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> lololol. Obviously you don't know any Ukranians.

Please take a step back and remember that your original claim was "a massive percentage of the population accessed the internet (via starlink)"

That's demonstrably false. It's a small percentage. Even in Ukraine. You're now moving the goalposts.

> I hate it too, but the alternative is even more consolidation, so unfortunately this is just the reality right now and you’ll have to get over it until when/if things improve.

No, the actual alternative is learning to do it yourself. Unless you're a frequent target of UDP DDoS, there is almost nothing you can't defend against straight from the server itself.

Spending time learning how to configure your firewall, set rate limits in your web server, tune your application for caching and further rate limits, and should all this fail install a self-hosted captcha/proof-of-work fence yourself, is definitely a fair amount of efforts when those things aren't part of the core hobby.

You have to deposit $75,000 to the DMV and if you get in an accident where you're at fault you will also be on the hook for damages beyond that. You can also get a surety bond for that amount, instead of doing a cash deposit.

It used to be 35k but it was increased in late 2024 (which is good because it hadn't increased since the 70s).

https://www.dmv.ca.gov/portal/vehicle-registration/insurance...

But to do that you really have to hate insurers or be uninsurable. Because realistically putting that 75k in a basic HISA will yield enough interests to pay for regular car insurance and you get to keep your 75k.

I'm sure you take advantage of a lot of modern conveniences that you didn't have as a lad, and you would prefer to not give those up.

I (and too many others) have left voynich ninja because of it.

I appreciate that AI is helpful, but the low effort from the humans that wield it is very very annoying. If people at least: 1. read the solution they're about to propose and 2. instructed the AI to check the forum for past solutions, I think people wouldn't have been as tired of LLMs.

Your reply only makes sense if we see the baby as property. If we see the baby as a full human who died because of another human's negligence, then suddenly the scenario becomes a lot more complicated.

Not life in prison complicated, but probably more than "he's been punished enough." complicated.

BE FAST should be taught to everybody. Because for most people living alone, the odds of a wellness check being done fast enough to rescue you are slim to none. So it's important to go unlock the front door and call 911 whilst you still can.

Did you fall and hit your head too? Because a stroke doesn't count as Traumatic Brain Injury as far as I know.

I wish you well on you recovery!

Zoom also works on all browsers. Clearly you had a hot take, people corrected you, and now you're doubling down by suggesting, of all things, a Google product.

Enough with the knee jerk reactions. They have to record in some cases. You don't have to like those features, but plenty of people want those features.

- The television has voice control.

- The television has a manually triggered speech-to-text feature so you don't have to type with tv remote.

I agree with you that accusations need to be backed by proofs and the kneejerk reactions on HN are embarrassing to read and unhelpful. Big bad evil corp, every single time. I mean those reactions are all over social media, but I just expected a little bit less knee jerk from HN.

> In the real world, the selling data bit, ACR, and so on, is absolutely tiny dollars business. TVs are cheap because massive factories are pumping out these almost entirely plastic products in enormous numbers, and they're extremely cheap to make, and the IP has all been long amortized out.

Unfortunately that part if your comment is provably false in at least one instance: Vizio. It's a shame, I thought we were on the same page about spreading half truths.

Vizio's numbers are famously public due to its recent sale. We know they lost money on most televisions sold (not all!), and they made it up in ad revenue and content distribution from those TVs. It doesn't prove that LG loses money on its TVs, but it's clearly not as clear cut as you make it out to be.

I don't know why you emphasize rogue and non-state actors. It seems equally likely to me that it would be done by America. America is the only country who deployed nukes (Japan) and chemical weapons (Vietnam) on massive scales.

I can agree that access to bioengineering tooling is easier and cheaper than ever, and thus eventually it stands to reason that a nobody in his basement could engineer a lethal novel virus and lose control of it.

> Gitea is protected against both of these issues.

Is Gitea's immunity just incidental because it was written by a different person, or is it due to a deliberate defensive system that prevents such bug/mistake from occurring?

What you say is all well and good, but the reality is that most gas appliances do not work without electricity. Your stove is about the only thing that can work on gas alone. The furnace, the water heater, the dryer, they all need electricity.

So you need backup electricity either way. And in the case of a furnace it's still a significant draw due to fans and/or pumps so to get multi-day resilience you need a big battery. Less than if it was a heatpump, sure, but this battery and inverter system will use all the same amount of electronics either way.

> or you'd need some additional metadata in the directory entry to store how many files there are, requiring additional storage accesses for adding and removing files.

Most unix filesystems use inodes. inodes have the same format whether they represent a file or directory. So directory have a (usually unused) size member. NTFS doesn't use inodes, but the records in the MFT work the same way.

When adding or removing a file from a directory, you have to update the modification time of the folder, so you have to rewrite the entire inode anyway. Updating the size/file count at the same time would be free.

In my opinion the likely reason why file count isn't tracked is a lot more pedestrian: It wasn't tracked initially and we can never add it to existing file systems because the metadata would get out of sync if the FS was mounted on a kernel with no count support.

I base this assumption on the fact that many modern file systems do indeed keep track of the count.

> Why isn't the game industry moving to it then? Bc it just cannot compete at volubility with C++, among other things.

I have no opinion regarding rust suitability as a game language, but your answer doesn't sound right.

The actual reason is much simpler. The industry is built on a handful of game engines. Those engines are extended or scripted in C++ or C#. Thus the vast, vast majority of the work force will only have experience with those languages and the entirety of game studios' tooling is built around those. The end.

The things that unsafe enables are arbitrary pointers, FFI, and accessing union members in a C struct. It seems highly unlikely to me that unsafe would fix any beginner's problem.

.clone() on the other hand is indeed an easy/quick fix for a lot of issues you'd face when learning rust.

> Car insurance companies have their problems, but pricing risk is not one of them.

If pricing risk was an exact science, you'd get the same quote from all providers (given similar coverage). Yet if you try that, you'll find that the quotes could vary as much as 2-3x. Therefore no, we shouldn't blindly trust "the algorithm".

I took banning alcohol to mean lowering driving BAC to 0%, not banning alcohol society-wide.

It would be a lot easier for drivers to have the following thought process: "I drank tonight, I can't drive home" rather than "I drank two beers over the period of 3 hours, am I good? Yeah, probably, let's gooo."

> I'll torch a supporter's house for fun with some high-proof something or other for fun if someone tries it again in 2026.

If you react that strongly and violently to the idea of alcohol being banned, you might want to look into your relationship with alcohol.

> something around 20% of the site is from the bay area, where that is a somewhat middling salary, so yes.

What the hell, 500k after tax in california is likely close to a million before taxes. This isn't middling, even in the bay area.

It's not really fair to compare a used phone price to a brand new one. The SE 3 sold for almost 500 when it was released.

Is this foldable 4x better than your SE 3? Almost definitely, by every metric, except size if you're into small things.

> Videos are also obviously better on the inner screen.

How? Most foldables I've seen have an inner screen with a ratio so bad that the full screen video results in mostly black bars and the image is barely bigger than watching it on the outside screen.

I got my laserjet secondhand 10 years ago. It was already 10 years old at this time. It's been low on toner since the beginning but shaking the toner cartridge is usually enough to get usable prints the few times a year I need it (return labels, letters). It's a great, reliable device!

Do you have a source for 1-2.5kWh for 10s of content? It takes about a minute or two to generate, so you'd be talking about a GPU consuming 30_000W-150_000W, it's just not possible. Even if it was distributed (which I don't think it is), that'd be 30-100 datacenter GPUs running at 100% to generate one clip? There's no way that would make financial sense.

App-only mode on android tv has a giant ad banner before the apps icons. It's much better than regular mode, but it's still a giant ad. It's been the case on all my Android TV devices. If you don't see it then I guess it must be disabled in some regions?

https://9to5google.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/4/2020/09/go...

GP said the benefits of walking barefoot are "feels good, increases your connection to your surroundings, and slows you down."

In that context it seems like barefoot shoes would still work. They are essentially foot condoms, so you get most of the same sensation without the potential ickiness.

> Can anyone explain why Windows even makes this possible?

Because, as much as we nerds might hate it, it's convenient to a large number of people. They plug in their device and the companion software to fully use all its features just installs itself. They don't have to go to some obscure URL and then locate their exact product. Even in the case you've described, the software likely enables some features of your monitor that aren't accessible otherwise. You don't care about them, but someone might.

> I won't seek nearest and safer airport because that will be expensive in fuel costs

If, and that's a big if, a pilot did choose a less safe airport because of monetary cost to his airline, it would be because those are the guidelines of the airline. And those guidelines would obviously be in the software too.

The flood of low effort AI-contributions makes accepting anonymous contributions impractical nowadays. They'd waste hours reviewing things of no value. I know because it happened to several of my moderately successful projects. At some point I had to stop caring. I now only review the PR if the message is a single unformatted paragraph with few emojis, I find this to be a good signal that it was made by a human and not an agent (the code could still be LLM but a human cared enough to write their own message). I'm sure I will miss genuinely good and valuable contributions, but the signal-to-noise ratio is just too low.

It would be 100x worse for them because who wouldn't want to have a browser in their contribution portfolio when seeking a job?

I think you're being a bit pedantic.

A go-to thing means it's a sensible default choice and has no little to no downsides (versus not using compression), it doesn't mean it's the best for everything.

Until now the go-to has been DEFLATE (gzip and zip) but zstd is definitely competing against it because it is better in almost every way.

I'm willing to keep an open mind but the only example you've shared of such a success story and debunk was a LLM clearing the technical debt of a codebase that was fully LLM-written from the very first commit?

If LLMs are so good at fixing tech debts, why did it write so much to begin with? And why do you assume that now there's no more debt?