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“…this article does not rely on Sun as a sympathetic victim.” Right. The article is saying the basic argument stands whether you like Sun or not.

Does the person have children? If so then the law benefits more than just the driver, even if they are the only one on the road. We already have a precedent of compelling parents t…

Agreed. I noticed myself having a harder time stopping at the end of the day since I started using AI tools in earnest. I naturally have a hard time stopping when almost done with …

I remembered enjoying the book, so having not read it in a long time, I tried sharing Surely You're Joking with my kids at bedtime. That chapter wasn’t the only thing I ended up sk…

When I was six, a cousin about to leave for college gave me his 2600, my first console. With it came not one, but two (!) copies of E.T. So I had a backup in case I accidentally dr…

Anyone have experience chaos testing Postgres? I was reading this the other day looking for ideas on how to test query retries in our app. I suppose we could go at it from the netw…

I feel like you should check out https://youtu.be/5GFW-eEWXlc?si=w3KTUkIprSeBYH3f Enjoy.

I mean, the title is a quote from Buckaroo Banzai. Lack of context is part of the fun!

Nice! I worked on something similar as an undergrad project years ago, setting up beams with different orbital angular momentum characteristics. Was a lot fun working in the lab. S…

Might be rough on battery life, but perhaps pulsing an SOS with the flashlight?

An approach we've done is to use Postgres' "create database foo2 template foo1" syntax to essentially snapshot the db under test at various points and use those to rollback as need…

Ah, nevermind, just saxophones: > ... tenor processing unit...

Am I reading the bill text wrong or is it really so general it would also apply to devices assembled in China that can perform AI operations? Seems like there'd be pushback from Ap…

Yeah, I’ve been waiting for bidding to open on https://hibid.com/lot/214229120/comino-gando-rm-long-fully-l... just see what it gets up to. (5955wx + 4x RTX 4090’s)

What about a fluorescent dye with one (or few) UV LEDs on the edge facing inward to illuminate it? Maybe not “better” than OP’s design, but could be interesting in its own way.

If your table setup process starts to get slow like ours, checkout psql TEMPLATE ( https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/manage-ag-templatedb... ). Do the setup once to a db with…

I snagged one of those keyboards at an auction. Haven't been able to get it to work with a modern PC. Hard to find much info on this line of computers.

> Don't get me started on grown-azz men wearing bead or string bracelets. Unless it was made by their young daughter/granddaughter, it which case it is the mightiest of talismans.

It's only around 6000 students, but Missouri S&T (a mostly engineering and mining school) is still like 75% male.

Now I desperately want to see drum breaks made with brake drums.

One of my crowning achievements(?) was using DOSbox for actual work purposes. In 2010-14 I worked at large retailer that still did almost half their development in RPG running on I…

An additional option to consider is to file a complaint with the Better Business Bureau. I had an issue with my wireless carrier repeatedly refusing to issue credit for a months-lo…

Sure, and even if the surgery happened on time, they still might have had a stroke once they got home and had the same outcome. But as other posts on HN have discussed, anecdotes, …

Yesterday morning I learned that someone I was acquainted with had just passed away and the funeral is scheduled for next week. They recently had a stroke at home just days after s…

On the one hand, yes! But more realistically, think of the headache of trying to keep your engine's Hampsterdance in sync with the Hampsterdance blaring from your car's stereo, (as…