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Zircom··on New iPad mini
There used to be an "Active" line of Galaxy phones that had built in umpers before they discontinued them.
Zircom··on What is going on with ceiling fans
Probably not anything more complicated than running some kind of signal receiver while clicking each button on the remote and then capturing/replaying it. I highly doubt there's much if any security around the fan remote signals lol.
Zircom··on What happens if you put work into the second dimension?
FYI those Firefox containers have little to nothing to do with organizing tabs spatially, it just lets you have different 'profiles' to open tabs in that can all have separate cookies and so lets you be logged into different accounts on the same website for one example/use case.
Zircom··on ACLU: Do Automatic License Plate Readers violate privacy under the 4th Amendment
The license plate itself isn’t the issue. The state want cars to have an easily visible identifier? Sure, whatever makes sense from a perspective of being able to identify a car and its likely driver at the moment when it's actively being used for a crime or for traffic enforcement.

The problem is that this state mandated visible identifier is then used by them to constantly track where you go. So the question is do you have the right to not have the government tracking your movements and keeping logs of everywhere you’ve been for months or years, especially when you’re not currently suspected of any crime?

Zircom··on HP trialed mandatory 15-minute support call wait times (2025)
Average Handle Time actually
Zircom··on A Social Filesystem
https://docs.bsky.app/docs/advanced-guides/atproto
Zircom··on Claude Sonnet 4 now supports 1M tokens of context
That was his point lol, if someone is saying it'll happen in 5 years, triple that for a real estimate.
Zircom··on VPN signups from UK surge 1400% after Online Safety Act goes into effect
It's less the people of the UK have chosen this and more of general apathy towards the state of the world today. The lack of unity and mobilization of the proletariat class to secure our rightful share of the productivity gains of recent decades has left us in a terrible bargaining position, and technology these days is such a huge force multiplier that it feels hopeless to go against governments, and to a lesser extent the huge corporations and elites that influence them (or totally control, according to some). Sometimes I wonder if we've already crossed the point of no return and that they've won and just nobody realizes it yet, and we're doomed to descend into some flavor of corporate dystopian hellhole future.
Zircom··on Programming vehicles in games
Fun game, have you considered allowing people to control the sliders with their scroll wheel if they're on a desktop web browser?
Zircom··on The Italian towns selling houses for €1
https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...

Here's a few

Zircom··on Domains I Love
I've always wanted zir.com but had to settle for notzir.com
Zircom··on It's Breathtaking How Fast AI Is Screwing Up the Education System
Yes but dedicating the same amount of time as kids or young adults do to school while also working full-time as an adult is exhausting. I washed out on my first go at college, and going back several years later took me 6 years to finish what was 4 semesters of credits back when I wasnt having to work 40 hours a week AND squeeze in classes when I can at night or early morning.
Zircom··on Bridge to Nowhere
Universal Paperclips, it's a clicker game where the only object of the game is to make your count of paper clips go as high as possible. With that in mind I'm sure you can reason out his intent now.
Zircom··on My first game with Carimbo, my homemade engine
Maybe re-assess if a game engine is needed for your use case? A slot machine doesn't really need a whole ass game engine, you could do it with pretty much any graphics library.
Zircom··on I Made a Rubbish Clock
Most American towns have one pickup day for both recycling and trash, and only one type of recycling anyways. Kind of unnecessary to print hundreds of thousands just to mark Tuesday or Friday every week on them.
Zircom··on Anime is eating the world
Calling FSN a porno because it has sex scenes is like calling Wolf of Wall Street a porno just because it has sex scenes. It's extremely reductive and entirely inaccurate. There's like literally 3 or 4 h-scenes in the entire novel, and collectively they all probably make up less than a few percent of the text/screentime.
Zircom··on Reports of the death of dental cavities are greatly exaggerated
https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B06XK6XJBP?psc=1&ref=ppx_pop_...

Bought just this past Sunday and delivered this morning, had zero issues finding and ordering it :)

Zircom··on The wild,winding world of New York City's legal (& not-so-legal) cannabis market
Your judgemental attitude is definitely a part of the problem because while you may be 'accepting' others that share your actual opinion aren't. Do you also think people that take anxiety medication are wasting their life? People that take sleep medication? People that take ADD medication? People that take pain medication? People that have a drink after work to relax? People that drink socially to have a good time?
Zircom··on Why are Texas interchanges so tall?
My partner got me this shirt and I love wearing it, not because of any sort of state pride just because I think it's absurdly hilarious.

https://hivemill.com/products/smbc-texas-shirt

Zircom··on Why are Texas interchanges so tall?
The 75 lane your talking about is actually an HOV lane, not an express one. And I appreciate that it exits off the highway for exactly one reason and it's that it makes it so incredibly easy for the cops to setup their checkpoints to catch single people using the HOV lane without screwing over the rest of the traffic on the highway. Love to see it.
Zircom··on The guidance system and computer of the Minuteman III nuclear missile
I mean it's a nuclear missile, millimeter accuracy isn't really necessary. Somewhere in the general vicinity is good enough for it's purpose of going boom.
Zircom··on There Is No Antimemetics Division (2018)
Reach out to me via email on my profile, I have an ebook version of Worm and Ward(the sequel) I'd be happy to share.
Zircom··on Aster shootdown over Sydney in 1955
Literally all they're saying is 'fuck' and 'holy shit', it's not like they're dropping racial slurs or anything.

If you're that sensitive to this mild of profanity you probably shouldn't be on the fucking internet in the first place my friend.

Zircom··on Dmv.org
Tax office has to be in your county yes, which makes sense because you're registering your vehicle with the county you live in so it has to be one of their tax offices, but you can go to any DPS for drivers license stuff. We regularly use a specific DPS office in the next county over that's in small town about an hour away, and so much quicker to get things done there even accounting for the extra time driving out there.
Zircom··on Show HN: Kyoo – Self-hosted media browser (Jellyfin/Plex alternative)
Out of all the things to take issue with about their monetization model that is such a wild take. Do you also have issues about paying for a videogame that uses your GPU? Probably not.

Any paid software you can run on your own hardware by definition is paying to use "your own" resources(CPU, GPU, storage, etc), what you're paying for is their effort in creating and maintaining the software. If they want a gatekeep features for a premium version that's their right, if you have a problem with it find something else or make it yourself.

Zircom··on IEEE no longer accepts Lena image containing submissions from 4/1 onward
Damn cosmic rays.
Zircom··on Cable ISP fined $10k for lying to FCC about where it offers broadband
I'd assume a legitimate Netflix watching session looks pretty different from a speed test metadata wise. Small amounts of data sent for a bit while you're finding something to watch, then a consistent rate while you're streaming it, as opposed to an immediate maxing out of the connection for 45 seconds.
Zircom··on Boeing whistleblower before death: "If anything happens, it's not suicide"
>This should only be flagged if it was found that this article was fraudulent and incorrect and he didn’t say that in my opinion.

Okay then it should be flagged by your reasoning, did you read the article? Because there's no proof in it that he ever said it. A woman who refused to identify herself past a first name claims he said it.

Zircom··on Court docs reveal Epic CEO's anger at Steam's 30% fees
Steam also provides multiplayer support/matchmaking, social features, voice chat, download/update infrastructure, anti cheat, and other things I'm probably not listing because I don't directly interact with as a player, and the only up front money you have to pay is a one-time $100 that gets refunded if you end up making $1,000 in revenue. Pretty good deal.
Zircom··on The Good Soldier Švejk (2018)
Found a quote, had to use the anglicized spelling though.

https://www.vanityfair.com/culture/2011/08/heller-201108

"The Czech writer Arnošt Lustig claimed that Heller had told him at a New York party for Milos Forman in the late 1960s that he couldn’t have written Catch-22 without first reading Jaroslav Hašek’s unfinished World War I satire, The Good Soldier Schweik. "

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