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> But this can be overridden by contracts and for basically all white collar and higher paid jobs, it is.

Is this really true? I believe all of my software engineering jobs have been at will, and there was nothing in the documents I signed that would give me any benefits or rights if my employer wanted to fire me.

My biggest question here is are they not just feeding the input into a hash function, why can't it be longer than 20 characters?
Re:Replacing the old battery on rechargeable bike lights on Monday September 28, 2026 @08:26AM (#49876911)
I have a Knog Cobber. While it doesn't shut off automatically, it's bright enough that I think it would be quite unlikely to finish the ride without noticing the light is still on.
Re:Replacing the old battery on rechargeable bike lights on Sunday September 27, 2026 @11:10AM (#49867316)
An exception is bikepackers, who may prize reliability and runtime over brightness and weight. But then the dynamo we're talking about is $200-$400 and that's not including the light.
They just agreed to a $131 million settlement. The article says this is a hundred times what they spent to prevent Mamdani from getting elected.
Re:I don't like passkeys on Friday September 18, 2026 @03:15PM (#49758893)
This is why I've always been a fan of these. They are easy for laypeople to understand.
Re:I had Gemini train its own replacement for $9 on Thursday September 17, 2026 @10:50AM (#49741677)
I've never had a Gemini Deep Research report that didn't sound like a load of pseudo-intellectual BS. It always starts with a long grandiose preamble and then sounds way too academic, almost like a caricature of academia.
Also, I want to be able to eat through my whole week's usage at once. What if I was busy all week and want to work on my personal project(s) Saturday or Sunday.
I don't think it ceases to be a crime if you automate it. What if instead of wiping data it set off a shotgun that was pointed at the door?
I don't think the crime of destroying evidence / tampering with evidence depends on what your status in custody is. If the police knock on your front door and you start shredding documents, that's still a crime.

Now, could that get tossed about because they denied him access to a lawyer? Maybe, I don't know about that part.

Re:The World's 2,400 Castles on Tuesday July 21, 2026 @03:26PM (#48996986)
I find the word "castle" can be a little vague, like with Neuschwanstein Castle, which is really more of a palace. I don't think it's worth battling too much about what is or isn't a castle. I don't think you could come up with one set of castles in the world that satisfies everybody.
I'm not sure the difference between moped and scooter is killing people everyday. I don't think it is. Can you give an example?
I'm not disagreeing with the origin of the word, I'm just saying it's expanded and changed.

Have you ever "shipped" something that at no point in its journey was carried on a floating vessel? Do you correct people when they say they're shipping something by ground or air?

For better or worse, probably worse, the definitions of both "moped" and "scooter" vary from person to person or jurisdiction to jurisdiction. "Moped" is often used to describe a light motorcycle.
Re:The Deadly Rise of Giant Trucks and S.U.V.s on Tuesday June 23, 2026 @03:33PM (#48650160)
I think it does ban them, effectively.

There is what some people say is a gray zone (I don't actually think it's that gray) where a device is too fast or powerful to be a legal e-bike, but also doesn't meet the requirements to be a road legal motorcycle. Will Progressive give me motorcycle insurance on my DIY e-bike without a VIN? Will the DVM register it? I don't think so. In most states there is no path to legality, at least as far as operating the thing on public streets goes.

I don't think that's necessarily a problem that needs solved. I'm fine telling the person that bought a Sur-Ron, "too bad, off road only".

Re:Google's Antigravity Bait and Switch on Thursday May 21, 2026 @11:15PM (#48231563)
> Assuming that daily and weekly quotas are OK for casual use, I will probably use AntiGravity CLI most of the time.

I would not assume that for 3.1 pro, but maybe the limits for flash 3.5 will be fine, and the model will be good enough for hobby stuff.

I would eliminate the possibility of sandbox conflicts by 1) making sure any subagents are invoked with no sandbox (they should still be covered under the calling agent's sandbox) 2) make sure the calling agent's sandbox allows the subagents access to the directories they need (ex: ~/.gemini, ~/.codex).
The justice system can generally deal with gray areas like this. For example the parents of school shooters are usually not held liable for the crimes their kids commit. It depends on a lot of variables.
I've had trouble with the sandbox functionality baked into agents being able to do what I want, particularly Gemini CLI. Being able to write your own .sb file is more powerful and portable.

Claude Code seemed to be able to reach outside its own sandbox sometimes, so I lost trust in it. Manually wrapping it in sandbox-exec solved the issue.

Re:Long Range E-Bike on Sunday March 01, 2026 @08:36PM (#47212825)
Suicidal motorbikes are allowed with license and insurance though. Not saying that's optimal for public safety, but that's a big distinction.

I think that's the logical line between e-bikes an electric motos: at what power or speed do you want to start requiring some kind of licensing or insurance?

Re:Long Range E-Bike on Sunday March 01, 2026 @03:31PM (#47210354)
60kmph / 37mph is very fast for somebody who might just be wearing a bicycle helmet (hopefully). If traffic is going that fast, I think it may just not be the appropriate place for a bicycle to be. I've gone that fast on an e-bike before, and it doesn't feel comfortable nor safe.
Re:macOS's Little-Known Command-Line Sandboxing Tool (2025) on Saturday February 21, 2026 @11:01AM (#47101973)
It weirds me out a bit that Claude is able to reach outside the sandbox during a session. According to the docs this is with user consent. I would feed better with a more rigid safety net, which is why I've been explicitly invoking claude with sandbox-exec.
I got very tired of seeing the same video thumbnails over and over.

It seemed like at some point they were pushing into video, of which there were some good ones they put out, but then they stopped. They kept the video links in the articles but since there are only a handful you'll just see the same ones over and over.

I've probably seen the first 3 or 4 seconds of the one with the Dead Space guy about a hundred times now.

Re:xAI joins SpaceX on Monday February 02, 2026 @07:54PM (#46864733)
As far as I understand they did not make a profit in 2025. They posted positive adjusted EBITDA, which is not the same.
Re:Amazon to Shut Down All Amazon Go and Amazon Fresh Stores on Tuesday January 27, 2026 @01:49PM (#46784463)
They could have followed the lead of TV manufacturers and called it "5 Star Class" (4.5 star)
Re:Stranger Things creator says turn off "garbage" settings on Tuesday December 30, 2025 @11:46AM (#46435119)
I used to feel this way, at least about having the TV do zero processing.

Something that recently changed my viewpoint a little bit was that I was noticing that 24-30 fps content was appearing very choppy. I couldn't figure out why it looked like that. It turns out it's because modern OLED TVs can switch frames very cleanly and rapidly, CRTs or older LCDs were not like that, and their relative slowness in switching frames created a smoothing or blending effect.

Now I'm considering turning back on my TVs motion smoothing. I'm just hoping it doesn't do full-blown frame interpolation that makes everything look like a Mexican soap opera.

When I'm selling something used, and I look at prices for other listings, I'm competing with them. I want to have a price that is attractive, given the landscape. I'm not messaging all the other sellers and suggesting we all raise prices by 10%, or having an algorithm run by a third party service do that indirectly.

RealPage made it so that landlords were less competitive and more cooperative. Landlords would share proprietary information and then RealPage would help them all set prices collectively. It's just old fashioned price fixing with a SaaS and an algorithm.

So the difference is using pricing info to beat your competitors vs using pricing info to collude with your competitors.

Re:Gemini 3 Pro Model Card on Tuesday November 18, 2025 @09:07AM (#45966191)
I feel this is a tenuous position though. I find it incredibly easy to switch to Gemini CLI when I want a second opinion, or when Claude is down.
Re:Two billion email addresses were exposed on Thursday November 06, 2025 @04:44PM (#45840837)
I know you can set up "catch-all" email with a custom domain through Proton Mail.

I don't think there's any limit on gmail + codes.

Re:Normalize Identifying Corporate Devices in Your Software on Tuesday November 04, 2025 @02:35PM (#45815026)
Below the code snippets the post states this is not a silver bullet, but only a starting point.

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