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It took me 15 minutes to buy an AR-15 and a pistol in 2025, how did the left do this?

It really doesn't have to. I thought I was being clever when in a thread I likened something Michael Godwin said to being Nazi, because I thought it was a funny self-reference, and he just gave me the Twitter equivalent of an eye roll and moved on.

That these are banned but Chinese made robot vacuums and other appliances are not points to this not being about protecting individual Americans and more about protecting national interests (drones can map out terrain in a lot more detail and are mobile outside of your bedroom, and can be trivially weaponized)

In order to drive a car, you must first invent the Universe.

This is my belief as well. My friend fled Syria after her mother was shot in the stomach by the police at the police station for asking to see her brother (I’m sure more was involved) and I have always kept in mind to look out for red lines being crossed at faster rates than before.

This happened when I started Adderall, but eventually appetite came back after a few years.

Being pedantic, I meant statement not command.

Awesome, thank you!

How to ssh into a server isn’t a question, it’s a command.

a little bummed there are no build instructions for readtape on macOS.

This is my favorite song, and I'm delighted to hear it as a chiptune! amazing work!

Not sure if anecdata helps but when I worked at Quora udemy course link spam was one of the higher volume sources of spam. It’s possible other courses are doing better because they pay people to link spam.

I love this but also funny that it includes the Nia and NATS posts from today.

Are there any agentic models like this that would work for controlling input in arbitrary video games? I've been wanting to have an AI play Kerbal Space Program because I think it would just be pretty hilarious.

Does anyone have any statistics on how long a compromised package has been in the wild on average?

Yep, quality is definitely a factor here, as much as it can be. We had NSF funding pre-2008, so there was plenty of budget for quality media. We spared no expense, and while I stayed in a $60/night hostel in SF for conferences, our rewritable DVDs were the best money could buy at the time lol.

I was the procurement guy for many years, and we had no HVAC guy - we were in a state university, and there was nothing special about the DVDs we bought, they were from Newegg and other retail places, we did buy the most expensive ones because our grants allowed us to, so maybe that's a factor.

I have no doubts (hence my anecdata statement) that there could be bad DVDs in there, or that maybe over a longer time horizon that the media would be cooked.

Just anecdata, but I had this concern when I worked in academia and we backed up all our data to writable DVDs. I was there 10 years after the start of the project and I periodically checked the old DVDs to make sure they weren't corrupted.

After 10 years, which was longer than the assumed shelf life of writable/rewritable DVDs at the time, I never found a single corrupt file on the disks. They were stored in ideal conditions though, in a case, in a closed climate controlled shelf, and rarely if ever removed or used.

Also, just because I think it's funny, the archive was over 4000 DVDs. (We had a redundant copies of the data compressed and uncompressed, I think it was like 3000 uncompressed 1k compressed) there was also an offsite redundant copy we put on portable IDE (and eventually SATA) drives.

for people making $1M/year, yeah, I think that was one of his campaign promises that helped get him elected.

innerText has wildly inconsistent implementations across browsers.

A lot of restaurants automatically bring you refills without even asking. The reason they do it is that it's good service, and people appreciate that kind of minutiae, if you don't drink it, it's no skin off your back, and it costs so little that it's worth having that simple win on the customer service side because it creates repeat customers, and if you're not the allergic person, you should consider the number of other things they're doing as a courtesy to provide good service to you, a non-allergic, I guarantee you'll notice a number of things.

not true, and although this is anecdata, it's worth mentioning. I had a friend who wasn't allowed to spend the night in the 80s because my parents let me keep my 410 shotgun under my bed (I didn't have any ammunition).

If you want to store key values in a file, one fun and ridiculous technique is to use xattrs :)

I made a pointless program to help w/ this on macOS for kicks: https://github.com/radiofreejohn/xattrkv

When I made it I also found a bug in the xattr implementation for Darwin and submitted it to Apple, they eventually fixed it.

Immediately reminded of the PowerPC bootloader on Macs: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9844026

Pretty neat but I don’t love the price. I got a real working C64 for $100, and a turbo chameleon that can bring all the fpga benefits and connectivity for less.

I also wonder whose fpga core they are using and if they licensed it or not.

Fun fact not mentioned in the article is that nano descends from pico which emerged from being the default editor in the email client pine.

This bugged me for reasons I can’t quite explain. I think it’s that I can write and edit the command before making the modification and the ease of going back and reusing a historic search and replace relatively easily.

Back when I played we used biodegradable pellets.

How much of it is insured?

most of that money wasn't cash assistance but the retail value of old military equipment we sent them as a write down, equipment that was already paid for by taxpayers.