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nullindividual··on The Truth About Lithium Might Never Come Out
https://archive.is/XQyqy
nullindividual··on We're excited about our new roundabout
Wetlands are highly protected. Hillside (which a road currently resides on) is expensive to “fix”.
nullindividual··on Beautiful iOS dice rolling app for table top games
Physically rolling dice is part of the fun and can lead to laughable moments. Another soulless app.
nullindividual··on Ask HN: Branching File Systems?
NTFS has Volume Shadow Copies. It’s a bit different since they’re scheduled snaps.

SharePoint closely mirrors NTFS behavior which does do versioning on every change.

nullindividual··on End the line: The last Sun SPARC workstation [video]
Until we have an M4 with fans, it's going to be tough to gauge, otherwise you're butting up against thermal throttles.
nullindividual··on We're excited about our new roundabout
That road has been carrying gravel trucks for decades. The smart WSDOT engineers took into account the business with large trucks that is just a mile away when building this roundabout.
nullindividual··on We're excited about our new roundabout
The area borders wetlands and a very steep hillside where one of the roads intersects. And the regular flow of traffic pre-roundabout was more like 60-65 mph.

A roundabout was the correct choice.

nullindividual··on We're excited about our new roundabout
There is no room for a traditional roundabout in this location and the gravel trucks from the nearby quarry can hop the very short curbs as needed.

This roundabout is perfectly fine in practice.

nullindividual··on We're excited about our new roundabout
I drive through this roundabout. It’s such a huge improvement. And little confusing at first due to being two roundabouts in one, but not hard to navigate.
nullindividual··on End the line: The last Sun SPARC workstation [video]
Arm64 (M3) lags behind in some single core benchmarks vs Intel's high end desktop CPUs and is abysmal in multi-core benchmarks due to the limited number of cores, at least according to https://www.cpu-monkey.com.

Granted, the Intel CPU at the high end is pulling 250W+ (or was it 300W+?).

There are places for both architectures. I don't see x86 going anywhere unless Intel folds and ceases to design chips. Not sure AMD could power on alone given their current market share, though I certainly hope they could as a user of their chips in the desktop (and conversely, an M2 Air for my laptop).

nullindividual··on Show HN: A macOS app to prevent sound quality degradation on AirPods
Affinity managed this just fine. Release the first version. Then the second version is a new product on the App Store.

Not complicated.

nullindividual··on FDA approves a novel drug for schizophrenia
An enlarged salience network may be responsible for depression in some patients[0]. Some individuals are pre-disposed to being depressed and it may be a chronic condition, like any other chronic condition. For others, it could "simply" be a chemical imbalance that taking medication for a set period of time resolves (lucky them).

[0]https://www.nih.gov/news-events/nih-research-matters/mapping...

nullindividual··on FDA approves a novel drug for schizophrenia
Ibuprofen and acetaminophen may already be that option.

https://www.aafp.org/pubs/afp/issues/2018/0301/p348.html

I believe there are other studies besides this that points to these two OTC pain relievers as being 'just as good' as opiates.

nullindividual··on Attacking UNIX Systems via CUPS
macOS has a firewall on by default.
nullindividual··on Rents fall and listings increase after rent control ends in Argentina
> A system that centralises power over everything into the hands of a single government will ALWAYS end in corruption, surely that’s obvious?

See: United States government

See: American police/CJS

See: City governments

> Under capitalism, individuals are allowed to own enterprises.

I live under this system, you don't need to explain it. I can see how it has failed for millions of Americans while propping up the very few.

> How anyone can support far-left ideology after the lessons of the 20th century is beyond me.

I never said I supported Communism. But Capitalism is a failure for the proles due to corruption, favoritism, and purchasing of the [American] government.

nullindividual··on Rents fall and listings increase after rent control ends in Argentina
Great, you're in the minority of companies that did so.
nullindividual··on Attacking UNIX Systems via CUPS
That's nearly as many as Code Red and roughly 100K more than SQL Slammer.
nullindividual··on Rents fall and listings increase after rent control ends in Argentina
I don't have an answer to that.

But Communism was never implemented in it's "described" (or "pure", if you want to frame it that way) form. The Soviet Union was clearly heavily corrupted, among many other issues that diverge from what Communism is "supposed" to be.

Perhaps a system that favors people over corporations?

nullindividual··on Rents fall and listings increase after rent control ends in Argentina
Tariffs are a tax on Americans. The stuff still gets imported -- at a higher cost to cover the tariff.
nullindividual··on Rents fall and listings increase after rent control ends in Argentina
> actually make the problem a lot worse

You need to get rid of the actual problem: Capitalism

The context of all these good/bad arguments is that they're good/bad solutions under Capitalism.

nullindividual··on Argentina Scrapped Its Rent Controls. Now the Market Is Thriving
> Argentina’s poverty levels hit 57% of population, a 20-year high in January, study finds

https://apnews.com/article/argentina-poverty-levels-uca-stud...

> Winter deepens misery for Argentina's poor following Milei's financial cuts

https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/winter-deepens-misery...

Yeah, real "great". As long as you don't care about your fellow humans.

nullindividual··on Ask HN: As a manager, how to increase the sense of urgency of the team?
Like CEOs at the golf course or country club!
nullindividual··on Ceres, largest object in asteroid belt, shows signs of life near Ertunet Crater
Organic molecules. Still neat.

> Hundreds of square miles of area around this crater are covered with a layer of organic chemicals, also called aliphatics. Researchers suggest that the chemicals must have formed only in the past few million years or so. This is because aliphatic compounds cannot sustain the constant bombardment of radiation in deep space for a long time.

> This has led them to conclude that these organic molecules formed in Ceres’s underground ocean within the last 10 million years or so.

nullindividual··on Ask HN: As a manager, how to increase the sense of urgency of the team?
Their work is temporary. Likely to not last even five years. There’s no urgency; your work isn’t that important to humanity, is it?
nullindividual··on Matt Mullenweg needs to step down from WordPress.org leadership ASAP
It’s the maintenance of the software that gets tiring. Constantly keeping up with updates and security patches. That makes SaaS attractive.
nullindividual··on It's time to bring back the iPod
Easier and better. I find new music I enjoy more readily than I ever did with radio + CDs, including obscure artists. As a bonus, it’s cheaper than buying albums where I may only like one or two songs, no ads, no physical storage space required, no CD swapping in the car, easy to create playlists at any time, including playlists defined based on metadata. The list goes on.

I’m using Apple Music, in my case.

nullindividual··on Executions of the conceivably innocent are no better than human sacrifice
Why should LE get to hide behind a paper shield?

They're human, they're civilian (in the US), they're no different from you or I.

Make them carry insurance. Fire them for mistakes. Allow citizens to fight back against injustice.

Too many police get away with murder and our politicians do nothing.

nullindividual··on Windows PowerShell Phish Has Scary Potential
That confirms it is an Invoke-WebRequest (with some other PS script bits to confirm they're on a physical machine returning a valid temp via WMI).
nullindividual··on Windows PowerShell Phish Has Scary Potential
The user is executing the script. They're pasting it in and hitting 'run' in the run dialog box.
nullindividual··on Windows PowerShell Phish Has Scary Potential
What would you define as 'suspicious'? How would you distinguish suspicious from not suspicious?
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