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fogdart··on Rivian valued at over $100B after biggest IPO of 2021
I wish they weren't so hard to come by.
fogdart··on Whistleblowers expose corruption in EPA Chemical Safety Office
How did you set up that air quality sensor? Can you post a link to it?
fogdart··on Ask HN: Which technologies will become important in the next 5 years?
If anyone is reading this and can answer a little further: What are some emerging technologies that can be broken into without a university degree? I've been very successful in my 7 year career as a field service engineer on chip equipment, and while it is a great job, I am actively looking to branch out into coding, or another field in tech. The enormity of different fields contained therein is overwhelming. Any guidance is greatly appreciated.
fogdart··on Early Retirement (2006)
I can only assume your account is satire.
fogdart··on We’d rather have the iceberg than the ship
It's fun for the people in San Jose who don't have many buildings in their city more historic than the 1970s. I just despise San Jose so please disregard my biased statements if I'm off base here. While Santana Row may be fun, it has zero charm to it. Coming from someone who grew up on cobblestone city streets built in the 1700s...
fogdart··on NASA Is Quietly Funding a Hunt for Alien Megastructures
Assuming we could see it. I'm not a physicist but I have read this book series called The Three Body Problem, in which we discover alien structures, but in the fourth dimension.
fogdart··on Waxing lyrical: taking ear wax seriously
That's hilarious and disgusting!
fogdart··on Lab-grown food will soon destroy farming – and save the planet (2019)
Not OP but I was recommended to HN by my brother as an alternative to Reddit, which we've both mostly moved on from. I'm not a programmer in any capacity. I work in chip manufacturing, but on the factory floor. Never completed any formal education past high school. So, very different from most of you guys. I just like reading, and this site is absolutely wonderful for that. I love that comments are highly encouraged to have some "meat" to them. No overused, hacky jokes or quibbling arguments. Anyway, my two cents. Plenty of non programmers in here.
fogdart··on Robots were supposed to take our jobs. Instead, they’re making them worse
>Gig workers can find themselves at the whims of an app’s black-box algorithm that lets workers flood the app to compete with each other at a frantic pace for pay so low that how lucrative any given trip or job is can depend on the tip, leaving workers reliant on the generosity of an anonymous stranger.

Can we not do sentences like this ever again, please?

fogdart··on Google automatically installed a Covid-19 tracker on phones in Costa Rica
Didn't they do that in America too? My Google Pixel 3 got an auto-update last spring that I didn't approve of nor ask for, that included a covid-19 tracking doodle. It said it would only be functional when both Bluetooth and location were turned on. I rarely turn either of those on at the same time but I hated the invasion of my privacy.
fogdart··on John McAfee found dead in prison cell as Spanish high court allows extradition
The dude has put the HARD miles on his mind and body in the last twenty years. I find this news very sad.
fogdart··on Saffron as an Antidepressant (2018)
Sweet potatoes?
fogdart··on Google's own employees are confused by Android's obscure privacy settings
I hate this. I have a Google phone which muddies the waters further. I'm sure they allow me to turn off every single location setting but still track me anyway. It's too bad because I truly think the Google phones are the best on the market, and have been for some time.