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andymal··on Shrinkflation Tracker
This is great! I wanted to add a product that I recently noticed was smaller, but I no longer use Google, so I'm unable to go through the submission process. Maybe if someone else sees this you can add Kingsford charcoal. 4-5 years ago bags came in a pack of 2x20 lb. Then 2022 they were 2x18lb. This year they are 2x16lb. Can't wait until we can just buy a 2 pack of briquettes.
andymal··on How prepared are we for the next giant solar flare?
Check out the movie too! It's a documentary of a bunch of the Apollo missions. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0097372/
andymal··on Hackers take over prominent Twitter accounts in simultaneous attack
No, was watching the tweet stream for this address. It was sent out on hundrends or thousands of accounts. Dozens of high profile accounts sounds correct.
andymal··on Raspberry Pi microSD follow-up, SD Association fools me twice?
You can use micro sd card for the bootloader and boot from USB 3 ssd on rpi4.

https://jamesachambers.com/raspberry-pi-4-usb-boot-config-gu...

andymal··on Great Wall Motor unveils $9k electric urban car with nearly 200-mile range
The original comment probably should've included "older". In general most older cars are easier to repair. Just replaced my headlights a couple days ago in 01 forester. Took about 3 minutes. Changing a fog light in my 11' 328i is insane. Had to take off the wheel and go in from the wheel well instead of just having screws on the front. Seems intentional sometimes.
andymal··on Great Wall Motor unveils $9k electric urban car with nearly 200-mile range
Stayed on Ambergris Caye in Belize a few months ago, where almost all of the vehicles in town are golf carts. The air pollution was terrible in town because most of them were gas powered. It would've been amazing if they were all electric though!
andymal··on UFOs spotted off Irish coast under investigation
Just like my dash cam footage probably. You wouldn't go back and watch it unless something interesting happened.
andymal··on Driverless Hype Collides with Merciless Reality
People only have to do real driving in the worst conditions? That sounds like it wouldn't work out too well for them.
andymal··on Twenty-two states ask appeals court to bring back net neutrality
In the ARS article about Verizon throttling the CA fire dept's service they said the throttling policy was changed from "throttling during high congestion" to "throttling when they use their alloted amount of 'unlimited' data". This change was made basically immediately after the repeal went into effect.
andymal··on Verizon throttled fire department’s “unlimited” data during wildfire
The article makes it seem like Verizon told them it would not be throttled. "We made a mistake in how we communicated with our customer about the terms of its plan"
andymal··on Chemists discover how blue light speeds blindness
Shades is also a good app on android for dimming the whole screen much darker than the default slider will go.
andymal··on Google loses ‘right to be forgotten’ case
Googling someone is not even close to as effective as paying for real background check services, which can be very costly and take days or weeks. For example, how can you be sure that your new employee didn't change their name after committing a crime? How do you know if the John Smith applying to your open position is the same one as the murderer in some article? Google searching isn't good enough for these cases or any company that takes pre-employment screening seriously. Source: Me. I work at an employment screening company.
andymal··on Launch HN: Promise (YC W18) – Cost-effective, more humane alternative to jail
Suboxone usually contains some Naloxone.
andymal··on Uber, Lyft Drivers Earning a Median Profit of $3.37 per Hour, Study Says
Most personal insurance doesn't cover driving for Uber or Lyft. Your friends may want to double check that they're actually covered.
andymal··on A Hacker Has Wiped a Spyware Company’s Servers
APK devs should be checking to see if they have been granted permissions instead of crashing. https://developer.android.com/reference/android/support/v4/c..., java.lang.String)

If an application won't work after I've turned off all the permissions that it shouldn't need, it simply gets uninstalled.

andymal··on Biker Protestor 'Throttles' Traffic Around FCC Headquarters
https://www.vox.com/2017/12/14/16774148/net-neutrality-repea... Read #7. The repeal has not taken effect yet.
andymal··on U.S. Regulators to Subpoena Crypto Exchange Bitfinex, Tether
Curious what you mean by "There literally isn't enough electricity in the world."?

BTC uses the same amount of energy to produce an empty block as it uses to produce a full block.

andymal··on How I recovered cryptocurrency from a broken laptop
Look into the Ledger Nano S. Supports each BTC chain, other cryptos, and is super easy to use IMO. Uses a seed to create the wallet so you can drop that in a safe deposit box and restore if anything ever happens to the hardware wallet.

Edit: this is the hardware version of storing cryptocurrencies.