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drunner··on How Australia’s ‘Bluey’ conquered children’s entertainment
A lot of the episodes can definitely have high energy moments (or the whole episode) where the kids are running around screaming, yelling, and playing. But, if you filter those episodes out, there are still dozens of high quality calm and thoughtful ones.
drunner··on How Australia’s ‘Bluey’ conquered children’s entertainment
Mine is 'Whats up party people' which he also uses in multiple episodes.
drunner··on How Australia’s ‘Bluey’ conquered children’s entertainment
Showing the parents at the end of their ropes is really great to see. I love their pixar style adult only quips that get added from time to time. In the claw episode for example, Bandit (the dad) says `Magic Claw has no children. His days are free and easy` and it always cracks me up.
drunner··on How Australia’s ‘Bluey’ conquered children’s entertainment
My wife and I discussed this too. We just remind ourselves that the episodes are 8 minutes long (yes, the plots sometimes are for a whole day), so realistically the parents could be spending all this 'time' which is just in 8 minute increments throughout a day/week.

But yes, ignoring that kind of reasoning, it does set a very high bar.

Also, the parents do have quips/groaning about the requests of the kids from time to time which is does add to the authenticity.

drunner··on Advent of Code 2023 is nigh
The very next line is "To begin, get your puzzle input." with a link
drunner··on 280M e-bikes and mopeds are cutting demand for oil far more than electric cars
And that is a long standing failure in urban planning in the US. Cities that don't support walking/biking/public transit stupid, but just accepted as the norm here.

The whole I-10 thing in LA right now cracks me up. Like they are begging people "please take the bus/train, don't drive", because 1 road closed. Imagine if the bus/train was already preferred because the infrastructure was so much better. Imagine if all the haste/special orders they used to fix the road, they consistently used that to build/expand public transit and walking/biking instead.

The damage is so deep that it feels irreversible at this point, like the US will be doomed to cars and traffic forever. If it took NL like 30-50 years starting in the 70s to reverse course, were looking at a century+ here if we were to start now, which were not.

drunner··on The destruction of Gaza's internet is complete
I think you missed the word civilians.

Half the middle east has the right to come to the US and murder civilians by your reasoning above.

drunner··on Google paid $26.3B in 2021 to be the default search engine
Unrelated, is it possible to search the internet while ignoring content farms these days? Just trying to find information on any kind of consumer product is insanely difficult to do these days when there are thousands of "best 10 x" sites in the results.
drunner··on Automakers invented the crime of jaywalking (2015)
Same with the oil industry and `reduce, reuse, recycle` nonsense. Like I wouldn't need to be concerned with that if your product didn't individually wrap every item I can purchase in a store.
drunner··on Starlink Direct to Cell
SOS only being a key point I missed in my first post. Yes, thankfully they are launching it, but SOS only is a drag.
drunner··on Starlink Direct to Cell
Please disrupt the personal satellite beacon market. Currently the only options are proprietary devices that cost several hundred dollars AND a subscription plan that will run you $12 a month or more.
drunner··on U.S. federal price tag for the post-9/11 wars is over $8T
Wait, is that math crazy? Like 8T / 5million folks who lost their lives is 1.6million ?

If you go with 40 million folks, we could have just given 200k to each person instead of killing/displacing them. Its even more wild than I imagined.

drunner··on Americans Saved $1.1T Less Than Previously Thought from 2017-2022
Interesting, how does `Americans stashed away an average 8.3%` compare to the often stated ~50% have no emergency fund/savings. Does that mean those saving money are on average saving %16 of their income? Makes sense from a general bell curve/inequity point of view but just looking for some thoughts.
drunner··on Why We're Pulling Our Recommendation of Wyze Security Cameras
I mean, any security camera that does anything with the cloud should never make it onto a recommendation list in the first place.

I'm not sure if the product exists, but something that replicates a homemade setup would be amazing.

Think of a bundled camera(s) + raspberry pi + 1tb backup drive or whatever that you can only access over your own dedicated personal wireguard vpn (or tailscale, something like that), but sold as a retail bundle.

Of course, that would cut out all the SaaS/app data selling aspect so it seems unlikely to happen.

drunner··on Improving your online privacy: An update
Is anyone familiar with what privacy badger does over uBlock origin? Unless my information is out of date, the more extensions you have installed the more unique your fingerprint is?
drunner··on Some new snippets from the Snowden documents
What an awful take.
drunner··on Mullvad on Tailscale: Privately browse the web
What is the $1 in `wg show $1` work and how/when do you run this script?
drunner··on Weight-based motor vehicle tax
In the world? LOL

edit: sorry, to be more constructive let me add https://www.strongtowns.org/journal/2020/5/14/americas-growt... as a small explanation for what is all wrong with 'roads' in america. Car infrastructure is insanely expensive and we have a ton of terrible status quos in the US that add to it.

drunner··on Weight-based motor vehicle tax
With your comment what is your though on the Dairy Price Support Program then? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dairy_Price_Support_Program
drunner··on America Is Using Up Its Groundwater Like There’s No Tomorrow
At the very least, regionalize the production better. Throwing out the way we currently do water rights and putting sensible limits on how much can be used for ag production would go a long ways.
drunner··on Ask HN: Underrated music, books, movies?
Likewise "Equilibrium" which also got heavily overshadowed by "The Matrix"
drunner··on Mullvad: Android may leak information when connected to a VPN
The actual source from October 2022: https://mullvad.net/en/blog/2022/10/10/android-leaks-connect...
drunner··on Show HN: Nixhub.io – Find Specific Versions of Nix Packages
Ok, as a nix noob. I find a given package, say `nixpkgs/3276b62e6639096014652132f4824ac2b4f2a2c4#nodejs`

Then what? How do I throw that in a configuration.nix or flake.nix file?

drunner··on NixOS and my descent into insanity
You can always take the easy way out and just symlink stuff. This is what I actually prefer. Then I can edit those files in their native format and just check the updates into my .config/home-manager git repo

    home.file.".gitconfig".source = config.lib.file.mkOutOfStoreSymlink ./dotfiles/git/.gitconfig;
    xdg.configFile."nvim" = {
        recursive = true;
        source = config.lib.file.mkOutOfStoreSymlink ./dotfiles/nvim;
    };
drunner··on Tuition costs have risen 710% since 1983
Related: https://www.aei.org/carpe-diem/chart-of-the-day-administrati...

I always thought the issue was in admin body count. However, just picking the largest universities in Germany and US on wikipedia we see:

Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich Academic staff: 5,565 Administrative staff: 8,208 Students: 51,606

Michigan State University Academic staff: 5,703 Administrative staff: 7,365 Students: 49,809

Those look pretty comparable, so what is going on?

drunner··on ‘The Force has left Lucasfilm’: how Disney can salvage its $4B investment
Whatever the process was for Andor, do that for everything else.
drunner··on What happened with ASUS routers this morning?
https://www.asuswrt-merlin.net/features
drunner··on Yes, it's OK to be mad about crime in San Francisco
I went to the bay area once for vacation, so I have no real horse in this race besides I wish the best for humanity.

Its tough to balance reading https://www.sfgate.com/crime/article/San-Francisco-crime-Che... that kinda shows crime is average for a large US city with the Bell Riots in the DS9 storyline https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Bell_Riots as an outsider.

Either way, shouldn't San Fran have plenty of money from all the tech there and plenty of extra office real estate from covid to try and put a dent in all the circumstances that lead up to someone needing to steal or getting addicted to drugs? Probably too optimistic of a take ...

drunner··on LastPass breach gets worse
https://www.goto.com/blog/our-response-to-a-recent-security-...
drunner··on Mjolnir
Along the same line and even smaller is the DAN A4-SFX, just 7.2L internally.

After 10 years, I recently built myself a new 'desktop' and used one of these and it truly is a 'desktop' now and sits in the corner of my desk as opposed to under it like my old tower. https://www.dan-cases.com/dana4.php

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