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Re:State of Devs 2026 survey results: developers are exhausted on Tuesday October 06, 2026 @09:45PM (#49986920)
Was there pervasive access to birth control back then?
Re:Profit Margins of the Largest Companies on Monday September 28, 2026 @11:43PM (#49887908)
Sorts profit numbers alphabetically instead of numerically. Pretty sure that is a sign of the quality of the rest of the reporting here as well.
Re:Diesel prices could crush Republicans in the heartland on Wednesday September 23, 2026 @12:27AM (#49811646)
The egg price thing was price fixing by some of folks contributing both financially and in action to the Republican machine.
Re:Lawmakers added $1 to car insurance policies. That money paid for F... on Saturday August 29, 2026 @09:30PM (#49494847)
It’s hard to say. As the economic got better, trade policies stabilized and the price of commodities and therefore the metals in a converter dropped in value. As the price of the metals went down, the thefts dropped nationally. Texas thefts seemed to have dropped inline with the national trend. Since the supply side issues are picking up again, the thefts are going up likewise.
Re:US hires over 2k video gamers as air traffic controllers on Tuesday August 11, 2026 @10:22PM (#49267148)
Just like real war…
Re:Humanity renamed genes because of Excel on Monday August 10, 2026 @01:37PM (#49247009)
To be fair, humanity named those genes in the first place. They are now just named more robustly
Re:I also filed the corners off my MacBook on Wednesday July 15, 2026 @12:20AM (#48916276)
https://a.co/d/0hXtPRfC

Amazon link to a debuting tool. It uses sharp harder metal to cut off sharp metal edges.

Re:Texas grid flags risks as data centers, crypto sites fail voltage t... on Monday June 08, 2026 @04:39PM (#48451634)
Ahh, I was focusing on residential energy (the cost borne by most of the people in Texas), which is up 25% per that source. The bulk and stability of industrial power is keeping prices down in aggregate.

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Re:Texas grid flags risks as data centers, crypto sites fail voltage t... on Monday June 08, 2026 @01:09PM (#48448042)
Let's assume we're talking about core inflation (since headline inflation included changes in energy costs and that would hide the signal). Core inflation was us 23% from '19-24, but the energy costs in Texas were up 37%. Actually, headline inflation was up 25%, which is still below that set of price increases.

Please support your assertion that Texas energy costs decreased in that time period.

Re:Texas grid flags risks as data centers, crypto sites fail voltage t... on Monday June 08, 2026 @12:33AM (#48441365)
I don’t think that is true.

https://www.electricchoice.com/historical-electricity-pricin...

Re:I've Covered Robots for Years. This One Is Different on Friday May 01, 2026 @06:11PM (#47981078)
The first voice accessed (in my brain) by this dialog was Harley Quinn, it took a moment for it to fall back to Rosie.
Re:Qatar helium shutdown puts chip supply chain on a two-week clock on Friday March 13, 2026 @10:41AM (#47365140)
"Current law (cira 2013) requires BLM to sell off the crude helium remaining in the Federal Helium Reserve in order to repay the U.S. Treasury the $1.3 billion debt incurred creating it. This debt will be repaid this fiscal year and that, as a consequence, the helium program will terminate at the end of the current fiscal year (October 1, 2013), absent Congressional action. Currently, the Federal Helium Reserve supplies roughly 40% of domestic and 30% of global helium demand. Loss of access to the Federal Helium Reserve would result in significant disruptions to a large number of critical U.S. industries." https://www.energy.senate.gov/services/files/494b2f9e-c8f5-4...

Sounds like Obama kept the gas taps flowing, instead of locking it up because authorization to sell it had expired. Here is the whole record: https://www.congress.gov/bill/113th-congress/house-bill/527/...

Re:Qatar helium shutdown puts chip supply chain on a two-week clock on Friday March 13, 2026 @10:35AM (#47365062)
BLM was required (to sell it) by Congress in the Helium Stewardship Act of 2013, as the alternative was to not offer any H to the market due to the authorization to sell expiring. Sponsored by a Republican and passed basically unanimously with the proceeds used to pay of the debt (back when we cared about that)
Re:EV-1 for Lease (1996) on Monday February 02, 2026 @10:41AM (#46857229)
I drove a electric Rav4, but couldn't stomach the 40 mile range for the price. But it was a fun car, and it seemed huge (compared to my miata).
Re:Indefinite Backpack Travel on Monday October 06, 2025 @10:39AM (#45491917)
My wife dropped a small mint for darn tough socks like three years ago as a father's day gift. It's been delightful.
Re:Happy 10k Day on Tuesday March 11, 2025 @10:51PM (#43339488)
Great product, put it in my RAV4 Prime and it just works. Makes my Bolt EUV super cruise look poor in comparison.
Re:Murderbot, She Wrote. Martha Wells Article on Wired on Monday December 02, 2024 @01:35PM (#42298928)
The Texas A&M sci-fi convention mentioned in the article is coming up in early February. You can bounce over to Cushing library to check out the collection, including a copy of Fahrenheit 451 in an asbestos zipper case (obviously, you can't check that one out of it's special container).

https://www.aggiecon.net/

Re:Show HN: Free mortgage analysis tool to avoid getting screwed by cl... on Saturday November 16, 2024 @11:00AM (#42157019)
At least put a patron link on there or something, so people can have a legitimate way to pay for the cost associated with running the website. Perhaps make a suggested amount of 10% of the savings.

This gives you a obvious profit motive, and makes you seem more sketchy because you now have more skin in the game to keep it operating as a valid and useful business service

Re:Build Systems, Not Heroes on Saturday October 12, 2024 @02:11AM (#41816848)
This comment combined with a recent reflection on the ‘irony of automation’ makes me worried that the product I’m building to make life easier will instead lead to loss of craft, pride, and ingenuity.

Honestly, still processing through it to make sure that all the people in my products and systems are seen.

Re:Apple Watch sleep apnea detection gets FDA approval on Monday September 16, 2024 @01:33PM (#41558432)
The 'ramp' setting made me panic and felt like a couldn't breathe. We go from zero to full force now, and it works just fine. I use a nose adapter.
Re:Ask HN: Former gifted children with hard lives, how did you turn out? on Monday September 16, 2024 @01:52AM (#41553138)
Have you tried TMS (the magnet thing?).

It worked well for my friend that had ideation.

Re:DAGitty – draw and analyze causal diagrams on Friday September 13, 2024 @09:32AM (#41531127)
I will give that a try. Thank you very much :)
Re:DAGitty – draw and analyze causal diagrams on Wednesday September 04, 2024 @11:33AM (#41446975)
I hate to ask this question.... but I've moved to a python shop after working in the tidyverse for years, and am unimpressed with the DAG visualization capabilities. Does anyone have any recommendations for 1,000 plus node DAGs?

I still miss R and tidy quite a bit, but polars at least gets closer.

Re:Breaking down a record-setting day on the Texas grid on Wednesday August 21, 2024 @10:04PM (#41316059)
What I want to know is how much we spent kicking crypto miners off the grid for a couple hours.
Re:Porsche 911 Hybrid vs. Chevy Corvette E-Ray: Electrified Sports Car... on Tuesday June 04, 2024 @08:52AM (#40574029)
I think these are more like EV boosted hybrids that’ll gas savers… though the Chevy will do much better in traffic with a few miles of energy stored up.
Re:Hackers Found a Way to Open Any of 3M Hotel Keycard Locks in Seconds on Thursday March 21, 2024 @08:55PM (#39786312)
When I worked mainteince on a big chain hotel in a major college town, we had a mark 2.0 crowbar if the key card didn't work. The real fun one was the flippy locks that you could kinda pop by slapping the non-working key card in, and slamming the door. The card would flex and spring the lock back. Then you could use the crowbar again. It wasn't too slow, but it was very loud.

They told me couldn't whistle and spin the crowbar nonchalantly before casually popping open doors that had a dead battery in front of the guest waiting to stay in that same hotel.

Re:Why it's so hard to build new commercial aircraft on Monday February 12, 2024 @12:23PM (#39347596)
You mean like when they basically shut down Blue Bell for listeria? That is exactly what the FDA and CDC did.

https://www.cdc.gov/listeria/outbreaks/ice-cream-03-15/index...

Re:Are we at peak vector database? on Friday January 26, 2024 @03:19AM (#39140065)
You may benefit from polars, it can multi-core better than pandas, and has some of the niceties from Arrow (which was the written / championed by the power duo of Wes and Hadley, authors of pandas and the R - tidyverse respectively).
Re:Breakdown of faults by car brand: Tesla has replaced Dacia at the b... on Monday December 25, 2023 @11:05AM (#38763679)
There is a concept in manufacturing called the andon cord (a button / pull that activates a claxon and stops the line). Once the line stops, everyone swarms the problem and works on a fix. Toyota in the 80s pioneered its use and then beat the big 3 at manufacturing quality.
Re:Whisper: Nvidia RTX 4090 vs. M1 Pro with MLX on Wednesday December 13, 2023 @10:58AM (#38629277)
Only if Sam Altman is appointed to the Apple board. ;)

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