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by macintux 6mo ago
On shared use trails, I suspect your voice might give out (especially given the headphone status of most pedestrians) and a bicycle bell is less ambiguous than a voice, which could be a fast walker, a runner, or a bicyclist.
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by macintux 6mo ago
I've periodically toyed with the idea of adding a locomotive horn to my motorized vehicle, but I'd be afraid that using it would cause an accident.
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by macintux 6mo ago
Ticketmaster failing to recognize that someone might want to use a ticket in physical proximity to the event is not the user's fault.
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by macintux 6mo ago
I’m suddenly grateful that I use my iPad, so they can’t use that signal on me.
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by macintux 6mo ago
Imagine being homeless, and your Gmail account is your online identity for what little financial presence you have, and how in the world can you recover from its loss?
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by macintux 6mo ago
Many on HN are opposed to the government trying to protect itself from the exposure of illegal or unpopular actions.
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by macintux 6mo ago
Looks like those are stock illustrations for "cavemen". You can see more from the studio that created them: https://www.dreamstime.com/gorodenkov-more-popular-photos
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by macintux 7mo ago
What about facial recognition? Even without persistence that’s a big deal for juries.
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by macintux 7mo ago
The company where I'm contracted retired Excalidraw in favor of Lucid and, while I understand that big companies are going to go with big, enterprise-y solutions, what went from a weekly "sketch something out to help with communic
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by macintux 7mo ago
You realize that most customer shopping for the cheapest computer they can find are not going to upgrade their RAM. And Apple is effectively committing to supporting 8GB computers with their OS upgrades for years to come.
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by macintux 7mo ago
My first non-Linux PC was a cheese grater, way overkill for my needs but served me well for many years.
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by macintux 7mo ago
> Please don't post insinuations about astroturfing, shilling, brigading, foreign agents, and the like. It degrades discussion and is usually mistaken. If you're worried about abuse, email hn@ycombinator.com and we'll look
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by macintux 7mo ago
50% of children dying at (or before) birth in a major city should be global news. I want it to be not true, but if it is true, I want someone to be talking about it. I don't know what's so hard to understand about "this is
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by macintux 7mo ago
Right, 15 years ago in a recently heavily bombarded city 50% of children were born with defects, according to one study. Terrible even if off by an order of magnitude. Nothing in that document, or anything else I've found, supports the
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by macintux 7mo ago
I'm not disputing that American sources are untrustworthy. I'm not disputing that the situation is bad. I don't read Arabic, but I'd be happy to look at a citation with assistance: if 50% of babies in Baghdad are dying,
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by macintux 7mo ago
I suspect the reasons are (generously) keeping them out of the hands of people who would treat them poorly and perpetuate the stereotypes, or (less generously) ignorance and fear.
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by macintux 7mo ago
I took a few pit mixes out of the local humane society last summer for "Doggy Day Out", basically an opportunity for dogs who need new homes to get exposure to the community and get away from the kennel for a few hours, and they w
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by macintux 7mo ago
I agree it's the job of a parent, but two parents (and with only a single job each) is sadly not the norm in many challenging environments.
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by macintux 7mo ago
Your first link is the same as mine. Nothing in any of the links seems to support the assertion that “Even still today mothers in Baghdad lose half of their babies to deformities caused by the US' criminal use of depleted uranium” I ha
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by macintux 7mo ago
I'd be curious about a citation for the "lose half of their babies" statement. This review of the data & papers has some grim numbers, but nothing remotely that dramatic. https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/artic
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by macintux 7mo ago
Not the person to whom you're responding, but for me, some of the heavy hitters: - Real-time weather alerts (I spend a lot of time in a naked Jeep in the summer, it's helpful to know when rain is imminent) - Work-related authentic
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by macintux 7mo ago
Which introduces new security risks, but more importantly, the consumer has to configure the device to use open source firmware, and set up auto updates, unless the device is being auto updated by the device manufacturer and forces all of t
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by macintux 7mo ago
> What you need is the ability for consumers to replace the firmware. > That solves the problem in three ways. That alleviates the problem, but definitely doesn't solve it. Updates are still required, and most people will nev
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by macintux 7mo ago
Your comment history reflects a persistent approach: insulting the person you're replying to. Please reflect on the site guidelines. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
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by macintux 7mo ago
That's still ten years of collaboration that could have built greater trust, led to a new agreement, or worst case provided enough evidence to take a more precise military action instead of bombing girls schools.
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by macintux 7mo ago
Maybe ripping up the international plan to keep Iran from gaining nuclear weapons during his first term wasn’t the best idea.
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by macintux 7mo ago
It’s an internal, custom, vaguely UNIX-like shell in Windows. Typically I’m running Python from bash; Ctrl-U works under bash, but not Python.
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by macintux 7mo ago
The number of times I’ve attempted to use Ctrl-U in a Python shell only to discover it doesn’t work…
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by macintux 7mo ago
Worth noting that “robust” and “correct” are orthogonal. Graph databases (well, any database) seem like an area where correctness particularly matters, and I doubt Rust gives any meaningful advantage there.
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by macintux 7mo ago
Some discussion today. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47471805 There have been multiple posts on the topic, but none have gained traction.

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