TremendousJudge

I'm located near Buenos Aires. There was a similar hot spell several weeks ago, mid-July. Record high in July is (according to Wikipedia) 30.2C, and I don't have the data but this record cou…

As a software engineer, I don't sell software, I'm paid to make it. I don't even own it afterwards. I hear some people are paid to develop open source software. I don't think my ca…

No, no I do not. Not everybody on the internet is from the US you know.

>American B-29 bombers dropped leaflets all over the city, warning us that Nagasaki would ‘fall to ashes’ on August 8. The leaflets were confiscated immediately by the kenpei (Imperial Japanese Arm…

What's wrong with Firefox?

Most web developers don't use Firefox. Changing that would be a huge step. Many things are developed for Chrome first by inertia at this point.

I notice that the authors of that paper are two physicists and a data scientist. I wonder if they even consulted a musicologist or a composer with a background in research before publishing this paper…

Are you quoting that "Measuring the Evolution of Contemporary Western Popular Music" paper? Anybody who knows about music disagrees with its methods. Here's a good rundown by a classica…

A government ID is a lot more than that. I have an official ID card that has: - A bunch of personal identifying data including a unique number (which is as much of a secret as my name or my date of bi…

Isn't this system supposed to be better than government ID? If it has the same disadvantages, why would anybody use it?

English is behind Mandarin and Spanish in native speakers.

Not really? Unless you specifically work in an international setting, you'll be just fine not speaking English. Also, learning another language isn't really a "tax" as much as it i…

Just because somebody is somehow "clever" doesn't make them immune to scams -- they just need to be a specific type. Scientology targets a person's sense of self-importance and emp…

Can somebody remind me of the name of the web based oss postman-like tool that was posted to HN recently? I've been looking for it but I can't find it

It features several photographs, it probably should've been a jpg at least.

it was a boomer "ball and chain" joke

You end up using them as bookmarks of some sort, especially with the search bar doubling as tab search

>I just want a reliable search engine tool that doesn't hide information from me I don't think this is something that a ranked search algorithm can do while keeping everybody happy. As an…

If I had to choose between being stuck in an embassy and being in a US prison, I wouldn't think about it twice.

This is a joke website. The person who made it was making a joke.

Doesn't it go into dividends for the owners?

I guess he is referring to all the softcore porn that shows up on the ig search tab, even if you don't interact with it.

I have never heard of a "happy PhD"

Youtube has effectively become a monopoly by offering a free service. My other choice is to become a social pariah and not watch any videos at all.

so those ads are cool to skip?

Yet that is never brought to the courts. Funny how that works out in the end.

All interest groups will argue that whay they want is "fair". There is no impartial group "outside" the system with an objective fair view, and this includes the supreme court. The…

I discovered a fun one yesterday; downloaded google drive for desktop, wasn't able to sign in, got an "unknown error". Search for it, try all the solutions, delete gdrive cache, reinsta…

I'm not saying it's not valuable, I'm saying that without building a more specialized system you will never be able to filter a good chunk of false positives. And it's not great to…

maybe it's learned behavior?