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penneyd··on Scaling up a Mastodon server to 128K active users
This is why it'll never take off.
penneyd··on Undetectable very-low frequency sound increases dancing at a live concert
The visceral feeling of walking into the heavy bass at Cream, a 90s nightclub in Liverpool, for the first time is something I'll never forget, and yeah much dancing ensued :)
penneyd··on [dead]
Working fine for me..
penneyd··on The Follower: Using open cameras and AI to find how an Instagram photo is taken
Do you know why it's just London?
penneyd··on Earth had its 6th-hottest July and year to date on record
According to a recent Reuters article using a model developed by the Argonne National Laboratory in Chicago, the point at which an EV’s carbon footprint meets and begins to fall below that of a comparable gas vehicle in the United States is at around 13,500 miles.

So after an average year of driving, the EV is better for the environment.

penneyd··on Twitter-Musk trial on $44B deal set to begin in October
Also in the article - But Savitt said that determining the percentage of spam accounts is not necessary in this case, since “nothing in the merger agreement turns on that question.”
penneyd··on James Webb first images – complete set of high resolution shots now live
Very nicely stated.
penneyd··on Deepest infrared image of universe
Hubble had diffractions spikes too, four of them from the struts holding the secondary mirror.
penneyd··on Ultra-flat timepiece, the RM UP-01 Ferrari, is 1.75 millimetres thick watch
These guys are gonna be sad, this comes in at 1.8mm https://www.bulgari.com/en-us/watches/mens/octo-finissimo-wa... This guy comes with a heckin NFT though so there's um that!
penneyd··on Twitter Layoff Started Today
That's a choice, the East Bay exists and isn't anywhere close to those numbers.
penneyd··on Twitter Layoff Started Today
Plenty of spots in the East Bay that are way below your quoted hypotheticals.
penneyd··on Why isn't the internet more fun and weird? (2019)
http://catless.ncl.ac.uk/bifurcated/rivets/ - This is pretty great, run by my old professor (and I graduated in '95...)
penneyd··on Electric fan car shatters the Goodwood hill climb record
McLaren actually used them on the F1 (I learnt today) but they overshadowed by all the cars other firsts. Their T.50 has a much more prominent fan, super cool.
penneyd··on Tesla sued by ex-employees who claim that mass layoffs violated federal law
Agreed, the constant Tesla snubbing by the Biden administration is embarrassing. For all Elon's problems there is no denying that Tesla is an American success story that changed the auto industry.
penneyd··on Laundry symbols make no sense
Now that's a great idea!
penneyd··on California Sends Democrats and the Nation a Message on Crime
That's an odd headline because in California it's really Democrats sending a message on crime. Boudin in theory had some good ideas, in practice he was a joke.
penneyd··on Show HN: A Reddit style site to discuss podcast episodes
I agree with this, I clicked to check it out and left after it appeared I had to sign up, sure I'm not alone.
penneyd··on SonoBus: High-quality, low-latency peer-to-peer audio
I was about to write a comment about how I'm not supporting a company that ruined by Google Home speaker group functionality so yeah I think Sonos would have a pretty good trademark infringement case here.
penneyd··on Imagen, a text-to-image diffusion model
Think sheet music, not an mp3
penneyd··on Engineer turns plastic into bricks that are reportedly stronger than concrete
The plastic has already been produced, so it's already an environmental problem, this repurposes it, one way or another it's going to break down and end up somewhere.
penneyd··on Musk: I'll vote Republicans, the Democrats become the party of division and hate
250k Tesla? The top of the range Plaid is ~130k
penneyd··on Ask HN: I'm in a bad situation and desperately need advice
You wouldn't be the one creating the hostile work environment, that would be on the perpetrator of the crime, as others have said file a police report and inform your HR department as to what's going on. You'll be fine.
penneyd··on Ask HN: I'm in a bad situation and desperately need advice
File a police report for sure - pretty sure your employer wouldn't fire you for being a blackmail victim either. Sorry, sounds stressful to say the least. I am not a lawyer.

Also if you exchanged photos that behavior can go both ways.

penneyd··on Goldman Sachs to offer senior staff unlimited holiday
That you won't get to use nor cash out the unused days should you leave. 'Unlimited' holidays is a scam.
penneyd··on Spreading rock dust on farms as a climate solution
Any obvious downsides to this approach?
penneyd··on Map of Reddit
From the info section - "Two dots within the same cluster are usually close to each other if multiple users frequently leave comments on both subreddits."
penneyd··on Map of Reddit
That's super cool :)
penneyd··on Great Grey Owl Lands on Wildlife Photographer’s Camera
The photographer looks genuinely horrified - so great.
penneyd··on Map of Reddit
Careful exploring 'Australia'
penneyd··on How to get rid of gerrymandering: the math is surprising
There is no political will to do anything whatsoever about gerrymandering. Sad state of affairs.
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