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avery17··on The 100-Year Quest to Make a Paper Bottle
Have they tried glass?
avery17··on All payment terminals down in the Netherlands
Counting the drawer and deposits take maybe 15 minutes a day. Its not difficult. Been running a small business for 10 mins and never had an issue with cash. God forbid someone robs us of the 300 bucks in the drawer. They can have it and insurance will cover it.
avery17··on All payment terminals down in the Netherlands
They can close it if you overdraw it too much, which tends to happen when you're poor. Hence people remain unbanked. Not to mention being homeless and having no where to receive mail. They may not refuse but where are they gonna mail your cards?
avery17··on I don't want to spend my one precious life dealing with Google's AI search
Oh so its the same as regular search then.
avery17··on Attackers can decloak routing-based VPNs
All networks will become hostile. Airport/airplane wifi is no longer safe as a simple example.
avery17··on Burn After Wearing
Put it out by the curb with a $10 sign on it. Someone will steal it within the hour. Easiest way to get rid of stuff. Worst case scenario someone gives you 10 bucks for it. No one wants free stuff but if it has any value associated people will want it.
avery17··on Leaving Rust gamedev after 3 years
The hardest part of a project is finishing it. I think the main issue is the fun problems to solve happen very early in the project and once those are done it becomes incredibly tedius and boring and I usually lose focus until the project dies. Its difficult to maintain motivation.
avery17··on Banks start using purchase history for targeted ads [video]
And in the meantime all those brave and strong people will be homeless just to make a point because they are brave and strong.
avery17··on Ubisoft is stripping people's licences for The Crew weeks after its shutdown
Ahh yes, EULAs are known for their stark clarity and ease of reading and understanding. They totally do not employ any dark patterns or intentionally mislead people. That would never happen.
avery17··on "Strong focus on aesthetics" contributed to collapse of Norway timber bridge
These guys must be the best engineers in the world then!
avery17··on Teachers are using AI to grade essays. Some experts are raising ethical concerns
Students have always been getting cheated.
avery17··on Proton Mail says Outlook for Windows is Microsoft's new data collection service
Does anyone have a good desktop email client they recommend for windows or linux or even self hosted? All the ones ive tried are pretty awful... The problem is outlook was actually good in the past.
avery17··on Show HN: Faster-than-light ping (April Fools')
Quantum teleportation is not real. The speed of light continues to stand as the ultimate limit of speed, information and causality.
avery17··on Tell HN: Reddit now blocks VPN access via browser, 'old' subdomain included
I left for HN. Not going back.
avery17··on Boeing's Dead Whistleblower Spoke the Truth
None of the problems we've seen lately are things that someone just didnt forsee happening over the course of years. It was simply a failure to properly install or inspect fairly simple parts of the plane. While I agree that these are complex machines with many moving parts, these were not complex failures. They should have Never happened and are completely unacceptable.
avery17··on FDA says marijuana has a legitimate medicinal purpose
I dunno, ever bring a box of donuts to a party?
avery17··on Kids Today Can't Read – Even College Kids: The Bite-Sizing of Books
Times change and the world keeps turning.
avery17··on Blocklist that contain AI generated content for uBlock Origin and uBlacklist
Do you need to really learn if it works and ships?
avery17··on EPA bans asbestos, a deadly carcinogen still in use decades after partial ban
Chuckle and move on. :)
avery17··on Instinctive Sleeping and Resting Postures (2000)
Im sure if you spent your whole life sleeping on the ground youd work something out to make it more comfortable
avery17··on Here is $1M. Try to Win the Lottery
Let it ride!!
avery17··on How to feed all the power-hungry AI data centers
Well yeah cause its bad at all the things you want it to solve.
avery17··on Engineer bought prison laptop and 1,200 incarcerated folks lost their devices
Probably so they couldnt take it apart and hide stuff in it lol
avery17··on PFAS 'forever chemicals' to officially be removed from food packaging, FDA says
Wax is a chemical.
avery17··on Bob_cassette_rewinder
Nj recently banned single use plastic bags. Now instead of people actually reusing the reusable bags forever they just throw them out almost every time. Everyone who buys this machine is not going to go out of their way to return the casettes. America is obsessed with convenience and will continute throwing out perfectly reusable things until we have a massive cultural shift.
avery17··on Global Economy Approaches Soft Landing, but Risks Remain
Uhhhh
avery17··on Hackers Behind the Change Healthcare Ransomware Received a $22M Payment
Hackers would just sell the info to someone else and leave the computers bricked. Also whats the military gonna do? Do we really need more of our public funds defending rich people from their own mistakes/carelessness?
avery17··on Why do east Asian firms value drinking?
Is it helpful though?
avery17··on Show HN: Replay your typing in a few lines of JavaScript
Hold backspace from the end until you erase everything. Start recording and hold down undo(ctrl-z). You're welcome.
avery17··on Defcon: Preventing overload with graceful feature degradation (2023)
Whats with people lately writing 10^6 instead of 1 million. Its not that big that we need exponents to get involved.
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