In the 75 years of their existence it seems like they suck at expansion.

They should take a page from Indonesia’s book for example. Or turkey.

Indonesia?

Takeover of half of Papua New Guinea, now called irian Jaya. Transmigration, that is, moving Java people there and to Borneo (Kalimantan)in order to flood local populations with Malays.

But this did not make the news that much. Not that interesting I guess…

Iga Swiatek (the tennis player) was denied entry in the player area for her own match. Situation was quickly resolved.

I doubt VIPs go through the same entrance, lines and checks as regular folks.

Yes that older dude should have been treated as VIP.

>Iga Swiatek (the tennis player) was denied entry in the player area for her own match. Situation was quickly resolved.

>I doubt VIPs go through the same entrance, lines and checks as regular folks.

For those of you unfamiliar with professional women's tennis, Swiatek is currently ranked #4 in the world and to date has spent 125 weeks as the #1 women's tennis player in the world.

It doesn't get much more VIP than that.

My dad never learnt how to use our VCR. When VCRs went the way of the dodo, he felt vindicated.

Same with the DVD player.

Now, at 94, he’s on Netflix, no problem.

He has a flip phone.

For example, multicore OCaml is not free of race conditions. The GC, while super efficient (pauses are in the milliseconds), is not suitable for hard realtime.

Still, where absolute max performance or realtime are not required, I'd choose OCaml as it is elegant & a pleasure to code in (personal opinion, ymmv).

Taiwan people have not been risking their lives trying to escape to join PRC.

This made my day, thank you!

> The odds are worse if you spin each time.

How do they get worse if you spin? It’s still 1/6 odds of dying,iid events.

Erm no. If it goes a round and gets passed without spinning, the chances change of course. It is 1/6, 1/5, 1/4, 1/3, 1/2, .. 1

I didn't think of the gun getting passed around. To me, "one round" is pulling the trigger once after spinning the cylinder with one bullet. 1-in-6 chance of dying, you'll probably live. That's how I feel about this mission, I think they'll probably live, but man I'm nervous.

... 1/0

It's 6/11 overall chance of dying if spinning, no?

From a quick search, this page explains it: https://mathworld.wolfram.com/RussianRoulette.html

How about don't tell other people what they can and can't talk about, and just ignore side threads you don't care about?

There are about 500 different HN browser extensions that let you collapse threads, btw.

Not parent, but I am genuinely curious: is there a Hacker News browser extension you'd recommend? The text is so small by default that even though I'd like to read on my desktop, I typically only browse it via the Hacki android app.

I vibe-coded one using one of the web-based tools (I think Replit?) maybe a year and a half ago. Just added vote tracking by username, tagging, colored usernames, that sort of thing. Only took a on average 1-2 prompts per feature, I did it in under an hour start to finish.

`.envrc` by default

Still 986 years to go!

I’d rather fly in an airplane with a system coded in Ada/Spark rather than Python ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

you have problem with Snakes in a plane ?

I've had it with these monkey-coding snakes this Monday-to-Friday work-week.