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core-utility··on 37signals Introduces "Once" - Buy software one time
What would be more interesting is to compare over 10 years for someone who buys upgrades (CS2->CS3->CS4 etc.) as they come out.

Additionally the individual Dreamweaver price is very high compared to "All Apps" plan at $660 per year.

core-utility··on California allows robo-taxis to expand and emergency responders aren't happy
My Roomba robot vacuum came with little beacon towers that mark keep-away zones. Maybe a solution is for first responder vehicles to have something like that they can turn on where self-driving cars do everything they can within safety limits to stay away from those.
core-utility··on ThinMachine – A $25 thin client macOS Time Machine appliance
If you're using Backblaze B2, check out Wasabi instead. I saved a good amount of money by moving.
core-utility··on Ignoring boys' emotional needs fuels public health risks
Forgiveness is often more about the forgiver than the forgiven.
core-utility··on Ignoring boys' emotional needs fuels public health risks
I'm late to the party on this, but the first thing that comes to mind with your comment is a comedian by the name of Taylor Tomlinson. She used to be a great balance of young, self-deprecating humor while mixing a healthy amount of family drama in. Her recent tour, however, was just depressing. Constant beratement of her dad in joke after joke. Much of the audience laughs because they feel the same.

I won't pretend to know her family struggles, but the public lynching of present fathers is becoming a strong dark theme.

core-utility··on Reddit.com appears to be having an outage
Wouldn't want the recent stuff anyways (except to pontificate)
core-utility··on Livestream of Reddit subreddits going private in protest
I think a large part of my grief of Reddit is the vast amount of knowledge and usefulness that's there. I use it as a hub of information far more than I use it as social media, and yes a lot of that may still be accessible (especially with archive) but the creation of that content dies today.
core-utility··on Amazon starts flagging frequently returned products that you maybe shouldn’t buy
I'm somewhat guilty of this, but a lot of it comes down to Amazon's search. I'll search for "iPhone 13 case" and then window-shop with pictures. I get the case and realize that even though I searched for iPhone 13, it sent me to a product for the iPhone 14 and I didn't realize until I bought it.
core-utility··on Home food delivery’s questionable value, for consumers and investors
My local Publix (South-Eastern US based chain) has their own brand of meal kits [1] that they sell in store. Seems like a win-win in terms of logistics since they've already got all that down. The only thing I could see is that you might spend a small premium for the convenience of having it pre-packaged and right sized for an individual consumer (when compared to buying a 4-pack of chicken breasts for example).

[1]: https://www.publix.com/recipes-planning/aprons-meal-kits

core-utility··on I Am Against Saving the Planet
Note that the actual title is "Why I Am Against Saving the Planet (and why you should be, too)" but HN auto-corrected me.
core-utility··on Airframes.io an aircraft-related aggregator for ACARS, VDL, HFDL and SATCOM data
A lot of tech (.e.g frameworks, etc.) tend to choose aviation themes for their naming
core-utility··on Hyundai Head Unit Hacking
I've never once seen a built-in nav that I liked. They're always clunky, take weird routes, and cost an arm and a leg to update every [other] year. I'd rather buy a Garmin and have dedicated than use the manufacturers option.
core-utility··on England just made gigabit internet a legal requirement for new homes
Is paying for your own fiber install common? I'm in a mid-90's home in the US and AT&T just recently decided they wanted to enter our market with Fiber and will install free of charge with no contract to whoever wants to switch. Certainly no easy task, but I understand that homes/infrastructure outside of the US can also be significantly older.
core-utility··on The Cornell Note Taking System
I was this generation, we literally got graded on how well we followed the format of taking notes this way. I hate(d) the system and would only do the bare minimum to get the grade, meanwhile leaving me with notes that were near useless to me because they couldn't just let me take notes outline style like a teacher 2 years prior had taught (and I voluntarily adopted because it happened to work well for me)
core-utility··on GitHub is sued, and we may learn something about Creative Commons licensing
So (just thinking out loud), if Copilot suggests something only seen in one codebase, the code owners have a decent copyright case. But if copilot suggests something that's frequent across multiple, there's really no case to be made.
core-utility··on GitHub is sued, and we may learn something about Creative Commons licensing
At what point can one say that the source is unique enough to qualify for protection? Otherwise, I can't use `print "Hello world"` because I didn't mix my own thoughts and reasoning into the output.
core-utility··on GitHub is sued, and we may learn something about Creative Commons licensing
Wouldn't this kind of ruling effectively put a halt to ChatGPT and other AI's training on publicly accessible data? What's the difference between Copilot creating output based on code on Github, and ChatGPT giving answers based on a NYT article (without attribution)?
core-utility··on Tech execs who raise their kids tech-free or limit their screen time (2020)
And for families who can't afford $400, library cards are free.
core-utility··on Thousands trapped on Pine Ridge burn clothes for warmth in wake of storm
And that the advent of climate control (Air Conditioning) have significantly minimized heat deaths and allowed humans to live in climates that would have historically been impossible.
core-utility··on Ask HN: What are your predictions for 2023?
It's not a coup unless it crashes in the Coup region of France.
core-utility··on California passes law banning Tesla from calling software FSD
On top of this, a future where every car on the road is self driving also lends itself to a future where every car is in constant communication with the cars around it. A car 10 spaces ahead is slowing down? Your car already knows and is prepared to handle it with grace rather than slamming on brakes. Cars behaving in a predictable and communicable manner, as much as possible, alleviates traffic by a large factor.

This is obviously largely ruined by one single human driver acting unpredictably, so it's a very "all or nothing" resolution.

core-utility··on Meta, Microsoft, AWS and TomTom launch Overture Foundation for open map data
Published data is a catch-22. Dangerous intersections may look worse than other options simply due to the fact that they're more heavily used. In my area, I have 3 different options to get to the same location:

1. Take the most western-route to a traffic light, make a right, and then another right into the destination.

2. Take a more slightly eastern single-lane back road that puts me right out at the destination with still an immediate right onto the main road before getting there (danger factor in the single-lane aspect)

3. Take the most eastern route, make an unprotected left turn onto the main highway (often having to use the center median lane as a buffer for space), and then make another unprotected left into the destination.

Option 1 would show the most published crash data since it's a traffic-light intersection and is most busy by default, while I'd argue that it's also still the safest.

core-utility··on Pulling MikroTik into the Limelight Demystifying and Jailbreaking RouterS
> got a Mikrotik like device where you need Cisco IOS level of skill to configure

That's giving it too much credit. I have experience with Cisco IOS and NexusOS, and I'll say that Mikrotik's RouterOS was hard.

core-utility··on Fire Them All; God Will Know His Own
Who says that any significant portion of these administrators are "running a large institution?" I'd be willing to be that the average professor manages more people than 99% of these administrators.

This isn't about running an institution, these administrators are employees through and through. They are simply employees sharing 1 meaningless task with several other team members and taking eons to complete anything.

core-utility··on Oceanic+ on the Apple Watch Ultra and the perils of subscription based software
As a non-diver, why would someone with a dive computer not be able to go to the cave with Anton? Wouldn't they just have to make a decompression stop on the way (which is the healthy/safe thing to do anyways)?
core-utility··on UK Government scans all web servers hosted in the UK for vulnerabilities
Agreed, but if the US Government were doing this there would be outcry of "spying" and "Government overreach". And before anyone says that the US Gov has lost its trust, let me remind you that UK has GCHQ.
core-utility··on The Tesla Cyberquad for kids has been recalled for not meeting safety standards
I didn't assume, I asked if he'd read it.
core-utility··on The Tesla Cyberquad for kids has been recalled for not meeting safety standards
Did you even read the article? This was a Radio Flyer product that Tesla effectively licensed its brand out to.
core-utility··on Security through obscurity is underrated (2020)
Why? The author of Metasploit was widely seen as a "bad guy" by nearly everyone until security researchers realized it was a net-positive to the security community.

If my system gets hit with a ransomware that's open source (and thereby likely very easy to create antivirus signatures for), I'd blame my system and the attacker, not the author.

core-utility··on DuckDuckGo for Mac beta now open to the public
Rough guess: no. It's based on WebKit so it should perform more similarly to Safari than Chrome.
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