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901.
by macintux 2y ago
Sure, but follow the money: unsurprisingly it’s the usual big money bad actors who are funding opposition. https://energyandpolicy.org/fossil-fuel-funding-opposition-r...
902.
by macintux 2y ago
Responded to a sibling comment: I’m referring to people who oppose industrial solar installations for some reason.
903.
by macintux 2y ago
I should have made it clear: I’m referring to people who are adamantly opposed to large solar installations, apparently because it’s a threat to agriculture? It’s very odd, but I see yard signs and bumper stickers everywhere in rural Indian
904.
by macintux 2y ago
I’m amazed at the amount of opposition to centralized solar generation. I assume there’s a fair bit of fossil fuel industry astroturfing involved.
905.
by macintux 2y ago
iCloud isn’t reading non-iCloud email, and I don’t know, but would anticipate, that other than spam filtering it doesn’t even read the iCloud mail. Ditto iMessage: Apple is not harvesting user data in the way that Meta wants to.
906.
by macintux 2y ago
There are many, many blue collar jobs which Americans don’t want to do at the prevailing wages (or at all). Agriculture is a prime example of this. There are relatively few high skilled, high paying jobs which Americans don’t want to do.
907.
by macintux 2y ago
As much as I appreciate the FP features of Python, I much prefer a language that enforces immutability. Constraints like that make the code easier to understand, reduces the number of possible bugs.
908.
by macintux 2y ago
That’s a project that would take generations, and meanwhile, the federal Department of Education that could coordinate such a project is on the chopping block.
909.
by macintux 2y ago
Apple and Google can only control the data shared via the operating system. They can’t control what user behaviors that applications record on the server.
910.
by macintux 2y ago
One of my more embarrassing memories (technical ones, anyway) was having an argument with a couple of friends in college in 1988/89. I felt that sure, an internal hard drive is a nice feature, but swapping floppies wasn't all that
911.
by macintux 2y ago
On Safari/iOS I had to switch to the dedicated number keyboard.
912.
by macintux 2y ago
The ideas are good, but wow, the implementation is borderline criminal.
913.
by macintux 2y ago
After 70 years I think it’s ok.
914.
by macintux 2y ago
For me, he seemed harmlessly eccentric until “pedo guy”. It’s been all downhill since then.
915.
by macintux 2y ago
That is a wildly generous interpretation of his behavior and motivations.
916.
by macintux 2y ago
Remember Jewish space lasers?
917.
by macintux 2y ago
Several lifetimes ago I was looking at a Solaris server with very limited available space on the root partition and realized that someone had deleted the kernel file, presumably trying to solve the same problem. I really hope it wasn’t me.
918.
by macintux 2y ago
At the meatspace level, purely numeric usernames are problematic. I was working as a contractor at a Fortune 500 firm several years ago when they introduced a new ERP system which apparently encouraged the company to switch to numeric syste
919.
by macintux 2y ago
I hit the jackpot: someone recorded Ralph Stanley performing O Death in concert. I caught him several years ago (on my second attempt: he was supposed to perform at the Grand Ol’ Opry, and I drove 5 hours to see him, but he canceled) but
920.
by macintux 2y ago
> If I had access to a computer at 9 I'm not sure I'd be making games so much as playing them. I was 10 or 11 when I wrote my first (and only?) game, but A: it was dead simple, and B: I didn't have YouTube, Netflix, and an
921.
by macintux 2y ago
It's hard to imagine that corruption is a rational, or even irrational, reason to vote in Trump. And the easiest way to reduce inequality is to raise taxes on the rich, which voters also apparently don't support if they're vo
922.
by macintux 2y ago
Deaths aren’t the only negative consequence of auto accidents, however. I imagine if we count serious injuries per mile driving vs flying, the difference would be more stark.
923.
by macintux 2y ago
You could always post the 3 parts simultaneously, so anyone who wants to dig deeper can continue into the series.
924.
by macintux 2y ago
Copyright, at least in the U.S., is automatic. He would have to actively assert that he was releasing it into the public domain (and IIRC, although my last discussion on the topic was ~20 years ago, such a release had not yet been tested in
925.
by macintux 2y ago
As a kid, I always had this fear that if I had to dial 0 and I waited too long before the next digit, the operator would be summoned to the line. Waiting for that 0 to finish its long turn was stressful.
926.
by macintux 2y ago
Related? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42244003 - We can mine asteroids for space food
927.
by macintux 2y ago
HN discourages this type of bad faith misinterpretation in the name of pedantry.
928.
by macintux 2y ago
And the disruption to the failed candidate presumably ranges from “my old job’s gone” to “I’m now attending my own funeral”.
929.
by macintux 2y ago
You sound like the people who argue that, despite decades of security vulnerabilities offering evidence otherwise, C is perfectly safe if you know what you’re doing and just put more effort into it. Technically you may be right, but it’s no
930.
by macintux 2y ago
I haven’t thought about Spoon River Anthology in much too long. Thanks, I used to enjoy drawing connections, need to go take another look.

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