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57FkMytWjyFuon Mississippi water is so dirty residents shower with their mouths shut

The OP implies that this is common to everyone in the state, and I believe it to be nonsense. I know about what's going on in Jackson, but I can assure you, the issues with the Pearl River flooding a treatment plant are limited to the city of Jackson.

Where I live, they shut off the water if you don't pay your bill.

Jackson isn't handling things very well. The governor is kind of a turd. There's blame to go all around.

https://mississippitoday.org/2022/09/02/bennie-thompson-jack...

57FkMytWjyFuon Mississippi water is so dirty residents shower with their mouths shut

That's strange, I've lived here for 5+ years now, and I've never heard anyone my native spouse say anything of the sort, nor anyone else.

More outrage for the outrage throne!

57FkMytWjyFuon Show HN: Density userstyle to remove spacing from popular websites

You may find this useful, although you have to tap it for each visit.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/kill-sticky/

57FkMytWjyFuon Show HN: Density userstyle to remove spacing from popular websites

I've wondered about this off white "dark" for some time. The crazy person in me thinks it might be to throw more nits at our face so emotion and attention may be tracked by our helpful webcams, aided by the Windows Camera Frame Server service.

Full disclaimer, I'm actually crazy.

57FkMytWjyFuon After choosing to keep the crypto, divorcee wants a do-over

https://web3isgoinggreat.com/single/after-choosing-to-keep-t... if you don't want to wrestle with ft's paywall.

57FkMytWjyFuon The mother of all 'zero-days' – immortal flaws in semiconductor chips

"In 2017 Russia used an NSA-created zero-day..."

Ignorant tripe. The NSA might have discovered or purchased it, but they didn't create it.

57FkMytWjyFuon 1M square ft. of L.A. roads are being covered with solar-reflective paint

The parking lot of Dodger Stadium looks to be about 6M square feet, and would probably last a lot longer than a road where vehicles regularly friction at speed.

I'm curious as to why they don't paint the roofs of houses instead. We don't have to air condition the ground under the road. https://www.rawlinspaints.com/blog/the-benefits-of-heat-refl...

57FkMytWjyFuon Seven years later, Apple was right to kill off the 3.5mm headphone jack

Show your sources for that 90 percent claim. You're not having a good faith discussion, and emotion is making (or losing!) your argument.

Maybe ask yourself why you're so unwilling to be wrong?

Perhaps sunk cost fallacy?

57FkMytWjyFuon Seven years later, Apple was right to kill off the 3.5mm headphone jack

Well, for one, there's no hole anymore to plug in these perfectly good headphones. For two, I didn't need an internet connection to play local files. Three, I didn't need 3 different battery emplacements, one was sufficient. Four, I don't have to leave my front door unlocked to look out the window (bluetooth attack surface). Five - Spotify and probably apple music inject content I don't want to listen to, don't respect my shuffle choices, and sell everything I listen to and linger on to anyone with a cent and a pulse. Six - My headphones will last at least an order of magnitude longer than your AirPods. Seven - When i open up my stock music player, it won't need to 'update' (where updates are acutally prebuffered crap (remember that U2 album?) and title cards and features I do not require for my application experience.

There's a reason Apple stopped making the iPod. It wasn't for your benefit. It was to monetize your habits, and enslave your consumer urges. I know people who have lost 5 digit music collections, because Apple just paved over them, knowing they'd line right up to buy it all over again.

57FkMytWjyFuon Seven years later, Apple was right to kill off the 3.5mm headphone jack

I am a simple man. I play a track. That track is played. No commercials, no promos, no greyed out tracks because of licensing issues. I press stop. The sound stops. The toolset is cheaper. It lasts longer. It sounds better. It's a standard that works with a wide span of devices. There's no security risks. There's no hijacking the attention span.

You do you, man.

57FkMytWjyFuon Seven years later, Apple was right to kill off the 3.5mm headphone jack

Yes, I would care very much about 2 grapes if it cost me 150 bones and 30 minutes to replace them.

57FkMytWjyFuon Seven years later, Apple was right to kill off the 3.5mm headphone jack

Way to miss the point. You're going to use a lot more than 1 pair, Buster!

57FkMytWjyFuon Seven years later, Apple was right to kill off the 3.5mm headphone jack

Can you play your own purchased music easily with an aux cable like we've been doing for decades? People have been making mix tapes for 40 years. Now you can't do that unless you listen to the track of the day and the promo for the new arsenal of podcasts, and did you know that french fries taste good and they are 300 meters to your west?

I want to listen to what I want to listen to. They want us to listen to what is most profitable.

DRM keeps me from playing my files. It treats them like viruses. It extends the walled garden to choose what art I'm allowed to appreciate.

It's not rights management, it's restriction. The name is a lie.

57FkMytWjyFuon Seven years later, Apple was right to kill off the 3.5mm headphone jack

Do you know that your bluetooth beacon is used to see how long you linger in front of what shelves?

I'm guessing no.

57FkMytWjyFuon Ask HN: Project Management at a Military Operation?

One of the adages of warrior class is that plans never survive contact with the enemy.

Think more like a function, continuously iterated. While War = 1 Observe; Orient; Decide; Act;

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OODA_loop

57FkMytWjyFuon Ask HN: CEO wants us to fill out NOT ANONYMOUS survey that only he can read

Sounds like Elon's 'open door policy'.

It's bait.

57FkMytWjyFuon Seven years later, Apple was right to kill off the 3.5mm headphone jack

You know these dongles increase your audio latency, right? Fidelity is faithful to both time and space. Latency is temporal distortion.

(it's probably better than BT, but nothing beats a hard line)

57FkMytWjyFuon Seven years later, Apple was right to kill off the 3.5mm headphone jack

That's not what they will tell you on the phone. https://youtu.be/RQqk45ps9kg?t=31

"It would cost more than it's worth to like... break it apart, to open it up, and replace the battery" (because we designed them that way)

Have you ever heard of planned obsolescence?

To your second point, the problem isn't that they come from recycled. The problem is that they won't be recycled again.

57FkMytWjyFuon Seven years later, Apple was right to kill off the 3.5mm headphone jack

That's so weird. My headphones are comprised of mostly.... headphones.

And that's not even addressing the issue of the charging curves of lithium batteries that make those batteries fail sooner than they should.

57FkMytWjyFuon Seven years later, Apple was right to kill off the 3.5mm headphone jack

You cannot replace the batteries without prying them apart, and Apple by default just tells you to throw them away and buy new ones.

There are rare earth minerals in the speaker drivers.

57FkMytWjyFuon Apple Collects the Least Amount of User Data Out of Major Tech Companies: Study

I'm speaking as an end user, not from an organizational perspective.

Have you ever tried to disable Defender? Just letting you know it's not nearly as simple as a checkbox.

57FkMytWjyFuon Seven years later, Apple was right to kill off the 3.5mm headphone jack

According to Apple it might be.

But we aren't asking any end users in the article, because screw them, right?

Anything that enables the environmental irresponsibility of AirPods is only "right" from the perspective of the shareholder.

Certainly not the species.

57FkMytWjyFuon Apple Collects the Least Amount of User Data Out of Major Tech Companies: Study

Spoken like someone that's never actually tried to disable Defender.

57FkMytWjyFuon DreamStudio

https://medium.com/codex/dream-studio-stable-diffusions-ai-a... in case you want to know what this is w/o creating an account.

57FkMytWjyFuon New NASA Black Hole Sonifications with a Remix

These sonifications are so gimmicky.

I guess it's better than lighting 4.1 billon dollars on fire though. (That's in 5 days.)

"Hey, look, shiny!"

57FkMytWjyFuon Ask HN: Why do you trust electronic voting machines?

Perhaps the voting system will handle your game just fine.

57FkMytWjyFuon Ask HN: Twitter “permanently suspended” for NO reason. What's going on?

Short account names on twitter are valuable enough for resale to justify mass reporting an account for any violation, however so slight.

Twitter is a dumpster fire.

57FkMytWjyFuon My tone doesn't make me wrong, or how I convinced the Ruby project to fix a bug

Any ideas on what might be common between the two events?

57FkMytWjyFuon My tone doesn't make me wrong, or how I convinced the Ruby project to fix a bug

Anything like this ever happen to you before?

https://felipec.wordpress.com/2011/09/23/no-gnome-doesnt-wan...

57FkMytWjyFuon Why Pixelmator Photo is switching to subscription pricing

Don't read any of that. It's to make more money.