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joezydecoon US to Tap More Oil from Emergency Reserve as Fuel Prices Surge

It's believed anything below 300 million will damage the storage caves beyond repair.

joezydecoon Show HN: PaperMono, e-ink fridge magnet shopping list with mobile web page

I just got mine and I think it has a lot of potential in the newer code forks that are showing up, like Tesseract

joezydecoon Real-time feedback: My closing move in every interview

This seems like a really dangerous way to expose yourself to a discrimination suit if you slip up in your feedback, or the candidate interprets it the wrong way. And they will.

Would HR advise you to give this kind of feedback to someone you're terminating? Normally you say zero for this exact reason.

joezydecoon Why CAFEBABE?

I always use 0xDECAFBAD for my magic number.

joezydecoon George Lucas Returns to Earth, Bearing Gifts

It was an impasse. Chicago wants the development money and tourism, but it also holds pretty strongly to the idea that the lakefront belongs to everyone and shouldn't be developed with private money and closed off. Yes, it was a parking lot. But it was a public parking lot.

That means sometimes these kinds of developments don't happen and you can argue either way. Lucas got a little pushy about how he wanted the museum to be developed and also turned down alternate sites. So he took his ball and left and that's okay too.

joezydecoon New York thoracic surgeon: "For many patients 9/11 is not over"

The first 40 floors of the WTC towers had steel beams coated in an asbestos insulating material. The regulations changed mid-construction but the lower floors remained.

About 400 tons of asbestos was thrown into the atmosphere around Manhattan when the towers fell.

joezydecoon Bending Spoons buying Miro for $1.355B

Funny thing, this person is also our SAFe scrum master. So double the laziness in one package.

joezydecoon Bending Spoons buying Miro for $1.355B

My best experience was a large meeting I had recently, in a well equipped conference room with actual whiteboards and stacks of post-it notes and the Power Miro User in the room insisted we all bring laptops and work on the boards online. Jesus Christ.

joezydecoon Apple used to be weirder and maybe more fun

I have an April Fool's issue (circa 87-88 or so) of the developer newsletter in box somewhere. Self-referential, silly... I kind of miss that Apple.

joezydecoon Terry Rozier and the Teleprompt Operator

Nothing wrong with a little frontrunning. Ask any HFT firm how do to it right.

joezydecoon The August 17 outage, and the work ahead

The Azure horror stories are on this blog post and HN discussion.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47616242

joezydecoon CIA funding helped keep NeXT afloat in the 80s

Those sub-miniature microphones and speakers in your phones? More CIA investment, eventually commercialized by companies like Knowles.

joezydecoon Home batteries are suddenly cheap and everywhere. Here's why

If you install a VPP battery in your house and the grid goes down, how much of that energy goes to you and how much is owned by the company?

joezydecoon Online clinics and influencers are promoting Cialis as a longevity drug

I do admire the fact that someone with a sense of humor at ICOS named the molecule TADA-lafil.

joezydecoon Online clinics and influencers are promoting Cialis as a longevity drug

I invested heavily in ICOS when they launched, they had Bill Gates money and were looking for ways to extend lifespans and solve inflammation.

And all we got was another boner pill.

joezydecoon This Hi-Fi Tape Recorder Changed Radio Forever

Sent to Germany at the war’s end, Mullin eventually came across that technology at a radio station...

Fun trivia: that radio station was in Bad Nauheim, Germany, which is where Elvis Presley was stationed during his stint in the US Army.

joezydecoon U of Michigan drops first-semester grades to ‘curb mental health crisis’

And we shouldn't expect adult/parent level of work out a 16/17 year-old. There's no time left any more to be a kid.

joezydecoon U of Michigan drops first-semester grades to ‘curb mental health crisis’

Let me tell you about the scam of 'honors' classes in today's high schools. They not doing anything more introspective or challenging. It's the same classwork thrown at them faster and without as much teaching support. Just more to grind out. But when you don't understand something?

You're smart, you'll figure it out.

In return you get inflated GPAs that get you into better colleges. But if you can't figure it out on the first try? More stress.

Interestingly, a lot of colleges now ignore the 'honors' weighted GPA and ask to see the unweighted score. If you have a teen entering high school, skip the honors track and help them do better in the normal track version of the class. See if your school offers dual-credit with a local community college or state university. Those transfer credits are WAY more valuable now (and cheaper!) than an AP score, with a lot less test stress.

joezydecoon U of Michigan drops first-semester grades to ‘curb mental health crisis’

When you force high school kids to work days that are significantly longer than a normal adult to achieve a good GPA and get into a good college, you can expect that they are going to throttle back once they're away from home with way more free time than is normal.

From my kid's experience: she was up at 6:30am, in AP classes by 7:30am (three more to go during the day). Classes were done by 3:00, then sports practice until 5:00. Gotta have that activity on your college application, not counting other volunteering and clubs in the open spaces. Then homework after dinner until 10:00 or so, sometimes much later. Homework assigned over weekends. Homework assigned over breaks.

That's 15+ hours a day, every weekday, for an entire school year. Then you have test prep (APs and the ACT/SAT), college applications, writing essays and scholarship applications, college tours, sorting decisions, financial aid applications, etc etc etc. And now her college already has a few hours of orientation videos stacked up for her to watch before she moves in.

Personally, I don't blame her if she checks out for a few weeks. Or a semester.

joezydecoon Gentoo bugzilla closed due AI bot scraper overload

I'm talking about managerial AI-induced psychosis and/or FOMO. Make the underlings use it so they can tell the shareholders that AI is making great strides.

joezydecoon Tesla Driver Tries 'I Wasn't Driving' Excuse to Get Out of Speeding Ticket

You can be given a DUI even if you are sitting in the driver's seat with the engine turned off. Sitting in that seat means you are still in control of the car as far as the law sees it.

joezydecoon When Feature Flags Do and Don't Make Sense (2019)

"At Google, our philosophy is that “rollbacks are normal.” When an error is found or reasonably suspected in a new release, the releasing team rolls back first and investigates the problem second"

Well this all makes sense now. My enterprise laid off most of our QA team and I see a constant stream of rollback announcements. Who needs regression testing anymore?

joezydecoon Don't use your phone while you poop

It seemed like Reader's Digest magazine existed solely for this purpose, if you grew up in the 60s-70s. Better form factor too.

joezydecoon Gentoo bugzilla closed due AI bot scraper overload

And then it's pushed on the end users with the same amount of explanation and reason. You must adopt this now. The FOMO is insane.

joezydecoon The title cards in Blade Runner are amazing

I think the placement of Replicant is deliberate. It's heading out of bounds and makes you uneasy when you see it.

joezydecoon Pin every country you've visited on a 3D globe

The map is missing a large number of island nations in the Caribbean region. Haven't scanned Europe yet but Malta is definitely not there. Did the AI filter these as too small?

joezydecoon The Light Flip Is the Stylish Dumb Flip Phone of Your Dreams

https://archive.is/g1WAp

joezydecoon The Great Steam Deck Crash of 2026: How the New Pricing Decreased Demand by 80%

Yeah, we drove Moore's Law into a wall about a decade ago. Getting smaller and cheaper is now exponentially more expensive and slower to achieve. Call ASML and ask when you can get an EUV machine delivered.

joezydecoon The 2000s called. They want their digital camera back

And in another thread we're trying to figure out why GoPro is dying. Amazing.

joezydecoon White House teleprompter operator made $100K+ betting on Trump's speeches

Wake me when Kushner is in the headline.

https://www.dropsitenews.com/p/iran-jd-vance-kushner-witkoff...