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shawn_won Tesla to wind down Cybertruck production

Lots of people, based on the number of them I see on the road.

shawn_won Tesla to wind down Cybertruck production

You need a 250 or 350 class truck for a lot of those uses - plows or heavy loads for example.

shawn_won AI fan wikis riddled with errors are muddying the waters of games culture

DDG has become so unusable because of AI word vomit sites that I'm finally seriously considering the paid search engine that HN loves... Kagi, I think?

shawn_won With 86% of the words, you might understand only 38% of an anime's lines

Serial Expirementd Lain is basically the Ulysses of anime. Super dense and cryptic by design.

shawn_won StackOverflow now gets fewer than 1000 questions a month

A gold tag badge lets you do some things like closing a question with a single vote.

shawn_won Porting video games to VHS

Dragon's Lair, maybe? That was an interactive laser disc game.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dragon's_Lair_(1983_video_game...

shawn_won Zuckerberg's Meta Takes Down No Kings Instagram During Protest Day

The people with the gun fetish are largely on the side of the fascists.

shawn_won Eye of Sauron: Long-Range Hidden Spy Camera Detection (2024)

Do you have a hankering for antique furniture?

shawn_won What is going on with ceiling fans

The LEDs themselves also produce heat.

shawn_won I quit OpenAI because its culture is broken

I miss phones with real keyboards so much.

shawn_won Reasons I didn't become an EMT, ranked

My EMT cert is old enough to buy booze.

Lost a programming job in the dot com bust, couldn't land another one, eventually ended up in an EMT class and worked a series of traditional ambulance jobs and other health care positions since. Not really using it for anything but some volunteer stuff these days though.

From everything I hear about what programming jobs have become I don't really mind the career change, but man oh man do I miss the pay that comes with tech jobs.

shawn_won Ask HN: What are you reading?

Tigana is my favorite GGK book.

shawn_won Ask HN: What are you reading?

Should have screamed instead of laughing.

shawn_won Ask HN: What are you reading?

That's a different, older collection.

shawn_won Ask HN: What are you reading?

Like half the people here I'm in the middle of Dungeon Crawler Carl.

Finished Mexican Gothic by Silvia Moreno-Garcia yesterday, and also have been reading Robert van Gulik's Judge Dee mysteries - currently on The Haunted Monastery.

shawn_won Neal Stephenson responds with wit and humor (2004)

>whatever one it is with the cloud-seeding gun in West Texas

Termination Shock

shawn_won Neal Stephenson responds with wit and humor (2004)

I think Zodiac would be the easiest book of his to make a movie version of.

shawn_won Neal Stephenson responds with wit and humor (2004)

Anathem is written in English. There's just some made up words that are generally easy to figure out the meaning of.

shawn_won The Copilot+ PC brand is dead

Copilot.NET

shawn_won AMD's random number generator can't generate a 0?

So it sets too many 0's

shawn_won Largest wildlife overpass in North America reduced wildlife collision by 91%

Don't forget the decades of time it takes to build the tracks.

shawn_won San Francisco Onion Futures Company

Two guys. At one point bags of onions were being sold for less than the value of the bags they were in...

They also got onion farmers to buy back onions they'd already sold.

shawn_won Anecdotally, programmers dislike "reduce"

When the accumulator isn't the second argument in a fold, left or right, it feels wrong and I waste some time cursing whomever made a silly mistake like getting the order wrong.

You want the accumulator second to match up with `cons` and similar functions that expect an initial/existing value second.

Luckily the functional languages I use the most are sane in that respect.

shawn_won Anecdotally, programmers dislike "reduce"

`remove-if-not` was deprecated before the Common Lisp standard was approved and yet it remained (and will never be removed because the standard will never be updated). That's not deprecated for any practical purpose. And it's more convenient than using `(remove-if (complement #'some-predicate) sequence)`

Scheme has `filter` and `filter-not` in the SRFI-1 list library. Both of which can easily be written using a fold to bring this vaguely on topic.

shawn_won Oracle’s 6am layoff emails hit staff amid new wave of cuts

That's... most jobs.

shawn_won Will there be a 7G?

7G? Man I hope not. I watched a fine documentary a few years ago about what happens when they try rolling 7G out...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Train_to_the_End_of_the_World

shawn_won Every novel is boring until it isn't

People seem to bounce off Phlebas as a first go at (M) Banks. Player of Games is the usual recommendation for a first Culture book.

shawn_won Trey Parker and Matt Stone Are Changing the Name of South Park to South America

I thought New Mexico was being renamed to New America.

shawn_won Every novel is boring until it isn't

> It was the day my grandmother exploded.

Probably Banks's most memorable opening line. Love Crow Road... Have you seen the tv adaptation? I keep meaning to watch it.

shawn_won Babylonian Lamb Stew with Beets (1750–1730 BCE)

China ruled Vietnam for a thousand years (111 BC–939 AD) so I'm sure there was some linguistic cross pollination.

Though tomatoes come around long after that period...