gherkinnn
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Comment · 2 days ago
Comment · 2 days ago
Then ask strangers about identifying birds instead of Linux.
Comment · 2 days ago
Oh for fucks sake. Again. Go outside, take a dancing lesson and get laid. Grow some vegetables, build a castle, anything. HN is comically narrow minded sometimes.
Comment · 2 days ago
It appears as if Mr Boretti here hasn't realised that there is a life beyond computers.
Comment · 3 days ago
Where are all the Don't Tread on Me people who prepped for decades for precisely such cases?
Comment · 3 days ago
I am aware of the timelines and posted links to areas of folklore and vague, percolating information I am vaguely familiar with. It's all fun and the basis for evermore unqualified conjecture.
Comment · 3 days ago
I have a soft spot for such folklore. Strictly speaking, much doesn't hold up to scrutiny but I see no wrong with wild conjecture for the fun of it.
For starters, some catastrophes do shine through more recent history:
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_flood_myths
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volcanic_winter_of_536
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Year_Without_a_Summer
Then, Nuclear Evangelism is a fun idea, proposing a religion teaching us to stay away from nuclear waste for 10k years: https://www.nahomatsuda.com/nuclear-evangelism
Or you can poke around linguistics
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Historical_linguistics
- https://www.deadlanguagesociety.com/p/does-your-name-belong-...
The Arthurian legends and Robin Hood are two English-speaking examples of folklore snowballing into what we have today. I bet James Bond will join them in a few hundred year's time.
Comment · 3 days ago
With the rumours (?) around Musk very selective breeding, Grok may be first to have a go.
Comment · 5 days ago
I remember learning the very basics of webdev from CSS Tricks. Years and years ago. They've been with me for my entire career and I am happy to see them independent again.
Comment · 8 days ago
Thanks for the details. Maybe I remain too conservative.
Comment · 8 days ago
Fair, I was too quick to apply my grievances.
Comment · 8 days ago
Cyperpunk 2077's 2.x updates (free, of course) saved the botched release turning it in to another masterpiece.
The Witcher 3 just got a free remastering >10y after release and a third DLC is on its way.
That is so much more than anybody can reasonably expect and gives me hope for The Witcher 4 as Ciri.
Comment · 9 days ago
Move fast and break things everything they touch. The negative sentiment towards data centres remains a mystery to me /s
Comment · 10 days ago
Watch those ads get pulled. And then see actual scams being promoted.
Comment · 10 days ago
Your thermostat and non-standard battery are examples of LLMs being helpful.
As for the rest, that is a lot of tokens burned to keep a fridge stocked.
Projecting that sentiment on everybody is fallacious.