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iopq commented on What the damaged Svalbard cable looked like   nrk.no/tromsogfinnmark/th... · Posted by u/ingve
thaumasiotes · a year ago
Dave Barry made a similar observation about antismoking PSAs, objecting to one that had someone throw a diseased lung on a table. He pointed out that you could present any random internal organ and it would look just as bad: "This is what will happen to you if you keep smoking. Look! A perfectly healthy goat kidney!"
iopq · a year ago
I think what had a big impact on me is they show both a healthy lung and a smoker's lung
iopq commented on I bought 300 emoji domain names from Kazakhstan and built an email service   tinyprojects.dev/projects... · Posted by u/montyanderson
4ggr0 · a year ago
Pretty sure it's because Emojis are Unicode and HN only supports ASCII.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35524948

iopq · a year ago
你确定马?
iopq commented on The biggest source of waste is untapped skilled pragmatists   cutlefish.substack.com/p/... · Posted by u/jpn
georgeecollins · a year ago
I think that is a great plan and good advice, but you may find as you continue in your career that you enjoy work more. When I was starting out I was always tired, anxious and frustrated. Now I would never even get hired for those kinds of jobs (or take them). You may get to a point where you have a lot more power and discretion at work and enjoy it. There's a lot to be said for working at jobs you enjoy.
iopq · a year ago
Too late, FIRE'd at 30, never enjoyed work
iopq commented on How many bathrooms have Neanderthals in the tile?   johnhawks.net/weblog/how-... · Posted by u/Luc
samatman · a year ago
HN really isn't the place for this conversation, but if we ever found a human whose biological sex was ambiguous using a simple checklist with maybe three tests in it, that would be a first. Woman and man are complex, female and male are not. Yes, this includes all known intersex conditions. No, there's no significant disagreement about those criteria.
iopq · a year ago
How about a condition where the person looks like a woman, acts like a woman, but has XY chromosomes and internal testes?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Androgen_insensitivity_syndr...

iopq commented on How many bathrooms have Neanderthals in the tile?   johnhawks.net/weblog/how-... · Posted by u/Luc
silverquiet · a year ago
Perhaps my mind is so open that it's in danger of falling out, but when people say that that's so easy to define and then don't do so, I get really confused. I'm like, have you ever seen a dude who looks like a lady? It's a question that's bedeviled sports for a long time actually - in the 60's the Olympics required "nude parades" to check that competitors were in fact women, but obviously that had some problems. I believe they eventually settled on some sort of hormone ratio as the definition.
iopq · a year ago
iopq commented on How many bathrooms have Neanderthals in the tile?   johnhawks.net/weblog/how-... · Posted by u/Luc
swatcoder · a year ago
There's no citation for that claim and it would be unlikely for there to be one.

It's just some dude's personal impression about a subjective matter (a word in transition), and carries no more weight than any other comment being made here.

A more meaningful source would be a usage guide like Garner's Modern English.

iopq · a year ago
Okay, link to your source
iopq commented on The Making of Dune II   readonlymemory.com/the-ma... · Posted by u/indigoabstract
callamdelaney · a year ago
'Original glory' could be defined as "on original hardware on a screen where the graphics looks as they're supposed to instead of being stretched and changed in all sorts of ways"
iopq · a year ago
You can always just do integer pixel scaling which will look just as good as the original
iopq commented on How many bathrooms have Neanderthals in the tile?   johnhawks.net/weblog/how-... · Posted by u/Luc
tokai · a year ago
Right back at you with the citation needed. Humanoid is not a taxonomic term anymore. All Homo are humans. Never said modern, which it obviously isn't.
iopq · a year ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human

> Although some scientists equate the term "humans" with all members of the genus Homo, in common usage it generally refers to Homo sapiens, the only extant member.

iopq commented on The Making of Dune II   readonlymemory.com/the-ma... · Posted by u/indigoabstract
xnx · a year ago
This is about the Dune II strategy game, not "Dune: Part Two" the 2024 movie.

Page is accessible through Google cache: https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache%3Ahttp...

iopq · a year ago
> But unless you own a ’90s era PC, an Amiga or a 16-bit console, your chances of playing Dune II in its original glory are slim, which is a shame.

someone never heard of dosbox

iopq commented on How many bathrooms have Neanderthals in the tile?   johnhawks.net/weblog/how-... · Posted by u/Luc
tokai · a year ago
Still human remains.
iopq · a year ago
[citation needed]

it's humanoid remains, but not modern human

u/iopq

KarmaCake day3183September 30, 2012View Original