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When it was Toyotas fictitious problem it came down to a bunch of old people. Yeah, right. Blame it on "old people". Certainly not the code base with 10,000 global variables: The d…

My biggest takeaway from that link is: BEVs can't get here fast enough. ICEs are too complicated. But I should be careful what I wish for. Current BEVs have many user-hostile clown…

Yeah you got me. I didn't pay careful attention to the wording of the submitted title. I may have been confused because of the wording of the actual tweet: I tested a random select…

That said, this narrows one of the data losers down to Hynix. Not really. Samsung builds a plethora of SSDs.

the MIPS R3000 processor ... raises an exception for signed integer overflow, unlike many other processors which silently wrap to negative values. Too bad programmer laziness won a…

Well, you still have lots of tracking stuff loaded probably, unless you got something extra for blocking trackers. Yes I'm sure I have that stuff loaded. But I don't care because i…

I usually do read the linked content but I agree with GP poster that comments are often more informative. Yes there is sometimes an echo chamber here, but it's only for limited top…

HN totally usable for basic functionality w/o JS. profootballtalk.com works great if you don't want to vote or comment macrumors.com great functionality nitter.net happily takes th…

Crazy how evil Google is. Just wow. Yeah, but there are a lot of employees there who check their bank accounts twice a month and say: "Just wow". Venial evil is easily bought. Edit…

Maybe using an archive.is-like service No that has turned to shit (for me anyway). Used to be fine, now presents a captcha when JS off. Okay so I switch from Firefox to Safari (whe…

I'm curious what evidence do you have that he is any better? I don't have any such evidence. I don't think the way I phrased my question implied I did. awarding his brother the top…

He does seem utterly clueless. However, is he better than de Blasio? Is he better than Sliwa? That's all that matters.

Needs 2006 in title. Needs stupid JavaScript needed just to read it. Does stupid JavaScript games. But it's actually decent content. It's an overview of how Babbage's Analytical En…

Here's the really sad part: The agency acted in response to a petition filed by Toyota Motor Corp in 2013 to allow the lights. Perhaps something by the end of 2023. So it took a fu…

rate-limiting is manually applied by the moderators Given: 1) HN was started by / is moderated by "computer nerds" (IMO you're hardcore if you write it in lisp) 2) 'dang' is the on…

There's probably a market for a sub $1 "smart chip" that can be added to a design. Something that can be factory programmed with a unique serial number. To keep from being cloned, …

the openbsd community seems to like calling people idiots Even the title of this article reflects that mindset There's cultural history about that very phrase. There was a series o…

Special shares having 20x the votes of plebeian shares is still better than the Snapchat situation. As someone on HN quipped at the time: No, the shares have no voting power. They …

CBP is still chasing people down and turning them away. If you make it into this country it becomes mostly catch and release. And then comical stuff like this happens: TSA reveals …

I think in English exclusively But can you still think in your native language if you try to? I was born in the USA, a child of immigrants. So I didn't speak English until perhaps …

Hmmm. Maybe that's why we haven't detected any signs of an advanced civilization elsewhere in the universe. Steps: 1) quantum mechanics 2) semiconductors 3) AGI 4) the machines tak…

I used a Superbrain way back when and it was wonderful for its time. Laptops didn't exist. Most other computers had separate boxes (screen, CPU, keyboard, floppies) that needed to …

No idea why they are higher ranked than the original GitHub issues. Not to be too cynical about it, but who serves the ads on those sites? If it's Google Ads, then I think you have…