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dmonitor··on In a Milestone for Manhattan, a Pair of Coyotes Has Made Central Park Their Home
Nobody cares about their pets being a nuisance. They care because dogs are more likely to get lost and not find their way home or get hit by a car.
dmonitor··on In a milestone for Manhattan, a pair of coyotes has made Central Park their home
You're allowed to let your cat outside and kill nature, but you aren't allowed to be mad when nature fights back. The double standard with which people treat feral dogs/cats (treating kill shelters for overpopulation as an awful sin) versus how they treat snakes and alligators (go into the woods and kill them on sight just for existing) makes me nauseous.
dmonitor··on They tried Made in the USA – it was too expensive for their customers
If you adjusted your business model to make other people miserable, you can sell yourself as a marketing agency
dmonitor··on Touching the back wall of the Apple store
For something like an Apple TV, you can just walk up to the product, scan it with your phone, pay for it, and leave without any employee interaction. They're more interested in selling the things like iPhones, iPads, and Macs that require employee interaction.
dmonitor··on Writing a basic Linux device driver when you know nothing about Linux drivers
This is exactly the kind of simple tutorial I was looking for a few years ago. I forget what the project was that I wanted this for, though, haha. Thank you for the writeup!
dmonitor··on AI's Biggest Threat: Young People Who Can't Think
Yes, that is how temptations tend to work. The implication is that the cognitive offloading is bad for you in the long term.
dmonitor··on Meta announces Oakley smart glasses
Is audio AR just headphones?
dmonitor··on A Dark Adtech Empire Fed by Fake CAPTCHAs
I'm rarely at a computer in the airport without my phone
dmonitor··on The Right to Repair Is Law in Washington State
Hopefully this doesn't mean the system can't report a non-OEM part being installed at all. Buying a used product that's been hacked apart would be frustrating.
dmonitor··on Updates to Windows for the Digital Markets Act
Uninstalling the Windows Store and custom apps giving start menu search results are pretty huge. How the hell do I get this on my machine in the US
dmonitor··on Mario Kart designers had to rethink everything to make it open world
The Wii U also sold out. There's just a lot of Nintendo fans.
dmonitor··on My AI skeptic friends are all nuts
Old TV series should have closed captions available (which are apparently different from subtitles), however the question of where to obtain aside from VHS copies them might be difficult.
dmonitor··on AI is not our future
Watching a movie and "recording it" with my brain is legal, and remembering scenes + dialogue is legal, but recording it with a camcorder and watching it whenever isn't.

When the artist gave you the work, it was under the pretense that you wouldn't train a robot to recreate those images. Humans are divine beings. Deal with it.

dmonitor··on The Darwin Gödel Machine: AI that improves itself by rewriting its own code
I can't help but notice that it doesn't matter what DeepCent does because OpenBrain will reach self awareness 6 months before them no matter what. Who needs a profitability plan when you're speedrunning the singularity.
dmonitor··on Chaos on German autobahns as Google Maps wrongly says they are closed
If google maps told you a main road was closed, would your first instinct be to suspect that google maps is lying to you for the first time since you started using it? I'd sooner suspect a meteor landed on the road.
dmonitor··on The key to a successful egg drop experiment? Drop it on its side
Even simpler: A barrel of water densified such that the egg floats in the middle
dmonitor··on Unhappy Meals (2007)
you're forgetting the corn maltodextrin in doritos, which is a kind of predigested food-derivative that this article is warning about. Your body turns it into glucose much more efficiently than just corn, and overdosing over a long period of time probably leads to health issues.
dmonitor··on xAI to pay telegram $300M to integrate Grok into the chat app
..and Honey will snipe their commission anyway

https://fortune.com/2024/12/23/honey-extension-scam-drama/

dmonitor··on Microsoft is starting to open Windows Update up to any third-party app
AppImages are still fairly common, though, and those are practically begging for a drag/drop interface
dmonitor··on US pauses new student visa interviews as it mulls expanding social media vetting
It depends how they define "political views". Ethnic cleansing is a political view, and I think it deserves some scrutiny
dmonitor··on How to live on $432 a month in America
> that means you don’t get the latest iPhone

Why do people always have to call out "the latest iPhone". Most people can't afford the latest iPhone, nor do they try. You might as well say a Lamborghini. Why can't you be honest and just say "a smartphone".

dmonitor··on How to live on $432 a month in America
All of these articles need to come with an "About the Author" section that describes how the author makes their living. They claim to be living the outlined lifestyle, but I doubt they are working part time at three gas stations.
dmonitor··on How to live on $432 a month in America
I love the stupid math in this paragraph. One 10hr shift is ~30% of what you need. So multiply that by 3.3 and... oh hey you're working nearly 40hrs a week to afford your impoverished lifestyle in the middle of nowhere. Just like everyone else in this country, only now you get to own a shed. Also you have to take the bus, which runs from 5am-6pm, so you need to beg your boss to not be an opener or closer. Your coworkers will love you for that.
dmonitor··on What Sam Altman told OpenAI about the device he's making with Jony Ive
the iPod / Walkman are there as well, but definitely less ubiquitous
dmonitor··on We 3D-Printed Luigi Mangione's Ghost Gun. It Was Legal
this article doesn't attempt prove that luigi is the person who shot the gun, that he printed the gun, or that it was found in his backpack. just that the person in the video shot a 3D printed gun similar to the one police are alleging was in luigi's backpack.
dmonitor··on Veo 3 and Imagen 4, and a new tool for filmmaking called Flow
People aren't looking forward to companies playing the "how much sawdust can you put in a rice crispy before people notice the difference" experiment on the entertainment industry. The quality of acting, scripting, lighting, and animation in the film/television industry already feels second rate to stuff being made before 2020. The cost cutting and gutting of cultural products is becoming ridiculous, and this technology will only be an accelerant.
dmonitor··on Veo 3 and Imagen 4, and a new tool for filmmaking called Flow
It's being redefined in such a way that 2-3 very large entities get to hold the means of production. It's a very convenient redefinition for them.
dmonitor··on We 3D-Printed Luigi Mangione's Ghost Gun. It Was Legal
Not a fan of the way the headline is written The gun hasn't been proven to be his. It could've very easily been planted when the police confiscated his bag.
dmonitor··on Show HN: Easel – Code multiplayer games like singleplayer
It still is. There's been attempts at porting the game to modern engines (Space Station 14 having the most progress), but SS13 is still alive and well.

/tg/station's github is very interesting, too. About a dozen pull requests every week adding random features and bug fixes from random contributors. The game is constantly in flux, but they manage to keep everything feeling the same.

https://github.com/tgstation/tgstation

dmonitor··on Show HN: Semantic Calculator (king-man+woman=?)
well green is not a creative color, so that's to be expected
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