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falsemyrmidon··on Tells of a Slop UI
Not a designer but the worst feedback you can get from your coworkers is nothing.
falsemyrmidon··on Tells of a Slop UI
This website has a terrible taste in font. There's a reason you don't see a lot of serifs on the Internet.
falsemyrmidon··on Does Georgism work? Five years later
I think UBI is pretty squarely a progressive issue. Maybe you're conservative for the area you live in (Cali?) but many conservatives would consider your view to be pretty extreme left.
falsemyrmidon··on Does Georgism work? Five years later
Sounds like 19th century landowners
falsemyrmidon··on What California is learning from solar panels built over irrigation canals
Seattle's light rail system uses that exact model.
falsemyrmidon··on Pion, an agent designed to run any company autonomously
> The end result of a business is a lemonade stand or a barber or donut shop, the end result of a startup is OpenAI or Google.

That's a bit disingenuous. The more comparable end result for a coffee shop is Starbucks. Or Amazon if you want to talk about books

falsemyrmidon··on Muse – Meta’s personal AI agent
Guess I'm not in the industry enough lmao
falsemyrmidon··on Fish bad, sugar good, and other medieval ideas about food
You can ask this about a lot of foods, but probably won't get many satisfying answers. For example cheese goes back many thousands of years, and it's theorized that it was invented accidentally due to storing milk in sheep stomachs or similar.

Probably something similar for pickling. Someone noticed that salted foods last a long time, and vinegar never seems to go bad, so why not try combining them?

falsemyrmidon··on EFF to Governor Newsom: Veto California's AB 1709
You can be anonymous without using the same model as 4chan.
falsemyrmidon··on EFF to Governor Newsom: Veto California's AB 1709
Probably also worth pointing out that they made that account to leave that comment
falsemyrmidon··on EFF to Governor Newsom: Veto California's AB 1709
Idk, they've always had a techno libertarian streak. This seems on brand to me.
falsemyrmidon··on American Airlines mechanic Azriel “Al” Blackman has died
Just read and internalize the 800k page manual, some of which poorly explains why things are the way they are or is outright wrong.

Ezpz

falsemyrmidon··on How much of HN is AI?
It's not just HN, have you seen mainstream news recently? It's just a hot topic and I think it's normal for people to talk about those a lot.

If quantum computing ever goes mainstream, I'm sure you'll see a lot of articles about that as well.

falsemyrmidon··on License plate reader searches should require a warrant
There hasn't been an explicit ruling from the supreme Court that applies here, but there are indications that they would have ruled that the fourth amendment applied. They've explicitly avoided closing the door on that possibility.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v.Jones(2012)

> Also left unanswered was the broader question surrounding the privacy implications of a warrantless use of GPS data without a physical intrusion – as might occur, for example, with the electronic collection of GPS data from wireless service providers or factory-installed vehicle tracking and navigation services.[27] The Court left these matters to be decided in some future case, saying, "It may be that achieving the same result through electronic means, without an accompanying trespass, is an unconstitutional invasion of privacy, but the present case does not require us to answer that question."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carpenter_v._United_States

> Ultimately, in Carpenter the court determined that the third-party doctrine could not be extended to historical cell site location information (CSLI). Instead, the Court compared "detailed, encyclopedic, and effortlessly compiled" CSLI records to the GPS information at issue in United States v. Jones, recognizing that both forms of data accord the government the ability to track individuals' past movements.[24] Furthermore, the Court noted that CSLI could pose even greater privacy risks than GPS data, as the prevalence of cellphones could accord the government "near perfect surveillance" of an individual's movements. Accordingly, the Court ruled that, under the Fourth Amendment, the government must obtain a search warrant in order to access historical CSLI records.[1]

Of course there are no guarantees on how they'd rule today, but in the past they've ruled that scale and ease of access and compilation are significant enough to mean that fourth amendment protections should apply.

falsemyrmidon··on Controversial creators are benefiting from monetization programs run by Meta
I don't know anyone who uses Facebook anymore
falsemyrmidon··on _for-sale DNS records
Is this an ad?
falsemyrmidon··on US beef prices have soared but farmers aren't making more money
Because markets are neither rational nor perfectly elastic.
falsemyrmidon··on Decades-old fish sauce at abandoned factory in Canada finally being removed
It's the dosage that makes the poison. If you dumped it all in the ocean in a single spot then yes, it would probably kill the local ecosystem.
falsemyrmidon··on Benchmarking Opus 5 on SlopCodeBench
It's just as easy to go too far in the direction of shoving too much logic on a single line in the name of reducing lines of code.
falsemyrmidon··on Open-weight AI is having its Kubernetes moment
I just tried that with claude

> The 2020 U.S. presidential election was won by Joe Biden, who defeated the incumbent, Donald Trump. Biden secured 306 electoral votes to Trump's 232, and won the national popular vote by about 7 million votes. His running mate, Kamala Harris, became the first woman and first person of color elected Vice President.

> Biden was inaugurated as the 46th President on January 20, 2021.

falsemyrmidon··on Android May Soon Restrict On-Device ADB
So glad we're becoming as locked down as iOS
falsemyrmidon··on Protecting our FLOSS commons from LLMs
Who do you think should be voting if not their active users?
falsemyrmidon··on Orion Browser by Kagi
This reads like some of that covert Russian election influence they're so fond of.
falsemyrmidon··on Xiaomi-Robotics-1
My wife already doesn't do that
falsemyrmidon··on Is this the end of the once-mighty GoPro?
I stopped doing it when I was in high school (I just stood there) and no one cared. This would have been about 22 years ago
falsemyrmidon··on Steam Machine: Between 12k and 15k Units Sold per week
With the steam deck 5% is around 300% to 500% growth over the last 5 years
falsemyrmidon··on OnePlus halts operations in USA and Europe
I got a pixel 10 for 350 a few weeks ago.
falsemyrmidon··on The great blogging collapse: What happened to 100 successful blogs?
That seems like a lot of effort to go through
falsemyrmidon··on Leaking YouTube creators' private videos
Plumbers build all the pipes, but one of the aforementioned professional engineers created a drawing of where they would go and how the water and sewage would move through the building.
falsemyrmidon··on HackerRank open sourced its ATS. My resume scored 90/100. Oh wait 74. No – 88
You may as well just randomly pick 65 to discard, if your only goal is to reduce the number for review.
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