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lionelholt··on Commodore PET – The Worlds First Personal Computer
Ironically that Wikipedia page states:

"It was the first commercially successful personal computer."

lionelholt··on Cancelling Cursor
Devin Desktop fka Windsurf
lionelholt··on PGlite – Embeddable Postgres
I wonder if those issues are resolved by using the Dexie.js wrapper, because I've had no problems with that.
lionelholt··on US Government Uptime Monitor
Energy > National Nuclear Security Administration (civilian)

Should we be concerned about that being shut down?

lionelholt··on Do not download the app, use the website
I thought the main reason is because it's a lot more difficult blocking advertisements in an app.
lionelholt··on How to Think About Time in Programming
... humans don't generally say

"Wanna grab lunch at 1,748,718,000 seconds from the Unix epoch?"

I'm totally going to start doing that now.

lionelholt··on The hamburger-menu icon today: Is it recognizable?
Use your mouse wheel or Page/arrow keys?
lionelholt··on Val Kilmer has passed away
"This is funny."
lionelholt··on GulfOfMexico: Perfect Programming Language
But it's not perfect. GulfOfAmerica would have been perfect!
lionelholt··on The Fertility Crisis – highlights from the comments section
Lower birth rates is NOT a crisis. In fact, it is the most effective SOLUTION to the ACTUAL crisis of HUMAN OVERPOPULATION which is at the root of every problem e.g. climate change, dwindling resources, increased transmission of disease, etc.
lionelholt··on If you need the money, don't take the job
If my 2002 Land Rover Discovery II is vintage enough, I will gladly pay you to tinker with it, the next time you're in Oregon USA that is!
lionelholt··on Tortured by regrets? A new study details how best to overcome them
"For some, regret might be slow-brewing indecision that amounts to loss, like not having children."

Or ... having children!

lionelholt··on The data that powers AI is disappearing fast
The decision to block bots is not always about protecting intellectual property. A practical consideration I haven't seen mentioned is that some of these AI bots are stupidly aggressive with their requests, even ignoring robots.txt. I had to activate Cloudflare WAF and block a variety of bots to prevent my web app servers from crashing. At least they're reasonable enough to identify themselves!
lionelholt··on Access to broadband internet causally linked to reduction in suicides
What is the precise mechanism of causation?
lionelholt··on Japanese scientists working on creating human eggs and sperm in the lab
Considering the gigantic problems of dwindling global resources, climate change, etc, birth rate collapse isn't a problem. It's a solution.
lionelholt··on Oregon decriminalized hard drugs – early results aren’t encouraging
The problem as summarized by the photo isn't drugs. The problem everywhere -- not just in Oregon -- is Human Overpopulation. The severity of it in Oregon has increased because of populations spilling over from elsewhere, most notably California. Sadly, Portland is finally a large city, thus it has the same issues all other large cities have. This overall problem of Human Overpopulation which is the root cause of pretty much every other problem in the entire world (climate change, wealth gap, dwindling resources, etc) is exacerbated by certain politicians opposing birth control.
lionelholt··on Oregon finally legalizes pumping your own gas
It hasn't been signed by Governor Kotek yet.

https://www.koin.com/news/oregon/what-do-people-think-gov-ko...

lionelholt··on Oregon finally legalizes pumping your own gas
Taxing FOOD is always regressive.
lionelholt··on Turmeric’s unexpected link to lead poisoning in Bangladesh
Doctors aren't necessarily scientists. Anecdotal evidence isn't as strong as randomized controlled trials to establish causation. It could have been the high fat content of many recipes that call for turmeric.
lionelholt··on Corporate profits account for almost half the increase in Europe’s inflation
The even deeper underlying structure for all of the world's problems is ... Human Overpopulation. Inequality increases with population due to fewer resources available per person. Democracy withers with the ever-growing population because more consumers, constituents, tax payers, soldiers, etc give more power to politicians, overpaid CEOs, etc. Name nearly any global issue and human overpopulation is at least a likely and usually primary factor.
lionelholt··on Tell HN: YouTube download websites disappearing from Google search results
I just did a Google search for "YouTube Download" and in the first page it returned SSYouTube, DVDVideoSoft, Y2Mate, 10Downloader, and YTBvideoly. I didn't test DVDVideoSoft because it's a Windows app and I don't want to bother with installing in VirtualBox, but the website itself is working. The other ones are online downloaders and while they don't retrieve the highest quality, 720p is still HD. Most of them simply redirect to a streaming url from which to Ctrl+S, but one of them did have an actual Download button. None of them are the best, but still functional, thus I'd say Google isn't doing such a great job at censoring.
lionelholt··on War Is a Racket (1935)
Predating that is Ludwell Denny's "We Fight For Oil" from 1928. I have a physical copy of this book. Its mere existence says a lot, and still does ...

https://www.yamaguchy.com/library/denny/denny_index.html

lionelholt··on Heavy marijuana use increases schizophrenia in men, study finds
Bloomberg's headline very different vs the actual conclusion of the study: "Young males might be particularly susceptible to the effects of cannabis on schizophrenia. At a population level, assuming causality, one-fifth of cases of schizophrenia among young males might be prevented by averting CUD. Results highlight the importance of early detection and treatment of CUD and policy decisions regarding cannabis use and access, particularly for 16–25-year-olds."
lionelholt··on System76 Open Firmware
Did you contact System 76 support? In my experience they've been fantastic.
lionelholt··on South Korea has the lowest fertility rate, with lessons for us all
For perspective, take a look at the population history chart:

https://ourworldindata.org/uploads/2022/03/Annual-World-Popu...

We are far from the point of all humans living comfortably given the planet's limited resources. Human overpopulation is the primary reason why we have the tyranny of resource wars (the U.S. -- not Russia -- being the worst offender of petrodollar hegemony), scarce water supplies, pandemics, economic meltdowns, etc.

Of course there are other factors, inefficiencies, waste, etc, but imagine if the global population was 1% of what it is currently. None of those other factors would matter.