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throwaway946513

255 karma · joined September 28, 2021

Threw out this account - as part of the guidelines, I've failed to meet the sentiment of having a unique alias and help with the community.
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throwaway946513··on Gemini is Solutionism
My Firefox browser shows the punycode as well, potentially something with your configuration? Only Japanese characters that Firefox renders is the name of the tab, URL itself is using the romanized characters.
throwaway946513··on Nvidia prepares to abandon $40B Arm bid
Paper, Gunpowder, Woodblock Printing (predecessor to printing press), Compass, Crossbows, Fireworks (see gunpowder), Handguns (see gunpowder)

For more information, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Chinese_inventions

throwaway946513··on The Revenge of the Hot Water Bottle
While the submitted link is wholly appropriate and I take no issues with it - I much prefer and enjoy reading Low Tech Magazine from their solar subdomain. https://solar.lowtechmagazine.com/2022/01/the-revenge-of-the...
throwaway946513··on Designing for a right to repair
From the old wood work I've seen around the house, most appear to have glue with a wood dowel, pin, or shim to lock the glued piece into place while it dries, and aren't applying excess pressure to the grain causing a split piece of wood.
throwaway946513··on Designing for a right to repair
The patent on Torx ran out a few years ago if I remember correctly, and I have any Torx bit at home for small devices, while only missing the bit for wood screws and larger.
throwaway946513··on Designing for a right to repair
Slotted (flat) screw heads at least enable the user to use a 'non-tool' to remove the screw in the case they do not have the necessary tool on hand.

Take for example my front license plate, the flat head screws enabled a random while I was at work to remove the plate from the car, without any specialized screwdriver.

So in some instances flat heads may prove to be useful. Philips however has often led to the screws I need out getting stripped. Torx all the way.

throwaway946513··on Designing for a right to repair
JIS screws will strip/cam out if you use a Philips, where I misunderstood this when replacing a rear lamp assembly on a 2016 Subaru, destroyed the JIS screw head where it had to be removed using the 10mm socket instead.

I've now used JIS bits for JIS screws and had no issues further than the initial.

throwaway946513··on EU should ban proof-of-work crypto mining, regulator says
Computers have existed for nearly 70 years. Bitcoin has existed for what... 13 years?

While the GBP value has changed over the course of 600 years, (of course it would, peoples and governments change in that same timeframe) hasn't a BTC as well?

If I sell an item worth $60,000 USD for 1 BTC, the next day the 1 BTC could be worth $40 or $50,0000 USD. Surely such volatility cannot be useful for a common currency.

"Stable coins exist" - and yes, they do - but if a stable coin is pegged to a currency, why do you not just use said currency?

throwaway946513··on EU should ban proof-of-work crypto mining, regulator says
If we're going to discuss crushing inflation and prices, shouldn't we also consider BTC and other coin's wild volatility? 60k one day, 40k the next. That's not a very stable system either.
throwaway946513··on Felony charges are first in a fatal crash involving Autopilot
Machines in a business setting when they cause death, often it is due to improper safety protocol for said machines.

Consumer devices don't have this level of control over a person's life anywhere near as often, in the sense that the device has your life at stake and makes decisions for you.

"no one is at fault" is entirely counter intuitive to engineering principles. When a rare accident happens, the engineer is often responsible.

We don't 'build' AI in anywhere remotely the same way as buildings or legacy software products, there isn't a 'designer' for said AI system other than the training model - which can certainly not account for every possible edge case.

Self-driving cars can't 'only be \better\ than humans'. Because only humans can currently drive. Self-driving cars need to be nearly 100% safe when you entirely remove the human driver.

throwaway946513··on Letter from Union Pacific to LA District Attorney re: train thefts, safety [pdf]
> The U.S. justice system is the best in the world, and one of the reasons...

I'm sorry, but this is the first time I've heard such a statement, and would like to know more.

throwaway946513··on Felony charges are first in a fatal crash involving Autopilot
The main ethical issue of 'deaths due to self-driving cars' is because of who being at fault?

If the car is self-driving, and truly self driving - no steering wheel, when it causes an accident, who is at fault?

Humans make mistakes, but humans also can change their response easily to a given input. Is Tesla at fault? Do we just issue them a fine for a person's life? Should the car do its best to preserve the life inside the vehicle, or the lives outside the vehicle? Automobiles do significant damage to pedestrians in regards to their dangerous design.

Surely corporations should be held to a higher standard than people, as they're not bound by the same restrictions a single person is.

throwaway946513··on Google: The harmful consequences of Congress’s anti-tech bills
YouTube wholly can exist without targeted ads.

The internet and ads have existed long before YouTube, and all three can exist without tracking your life.

throwaway946513··on Universal basic income could come to California colleges
Considering that music, shows, movies, images, paintings and other cultural representations exist, then I fail to see how 'the arts have been a complete abortion'.

"Contributes nothing to civilization" - yet we fetishize Roman, Greek, and 'typical "good" artwork'.

throwaway946513··on FedEx: equip aircraft with countermeasure against heat-seeking missiles [pdf]
Just without the Cyberpunk design aesthetic :(
throwaway946513··on Humble subscription service is dumping Mac, Linux access in 18 days
The market for the SteamDeck seems less around the 'Gaming PC' market - and more as a handheld pc. Essentially to bring the market accessibility of PC and 'desktop/laptop' games to a handheld factor. I don't dare take a laptop with me to work to play games on at lunch, but something the size of a Switch with my already existing library? Yes please!

It feels like this is a good way to market the device for potential future plans where Valve could build other niche hardware that would improve the viability of Linux for gaming devices on other hardware.

throwaway946513··on Why Tesla Cannot Solve Full Self-Driving – Deep Learning Is Hopelessly Flawed
From the link - "Isaac Newton had a cause for acceleration (force) but none for inertia."

Funny, because physics explains that all objects of mass have inertia. Heavy objects traveling at speed have inertia. Faster speeds? More Inertia. Heavier objects? More inertia, and we can calculate inertia : I = mr2.

I doubt that this author has any credibility for anything related to physics.

throwaway946513··on Ask HN: Why do new browsers use Chromium instead of Firefox as their base?
Where was this headline?
throwaway946513··on Google says iMessage is too powerful
Aye, not on iOS, you can only use Apple's Messages as the default messenger for SMS.
throwaway946513··on Yesterday, US grounded all planes on the west coast for ten minutes
Thank you, I forgot the name of the ABM missiles. SAMs are conventionally used as anti-aircraft missiles.
throwaway946513··on Yesterday, US grounded all planes on the west coast for ten minutes
> US Military getting ready to blast all objects in the sky with counter-nukes.

The missile-defense system work by using SAMs (Surface-to-Air Missiles). Having a nuke counter an ICBM will lead to far worse fallout. While you're correct, the planes don't want to be in that crossfire, the missile targeting system would more than easily account for civilian aircraft and avoid them.

throwaway946513··on Google says iMessage is too powerful
Aye, you can send SMS messages through the Signal app itself.

To do so, you have to go into your default apps, set the default messaging app to Signal (factory default is Messages for Pixel devices, likely whatever Samsung uses for Samsung devices). I just checked to see if there were any extra settings you have to enable in the Signal app, but it doesn't appear to be so. If a user uses both SMS or encrypted chat, you can long press the send button and decide between which it will use.

Do note, that any previous messages sent via SMS from other apps won't show up in Signal for message history. Likewise the same if/when you switch to another SMS app.

throwaway946513··on Microsoft posts its own teardown and repair video for the Surface Laptop SE
I opened up a 2017 or 18 Dell Inspiron last week to replace the hard disk with an SSD for someone. Of the 4 screws holding down the hard drive caddy, 1 stripped the head. The other three used almost no force to remove. This last one had to be drilled out just to remove the drive.

If the computer had used Torx screws in place, I'd never have had the issue since the force required wouldn't have stripped the head while a PH head had cammed the driver requiring the excess use of a drill.

throwaway946513··on Google says iMessage is too powerful
Honestly, Google has spent far too long creating and throwing away messaging applications. This is almost entirely their fault for not enabling an easily cross-platform method years ago.

I've made the switch to Signal, my girlfriend uses it on her iPhone to replace iMessage since I made the switch to Android last month. She can also use it on her Windows laptop unlike iMessage. My family members who are tech-y enough use Signal with me, and when they're not, I can still send standard SMS through the app. Signal even implements responses similar to iMessage 'likes' and 'hearts'. I don't think I could praise Signal enough for the great implementation they've built. Their crypto-enterprise this past year did make me feel a bit slighted, but as I don't use that feature, I can't comment on it.

throwaway946513··on How do you protect family from email or SMS fraud?
I'm curious if this may apply to other sms apps, I have my default set to Signal, and haven't received any spam messages yet - I never noticed much on my previous iPhone. Currently using a Pixel 6, so I'll have to look more into this. Thank you.
throwaway946513··on California Considers Doubling Its Taxes
Golden Gate Bridge has suicide nets to (significantly) reduce chances of death should you desire to jump. (Though if I remember from my last visit correctly, they also have rather tall fencing for the walkway.)
throwaway946513··on Cannabis poisoning in young children increased nine times after legalization
Go shopping with any child and tell them they can't have something - and they will want it and only it.
throwaway946513··on Facebook collecting people's data even when accounts are deactivated
Generally when you want to save favorites, most, as far as I've used, storefronts require that you create an account before allowing those functions.
throwaway946513··on Mozilla Foundation pausing cryptocurrency donations
> I see the part about trackers, what about ads? Doe sit also block YouTube ads?

Ads are the way the internet can be funded. For most free sites, they need to either be subsidized by another income (see say a personal website that you host yourself - you pay for the domain and hosting if it's not local). Or by either selling a product (see many software companies), or lastly by using ads (see YouTube, Vimeo, and numerous other video sharing sites)

I understand targeted ads being a nuisance and vehemently despise the datamining that supports said systems. But ads in general aren't an evil until they obfuscate the core material of a site. When you block ads, especially on YouTube for creators who use the platform to attract ads and sell their content then you prevent people who've worked to supply their income. If your issue is the ethics that are at odds with Alphabet and the privacy concerns, your fight is with your government to restrict them, Alphabet's own trackers (which you can work towards disabling).

throwaway946513··on Mozilla Foundation pausing cryptocurrency donations
I thought by the nature of the forum submissions that it was essentially any STEM-related links or posts would be applicable. Geological Engineers are still considered STEM.
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