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jbmchuck··on The Relation Between Mathematics and Physics by Paul Dirac (1939)
How does this comment relate to the article?
jbmchuck··on Herdr is joining Y Combinator. The runtime stays open
Here you go:

https://forklog.com/en/former-coinbase-employee-accused-of-c...

https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/26/corgi-the-buzzy-y-combinat...

jbmchuck··on Discovery Loop
Sure - and knowing what is not possible with current tech is a nice datapoint to have.
jbmchuck··on An old patent inspired the new "Y-zipper", a three-sided fastener
It's definitely pretty whiz bang but I'm curious how it would hold up to the dirt and grime of a backpacking trip. I'm also not convinced it is any better or lighter than poles (which can be pretty light with the right materials...)
jbmchuck··on RFC 10008: The new HTTP Query Method
I'm guessing the op is referring to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Query_string
jbmchuck··on Waymo Premier
It seems to me a lot of people just really don't like to be associated with public transit or anything associated with anything remotely underclass.

It's a class marker to be driven around in an autonomous 6000lbs tank rather than move your legs a bit.

jbmchuck··on US Consumer Price Index up 4.2%
Enough that a 5% annual return is enough for me to get by. I'm certainly not done working - I want to get that to 3% or so - but it does make it a bit demotivating some days when I look outside and imagine the other things I could be doing with my time.
jbmchuck··on US Consumer Price Index up 4.2%
I have the same feelings as the original poster as I get further into middle age and have a good retirement nest egg - for me there are things more valuable - free time and the things I want to do with it but can't get paid to do - than making more income than I really need.
jbmchuck··on A scoping review of bicycling interventions’ impacts on well-being
Absolutely. The US' urban density problems, housing cost crisis - they all go back to car-based society.
jbmchuck··on Colombia hosts talks on exiting fossil fuels as global energy crisis deepens
Reminds me of this onion bit: https://theonion.com/scientists-politely-remind-world-that-c...
jbmchuck··on John Ternus to become Apple CEO
Agreed - once the ad-based profit model took off that no longer became possible.
jbmchuck··on Marc Andreessen is wrong about introspection
'Thought leader' has always been a code word for 'bullshit artist'.
jbmchuck··on Precise geolocation via Wi-Fi Positioning System
Honest question - what's your use case for needing GPS indoors? I generally know where I am when I'm indoors :)
jbmchuck··on Trump pardons convicted Binance founder
Regarding your first point - how about George Santos? I suspect Santos was more well known than any of the crypto-scammers, was clearly guilty, was derided by both ends if the political spectrum - yet Trump commuted him.
jbmchuck··on NASA chief suggests SpaceX may be booted from moon mission
He's also said we'd have humans on Mars in 2022...
jbmchuck··on U.S. Army confirms Tesla Cybertruck can't be imported in Europe
> But again, here in the US we are an order of magnitude less likely to be hit by a car.

Huh - do you have a source for that stat?

jbmchuck··on Docker Hub is down (again)
My guess/experience - because there are probably layers of management and executives who have an uptime # in their OKRs or whatever is fashionable these days.

The decision to post anything about outages comes from the executive chain in many orgs lest they miss out on bonus compensation for the year.

This is the same reason services like docker and aws will very rarely call an outage an 'outage' - it's always 'service degradation', even when dockerhub is completely useless as it is right now.

jbmchuck··on Crimes with Python's Pattern Matching (2022)
Should be easily doable with a semgrep rule, e.g.:

    ~> cat semgrep.yaml
    rules:
      - id: no-pattern-matching
        pattern: |
          match ...:
        message: |
          I'm not a fan of the pattern matching in Python
        severity: ERROR
        languages:
          - python
...

    ~> cat test.py
    #!/usr/bin/env python3

    foo = 1
    match foo:
      case 1:
        print("one")
...

    ~> semgrep --config semgrep.yaml test.py   


     no-pattern-matching
          I'm not a fan of the pattern matching in Python
                                                         
            4┆ match foo:
            5┆   case 1:
            6┆     print("one")
(exits non-0)
jbmchuck··on California sent residents' personal health data to LinkedIn
There were quite a few slave revolts in the 19th century.
jbmchuck··on US newspapers are deleting old crime stories, offering subjects a 'clean slate'
I suspect that is true but here is the difference: organizations that benefit from fewer prisons have a multitude of other things they benefit from (and can lobby for). Private prison operators on the other hand really only have one thing that can improve their bottom line at the end of the day - more prisons.

Outside of a few non-profit orgs I suspect there aren't a lot of dollars lobbying for fewer prisons, it's not a great look and it's easily to spin as "company X doesn't want to lock up violent criminals!

On the other hand that's really the only agenda item private prison operators put their lobbying dollars toward.

jbmchuck··on The demise of the mildly dynamic website (2022)
https://docs.aws.amazon.com/prescriptive-guidance/latest/pat...
jbmchuck··on Diffractive Chocolate
They travel c in vacuo but not through different media.