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Strange I stumbled on an Osprey a year or so ago right next to where the M25 goes over the Central Line near Epping.

It is not a place I had expected to see one at all.


Lovely idea, always nice to put something together and scratch that itch.

What you need is a small weight or something that rises up a pole depending on how hard you hit it, a great visualisation.

You could even have a bell at the top, so if this small weight hits it with enough voom it could making a resounding ding sound, so life affirming.

Perhaps you could charge a 'apenny a go, and give a prize for those that can do it. Saying Roll up Roll up to passers by in a local fair.

"High Striker": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_striker


Based on the headline, this is the first thing I thought of.

Don’t ask me why I’m bothering to post a YouTube link to HNews.

Generally they’re scorned and ignored.

However this has answered several questions I’ve had as to where all the grid battery in the UK has gone to.


Quite an impressive video about how Copenhagen seemed to unlock a process to revitalise the city.

The unmanned trains were so impressive, the London Docklands has automated trains, but the Unions strong armed people to run them.


Have they given up on Windows?

I don’t think they’ll ever give up on that. It’s still a major sales driver for licenses.

They really can’t. Windows personal versions are what makes it attractive as corporate desktops, which brings in a lot of money and favors their brand of lock in. Every Fortune 1000 has thousands upon thousands of VDIs, each with its own Office and Outlook connected to either a huge network of Exchange servers or a hosted SharePoint+OneDrive+Exchange environment, all brought together by an Active Directory.

Take Windows out and the whole rest of the proposal gets less attractive.


Original title:

“Is it possible to modify an image so someone with myopia could see it clearly without glasses?”


Strange typo to make in the opening dates


The second edition of the book, sounds like quite an update.

Perhaps cheese from Mad Max: Fury Road Mother’s milk.

Theoretically Lions etc, could be milked. As could some whales.

This is left as an exercise for the reader.


When I was behind the cheese case quite awhile ago, we had a customer who misunderstood Wales as Whales. A good laugh was had.

"How do they milk the whales!?"


> "How do they milk the whales!?"

Caerphilly?


Very Caerphilly

SCUBA gear, obviously.

Quotes from two bits of entertainment come to mind:

Monty Python Cheese Shop sketch:

C: Paper Cramer,

O: no

C: Danish Bimbo,

O: no

C: Czech sheep’s milk,

O: no

C: Venezuelan Beaver Cheese?

O: Not today, sir, no.

And Meet the Parents:

Greg Focker: You can milk just about anything with nipples.

Jack Byrnes: I have nipples, Greg, could you milk me?


> Theoretically Lions etc, could be milked

I hope you are talking about lionesses... As a reader, there are some exercises I would rather not do.


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