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But who is being deceitful? The company who marks their plastics for recycling as required by law? Or the governments who require people to spend time and effort separating their trash for recycling, and then just dump it all in the landfill instead of recycling it?

I have the same opinion of people who want to control others because they "need to be protected from themselves".

It looks like the only options are local-only (single device) or cloud-synced (bulwark cloud). I want credentials that are not tied to a single device OR tied to a cloud service. I want to be able to make backups to be used in the case of device failure or loss, and I don't want to be tied to some "underlying cloud account" (in Yubico's words). Just standalone, backupable credentials. Can you do that?

Yeah, exactly. I was puzzled about the talk of Windows-only and hacked software. I soldered on a jumper wire (with a slide switch to easily revert back if needed) and used it as a barcode reader in FreeBSD.

If the car was designed to stay in the city, they need to stop saying things like:

"Select your Zipcar, pack your tent and pick your spot, from national parks with campsites to choice spots listed on USACampgrounds.info." [1]

Besides, even driving on the freeway between two cities, you can often find dead spots. Imagine pulling into a rest area in the middle of nowhere for a bio-break, only to find yourself stranded.

[1] https://www.zipcar.com/ziptopia/best-vacations-for-solo-trav...

Sure wish we could get this on F-Droid

Hang on... I can get paid to edit OSM instead of just doing it for fun? Where do we find those jobs?

It used to be you had to basically beg them to, but it has gotten better since they generally shifted from subsidized phones to paid up front. Having just helped someone move off Verizon, I know that currently Verizon automatically unlocks phones 60 days after purchase. No first hand knowledge, but likely the others are similar.

> CF capsules (862 mg CF)

I'm guessing that if you drink cocoa instead of taking cocoa flavenol pills, the sugar and other ingredients probably negate the effect.

I guess we should deprecate and remove DOSBox too, right?

DOSBox exists because DOS legacy applications still exist, and will continue to exist for a very long time. The same is true of X legacy applications.

Thanks for jumping in here.

> In order to provide an additional layer of privacy for our users, we proxy all STT requests through Mycroft's servers. This prevents Google's service from profiling Mycroft users or connecting voice recordings to their identities. Only the voice recording is sent to Google, no other identifying information is included in the request. Therefore Google's STT service does not know if an individual person is making thousands of requests, or if thousands of people are making a small number of requests each.

Well, unless Google does voiceprint analysis. But Google wouldn't do that, would they? /s

Beyond that, if I'm reading right, local STT will still require a separate STT server. It won't run on the Mark II itself, right?

According to their privacy policy (https://mycroft.ai/embed-privacy-policy/):

"*When you use our Services including the Mycroft Voice Assistant, your voice and audio commands are transmitted to our Servers for processing.*"

So it appears that STT is still cloud-based, which is a pity. That's the only thing keeping me from ordering one today.

No, we are coming full circle back to the days when a company might put up a website that was just a single Flash app, and you couldn't link directly to anything in it, you could only interact with whatever navigation they built into it.

I used to have an Epever MPPT. Really nice unit. However, as I recall, the manual emphasized that you should only use solar panels for the input. This is because when the battery is full the MPPT will stop charging by shorting the input. This is fine when the input is solar. But if you are doing LiFePO4 -> MPPT -> lead, it's going to short out your LiFePO4 battery when the lead battery is full, which would be very very bad.

"needles"

I see that most online references use some variation of "šxʷƛ̓exən Xwtl'a7shn (formerly QET Plaza)". They seem to be very diligent about never providing any transliteration, even in their pronunciation guide. Which means that in effect, rather than giving it an indigenous name, they have instead effectively made it unnamed. What a completely wasted effort.

Interesting, hadn't heard of those.

But that $17.5M seems to be mostly pump stations and running the pipe along a road. I was thinking more of getting from that pipe into all the existing buildings and houses, and to the various places it is used (I assume primarily toilets).

On the other hand, I agree with the throwaway... Bring me some nice fiber along with that purple pipe!

From your Wikipedia link:

> Water use in California is divided into approximately 51% for environmental uses, 39% agricultural use and 11% urban uses, though that varies considerably between regions and between wet and dry years. Solely relying on these statewide volumes is controversial because they don't consider the fact that most of the volume of water used for environmental purposes includes flows down Wild and Scenic Rivers in the North Coast where there is no practical way to recover it for either agricultural or urban use because it lacks many connections to the statewide water supply system. It also doesn't factor in the amount of water required to keep salty water from the Pacific Ocean from intruding into the Delta beyond a certain small concentration.

If we set aside the 51% of California's water that isn't actually used by people, that 39% of total water becomes 79.6% of water used. So, yeah, 80% of usage.

Can you imagine the cost of retrofitting a city with a second water distribution system?

I am puzzled how the people of Vancouver (nevermind visitors) are meant to use "šxʷƛ̓exən Xwtl’a7shn" or "šxʷƛ̓ənəq Xwtl’e7énk". I mean, if you see things like "Musqueam", "Squamish" and "Tsleil-Waututh", you can muddle through as you learn the sounds. But if you see (the equivalent) "xʷməθkʷəy̓əm", "Sḵwx̱wú7mesh" or "sə̓lílwətaʔɬ", where do you even begin? Yet the official link above, while it helpfully gives both representations of the names of the peoples, makes no effort to do so for the new place names. That strongly suggests any signage will only use the unapproachable version.

Oh, hey, that reminds me... Any T-Mobile techies reading this?

I know someone who recently was signing up with T-Mobile and discovered that the sales rep was unable to enter their email address in the system because it was rejecting emails containing a dash. They had to give him a different address, and later logged in and successfully updated it to the correct one online. Seems like there is some incorrect filtering going on in whatever UI they use in-store for account creation.

One time I made up a new address to use for a SiriusXM signup, and that address got a spam email before the confirmation email. As you can expect, that was filed under "people insisted I was wrong".

Hydrosim reminds me of the map generation phase of Wilderness.

https://archive.org/details/msdos_Wilderness_-_A_Survival_Ad...

That is really a great movie.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Man_from_Earth

A couple interesting details I learned while looking up that link:

- They released a sequel 10 years later.

- The author also wrote the Star Trek episode "Requiem for Methuselah", which has a similar theme.

Nah, it's more of a "I wonder what folks have to say about this rarely-mentioned project" HN submission.

For the repo, I found that the Development page has a tab (at top left, doesn't really look like a tab, so easy to miss) named "GIT". That page has links to what looks like a self-hosted GitLab, as well as a GitHub mirror.

That's a great question. I know I'm looking forward to reading HN thoughts on it.

For my part, as someone who has only dabbled in it, I can say that it appeals to me though I have difficulty elucidating why. I think partly because it is well suited to creating servers, due to its background in MUD and WWW servers.

I don't think I'm missing anything. You want to be able to claim the briefcase as proceeds of a crime, without actually prosecuting a crime. That is unreasonable. If, as you say, "Bob's actions are not in themselves criminal", you've got no justification to take his stuff. You may think it's proceeds of a crime, and you can treat it as evidence of a possible crime. But if you haven't got enough evidence to convict Bob, then you also don't have enough evidence to keep his stuff. Pretending otherwise is a mockery of justice.

Mercedes is saying that about their L3 system, which is not yet available. Until that system is available and Mercedes has acted on their stated intent, then drivers are responsible as 40four said. And from your article: "It isn’t clear whether the company can legally take over liability from drivers."

No, there shouldn't be, because if you haven't convicted Bob of a crime it's not "obvious profits of crime". It could be perfectly legitimate and you haven't proved otherwise. You can certainly seize the cash as possible evidence of a crime, but if you don't charge Bob then you've got no justification to penalize him by keeping the cash, and it should go back to him.