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songshu··on New statue in London, attributed to Banksy, of a suited man, blinded by a flag
I’ve been on this for 20 years. The guy has coffee table books! He cashes checks! He took something that was previously done anonymously and for free, put his name on it and started charging for it. Good luck to him, but anonymous he is not.
songshu··on Olympic Committee bars transgender athletes from women’s events
Yes, putting out cones. Bending over, laying down a cone, taking five steps, laying another. Hard work. Meanwhile Malcolm Gladwell changes his mind about it. Put out some cones, Malcolm!
songshu··on Meta acquires Moltbook
To this day I swear I want Yo. I’d use it daily.
songshu··on Space Truckin' – The Nostromo (2012)
The rule only applies to vowel sounds like the ones in believe/receive. There are versions of the rhyme that attempt to include this caveat.
songshu··on OpenAI acquires Sky.app
Please ride safely
songshu··on The New York Times Has Spent $10.8M in Its Legal Battle with OpenAI So Far
I looked it up. Rule 5.4 of the American Bar Association.
songshu··on The New York Times Has Spent $10.8M in Its Legal Battle with OpenAI So Far
They have, let’s not call it a union to not upset people, but let’s say a collective agreement that they won’t work for capital. They will only work for other lawyers. So there’s no Walmart Law or other enterprise selling legal services for cheap.
songshu··on Apple Invites
3 seconds would not matter to me. As it is, latencies are much higher and afford time for my family group chat (WhatsApp) to "spoil" events that I have not yet seen. I don't want to ignore the chat. :(
songshu··on Writes and Write-Nots
Best-selling author Stephen Hawking?
songshu··on We don't do DST at this company
https://qntm.org/abolish
songshu··on The Twelve-Factor App (2011)
I love this generally but some of it has leaked out to the wrong people and there are strong cargo cults around such things as one codebase===one app.
songshu··on macOS Containers v0.0.1
Tell us what distro you recommend?
songshu··on Finfluencers
There's MEME if you wanted to bet for instead. For betting against I don't know if there is an ETF yet but you can short MEME manually.
songshu··on Ask HN: Something you’ve done your whole life that you realized is wrong?
Yes and then spend a lifetime with annoying workarounds. A friend has been double knotting forever :(
songshu··on How the US can stop wasting billions of dollars on each transit project
I know this isn’t quite the same as what’s happening in the article, but: what do you use when referring to a singular person of unknown gender?
songshu··on Nascar driver stuns to qualify for championship with GameCube move
The Super Bowl in 2013 featured an intentional safety. Losing points but running the clock down. The play was predicted by one attendee at the party I was at —- a British gentleman whose introduction to football had been the Madden games.
songshu··on Ask HN: What is your fav “I can't believe in 2022 this still doesn't work right”
Cancel next iteration of alarm on iPhone.
songshu··on Tesla Vehicle Production and Deliveries for 3Q 2022
The Volt was an instant classic and you're very lucky to have one. IMO the best EVs right now are coming out of Korea but things are moving very fast and I'm expecting good things from the big 3.
songshu··on Total Eclipse of the Moon: 2022 May 16
Last time I looked into this I implemented some stuff from Astronomical Algorithms https://www.amazon.com/dp/0943396352 which was more fun for me than just grabbing the data.
songshu··on The Beatle Who Got Away
Listing the Beatles in order of genius is a fun game and endlessly debatable but it’s not clear to me who you are referring to respectively. It reads as if the first two you mention are Paul and John in some order, but that would leave the “rhythm guitarist” to be George, but he is more often described as the lead guitarist. If this was bait, you got me!
songshu··on A 2030 Self-Driving Car Bet
Not a fun drive, but via Staten Island would be all highways, no?
songshu··on Wordle Now Redirects to NYT
Yes we had KNOLL as an answer recently.
songshu··on 1Password Has Raised $620M
Question for consumer users of this service who are also Apple users — how does it compare to Apple’s password management?
songshu··on A Kit that converts a Classic Mini into 80kw electric Mini [pdf]
But maybe less fun because of the weight.
songshu··on How the Sacklers shifted $10.8B of an opioid fortune built on OxyContin
Sorry, I meant that they should have learned about drug safety in medical school, not that they should have learned about this specific drug.
songshu··on How the Sacklers shifted $10.8B of an opioid fortune built on OxyContin
They are supposed to have learned about it in medical school. If not, that's fine, maybe doctors shouldn't be allowed to prescribe and maybe only pharmacists should be allowed. My point is that it's a very valuable professional quality and we should put the responsibility where the quality is.
songshu··on How the Sacklers shifted $10.8B of an opioid fortune built on OxyContin
Yes, I do blame law makers and manufacturers too.
songshu··on How the Sacklers shifted $10.8B of an opioid fortune built on OxyContin
I never understand why doctors are not blamed for prescribing these. Are doctors not supposed to be responsible for prescriptions? If they are not, should we stop allowing them to prescribe? Why don’t doctors unions throw out members who would claim to have been hoodwinked by pharmaceutical companies?
songshu··on Learning Spring with Kotlin – Sprint 0
What are you using for non-blocking database access? Is not JDBC a roadblock?
songshu··on The Amazon Premium
I agree. It’s a golden age to be a developer. We can be truly agile with system architecture. The last big system I wrote went through at least three complete architecture overhauls, but all that means is a fun few afternoons on the AWS console. Earlier systems I worked on had to have architecture locked down three months into the project.
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