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goda90··on Burying the Evidence: nine out of every 10 time capsules go missing
Or get destroyed by heavy machinery, fires, explosions, volcanic activity, etc.
goda90··on Every Windows 11 app should kill Electron, and Discord just showed why
WebView2. Other applications can also use it but it seems like there's less out-of-the-box functionality than Electron
goda90··on Search for everyone
I'd love if they did a bundle deal with other service providers like email and data storage.
goda90··on Motorola Signature 27 with GrapheneOS support
Or at least an easy way to install it the Motorola camera app. I'm running Google's camera on my gOS Pixel but with updates and internet permission turned off.
goda90··on AI is forcing us to pay off 40 years of technical debt
That's why I said hypothetical. But moving towards such a target is the goal of avoiding or paying off tech debt.
goda90··on AI is forcing us to pay off 40 years of technical debt
Technical debt is something that hinders the ability to understand the code and how changes will impact the code. A hypothetical technical debt-free piece of legacy code could be picked up by a new developer and they'd understand it perfectly after reading it.
goda90··on US voters roundly reject data centers in ballot measures
What's your take on the tax exemptions they're getting? Without tax revenue, how will everyone else in your county benefit?
goda90··on US voters roundly reject data centers in ballot measures
> My town is dying. Main street is depressing.

And the data center will probably contribute to it dying faster. It'll produce only a handful of permanent local jobs, and the long term economic output will largely be for rich companies who won't be in your town. Even tax revenue will be tiny because of the exemptions they give it.

goda90··on US voters roundly reject data centers in ballot measures
We can certainly tell people it's illegal to emit pollution into the air.
goda90··on US voters roundly reject data centers in ballot measures
What are you talking about? Why shouldn't we be opposed to all new use of fossil fuels?
goda90··on US voters roundly reject data centers in ballot measures
The nuclear power plant will only help with pollution if it replaces existing fossil fuel use. If it just meets growing demand, pollution persists, and if growing demand is also filled by some fossil fuels then pollution increases, but just a bit slower because of the nuclear.
goda90··on Geoffrey Hinton: it might turn out we were better off without AI
Don't ignore the very real human cost this would bring. Every day the power is out, more vulnerable people would be harmed(including death) directly from not having electricity for essentials or from systemic failures like in food distribution and storage. Financial systems being down could also have extreme impacts on some people, but maybe easier to mitigate via human compassion.

Maybe the long term changes such blackouts would cause would be "worth it" in a utilitarian sense, but let's not hope for such damage.

goda90··on Hackers hit French national blood bank
What remote control mechanisms do detectors needs? Can't they just be broadcast only devices?
goda90··on Stringman, an $800 open-source room scale gripper robot
The more I think about, I wonder if a small tethered ground robot paired with an overwatch camera would be better. Cable management could still be in the air but since it's just power delivery, it doesn't need the tension.
goda90··on Stringman, an $800 open-source room scale gripper robot
If you're willing to do a bit of loading and unloading labor(I know, it's a lot to ask) some people have been trying out simpler solutions to that problem: https://makerworld.com/en/models/982703-bolt-screw-separatio...
goda90··on Stringman, an $800 open-source room scale gripper robot
I kind of want to try something like this for garden weeding. Put a small spinning blade instead of a grabber arm on it. Computer vision can identify any weeds popping up and it'll go over and cut them before they get too big/woody for the blades. The challenge would be dodging taller plants and probably the forces that the blade would put on it.
goda90··on Ballot Rejections Have Soared in Rural Counties as USPS Reduces Mail Service
>(picking the same name as your opponent to confuse voters)

Here's the ballot that some suggest would confuse voters: https://ballotpedia.org/Alaska_official_sample_ballots,_2026

goda90··on US boy names that became girl names and vice versa
A name I was surprised by was someone I know naming their daughter Miles/Myles, which is such a male name in my mind. It might even be based on the Latin word for soldier. It's not one I've seen used for a girl anywhere else, yet.
goda90··on AI fan wikis riddled with errors are muddying the waters of games culture
Before code would be intentionally a certain way, done as a known compromise that's less than ideal, or the developer flubbed in some way. Using commit comments and other surrounding details you might be able to identify which in many cases which could guide your next steps. I don't think you can do that with an LLM's output.
goda90··on Turning a solar power system into its own backup
Tangential: a non-parabolic curved mirror setup can be used for DIY solar thermal concentration to get more energy without motors and working better under clouds:

https://youtube.com/watch?v=8zlAI32MSsQ

goda90··on We ran AI agent swarms in Minecraft and Mindustry
Sounds horrific!
goda90··on Wealth Inequality in America drawn to scale
My reply is in response to this statement:

"I don't think most Americans have a problem with rich people buying nice houses and nice cars, and using their wealth to pay for private staff. I think the real problem is how much of the wealth is allowed to stay off public markets. Cargill is worth more than $50 billion and its stock is not available on public markets. The growth in wealth of most AI companies - Anthropic, OpenAI - happened off of public markets, and so none of it trickled into the American middle class by their retirement accounts."

goda90··on Rising rates of colorectal cancer found in nearly all age groups
I stopped using rinse aid in my dishwasher after seeing this or a similar study: https://www.jacionline.org/article/S0091-6749(22)01477-4/ful...
goda90··on Evidence of a spying operation by ICE against left-wing social movements
They're not all quiet: https://www.reddit.com/r/liberalgunowners/
goda90··on Wealth Inequality in America drawn to scale
I don't think most Americans are thinking about their 401Ks when it comes to corporate behavior. They're thinking about high prices, lower quality, poor service, externalities(pollution and such), low wages, poor working conditions. I don't think public markets will fix those things, and some argue they'd make them worse.
goda90··on Blaise Pascal invented fixed route public transport (2024)
> Had this really not been done before? Apparently not on land. Ferries are an ancient idea, both for crossing water bodies and for traveling along them. They are fixed routes, of course, but that’s mostly because the shore is fixed. Pascal’s idea was that even though carriages could go from anywhere to anywhere on Paris’s street network, a special kind of usefulness would arise if they didn’t do that, but instead followed paths that people could remember and plan around.

While not exactly a transit system, there were fixed trade and courier routes before this where the dependability and consistency induced build up and improvements around the route. There were probably even times and places you could hitch a ride on someone's cart or group up with others for safety because of how well the routes were used.

goda90··on Amazon's "digital pacifier" for toddlers
Why does this attitude still exist?
goda90··on Root shell on Samsung TV
People want 4k, HDR, 60+ inches.
goda90··on France asked ISPs to prepare temporary DNS blocks for major social platforms
Not if the government is for, by, and of the people.
goda90··on Physicists trap a single antimatter particle for a month
Ejecting the warp core is a common strategy.
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