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by buu700 5y ago
Tangentially, I recently used mouse emulation on a timer to manipulate Firefox into sending a push notification with a URL to a mobile device for a partially faked out internal demo.
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by buu700 5y ago
I mean, if it were up to me then right now. Whenever the technology is sufficiently mature that it's only a matter of giving companies like Prometheus the capital they need to scale up production (if it isn't already), I would do
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by buu700 5y ago
If internal combustion cars powered by renewable synthetic fuel could be anywhere near half as efficient as BEVs, wouldn't that be a great problem to have? "Imagine a lossless conversion" is obviously doing a lot of work here
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by buu700 5y ago
I'm personally a huge fan of carbon capture -> synthetic hydrocarbons + fossil fuel plants, in theory. Maybe a mix of storage systems will ultimately be the best solution for whatever reasons, but this idea makes so much sense to me
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by buu700 5y ago
Replacing them with coal would have been a good idea, at least as far as Russia is concerned Did Russia have some involvement in Germany's nuclear power infrastructure? I'm not aware of that, but interested to know more. Bringi
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by buu700 5y ago
I think what they were referring to was Germany prematurely decommissioning nuclear plants only to start replacing them with coal and (more importantly) Nord Stream 2, which I never understood either. I can't comment on whether Greta T
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by buu700 5y ago
Goodhart's law strikes again.
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by buu700 5y ago
This seems like a complementary idea to "Willingness to look stupid": https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28942189 Rather than jump to calling out something as wrong, it can be helpful for mutual understanding to
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by buu700 5y ago
I was going to say that Poe's law existed even back then, but apparently it was coined by a different Poe in 2005.
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by buu700 5y ago
This sounds funny, but I get where it's coming from. I think everyone's natural inclination would be to focus on what we think we did wrong and wish had been different, rather than all the things we did right. Grass is always gree
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Latest success from Google’s AI group: Controlling a fusion reactor(arstechnica.com)
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by buu700 5y ago
A possible explanation is that leading a team effectively isn't necessarily more difficult, but rather that it might be less pleasant and/or less financially advantageous than being either an individual contributor or an ineffecti
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by buu700 5y ago
And they inevitably end with "or death". I'm guessing they choose to list every vaguely possible side effect for CYA purposes, while simultaneously obscuring the actual risk profile by withholding information on the frequency
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Key senators have voted for the anti-encryption EARN IT act(eff.org)
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by buu700 5y ago
That's interesting. Sounds like he may have auditory aphantasia (which I only know is a thing because of the few times it's come up on HN lately).
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by buu700 5y ago
Are you saying that you want to hit people with a wrench until they stop littering? Is there a petition I can sign?
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by buu700 5y ago
I've had some similar ideas: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28247651 > We need a lemon-like law for consumer electronics. I wonder how this should apply to planned obsolescence of devices like smartphones.
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by buu700 5y ago
Obligatory reminder that a backdoor was added to the Play Store last summer: https://www.xda-developers.com/google-play-apk-replacement-p... I wouldn't be surprised in the least to find out that "Android App Bundl
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by buu700 5y ago
and default in ChromeOS. But simply not an option in any Linux I've tried. Bit of a tangent, but it's always funny to me to discuss ChromeOS and Android as distinct from Linux distributions. I get that they're each practica
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by buu700 5y ago
It's surprising to me that a Linux/Unix enthusiast of all people is so incensed about Electron and web tech. The alternative to Electron isn't that all their apps would be faster and more stable. It's that many of them w
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by buu700 5y ago
Was about to note the same thing. Agreed with GP on all other points, but I forgave the language mistakes after seeing their about page. FWIW, while I don't condone it, I do think that any non-native speaker should take such criticism
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by buu700 5y ago
The data doesn't support your conclusion. Death isn't the only kind of harm. Even if what you're saying were accurate, some of us healthy people do actually interact with older or immunocompromised people, and have enough cou
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by buu700 5y ago
What are you talking about? No one suggested that the vaccine would prevent infection 100% reliably, and I'm not sure why you think we have a better understanding of the long-term effects of covid than mRNA vaccines (which aren't
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by buu700 5y ago
He just said he tested positive (again). That means he can still spread the virus to other people; it's entirely possible that his getting the shot would have spared his wife her current symptoms. Elevated risk of infection, even if as
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by buu700 5y ago
Possibly; I'm not at all an expert on the subject. My goal more directly with that was to ensure that insurance premiums would ultimately be used only to pay for emergency care rather than routine/preventive or elective care. Some
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by buu700 5y ago
A lot of this was covered by the Libertarian Party's position on healthcare reform in the last election, which I thought was interesting: https://www.foxnews.com/politics/jo-jorgensen-big-idea-marke... There are p
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by buu700 5y ago
Have you tried turning it off and on again?
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by buu700 5y ago
I wonder if someone could get legally get away with finagling this into a large bank loan, particularly from a bank with a partially or fully automated application process. "Oh sure, here's my 2021 year-end statement (no additiona
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by buu700 5y ago
This reminds me of an observation I once had at a time when I was doing contract work at an hourly rate. During a trip to Vegas, I found myself at a blackjack table making bets that happened to match my hourly rate. It occurred to me then t
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by buu700 5y ago
I would almost prefer a Chromium monoculture over having to deal with supporting WebKit, and I say this as a Firefox user.

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