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Two4··on Just Stop Oil soups two more van Goghs hours after sentencing of earlier souping
"soups" is the verb here, "van Goghs" is the object. Weirdly enough too, "souping" is a noun here. This whole sentence is a flustercuck for non-native speakers.
Two4··on Just Stop Oil soups two more van Goghs hours after sentencing of earlier souping
That would result in actual property and financial damages. What they've done here is 20 minutes with a rag and detergent to clean up. As others have pointed out, the actual paintings are not affected.
Two4··on Apple's A18 Pro chip in iPhone 16 Pro has faster CPU than 6GHz Intel i9-14900K
This seems a tad defensive, very ra ra go team. Can't we all celebrate a step forward in computing technology?
Two4··on Lightweight radio transmitters on birds, bats and insects
Hey now, don't have too much fun without the rest of us
Two4··on The HTTP Query Method
HTTP2 has already been mostly replaced by HTTP3, iirc. We now mostly have a split between HTTP1.1 And 3, if I'm remembering an article I read correctly.
Two4··on Death Rates by Vehicle Model
That's not really what happens with sloped front ends, which are a safety measure for pedestrians. Unlike when a Ferd F15000 hits you and the flat front grill knocks you flush at head height, sloped front ends tend to hit you in the legs and allow your torso to roll down on to the hood. In a head-to-head collision with another vehicle, the sloped front end is part of the crumple zone engineering, redirecting the forces upwards through a panel concertina and downwards through the engine block, which ideally should pop out and down towards the road.
Two4··on Ask HN: Should touch typing be a required skill for software engineering jobs?
I'm in a weird halfway space when it comes to touch typing - I can't intentionally touch type, but I sometimes catch myself doing it unintentionally out of muscle memory. There is no significant change in my productivity between when I do or don't touch type, because I'm in the same boat as the gentleman above: I'm spending more time thinking about, designing and navigating code to build a mental map of the changes I need to make and its effects than I am doing the actual code changes, and I often find that means I only need to make those changes once.
Two4··on Visa to launch pay-by-bank payments, an alternative to credit cards
They (Visa) can't see much aside from which merchant, how much and when you've paid. That's still pretty powerful metadata, but in most sane legal jurisdictions with decent PII protection statutes, they can't willy nilly go link that to your shopping receipt and break down your purchase to line items.
Two4··on Visa to launch pay-by-bank payments, an alternative to credit cards
That's probably not good. Getting a new card every few years lowers your exposure to fraud, as it's just a matter of time before it ends up in a card dump. The whole system is pretty terrible, but limiting the window during which fraud can occur for your card is a small mitigation.
Two4··on How immigration remade the U.S. labor force
Your argument is in the wrong direction: enforcing a liveable federal minimum wage ensures that there's a reasonable bottom to how low you can bid on labour. The housing crisis, on the other hand, is a net supply restriction effect caused by real estate speculation and investment, rather than it being a commodity (it never will be a commodity, but I'd wager there's a real estate bubble pop coming soon)
Two4··on Code Smarter, Not Harder: Developing with Cursor and Claude Sonnet
"POSIX sh it" hehehe - my inner 5 year old is too pleased right now.
Two4··on We made Unreal Engine web-compatible (WebGPU, WASM, multi-threaded)
I know what you're saying, but I'm not sure I get your meaning - are you pointing out the shortcomings of the iPhone platform, or are you pointing out the software as being the issue?
Two4··on Wells Fargo employee found dead at desk after 4 days
Lacking movement or warmth: an essay on the executive class by inglor_cz
Two4··on Why Ed-Tech Startups Don't Scale (2022)
The comment didn't claim it was a startup, but besides that: there's a number of successful startups that have began life as "side hustles"
Two4··on Crayola Trademarks the Smell of Its Crayons
Ah, you were in the Marines I see
Two4··on Ask HN: How to Avoid Microplastics/PFAS
Does silicone not contain plasticizers?
Two4··on What is an SBAT and why does everyone suddenly care
Kompromat on a staff engineer is far more effective, sustainable and silent than a five-dollar-wrench attack
Two4··on Study explains why laws are written in an incomprehensible style
I use q as my iterator variable name in my for loop, everyone freaks out. I use j in an inner loop, everyone is fine - because it's all part of the plan.
Two4··on Alpine: A Lightweight JavaScript Framework for Minimalist Front End Development
Or a racing team
Two4··on "I've not repaid a penny of my £70K student loan since leaving Britain"
What in the actual capitalism is running a credit report on a job candidate supposed to achieve? That's the most American thing I've ever heard since I found out they pay to receive phone calls.
Two4··on A Memoir Offers an Insider's Perspective into The Pentagon's UFO Hunt
You created an account to say this?
Two4··on EVs are starting to overtake gas-powered cars in Ethiopia
I think this is referring to new car sales - vehicles in the third world tend to stay on the road a very long time, 30 to 40 years by my reckoning. It would take a long time for EVs to displace ICEVs by sheer numbers.
Two4··on Clean Fuel Startups Are Collapsing
It depends by which metric you mean "better". For a collection of executives that cost in the order of six figures an hour, it makes sense to put them on a plane and get them there as quickly as possible, even if it sometimes means chartering a jet. Is this stupidly polluting? Of course. Does this figure into the incentives? Not really. Could it figure into the incentives if clean fuel was available? Plausibly.
Two4··on Organic Maps Removed from Play Store Due to "Requirements for Family Program"
This site is visited by very many FAANG employees.
Two4··on The AMD Ryzen 9 9950X and Ryzen 9 9900X Review: Flagship Zen 5 Soars and Stalls
1. Buy new 14900 from a brick-and-mortar 2. RMA your current CPU 3. Wait until the replacement arrives 4. Return the sealed replacement unit to the store 5. ??? 6. Profit
Two4··on Intel sells stake in chip designer Arm Holdings
I'm not criticizing ARM, I'm criticizing x86.
Two4··on Intel sells stake in chip designer Arm Holdings
It's an ISA designed last century. It's time to stop tacking on extensions and build something better.
Two4··on New 9/11 Evidence Revives Questions About Hijackers' Saudi Ties
Look at mapped locations of US military bases before and after the "War on Terror". It was always about establishing a foothold in the region to threaten Iran and displace competing imperial powers - although much of that has been ceded in the last decade or so.
Two4··on Waymo got a ticket and there was confusion about who or what was being ticketed
I read a blog post years ago about a guy who fought a traffic ticket and ran into the undefined legal area of whether they were laying a charge against him or his vehicle, since they couldn't prove it was him driving. I imagine it may be a similar scenario here, but unfortunately I cannot open Twitter links on mobile.
Two4··on Soup Dumpling Index: How prices compare around the world
Economics as an academic field annoys me, because the academics often talk like it's not a normative science.
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