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HN is currently anti Cloudflare. The only thing worse probably would’ve been to serve the static files on GitHub.io

"slippery slope" is an old phrase for a reason.

What about investing on margin? We should introduce margin calls for credit cards. Owe more on credit cards than you have in the bank and you have to pay it all back at once.

(not being serious)

What makes you think an "expert" was not consulted on this? Experts can be wrong too, regardless of credentials. That's why AI should be used to review and critique all new laws going forward, in order to prevent such mistakes from being made law. Hard /s, btw.

It peaked and went on a decline in the period before companies were snatching up sites just to merge their user bases.

Had newgrounds continued into the 2010's, it would've been bought by Google to boost Google Wave / Circles / Plus whatever, and then it would've been actually shutdown.

So its age is actually what helped it survive I suspect.

Business security through expertise obscurity?

Yer a cryptographer, Harry!

Especially when the equipment the shovel seller uses to produce shovels has been retooled to produce backhoes instead because of a digging bubble.

I'm on book 3 of the Red Rising series by Pierce Brown.

I was unfamiliar with the short story “The feeling of power” but thought for sure that “graphitics” must’ve been an Asimovism

You seem to have lept to a conclusion before you finished reading my post. I did not focus on Covid.

2020 - 9.6

2021 - 9.76

2022 - 9.77

2023 - 9.56

2024 - 9.56

2025 - no data

The peak was 4 years ago and the stats you shared seem to agree with the “news” here that it’s decreasing recently.

https://www.niaaa.nih.gov/publications/surveillance-reports/...

Looks to me like the real peak was the late 70’s / early 80’s with beer on a steady decline ever since and wine/spirits not quite replacing it.

Who needs Uber Eats when you can afford to house a personal chef on campus?

Let’s launch hard drives back and forth between earth and LEO. Like sneakernet in space.

I’ve noticed that most companies do that, not just Apple.

Also: https://screeps.com/

Maybe this is a response to becoming an empty nester. You’re entering the next phase and taking time to reflect.

The American monoculture, especially the “bigger” version you probably see in Texas, gets a little more direct observation when you’re between phases of life.

Right now the monoculture is leaning into heavily using AI in all aspects of life while also outwardly hating it… and also gambling for some reason.

You’ll probably start looking to retirement goals next, but those plans will likely go through phases themselves as grandkids may or may not enter the picture.

This won’t be the last time you have one of these out-of-body type self awareness experiences.

Even on computer monitors, I always bump the scaling to 125% on modern high resolution screens.

"This may sound like one of those overly pedantic fixations... but it's not. Power and energy are very different concepts." -Technology Connections

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OOK5xkFijPc

Shatner was the 597th person in space only five years ago. We are rapidly increasing the frequency new folks are making it into space. Impressive!

Not in Hyundai. The brightness controls have no impact when CarPlay starts up.

How does CarPlay still not have a brightness control? I leave my CarPlay perpetually in dark mode because light mode is searing in all but directly sunlight.

I, too, have noticed a degradation in my grammar when I converse too frequently with AI.

Perhaps he is actually lamenting being the out of touch kung fu master, but his pride won't allow him to articulate the ways in which he identifies with that?

Doesn’t Brave offer most of those features?

I’ve had this question on my mind at least once a month for what feels like years at this point.

I don’t feel like monitoring Twitter to see how it’s going though.

Interestingly your cynicism does not seem to account for OP?

I actually found my setting was enabled today when I know it was disabled before, so I’m inclined to agree with OP. I just think it was worth mentioning that there are other cynical takes you seem to have left out.

I wonder what the light equivalent of a sonic boom is.

Why carry a phone at all? Just buy one and leave it at all the places you go. Have your personal security carry a backup in case you go somewhere your assistant hasn’t been able to get a phone delivered to yet.