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Key point though is that Kalshi and similar prediction market betting apps are parimutuel, unlike traditional sportsbooks/Draftkings etc where punters bet against the house. This g…

OSX's command-space spotlight search has been degrading functionally (at least on my machines) for literally years now. It peaked around ~2012, when it would reliably search the fu…

I took this seriously and thought back to the most recent actually-useful-bugfixes-and-security-improvements release that I can remember. OSX Snow Leopard perhaps?

Super pro comment, should be much higher.

There is a new generation of bike locks which have the shackle wrapped in a composite coating that mostly destroys angle grinder cutting discs and similar cutting tools. This is li…

A nickel!?? Good heavens probably the whole pack full doesn't even cost a nickel to manufacture. Manufacturing cost per cigarette must surely be waaay under a penny. Disregarding m…

Underrated point! Heavier EV's typically burn through tires and wear components in the suspension faster.

That's really a derivative work of the Alameda-Weehawken Burrito Tunnel [0]. [0] https://idlewords.com/2007/04/the_alameda_weehawken_burrito_...

Surely they do damage proportional to the fourth power of the contact pressure on the tire contact patch, not the fourth power of the overall vehicle weight, right? So adding axles…

Still not wide enough. If anybody has wider reccos in big sizes other than "oddball" brand, I'm all ears.

LLM's are useful because they can recommend several famous/well-known books (or even chapters of books) that are relevant to a particular topic. Then you can also use the LLM to il…

If you have any evidence for the claim that "many parts of DoD" are being exploded/defunded, it would be really interesting to see that. As far as I can see, just the opposite is t…

Intel's C-suite is gonna pick up this line of reasoning soon! "It's not our fault the stock crashed and the fabs don't run and TSMC is eating our lunch, blame Trump instead!"

>> ... spends the normalized equivalent of America’s defense spending... I'd be interested in seeing the numbers for that claim broken down if you can cite them. From napkin math i…

Yes! By far the biggest feature here is "no infotainment" which leads directly to "hard controls for HVAC," that alone is a killer feature! They should double down on that concept …

This is the HN comment I didn't know I needed.

It's kinda both sometimes haha

Apparently the "big grill era" design chief departed semirecently, but the design inertia will continue through another model year or two, just due to lead times.

Controversial take: On a population level, the negatives of smoking are at least partially mitigated by the "smoking suppresses obesity" side effect. Obesity is such a huge (pun no…

> "... slapping a coat of culture war paint on it - and then selling it as a new scandal..." Astounding level of misdirection/cope here, bordering on non-factual. Did we just read …

The million dollar salary thing is compelling. I would certainly switch careers from ML engineering for a million bucks of cash comp, especially in a low CoL location :) Also, the …

You should write more about this on a blog or something, it's interesting and you seem knowledgeable.

>> "...it never actually happened?" The premise of the article is not at all that cargo cults never happened. Instead, the article acknowledges that cargo cults happened, but claim…