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booblik··on Cybertruck too big for parking spot, and Tesla won't let him return or resell it
The great thing about Tesla is they let you drive their car basically wherever you want during test drive. I was interested in the model X, so I took it to my garage and discovered it couldn’t properly open the wing doors due to pretty low ceiling and relatively narrow spots. So I passed. But that was a pretty basic consideration. Can’t blame Tesla here really.
booblik··on The One Ring card, Magic: The Gathering’s coveted collectible, has been found
Yeah, the one ring
booblik··on Israel deploys remote controlled robotic guns in West Bank
So don’t you want a gun to hit the target with no collateral damage? Imagine a different use-case, for example a mass shooter in a crowd. Where an AI controlled gum can take out the shooter and not the victims, the way police occasionally do.
booblik··on Hispaniola's great divergence
In fact, the money not paid to France would be simply stolen by local kleptocrats
booblik··on Driverless robotaxi fleet paralyzed for hours in San Francisco
Looks like they are unionizing and starting a strike
booblik··on Graviton 3: First Impressions
What about linking?
booblik··on Ask HN: What happens to unvested grants at Twitter?
Absolutely, in early stage startup, not common in public companies.
booblik··on Ask HN: What happens to unvested grants at Twitter?
The point of RSUs is to tie the employee to the company. Converting them to cash on the spot is about the dumbest thing they could do. Might as well wave most of them goodbye.
booblik··on Richard Stallman – The state of the Free Software movement
This is because 99.99% of the population wouldn’t know what to do with such a device. Computers are consumer devices, they can’t be expected to meet demands for total user control without those users shooting themselves in the foot nonstop. This is the only logical way they can develop.
booblik··on Kazakhstan president proposes reforms to limit his powers
If true this is truly amazing. So rare nowadays to see countries move towards democracy instead away from it.
booblik··on Documenting equipment losses during the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine
T14 still only exists on paper
booblik··on Can Bitcoin Mining Save the Environment?
No it can’t
booblik··on CES head's justification for keeping the show IRL is absolutely unhinged
Yeah, like he clearly said for the vaccinated
booblik··on Why thieves love to steal catalytic converters
Driving without a converter is incredibly polluting and should be considered a crime against humanity, so stealing them should definitely be a serious crime and not just stealing an “autopart”
booblik··on Static Analyzer Rudra Found over 200 Memory Safety Issues in Rust Crates
I think it is also important to remember that most crates are just unused hobby projects nobody cares about anymore, since you can push anything to crates.io.
booblik··on Why I will not exercise my Gitlab stock options (2017)
LOL, no, taxes on today’s valuation are only due when you sell. And that would be very low long term capital gains tax. Albeit in this case the writer is not American so the tax situation might differ.
booblik··on One of the largest owners of Bitcoin, reportedly held over 1B dead at 41
Diamond hands?
booblik··on Apple Executive Suggests Users Who Want App Sideloading Move to Android
That is what some people say about comments on some orange site I frequent :) Any specifics though?
booblik··on Heart inflammation cases in young men higher than expected after mRNA vaccines
I understand the long terms effects of death.
booblik··on Linus Torvalds: Get vaccinated. Stop believing the anti-vax lies
I don’t have much trust in American institutions, luckily the vaccines are scrutinized globally, as this link actually shows findings from Israel.
booblik··on Linus Torvalds: Get vaccinated. Stop believing the anti-vax lies
This is just proving that even the slightest suspicion of a semiserious side effect is being thoroughly investigated, as opposed to the anti-vaxer propaganda claims.
booblik··on IRS records reveal how the wealthiest avoid income tax
So if you decide to refinance your mortgage that would subject you to a tax? What is wrong with just paying increased property taxes?
booblik··on 10th Walgreens to close since 2019 in San Francisco
First of all $100,000 is significantly more than any Walgreens can reasonably produce. That is $70 per minute assuming 24hr/day operation. Most Walgreens have at most two registers open, and the average purchase, which takes more than a minute is probably lower than $30. Then they have operating expenses on top of that, and the margins are very slim, usually single digit. Remove $1000 per day and you might very well make it a loss.
booblik··on Statement: AP 'horrified' by Israeli attack on its office
You can report news from everywhere without a 14 story building ... Do they have offices in every single city in the world?
booblik··on Cloudflare’s CAPTCHA replacement with FIDO2/WebAuthn is a bad idea
Because you don’t actually want Cloudflare to store your browsing history on their servers. If they did it would be an insane privacy concern. So every time you get there it is like the first time.
booblik··on Lou Ottens, inventor of cassette tape, has died
This is nuts, but apparently he doesn’t even have a wiki page. Someone has to rectify.
booblik··on Chrome does not respect autocomplete=off (2018)
Cool. Do paste blockers next.
booblik··on Putin's Billion Dollar Palace
Well Trump certainly used his position to enrich the Trump organization. But in a much more blatantly open manner. Putin is probably the single richest person on Earth, pretending to be one of the people and living off the official presidential salary of about 130000 USD.
booblik··on Apple Mac Mini (M1): One More Thing
I agree that the flow is not optimal, but for most users it will by definition only happen once in the lifetime of the device. Even if the can’t find the instructions from Google, they can still bring to Apple store for help. If you had to reset Apple devices to default as often as you have with Windows I’m sure they would make it more user friendly.
booblik··on Why Is Apple’s M1 Chip So Fast?
Secure enclave is more akin to the TPM. It stores some secrets even the OS can’t access, including your fingerprint/face biometric. QuickSync is a dedicated hardware on the SoC die, not part of the GPU, but even if it were, it is just semantics if it is still on the same die.
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