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Re:Mac at Any Scale on Tuesday November 03, 2026 @12:54PM (#50355489)
they could charge 8x if they packed 4 in a rack.
Re:My favourite PowerMac is a Nintendo Wii on Friday October 30, 2026 @02:29PM (#50308203)
> The Wii was truly the peak of gaming consoles.

everyone says that about their childhood :)

Re:US tech stocks see sharp falls over AI cost fears on Friday October 30, 2026 @02:25PM (#50308140)
solo? speak for yourself.
Re:DoorDash to Acquire Instacart on Friday October 30, 2026 @01:36PM (#50307365)
> How is it different than customers driving to the restaurant? Are you suggesting that there should be less restaurants, or people should use public transport to pick up food?

When you go to sit down for a meal, do you double park your car, and put the hazard lights on?

Re:DoorDash to Acquire Instacart on Friday October 30, 2026 @01:33PM (#50307315)
And there it is. Exactly what I was talking about. 2/4 of those are covered by meals on wheels and the other two are just normal things posed as being some sort of huge obstacle.

You will find that people have worked hard and/or had kids for a while now.

And of course, the pizza place down the street does cheaper delivery than uber/insta anyways, but you conveniently ignore that.

Re:DoorDash to Acquire Instacart on Thursday October 29, 2026 @04:52PM (#50295739)
Whenever this comes up, I really don't care if there is antitrust or not. Delivery is a luxury service.

Whenever I bring this up, someone always goes "so disabled people should starve"? What did they do before delivery apps? Many restaurants still offer delivery that they do themselves (seriously, look it up). But more importantly, meals on wheels and other services are still a very large, established network.

Anyways, I guess I could be convinced that this is bad for restaurants. But so many restaurants, especially in cities, are offering delivery services where 10 and 20 years ago there were none. And the infrastructure is not set up to handle that.

As a result, city streets are frequently blocked by delivery drivers. I genuinely would love if my city passed a resolution that prevented restaurants within the city center from offering DoorDash/Ubereats unless they had a dedicated parking lot.

Re: on Wednesday October 28, 2026 @07:04PM (#50282207)
I think it might be fake, fyi.
Re: on Wednesday October 28, 2026 @07:04PM (#50282203)
The video doesn't actually show what the post describes. The whole post is also slop language. I feel like this is unsubstantiated bullshit. It might be real, but I highly doubt it.
Re:The case of the 9 bit AES key on Wednesday October 28, 2026 @06:55PM (#50282117)
btw, the idea that the system rng isnt good enough, or "runs out" or whatever, is no longer true on pretty much every modern, widely used os.

btw... im sure there's some legacy rng in windows or some shit that isnt good. read the docs but if it's the blessed system rng, you're probably fine!

although... i suppose if this is news to you (the person reading this), then you probably shouldn't be implementing whatever you are that really requires prng. ask a friend for help. im not trying to be a jerk, i just want to make sure you dont hurt yourself!

Re:Tesla Semi catches fire on I-880 on Wednesday October 28, 2026 @02:24PM (#50278565)
In retrospect, I was being needlessly pissy that day. Now that I read it with fresh eyes, I wish that I could amend it.
Re:Tesla Semi catches fire on I-880 on Wednesday October 28, 2026 @02:04PM (#50278172)
I don't seem to have that confusion. So, why is that my problem? Also, what they said about fires of either fuel type seems reasonable.

At this point, it seems like you're attacking them out of a minor, localized grudge, more than anything else.

AKA: troll behavior. So, I am choosing to step away. Feel free to have the last word.

Re:Tesla Semi catches fire on I-880 on Wednesday October 28, 2026 @02:04PM (#50278166)
> Gasoline and diesel are very different from 'petroleum'.

They are refined from petroleum. I wonder if there is a dialect difference here? Also, you really seem intent on proving someone wrong over a relatively inert statement.

Re:Tesla Semi catches fire on I-880 on Wednesday October 28, 2026 @01:18PM (#50277114)
I don't recall saying they weren't. Was there any confusion in our thread about this?

Again, roads and people are different.

Re:Tesla Semi catches fire on I-880 on Wednesday October 28, 2026 @12:56PM (#50276726)
> If you're not sure, why the definitely?

They said "I'm not sure" to the road surface question, and "definitely more of a risk to people".

Roads and people are different things.

Hey man, you're probably feeling pretty shit right now.

> I have learned my lesson.

If what you've said is true, and you were not aware of the embargo... then you are not responsible.

By taking responsibility, you're actually making the whole debacle even worse, because you are clouding the actual responsible PROCESS that failed.

Note I said process, and not person. In a situation like this, the post-mortem MUST be blameless. If people are afraid or feel ashamed, and don't come forward, then that's how even worse outcomes can start getting lined up. Blameless, not even to you, but the person who told you, and who told them, all the way up the chain.

If there are people in your organization who are trying to pin this on you, you must push back. It isn't right, and it isn't fair.

Re:SimCity, but with Permits on Thursday October 22, 2026 @04:23PM (#50200509)
is anyone here mad? aside from you, i suppose. unless you're not mad, either.
Re:PHP 8.2.35 on Wednesday October 21, 2026 @02:28PM (#50185409)
this is the same tired conversation whenever coordinated disclosure happens

"we the people deserve to know about vulns on day 0"

oh yeah? and what happens when a 0 day is released?

it's the same ignorance over and over.

Re:SimCity, but with Permits on Tuesday October 20, 2026 @04:11PM (#50171985)
them: "hey this is a problem"

> Right, it was so much better during the Robert Moses era where urban planners bulldozed over predominantly Black communities and built interstate highways

you: "hey have you considered that actually you're a piece of shit?"

yes, these rules exist for a reason. some places (like Atlanta) are still guilty. i'm not saying we should plow down Chesterson's fence, but your hostile tone also sucks

Re:I never authorized an integration that scans my secrets on Friday October 16, 2026 @04:51PM (#50124497)
> If this is all reason for you to uninstall and fork... So be it, it is open source after all.

what a petty answer. "just fork it bro".

Re:/dev/null: social network for developers on Friday October 16, 2026 @04:19PM (#50124026)
> Everyone here signed in with GitHub.

ugh.

Re:Apple HomeView on Thursday October 15, 2026 @10:21PM (#50113119)
no, it's not. but even if you disagree...

without the context of your disability or disorder, if you confidently spout nonsense, then from an outside perspective, you are the problem. externally, i have no knowledge into your disabilities or disorders, or even if you're lying for sympathy (to be clear, i do not think you are lying). however, i will not accept you making it my problem that, when you confidently spout nonsense and lies, you were corrected

maybe, in the future, you will be less willing to publicly make statements confidently chastising people and products for things they are not doing

feel free to have the last word, but i don't see any value to continuing this conversation

Re:TV4 postpones show after AI agent erases edited material on Thursday October 15, 2026 @10:19PM (#50113094)
Actually, I am. Thanks for your contribution.
Re:Why are we even doing all this? on Thursday October 15, 2026 @05:26PM (#50110532)
We are referring to people in the context of "going into quantitative finance, vibecoding sports-betting apps, consuming AI-generated TikTok shorts, and arguing with political bots on Twitter.".

Those are hardly the "most people in the world are working around the clock to supply food and shelter for their family"

It's a bit unclear still how you are going to consolidate the two facts.

Re:Why are we even doing all this? on Thursday October 15, 2026 @05:10PM (#50110290)
> Get off the beaten path

I would really push back on this

What you're describing _is_ the beaten path. People who argue with bots on twitter are actually, vastly, the minority.

Go to your local park or bar and have a drink and try not to talk about the internet.

Re:Rediscovering the Romance of Travel Clocks on Thursday October 15, 2026 @04:49PM (#50110002)
The older ones are solid. A tale as old as 1990s corporate decline

I bought a casio, it's been great.

> The urban lifestyle is also to blame when it demands a lot of time for work and commute,

ironically, urban commutes are substantially shorter on average

> leaving the individual with little time for self improvement and free time. It deteriorates the third place by not allowing time to dedicate to it.

what? there's so many urban third places.

> Atomic family from 50s with their suburb is literally the utopia for American and whatnot family

Where did that "utopia" ideal come from?

> Good luck having that in New York rat cages

Yeah, that isn't good either. That's poverty. Do you think poverty doesn't exist in the suburbs?

It can't possibly be something in the middle! All or nothing.

A lot of people are assuming that the main people you would be interacting with in a city are your neighbors. There are many more positive interactions you'd have, outside.

It's not just about neighbors.

A lot of people are assuming that the main people you would be interacting with in a city are your neighbors. There are many more positive interactions you'd have, outside.
> Entertainment and parasocial relationships have filled that hole.

I would also add the suburbanization of American society. A neat little home in a neat little sub-division with a neat little patch of grass. You can sit on your grass in your own little kingdom, and be completely unbothered by the world around you.

It turns out, being completely unbothered is also unchallenging, and challenge drives us. And being alone and bored is enabled by television and scrolling.

Honestly, I view the suburbs as the worst of both worlds (urban and rural), with few benefits.

BTW: As an aside, this is why i think the suburbs-class loves tesla self driving so much. The one downside is the long monotony of transitting to the place where people gather to do your work. I'm not against self driving cars, but they enable suburban self-imposed isolation.

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