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stevehawkon Nicotine (2016)

author shrugged this off pretty easily but nicotine is a vasoconstrictor which is an issue when combined with it being addictive. that's a problem if you ever have certain types surgery due to wound healing and lack of blood flow. There's more than a few people that effed their plastic surgery results because they immediately went back to nicotine. (note: not all plastics are necessarily volunteer, such as after certain cancer/tumor/melanoma removals).

stevehawkon Matryoshka Diffusion Models

I couldn't disagree more. The number of times it corrects not the word I just typed, but instead words prior to the word I typed.. head explodes.. I've reached the point where I have to proof read texts after they've been written in their entirety because Apple seems to play swap-a-roo at will. I just don't get it. If I hit the spacebar and moved on to the next word then that's the sole word I want autocorrect to be worrying about.

stevehawkon Cleveland launches plan to provide cheap broadband

> The food is much better than comparable midwestern cities.

whew that's a low bar :-P

stevehawkon Peter Thiel was an FBI informant

The intelligence community is one of their biggest customers, if not the biggest.

stevehawkon X/Twitter will begin charging new users $1 a year to access key features

I love to mock Elon but even I am inclined to agree with him. It seems like the only other solution is something like Google's Web Environment Integrity thing, which scares me. The best/easiest solution is to make it more expensive for the botters to play the game,

stevehawkon Small business owners say they're pressured to hire off-duty cops for security

(roughly) where is that at?

stevehawkon USB Made Simple (2008)

this comment actually makes me mad because of how close to reality it feels. :-P

stevehawkon Rite Aid Files for Bankruptcy

the claim in the lawsuits has been that the pharmacies should have recognized "red flags" on prescriptions, such as pill count or refill frequency.

stevehawkon Tanzania unveils its first locally assembled aircraft, Skyleader 600

Gotta start somewhere. May as well roll with a proven design.

stevehawkon Microsoft plans to kill off NTLM authentication in Windows 11

Brother recently adopted the same anticonsumer tactics as everyone else

stevehawkon Spain tech job market is facing a hiring freeze

There is an economic advantage to having "nerds" in "tech cities" like SF or general Bay Area. And if you disagree, then I recommend you attend a simple Tech meetup in SF and then go to one in say, Fort Wayne, Indiana, and witness the difference.

stevehawkon Starlink Direct to Cell

You seem to completely underestimate how expensive it is to install fiber across say, the entire midwest, and completely overestimate the quality of 5G coverage/investment in the same area.

stevehawkon Starlink Direct to Cell

Both comments that you've made in this story have been horribly off the mark. The reason for reusable rockets is: they're cheaper than non-reusable rockets. As a result, no one can compete with SpaceX's pricing. And that other comment where you implied that SpaceX doesn't have much of a target market only demonstrates that you have no idea what the quality of internet service is outside of metropolitan areas or how many people live in those areas.

stevehawkon Starlink Direct to Cell

transmitter doesn't need to be super powerful if the receiver is super sensitive

stevehawkon Ask HN: I’m an FCC Commissioner proposing regulation of IoT security updates

The ability to pre-heat my oven without standing in front of it. That's really the big win. But also to be able to tell if spouse or children left it on.

stevehawkon Sag-AFTRA votes unanimously to expand its strike to include the games industry

It is what I want. Youtube has no value with content creators. But content creators have zero power and steer constantly bullied with DMCA requests for policy violations that are never explained to them.

stevehawkon Tesla breaks down mid-turn and causes more than nine hours of travel chaos

ya this seems like some over politeness by road crews / law enforcement.

stevehawkon X plans to collect biometric data, job and school history

an apple nerd will come along with a real answer but i believe the answer is no. that even if they patched software.. the chip involved is not going to (or physixally can't) cooperate

stevehawkon Most cancer screenings don’t extend life, study finds

so this is almost like a Goodhart's Law problem

stevehawkon Most cancer screenings don’t extend life, study finds

Is this study just proving that other things kill you while you're being or after you've been treated for cancer?

stevehawkon ‘San Francisco changed dramatically’ – Nordstrom is bailing on a flagship store

Even if they're lying, SF seems to be in denial about the wasteland it's becoming. Everyone's got a list of things they blame, but no one seems to have a list of changes they're willing to make to correct it.

stevehawkon Feds probing roughly 5k pilots suspected of withholding major health issues

To speak a little more to this - there's a lot of jokes in the aviation community about mental health.. such as "Do you know how many pilots the FAA claims have mental health issues? None. Do you know how many pilots lie about their mental health issues? All of them."

When I have students go in for a medical, even if they're just gonna be run of the mill private pilots, I tell them "Answer every question with as few words as possible. If the AME (medical examiner) asks you if you've ever been sad, say "No". 'What about when your dad died?' Say no. When you got that diagnosis for cancer five years ago? Wasn't sad. Puppy died as a child? Wasn't sad. Never sad. Never anxious. Never depressed. Never anything. Just cool like Steve McQueen. If it's not in your medical records then it never happened.

then I get asked who the hell is Steve McQueen.

stevehawkon Overthewire.org

lol, been in #linux in the last.. say.. twenty years?

stevehawkon Moderation Strike: Results of Negotiations

lol this was made insanely better by your handle

stevehawkon Tesla asked officials to redact info of driver-assistance in use during crashes

Well, they have a problem there. In 2016 they made a public statement where they claimed "all Teslas now have all of the hardware they will ever need to be full self driving." It was a blog post and key part of a lawsuit they lost. If they ever increase the hardware requirement for FSD then they'll have to retrofit every car made since that post.

stevehawkon Real estate markets scramble following cyberattack on listings provider

redfin tried to disrupt the real estate market a decade ago and found out very quickly how anti competitive business markets work

stevehawkon Ted's Notes on Pawpaws (2016)

https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/134659/why-is-pi...

case in point

stevehawkon Discord.io breached, 760k user accounts for sale on darknet

Correct. if you don't defend your trademark then you risk losing it.

stevehawkon Today I realized I now trust Microsoft more than Google. What is happening?

"can run linux if you want" - but it's difficult enough that most of us just give up and run one or the other and it's definitely not user friendly enough to ever teach a relative. I've been a casual Linux user for 25 years now. I've officially given up dualbooting. One software update by Microsoft or accidental EFI change the house of cards seems to fall apart.

stevehawkon Firefox desktop extensions coming soon for the upcoming Android release

what the eff do they need more than 6 interviews for