dylan604

What's PBS showing now? I grew up on PBS and not Disney, and I think I turned out alright.

I've started going to local sports bars, I almost said pub, to watch events that I'm interested in seeing. After working from home for 8+ years now, it's also a nice bit of social interaction as well. I used to pay for Peacock specifically to watch Premiere League, but stopped since the team I follow kept getting bumped to their USA partner and not streaming on Peacock. Their 10-15 minute extended highlights are still available without a subscription, and they are good in a pinch for things I missed. I've now parlayed that sub over to Paramount+ to follow Champions League this season.

How many streaming platforms do you pay for each month? The cost of that drive is probably 2-3 months worth of streaming rental payments.

If you wanted to skip a step, you could find a copy someone else has already transcoded for the physical media in your possession. I'm not suggesting anything, just pointing out what one could do.

It is amazing the number of variations of Linux distros that people are willing to try for such a short amount of time before switching to the next.

After spending all day looking at text on a screen, the last thing I want to do is spend time reading text in a book or eReader. I really enjoyed the part of my life where I was an avid reader. Yet another thing to regret about my choice in career.

I canceled my Prime subscription precisely because they continued to keep mixing ad supported content with my ad free content. There were multiple shows where I unknowingly started watching something with ads where I immediately noped out at the first ad break and never watched that show again. I doubt they'll look at it, but it would be interesting to know how many users do the same thing.

I've already been pausing subscriptions left and right as my trends have been focusing on one platform's content that I'm not even using the others that I'm paying for that month. After dumping Prime, I eventually dumped Disney+/Hulu bundle for being the most expensive. I then got yet another notice from Netflix for increase rates which was already paused so I just went ahead and canceled it as well.

I wonder how much physical media I could acquire if I was to spend the same money that is not being spent on streaming platforms. I bet within a year, I could build up a pretty decent back catalog from used and $5 bins.

is this a "in Soviet Russia, computer uses you" reference?

Another trippy and disorienting thing is going to a dark sky spot to see a sky filled with stars that you cannot normally see and having to reacquaint yourself to even find the things that are normally easy to find like the Big Dipper.

The fun one to me is realizing how much higher Polaris is in the sky the further north you go. I saw the Big Dipper which guided me to it. Which is actually one of those skills. There are a few constellations that can be used as guides to find other objects along with using your hand to measure angles/distance so you can navigate pretty efficiently.

https://www.timeanddate.com/astronomy/measuring-the-sky-by-h...

doh! I so don't think about AMD that I even forget when they are actually used and forget they even exist. But of course it should have felt weird using Apple/Nvidea in the same breath

Maybe it started in a different city, bought, and then moved but kept the iconography like the Jazz?? Yeah, I just compared a city to a sports franchise

Is Atlanta really a phoenix or a falcon? Also, why do some cities have more than one icon? Seattle has the Space Needle, yet Dallas is a cowboy hat and not the Reunion Tower. Dallas has fewer cowboy hats being worn than other cities. I'd put all of this down to how lame vibe coded content is due to the limitations of LLMs

what happens if you are convicted in federal court before receiving the pardon. does double jeopardy come into play?

Well, that's why you commit your crimes in DC!

why would you need to destroy anything if there's pardons involved. Even if they have the proof you committed wrongdoing, the pardon means you suffer no consequences.

that's my point. Someone cannot come at you saying you were still under the rules of the embargo if you had no idea the embargo existed so now you're in violation and get to suffer the consequences. You cannot say that about the law.

I'd venture the legal forces that Apple can bring to bear are not in the same ballpark as Rolex. I'd expect Apple to use their influence with US govt to get Customs to stop shipments from coming in. It's not like these devices would be made in the US.

Didn't the legal battle between Apple and Samsung show that Apple would not be very open to a iPhone clone?

Is that really true? When Apple came out with the original 2006 MacPro, it was the best computer to run Windows. When the TrashCan came out, there was a specific issue with Resolve that disappeared when booted into Windows. Apple blamed DaVinci, DaVinci blamed Nvidia, Nvidia blamed Apple.

I'm not suggesting I like Windows or anything nonsensical like that, but I'm just suggesting that their hardware is much better than their software.

> Lots of boring music being produced. But , while it wasn't really recorded because recording was expensive, musicians 'phoning it in' have probably always been the majority of popular music.

Which is part of why people revolting against AI generated music is a bit weird to me. So AI music is too far, but so much over produced and changed in the bay is acceptable. It's interesting to me how arbitrary that line is. I abhor the over produced pablum as much as the AI generated stuff equally.

To be honest, your accounting of the situation reminds me of a scene from the West Wing where the press secretary lets slip info about a grand jury but then spins herself up realizing grand juries are meant to be secret and leaking that info could have consequences. After an entire episode of a tv show where she's not been able to sleep, she finds out that because someone else told her about the information, she's not liable for leaking it. Hopefully, you'll similarly be able to get some sleep now that you know the world isn't going to come crashing down on you.

Having a compute device used on you is not the same as using a compute device. QED

It's okay. It's just 70% of websites.

Okay, now I'm curious about what sci-fi trope you've gone too far down a rabbit hole in.

I know nothing of who Pete is or his associations, so any accuracy on the following speculation is purely coincidental.

"Take full responsibility" is also something someone set up as a scapegoat might say. By claiming nobody else influenced, coerced, or otherwise convinced them to make that statement, every/any one else involved can then wash their hands of the situation.

I'm merely playing devil's advocate here, and it's just a sign of the times that a person making an honest admission can be interpreted in such a manner.

This is not a situation where "Ignorantia juris non excusat" applies.

One could go crazy trying to understand the inner workings that caused the reply to be flagged/dead. A user makes a Show HN, another user asks a direction question, the OP user makes a reply. How does that get flagged when it's a direct answer the question. Maddening. So yeah, I vouched

You're telling me you think there are >50% of congress critters and senators that are not on the take?

> A related angle is trying to get such laws passed, to discourage similar cases in the future

Who is going to sponsor such a law? The same representatives that are paid by the lobbyists of the corporations the laws are targeting?