedPistachio
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Comment · 2 months ago
Actual title is "BYOC Anywhere: The Spectrum of Bring Your Own Cloud Deployments"
Comment · 1 year ago
Our Fake History did a segment on a William McKinley recently and concluded with the bombshell that, despite being a "Tariff man", by the start of his second term did a full 180 on the idea. The whole series is worth a listen
https://ourfakehistory.com/index.php/season-ten/episode-232-...
Comment · 1 year ago
I'm not defending it, but I'm pretty sure it's using the expression "truth to power", tweaked - "truth to billionaires". It's not meant to be literal 'truth' in the dictionary sense. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speaking_truth_to_power
Comment · 1 year ago
>"There is still a 96.2% chance that the asteroid will miss the moon," NASA said in a statement on Thursday.
Isn't this completely divorced from the article title? Shouldn't it be "could hit moon"?
Comment · 1 year ago
Nitpick - the point of parentheses, as used in the article title, are to add optional extra context without being required to make the sentence complete. The sentence "Reflections on 1 year of become successful on YouTube" isn't complete. Either remove the parentheses (thus making those words part of the title), or consider a different sentence structure.
Comment · 2 years ago
A popular topic here:
Deep Aphantasia: a visual brain with minimal influence from priors? [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39951990] 105 points|negativelambda|3 months ago|114 comments
Aphantasia and hyperphantasia: exploring imagery vividness extremes [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39887661] 86 points|bookofjoe|3 months ago|89 comments
More: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...
Comment · 2 years ago
Similarly, I purchased a copy of "Bosch Automotive Handbook" [1]. For $65 it will literally walk you through every component of a vehicle, from the metals required, the fuel, to the electronics. It's presence on my bookshelf is meant to be aspirational.
Comment · 2 years ago
I personally believe there's something to this, but sadly this one is "in mice".
Comment · 2 years ago