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Hello I have a question, and my question is what the fuck

At last, the feature Windows has had since XP: separate volume for different audio sources (alarms and ring tones).

Embarrassing.

An immutable linux base, like Flatcar, combined with dockerized apps for isolation and easy per-container updates could come pretty close if some engineering were put into UX.

You'd need to have unattended upgrades, or perhaps a companion app where you can send the user a push notification to say "hey bruh update your shit". Would also need engineers to support those updates.

Tailscale pretty much solved NAT traversal.

>This looks great.

>"Unbundling BI" is absolutely where things are headed now that more people have agents, coding agents, agent computers to help with work.

Agreed. Coupled with bento[0] for slide decks, I think this type of project is a very welcome development, helping us move away from walled gardens and proprietary software suites.

[0] https://github.com/nyblnet/bento

It’s a better lisp, too. Elisp really sucks and is my least favourite part of emacs, which I use daily.

Taco Bell at least looks appetizing in their commercials. Arby's doesn't. It looks weird and gross.

I stand corrected!

> I plan to personally use it to encrypt and backup some of my GPG keys offline, then burn them onto M-DISC discs and store them in a bank safe

Won’t that make it difficult to rotate your keys?

Keys should be something you don’t hesitate to throw away and rotate at the first hint of a compromise.

All I know is Wordpress and Beeper, are any of their other products good? Like isn't WooCommerce an absolute also-ran compared to Amazon, Shopify, Wix, Squarespace, etc?

Tangential, but I have no idea who is eating at Arby’s. The food looks positively vile from the advertisements.

That company sounds like a clusterfuck. Good luck attracting good talent with such dysfunctional leadership.

> actually it's better than most rich countries after controlling for race/ethnicity

Yikes dude

Sure, but the quote I was responding to was not "what will the government do", it was "what will cops do". Well, Flock and countless other examples have shown us exactly what cops will do.

No, I know this is a minority opinion on HN but I think violence towards women is a larger problem than seldomly enforced laws being enforced more often.

You can repeal a law. The courts can strike it down. The same cannot be said about cops abusing women, which is statistically well established.

>I’m not sticking up for car manufacturers, but at what size or capacity should you be required to document and publish these things? It requires employer time and effort and has a cost associated with it.

You're talking about things that by definition have to be documented and internally published in order to design and build the powertrain in the first place. You can't design a computer-controlled automatic transmission without documenting the shift points.

The cost is therefore essentially nothing, because the information already exists. Just copy paste it into a PDF and put it on your website.

Well you see, requiring companies to let farmers fix their own tractors is Socialism. And the USSR had "socialist" in the name, so Socialism bad. In the big, beautiful Land of the Free(tm) they don't do Socialism because that's commie shit.

The American Way is to let corporations fuck you over in any way that increases profits. Sure, they have the least efficient healthcare system in the world, ineffectual public education, massive wealth disparity, crumbling national infrastructure, and a different school shooting every week.

But at least they're not socialists.

Yep and they were fined a paltry 6 million dollars or so. For actively distributing and infecting users with malware. This on annual sales exceeding $3B.

That case sure put Mark Russinovich on everyone’s radars, at least.

Good times.

> What happens when cops are allowed real-time access to Waymo's in-car video footage?

Same thing that happens whenever cops get new surveillance powers. They’ll use it to stalk and harass women.

35 years ago we didn’t have the cultural precedent/zeitgeist of getting cancelled for some stupid shit you wrote on a message board in 1991 so we were less guarded with our opinions.

So, less than the boiling temp of water. That is not outside the realm of solvable problems

It’s also in darkness for 2 weeks. Terrestrial radio telescopes experience sunlight too. That would seem to be a solved problem.

What precisely are your motives, then?

The umpteenth example of Musk companies behaving poorly and here you come to suggest that we can’t let pesky things like science stand in the way of “the internet”. As if Starlink services is synonymous with the internet itself. The implication is clear, to me at least.

Thank Prabhakar Raghavan for that. After destroying Yahoo’s search product he failed up and did the same at Google.

In reward for making Google Search materially worse in every way except ad revenue, he failed up again and was promoted to a cushy do-nothing role.

Everything wrong with the tech industry, embodied in a single person.

I didn’t say it was justified, I said it had little to do with the absolute body count.

Oh maybe I misremembered, for some reason I thought it was much earlier

It definitely precipitated the surveillance state and the erosion of civil liberties across not just the USA but large parts of the west, but it's not about body count.

Everyone knew, even in the immediate aftermath, that a copycat situation would never happen again, because passengers now knew to fight back and risk possible death vs certain death being used as living munitions inside a flying death tube.

Don't forget that in 2004 when traumatic memories of 9/11 were still raw and on everyone's daily consiousness, we had the Madrid bombings, the London bombings I think the following year, and then the Charlie Hebdo attack in Paris.

The world felt like it was rapidly becoming more unstable, and people feared that surprise terror attacks were the new normal. That kind of loss of confidence in security services can cause a rapid unravelling of the social fabric in ways that car accidents can't.

Nobody was talking about starting pogroms against people with brown skin because of car accidents.

HN is particularly notorious for armchair aviation experts. I am an aerospace engineer having worked in airworthiness & certification as well as maintenance/repair/overhaul on multiple different aircraft types both fixed and rotary. I mention this only to establish my bona fides as someone who knows their shit:

The comments here during the 737 MAX MCAS thing were fucking wild. So many randoms spitting out confidently incorrect nonsense.

I will check it out, thank you.

Hey you’re right, we should gladly accept every decision the big corps make. They know best, after all. We should probably lick their boots too, in gratitude for their benevolence.

Quite so. When it first took off, I took no end of flames and downvotes for suggesting that WebGPU is a terrible idea. HTML and the browser were originally conceived to render documents, not serve as a bastardized application distribution platform.

The only arguments I've ever heard in favor of wasm/webgpu were that using native graphics/GUI toolkit APIs are a pain. That's definitely true, because I've written stuff with gtk and it sucks, but that doesn't mean we should just shovel an entire tech stack into the browser.

Just because we can, doesn't mean we should. I'm tired of these BigCos shitting everything up.