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For anyone not familiar with "The Graduate" or wants a refreshed, this analysis by Steven Benedict is as good as anyway:

https://www.stevenbenedict.ie/2012/12/the-graduate/

(9 minute audio essay.)

Previous submissions (presumably submitted under original title) to compare discussions against:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25404226 (Dec 13, 2020 - 12 comments)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25406211 (Dec 13, 2020 - 249 comments)

(Some of the 249 comments are from the author of the post - https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=enf)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28489930 (Sep 11, 2021 - 18 comments)

The current submission is from 4 days ago and must've been placed in the second-chance pool.

There's generally two types of smoke alarms each with pros/cons: photoelectrical which are very susceptible to dust and ionizing which generally are not:

https://www.nfpa.org/news-blogs-and-articles/blogs/2023/03/0...

I wouldn't think code dictated the alarm type. (I just replaced all nine sensors in my home due to age and went with all photoelectric this time and it was less than six months before I had my first false alarm. Never had any false alarms with previous ionizing type.)

> I'm wary of them, partly due skeptism about their accuracy, but also because it rather misses the point.

Here, this reader wondered whether "to" was omitted intentionally to emphasize lack of LLM involvement. Then, on a second read through to find the sentence again, I noticed the first paragraph is also missing a period on its final sentence. Which just goes to show: we can all use editors and proof readers. (According to the acknowledgements section, nine humans read drafts.) Now, I don't want to intentionally leave typos in my writing, but for me it's preferable to LLM-voice no doubt.

> But I also would prefer rather a genuine human's clunky prose to the smooth but soulless LLM.

Amen. This reminds me of a bit from Kitchen Confidential about how Anthony Bourdain would prefer a simple and plain home cooked meal over an ornate restaurant meal any day of the week. I read because I want to hear what a human has to say. It's the errors and malapropisms and style that give a unique and human voice. Doesn't this contradict my earlier statement about not leaving errors in my own writing? It turns out I'm perfectly tolerant of errors in anyone's writing but my own. (I should probably bring that up with a therapist.)

(2020). Previous submissions with comments:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23639294 (Jun 26, 2020 - 96 comments)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28844872 (Oct 12, 2021 - 108 comments)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34210508 (Jan 1, 2023 - 6 comments)

This submission is from 4 days ago, so it must've been placed into the second chance pool.

The Highway Trust Fund which pays for the IHS is funded by its users through taxation on gasoline and diesel. I wouldn't call that a weird parallel construction.

Looks like it. I was working at a startup in Sunnyvale in the early 2000s and a some of us would meet before work for a run at the bay trail. Wouldn't be too unusual to do that at lunch hour either.

That said, these photos look a bit staged.

This isn't true. Here's the guys who invented the game appearing on Jon Stewart in March, 1994:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JMn3B4LAP48

They don't mention it on the Stewart performance, but they had just seen Bacon in two films on TV back to back:

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/entertainment/the-exact-history-o...

Now, maybe they named the game "Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon" because it sorta rhymes with "separation", but they didn't pick him to rhyme with the phrase.

Colossus: The Forbin Project is not obscure.

At one point, it was north of a billion dollars. 660 (nee 666) Fifth Avenue.

I first heard her a couple decades ago when she was at the start of her career and appeared as a guest singer at an NC symphony outdoor summer concert series. Her voice took my breath away then and still does. She's a remarkable talent.

Just came across this documentary on the Carolina Chocolate Drops:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mg8nXPFU7go

This article could use some videos:

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/QnO5TH6I-wQ

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zC3zoCoK4ZU

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I4Z-CpXQiAc

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=94AYKVibjaQ

> Over time, Scottish fiddle tunes evolved, as oral traditions do, and began to mix with the musical traditions of enslaved Africans, who had brought with them gourd instruments that would evolve into the American banjo, along with rhythms the Scots had never heard before.

If you haven't heard Rhiannon Giddens you have no idea what you're missing. Here's a decade old interview where she talks about the blending of the instruments and traditions:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_H7DtIh8akk

She lives in Ireland now. Here she is preforming The Wayfaring Stranger:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b1Z4PAZX9Bs

> Just the windows shattering from the massive subwoofer

That's a respectable subwoofer but let me introduce you to massive:

https://www.avsforum.com/posts/64557995/

That would be 8x SI HS-24’s in 4 sealed GSG cabinets, with cabinets placed around the corners of the room, two in front behind the screen:

https://www.avsforum.com/posts/64778927/

The best version on the high seas is: "Steve Jobs The Lost Interview 2012 720p WEBRip x264-TheRival" (F62B664C53D64208F36AA5F048E5418E325D23B5).

Other versions run at the wrong speed or have an incorrect aspect ratio.

Blocked in the U.S. "Video unavailable. It was blocked due to the claimed content by Magnolia."

:-( The link works for me when open it in an incognito/private window w/o and login page. Wonder how NYT decides that.

Mark Stephens (aka Robert X. Cringely) obituary:

https://www.hillandwood.com/obituaries/Mark-Stephens?obId=49...

Tell HN from two weeks ago about Bob's death:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49949438

Plane Crazy documentary:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FSNzF-KSGiw

(I watched it for the first time last week. Very entertaining.)

FYI, that's audio only. Magnolia Pictures is enforcing their rights on it, so if you want to see the video you either have to rent/buy it or it can be found on the high seas in varying degrees of quality.

Gift link: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/15/nyregion/nyc-street-sign-...

If you use CF as your registrar, they require you to use CF DNS. If you're okay with that, they register domains at cost. It's also easy to move a domain later if you change your mind and is quite fast. I recently moved a gTLD domain from CF to Porkbun and the transfer was complete in a matter of minutes, at the cost of a 1-year renewal.

Porkbun. Cloudflare if you don't mind being locked into using them for DNS too.

TokenRing was already an academic curiosity when I was getting my CS degree in the mid-90s. The CS department by that point had already switched to twisted-pair Ethernet. By the time of my first job in the late 90s, we used FDDI for our web farm's backend network, but we tore that out with the arrival of gigabit, so FDDI didn't last too long either.

> and one with real combustion rocket engines

The site states it's cold-gas thrusters for both models: "Features a multi-mode suction system paired with cold-gas thrusters positioned around the perimeter of the vehicle that support forward and upward acceleration as well as lateral rotational movement."

This change sucks (but as a long time Withings user doesn't affect me... for now), but I haven't had trouble with either the scale or BP cuff syncing to Apple Health. I don't have any suggestions besides double-checking the Withings app has permissions to write to HealthKit. I don't see any settings in the Withings app itself besides a prompt to check "Settings > Privacy > Health > Withings App".

Sorry if this isn't helpful.

Aside: all BP cuffs and their apps sorta seem to suck when it comes to sync. I also have an Omron. At least mine measure accurately. Make sure to validate yours with your GP.

What the heck was that?: The first and last essay ever to be written about "Plane Crazy" (JULY 24, 1998) :

https://web.archive.org/web/20090510230055/http://www.pbs.or...

According to its wiki page, it's still under active development by Software MacKiev since 2004 (Kid Pix Deluxe 3), with Hickman serving as a consultant since 2011:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kid_Pix

The Apple TV doesn't support DV profile 7 (you just get the HDR base layer; you lose the enhancement layer), nor does it support TrueHD Atmos (you get the bed channels but lose height channels). Same for DTS:X.

Whether or not this matters or you notice will depend on the specific Blu-ray and whether you have a Dolby Atmos capable sound system.

https://community.firecore.com/t/dolby-vision-profile-7-8-su...

https://community.firecore.com/t/help-get-more-dolby-atmos-o...

https://old.reddit.com/r/appletv/comments/1789et4/does_infus...

> The appeal of the Shield Pro is you don't have to deal with custom flashing a "no-name" device and you don't have to dual box to keep streaming services happy.

Fair, but I just wasn't willing to put up with Android TV. And the Shield doesn't handle FEL so there's still some ripped content it won't play.

For me it's easy enough to use my Apple TV for streaming and even most ripped blu-rays, and the Ugoos for the blu-ray rips that benefit from it. Flashing the AMB6+ was a one-time thing. After that, updating the OS is just dropping a tar file into a folder and rebooting it.

> It's frustrating that nobody else seems to care about attempting to be the all-in-one box given how much Shield is showing its age now.

It's a niche market and any all-in-one box is likely to run afoul of Dolby Labs licensing restrictions.

> I don't get why Apple just refuses to allow audio pass through or DV Profile 7.

I don't even care about pass through audio if it could just use Dolby MAT to playback decoded DTS:X / Dolby TrueHD Atmos w/o losing the spatial channels.

DV Profile 7 is very likely Dolby licensing issues.

> What's crazy is that it's still close to the best device you can get.

Unless you prefer an Android TV device, I don't get the appeal of the Shield Pro. I bought one years ago and resold it a few months later. For me the only things it did better than an Apple TV (playing certain ripped blu-rays) are better done by the Ugoos AM6B+. So those are the two devices I use nowadays.