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A regular camera can’t do this?

Baby seats have expiration dates and it’s scary how many parents fall for the emotional manipulation around that. It makes the used car seat market dead as well as hand-me-downs

I wish they would update their Hyperlapse app, it was the best at what it did but hasn’t worked in years.

Msft stock is up 10X in 10 years. They are all multi millionaires. I would be complacent too and quibbling over 3% probably isn’t at the top of my list of priorities

If you read carefully, it still contains sodium nitrite except as powdered celery. So the source of the sodium nitrate is “natural” but the dose is still the same.

I still use my licensed 1Password version from like 10 years ago. I share passwords over Dropbox to my other computers and I cut and paste passwords. It’s not hard at all and I don’t have to pay a subscription.

Where was the “courage” to quote this article while it was happening? This was exactly what I was saying but it was drowned it by people saying it was for the “little guys” which was lies.

Waze has done nothing in the last 8 years. Things like the auto zoom is horrible and especially on car play I have to manually keep zooming In and Out. It was great 10 years so but now it’s below average.

Meanwhile Apple navigation is now the best. It shows the traffic lights and the navigation is much easier. The only thing it doesn’t have is better traffic notification. The anti zooming in and out of apple navigation is so much better than Waze especially when I’m in areas that I’m unfamiliar with.

I remember when I was laughing at Apple Maps when it first came out but now I use it all the time. It goes to show you the difference between apple and google and how products go to die at google.

Musk’s MO is to use the legal system in bad faith. That’s his primary tactic. He even does this with his vendors and his customers. With his vendors he just stops paying and then waits until legal action is threatened and then tries to negotiate a deal. With his customers an example are the solar roof customers where he tried to double the costs even with a signed contract and threatened them until the customers signed a new contract agreeing to pay double the costs.

So the opponents to twitter should use this to show that musk is always trying to have his cake and eat it too so that their request for consolidation of discovery can be denied.

I am thankful I managed to completely avoid both UML and J2EE in my career. Those embody the worst of so called Software engineering practices that I saw in my 30 years of working. It’s governmental bureaucracy embedded into technology that made it demonstrably worse.

What will happen is that it will stratify people even more and income inequality will become even more pronounced.

The educated people will learn how to write on their own and the less educated will use LLMs and never rise above it. That will be the McDonald’s workers of the Information Age.

This is the future that I’m preparing my kids for so that they land on top. I’m investing heavily in creativity and writing for them so that they will land in the upper levels of society and not the lower ones that become slaves to AI.

Because they want to IPO as soon as possible, so showing a bump of revenue from API shows the promise of more revenues for investors.

Remember they took a 41% cut in valuation recently. IPO is going to be challenging so they want to show as many different streams of revenue as possible.

Perl is the worst language I had the displeasure to work with and I’m glad it’s basically dead.

The thing I hated most about it was that it had several ways to the same thing, which made it extremely hard to read code because you had to understand the nuances and could cause bugs. For example I vaguely remember that Perl had 2 ways to specify “or” but they had different preferences. The fact that scalars and vectors had different namespaces meant that you could get absurd looking code like $a[$a].

I’m glad that Perl is all but dead.

I delete all my accounts every year or so. I don’t understand people’s fascination with their own data online. It’s mostly less than worthless, so their fascination with storing stuff they will never read again is weird.

I have a friend who, back in 1998 or 1999, printed out all his emails. He was really active on IRC so he had a lot of email, and he wasnt savvy enough to know he could copy his mbox. He carried those papers around with him for decades and finally realized he never flipped through them once so he recycled them all. I think that’s the case with almost all the data that we produce. It’s not useful for us, but probably useful for companies like Google to create models of our thought patterns.

Reddit made a huge mistake taking VC money and trying to become billionaires. They could have maintained a smaller footprint and created essentially a lifestyle business like Craigslist and served the world.

Taking VC money and trying to extract more money from its users is going to change the site irrevocably.

And the biggest problem I have with Reddit is that the investors and employees are going to become rich off the backs of the moderators who are the ones that create the culture and the content for free. They get zilch except a thank you from the millionaires. And the mods are so dumb they don’t seem to realize this.

Is a gigantic safe and armed guards considered paranoid security measures?

You would be mistaken. Most predators incapacitate their prey and then eat them alive.

I hate to break it to you but most prey are eaten alive. I’m not advocating for it in the least, but it’s the reality.

I don’t know what is worse, living a somewhat free life in the Savannah and then one day being cruelly and viciously eaten alive by a predator or to live your life on a farm in a small pen with no freedom and then blinking out of existence at the hands of a sledgehammer to the head.

Yes you sound exactly like a non-parent.

My friend said he relationship with his twos sons were irrevocably ruined by smartphones. Before, they would chat throughout all their car rides but as soon as he bought them smartphones, they stopped talking to him almost entirely and spent all their time on their phones.

With kids getting to that age, I’m holding off as much as possible, and I’m indoctrinating them to the sociopathy of social media, where the Algorithms don’t give a shit about you, they will do whatever it takes to maximize your engagement on their platform.

It sounds like the VP is there one who needs to be fired. If he can’t handle questions like that it brands he is building a really bad team. Better to get rid of him and find someone who is better at team building and recognizing talent.

I think it would. Why would someone falsify data for a company if they know they might get executed. It wouldn’t be for their own gain.

It’s weird that Lyft is flexing on something that Uber did almost 10 years ago. Everything they talk about has been known and done by Uber for a very long time.

The Dallas shopping center shooting was the first time in my life I couldn’t tell the difference between online truth and lies. I’m very good as finding out the truth vs lies but this time I couldn’t. Usually disinformation is easy to spot but this time it came out so fast that I had no idea what was real vs fake. It’s a scary time to be living in when you have no idea what is real anymore.

No, not moral ownership. De facto ownership. I never talked anything about morality. The fact is Russia took Crimea by force and is physically occupying it. The only way to get it back is by force. Until they Russia unquestionably owns Crimea. Saying “it’s not fair!” will not change the fact that Russia is currently owning Crimea.

What exactly is your point now, because you’re all over the place and thrashing in a cringeworthy fashion.

You argued that Musk was “anti-Ukrainian” and I destroyed that argument with words from Ukrainian officials themselves.

Now you’re saying… that Musk is still anti-Ukrainian because he turned off Starlink in Crimea even though he has it in every other place in Ukraine? Or that Musk is inconsistent or capricious?

Go ahead but don’t expect me to participate and waste my time, I’m not interested.

I’m stating a fact with no opinion behind it. Russia owns Crimea. If the rest of the world cared or supported Ukraine back in 2014, they would have done something but no one lifted a finger including Obama.

These are facts. If the world wants to help Ukraine reclaim Crimea then they would be doing so but no one is.

Now whether the world SHOULD help Ukraine reclaim Crimea is a separate question but there is no confusion over the ownership of Crimea currently: it’s Russia. To argue otherwise is unintelligent and immature.

That article was dated April 8th 2022 over a year ago. A more recent article says that the U.S. stopped paying for them in September and SpaceX picked up the costs. Then in December they got funding from European countries. If Musk were “anti-Ukraine” he would have simply stopped the service. SpaceX is the sole internet provider for a vast part of Ukraine.

A Ukrainian official said:

"Musk assured us he will continue to support Ukraine. When we had a powerful blackout, I messaged him on that day and he momentarily reacted and has already delivered some steps. He understands the situation."

Boy, that doesn’t sound very anti-Ukrainian to me.

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2022/12/starlink-will-se...

Crimea belongs to Russia. Russia invaded in 2014 and no one, including Obama, did anything about it. The entire world stepped back and let it happen. No one lifted a finger. You can’t go back and retroactively show your disapproval over something almost 10 years later and say “hey that shouldn’t have happened!”. The outcome of war determines who owns land, regardless of what people may want to see. People may say what they want about Israel’s right to occupy the Holy Land but I dare them to try to take it away through war. Israel owns the land that it occupies.

He’s been paying for the Starlink connection that the Ukrainian army has been using in the field. Tell me again how he’s anti-Ukrainian?

You can’t downvote until 500 karma so it doesn’t matter. HN has voting ring detection as well.