DoneWithAllThat

Sundays on HN are a weird thing. It’s the only day of the week when I see the nutty anti-car takes, de-growth takes, climate doomerism, etc. Monday through Saturday, tech news (mostly). Sunday, unhinged nutballism.

We’ve been “close” for 10+ years now. We are not close.

The article casually refers to Asus breaking “their promise” but nothing in the rest of the article suggests Asus ever promised anything of the sort. That they used to provide the tools wasn’t a promise. Did they ever advertise or up-front communicate that these tools would be made available and maintained?

As a former regular skydiver decades ago, Lodi has had a bad reputation for many years. Lots of upjumpers would never even consider going there.

There is no drought. A few very small sections of California are categorized as “abnormally dry”. That’s all.

It’s not used on plants intended for human or animal consumption.

Really nice. One I wish was in there was the Control Data building on Moffet Park Drive. Became Radius building when CD left, then a few other tenants before being torn down and replaced with the MPD Google campus.

You’re being intentionally obtuse and not addressing the point OP made, which is that AI is likely to be interpreted by the courts as a form of expression which makes it protected by the first amendment.

It would be similarly a violation if, say, the sale of newspapers was regulated. I suspect you know this but you want to make a glib Twitter style comment rather than have a real discussion.

You’ll be wanting to read William Gibsons so-called Bridge Trilogy, which starts with “Virtual Light”.

The “let’s make life shittier for people so they’ll do the things I think are right” is bad politics and bad policy.

It’s not. I’ve lived in neighborhoods that did this and it was a nightmare. All street parking filling up by 4pm. Half hour walks to your car. Neighbors keying each others cars for taking up a space for too long. Guests basically just being SOL - you’d literally be unable to have guests over because if you left to pick them up there’d be no spot when you got back, and if they drove themselves they’d never find a spot.

Without readily available and reliable public transportation this is just lining developers pockets (because fewer parking spaces needed means more units they can build).

Once again the headline should more accurately be “says one researcher in a single study”.

The thing that continues to happen is urban residents with limited understanding of the world outside their bubble think a future without cars is anything but a laughably naive fantasy driven by an entirely imaginary utopian ideal.

The Covid vaccine does not cause heart disease, and you need to find a better way to spend your time than lying on the internet.

Exactly two paragraphs in Cory’s mind-numbingly long rant is regarding NPR. It links to an op-ed in NiemanReports, which itself goes on at length about topics unrelated to the headline, and in fact only has this single sentence regarding it:

> A memo circulated to NPR staff says traffic has dropped by only a single percentage point as a result of leaving Twitter, now officially renamed X, though traffic from the platform was small already and accounted for just under two percent of traffic before the posting stopped.

So it had almost no effect because it was driving a minuscule amount of traffic in the first place. Although I suspect that 2% represents the nadir, and earlier changes to Twitter drove the number down to that.

But overall this topic is mostly just two people using a single line in a memo (a memo not confirmed by NPR but I suspect it’s true and exists) to go on at tiresome length about things they wanted an excuse to complain about. And Cory desperately needs an editor, good lord. I even agree with most of his points but that is a screed in need of a point besides “I’m angry about a lot of things”.

> These omissions are why the AMA adopted a policy in June to downplay the clinical use of BMI, calling it “an imperfect measure” that has been used for “racist exclusion” and that has caused “historical harm”. The policy suggests combining other metrics, such as waist circumference or body composition, with BMI.

Without even reading the article I already knew there would be some identity politics nonsense underpinning it. Because it’s Nature, and they have no credibility anymore.

Because they are of the delusional class that thinks the end of ICE engines is coming in the next few years.

The amount of mental gymnastics on display here (not to mention bloodthirstiness) to not acknowledge that the new terms are genuinely a huge improvement and likely palatable to the majority of game actual developers in crazy.

I have a few friends who work on relatively medium-scale game development operations and every one of them is basically saying “oh thank god, we can work with this”. But reading this thread you’d think it was still a catastrophe, just a slightly smaller one.

Civil action could be started against you in court. If you don’t show up the other party would win a default judgement. If you did you could and likely would still lose and have to pay. At that point your assets could be legally taken from you and wages garnished.

The economics of that don’t even come within the same universe as working out. Those plants wouldn’t just be losing money, they’d be losing unfathomably huge amounts of money.

I have seen similar behavior on vehicles that have a dying alternator. The issue is that one vane of the rotor (or maybe stator?) has shorted and no longer functions. If when the car is shut off and the rotor stops in a particular position the alternator won’t work. Give it some time and with heating/cooling moving things around just a bit plus the act of repeatedly trying to turn it on potentially making it move just a bit, and it works fine.

You mean the environmental activist who shot a police officer?

And that it would degrade our ability to defend ourselves to the point that someone else would come here and take it.

I’m fact restaurant franchisees and the franchiser are typically in a state of near-conflict. They have very different incentives and methods of making money. The notable exception is Denny’s, who go to great lengths to foster good relations with their franchisees and let them have an actual say in how corporate runs.

It’s a funny story, but… yeah, the early 90s was a special time in Silicon Valley. It was THE center of the computing world. And you really did just randomly bump into amazing people at Fry’s or restaurants or bars or whatever. I don’t think younger people understand how much around them today, when it comes to technology, can trace its roots to 90s South Bay and Peninsula.

Do you have any evidence of this at all?

This kind of hyperbole is silly.

Literally illegal for certain with anything non-broadcast about with about 90% certainty for broadcast. It’s such a blatant violation of the first amendment it’s never going to happen.

I just wanted to say I’m really sad there’s no black banner for the whole day. I hope there is tomorrow.

Still to this day my default address I use when pinging just to see if a device can talk to the internet. If my packets can make it to Finland they can go anywhere.