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You highlighted the correlation. I bet GoPro users have the highest fatality rate of all camera brands.

Dedicated Ice Makers can be quite good and fast at what they do too.

Allll the other associated metadata is useful...

What's "shrinkflation"?

What's your rule? Does it eliminate it every time you type it? Or does it replace it with criticism? (You didn't just write just did you?).

> Sometimes, the best answer is in fact "just add a DNS record."

Why not (just) answer with "Add a DNS record." ?

As soon as we get microtransactions, we will also see the implementation of micro-fines.

I’ve got 24 hours left here. Hiroshima now. Tokyo as fast as a speeding bullet. What’s your do-not-miss in Tokyo?

I was at a fungus event yesterday (really) and they spoke a bit about patterns in nature and how they are similar to Turing Patterns.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turing_pattern

> ... arises due to the interplay between differential diffusion (i.e., different values of diffusion coefficients) of chemical species and chemical reaction.

> lacked a rotating plate which is a pretty essential feature.

They are not essential. You can buy new and professional microwave ovens without them. There can be other ways to help distribute heat.

I hope we get a return to basic tactile switched devices. A friend has a basic coffee maker with one giant switch. My microwave has two knobs.

There's a secret slideshow folder(demo mode?) where you can put in your own images that will display when it sleeps. It was kind of fun to use it as an eink display. I never figured out how to remote in/ssh to remotely swap the images though.

I fully expect a WPE-backed fork before anything is in court.

Wait so carmakers can also now pull the Adobe “we retired the activation servers and you can no longer use the thing you bought”?

A previous version of the login prompt included a link to the lawsuit and this might be a remnant from that initial work.

Did a previous version of the headline or article use the word "unthinkable"?

> Digg-proof

What's the modern soon-to-be-obsolete equivalent?

What if Trinidad changed residency requirements for its TLD? ...

If you're in Ontario or Quebec I can help you out.

It's 2024. Was Winamp2 + plugin system just peak audio playback software?

I never understood why this was always seen as such a constraint. It’s three (or four) pins! It doesn’t even have to have the “hole” form factor. You could have them all in a straight line and then place a headphone jack AGAINST them. I always thought a magnetic TRRS set of pins along the side of a phone could work. Add a sleeve to the connector’s side too. Heck you could standardize a flattened TRRS or whatever that would still slip readily into a typical jack.

Anyone have a good indexing system/software? A spreadsheet works, but I want to scan a code on a box and see what’s inside.

Are pagers allowed on airplanes? Most modern digital devices also carry a sealed Lithium ion pack....

> Chandler played cricket when he was young, and he may have been influenced by the term “google” which is applied to balls which break or swerve.

I think the author means “googly”

Yah. My first reaction was “$555? That’s not bad compared to current glasses prices.” Especially when online retailers won’t sell certain prescriptions.

Who is HN?

What makes something official? Should HN run it?

HN is a community. This is a community effort. And it can be vetted or modified or subscribed to by that community.

As a Canadian, constraining the data viz by political border is annoying.

While trying to take photos of last night's aurora my phone touch screen was acting a bit wonky. I wondered if it could somehow be related.

A friend recently discovered a very strange plant growing in their garden. It seemed utterly alien. They used an online visual tool to identify it. It turns out it's something called "horsetail" and it's considered a "living fossil". (In its later stages of life it does look much more plant-like).

Via wiki:

> Equisetum is the only living genus in Equisetaceae, a family of vascular plants that reproduce by spores rather than seeds.

> Equisetum is a "living fossil", the only living genus of the entire subclass Equisetidae, which for over 100 million years was much more diverse and dominated the understorey of late Paleozoic forests. Some equisetids were large trees reaching to 30 m (98 ft) tall.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Equisetum

The plants that we see right now are just a snapshot of what's currently successful. If we eventually find alien life somewhere, the strangeness might look a lot like the earth-bound "aliens" of our own past.

What about if people "refuse to leave voluntarily"?

https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/united-airlines-flight-over...

> Searches for ‘Volunteer’ Definition Spiked 1900% After United Airlines Incident

https://time.com/4733425/united-airlines-volunteer-definitio...

update: The quote discrepancy has been mostly corrected today. We'll see if there are any other ramifications considering the slight-misquote did lead to other criticisms.

It's a dangerous game when news articles are rewriting content pulled from news wires (eg, Canadian Press in this case) and it's not always clear which sections are pulled from where. There's an argument for legitimate AI-rewriting that can at least leave in direct sources for the content that it pulls in/summarizes (a task that ends up being a hindrance for deadline-facing humans).