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Re:The Ben and Jerry's Flavor Graveyard on Thursday July 02, 2026 @02:17AM (#48757260)
They are fighting to get it back:

https://time.com/7344796/ben-jerrys-ice-cream-magnum-unileve...

Also the shareholders overrode Ben and Jerry against their objections to sell. They didn’t want to. Of course they probably shouldn’t have gone public in the first place but if they hadn’t you never would have heard of them. Unless you grew up in Vermont. Like me. It was kinda weird seeing a beloved business become huge. Like watching Phish go from a local band to something giant.

Re:The Ben and Jerry's Flavor Graveyard on Thursday July 02, 2026 @02:16AM (#48757244)
Rip White Russian. I loved that. Never understood how that nasty jimmy fallon flavor still exists.
Re:Sony Deletes 551 Movies PlayStation Owners Paid For on Wednesday July 01, 2026 @04:57PM (#48753019)
There’s only one party fighting for things like this and they are in the minority. Funny how people that cry about politics on hacker news don’t understand how it directly affects them until their digital media is no longer their property. Sad that’s what it takes.
Re:The Anti-Palantir Manifesto on Wednesday July 01, 2026 @04:56PM (#48752997)
Flagged???
I can’t believe Nekhala managed to gross $6million on a bed scrunchy on Amazon without Chinese competitors pirating the design, even with a US patent. That in itself is a major accomplishment. At some point when progressives finally take the house perhaps we can get some real regulations in place so that someone banned from the system like this has recourse other than call tree AI.
Re:Have You Restarted Your Computer This Week? on Tuesday June 30, 2026 @09:31PM (#48741392)
I’ve been on macOS since 2012 and only have to restart during Os updates. What is this person on about? Slow news day? Clickbait? I was clearly baited.
That’s it??? With all the corruption he has visibly demonstrated and his long list of boot licks I would have expected 10x that.
Re:Factorio 2.1 Experimental Release on Tuesday June 30, 2026 @04:51PM (#48739035)
I play on an 8 year old MacBook Pro and with 10k logistics bots it still has smooth graphics and zaro boogs. It reminds me of how good blizzard was in the 90s.
Simple: critical thinking skills. Sorry you missed the boat on those.
My god why are you so willfully ignorant of the fact that guns were present. Just stop talking if you’re going to play dumb or are dumb.
I agree but trump pardoned 1600 of them! Sucks? I agree.
Stop conflating two different unrelated events. It is nauseating.
Re:1.38 Millimeter Microcontroller on Monday June 29, 2026 @02:36PM (#48723285)
Bare metal refers to not using an rtos. I know that sounds weird but it is an industry convention. It does not refer to the language.
Re:A native graphical shell for SSH on Monday June 29, 2026 @12:51PM (#48721681)
You have a very loose definition of a shell that conflicts with about 40 years of history.
Re:A native graphical shell for SSH on Monday June 29, 2026 @12:37PM (#48721461)
Defeats the purpose of the shell. The shell is for CLI interaction.
I’m 57. It is insane to hear this bullshit.
Yes. The downward spiral exploded into the pop scene in 94 from a goth niche to sorority girls going to nin concerts just to get drunk and scream “I want f you like an animal”. It was a weird time for us goths watching our secret club become pop. Nin rode the wave for years. The Music arc moved much more slowly then.
Re:What is a Lithium-ion capacitor? on Sunday June 28, 2026 @01:46PM (#48709632)
You could have just said yes.
We went from critical thinking to only some people can participate in society in the blink of an eye. What if you’re one of the people deemed too dumb? Did that ever occur to you?
Ai can’t even place and route a two layer board with a microcontroller and a few peripherals.
Re:What is a Lithium-ion capacitor? on Friday June 26, 2026 @04:00PM (#48691266)
Dumb question but I though capacitors store energy and not power?
Re:Where every major LLM stands politically on Friday June 26, 2026 @12:10PM (#48688294)
The 1% is responsible for white maga hating any non straight white Christian human?
Re:Blogging Can Just Be Stating the Obvious on Thursday June 25, 2026 @12:32AM (#48668927)
Problem with getting old is that you’ve seen it all. A bright eyed 25 year old blogging about this thing called a “Unix pipe operator” gets boring the 200th time it shows up on the front page of HN.
Weird. Quake 1 was amazing. All my peers were counting the days for the release and the soundtrack hit right when nin was breaking huge. Sure the end of the game was lame, but the environment was magical. Unfortunately for a lot of people FPS games just became straight up redundant as we aged out of the genre.
Is all natural gas the same or are there grades? Like is the gas that comes out of oil pumping the same kind I pay for to heat my house?
Re:Jobs and Software Is Fucked on Monday June 22, 2026 @08:52PM (#48638693)
OP is way overblowing it. You could tell by their “no him/her”. Way to be obviously transparent about his political orientation. Makes me sick that he’s basically saying “get back in the closet”. Sorry I went through that I my youth: I’m out and I’m not going back. And fortunately the last three companies I’ve coded at in 15 years were aligned with my progressive politics.
Re:Canyon HUD helmet for road riding on Monday June 22, 2026 @08:47PM (#48638659)
I’m so done with technology’s “answer to a question nobody asked.” Like bluetooth derailleurs. Utter garbage. The only down side is that this wave of technocrap wipes out shelf space for analog cyclists. Hard enough to find a decent triple front derailleur, let alone 48-spoke hubs with a cartridge. Now this crap.
Re:Canyon HUD helmet for road riding on Monday June 22, 2026 @08:46PM (#48638647)
Not even a rear-view mirror. Which is the second most important piece of safety gear after a helmet.
Re:Jobs and Software Is Fucked on Monday June 22, 2026 @04:12PM (#48635441)
That’s right! Buckle down and lick boot like a proper young republican!
Good on them. Now go make the world a better place somewhere else besides that shithole company.

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