chasil

Joined 10 years ago

Karma
8,551
Submissions
3,914
Member since
Dec 20
Pride, wrath, sloth, lust, greed, envy, and gluttony. What opposes them?
View on Hacker News

Recent submissions

Comment · 1 day ago
I have the two small books of Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn on a shelf in my living room.

The most poignant moment is in Huckleberry Finn, where (floating on the Mississippi) the protagonist asserts:

"If my friendship damns me to hell, then I'll go to hell with him."

Looking it up...

"I felt good and all washed clean of sin for the first time I had ever felt so in my life, and I knowed I could pray now. But I didn’t do it straight off, but laid the paper down and set there thinking—thinking how good it was all this happened so, and how near I come to being lost and going to hell. And went on thinking. And got to thinking over our trip down the river; and I see Jim before me all the time: in the day and in the night-time, sometimes moonlight, sometimes storms, and we a-floating along, talking and singing and laughing. But somehow I couldn’t seem to strike no places to harden me against him, but only the other kind. I’d see him standing my watch on top of his’n, ’stead of calling me, so I could go on sleeping; and see him how glad he was when I come back out of the fog; and when I come to him again in the swamp, up there where the feud was; and such-like times; and would always call me honey, and pet me and do everything he could think of for me, and how good he always was; and at last I struck the time I saved him by telling the men we had small-pox aboard, and he was so grateful, and said I was the best friend old Jim ever had in the world, and the only one he’s got now; and then I happened to look around and see that paper.

It was a close place. I took it up, and held it in my hand. I was a-trembling, because I’d got to decide, forever, betwixt two things, and I knowed it. I studied a minute, sort of holding my breath, and then says to myself:

“All right, then, I’ll go to hell”—and tore it up."

https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/76/pg76-images.html

Comment · 1 day ago
Comment · 2 days ago
Comment · 2 days ago
Comment · 2 days ago
I think that I liked him most as Sejanus in I, Claudius. That was before any of his major sci-fi roles.

I see him in this episode:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=xA6QbwPGlgk

I've read both Suetonius and Tacitus on the subject of Augustus and the Julio-Claudian dynasty:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julio-Claudian_dynasty

Those who lack this family knowledge would want to start with the first episode of I, Claudius.

Comment · 3 days ago
Now I get the Gungan and Naboo reference.

I was never a fan of the prequels. You got me, you scoundrel.

Comment · 3 days ago
Comment · 3 days ago
Comment · 3 days ago
Summary...

Samos: An effective blockade must be persistent; distractions imperil the effort.

Syracuse: When the timing is wrong, situations can reverse to shatter your forces.

Rhodes: An incomplete effort can result in stalemate.

Lilybaeum: Replacement forces who are inexperienced are vulnerable.

Comment · 3 days ago
Hard file locking makes Windows Update into agony.

I can see the 70s motivation for it, but it is a terrible burden in modern times.

Hopefully is is not implemented here.

Comment · 3 days ago
PHP is not prominently used in banking.

It is a common technology, well supported in the Red Hat family, and (I would hope that) dnf update will be the proper step for most people.

Comment · 3 days ago
Comment · 8 days ago
Comment · 8 days ago

Live from the official Hacker News API

A modern reader for Hacker News · SvelteKit + Skeleton