IvyMike

The ones I've seen in person do not "only annoy police"; they may have been trying to provoke a police response, but they were just harassing normies on the street as well. Linking to the ones I've seen: https://www.instagram.com/p/C7IEFxQSJQw/?hl=en&img_index=1

I added this to the original post, but here's the incident that I saw that made me aware of the whole scene: https://www.instagram.com/p/C7IEFxQSJQw/?hl=en&img_index=1

> They mostly do it to cops and people in authority.

In Santa Barbara there is a group that targets random businesses; random shops and restaurants with outdoor eating.

It sucks for the business, it sucks for their clients, it sucks for random people walking by on the street.

I'm all for limiting the unchecked authority we give police, we need to end qualified immunity, etc. But we should take the problem on directly. And I'm all for filming cops who abuse their privilege. But the reality I've seen in person is this is sucky.

> The fact that "oh no you're annoying me I'm going to arrest you because you're annoying" is even a talking point from you is baffling.

Who are you replying to? What did I say that's even close to this. Talk about baffling.

The one thing I hate about this: There are so-called "first amendment auditors", who professionally annoy people on the street, trying to provoke a reaction. They monetize the resulting video on youtube.

You used to be able to pull out your phone and play Disney soundtracks or Taylor Swift music which would result in the video being non-monetizable. But improvements in audio isolation techniques have now defeated this countermeasure. Being a professional annoyance is once again a career choice.

Edit: this is one instance I've personally seen: https://www.instagram.com/p/C7IEFxQSJQw/?hl=en&img_index=1

I agree with your annoyance here.

I did end up clicking thru to get the full story. On their pricing page (https://elevenlabs.io/pricing) they are up front, with several monthly tiers; their "most popular" $11/month tier says "100k Characters/mo (~120 mins audio)"

Is good code never altered or extended? Can good code serve as a learning tool? Can good code explain a complicated process in precise detail?

Off topic, but: isn't user agent always a lie? Right now, mine says:

> Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/125.0.0.0 Safari/537.36

I get the evolution of how we got here but on the other hand, wtf.

Los Angeles area, so the only issue here is heat, and even that is usually only a few bad weeks a year. The Tempest app tells me the hottest day was when it hit 109F the first week of September 2022, and that whole week had highs above 100F.

Put mine up in January 2021, zero maintenance, and it's been working great the whole time. Hopefully I haven't jinxed it. :)

It's easy to say "this is old news" but as a non-expert, I have no idea if you are an expert, or just some random blowhard.

I did a quick search but, once again, as a non-expert, I have no idea what to search for and don't see any solid results showing one way or another. I didn't downvote you, but if you make a claim and back it up with an interesting link, that tends to do a lot better.

When plants remove CO2 and release O2, they have to do something with that carbon atom. They can use it to make sap or fruit, but mostly they use it to build more plant.

A plant that isn't growing, like, a LOT, can't possibly be removing much CO2.

The outlier to this the US Navy's experiments. Discussion on an older HN thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19863319

Just in case: some systems "can't run windows 11" because the TPM module is disabled in the bios. If that is the problem, enabling it allows the upgrade. You might need to update the bios first. If you already knew this, sorry, but I thought I would mention it.

This is my only real issue with Windows 11:

> There’s also the fact that the OS has been forcing ads as "recommendations" into the Start menu and has even begun testing promotional recommendation pages that take up your whole screen, urging users to make Edge the default browser and installing or enabling other services. The worst part is that there’s no way to fully opt out of these ads, which accomplish nothing but clog up the UI with constant notifications.

If Microsoft wanted to drop that, they could do so instantly. But apparently MS values the ad revenue more than they do the trust in their system, and going to Windows 12 won't magically change MS's mind.

Following convention and using standard capitalization rules makes things easier on the reader.

Going to all-lowercase is harder on the reader, and thus is disrespectful of the reader. I will die on this hill.

I'm curious exactly what this means. I mean, the plane will still be broadcasting ADS-B info of some sort, right?

If it's an empty registration number, well, to quote The Simpsons, "We'll look for the house with no numbers."

This might be a lost cause, as there really isn't a great word to use instead, and that usage is in modern dictionaries. Some alternative words are proposed here, but none of them really seem adequate: https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/281780/what-is-t...

Also of interest, from a few years ago: TOTP board that fits into classic Casio F-91W wrist watch: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33243434

Putting together a promo packet is hard work!

This passes the Turing test.

There's something called a "Wandering Hour Clock" that, well, displays the current time in an interesting way. When I ran across a 3d printable version online, I knew I had to build one. A picture (or two) is worth a thousand words: https://www.printables.com/model/327198-improved-wandering-h...

Someone upgraded that project to use a stepper motor controlled with an ESP32: https://www.printables.com/model/688154-mounting-plate-and-e...

Of course once you have an ESP32, you might as well put the clock on the network and get time over NTP. So the above project includes that.

I added some features, such as fractional time zones, and being able to set the time zone and DST from the web interface rather than in code. My software changes have been upstreamed, so the above project now has them. I also added a few small 3d printable covers to make the back of the clock look a little cleaner: https://www.printables.com/model/688154-mounting-plate-and-e...

It feels like any form of recycling water would mean pumping water back uphill, which is energy-intensive, at least relative to the current model of "just pull water from Lake Gatú and assume it never runs out".

But using less water in the first place, I'm curious what approaches might exist.

It appears that Dr. Eric Levi works in England.

For a slightly later version of this: My most popular YouTube upload is the telecopier scene from Bullitt, where you can see the police use the latest and greatest "fax" technology of 1968. I uploaded the video without almost no information, but in an surprising twist, a lot of the youtube comments are actually pretty informative.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nQGAaCSFlJI

He's giving business advice, and it's hard to argue a success from that perspective.

Even those "24/7/365" people technically agree, today is a day off.

> Running a thread per client is famously known as The C10K Problem.

Gonna have to be that guy: the C10K problem was "how to serve 10000 clients from a single server" specifically in the 2000ish time-frame. The article links to the C10K problem page, which discusses the tradeoffs involved in at least five high-level strategies[1], only one of which is the strategy of running a thread per client [2].

[1] http://kegel.com/c10k.html#strategies [2] http://kegel.com/c10k.html#threaded

You are asking what if this guy has "web crawl data" that google does not have?

And what if he says no, he does not have permission.

They had a good run.

Technically Google just released another chat app.