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The local regulations around here require those smoke detectors. I can attest that they do indeed last the full 10 years. They seem to have a timer because exactly 10 years after activation it starts complaining several times per day.

However one downside is that they also can't be turned off (by design) and the hush function on the ones I've tried (two models, both from Kidde) has been defective. No matter if I repeatedly press it, hold it, it doesn't care. It says hush mode then immediately blast again.

I destroyed the first one because it was night time and I have neighbors. Now I put them in the freezer. Next time I'll get another brand!

> Just host a normal server on your home IPv4. There's nothing to break.

There is a privacy aspect. For example you seem to have watched Meet Joe Black and Six Days Seven Nights recently. Do you care that we know that? Maybe not, but I can also see the porn you enjoyed.

That may be true, but I have a feeling that even a third party audit wouldn't appease you. If they confirm Sam's numbers, you'll claim that they were bribed. So how can we solve this problem? Can we trust government officials? Are there any non-biased organizations that could do the audit?

Presumably Tiny Tapeout. https://tinytapeout.com/

They group dozens to hundreds of designs on one chip. The end result is that even hobbyists can afford to have their small ASIC on real silicon. It's still expensive but it's within reach of a serious enthusiast with a steady job.

https://app.tinytapeout.com/calculator The number of "devkits" is the number of chips you'll get, the number of tiles is the size of your design. You can see how many tiles current projects use here: https://app.tinytapeout.com/shuttles/ttsky26d

You can still buy steam gift cards at Best Buy if you're in North America, other similar retailers likely carry them in other countries. But Steam said they're shutting down the physical program at the end of the year because of scammers.

https://help.steampowered.com/en/faqs/view/78E3-7431-1E88-AD...

> IQ is almost entirely hereditary

Do you have a credible source? Average IQ being much lower in poor countries (85-90 in many African countries) is usually explained away as an education problem, rather than being "inferior genes". Of course I understand that this explanation might be more for social/political reasons than scientific ones, because the alternative is racism, but I was still under the impression that nobody knew how much genes vs the environment contribute to IQ. Yet your statement seems quite definitive.

Apple Photos can already search photos with natural language using on-device AI. Is it not working well for you?

I don't understand what you gain by having your agent read and comment on HN for you? You already have met all karma thresholds to get full privilege and you don't seem to be a founder who's about to need name recognition to shill his next big thing.

> No. If you decide to write a fragile application tethered to some incidental property of some upstream software, your application deserves to break.

Just because you never made any promise regarding one aspect of your API doesn't mean that you're absolved from responsibility when you choose to change it. If you know for a fact that many users rely on it and you choose to break it, you need a good reason. That kind of balancing act is part of your job. If you don't respect your users, perhaps development wasn't the right career choice.

As developers we're of course constantly tempted to rename things that we named poorly, or change a schema that is no longer optimal. But we must always take a step back and think about the downstream impact.

I suspect you stopped reading at web services on your link, but API is indeed the correct word to describe a set of functions from a library (built-in or not). If you disagree perhaps you should share your preferred term here?

> The term API is often used to refer to web APIs, which allow communication between computers that are joined by the internet. There are also APIs for programming languages, software libraries, computer operating systems, and computer hardware.

Those are undoubtedly useful features, I just question why they should need the cloud:

> - Reminders to change the ice/water filter get sent to my phone.

How do you deal with all your other maintenance tasks around the house? with other appliances? with your car? Why not use a central system, like a task/reminder app?

> - When we had a teenager living with us, getting remote notifications that the refrigerator door was left open probably saved us a few fridge-fulls of food.

I would understand a child leaving the door open but a teenager doing it that often is kind of wild? Regardless, wouldn't a reminder beep that starts when the door has been open for 5 minutes be better? Must everything be on your phone? It's not even actionable if you're not in the house, where you'd hear a local beep.

The closest direct competitor is Bouffalo Lab's BL6xx chips, which do bluetooth and wifi and have an open SDK. Their documentation is very poor unfortunately (at least in English).

Otherwise NXP recently released their RW6xx line with wifi/bt/thread/zigbee. But as with any other western maker, the documentation and SDK aren't as easily accessible to mere mortals (but I think NXP in particular has gotten better with this).

He's clearly quoting the Graham Linehan case where a group of police officers arrested him for his tweets that did include the only-two-gender thing. However, as you suspected, that's not all he said. Linehan suggested in another tweet that people should punch transwomen in the face if they refuse to leave the female bathroom.

> It will be interesting. because Qualcomm doesn’t give away anything for free, so any of those Linux Distro’s who thinks it’s going to be a free lunch? Are gonna be in for a surprise.

Care to postulate on what those nefarious reasons/surprises could be?

Tell us more about how it's Google who is preventing Qualcomm and Mediatek from upstreaming all their drivers?

> your burger and fries would probably cost $40 delivered, making the whole business model infeasible

Pizza places, chinese food places, many diners, they've all been making deliveries work for decades without inflating the prices to absurd levels. It's almost as if it can be done when you don't have to pay the middle man who has a billion dollar of venture debts.

It's so wild to see you, someone who seems to be older than gen z, so unaware that the food delivery model existed before delivery apps, and was highly successful without charging delivery charge + service fee + tip + 30% of the food price.

The hardware capability that GrapheneOS loves to use as a shield to deny support for other devices is the ability to use custom AVB keys. Without custom keys you can't relock the bootloader after installing a custom OS on most phones. The consequences of having an unlocked bootloader are that you are susceptible to an evil maid attack.

This is a real threat, but the reality is that the average person is more likely to be hacked/spied on from the software side, which Graphene would protect you from as effectively as it does on Pixel.

> Stop letting Microsoft design protocols and APIs.

Unfortunately nobody else stepped up to do it.

I'm glad that the code editors out there didn't wait for your theoretical better designed protocol and decided to adopt LSP. Otherwise we'd still have editor that only support one language properly, and the rest is treated like text. If the price to pay is that it sucks for the handful of people who have to work with it, so be it. For every LSP developer that suffers there are tens of thousands of downstream users who benefit from better language support in their favorite editor!

3D printed metal is now as strong as machined metal, assuming an identical alloy. The process has been pretty well perfected.

The strength loss comes from the fact that not all alloys are 3d-printing friendly, so you often have to compromise and you end up with a less than ideal alloy for your application.

> it will no longer be in control of Android

Who will step up to maintain it? Keep in mind that it has to be somebody that every other OEM trust. In other words it would likely have to be an alliance of manufacturers. And they'd inevitably treat OEMs outside the alliance poorly and we'd be back to the current situation, but worse.

I think tonymet meant he didn't understand why cloudflare didn't allow using ssh -R instead of cloudflared to create the tunnel, not not using a tunnel at all.

> None of your files are ever sent to any server. Files are sent only between peers. Snapdrop doesn't even use a database. If you are curious have a look at the Server. Even if Snapdrop was able to view the files being transfered, WebRTC encrypts the files on transit, so the server would be unable to read them.

https://github.com/RobinLinus/snapdrop/blob/master/docs/faq....

Indeed their product is an app that is little more than a webview that only shows one website, with optional value-add features. They handle publishing for the client, hence the hundreds.

https://webtoapp.design/

They're still very much a thing on desktop. You're not wrong that Windows got better at protecting itself, but I suspect the reason you don't hear about them is just that few people use desktops anymore (other than developers who, for obvious reasons, are typically less prone to be infected).

Anecdotally, at least once a month for the past several years, I notice a youtube channel in my feed get hacked. Their usual content gets replaced with crypto, Roblox, or Elon/SpaceX spam. Big channels, small channels, it happens to them all.

There's usually a post-mortem when they manage to regain control. Every time the infection happened through a virus attached to an email or by following a link on their discord.

This kind of attack simply cannot happen on mobile (unless your phone is rooted and you have disabled all warnings).

I've been wearing them all my life all over North America. Very few industries require metal-free footwear. Composite toes (since we're getting carried away with various terms, that's the actual term and fabrication method, which is fiber mesh and epoxy) still have downsides. Those don't apply if you're a white collar guy and just need them because of regulations.

But if you're an actual worker that relies on them to save your toes, CT has much worse puncture resistance than ST. So it's trivial to puncture with a framing nail gun or cut through it if you rest a board on your toe, for example.

They also shatter when something heavy falls on them. If the thing bounces and you're quick enough to pull your foot, then great. If not, the second bounce will be shattering your toes and your boot will be filled with fleshy composite soup that is impossible to save. A steel toe in that situation will just bend and odds are good that your foot will be salvageable.

> 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.