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Re:Tesla Roadster on Thursday October 15, 2026 @09:52PM (#50112842)
"Tony Hawk would be called, we call that the kickflip."

Uh what? Rodney Mullen invented the kickflip

Reminds me of this https://youtu.be/LC97wdQOmfI

Re:US hits Bank of America with $1.2B fine on Wednesday October 14, 2026 @01:12AM (#50082657)
My opinion is that a lot of the money is being laundered because it's from activity that I don't think should be illegal. I think of it as civil disobedience.
Re:US hits Bank of America with $1.2B fine on Tuesday October 13, 2026 @10:47PM (#50081776)
AML/KYC is oppression
X-Raided comes to mind
Re:Kevin Kelly's 2016 AI Predictions, 10 Years Later on Tuesday October 13, 2026 @01:22PM (#50075339)
Live translation for foreign movies and TV shows.

Transcribe conversations with my own hardware at home.

Turn by turn directions

Pomodoro timer

Read books on my lunch break

Read recipes while cooking

Instruction manuals

RSS feeds

Re:Now That Information Is Free, What's a College Campus For? on Tuesday October 13, 2026 @01:14PM (#50075215)
The campus is for networking
Re:Kevin Kelly's 2016 AI Predictions, 10 Years Later on Tuesday October 13, 2026 @07:57AM (#50070253)
No. They're just the first smart glasses I've seen with a screen that look relatively normal. And it looks like the SDK makes it very easy to build your own apps. Reminds me of the homebrew video game scene I saw when I was a kid. Just waiting for next year to get a new prescription.
Re:Breaking Bad star RJ Mitte dies aged 34 on Monday October 12, 2026 @07:51PM (#50064665)
Incredibly sad. Great actor and sounds like he was a great person. Gone way too soon
Re:Kevin Kelly's 2016 AI Predictions, 10 Years Later on Monday October 12, 2026 @02:11PM (#50060418)
I don't like wearing glasses. I should wear my glasses more often, but I don't. But that isn't going to stop me from buying the Even Reality G2
Re:Decade-old RAM is making a comeback on Sunday October 11, 2026 @06:20PM (#50048503)
I just paid $300 for a 2TB SSD. I wanted 4TB, but couldn't justify the cost since I really don't need that much space at the moment.
Some of these are neat. I like the stripey ones. Not sure what I would use it for though.
This was in Canada
Re:We're unlocking the biggest mysteries of the clitoris on Sunday October 11, 2026 @02:57PM (#50046584)
Right, mostly it's about how there are a bunch of nerves and stimulating those nerves leads to orgasm. Who doesn't know that?
Re:Decade-old RAM is making a comeback on Sunday October 11, 2026 @11:34AM (#50044406)
I just bought a Xeon E5-2690 v4 for $16 and a Sparkle A770 for like $350. Going to try some local models on there. I think it will be plenty good for my use cases.
Re:Anthropic asks users to stop being mean to Claude on Saturday October 10, 2026 @10:07PM (#50039113)
I suppose this will help the training data?
Re:How to head into VR without wearing a headset on Saturday October 10, 2026 @02:41PM (#50035815)
If you're sleeping you aren't going to be aware of your surroundings. You're just going to have a hard time getting to sleep with goggles strapped on your face. Probably wake up a lot too. I'll watch the video when I get home, out at a park enjoying nature and Hacker News haha yes I see the parallels and I should put the phone away.
Re:PVX-001: open-source Covid-19 vaccine starts Phase 1 trial on Saturday October 10, 2026 @01:03PM (#50034845)
Congratulations and thank you
Re:How to head into VR without wearing a headset on Saturday October 10, 2026 @12:00PM (#50034208)
>Some days he’s in VR more than he’s out of it. He’d even try to sleep there, but the headset made it hard to get comfortable.

Why?

Re:Anger as man sentenced to death for Facebook comment on Friday October 09, 2026 @08:07AM (#50019335)
Huh? People with mental illnesses should not be in government.
Re:Anger as man sentenced to death for Facebook comment on Friday October 09, 2026 @01:21AM (#50016299)
Yeah, that's all disgusting human behavior. And it's even more disgusting that agents of the Saudi government will murder him over it.
Re:Anger as man sentenced to death for Facebook comment on Friday October 09, 2026 @01:06AM (#50016209)
Religious extremism is a mental illness and has no place in government.

>Saudi Arabia is among the world's most prolific executioners. According to Amnesty, at least 175 people had been executed in the kingdom this year as of 5 October, most of them foreign nationals, including at least 94 people from more than 20 countries. It has no written penal code, leaving many offences and punishments to judges' interpretation of Sharia, and broad provisions in its counter-terrorism and cybercrime laws have been used to impose long sentences for social media posts.

This should be widely publicized. No foreigner is safe.

Piracy is legal if you're big enough
Re:How California Closed the Montana License Plate Loophole on Wednesday October 07, 2026 @01:28PM (#49995967)
There is no logic to their tint law. I live in a community that exists in 2 states. And civil disobedience is morally ok. Anyway, nobody is going to pull me over for my tint and if they do, that's fine, I know I'm risking a ticket. It's not that serious.
I bought one a few months ago as a cheap DX7 clone. It's great just as that. So then all these new firmwares coming out have just been incredible. It's like a poor man's OP1 now.
Re:How California Closed the Montana License Plate Loophole on Wednesday October 07, 2026 @12:57AM (#49988397)
Yeah. There's no reason the legal tint level should be different on an SUV vs car.
Re:How California Closed the Montana License Plate Loophole on Wednesday October 07, 2026 @12:19AM (#49988119)
Yes because people can't be expected to make expensive modifications to their vehicles while visiting another state. And the law in Minnesota is ridiculous especially in situations like a Crosstrek vs an Impreza. They have the same body but the allowed tint levels are different because one is classified as an SUV and the other as a station wagon. I could lift my Impreza and make it look exactly like a Crosstrek, but the tint would still be illegal. I find that funny.
Re:How California Closed the Montana License Plate Loophole on Tuesday October 06, 2026 @11:58PM (#49987972)
I wouldn't say that's an edge case. Would you consider a huge chunk of our military edge cases too?
Re:How California Closed the Montana License Plate Loophole on Tuesday October 06, 2026 @11:56PM (#49987954)
How about we go after Delaware and South Dakota registered corporations before we go after a few people registering their cars with Montana LLCs?
Re:How California Closed the Montana License Plate Loophole on Tuesday October 06, 2026 @10:58PM (#49987536)
Their tint law is stupid. See my previous comment on Crosstrek vs Impreza. Also, I've never heard of anyone getting pulled over for tint unless it's like really dark, so I'm not concerned, just pointing out it's ridiculous.

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