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crooked-v··on Why did we wait so long for the bicycle? (2019)
Those are the mechanisms I'm talking about.
crooked-v··on There Will Come Soft Rains (1950) [pdf]
So, uh, how did this random site get the rights to republish Bradbury? Or, to judge by their front page, did they mistake Bradbury's works for public domain?
crooked-v··on Why did we wait so long for the bicycle? (2019)
Electric motors so every building didn't need its own steam engine, and cheap interchangeable parts manufacturing for the mechanisms that needed to be perfectly consistent in every installation to be reliable.
crooked-v··on Why did we wait so long for the bicycle? (2019)
The problem is the seams. Seam durability has been the driving force in a lot of "obvious" clothing inventions over the ages, and is why things like medieval crotchless hose were around for so long.
crooked-v··on AI poster wins Ohio State Fair contest
What baffles me isn't even the AI part, it's that the judges showed absolutely no taste and just picked the thing with the most pointless pixel-filling detail in it.
crooked-v··on AI poster wins Ohio State Fair contest
Yeah, my takeaway here is less about AI, and more that these judges have no sense of taste and just gave more points to whatever packed in the most pointless details.
crooked-v··on AI poster wins Ohio State Fair contest
Maybe it's just me, but that font and its layout feels extremely recognizable to me as the "AI image sign font" that I've already seen on posterboards for a bunch of restaurants in SF.
crooked-v··on Anime User Interfaces
I feel like you've got it the other way around: high computer literacy as the assumed default was a result of devices and interfaces that were impossible to use without it.

It's the same thing with cars: a lot of people not knowing how to maintain their cars is the result, not cause, of car designs and machinery becoming more durable and more idiot-proof.

crooked-v··on Read this before you buy that TV streaming stick
I would suggest making the wording something more like "Launching soon, contact us for pre-release information". Same end result but it avoids the association with overpriced enterprise providers.
crooked-v··on IMAX vs. IMAX 70mm: The difference between these two cinema formats
Most "IMAX" branded theaters these days are just the biggest screen in the cineplex rebranded and with a more expensive (but still 4K) projector.
crooked-v··on Read this before you buy that TV streaming stick
The "eww" part is that normally, anytime you see "talk to us for a price", that means someone is charging an absurdly high amount for the good or service.
crooked-v··on Starter Homes Are Piling Up While Luxury Homes Fly Off the Market
If you look at the location chart and their definition of "starter homes", this just turns into a heat map of housing shortages.
crooked-v··on MCP 2026-07-28 Specification: transport going stateless
Arbitrary OAuth built into the spec across the board is extremely useful. It prevents the many, many friction points that come from needing an agent to separately understand the authentication for many different services, or to even know that authentication is happening at all (it happens entirely at the harness level).
crooked-v··on The Difference Between a Button and a Link
And don't forget about the `form` attribute to associate a button with any arbitrary form element by ID.
crooked-v··on I Championed Prediction Markets. Look What They've Become
You're just describing the preexisting problems that led to bans and regulations on sports gambling.
crooked-v··on I Championed Prediction Markets. Look What They've Become
Day trading is gambling. Buy-and-hold is investing. Algorithmic micro-trading is investing, despite looking like gambling. It's about whether there's an immediate dopamine release or not.
crooked-v··on US citizen charged after GrapheneOS phone wipes during airport search
The "duress PIN that nigh guarantees destruction of evidence charges" functionality is extremely stupid, but otherwise GrapheneOS on a flagship phone is your best bet for an Android phone that can't be cracked by low-effort attempts, government or otherwise.
crooked-v··on US citizen charged after GrapheneOS phone wipes during airport search
This seems like the kind of thing that would put US citizens in way more legal jeopardy than just using a secure phone with a long password, refusing to unlock it, and buying a new one if the officers involved confiscate it out of spite.
crooked-v··on US citizen charged after GrapheneOS phone wipes during airport search
The comment you're replying to was focused on prosecutorial incompetence, not benevolence.
crooked-v··on Alien World Chemistry Found Inside Meteorite That Struck New Jersey Home
In the US, if a meteorite lands on your property, it's yours and you can sell or donate it as you please. This homeowner probably made a decent amount on the sale, especially with the emphasis on immediate preservation.
crooked-v··on The new rules of context engineering for Claude 5 generation models
I leave Claude memory stuff turned off by default for the same reason. It inevitably ends up dragging in things that are unrelated and unimportant to the current task.
crooked-v··on AI advice made people less accurate but more confident – sudy
What I'd like is the TNG ship computer: an extremely smart system that nonetheless limits its "creativity" to the clearly marked holodeck, where simple prompting is treated like the casual throwaway diversion it is, and actual authors are still putting in substantial effort and personal preferences and viewpoints into their work.
crooked-v··on AI advice made people less accurate but more confident – sudy
Yes, but that's with mostly the same data as before, just with more of the preexisting dataset and more RLHF. We haven't seen the ouroborous eat itself yet.
crooked-v··on Show HN: Get alerts for good seats at 70mm IMAX showings of The Odyssey
There's only 25 theaters in the US that even have 70MM IMAX projectors, so it is indeed pretty limited.
crooked-v··on Microsoft Comic Chat is now open source
So the real question is, when will somebody turn this into a Discord client?
crooked-v··on 42% of adults rely on their parents for financial support
Are they counting free housing as 'financial support'? A number of states have perverse incentives to delay the legal transfer of a home as long as possible, like with CA's Prop 13.
crooked-v··on I'm a USB-C Maximalist
That would be USB4 cables. They do have the problem of being awkwardly thick and stiff if you're using them for a lot of things.
crooked-v··on Show HN: OpenClawMachines – Extending OpenClaw to the Enterprise
I wouldn't want OpenClaw anywhere near a business I was running, even if I was all aboard the LLM hype train. That codebase is a nightmare. Just take a look at the hundred-plus pages of bugs on the Github repo.
crooked-v··on Nokia’s years of mobile-phone supremacy ended in an afternoon
I still fondly remember my Palm Pre. It felt like something with the potential for as much UX gloss and functionality as the iPhone but much easier to make small apps for.
crooked-v··on EU Parliament greenlights Chat Control 1.0
Except in this case it actually passed 49/51.
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