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throwworhtthrowon The $499 Google Pixel 8a is official, with 120 Hz display, 7 years of updates

I wish Apple's ads were delivered as notifications. Then I could disable them. But Apple allows me to disable notifications for everyone but themselves.

I get emails, popups, and banners on my iPhone. They're on my lock screen, in the Music app nav bar, and draped across the top of Settings. They repeatedly nag me to upgrade my iCloud storage, try Apple Music, see what's new in Apple TV, and check out their financial services. They hassle me on macOS too.

Windows 10 is tame in comparison. I just got a Pixel phone and it pesters me more than my iPhone did, but not by much.

throwworhtthrowon U.S. to require automatic emergency braking on new vehicles in 5 years

That's horrific. You would hit another car or person every two years if not for automatic braking?

Also, it's inexcusable to turn in front of a pedestrian without even looking where you're going. I know it's common driving behavior but it's simply selfish to endanger someone on foot because you want to squeeze into cross traffic ASAP.

throwworhtthrowon Alaska Airlines flight 1282 NTSB preliminary report [pdf]

You can't leave your assigned altitude/trajectory without coordinating with ATC. Otherwise you may collide with another plane, which would make a bad situation worse.

throwworhtthrowon Git commit messages are useless

Did you purposely write this comment so it reads like a series of commit messages, or are you just wired that way?

(I agree on all points.)

throwworhtthrowon CA bill to require all new cars to prevent them from going 10mph over speedlimit

If you are driving a large vehicle that you are not used to or trained for, you should absolutely not be making high speed passes within narrow gaps in traffic.

Also a 15mph difference in speed should be plenty to make a safe pass.

Finally, going 50mph instead of 65mph for 10 minutes only adds 2 minutes 18 seconds to your trip time.

throwworhtthrowon FedEx launches new e-commerce platform

> BedBath&Beyond

I have some bad news for you: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bed_Bath_&_Beyond#Bankruptcy_a...

throwworhtthrowon On the Pleb Filter (2023)

I'm fond of the aside about "self-relferential [sic] meta-commentary" within a blog post that is itself self-referential meta-commentary.

throwworhtthrowon Tesla Cybertruck's stiff structure, sharp design raise safety concerns

Tesla has more Cybertruck articles on HN than it has Cybertrucks on the road.

throwworhtthrowon Tesla Cybertruck's stiff structure, sharp design raise safety concerns

I visit Hacker News regularly, but no other social media at all.

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=pastMonth&query=cybertruck...

There's a lot of Cybertruck news on the HN front page in the past month. Which is what I meant by "hyperfocus".

throwworhtthrowon Tesla Cybertruck's stiff structure, sharp design raise safety concerns

Humans are mauled every day by cars. I think general awareness of this is lower than it should be, as is the desire to do something about it.

Perhaps this hyperfocus on the Cybertruck will help jumpstart a larger shift in public opinion on general automobile-pedestrian safety?

throwworhtthrowon World of Goo 2

Don't be deceived by the paltry YouTube view count: this is way bigger news than Rockstar's GTA 6 trailer from earlier this week.

throwworhtthrowon Tesla Cybertruck Pricing and Specs

I know what it's like to be in the presence of a typical old truck, compared to a typical modern truck. The modern truck is wider and taller, accelerates faster, and has worse visibility. I'll trust my own eyes and experience over some conveniently angled photos and irrelevant "apples-to-apples". (To extend the analogy: you're doing your comparison using a cultivar hardly anyone buys anymore).

throwworhtthrowon Who makes the most reliable new cars?

Surrounding my child's school are blind s-curves and streets barely wide enough for 2-way traffic. All densely lined with parked cars. And yet I people speed through these areas on most days during pick-up time, and often they looking at their phones (or whatever else they might be up to behind blackout-tinted windows).

The only thing narrow streets and turns do is make it harder for parents to check for oncoming traffic before crossing. No amount of "traffic calming" will protect us from these rotten drivers. We need at least a modicum of enforcement.

throwworhtthrowon We install planters so you don't have to look at homeless people

Thank you for the context. This is great parody, up there with MSCHF’s best.

throwworhtthrowon We're the Researchers who looked into the privacy of 25 of the top car brands

In the case of Target, they might mail your pregnant teenage daughter a flier for newborn items before she's told you the news.

https://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/19/magazine/shopping-habits....

throwworhtthrowon Rural Americans are importing tiny Japanese pickup trucks

"Effects of large vehicles on pedestrian and pedalcyclist injury severity" https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/36031254/

Just one of many reports from the past 20 years documenting the correlation between vehicle size and deaths/injuries to those on the receiving end. You'll find similar conclusions from IIHS, NHTSA, etc.

throwworhtthrowon Rural Americans are importing tiny Japanese pickup trucks

> Big trucks aren't causing social ills for anyone except people that have nothing better to do but complain about other people enjoying their own lives.

"These Stupid Trucks are Literally Killing Us" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35202168