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Re:EA is shutting down BioWare on Wednesday October 21, 2026 @02:09PM (#50185152)
Re:Hello Toronto – Waymo Is En Route on Friday October 16, 2026 @11:11AM (#50119396)
Just in time for the bike lane removals /s
Re:Why do LLM pelicans look like this? on Wednesday October 14, 2026 @01:33PM (#50091567)
Most photos of bicycles are in that orientation to show the drivetrain.
Re:Thinking will become a hobby on Monday October 12, 2026 @02:40PM (#50060855)
Semi-related; I had an acquaintance who would dreamily declare 'Art is the True Life'; I always disagreed, 'Life is the True Art'. A huge amount of art is basically documenting those among us who are really out there living. I'd rather be on the side of the experiencer than the documenter.
Re:The Relation Between Mathematics and Physics by Paul Dirac on Thursday September 17, 2026 @09:27AM (#49740465)
How does this comment relate to the article?
Re:Discovery Loop on Wednesday August 05, 2026 @03:22PM (#49187656)
Sure - and knowing what is not possible with current tech is a nice datapoint to have.
It's definitely pretty whiz bang but I'm curious how it would hold up to the dirt and grime of a backpacking trip. I'm also not convinced it is any better or lighter than poles (which can be pretty light with the right materials...)
Re:RFC 10008: The new HTTP Query Method on Wednesday June 17, 2026 @01:22PM (#48573554)
I'm guessing the op is referring to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Query_string
Re:Introducing Waymo Premier, an elevated rider experience on Thursday June 11, 2026 @03:03PM (#48494925)
It seems to me a lot of people just really don't like to be associated with public transit or anything associated with anything remotely underclass.

It's a class marker to be driven around in an autonomous 6000lbs tank rather than move your legs a bit.

Re:US Consumer Price Index up 4.2% on Wednesday June 10, 2026 @03:41PM (#48481562)
Enough that a 5% annual return is enough for me to get by. I'm certainly not done working - I want to get that to 3% or so - but it does make it a bit demotivating some days when I look outside and imagine the other things I could be doing with my time.
Re:US Consumer Price Index up 4.2% on Wednesday June 10, 2026 @01:43PM (#48479924)
I have the same feelings as the original poster as I get further into middle age and have a good retirement nest egg - for me there are things more valuable - free time and the things I want to do with it but can't get paid to do - than making more income than I really need.
Absolutely. The US' urban density problems, housing cost crisis - they all go back to car-based society.
Re:John Ternus to become Apple CEO on Monday April 20, 2026 @08:37PM (#47843137)
Agreed - once the ad-based profit model took off that no longer became possible.
Re:Marc Andreessen is wrong about introspection on Friday April 03, 2026 @12:01PM (#47628339)
'Thought leader' has always been a code word for 'bullshit artist'.
Re:Precise geolocation via Wi-Fi Positioning System on Wednesday November 19, 2025 @05:58PM (#45986487)
Honest question - what's your use case for needing GPS indoors? I generally know where I am when I'm indoors :)
Re:Trump Pardons Convicted Binance Founder on Thursday October 23, 2025 @05:10PM (#45687207)
Regarding your first point - how about George Santos? I suspect Santos was more well known than any of the crypto-scammers, was clearly guilty, was derided by both ends if the political spectrum - yet Trump commuted him.
Re:NASA chief suggests SpaceX may be booted from moon mission on Tuesday October 21, 2025 @03:26PM (#45660468)
He's also said we'd have humans on Mars in 2022...
> But again, here in the US we are an order of magnitude less likely to be hit by a car.

Huh - do you have a source for that stat?

Re:Docker Hub is down (again) on Wednesday September 24, 2025 @07:58PM (#45367486)
My guess/experience - because there are probably layers of management and executives who have an uptime # in their OKRs or whatever is fashionable these days.

The decision to post anything about outages comes from the executive chain in many orgs lest they miss out on bonus compensation for the year.

This is the same reason services like docker and aws will very rarely call an outage an 'outage' - it's always 'service degradation', even when dockerhub is completely useless as it is right now.

Re:Crimes with Python's Pattern Matching (2022) on Thursday August 21, 2025 @06:29PM (#44978879)
Should be easily doable with a semgrep rule, e.g.:

    ~> cat semgrep.yaml
    rules:
      - id: no-pattern-matching
        pattern: |
          match ...:
        message: |
          I'm not a fan of the pattern matching in Python
        severity: ERROR
        languages:
          - python
...

    ~> cat test.py
    #!/usr/bin/env python3

    foo = 1
    match foo:
      case 1:
        print("one")
...

    ~> semgrep --config semgrep.yaml test.py   


     no-pattern-matching
          I'm not a fan of the pattern matching in Python
                                                         
            4┆ match foo:
            5┆   case 1:
            6┆     print("one")
(exits non-0)
There were quite a few slave revolts in the 19th century.
I suspect that is true but here is the difference: organizations that benefit from fewer prisons have a multitude of other things they benefit from (and can lobby for). Private prison operators on the other hand really only have one thing that can improve their bottom line at the end of the day - more prisons.

Outside of a few non-profit orgs I suspect there aren't a lot of dollars lobbying for fewer prisons, it's not a great look and it's easily to spin as "company X doesn't want to lock up violent criminals!

On the other hand that's really the only agenda item private prison operators put their lobbying dollars toward.

Re:Diffractive Chocolate on Wednesday June 12, 2024 @04:19PM (#40662616)
They travel c in vacuo but not through different media.