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DontBreakAlexon Sidero Labs (Talos Linux) Joins Yardi

I'm using Talos Linux in production (well 12 nodes, but still production) and I'm very happy with it. Hopefully it stays that way...

DontBreakAlexon Advertise in ChatGPT

It's got what plants crave!

DontBreakAlexon The iPhone's Last Stand?

Not on my phone. Ah the web, such a beautiful place.

DontBreakAlexon How to convert between wealth and income tax

I think he meant that you'd have the brackets apply to types of consumption instead of income level, so no tax on food, low tax on restaurants, medium tax on high-end electronics, insane tax on planes and yachts. I mean it sounds like it would be easier to maintain/enforce such tiering system than constantly fight with people trying to not technically be wealthy. Downside of course is that some people's luxuries are other's basic needs, but I wonder if there's been serious research on the implications of such system.

DontBreakAlexon Not alive, but not dead: disembodied human brains used for drug testing

My understanding is that after a few minutes without oxygen, the chemistry inside your brain is "fucked up" and even if you get oxygen back it's gone, you're already a vegetable. I like to think that "the state of the machine is gone" but I'm not a doctor

DontBreakAlexon Not alive, but not dead: disembodied human brains used for drug testing

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DontBreakAlexon Not alive, but not dead: disembodied human brains used for drug testing

Everyone upvote this guy more, thanks

DontBreakAlexon Online age verification is the hill to die on

And I also suspect you did not grow up with kids whose parents clearly would like them to go away and stop bothering them. I also did lots of dumb stuff in my parents' back. The nuance here is that when you know that your parents love you, you'll tell them once you do something that's actually harmful/a big mistake, because you trust they'll help you instead of punishing you. I've seen people make "questionable" life choices, in my opinion, because they've learned, consciously or not, to not seek help from others and always hide/blame on others every problem them encounter.

DontBreakAlexon Online age verification is the hill to die on

I wish I could upvote this comment harder. I started having unsupervised internet access (with the family computer in the living room) when I was 8. I'm a functional and successful adult because I trusted my parents. When my mother forbade me from registering on online forums I complied. When I read "fellation" in some minecraft chat (albeit somewhat later) I asked my mom what it was and understood that "sex" was something for the grown-ups and that I shouldn't worry about it. All because I would never even conceive that my parents wouldn't do what's best for me, and was unconditionally loved (even though I didn't know about this concept).

I would rather have parenting licenses than online age verification

DontBreakAlexon China blocks Meta's acquisition of AI startup Manus

You don't need to incorporate in the US for this to happen to you. You should look up what happened to Marc Lasus after he founded Gemplus (spoiler, he's on social security while the company the CIA stole from him has $3b revenue) or how Frédéric Pierucci was taken hostage to force the sale of France's nuclear reactors to General Electric. I assume the US does this to all the other countries too.

DontBreakAlexon Alberta startup sells no-tech tractors for half price

This sounds good until you remember that we have all these electronics precisely to avoid the 1955 smog situation and climate change. Going back to 1990-era cars isn't solving anything. What we need is a patent and intellectual property reform. My personal opinion is that the same company shouldn't be allowed to sell both the hardware and the software. Open source ECU, anyone?

DontBreakAlexon Bus stop balancing is fast, cheap, and effective

I can already bring my regular bike in the office. The problem is when you're meeting with friends, going to a restaurant, well anything that's not commuting to work...

DontBreakAlexon Bus stop balancing is fast, cheap, and effective

YES! I moved to SF from Paris (where I spent my whole life before that) a year ago. I exclusively use lime instead of public transit because of how slow it is! Going from Folsom&8th to Mason&Girard takes 50 minutes! And you spend most of the time stopped! With a lime I can usually get there in 20 to 25 minutes. I would use my own bike that I use to commute to work if you could lock a bike without getting it stolen almost immediately.

DontBreakAlexon xAI joins SpaceX

Radiators can only be made as long as desirable because there's gravity for the fluid inside to go back down once it condenses. Even seen those copper heat pipes in your PC radiator?

DontBreakAlexon When Every Network is 192.168.1.x

Can we please just use ipv6? PLEASE

DontBreakAlexon Show HN: Ourguide – OS wide task guidance system that shows you where to click

Looks cool, I think you should try to target it towards the elderly. My 99 year old grandpa is capable of using a computer and browsing the web, but struggles whenever he gets out of the "usual flow" (accidentally removes the chrome icon from his taskbar, whenever the crappy web-based email he insists on using over thunderbird moves the add attachment button). I end up having to do teamviewer to show him what I can't explain over the phone. He would very much use an assistant that shows him what to do, especially if he can speak to it.

DontBreakAlexon Donut Lab’s all-solid-state battery delivers 400 Wh/kg of energy density

Look, non-nonviolent communication is a valid form of protest (I know what I'm talking about, I'm french)

DontBreakAlexon Tiny electric motor can produce more than 1,000 horsepower

I mean if your have a 750kw motor for each wheel, then they're probably always spinning when you floor it, so you also have enough torque to fully use your tires for stopping purposes

EDIT: Quick maths show that decelerating at 1g (basically what the best sport tires can do) in a 2000kg car at 300kph requires absorbing ~1500kw, so conveniently two of these motors.

DontBreakAlexon Tell HN: Azure outage

In europe, voting typically happens in one day, where everyone physically goes to their designated voting place and puts papers in a transparent box. You can stay there and wait for the count at the end of the day if you want to. Tom Scott has a very good video about why we don't want electronic/mail voting: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w3_0x6oaDmI

DontBreakAlexon Life next to 199 data centres

I once visited a fairly large DC in the outskirts of paris (Scaleway DC5) and it was basically dead silent outside. I guess these large DCs are just build with absolutely no concern for noise pollution?

DontBreakAlexon Starcloud

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

> and even the nuclear decay (due to practical considerations the latter, as well as the atmospheric noise, is not viable except for fairly restricted applications or online distribution services)

DontBreakAlexon Boeing has started working on a 737 MAX replacement

VFR = Vibe Flight Rules

DontBreakAlexon Chat Control Must Be Stopped

It tells a lot about echo chambers that the first article google showed me for "man charged for praying abortion" is the adf one and you presumably got the bbc one. Anyway, there's nothing to see here, the UK banned vigils in front of abortion clinics, he got charged for keeping a vigil somewhere not allowed, so no thoughtcrime involved.

Freedom of speech and banning vigils/demonstration is a different debate that we already have all the time...

DontBreakAlexon Chat Control Must Be Stopped

Apparently that is Anti-social Behaviour Crime and Policing Act 2014. Article regarding the claim: https://adfinternational.org/en-gb/news/guilty-army-vet-conv...

> In its decision, the court reasoned that his prayer amounted to “disapproval of abortion” because at one point his head was seen slightly bowed and his hands were clasped.

I'm all for women's rights, but that's not how to do it

DontBreakAlexon LLM-assisted writing in biomedical publications through excess vocabulary

I find it quite insulting that you seem to think that non-native english speakers are incapable of reading the outputs of LLMs to asses if it still means what they intended to say.

DontBreakAlexon Why is it so hard to get families to live in community houses?

Tell me you're american without telling me you're american.

> I know what Hip Young Urban Professionals Sipping Coffee On A Sidewalk Next To A Cafe Along The Seine Or Rhine Because Their Apartment Is To Small To Do Anything do the second they get money.

They buy a nice apartment on the southern bank of the seine because they're the only one that can afford it, cycle everywhere and enjoy the thousands of places you can go in Paris with their friends while sharing a babysitter because they can walk by their friends places to pickup their kids afterwards.

I moved to SF for work 6 months ago and I can't understand how you guys can "enjoy" living alone and depressed in your empty suburb.

Want to know who actually lives in the "american-style suburbs" of Paris? Poor people who have no choice but to live there

DontBreakAlexon Does Visual Studio Rot the Mind? (2005)

Reach farther places? Move around heavy loads?

DontBreakAlexon Hyperspace

Well I do value software, I'm paid $86/h to write some! I just find that for $20/year or $50 one time, you can get way more than 12G of hard drive space. I also don't think that this piece of software requires so much maintenance that it wouldn't be worth making at a lower price. I'm not saying that it's bad software, it's really great, just too expensive... Personally, my gut feeling is that the dev would have had more sales with a one time $5, and made more money overall.

DontBreakAlexon Hyperspace

Nice, but I'm not getting a subscription for a filesystem utility. Had it been a one-time $5 license, I would have bought it. At the current price, it's literally cheaper to put files in a S3 bucket or outright buy an SSD.