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hyperdimensionon Amazon announces online car sales for the first time, starting with Hyundai

Well, except for the Theta II engines...though you could say they (generally) honored their warranty if you want to look at the bright side.

hyperdimensionon Ketamine's effect on depression may hinge on hope

Not to take away from your neat-looking site (I'm still looking through it) but in case you see this comment, under the 'install' link in the footer, you repeat yourself redundantly again, twice:

> On your Android device, open Chrome Chrome

hyperdimensionon Raspberry Pi 5 vs. Orange Pi 5 Plus vs. Rock 5 Model B

> some $1500 hardened industrial embedded platform

It's just a (respectable( power supply. I'm assuming OP just wanted to say that power quality was not the issue.

hyperdimensionon Goldman Sachs reportedly said Apple Card savings account was a mistake

> Who pays in the long run?

People who only use cash for in-person transactions for privacy reasons. :(

hyperdimensionon Passkeys are now enabled by default for Google users

Yeah, off-topic but I definitely agree. The book is an easy read and good. I didn't know there was a movie; I should watch it.

hyperdimensionon Some of the error messages produced by Apple's MPW C compiler (2006)

Wow, now that is a screenshot full of nostalgia... Nice find.

hyperdimensionon micro – A Modern Alternative to nano

For what it's worth, ^G is [G]et help. And ^H can be/usually is backspace. It's only one letter off alphabetically. :)

hyperdimensionon Fanatics Is Building a Weird Monopoly over Sports Trading Cards

They include them in the box; it's just no one ever sees them through all the packing material.

hyperdimensionon US suicide deaths reached record high in 2022

> As a suicidal person it can be extremely difficult to open up to another human being because my convictions of hopelessness and futility are so strong that to truly communicate them would also mean cursing the listener with knowledge that would make they themselves suicidal.

It's kind of interesting to hear that perspective. I don't worry about making others suicidal (maybe I should?) but instead worry that they'd be overly concerned about me all of the time when, e.g. I've just had a particularly bad day that day.

I certainly agree that chatbots seem to be a low-risk alternative to that. It's a never-ending delicate calculus over who you can tell what to considering that here in the US you can be locked up in a psychiatric facility for (at least) 48 hours for being a "harm to yourself." Thus, you can't explore your own feelings with another person and keep them locked inside, which is a much better alternative. /s

I'm definitely interested in using a chatbot as long as it itself isn't tied into any suicide hotline reporting scheme.

hyperdimensionon NASA mistakenly severs communication to Voyager 2

I believe it is a Meat Beat Manifesto track, though I'm not sure which one.

hyperdimensionon Google is already pushing WEI into Chromium

I was wondering the exact same thing with that wording. Maybe someone, somewhere was required to put in a notice like that (or worse, make it so that it does work better in Chrome for whatever reason) and decided to word it like that to fly under the radar. Unlikely, but I like that imaginary world.

hyperdimensionon Twitter has officially changed its logo to ‘X’

I asked my father

I said, "Father, change my name

The one I'm using now it's covered up

With fear and filth, and cowardice and shame"

https://youtube.com/watch?v=FYkJuAb0mMk

;)

hyperdimensionon A surprisingly simple way to foil car thieves

Arch that "quality check" thing bugs me to no end. It's the lie that bothers me: it's not like they're individually inspecting every single pepperoni or anything. They just don't have a driver available. Don't lie to me!

hyperdimensionon The Perfect Laptop

This is going to be extremely off-topic, but I'm just too terribly curious: the company mandated the use of the mouse? Do you mean that figuratively, as in your tasks were a lot harder to do without a mouse or did they actually make you use one for something like RSI concerns?

hyperdimensionon Wireshark Is 25: The email that started it all and lessons learned along the way

Nice hack!

hyperdimensionon When Did LinkedIn Become the Dorky Social Network?

Where else can you find people disagreeing with each other starting their post with "False."?

Or the use of words like disingenuous or orthogonal? I mean I keep coming back, but there is a distinctive 'flavor' of discourse (for lack of a better word) here.

hyperdimensionon Fedora considers “privacy-preserving” telemetry

The "Cascade of Attention-Deficit Teenagers" development model.

As coined here (copy and paste the link into your browser if you don't want a 'surprise' from jwz) ttps://www.jwz.org/doc/cadt.html

hyperdimensionon Ubuntu Plans to Ditch Its ‘Minimal’ Install Option

I can sympathize with the technical concern, but really? We shouldn't talk like that to people willing to come here and discuss their decisions. It'll just prevent people from doing so in the future.

hyperdimensionon Threads, an Instagram app

Agreed. As an interesting look at the human side of technology decisions, Google dropped XMPP federation the year after I graduated high school, leaving me extremely isolated from all my friends once we went our separate ways.

hyperdimensionon 55 GiB/s FizzBuzz (2021)

He used the Retro Encabulator to generate this text.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=RXJKdh1KZ0w (my favorite version)

It's an old engineering in-joke.

Edit: oops, thought your comment was a reply to 'mindcrime. I'm keeping it here though for the lucky (very lucky in this case) 10,000.

hyperdimensionon Repairing a $25K HP Workstation from 1981 to Run Pac-Man

So I'm not the only one! I thought the flash drive was buggy, but yeah my scope will just randomly start ignoring the flash drive I have in it. It's always after you capture that one-off random event and finally have it on-screen, too.

I haven't had the pleasure of using their desktop software yet. I do know that sigrok/pulseview has support for the DS-series, but aside from running it to make sure it could talk to the scope I haven't used it much. It doesn't look like it does much more than just duplicate the screen of the scope, but it might have more functionality that I am not aware of.

hyperdimensionon The EU’s fight for user-replaceable smartphone batteries

Thanks, that looks like a pretty nice phone. Even has a microSD card slot and a 3.5mm jack. Also, I didn't know KaiOS was based on Linux. Is it exposed anywhere? Can you get a terminal on it or ssh into it?

hyperdimensionon Repairing a $25K HP Workstation from 1981 to Run Pac-Man

Argh, I have the same 'scope and I know exactly what you're talking about. It's annoying to try to get the horizontal/vertical position over just enough without flinging it an entire screenful over. Not to mention trying to name files with the detent-less intensity/selection knob.

Great hardware for the money, but it sure is a little annoying to use. Don't forget to hack in the options if you haven't already!

hyperdimensionon The EU’s fight for user-replaceable smartphone batteries

What model are you talking about? I'd like a portable Linux device. I was born too early for the N900, and it wouldn't get cellular coverage in this day and age even if I were to buy one...

hyperdimensionon Social media for AI bots: “No humans allowed”

I think OP means the reddit API pricing changes. I'm not sure if that affects your use (either type of request or amount of requests) or not though.

hyperdimensionon Layoffs push down scores on Glassdoor – how companies respond

To your first question: not unless employees (as a group) are willing to pay Glassdoor more than the employers. The economics are biased toward the employers unfortunately. See Yelp as another example.

hyperdimensionon People who die by suicide want to stop suffering, not to stop living

Just to be clear, in case anyone doesn't read the article: the man chose by himself to be euthanized, not the alternate reading I first thought.

hyperdimensionon Google keeps failing its Nest customers

The 5$ wrench "cryptography attack" one and the spacebar heating up change one are two I see regularly here.

hyperdimensionon OpenAI CEO says the remote work ‘experiment’ was a mistake–and ‘it’s over’

"As a large language model, I take full responsibility in making this difficult decision to layoff..."

hyperdimensionon MSFT is forcing Outlook and Teams to open links in Edge and IT admins are angry

Not OP and unsure what happened to that link, but:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35329135