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Aeronwen··on Don't Piss Off Bradley, the Parts Seller Keeping Atari Machines Alive
You're SOL unless someone else decides to take up the mantle of the last guy. So basically every 90's comic book reboot, except they turn into a jaded parts guy instead of jaded super hero.
Aeronwen··on Americans Are Keeping Their Cars Longer, as Vehicle Age Hits 12 Years
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Risk_compensation

The more likely you are to survive putting the car on it's roof, the less you think about avoiding it.

Aeronwen··on Tesla Model S Plaid – How Fast Can You Get Fast?
Waiting 9 seconds at the starting line will be the real problem at an actual drag strip.
Aeronwen··on Show HN: Find Your Hacker News Doppelgänger
The person you're a closest match to, could have a closer match to someone else. Same with their closest match, and so on.
Aeronwen··on Doom Running on an IKEA Lamp [video]
Was hoping they stuck the light behind a Nipkow Disk. I didn't really expect it to happen, but I still want to see it.
Aeronwen··on NY can’t force ISPs to offer $15 low-income broadband plans, judge rules
Because they make more money if the government caves and subsidizes low-income broadband instead.
Aeronwen··on Roger Waters refused use of song for Instagram ad [video]
Back when it was unorganized, everyone on their soapboxes formed a background noise you could easily tune out. Now that it's been organized, it's become a set of echo chambers sorted by topic.
Aeronwen··on EA got hacked and games source code leaked including new game Battlefield 2042
Shed tears because they're not taking security seriously.
Aeronwen··on Ask HN: Would you sign up for an immersive VR under these conditions?
The state machine of those conditions ends up generating the outline to a PKD novel.

I'll avoid your schizophrenia generator, thanks.

Aeronwen··on Game Builder Garage hides powerful programming tools behind a cute interface
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robot_Odyssey ?
Aeronwen··on JJ Abrams: Lack of plan in Star Wars’ latest trilogy was a “critical” flaw
Remember, George Lucas hates hardcore Star Wars fans. They might be annoying pedants to you, but they actually stalk him.

He has no reason to give them what they want, and probably would have made that movie with the Whills out of spite, if Disney hadn't made him a better offer.

Aeronwen··on Dorodango: the Japanese art of making shiny mud balls (2019)
They're not mutually exclusive.
Aeronwen··on Tim Cook’s Fortnite trial testimony was unexpectedly revealing
Microsoft already made the claim that smartphones are general purpose computing devices, while a game console is single use one that justifies their walled garden.
Aeronwen··on “I Could Rewrite Curl”
Shoulders with legs, all the way down.
Aeronwen··on Ask HN: Why don't companies make light weight performance cars anymore?
Because you're only willing to pay $300k and not 10 times that for a GMA T.50.
Aeronwen··on There’s no place for expensive laptops with 8GB of RAM anymore
They're going to do both, but doing the former actually works.
Aeronwen··on Apple tries to get Epic to admit there's porn on its store
Conquer Online... ugh. I quit when some bug sent my market character to bot jail for no reason. Wish I'd have actually botted instead of wasting years on that game. My friend made a few bucks selling the rest of my characters, at least.
Aeronwen··on Nearly 1 in 3 new stores opening in the US is a Dollar General
They're not eating into Walmart or Amazon sales, they're killing off the mom and pop grocery and convenience stores. The places people were already going to instead of making the trip to Walmart or waiting for Amazon to deliver.
Aeronwen··on Linux Has Largely Abandoned Still-Useful Near-Vintage Computers
Vintage used to mean something 50+ years old, but now it means 20+ years old. Antique used to mean 100+ years old, but now it means something covered in dust.

If it looks old, but isn't, it's Retro.

Aeronwen··on Dogecoin Now Valued Higher Than Twitter and Ford
FCA could hedge their bets and create a Fiat currency as well.
Aeronwen··on Software Disenchantment
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andy_and_Bill%27s_law
Aeronwen··on Google's push to bring employees back to offices, some say they'll rather quit
I'm sure it helped make Yahoo what it is today.
Aeronwen··on Human-monkey chimera embryos created in lab
You're assuming they're opposed to human testing, so you see the first statement as, "animals are people too" instead of "humans are just animals."

From there, the second statement a solution to a legal problem they have, and not the moral one they don't have.

Aeronwen··on Firefox 89.0 Beta brings a new look
They don't want to run out of things to remove.
Aeronwen··on Humans Will Never Colonize Mars
It doesn't matter. CO2 is literally the one thing Mars doesn't need us to add to the atmosphere. With that problem solved, we just need to add the other 99.95% of the atmosphere it lacks.
Aeronwen··on CDC and FDA recommend pause use of J&J's Covid vaccine over blood clot concerns
>What are the symptoms of blood clotting in the brain?

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

Posted because I've seen the misfortune of people not knowing the signs, not because I think it's likely.

Aeronwen··on A “deepfake” is at the center of a harassment case, but what if it’s not faked?
They might have had more evidence that the story didn't claim, but just saying "Our records show Joe Fakename is the guy in the photo, you must be lying." Doesn't actually disprove the guy's claim that the photo was stolen.
Aeronwen··on Is it true? Can Covid-19 vaccines connect me to the internet?
The cheaper ones mine bitcoin to subsidize the cost. How fast you gain immunity depends on the market rate of bitcoin and number of other people who have already been vaccinated and are skewing the hash rate.
Aeronwen··on Stop Calling Everything AI, Machine-Learning Pioneer Says
'Algorithm' is too long and hard to pronounce to gain popularity. Better shorten it to 'Al'.
Aeronwen··on Covid-19 Vaccine AstraZeneca renamed to “Vaxzevria”
They gave it a product name instead of a designation.
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