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I can see now how that line can give the wrong impression. My unit is very dear to me, to the point where I call it by name like any other housemate. It's always "honey, I'll give …

https://daan.tech/discover-bob-cassette/ Scroll down to FAQ, and expand the first question: Is the use of a Bob cassette mandatory? LE: It's also mentioned in the rewind project's …

Every time this gets posted to HN, the comments go straight for "DRM bad!", when the Bob dishwasher does NOT in fact require you to use the proprietary cassettes.

Permit me to disagree with about all of your conclusions here. First of all, the cassettes are returnable. This is also mentioned on their website. * https://daan.tech/discover-bob…

Chrome comes bundled with Android.

> (e.g. weird for-profit entity that runs a "non-profit") propped up by its largest competitor to avoid anti-trust accusations. Not totally unheard of. Sounds a bit like OpenAI for…

Now we're getting somewhere. The taboo is when you start accounting for christofascist families churning out children like it's a Factorio assembly line so that there are always mo…

There's a huge gap between the two, one in which a variety of hardware and software could live as alternatives. Where are they though?

And we can now translate their warnings about the incoming extinction level CME and save Atlantis. These are exciting times

I'm not sure when Slovakia entered the chat, but I was responding to the parent's question of how could the workers (in Sweden) be prohibited from deciding whether to strike, and w…

By living and working in the U.S.. Most commenters here are wrongly assuming workers in Sweden have as little rights as they do, and probably just as exploited as well.

There's a more insidious side effect to prettier related to the line length thing which I'm not sure other commenters touched upon, and the reason I avoid opinionated formatters. P…

> I dislike the attitude of those who reject ads but also refuse to pay And I dislike YouTube's hostile ad escalation in recent years. One ad - fine, two ads - hmmm, three ads - wh…

I thought this was going to be another instance of that time Bard pre-membered its own demise from lack of adoption.

Your theory is assuming I'm using more toilet paper than usual, or that my budget for toilet paper has increased in the past 2 years, which is just patently ridiculous. No, this is…

"sick" is right. A healthy market should be fine, but we have generations upon generations of chief money maker officers each trying to make line go up in the small window of time …

There will come a moment in time when consumer wealth has been almost entirely absorbed, leaving businesses with no further profit to gain from traditional revenue streams. After y…

It scrapes that % every trade, every millisecond, thousands of times over. That adds up, and all that money has to come from somewhere.

Above Pinterest even?!

"It works" is the most common metric I've seen juniors decide when to submit code (the rest being just trash). Add code review to that and expect it to get merged because "it works…

I've tried this with zip bombs, but I can't tell how well it worked out.

You're not the only one. Quite a shock to find something so opposed to what I expected. Gemini the simple web-like protocol vs. whatever this buttcoin dumpster fire is. All I wante…

A personal anecdote: Our video player has a specific use case where it needs to run at 10x speed. At some point we started seeing decoder underflow issues in Chrome. After banging …

I'll take 1. Imagine the FOMO when someone tells you a child made more money that you ever could in your entire life. This is textbook NFT hype.