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Don't want to be a downer and I fly regularly myself, but I think right now Air Travel is limited by 1 thing: the supply of carbon neutral fuel.

A few weeks of war in Iran showed us the impact of reduced availability of oil. The rise in the number of amplitude of climate events show us that a lot of what we do is not sustainable.

I’ve really enjoyed 404media lately
Re:Web archive is down (DDoS?) on Wednesday February 04, 2026 @12:10AM (#46881738)
429 Too Many Requests
Re:Sharp on Tuesday December 16, 2025 @01:01AM (#46285287)
Re:Ask HN: Hearing aid wearers, what's hot? on Sunday November 23, 2025 @11:52PM (#46030509)
Thank you! My family member is in a similar boat. I guess I found my christmas present for him.
Re:Ask HN: Hearing aid wearers, what's hot? on Sunday November 23, 2025 @11:01PM (#46030254)
Thank you!
Re:Ask HN: Hearing aid wearers, what's hot? on Sunday November 23, 2025 @11:01PM (#46030251)
Thanks! I wonder if he was able to try the Airpods pro 3 as well.
Re:Ask HN: Hearing aid wearers, what's hot? on Sunday November 23, 2025 @10:14PM (#46029968)
I’m sorry I can’t answer your question but on a related note I wonder if anyone has used AirPods Pro 3 as hearing aids either as their first pair or replaced their traditional ones with AirPods? I’m considering getting a pair for a family member who has been reluctant to wear traditional ones but I think would be willing to do AirPods.
Re:EPA Moves to Roll Back Drinking Water Standards on Wednesday October 08, 2025 @09:01PM (#45522310)
I’ve lived in developing countries where corruption is rampant and things take a long time to improve.

Tap water was not drinkable there, and it sucked to have to rely on water jugs or water filters of unknown quality.

We are not there in the US but the enshittification is accelerating.

Not sure about pilots but Flight Attendants are paid when doors are closed and engines are running.
Re:I am rich and have no idea what to do on Friday January 03, 2025 @03:03AM (#42583617)
To be honest, this video was quite cringe, 50min of repeating the same thing over and over, repeating her opinion, saying ridiculous unsubstantiated things such as: “musk bought twitter because he was annoyed people were saying he was not a physicist “. Let’s do better and post better content.
Re:I am rich and have no idea what to do on Friday January 03, 2025 @01:54AM (#42583231)
I’ve hired dozens of smart Americans with the right degree and willingness to learn and I was not even American myself. I worked with hundreds more. Not sure what you’re talking about.
Re:"Wherever you get your podcasts" is a statement on Wednesday February 07, 2024 @05:07PM (#39294929)
sure, you can use google or a search engine, look in the results for the actual feeds url (vs just a website or something), and copy paste it in your podcast player. Or you can just search from it directly in your podcast app.

The UX on the latter side is clearly superior.

Re:"Wherever you get your podcasts" is a statement on Wednesday February 07, 2024 @02:49PM (#39293334)
discoverability, if a friend talks to me about a podcast I could be interested in, i'd rather just have the name of the podcast than a full URL. Here i can just use any podcast app that integrates with Apple podcast service and type the name of the podcast i want to listen to.

Your question is the same as: "Why do you care if $YOUR_SEARCH_ENGINE (google, kaggle, duckduckgo) hosts a list of websites?"

Re:"Wherever you get your podcasts" is a statement on Wednesday February 07, 2024 @02:34PM (#39293141)
it's the list of feeds that is hosted by apple (think of it as a search engine for podcasts), not the actual feeds or media files.
Re:Working in the Vision Pro [video] on Monday February 05, 2024 @04:08PM (#39267207)
they are but you might need to book a time slot
Re:Hertz to Sell 20k EVs in Shift Back to Gas-Powered Cars on Thursday January 11, 2024 @01:12PM (#38956165)
parent said: "no one in either car was hurt". If the cybertruck didn't have any damage it means that no energy was dissipated by "squishing it", basically it made the impact twice as bad (compared to a regular squishier car) for the occupants of both cars. Maybe indeed no one got hurt, but then it means that the crash was at super low speed.
Re:Hertz to Sell 20k EVs in Shift Back to Gas-Powered Cars on Thursday January 11, 2024 @01:05PM (#38956066)
that's not how physics work
Re:Amsterdam Switches to 30 Km/h on 80% of its Roads on Thursday December 07, 2023 @09:53PM (#38564878)
I was just confused by the usage of mph in this context and interpreted parent's comment in a way that would mean amsterdam residents were using mph. I also wanted to provide a data point that does indeed go in the way of the parent regarding people going over the speed limit.
Re:Amsterdam Switches to 30 Km/h on 80% of its Roads on Thursday December 07, 2023 @09:48PM (#38564834)
So many comments in here using the context of US cities and missed that Amsterdam (like most big european cities) is not designed for high throughput car transportation and as a result painting that decision as making things "crazy slow" and that it "sounds terrible".

I highly encourage you to go live a week in a big old european city (Paris, London, Berlin, Amsterdam, Madrid) without renting a car to understand why it's not a crazy decision and how it can make the life of the residents so much better.

Re:Amsterdam Switches to 30 Km/h on 80% of its Roads on Thursday December 07, 2023 @09:43PM (#38564785)
People in Amsterdam use km/h not mph. From my experience in france, on 30km/h roads, people would drive anywhere between 30-40km/h, while on 50km/h roads, people would drive between 50 and 55km/h.
I made the mistake of watching it. Don’t. The first half is about him commenting to his followers a Meme video of a product manager to a software engineer. The second part is about how they implemented the fact that for black mirror they wanted the first season to be displayed to be season 4 instead of season 1. Might be just personal taste but I found the streamer insufferable.
i recommend you open a dictionary and look for the definition of "nuance"
25 years ago it would be very unlikely for your hard drive to be encrypted. So you could just take the hard drive and read it direct ly.
The stability only came with Service packs though. Initial XP had terrible security. I remember installing an out of the box xp in early 2000 and without doing anything it was infected by malware within 15 minutes of being put online.
Re:Twitter on iPad Browser Broken on Thursday May 04, 2023 @11:17AM (#35816746)
it's been more than 3 hours: https://downdetector.com/status/twitter/ tried postiing something on hackernews but it got flagged as a dupe. it's pretty shady that it's not on the frontpage

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