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Re:Tesla Roadster on Friday October 16, 2026 @09:13PM (#50126849)
No it’s not. It’s vacuum underneath.
Re:OpenJev on Friday September 18, 2026 @08:21AM (#49753354)
Anything you can do in Jev can be done with an LLM at much greater cost and latency.
And UC professors are begging them to unwind that and go back to ACT/SAT.
Every year since the first iPhone came out. It's sort of superstition at this point. Not sure what would happen if I broke the streak.
Re:Codex Resets on Saturday July 18, 2026 @07:36PM (#48963531)
It did once. That's all I know of though. Nothing like Codex.
Re:Claude Code May–July 2026 weekly limits promotion on Sunday July 12, 2026 @02:29PM (#48883313)
Yes but they've also said they want to get it permanently on the subscription plan.
Kessler is much less of a problem at their altitude (480km). Debris has too much drag and would get pulled down too quick to have a sustained Kessler situation. It's possible, but very very unlikely at that altitude.
Have a friend just graduated in cybersecurity. He’s going into the military with it.
Re:NPM packages from Red Hat have been compromised on Tuesday June 02, 2026 @01:27AM (#48366412)
That’s my point. For whatever reason, npm isn’t doing it. All npm users adding a minimum package age is kind of like doing it as a collective, without npm’s help.
Re:NPM packages from Red Hat have been compromised on Monday June 01, 2026 @01:00PM (#48359494)
Even if everyone used it, the security scanners would still have time to do their static analysis of new packages. Basically, all the clients implementing a delay would create a de facto quarantine status for new packages so they can be examined before everyone starts installing them. (Why npm doesn't just implement that themselves, I do not know.)
Re:Launch HN: Chert (YC P26) – Twilio for iMessage on Monday May 25, 2026 @12:28PM (#48268698)
Are you telling me that the “report spam” button actually does something??!?!?!!!
Re:Instructure Pays Ransom to Canvas Hackers on Tuesday May 12, 2026 @08:22PM (#48116339)
That is a big yikes, but definitely not the norm. Most school districts switched from using SSN as their SIS identifier decades ago.
Re:What if database branching was easy? on Monday April 20, 2026 @11:48AM (#47836037)
Planetscale has better performance and uptime. But the branching keeps me going back to neon…

Yes planetscale can branch too, but it takes longer and you pay individually for each branch

Weird. Works great in cities for me. It’s been more than fancy cruise control for awhile.
But Starlink satellites are low enough that we don’t worry too much about Kessler Syndrome at that altitude, right?
Those threat researchers and their autonomous agents caught this axios release.
Re:Put the zip code first on Saturday March 07, 2026 @07:57PM (#47293189)
I'd be fine if it autofilled one city from the zip code, which for me is always wrong. I can tab to the field and type in the correct city. Don't even need a drop-down with the possible cities. And if I don't fix it, it doesn't really matter for USPS. They just care that the ZIP is correct.
Re:Rivian R2: Electric Mid-Size SUV on Wednesday February 11, 2026 @07:13AM (#46973965)
My daughter one day told me that her Tesla said it needed oil maintenance. I scoffed and tried to mansplain to her how EVs don’t need oil. Then I checked the car, and sure enough, it was asking for oil. One of the contained oil systems had sprung a leak. That’s on a 6 year old Tesla Model X.
Re:Heathrow scraps 100ml liquid container limit on Tuesday January 27, 2026 @08:55AM (#46779940)
You don’t have to take your shoes off anymore!
Starlink satellites aren't geostationary.
Re:The Untold Impact of Cancellation on Friday August 01, 2025 @09:12AM (#44756294)
The reason is listed in the second half of the block you quoted.
Read up on time dilation and special relativity. Time absolutely does pass slower for you as you accelerate.
Re:New tools for building agents on Tuesday March 11, 2025 @09:43PM (#43339145)
I can’t find that text in the announcement. In fact it sounds like you have to use a specific model with the chat completions endpoint to get web searches.
Re:Remote Code Execution in Marvel Rivals Game on Friday February 07, 2025 @11:00AM (#42974170)
Wow... thank you so much. I actually couldn't get that way to work, but adding RunAsInvoker in the registry worked for us. I can't believe all it took was one registry entry.
Re:Remote Code Execution in Marvel Rivals Game on Monday February 03, 2025 @04:24PM (#42923404)
I have a related question for you... my kids like Marvel Rivals, but I also use Microsoft family tools to limit their screen time so they don't have Admin accounts. However, the Marvel Rivals anti-cheat makes me enter my password every time they launch. Is there any way for me to create a shortcut or something so Rivals will launch without my password?

I'm not a Windows guy and trying to figure this out has been extremely frustrating...

He never actually said what it was. I think some people floated theories, but the book never reveals the answer.
Re:Starship Flight 7 on Thursday January 16, 2025 @07:24PM (#42732676)
New Glenn lost its booster yesterday. Space is hard, tests will have failures.
Re:Starship's Sixth Flight Test on Wednesday November 06, 2024 @04:54PM (#42070078)
Do you really believe that they “can’t” get out of low earth orbit, as opposed to “haven’t yet”??
Re:Touchscreens are out, and tactile controls are back on Sunday November 03, 2024 @11:27AM (#42033965)
Given TSLA’s last earnings, lots of people are.
Re:I Designed a Dieter Rams Inspired iPhone Dock on Monday September 23, 2024 @08:02PM (#41631807)
And a parametric design requires you to buy the commercial Fusion license.

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