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by bsimpson 2y ago
Tangential, but I was looking into this yesterday and couldn't find the answer: How does her term work? Seats on the FTC are supposed to last for 7 years. She was nominated in 2021 and her term technically expired a couple months ago.
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by bsimpson 2y ago
I asked someone who had done high level work at TikTok what he thought of the CCP conspiracy theories driving the Trump/Biden ban pushes. He said something to the effect of "ByteDance isn't coordinated enough to pull off bei
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by bsimpson 2y ago
I appreciate that the tweet actually had context about what happens next: "…continue to seek a path towards purchasing…" "…back to the drawing board…" The article could have used those details. ----- [edit] They've
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by bsimpson 2y ago
This is a nice reminder for me to check it out. I've liked Phabricator, and Google's internal variant of Mercurial in the past (and have always despised GitHub's PR=branch model). Sounds like Jujutsu might be right up my all
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by bsimpson 2y ago
It depends on your setup. My last apartment had fancy light fixtures with esoteric bulbs and old wiring. Caseta was the right choice there. My new apartment has a kitchenette with proprietary LED lights, so I've migrated my Caseta syst
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by bsimpson 2y ago
That's the unfortunate bit about salaries. If you took a 4x per week job, you'd usually get a 20% pay reduction; however, many jobs could be compressed to 4 days without any loss in productivity.
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by bsimpson 2y ago
Sailfish licensing is unfortunate. Unless you have one of their handful of (obsolete) blessed phones and pay them money for the privilege, you can't use their stuff. I get that they're effectively a startup spun out of Nokia, and
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by bsimpson 2y ago
I read it thinking "banyan tree" until I saw the ASCII art and realized it's a banana reference.
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by bsimpson 2y ago
Reminds me of this video: https://youtu.be/HWceX64ZC8w?si=a-mm-DP4EKMmGhXy Similar idea with origami ninja stars.
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by bsimpson 2y ago
I still can't believe that everyone alive in the 21st century has been damned to forego a vibrant public domain because some lawyers were afraid Mickey Mouse might fall out of copyright. Free Culture by Larry Lessig was an excellent bo
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by bsimpson 2y ago
I was part of a skunkworks project at eBay a decade ago. eBay's OSPO was pretty loose at the time. We made our own eBay org to release our stuff under, with their blessing. They linked to our projects from their site. We've all
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by bsimpson 2y ago
See also, Debug: https://verily.com/solutions/public-health/debug It's a Verily project that causes population collapse in mosquitoes like aedes aegypti by rendering the males infertile. > Aedes aegypti mo
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by bsimpson 2y ago
I'm surprised to see native code in a web extension.
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by bsimpson 2y ago
We just did holiday donations at work. If I saw this last week, I probably would have earmarked some for them.
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by bsimpson 2y ago
It's called Civil Asset Forfeiture (gov euphemism for said literal theft). I believe John Oliver did a piece on it when he first joined HBO.
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by bsimpson 2y ago
I don't know where the government gets off on using "consensual encounters" as a euphemism for 4th Amendment violations.
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by bsimpson 2y ago
I'm surprised to see an open source project with a professional-looking `.app` site and a privacy policy.
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by bsimpson 2y ago
It's interesting how uniform the birthday distribution at the end looks. I'd expect more seasonality (e.g. more babies conceived in the cold, dark months).
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by bsimpson 2y ago
There was an article from Android Authority today that said it's being rebased on Android.
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by bsimpson 2y ago
I don't like it either, but it doesn't seem unprecedented. Companies sell units to each other (complete with staff) all the time. I'm pretty sure everyone who worked at Universal Studios still worked there after Comcast boug
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by bsimpson 2y ago
"Why does everyone use Colab or Observable to run notebooks in a browser? Anyway, here's an alternative that uses Observable for the hard parts."
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by bsimpson 2y ago
I didn't realize he'd announced what he's been working on after. Thanks for the tip.
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by bsimpson 2y ago
I played on Legion Go. It's basically a Steam Deck with newer specs and native Windows support. It ran, but barely. I probably spent half my playtime restarting the game, trying to find the happy coincidence of playability (because the
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by bsimpson 2y ago
Interesting juxtaposition against yesterday's front page: Valve updates Half Life 2 for 25th Anniversary. If the requirements are still accurate, it will run on XP with 512MB RAM.
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by bsimpson 2y ago
I was in high school in the early 00s, and going to the movies was such a big part of my life. Now, I never even know what's out. I suspect life stage is a factor, but it does feel like there are many classes of entertainment (cinema a
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by bsimpson 2y ago
I've given Netflix a lot more money than I've gotten value out of. I've had an account for ~15y and only really use it for airplanes unless there's a specific thing I'm excited to watch. I'm in the same boat wh
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by bsimpson 2y ago
That first read should be an HN post in its own right.
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by bsimpson 2y ago
So this is to an old Fujitsu system what Haiku is to BeOS?
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by bsimpson 2y ago
I don't spend much time streaming, but I got a glimpse of the Amazon Prime catalog yesterday, and was surprised at how many titles on the front page were movies I'd actually watch. Reminded me of Netflix a dozen years ago.
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by bsimpson 2y ago
Even among people on Steam (who have those beefy Windows machines for VR), more than half of headsets are an Oculus, and only 17% are an Index: https://store.steampowered.com/hwsurvey/Steam-Hardware-Softw...

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