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whynotmaybe··on Canada's only watchmaking school still ticking after 80 years
I discovered this school right after discovering the Richard Mille clock in Quebec City [1] because the school is responsible for maintaining the clock.

1. https://www.ville.quebec.qc.ca/en/apropos/portrait/attraits/...

whynotmaybe··on Aluminum foil (2021)
Has a kid, my mom used to pack my lunch in aluminium foil and everyday was a challenge of trying to make the perfect aluminium ball and throw it in the trashcan[1] on the first try!

1. Recycling was a vague concept in the 80s & 90s

whynotmaybe··on Meta loses bid to dismiss US states' claims that FB, Instagram addict children
We're in the "exceptio probat regulam" zone with this example.
whynotmaybe··on Meta loses bid to dismiss US states' claims that FB, Instagram addict children
Is there a place where self-regulation ever works?
whynotmaybe··on Qwen 3.6 27B is the sweet spot for local development
I feel you!

Sent from my 8gb M2 Mac mini.

whynotmaybe··on I Am Behind on C# 14 Features, and I Can't Prove It but Does It Matter?
> The author made this story available to Medium members only.

Why should I create a medium account to read a blog? Am I so out of touch?

Shouldn't the author want the article be available to the biggest audience?

whynotmaybe··on How Alberta Eradicated Rats
Aren't there only a few of them? Is a few invasive?

How does a balrog reproduce btw?

whynotmaybe··on America has lost its war with Iran
In today's world where nuance is a disappearing diaphanous concept, the USA didn't win, so they lost.
whynotmaybe··on Sam Bankman-Fried loses bid to appeal against fraud conviction in FTX case
"You kill a whale, you'll get the greens, you'll get Greenpeace, you'll get Commander Cousteau on your back! But decimate a school of sardines, I like to tell you that you will be helped to can them!"

From the 1992 movie man bites dog.

whynotmaybe··on Amazon CEO's talks with U.S. officials triggered crackdown on Anthropic models
In business, nothing's off limit to destroy others.

You can be better, or you can report them for any "illegal" stuff.

whynotmaybe··on Statement on US government directive to suspend access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5
So what now?

They'll make a book with mythos's code and sell it like Phil Zimmerman did with PGP?

whynotmaybe··on A jacket that harvests drinking water from the air
Outside of the environment?
whynotmaybe··on πFS
I can only imagine opening dbeaver and running "select * from hn.posts where site like '%github.com/philipl`"
whynotmaybe··on AWS Bedrock to require sharing data with Anthropic for Mythos and future models
It's the same for girthub copilot [1] which is more present in gov than aws's solutions.

Anthropic is trying, well see if it's a bold strategy.

1. https://github.blog/changelog/2026-06-09-claude-fable-5-is-g...

whynotmaybe··on The 15-minute city is a dead end
The whole US societal model of judgment of anyone's wealth can't be maintained because anyone walking is supposedly poor.

So if you create cities where someone has to "walk", in their minds you're forcing them to be seen as poor.

That's what also included in the concept of valet parking, you're rich because you can go directly from your car to the hotel/restaurant entrance without walking among the poors.

whynotmaybe··on Leak Reveals Microsoft Wants Its AI to Be 'Addictive'
They don't get everything, spare parts are made by other companies, same with tires, servicing can be done outside their network...

Microsoft handles more verticality.

whynotmaybe··on Leak Reveals Microsoft Wants Its AI to Be 'Addictive'
Imagine a world where every car company would get money every time someone uses their car.

Instead of monthly subscription for self driving or heated seat, it would just cost a few cents a minute.

This would be a strong push to try to destroy public transportation everywhere

whynotmaybe··on NPM packages from Red Hat have been compromised
Shouldn't you also restrict version number for a package not just the latest?
whynotmaybe··on The History of "Prisencolinensinainciusol"
And missing the point that Urban Trad did a complete album, not just Sanomi
whynotmaybe··on Dav2d
I understood it as compression is 25% better : a quality of 10mbps in av1 can be achieved with 8mbps in Av2. But, it needs 5 times more compute power for this 25% gain.
whynotmaybe··on Hormuz crisis side effect: a sharp rise in container shipping rates
No, internet was just another media added to the list.

Reagan was elected before general Internet availability.

whynotmaybe··on Fender escalates legal campaign against S-style guitars
Yes, it's easier to settle a debate on the best Linux distro than on the best Strat.

For Mayonnaise, Billy Corgan used a 60$ guitar that produced unwanted feedback but kept the sounds into the final result which makes it so unique, it was the best in that situation.

whynotmaybe··on We're testing new ad formats in Search and expanding our Direct Offers pilot
I have seen 1 "helpful" ad yesterday.

When searching for sonarqube, I received an ad for a competing product I'd never heard of and I'll check them today to see if it fits my need.

whynotmaybe··on Why is almost everyone right-handed? A new study connects it to bipedalism
If you usually drive a manual transmission you might have a bad time if you try to brake with your left foot
whynotmaybe··on The Rage of the Billionaires Is Coming
Louis XVI was at the top, the public made him understand nobody's safe.
whynotmaybe··on WHO declares Ebola outbreak a global health emergency
It's been picked up late because it's from Goma, a region in Congo currently operated by the March 23 Movement a "rebel" group against the current Congo's government.
whynotmaybe··on Tesla reveals two Robotaxi crashes involving teleoperators
Neither does mudrunner and snowrunner and I play with a keyboard.
whynotmaybe··on Tesla reveals two Robotaxi crashes involving teleoperators
It must be hard to resist to drive the GTA way with such a setup
whynotmaybe··on Tesla reveals two Robotaxi crashes involving teleoperators
W-A-S-D on a Dell keyboard wouldn't surprise me.
whynotmaybe··on SANA-WM, a 2.6B open-source world model for 1-minute 720p video
It's a step towards something else?
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