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mayneackon Bluesky's science takeover: 70% of Nature poll respondents use platform

I don't understand all the comments promoting the openness of twitter/x. There's a ton of friction to interact with X without an account. Meanwhile, the alternatives mostly allow third party apps, cross posting, and logged out access.

I can follow mastodon and threads accounts on my bluesky timeline using one of many bridge services: https://fed.brid.gy/

I can merge mastodon, bluesky, nostr, and threads one timeline using one of many third party apps: https://openvibe.social/

I can unsubscribe from the default bluesky moderation service and choose one run by a third party: https://bsky.social/about/blog/4-13-2023-moderation

The only differentiator for X is the content, and that's an easy choice.

mayneackon Bluesky's science takeover: 70% of Nature poll respondents use platform

I can't say I'm posting a lot of links, but there's a pretty wide consensus from people who post on both that the Twitter view volume doesn't necessarily translate to a higher engagement volume, even if they have many times fewer followers on bluesky

mayneackon Bluesky's science takeover: 70% of Nature poll respondents use platform

The moderation is mostly federated. You can choose which lists to subscribe to to mute/block/label as you see fit.

mayneackon Bluesky's science takeover: 70% of Nature poll respondents use platform

What's far left about the platform? The platform seems more open. Given the choice between a left or right user base, seems like the platform fundamentals would be more important.

mayneackon I am rich and have no idea what to do

> I was added to a number of Signal groups and immediately put to work.

Not a ringing endorsement for DOGE's accountability and record keeping practices.

mayneackon Australia/Lord_Howe is the weirdest timezone

My personal favorite timezones:

There's UTC+14 in Micronesia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UTC%2B14:00

Also Antarctica/Troll: A timezone for a norwegian research station. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_in_Norway

mayneackon Medical student's apparent celiac disease responded to giardiasis treatment

It was years ago so I don't remember the exact antibiotics, but the side effects were intense.

mayneackon Medical student's apparent celiac disease responded to giardiasis treatment

So this is actually shockingly similar to something that happened to me. I did a lot of back country travel with sketchy water and developed something close to dairy intolerant for more than 10 years to the point I wasn't sure if I had always had it. Eventually I got lucky on a test (for E. Coli not giardia) and the treatment was to go to nuclear on my intestines. That week wasn't fun. Now i can eat ice cream and dairy with out trouble. I'm not convinced that test was related to the 10 years of symptoms, but the hard reset on the gut definitely worked.

mayneackon Germany's 49-euro ticket resulted in significant shift from road to rail

This is a vast oversimplification. Lots Angles Metro keeps posting month over month increases in ridership despite the perceive danger and unsavory experience.

I'm sure cleaner cars would help at the margins. Speed, convenience, comfortable, and cost all matter.

mayneackon Ask HN: Should you reply STOP to unwanted texts?

Your donation records to the fec are explicitly not allowed to be used for donors mining like this. I'm sure it still happens, but it's not the majority.

What happens is that the campaign you donate to to puts you on their list (allowed) and then shares that list with others in the party (also allowed). They share back and forth so fast you can't get out of it.

This is why it's the email that's shared not the name. FEC records don't have your email attached to to them, but the spam still follows unique emails like "candidate@customdomain.com".

mayneackon California bans legacy admissions at private universities

IANAL, but this is from the linked bill text:

> (2) “Independent institution of higher education” means a nonpublic higher education institution that grants undergraduate degrees, graduate degrees, or both, that is formed as a nonprofit corporation in this state, that is accredited by an agency recognized by the United States Department of Education, and that receives, or benefits from, state-funded student financial assistance or that enrolls students who receive state-funded student financial assistance.

https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billCompareClient.x...

Seems like an institution is free to be fully private (not take state funded financial aid) and do whatever they want.

mayneackon X (Twitter) blocks links to hacked JD Vance dossier

Yeah, the only novel info in this story is the twitter suspension. Very counter productive if Elon was trying to suppress this.

mayneackon Mira Murati leaves OpenAI

I mostly agree that "willingly resigns to pursue other passions" is unlikely however "quit in frustration over $working_conditions" is completely plausible. Those could be anything from disagreeing with some strategy or thinking your boss is too much of a jerk to work with over your alternative options.

mayneackon USPS' long-awaited new mail truck makes its debut to rave reviews from carriers

A majority of them are full electric.

mayneackon Amazon is trying to trick me into signing up for Prime services

I use Amazon at a rate slightly under break even for prime. I don't have it because I want the extra friction to get fast shipping. If I had it, I'd use it more. Now it's just one of many places to shop online (one with low quality control).

mayneackon 'Rare species' not seen in the area for 50 years spotted on Arizona trail camera

I don't think it was thought to be extinct, just no longer present in AZ.

mayneackon Why won't some people pay for news? (2022)

You're basically describing the BAT from Brave

mayneackon Google Meet rolls out multi-device adaptive audio merging

Google meet has 4 now

mayneackon Debt-related driver’s license suspensions in Ohio

Where are you getting your averages from?

Based on a quick google search I see median distances under 10 miles: https://www.streetlightdata.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/C...

And the times that line up with your 10 hour estimate look to be public transit users, not drivers: https://www.census.gov/newsroom/press-releases/2021/one-way-...

Why do you think giving up a car will add 10 hours?

mayneackon Debt-related driver’s license suspensions in Ohio

The comment I was replying to explicitly used socal as their example of unbikable. That's why I am talking about it. Many socal commutes are unbikable, but not the "vast majority" and even fewer when you extend to other car free options. I biked to work this morning in LA (4 miles of surface streets).

mayneackon Debt-related driver’s license suspensions in Ohio

I'm not sure what part of the country you live in, but here in southern california a huge number of people live within reasonable car free commute distance. It's almost certainly easier to manage than in Ohio due to the weather and public transit on top of biking.

Median commute distance is 10 miles (which is a reasonable e-bike commute depending on route) https://scag.ca.gov/sites/main/files/file-attachments/ej_jhf...

Almost 1 million daily public transit riders: https://www.metro.net/about/l-a-metro-surpasses-900k-daily-r...

mayneackon Things unexpectedly named after people (2020)

Thanks, mobile autocorrect

mayneackon Things unexpectedly named after people (2020)

https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/legg-calve-pe...

Leg calve perthes disease is named after doctors legg and calve. It presented (for me) as pain in my calf, and I spelled it wrong for 5 years.

mayneackon Kagi Sidekick (alpha)

It's not wrong, I suppose, but a break from the behavior I've learned for this sort of instant answer across google, ddg, and kagi as long as I can remember.

I can't actually think of a situation where I want to simplify a fraction like that.

mayneackon Kagi Sidekick (alpha)

Oh, interesting. I was actually wondering what had changed. That wolfram integration needs some work. Right now it's consistently just simplifying fractions. I keep having to "!g" in brave to get google to do simple math for me.

https://i.imgur.com/ghmUcAh.png

mayneackon End of Life for Twilio Authy Desktop App

How do folks use two factor auth for 1password logins? It feels wrong to me to use 1password as the second factor for 1password itself. My last remaining authy second factors are for primary email and 1password. All other second factors are in 1password.

mayneackon More misdrilled holes on 737 MAX in latest setback

For what it's worth, in "Flying Blind", the book written about the first round of 737 max issues, the author has a pretty negative outlook on Calhoun as being mostly aligned with Muilenburg.

> Robison, however, finds little reason for optimism. While Boeing has now accepted responsibility for one of the crashes as part of a settlement, no one at the company besides Forkner has been charged with a crime. Muilenburg was ousted as C.E.O., but still collected a $60 million golden parachute. After being grounded for more than a year, the 737 Max is back in service. And today, Boeing is led by Dave Calhoun, another Jack Welch protégé who was on the Boeing board for years, and was intimately involved in the company’s botched response to the crashes.

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/12/01/books/review/peter-robiso...

https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/646497/flying-blind...

mayneackon Fewer people are buying electric cars in the US

Safer for the occupants, not safer overall.

mayneackon Playstation is erasing seasons of Discovery shows from customer libraries

What?

mayneackon Why I always hit the crosswalk button (2015)

That's true if you only ever press one light. You can still learn the pattern in a given area with experimentation (assuming most lights work the same). I know, for example, that lights in LA indicate that it's already pressed, but would have to experiment in a new city.