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Elon promised self driving cars in 12 months back in 2017? He’s also promising Optimus robots doing surgery on humans in 3 years? Extrapolating…………… Optimus is going to kill some humans and it will all be worth it!
Re:Henry Kissinger Has Died on Thursday November 30, 2023 @01:40AM (#38470426)
There are plenty of people all around the world who know what heinous things he did. He won’t ever be mourned, and hopefully we never see the likes of him again
Re:Mail-in-a-Box: a mail server in a box on Friday November 24, 2023 @03:39PM (#38408001)
I ran a miab for about 5 years, maybe around 2018, I also actively tried to do extra things that would improve delivery, including registering postmaster accounts on the various postmaster whitelist tools etc in order to increase the chances my mail would be delivered.

Unfortunately if you host your mail on linode/digital ocean, you will eventually be blocked, and mst of your email will end up in spam folders.

This year after 13 years of running my own mail services, I finally gave up, I was sending emails and then sending followup “did you get my email” messages from gmail

Imagine if everyone turned out to vote .. why doesn’t the US do it on a weekend, or make it some kind of holiday, why is it a Tuesday?
Re:I come here not to bury Delphi, but to praise it (2019) on Monday August 21, 2023 @05:47PM (#37215785)
Does superobject compile under Lazarus?
Re:Pause Random Superconductor Experiments: An Open Letter on Friday August 04, 2023 @06:10PM (#37006527)
superconductors don’t have a non-zero chance of killing us.
Re:Pause Random Superconductor Experiments: An Open Letter on Friday August 04, 2023 @06:08PM (#37006515)
I guess, but I’m checking HN for LK99 updates, because of the bs filter here… if I want garbage I’ll go to reddit.

I respect the effort of this satire, but the timing is kind of annoying.

Re:Pause Random Superconductor Experiments: An Open Letter on Friday August 04, 2023 @06:00PM (#37006420)
Pretty awful joke.. had me going until it hit the 6 month pause moment
That’s. The. Joke.
I’m conflicted on this one, it has both saved me, and also almost caused a real crash… it’s save me twice when reversing, once a guy pulled in behind me after I had checked mirrors and started reversing, and the auto brake engaged and saved a collision… but it has also jammed the brakes on when driving down the street because it detected an obstacle that was fixed, and I was driving around it comfortably
What blows my mind is that even after 40+ years, these probes are still less than 1 light day away from home. A light year is vast.
Yeah it would make for a great twist, like say if some crazy terrorist decided to blow it up.. “don’t worry we have another”
I had chronic tonsillitis as a kid. The doctors treated it with antibiotics until finally after about 3 years they recommended I just get my tonsils out. I got diagnosed with UC about 14 years ago. Also have had psoriasis for years.

I blame both on excessive use of antibiotics as a 5 - 8 yr old.

Re:Chernobyl power plant captured by Russian forces on Friday February 25, 2022 @12:22AM (#30463980)
The issue has always been escalation, if your enemy takes out your forward warning systems, you have to assume a full scale attack is coming, and thus you have to respond with a full scale attack yourself, damn the rest.

This was discussed at length during the 70s and 80s, and a big reason why the superpowers started to reduce their arsenals, because there is no winner after the first nuke is launched, not even a small scale exchange can be trusted to remain small.

This is a terrifying time indeed

Re:A Vicious Cycle: The Dangerous Dehumanisation of Cyclists on Monday February 21, 2022 @05:26AM (#30414069)
Here in Australia, I was riding to work one morning, and I filtered through to the front of the grid at a red light. I could hear the passenger in the car to my right abusing me. When the light went green, I took off, and I heard the car come up beside me… they matched my speed, pulled in close, and the passenger opened is car door into me in an attempt to knock me off. I didn’t come off, and followed them to get the number plate.

Went to the police station, and lodged the complaint. They were actually going to charge the passenger and driver with attempted murder.

Turned out the number plate hadn’t been registered in 14 years. I said “that’s weird, why would they be driving around with unregistered plates” and the cops response was dry: “to steal petrol”

Amazing.

Re:Predicting Football Results with Statistical Modelling on Tuesday October 20, 2020 @03:32PM (#24841464)
Remember, no one wins at gambling by picking winners, you need to look for value and find where the bookmakers have miss-priced a team in a match.

Then you have to deal with all the corrupt behaviours the sports internet bookies will deploy to limit their exposure to you, which is the other reason why you won’t win.