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exhilaration··on The Death of the Minivan

Don't miss the 2003 New York Time article linked inside: https://archive.is/3yox8

It's full of gems, like this:

Eventually, though, the minivan became so indelibly associated with suburbia that even soccer moms shunned it. Soon image-conscious parents were going to soccer games in vehicles designed to ford Yukon streams and invade Middle Eastern countries.

exhilaration··on Bitcoin puzzle #66 was solved: 6.6 BTC (~$400k) withdrawn

Was this left by the person who solved it or the one who stole the prize? See below: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41549946

exhilaration··on Iron Mountain: It's Time to Talk About Hard Drives

How about QR codes instead?

exhilaration··on Harder Drive: hard drives we didn't want, or need (2022) [video]

I've never heard of this guy but that was fantastic. Subscribed!

exhilaration··on Air Con: $1697 for an on/off switch

He was using the remote control provided by the manufacturer - it just happened to be an Android device.

exhilaration··on Eating the Birds of America: Audubon's Culinary Reviews of America's Birds

True. In Alaska, bald eagles swarm fish boats the way seagulls will swarm your picnic at the beach. Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MLMa1DO-x5g

exhilaration··on Mpv – A free, open-source, and cross-platform media player

TIL I'm a normie. And I thought I was a hotshot tech guy.

exhilaration··on EV startup Fisker files for bankruptcy

How far behind are Rivian and Lucid? All these niche EV companies are too far from profitability, they have no secret sauce making them useful acquisitions for a legacy carmaker or tech companies. The Chinese might want their established manufacturing sites though but I bet we'll see domestic BYD plants instead.

exhilaration··on 'Has this guy ever made a movie before?' Coppola's battle to film Megalopolis

For those that haven't seen it, there's a a great New Yorker cover called "View of the World from 9th Avenue" that pokes fun at this. Here's a close-up of the image: https://saulsteinbergfoundation.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/...

And an article about it: https://saulsteinbergfoundation.org/essay/view-of-the-world-...

exhilaration··on Tesla Lays Off Employee Who Slept in Car to Work Longer Hours

I have multiple times been picked up by Uber drivers in Teslas.

Those Teslas may be been rented, Uber and Hertz made a deal to make Teslas rentals available to rideshare drivers: https://www.reddit.com/r/UberEATS/comments/13my447/i_rented_...

exhilaration··on Everything Google's Python team were responsible for

It's actually a great comment, I appreciate it being pointed out.

exhilaration··on Air Force picks Anduril, General Atomics to develop unmanned fighter jets

I thought Russia's hypersonic missiles were a failure, with the Ukrainians shooting them down with 30 year old Patriot missiles? There were a lot of articles about it last year, here's one:

https://www.defenseone.com/technology/2023/09/what-ukraines-...

exhilaration··on North Korean animation outsourcing for Amazon, HBO Max series

But that's the most interesting part of the article - that Amazon and HBO projects are being worked on by NORTH KOREAN workers!!! I totally agree with the HN headline and I'm glad it got me to click and read the entire article.

exhilaration··on Two hunters from the same lodge afflicted with sporadic CJD: is CWD to blame?

Here's a different source https://www.fieldandstream.com/conservation/study-cwd-fatal-...

exhilaration··on Apple TV's Fantastic "Silo" Plays Out Like Great Sci-Fi Literature (2023)

I just want the Expanse to continue

exhilaration··on A living replacement knee to be tested in clinical trials within five years

Very true, functional hips are very important in the marital arts!

exhilaration··on Show HN: Memories – FOSS Google Photos alternative built for high performance

I found this in an HN comment https://metadatafixer.com/ I haven't used it but it looks pretty promising

exhilaration··on 'We had to educate Oracle about our contract,' CIO says after Big Red audit

Man that's terrifying. Every business with software engineers needs make sure that the the Oracle, MySQL, Java.com, and Virtual Box domains are blocked on their network.

exhilaration··on Nine US states are teaming up to accelerate the adoption of heat pumps

There's a bunch of DIY heat pump install videos on YouTube, I watched this one recently: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=79C2StyNlBg Honestly it convinced me that it's beyond my skillset.

exhilaration··on How to Replace Your CPAP in Only 666 Days

I'd love to try a CPAP, any suggestions other than asking an Indian coworker to bring one back? Is there a gray market? Maybe Mexican mail order pharmacies?

I'm the US with health insurance but I bet it'll be more expensive to go the legit way.

exhilaration··on Appeals Court: FBI's Safe-Deposit Box Seizures Violated Fourth Amendment

Related story: 4 or 5 years ago my brother got held up on the street in Baltimore in a daytime robbery. The cops drove by 30 seconds later, my brother pointed out the guy, and they caught him right away. My brother was told he could only get his money back if he could provide the serial numbers for the cash he had stolen. Of course he couldn't do that.

exhilaration··on What happens when a school bans smartphones? A complete transformation

Similar phone ban in Minnesota discussed last year (221 comments): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38522142

exhilaration··on I Found David Lynch's Lost 'Dune II' Script

Finally someone mentions the unintelligible dialogue. I saw it with my sister and cousin in the theater, we couldn't understand maybe 40% of the dialogue. And yes, we're native American English speakers. Such a shame.

exhilaration··on A 1690s Peanut is Reborn

Can peanuts grow pretty much anywhere in the U.S.? I'm sure a lot of us here have grown "easy" plants like tomatoes, are peanuts... easy?

exhilaration··on Driverless cars immune from traffic tickets in California under current laws

What about comma? https://comma.ai/ Seems like our old friend geohot built exactly what you want.

Positive HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36927971

exhilaration··on Making my own bed sensor

I'm guessing they sell some kind of extension to attach to those terminals. For example, here's what the $12 water alarm in my basement looks like: https://www.amazon.com/Glentronics-Inc-BWD-HWA-00895001498-B...

exhilaration··on She Gave a Hotel a Mediocre Review. Then Came the Badgering

I partially disagree. Just as an example, the 1-4 star reviews on Amazon are usually spot-on. It's always worth spending a minute or two to skim through those, starting with the lowest ratings first, while ignoring the 5 star reviews.

exhilaration··on The economics of all-you-can-eat buffets (2020)

There's a famous weight-gaining diet called Gallon Of Milk A Day (GOMAD) recommended by strength coaches, most recently Mark Rippetoe of Starting Strength. He gets asked about it a lot: https://startingstrength.com/resources/forum/general-q-and-a...

exhilaration··on Watsonx: IBM's code assistant for turning COBOL into Java

I don't think it'd take two years to learn cobol, it should be less than that.

There's a comment in this thread from a former consultant that completed a 4 week COBOL bootcamp before being sent to a client to write code!

exhilaration··on Watsonx: IBM's code assistant for turning COBOL into Java

The answer is India. Just Google India and COBOL, there's tons of schools teaching it. So if Watson doesn't work out for you, IBM is happy to sell you offshore consulting services the bridge the gap! This is all win-win for IBM -- you can can keep your $200 million mainframe service contract or hire IBM to (kinda? maybe?) move you to something more modern.

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