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messe··on Waymo says can't avoid bike lanes because riders want to be dropped off in them
This isn't an example of that. You claimed something in your initial comment. You did not back it up.

I'm asking you to back up your initial claim. If you had addressed it you'd have a point, and that would be a correct example of sealioning.

But you haven't, so don't accuse me of sealioning.

This isn't me arguing in bad faith. This is me asking you to back up the claim you made in your first comment. That's arguing in good faith, if you only you are willing to provide the other side of the argument.

Which you have avoided so far.

messe··on Waymo says can't avoid bike lanes because riders want to be dropped off in them
> 1) Be the only ones to follow the letter of the law, break a lot of people's expectations, and catch backlash for disrupting traffic

Yes, they should do that. The fact that others don't follow it is completely irrelevant.

I'm sorry if it doesn't help them meet their quarterly targets, but I don't think it's unreasonable for a Company to follow the fucking law when it comes to human safety.

And if they can't, they should be dissolved and the directors prosecuted.

If they truly can't grow without compromising people's safety and breaking the laws put in place to prevent them, then they shouldn't exist. End of.

messe··on Waymo says can't avoid bike lanes because riders want to be dropped off in them
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messe··on Waymo says can't avoid bike lanes because riders want to be dropped off in them
> This is why they often have a massively higher rate of fatalities

It wouldn't perhaps be because they're (a) forced to share a space with cars and (b) cars have crumple zones, unlike cyclists?

messe··on A Faster Alternative to Jq
Good point. I said it above, but I'll repeat it here that I shouldn't have discounted how frequent once offs can be. I've worked in support before so I really should've known better
messe··on A Faster Alternative to Jq
You make some good points. I've worked in support before, so I shouldn't have discounted how frequent "once-offs" can be.
messe··on A Faster Alternative to Jq
Fair, but for a once-off thing performance isn't usually a major factor.

The comment I was replying to implied this was something more regular.

EDIT: why is this being downvoted? I didn't think I was rude. The person I responded to made a good point, I was just clarifying that it wasn't quite the situation I was asking about.

messe··on A Faster Alternative to Jq
So what's the use case for keeping them in that format rather than something more easily indexed and queryable?

I'd probably just shove it all into Postgres, but even a multi terabyte SQLite database seems more reasonable.

messe··on A Faster Alternative to Jq
Now I'm really curious. What field are you in that ndjson files of that size are common?

I'm sure there are reasons against switching to something more efficient–we've all been there–I'm just surprised.

messe··on Olympic Committee bars transgender athletes from women’s events
> No one cares at amateur level

Except people clearly fucking do for some reason, and all that's going to happen is make life worse for women both cis and trans. Trans women will get excluded, and cis women who are "too good" or not fitting societal ideals of femininity will be accused of being trans. This is already happening to children.

> If you chose to identify as another sex

When did you choose to identify as the gender you were born with?

messe··on Show HN: Robust LLM extractor for websites in TypeScript
Or just follow web standards and define and publish your User-Agent header, so that people can block that as needed.

You're creating the wrong kind of value. I really hope your company fails, as its success implies a failure of the web in general.

I wish you the best success outside of your current endeavour.

messe··on Olympic Committee bars transgender athletes from women’s events
Because they're probably a native speaker.

EDIT: this is exactly the kind of mistake that native speakers make, that ESL speakers don't.

messe··on Moving from GitHub to Codeberg, for lazy people
If you can rsync from the other system, and likely have an SSH connection between them, why don't you just add it as an additional remote and git pull from it directly?
messe··on Show HN: Robust LLM Extractor for Websites in TypeScript
> It's not about bypassing access restrictions.

Yes. It is. You've just made an arbitrary choice not to define it as such.

messe··on Debunking Zswap and Zram Myths
1. Word choice, phrasing, and sentence structure make it seem likely. Ironically, one has to go on vibes. One gets a feel for the voice and tone used by LLMs after a while. It's also a new account with one comment.

2. "Don't post generated comments or AI-edited comments. HN is for conversation between humans." From https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

3. You don't.

messe··on Debunking Zswap and Zram Myths
LLM written comments are not permitted on this site.
messe··on Migrating to the EU
Can you remind me when those actually passed? I can pull equally up equally ridiculous bills from the US that never came to fruition.
messe··on Migrating to the EU
Don't discount that it could be both. It's still early in some parts of the US, they might not have had their coffee yet.
messe··on Migrating to the EU
What part of this are you disputing?
messe··on Migrating to the EU
While there is a trend toward the right in many (not all) EU countries, it's a far cry from the shit show on the other side of the Atlantic.
messe··on A case against currying
Please see my other comment below, and maybe re-read the article. I'm not asking what the difference is between curried and non-curried. The article draws a three way distinction, while I'm asking why two of them should be considered distinct, and not the pair you're referring to.
messe··on A case against currying
That's not what I'm talking about.

The article draws a three way distinction between curried style (à la Haskell), tuples and parameter list.

I'm talking about the distinction it claims exists between the latter two.

messe··on A case against currying
What benefit does drawing a distinction between parameter list and single-parameter tuple style bring?

I'm failing to see how they're not isomorphic.

messe··on 'Miracle': Europe reconnects with lost spacecraft
Good.
messe··on 'Miracle': Europe reconnects with lost spacecraft
Use U-Block origin. At this point I consider it a necessity for accessibility. I find it impossible to read anything with animated or video adverts. I truly cannot focus on the text. It's user-hostile, ableist, and content producers that continue using them can go fuck themselves. I have no ethical qualms about depriving them of revenue.
messe··on Chuck Norris has died
Wade Boggs is very much alive. He lives in Tampa Florida. He's in his late 60s.
messe··on Wayland set the Linux Desktop back by 10 years?
> also trying to cancel people who fork

Care to elaborate on that accusation? I have a suspicion you're referring to Xlibre.

messe··on Aliens.gov ~ domain registered 17MAR2026
They're eating the cats![0]

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ALF_(TV_series)

messe··on Beyond has dropped “meat” from its name and expanded its high-protein drink line
That's a fair point.
messe··on Beyond has dropped “meat” from its name and expanded its high-protein drink line
And I've eaten far more at home than out in my 29. It's really not that common to eat out that often where I live.
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