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by kelnos 5mo ago
My wife has a US-bought iPhone, and we tried to load some money onto a digital Suica card. The hardware is there, but the system wouldn't accept any of the credit cards or her debit card that she had registered with Apple Pay. An Indi
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by kelnos 5mo ago
There are still significant gaps. I was heading from Narita to Shinjuku about a year ago, and after I got off the Narita Express, I realized my Pasmo card (which I hadn't used in about 8 years) didn't have enough on it to get me
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by kelnos 5mo ago
The stores in Hawaii are certainly nicer and more full-featured than the ones on the US mainland, but the stores in Japan and Taiwan are still light-years ahead.
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by kelnos 5mo ago
I think it's more high-trust than high-safety. Most American cities (and certainly suburbs) are quite safe, and have only been getting safer over the past decades. And yet we are constantly bombarded with fearmongering around children
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by kelnos 5mo ago
Eh, I don't think that's it. I come from a two-child household, and our parents weren't particularly precious about our safety in the neighborhood in the 80s and 90s. I knew plenty of other two- and one-child families that we
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by kelnos 5mo ago
> But the reason most kids don't smoke is that the parents and the teachers instilled in them that it was bad. Big honking "citation needed" there. I think it's far more likely that laws against advertising to mi
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by kelnos 5mo ago
How does this work for mixed-content sites? Like say a minor visits a video sharing or social media site and the default feed/recommendations list includes stuff that should be age-restricted, but is mostly stuff that shouldn't b
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by kelnos 5mo ago
It's all relative. In 2110 I'm sure 2026 will be referred to as "the early 2000s". But in 2026, ~2000-2010 is "the early 2000s".
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by kelnos 5mo ago
"Ranked higher on HN" has very little to do with something's worth.
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by kelnos 5mo ago
> These guys will fine you AU $500 for half an eaten apple in your bag. That seems entirely appropriate, no? Produce crossing international borders like that can be a huge problem.
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by kelnos 5mo ago
I lost my ID once around 15 years ago and was able to board my return flight just fine. I had to get to the airport early because I -- correctly -- expected a longer, personalized security check, but I was on my flight on time, as expected
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by kelnos 5mo ago
They still need to charge you with something. If they can't, they can't hold you. Yes, I know, they can theoretically do whatever they want, but realistically it would take the most spiteful of spiteful agents to arrest you witho
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by kelnos 5mo ago
> They can absolutely prevent you from bringing your phone across the border if you decline to unlock it Under what grounds?
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by kelnos 5mo ago
> when the entire development world has moved into agentic coding Careful, your bubble is showing.
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by kelnos 5mo ago
The author is not arguing against your bet. I think the author wouldn't be surprised if you won that bet. But that doesn't change the argument he does make.
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by kelnos 5mo ago
> Is this any different than how a PM gets a programmer to work on a project? Yes, it's very different. You seem to be suggesting that the current frontier LLMs, when tied to their tools and harnesses, have emergent properties th
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by kelnos 5mo ago
I think people do this for every language. It becomes a part of their identity, and then they have to defend it. I used to do that too, long ago, but I don't have the time or energy for it for the most part, and find it boring, so th
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by kelnos 5mo ago
Not sure what you mean by that. If you're consuming the API of a crate that has functions that return errors, you're not really dealing with a "framework", you're just dealing with whatever the `E` is in the `Resul
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by kelnos 5mo ago
> the Rust vs. Go consideration boils down almost completely to "do you want a managed runtime or not". That's not really something I care much about. My beefs with Go are 90% about the syntax of the language itself, an
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by kelnos 5mo ago
thiserror and anyhow are std::error::Error with fewer steps.
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by kelnos 5mo ago
If I were to leave a key to my house in public, it would still be breaking and entering if someone entered my house without my permission. Not saying Bambu is in the right here, but your view of how the law works is a bit lacking.
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by kelnos 5mo ago
The law doesn't describe reality, though. The so-called "non-immigrant" visas are really not that. "Non-immigrant" has a specific legal meaning, and like many legal terms, they don't match up with what you mi
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by kelnos 5mo ago
"Non-immigrants" is a legal term that means surprisingly more than you think. People on H visas, for example, are "non-immigrants" and would fall under this.
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by kelnos 5mo ago
> Whoever thought of this is either intentionally malevolent or inexcusably incomprehending of the immigration process. It's always weird to me to see confusion/uncertainty such as this. It's intentionally malevolent. O
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by kelnos 5mo ago
> YOLO? Bun has an extensive test suite and this implementation passed the test suite. I'm sure macOS has an extensive test suite that Apple runs as well, and yet still people suggest waiting a bit before adopting a new macOS rele
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by kelnos 5mo ago
Why is it unreasonable, from a technical standpoint, to avoid vibe-coded software? To me, proving a vibe-coded piece of software is fit for purpose is much more difficult than if it is human-written, or LLM-assisted with a human reviewing a
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by kelnos 5mo ago
I think it's perfectly rational to take a wait-and-see approach when a dependency has been completely rewritten from scratch. That would still be rational if it had been rewritten by hand, and not by an LLM.
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by kelnos 5mo ago
Why is it "political" to say "I don't trust software fully written by an LLM that has not been vetted by a human"? That feels like an entirely reasonable stance to take. And I see the argument/correction downth
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by kelnos 5mo ago
Right, they hand-wave this away with the "Epstein Drive"[0] (a name which I suppose has not aged well), which appears to somehow run on orders of magnitude less propellent than seems realistically possible. [0] https://
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by kelnos 5mo ago
Right, but taking from their pension directly reduces their payout when they retire. Not sure what you mean by "cannot be backfilled"; the budget is the budget, and the tax dollars only go where the (non-police) elected officials

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