Ask HN: What do you know almost nobody else does? Do you have a niche interest in which you have knowledge almost nobody else does? Some secret insider information concerning whatever? |
Ask HN: What do you know almost nobody else does? Do you have a niche interest in which you have knowledge almost nobody else does? Some secret insider information concerning whatever? |
I got slightly obsessed with playing all of them, a few years ago.
About 10-20% of them are pretty good. A small percentage are genuinely shockingly good, for such an old system.
The vast majority are pretty awful, with many of them being horrible BBC BASIC “conversions” of at the time current popular arcade games, with names and icons changed to avoid copyright problems.
I don’t feel particularly enlightened by my short-lived obsession.
Chuckie Egg is famous in the UK but I found it to be overrated.
Plan B and Starship Command take good advantage of the high-res 1-bit screen modes and look great.
Thrust has amazingly realistic feeling physics, very satisfying to play.
Revs is a very dry simulation of car racing, but well produced if that's your thing.
Firetrack has probably the smoothest vertical scolling on the system, which until that game came out was thought to be impossible.
Those are the ones I can think of right now!
- show your desktop
- move your mouse over an icon
- keep pressing 'home' on your keyboard (home key brings the focus to top left icon) and then left mouse button (changes the focus to the icon you're over)
- do it faster and faster (home, lmb, home, lmb, ...), focus will jump between top icon and the icon under the mouse pointer
- when you reach the double-click speed, the icon will be launched
but it will not be the icon under the mouse pointer, but the top left corner icon.
From the list:
- cooking (leavenant, baking powder, etc.)
- fungicide and pest control
- pH increase
- pyrotechnics
- disinfectant
- fire extinguisher
- medical (addon for laxatives, antidepressant, anesthetics, anti-tear gas)
- hygiene (addon for toothpaste, mouthwash)
- short-term doping
- cleaning agent
... and now deodorant !
It's very worth trying though, if it works fine for you it's very advantageous!
$ defaults write com.apple.dock slow-motion-allowed -bool YES && killall Dock
In spite of this, the owners of capital still reap all the reward, in spite of their distance from the actual decision making that actually shapes and molds the end-result.
I predict that the Federal Reserve will gain new powers within the next quarter that will enable them to indefinitely prop up equity markets through large-scale asset purchases in the equity markets through some novel facility (I'm sure it'll have some super cool new vernacular as well) that changes all the rules and allows for unilateral action without any covenants - awesome!
For any speculators out there - just buy calls, nothing can go down anymore. Easiest outlook EVER.
- JS code-golfing... I'm not alone but we're a small community, who enjoy making JS programs / art / games with the smallest possible amount of code (js1k.com, js13kgames.com, dwitter.net, ...)
- Unicode, its quirks, its updates (not only emoji), its encodings and its predecessors charsets
- Regexes (everyone hates them but I enjoy using them)
- Browsers hacks and polyfills (remember IE6? Firefox 3? Chrome 1? With enough effort, you could make them do almost everything that modern browsers can do today. My job has been to do exactly that for many years, and it was actually pretty fun)
Bear in mind that someone quite famous and rather clever once said "if you think you understand quantum mechanics, you don't understand quantum mechanics", and I think he surely wasn't joking!
- There's no such thing as an independent 'observation'. To observe quantum particles you must interact with them. 'You' might be just a particle.
- All the things you've interacted with look different to the things you haven't.
- Noone really understands quantum mechanics
Although the knowledge to see this is all out there, I'm not aware of anyone else alive who says it's true.
(Not hard to do with fractals :D)
Various attempts have been made over the decades to try to come up with a deeper understanding. Examples include String Theory, Loop quantum gravity, and computational models such as those espoused by Stephen Wolfram.
What they all seem to lack however is a recognition of the intrinsic reversibility of the universe we live in.
In my opinion, the most promising research in this realm is actually around Quantum computation. By necessity, it accepts the reversibility at the heart of things, otherwise you couldn't have the sorts of logic gates you need to do Quantum computation.
By way of an entrance into this rabbit hole, look up the Ffredkin gate.
Or did you mean the inverse "If you are not ugly, your life will not be harder"?
basically a few people treated it as a way to live like a king, and it collapsed. The state stepped in and took it over, because it was too big to fail.
It feels like a religious chant. Invisible hand will self regulate and everything will be great as long as you submit.
In all recorded history there has been no case where due to lack of regulation society 'self regulated' itself into some idyllic dream state.
The less oversight the more rule of the strongest/most selfish prevails.
Looking back at history of European nations, the struggle between classes: Ruling class, aristocracy (wealthy class) and others (people with low on no power), always gives the same outcome when one class out-powers others. In Russia ruling class took all power (to this day really), Poland and Hungary the wealthy took power and gouged kings rights to the point where they ruled. And as they ruled they drained their respective countries of wealth and future.
Then we have Britain with Magna Carta that regulated and prevented each class from winning over others. I don't think I need to explain how that worked out for Britain.
Pure capitalism is actually happening right now, what you point to is nothing but outcome of the wealthy controlling government to do their bidding.
USA where harsh capitalism is for poor, and socialism is for the richest.
Bailouts are nothing less then socialism is for the richest. It was the banks that coined the term 'too big to fail' not some leftwing nutjob.
Gangrene is not bad but because you are trying to heal it your leg will rot.