pudgywalsh

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by pudgywalsh 3mo ago
> I have a lightning ...which are going for $50k-$75k USED. Did you forget to amortize that number or is it included in the $20? Will you pay off the loan in the year 2326?
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by pudgywalsh 3mo ago
Ignoring that your math doesn't add up at all, whenever someone tells me how much money they are saving per month by switching to EV, they always conveniently leave out the $35k-$80k cost of the car plus new tires every $often miles, w
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FBI investigates as MI joins MN in reporting cyberattacks on its water systems(apnews.com)
5 points by pudgywalsh 3mo ago|0 comments
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How Google helped destroy adoption of RSS feeds (2023)(openrss.org)
644 points by pudgywalsh 3mo ago|250 comments
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by pudgywalsh 3mo ago
> 60 floor tower, and the three elevator shafts I don't think I've ever seen a 20-story building with less than 4 elevators at a minimum. I've worked in low-rise office buildings with no less than 10 elevators. Seems like
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by pudgywalsh 3mo ago
There is a non-insignificant segment of the population that would have been better suited and employed as painters or HVAC technicians than for their chosen careers. Some software developers (and 80% of the city of Portland) would also fall
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by pudgywalsh 3mo ago
I can't offer praise for controlling a mechanical thermostat with a poorly-implemented software thermostat. If this was a remote control knob it might begin to make sense, but it isn't. A NYC apartment with a 115V PTAC is by defin
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by pudgywalsh 3mo ago
The author's primary lament is clocks that cannot withstand power flickers , yet every sub-$10 mains voltage clock from Walmart and Target that I've ever seen will take a 9V battery to make them resilient against such power inter
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by pudgywalsh 3mo ago
Japan has the 2nd highest median age in the world. Old people in Japan is neither new nor a phenomenon.
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by pudgywalsh 3mo ago
> Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, or celebrities, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon. If they'd cover it on TV news, it's probably off-topic.
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by pudgywalsh 3mo ago
I assume your references would state that you're an unhinged lunatic?
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by pudgywalsh 3mo ago
None of this matters really. This criminal mastermind got caught because he did everything but sign his name to the crimes while holding two pieces of government identification in presence of a notary. The FBI did the bare minimum in terms
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by pudgywalsh 3mo ago
Better start believing it; Google Chrome has a 71% market share.
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by pudgywalsh 3mo ago
I agree, tracking data via unique identifiers is evil incarnate, unless it's Google or VC-backed adtech doing it, because how else will they make money having architected their entire businesses around it.
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by pudgywalsh 3mo ago
> but the only positive test may have been a false positive Software getting flagged by anti-malware as a false positive is a great way to get an evil corpo tale of woe to the top of HN with 800 points.
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by pudgywalsh 3mo ago
Good info Walter, but I wasn't trying to get too deep. Point is to not judge a book by its cover.
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by pudgywalsh 3mo ago
Actual, literal Nazis got us to the Moon and frankly no one cared. Not then, not now. Try separating politics from the advancement of humanity, you'll feel better.
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by pudgywalsh 3mo ago
Because everyone sleeps soundly with bright blue LED lighting blaring in their faces. I fail to see what's innovative about "we shoved business class seats into a narrow-body aircraft". An A321 is still an A321. Flying intern
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by pudgywalsh 3mo ago
I'm waiting for the new killer feature where "Sign In With Google" popup overlay dialogs go away forever and never come back.
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by pudgywalsh 3mo ago
This stuff actually gets tested, it's not your typical web framework junk.
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Air conditioning torn from UK homes under net zero clampdown(yahoo.com)
2 points by pudgywalsh 3mo ago|0 comments
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by pudgywalsh 3mo ago
They are slow-rolling it by IP block. I assume this is because their largely drooling, double-digit IQ community would revolt if they rolled it out overnight. Ever seen what a riot in a maximum security prison looks like? Well it would be n
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by pudgywalsh 3mo ago
Ok but these proxies almost certainly reverse-tunnel. How do you prove a customer is hosting one? Unless you are doing GFW China-level traffic analysis against a blacklist, which again how do you prove?
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by pudgywalsh 3mo ago
> everyone jumped on the bandwagon Reddit has become the epitome of Idiocracy , but let's not pretend like spam-level shallow commenters sucking each other off hasn't infected this place too. I honestly think if we took voting
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by pudgywalsh 3mo ago
Did no one else read far enough to see this was a DPRK (Best Korea) APT campaign?
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by pudgywalsh 3mo ago
What are you talking about? These are not open proxies. You actually think the actors that went to the trouble to surreptitiously set this infrastructure up are going to share it with everyone for free? They are intentionally made hard to d
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by pudgywalsh 3mo ago
My major sources of spam traffic are Chinese and Indian residential and mobile IP blocks. So there's that. Second, everybody screamed loudly when they were cracking down on file sharing traffic. You're saying spying on the citizen
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How I Do My Computing(stallman.org)
5 points by pudgywalsh 3mo ago|5 comments
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by pudgywalsh 3mo ago
> The 400 improper voters cast ballots in elections where millions of eligible New Jersey voters voted. The 2004 Washington State Governor's election was ultimately decided by 129 votes so this is an egregiously ignorant excuse.
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Error Led to 400 Noncitizens Voting, New Jersey Governor Says(nytimes.com)
3 points by pudgywalsh 3mo ago|6 comments

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