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trymas··on Meta created 'playbook' to fend off pressure to crack down on scammers
How I understood OP - is that Costco pays better than other big retailers. Also probably not only for IT department, but on average (including cashiers and such).
trymas··on US blocks all offshore wind construction, says reason is classified
Only reason is that orange mussolini does not like seeing wind turbines. That's it.

He sees them on Scotland's shores while flying to his resort - like a child he needs to have a personal vendetta on something he does not like, especially now when he has power to do it. God forbid he will need to see such monsters on God loving free country of US of A.

trymas··on US blocks all offshore wind construction, says reason is classified
> We need a shift in the constitutional order where the whims of one person isnt fused with the bureaucracy

Correct me if I'm wrong, though there are already protections there. It's just president, senate, congress, SCOTUS all agree on this.

IMHO - most effective constitutional change would be to get rid of first past the post election system, electoral colleges, gerrymandering, etc. I think USA's two party system made it to the place where it is right now, seemingly on the verge of turning into one-party system.

trymas··on Ruby website redesigned
> Speaking from experience (recently we rebuilt https://raku.org),

FYI, front-page has a lot of examples, that I assume change when switching tabs, e.g. "multi-paradigm" "strict-gradual" "interactive-mode", etc.

But nothing happens, neither Safari 18.6, nor Chrome 143.0, on macOS 15.5.

trymas··on Waymo halts service during S.F. blackout after causing traffic jams
It shouldn't be all black and white (either 100% car use or 100% public transport use).

If you're rural - of course this probably doesn't apply.

If you're suburban - "park and ride" type of thing solves a lot of problems in western Europe already. Drive to nearest hub, hop on a train (that is included in your parking ticket) that has bigger bandwidth comparable up to a 30 lane highway[1], also don't worry about parking in dense downtown as a benefit.

If you're urban, city planners should plan public transport network dense enough so you could walk - at worst do "park and ride" thing again.

Of course there are cases where car still may be fastest and most convenient way to reach your destination (e.g. if you're suburban and need to go to other suburban town), but in big cities (individual) car travel should be a minority.

Compare Japan's, China's mega cities. Whole countries like Netherlands, Denmark, Belgium, to LA, SF or other USA's mega cities. It just falls to the Onion trope of `'No Way to Prevent This,' Says Only Nation Where This Regularly Happens`.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Route_capacity#/media/File:Pas...

trymas··on Thomas Piketty: 'The reality is the US is losing control of the world'
> Trump has a far-reaching policy stance. His thesis is that American success is due to Americans and what is distinctive about them, and our engagement with foreigners on the present terms is not good for America.

When he says success or about “you gonna be so rich you’re not gonna believe it” - he talks about himself and his billionaire buddies not you. His only policy stance is to surround himself with yes-men and enrich himself through blatant open corruption. Anything is for sale: crimes, pardons, citizenships, you name it - directly contradicting your thesis.

Also I truly believe he hates half of Americans because of wrong-think. But he will deal with them after he deals with brown people.

> Closing the border, deporting all illegal immigrants

Lets deport farmers, construction employers and business owners who “import” such workforce to essentially slave for them.

How such employers are not deeply scrutinised by public and politicians - I will never understand.

> abandoning unfounded foreign policy commitments

Abandon Ukraine, but financing Israel, Argentina, attempt truly unfounded war against Venezuela (reasons change every other day and contradict other policies like pardoning Hernandez on drug trafficking but threatening Maduro with war for same reason in the same week).

> using tariffs as a tool of trade policy

Sure if it’s deliberate, calculated and strategic. China laughs at your soy bean farmers. Coffee exporters give zero damns about your tarrifs. Canadians laugh at you when you’ll wait 30 years to grow your lumber. And on top of all of it - policy is so chaotic (who said men are not emotional?) - no actual long term commitment from industries will happen.

Also more points how his views are contradictory from my previous comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46158110

trymas··on JetBlue flight averts mid-air collision with US Air Force jet
Delivered directly to your doorstep from the government of “no new wars”, guided by “peace president”.
trymas··on iPhone Typos? It's Not Just You – The iOS Keyboard Is Broken [video]
Could it be slide to type issue as pointed in another comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46233219 ? Disabling it might help?
trymas··on He set out to walk around the world. After 27 years, his quest is nearly over
Not OC, but funny that in my native language "stroke" is "insult" - so I understood that and didn't catch it that in english it doesn't make sense. :)
trymas··on Italy's longest-serving barista reflects on six decades behind the counter
Maybe we are talking about the same thing, but my intent was to say that original quote was in the theme of "kids these days...".

Not all progress is desirable, of course, and smartphones have their own problems, but same was told about younger generations and internet, TV, newspapers, etc. But those generations grew up out of it and personally I'd argue that smartphone addiction is not only young people problem.

trymas··on Italy's longest-serving barista reflects on six decades behind the counter
Socrates would have drawn the line at writing and reading texts.
trymas··on Torture Techniques from CIA Black Sites Were Used at Alligator Alcatraz
Draw 2x2ft square on the ground and see how could you stand there, sit down, sleep, stretch your legs/arms. Imagine doing that for 24h.

I haven’t drawn this, but I think taller adult would always be touching at least two walls unless standing diagonally.

trymas··on Apple's slow AI pace becomes a strength as market grows weary of spending
Wasn’t it the same with covid hiring? While others over hired, Apple was modest in this position. Then everyone needed to significantly downsize, when Apple didn’t.
trymas··on Horses: AI progress is steady. Human equivalence is sudden
> Have you ever thought that you would be compared to a gasoline engine and everyone would discuss this juxtaposition from purely economic perspective?

Not sure if by accident or not, but that’s what we are according today’s “tech elite”.

   Therefore, the most profitable disposition for this dubious form of capital is to convert them into biodiesel, which can help power the Muni buses
https://www.goodreads.com/work/quotes/55660903-patchwork-a-p...
trymas··on Paramount launches hostile bid for Warner Bros
Since the beginning of the year - USA is just a shell of market economy. Small government indeed…

Also some say it’s “flawed democracy”, IMHO - for last ~3 decades (or even more) it’s just a charade of democracy. Probably soon you won’t even have that.

First-past-the-post two party system, bizarre primary elections, electoral college, land votes instead of people (how many senators are from california and how many from wyoming, they also say it’s “to balance the tyranny of majority”), abhorrent and disgusting gerrymandering (so states could also force tyranny of the minority in congress too :) ), voter suppression (voting on Tuesdays, employers can control if you can go vote that day, voting booth count is getting smaller, voter registration shenanigans in marginalised communities), etc.

trymas··on State Department to deny visas to fact checkers and others, citing 'censorship'
Values are case-by-case basis depending if trump (GOP?) likes something (most like got paid cash) or not.

Case in point - full pardon for former Honduran president on drug trafficking, while at the same time they are trying to use drug trafficking as pretext on war with Venezuela.

Same thing with arabs/muslims/immigrants being bad (look at how they were during Mamdami campaign), though literal al-Qaeda members and murderers acting as arabian royalty are "great leaders" and "things (murders) happen".

Even on "simpler" issues like family values - they preach against queers, about "traditional family values", kids, etc. But most of them have 3+ divorces, multiple kids that they don't take care of, imported/immigrant trophy wives, numerous scandals of adultery, while destroying policies for children education/health/food, etc.

trymas··on Accepting US car standards would risk European lives
IMHO - not “would risk”, but “will definitely increase road deaths”.
trymas··on OpenAI declares 'code red' as Google catches up in AI race
…someone even wrote a book about this. Something about “mythical men”… :D
trymas··on White House gives Maduro ultimatum as U.S. moves toward land operations
> How can the extrajudicial killings of (over 80 by now!) alleged drug traffickers without any charges…

While drug trafficker convicted of trafficking 400 tons of cocaine get full presidential pardon.

trymas··on Bring bathroom doors back to hotels
What do you mean?
trymas··on Bring bathroom doors back to hotels
Also they probably save on cleaning costs.
trymas··on Dark Mode Sucks
At least before you are grown up - that’s absolutely proven truth.

Until you are an adult - you must get outside light (even if it’s overcast winter). On average - luminosity (I hope that’s the term) outside is orders of magnitude above indoors, even when it’s overcast.

Kids without enough light have much bigger risk of shortsightedness. Because eyeball development is related to light.

There was even an article about this on HN couple weeks ago.

trymas··on Hemp ban hidden inside government shutdown bill
IMHO - a step in right direction would be abolishing first-past-the-post voting system, together with electoral college. Finally USA could get a feel for multi-party system, instead of always voting for lesser evil. MAGA could be their own party, but they will need to deal with coalition instead of having total chokehold on all institutions of government.

Not sure how to break Senate and highly unequal representation it gives.

Though realistically I don't think this will ever be possible.

trymas··on Codables – Swift-inspired, declarative JSON serialization
Also - what's so "Swift-inspired"? There's not a single mention of Swift in README.
trymas··on Yarn shows progress bar as pumpkins on Halloween
HN sanitizes line anchor, so here’s the link:

https://github.com/yarnpkg/berry/blob/a592371321068c3d63b093...

trymas··on Uv is the best thing to happen to the Python ecosystem in a decade
You can setup uv inside your script, without a project.

Example: https://treyhunner.com/2024/12/lazy-self-installing-python-s...

trymas··on PSF has withdrawn $1.5M proposal to US Government grant program
> discriminatory equity ideology in violation of Federal anti-discrimination laws.

Striving for equality according to MAGA is discrimination. Make systematic racism and sexism great again like it’s <1950s?

trymas··on YouTube Just Ate TV. It's Only Getting Started
Also some streaming services are not available at some countries or only sold as some bundles with only particular ISPs or cable providers in that country.

Hence you cannot buy it legally even if you wished (to change your ISP).

trymas··on Apple M5 chip
> the main thing limiting Apple Intelligence (in my opinion) will continue to be the 8 GB of unified memory they still insist on.

As you said - it won’t help previous generations, though since last year (or two??) all macs start with 16GB of memory. Even entry level macbook airs.

trymas··on Dutch government takes control of Chinese-owned chipmaker Nexperia
> "knowledge leak" (w/e that means exactly)

At least in my tongue - this would mean “brain drain”.

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