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justinzollars··on 'If anything happens, it's not suicide': Boeing whistleblower before death
could be foreign meddling too.
justinzollars··on Gnet is the fastest networking framework in Go
"the standard library is good enough and has better support in the long run"
justinzollars··on Oregon passes right-to-repair law Apple lobbied to kill
Easy solution. Just stop selling new devices in Oregon.
justinzollars··on Multiple government websites, including DHS FEMA and the Secret Service are down
DHS and FEMA were down for me a bit ago.
justinzollars··on Signs you're about to be acquired (2020)
nope! Context Optional
justinzollars··on Signs you're about to be acquired (2020)
I woke up one day and saw the founder tweet - "Adobe."
justinzollars··on Nerdy internals of an Apple text editor
Awesome description! Thank you!
justinzollars··on Elon Musk sues Sam Altman, Greg Brockman, and OpenAI [pdf]
And transferred everything they did to that arm. I'm all for tax avoidance, but the rules should apply to everyone equally. Small ma and pa businesses don't have the money to hire armies of lawyers for these legal machinations
justinzollars··on Elon Musk Hits OpenAI with "Breach of Contract" Lawsuit for Abandoning Mission
Thanks!
justinzollars··on Elon Musk Hits OpenAI with "Breach of Contract" Lawsuit for Abandoning Mission
I like the reference to the original source better than an editorial. Thanks
justinzollars··on Elon Musk sues OpenAI, CEO, claiming betrayal of its goal to benefit humanity
[dupe] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39562778
justinzollars··on Coinbase Shows Balance as 0
Ha. Nice!
justinzollars··on Social Media First Amendment Cases
Do you live in Silicon Valley? I've lived here for 15 years. All of my friends are liberal, The DPI (Democratic Performance index) of my precinct is D+95. That's North Korean level of political obedience. I'm one of just 18 people in my precinct to vote for the GOP. Looking around my precinct its not looking much better. In fact, in the Bay Area, not a single county has voted for the GOP since 1980. In California, the Dems have a supermajority. You could sift through political donations of every single tech company and they give at a 1:25 ratio to the Democrats. I'm not sure about your CEO comment either, a super majority of billionaires are leftists today.
justinzollars··on Social Media First Amendment Cases
I like David Sacks perspective on §230. Yes, there is a huge bias in Silicon Valley against conservatives. But if we get rid of 230 it will get even worse. The moderators are all liberal. Personally I think the bias is generational, and will work it self out with time.
justinzollars··on Airfoil
I'm taking a sailing class, and learned sails in addition to keels utilize this concept.
justinzollars··on What do we get wrong about the Byzantine Empire?
stopped speaking?

The Eastern Empire never spoke Latin. There was always a cultural divide.

justinzollars··on Japan's Nikkei surpasses 1989 all-time high
They changed the way we measure inflation big time since the 70s. My bills are up 40% in the last 3 years. The interesting thing is this is far from over. We will see how this ends. I'm not optimistic.
justinzollars··on Gemma: New Open Models
Imagine the meetings.
justinzollars··on Web Scraping in Python – The Complete Guide
Awesome! Things have gotten so bad this is the only alternative. I tried building a hobby search engine then quickly gave up, but did imagine how I would do the scraping!
justinzollars··on Web Scraping in Python – The Complete Guide
I've tried this for the first time recently in 10 years - it's really become a miserable chore. There are so many countermeasures deployed to web scraping. The best path forward I could imagine is utilizing LLMs, taking screenshots and having the AI tell me what it sees on the page; but even gathering links is difficult. xml site maps for the win.
justinzollars··on Fingerprints can be recreated from the sounds made when you swipe a screen
This reads like a thrilling bond film. Scary!
justinzollars··on The day I canceled my Spotify subscription
I also have trouble finding new music on Spotify. I find its nearly impossible and have a strong preference for the old design.
justinzollars··on Every default macOS wallpaper
The California thing is kinda played. We need a new theme.
justinzollars··on How to center a div in CSS
Nice intro. I always feel like I'm fighting css.
justinzollars··on End of Life for Twilio Authy Desktop App
This sucks. Just creates work for me.
justinzollars··on Nine US states are teaming up to accelerate the adoption of heat pumps
Wired is owned by Condé Nast. Condé Nast is owned by Advance Publications. Advance Publications, a private, family-held business that owns and invests in a broad range of media, communications, technology, education, and live entertainment companies, including Warner Bros. Discovery, Charter Communications and Reddit.

This is corporate propaganda. Its expensive and won't be adopted. Expensive technology is stupid. People won't adopt it because no one has $100,000 to trench their yard - save a few tech workers in Atherton who wish to virtue signal.

Politicians in these states are virtue signaling.

We need abundant low cost energy. If it has to be carbon free - nuclear is the answer. I personally invest in Uranium because life is a struggle for energy and capital is really a form of stored energy. Nothing is more abundant in potential energy than splitting atoms. Its the answer we will reach.

California is experiencing huge annual increases in energy costs because of virtue signaling. This is more virtue signaling. Yes we can heat our homes with heat pumps. But it will cost 10 times as much money.

justinzollars··on FCC rules AI-generated voices in robocalls illegal
The most popular topics on HN are bureaucratic decrees. Sad.
justinzollars··on DEF CON 32 Was Canceled. We Un-Canceled it
Caesars canceled DEF CON could it be because CaesarsPalace was hacked this year? I doubt they did it?
justinzollars··on Y Combinator CEO Garry Tan's online rant spurs threats to supes, police reports
I recently lost another friend to Fentanyl. The policy of SF sups actually kills people, like my friend. The policy of Leftist supervisors who defend huge open air drug markets can be directly linked to thousands of deaths in San Francisco and tens of thousands in the Bay Area.

This is an example of caring more about what people say than what people actually do.

For a generation who is so proud of itself, Millennials, your results suck. Where are your accomplishments?

justinzollars··on Show HN: Open-source x64 and Arm GitHub runners
I always imagine the github runners as a vast array of early model raspberry pis.
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