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jplona··on Waymo pulls over, calls cops on juvenile riders who had 'ghost gun"
I think the risks are different on a train, which is far more public than the inside of a taxi. There are more likely to be other people and/or an operator to intervene.
jplona··on Waymo pulls over, calls cops on juvenile riders who had 'ghost gun"
I think there's a legitimate distinction between monitoring what's inside the car vs what's outside. Outside seems bad. Inside is probably necessary.
jplona··on GPS glitched across the US by as much as 33 feet
I think so, yes. That's the main purpose of RTK
jplona··on Claude.ai unavailable and elevated errors on the API
Sadly not colorblind friendly
jplona··on Go Naming Conventions: A Practical Guide
I think this is clearly a matter of preference. Shorter variable (or rather, appropriately short variables for the context) for me are easier to recognize and disambiguate. They take up fewer tokens, so to speak. When I see `p.Age` I don't have to go back and look at the beginning of the loop because I just read that line and I remember it.
jplona··on Police illegally sell restricted weapons, supplying crime
I'm actually quite interested in your N paragraphs about why the category is written the way it is, and especially about the principles under which it is (or was meant to be) effective..

Frankly it's something I've always wondered about, but as mostly a spectator of these kinds of discussions I've never seen anyone explain. Like a lot of folks, from my surface-level knowledge it seems arbitrary and likely meaningless. But so much so that it feels like I must be missing something.

Or any chance of a link to your previous cpmments on the topic?

jplona··on Becoming physically immune to brute-force attacks (2021)
I had a similar thought, along the lines of https://xkcd.com/538/
jplona··on 85% of Neuralink implant wires are already detached, says patient
I could imagine that in practice you end up with a bunch of vulnerable people submitting themselves to experimentation by powerful companies, which is an unhealthy dynamic.
jplona··on How do MRI Headphones work? (2022)
I believe this is required by code in some places, depending on the location of the switch. Mine is inset into the counter top, so plenty of opportunity for water to pool around it which I think would rule out an electrical switch.
jplona··on Vasopressin deficiency: driver of social impairment and fluid imbalance in ASD? [pdf]
I've always understood the increase in diagnoses to be more about increased awareness than about a change in human behavior.

E.g. it looks like autism wasn't defined as a spectrum in the DSM until either 1994 or 2000: https://www.spectrumnews.org/news/evolution-autism-diagnosis....

jplona··on Old vs. new growth trees and the wood products they make
My local big orange store sells both, there's a green pile and a KD pile.
jplona··on Unlocking the secrets of oobleck–strange stuff that's both liquid and solid
I have studied the properties of ketchup extensively at burger joints all over, and in my expert opinion Wikipedia has it correct here.

This is why ketchup barely flows when you invert the bottle, until you start banging on it and it gets moving and it all comes out at once (thinned by the shear stress of your banging and gravity)

jplona··on Person-in-WiFi: Fine-Grained Person Perception Using WiFi [pdf]
I want something like this for accurate room presence detection in my house (for lights etc) that doesn't require dozens of PIR sensors or similar.

My dream is that the lights in my long hallway gradually dim up in front of me and back down behind me as I walk.

jplona··on Meta sued by privacy group over pay up or click OK model
What is the connection between cookies and prostitution?
jplona··on I spent 3 years working on a coat hanger [video]
I think pants would work, if you put them in legs first.
jplona··on Chrome Removing Theora Support
I suppose Flash could be considered a notable exception there.
jplona··on ACT test scores for U.S. students drop to a 30-year low
Summer breaks for teachers are much shorter than for students, especially when you take into account required continuing education and professional development.
jplona··on Car allergic to vanilla ice cream (2000)
This was a puzzler on Car Talk at least once. There are more like it: https://www.cartalk.com/radio/puzzler
jplona··on Ask HN: How to do literal web searches after Google destroyed the “ ” feature?
It's also possible they they're correct, and the average user of today has much less need for verbatim searches than the average user when the search engine was first designed.
jplona··on Ask HN: How do you deal with never ending noise and distraction WFH?
Many folks I know used WFH as an opportunity to move away from the city where you can get more space and quiet for less money.
jplona··on iPhone 12 withdrawn from French market for non-compliance with EU regulation
Linked from the post: https://www.anfr.fr/maitriser/equipements-radioelectriques/l...

"These limit values result from the work of the International Commission on Non-Ionizing Radiation Protection, ICNIRP. In 1998, the ICNIRP ruled in view of the state of available scientific knowledge and only retained the proven effects of exposure to waves, in particular the heating of tissues."

The regulation specifies a test that measures frequencies up to only 10GHz, which is far below ionizing radiation frequencies.

jplona··on Clean mount lists in Linux
I've always used ncdu for this. It also allows deleting files/directories for when you're trying to figure out how to free up space.

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

jplona··on How to drill your own water well
For folks interested in the standard process, I highly recommend this channel: https://youtube.com/@h2omechanic. Very informative.
jplona··on Internet Archive responds to recording industry lawsuit targeting obsolete media
It's not unreasonable to ask for a better understanding of the applicable law(s) in a post about a lawsuit.
jplona··on Tell HN: Google Maps is again requiring wi-fi scanning to enable navigation
I think those "downtown canyons" are likely to be the places where wifi information helps the most, so that would be my guess.
jplona··on Arizona driver says he was 'trapped' in hot Tesla after battery died
For those wondering, from the article it looks like he wasn't aware of the manual door release (https://www.tesla.com/ownersmanual/model3/en_au/GUID-7A32EC0...).
jplona··on Alcohol without the hangover – scientists are finding ways
Could be hydration related. Lower ABV drinks contain more water relative to the amount of alcohol you're drinking.
jplona··on Google Employee Accuses WEI-Opponents of Being “Criminals”
An alternative read is that the poster is trying to discourage further physical threats, doxxing, and other abusive behavior they're receiving for doing their jobs, by appealing to the bad actors' self-interest.
jplona··on Learnings from kCTF VRP's 42 Linux kernel exploits submissions
Reading a bit futher, the total for the program comes to almost 2 million which seems heavier than the per-award number.
jplona··on Tailscale doesn't want your password
I think it depends on your threat model. For my personal accounts, I'm more concerned about the risk from badly-managed auth than law enforcement. So from that standpoint, using an established big tech company makes sense. Other people may place different weights on various threats.
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