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BigTTYGothGFon I went to Mexico to test-drive the cars Americans can’t buy

> Most people own a car for 3 years or less

This seems absurd on the face of it.

BigTTYGothGFon I went to Mexico to test-drive the cars Americans can’t buy

> China subsidizes them

Maybe we should subsidize some industries ourselves, probably a better investment than more war.

BigTTYGothGFon Kentucky man becomes the first humanist granted religious exemption from AI

> US Army, ADP 6-22, Army Leadership and the Profession

I'm not going to let the army tell me what my job is.

BigTTYGothGFon Software may be getting worse, but it used to be horrible

"Older" in this context is "the gaming audience of 45 years ago".

BigTTYGothGFon Software may be getting worse, but it used to be horrible

> OG gamers expected to have their hair blown back .... pretty much every title every time

OG gamer here (started on the Fairchild Channel F). This is absurd.

What is true is that the hardware rapidly advanced, and as programmers got familiar with each platform the software also advanced, but the shelves were full of stinkers and disappointments and copycats.

BigTTYGothGFon Software may be getting worse, but it used to be horrible

> That shit absolutely would not scan with older gaming audiences

Are you quite certain about that? https://archive.org/details/Lemonade_Stand_1979_Apple

BigTTYGothGFon Police are using AI to pull over drivers for 'suspicious' behavior

> retarded

Cut it out.

BigTTYGothGFon Microsoft and others tell crypto platform not to tokenize their stocks

> Cuomo downplayed the objections in a written statement to Fortune

I see he still has trouble with the concept of "consent".

BigTTYGothGFon Solar power is becoming bigger than nuclear

I always got a kick out of those graphs of projected solar power capacity that showed the line leveling off if not actually shrinking, with successive year's predictions doing the same thing again and again, but the actual numbers continuing to shoot way up.

Like the itanium sales forecast chart, except in reverse.

BigTTYGothGFon Bring Back the Cool Save File Screens

> I think the earlier console generations where created by a bunch of passionate nerds eager to make something cool.

The very earliest, maybe, but not really once you get into the 1980s.

BigTTYGothGFon AI analysis of CT scans finds 42.9% of patients have coronary inflammation

The most charitable thing you can say about "only those with over-active immune systems survived the 14th century plagues" is that it's so broad as to be meaningless. (Might you perhaps have been thinking of Familial Mediterranean Fever?)

Y.pestis is very good at evading the innate immune response (to the point of reproducing inside macrophages and neutrophils) and likes hanging out in lymph nodes. What kind of increased activity would help here?

BigTTYGothGFon Shitter – A Nitter Fork

> Cursing has a long tradition in

By and large the hacker news moderators and commentariat have demonstrated that they do not welcome those cultures here.

BigTTYGothGFon AI analysis of CT scans finds 42.9% of patients have coronary inflammation

> Recently I learned that

Doesn't mean that what you learned was true.

BigTTYGothGFon A complete bypass of eMudhra’s 1FA OTP login system

Coward.

BigTTYGothGFon What Is Gridifcation

> a revival of playing music (e.g. at the piano, on the guitar) at home

How do you know we haven't?

BigTTYGothGFon What Is Gridifcation

If I need to visualize a track in a DAW to detect that kind of thing, I probably can't hear it in the first place.

BigTTYGothGFon A Mole Infiltrated the Highest Ranks of American Militias (2025)

See also "Under Cover", by John Roy Carlson, who did similar stuff in the early 1940s.

BigTTYGothGFon Tesla Roadster

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BigTTYGothGFon Your C is not standard C

> electricity plugs haven't changed for hundred of years, that's a standard

Spoken like someone who's never felt the frustration of having a grounded plug and the only available sockets being two-prong.

BigTTYGothGFon Americans' social activity has steeply declined in the past 30 years

> they weren't as common as they are today

We have a lot more people these days and we're a lot more urbanized.

> My point was that much of what was done "then" in one's house are now done elsewhere

Yeah, and I don't think I believe that.

BigTTYGothGFon Americans' social activity has steeply declined in the past 30 years

I can assure you we had "coffeeshop"s in the ancient times.

BigTTYGothGFon A plea not to use uv-build

> any package that conforms with the standards.

Right, but what I'm asking is: by and large, can you expect any random package on pypi to conform to the standard?

BigTTYGothGFon A plea not to use uv-build

> The Ubuntu users are only there because

I started using linux in 1994 with slackware. Nowadays I use ubuntu, I've spent too many hours of my life tweaking my linux installs.

BigTTYGothGFon A plea not to use uv-build

It's a fair question.

BigTTYGothGFon A plea not to use uv-build

Seems like a design flaw in gentoo that previously hadn't been an issue because build tools weren't being updated nearly as often as uv-build is.

BigTTYGothGFon A plea not to use uv-build

> The nice thing about Python packaging is that it’s standardized

Has anybody done the analysis to determine if this is something that can, in practice, be relied on?

BigTTYGothGFon A plea not to use uv-build

> Of course, yet again crabbone is downvoted for speaking the truth

It wasn't for what was said, but for how it was said, which is why you can say all sorts of heinous stuff on here as long as you're couth about it.