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jacheeon Ferrari Sued a Used Car Dealer for $2.2M over a Replica. It Didn't Go Well

And now the paradox of whether or not to believe that. ;)

“Hmm… I wonder where Infected Mushroom falls…”

    ^F Infected

… zero results. o_O

jacheeon Leaked Microsoft pay guidelines – salary, hiring bonus, stock awards by level

Management is the only one who benefits when labor doesn’t openly share salary information. Let the information flow. Knowledge is power.

jacheeon The Salmon on Your Plate Has a Troubling Cost. These Farms Offer Hope

It’s also actually better for the environment, in that wild salmon sustainability is inextricably entangled with environment health. If things aren’t just so, the runs don’t run, and it’s lose-lose.

jacheeon Show HN: This is what social media could be

To minimize abuse. It’s a nominal barrier to entry.

jacheeon Show HN: This is what social media could be

This is what duck.com email addresses are for, imho.

jacheeon Show HN: This is what social media could be

> Alternative mediums of social media are pretty interesting

Just a heads-up: “media” is already the plural of “medium”. It gets kind of lost in today’s “social media” an (my least favorite[0]) “multimedia”. Each site is a social medium, and only collectively do they get the more-familiar term.

0: “Multimedia” should actually be “multi-medium” Just like when there’s transport that involves more than one mode, its a “multi-mode” transport, and not “multi-modes”. I realize this is a weird nit to pick, but I figured I’d share.

jacheeon Show HN: Facebook pays indie musicians .165% of average

Conspicuously absent from the list is bandcamp.

jacheeon Viatris gets FDA nod for pupil dilation reversal agent

Because the target audience of the headline isn’t patients, but investors.

jacheeon The Timer in WatchOS 10

I almost never set a timer on my watch by hand. The main reason is that I like to give my timers names. And the only way to do that on the watch is via Siri. So I’ll raise the watch and say “Hey Siri, 5 minutes” if I want an unnamed timer, or—more frequently— “Hey Siri set a 5 minute tea timer”, or “Hey Siri, set a 15 minute pizza timer.”

jacheeon Google Podcasts is going away

It’s the absolute gold standard. Marco ASrment does a fantastic job. It’s also fairly great as a web app, imho: https://overcast.fm

jacheeon LabelContactRelationYoungerCousinMothersSiblingsDaughterOrFathersSistersDaughter

It’s largely a concept that doesn’t exist in English. All our parents’ siblings’ offspring are simply “cousins”; regardless of which parent, or which of their siblings, etc.

jacheeon MGM losing up to $8.4M a day due to cyberattack, analyist says

“The DR planning meeting has been once again postponed until next quarter…”

Some middle-manager somewhere, probably.

jacheeon The end of tweeted articles

https://i.imgur.com/gqmwQmP.jpg

That’s pretty indicative. The blue bird app was always in the top 3.

jacheeon The end of tweeted articles

The article seems to miss (or perhaps ignore?) the fact that there has been an incredibly massive exodus from formerly-twitter. There just literally aren’t as many people around to see/share things, which is also a contributing factor to not going viral.

jacheeon iPhone 15 and iPhone 15 Plus

Oh man… wait ‘til you find out where fish excrement goes. No such thing as unspoiled water by that definition.

jacheeon How did Stripe come up with its name? (2015)

Ha! I’ve used that phraseology for yeeears and only just learned about the Masonic connection. I think it’s safe to say that it has fully entered the common vernacular.

jacheeon High-Speed AI Drone Overtakes World-Champion Drone Racers

This is finally taking quadcopter racing and making into actual drone racing!

jacheeon Spotify looked to ban white noise podcasts to become more profitable

> …probably not when your phone is locked.

If you’re using iOS, there’s a built-in system for Background Sounds[0] that has quite a few options, and is built into the OS, which means it definitely still works while your phone is locked, or even otherwise engaged. It even gets out of the way for other audio and comes back very gradually.

A real hidden gem.

0: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT212775

jacheeon People Drawn to Conspiracy Theories Share Psychological Features (2019)

All “conspiracy theories” are actually false-flag PsyOps, designed and deployed to keep the highly suspicious and intuitive distracted, while the actual conspiracies go unnoticed! (/s)

jacheeon Record labels hit Internet Archive with new copyright lawsuit

You benefitted from that IPO likely because you owned (shares of) profitable IP which, given the company went public, were likely protected by copyright and/or patents.

jacheeon MIT Pirate Certificate

Ask them their favorite programming language.

You might expect the answer to be R…

…but a true pirate’s first love will always be the C.

jacheeon Has Google Translate been fixed yet?

And even if it is representing a moment of time, it may not be representing exactly sixty seconds. It could in fact be an idiom representing an indeterminate longer interval:

This particular usage has been around, colloquially, for a minute.

jacheeon What Is Happening with ChatGPT?

Isn’t that just general anxiety in a nutshell?

jacheeon Tell HN: ai.com used to redirect to chat.openai.com, now it redirects to x.ai

It’s the new zombo.com

jacheeon Does Cloudflare’s 1.1.1.1 DNS Block Archive.is? (2019)

Easy choice: the one that’s protecting me, rather than themselves.

jacheeon Does Cloudflare’s 1.1.1.1 DNS Block Archive.is? (2019)

Also, looking up DNS in one direction and browsing (say over a VPN) in another. The destination site doesn’t always get the same IP that the DNS request gets.

jacheeon Apple stole $100s from me, Customer Service says there's nothing they can do

I think “License” would be the most-honest label.

jacheeon WebArena: A realistic web environment for building autonomous agents

A name doesn’t have to be an impediment. Remember when Cisco Systems owned the iPhone name?

See: https://www.cultofmac.com/468635/today-in-apple-history-cisc...

jacheeon Graphite: Open-source raster and vector 2D graphics editor

Also a more modern take on Inkscape.