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Maybe it’s a prepaid annual membership and the owner forgot/died/didn’t cancel?

It’s a play on words. It helps to break it down into syllables. Each group answers one of the patient’s questions Cont In ue Per sist

This is one of the many comments I see on HN where I genuinely have no idea whether it’s satire or just high-level technical talk. I assume the latter, but I don’t know enough to d…

If someone wants to do the hardware audit for free, or in exchange for some kind of promotional exchange, is that a bad thing? I’d breakdown a lot of devices if I could get a dupli…

For what it’s worth, I really really enjoy flying over places I did/will travel to. Last year, I had a backpacking trip of Yosemite valley planned I was very nervous about. I flew …

I absolutely love the landing page of careers.reef.pl/ . Maybe I'm just a noob, but I've never seen a website look like a terminal emulator before.

Physics aside, I think the FCC is very, very slowly considering removing the "no encryption" aspect of ham radio. The arguments against encryption seem to be weak, and revolve arou…

"maybe nobody will know how bad all the pianos are. And then we'll all have slightly worse pianos than we would otherwise have." But not really. Because if I truly cannot tell the …

Are you in USA? I'm seeing words like "private" and "cryptographic" in the github. What's the interaction with ham radio rules about no encryption?

I think the point they’re trying to make is that determining who is a criminal and what kind of punishment they deserve is a very difficult task that depends largely on perspective…

Dissenting opinions are Not Tolerated

Yikes. Chill out

This is so interesting. I have learned more from a years’s use of chatGPT than from two decades of googling. Yeah, AI has drawbacks. But AI has never displayed an ad to me and only…

Why are you roping Elon into it? Doesn’t SpaceX and other satellite broadband kind of make this map irrelevant?

It’s probably better to repurpose the energy of the kick than to push off what has been kicked up

Who benefits from an autism diagnosis, and what are those benefits?

I will be devastated when (hopefully if!) this happens. If I use a standard search engine to look up a question, I typically get endless “okay” results with piles of moneygrabbing …

Wait, are you saying you just trade the wireless functionality from the built in Bluetooth to an external Bluetooth dongle?

That is a great risk that I, a conscious, responsible human being with agency, should be in charge of managing. Not my fridge

Wouldn’t the state emissions system throw an error if a vehicle’s O2 sensor was reading 0/null?

> if the large tech behemoths were broken down into smaller focused companies, they would create much more value for everyone. Is this a “true right now” statement or a “true now a…

Respectfully, I suggest that part of the purpose of Government Communications is to be formal. That is, to be explicitly separate from the mundane day-to-day work. Governmental rul…

Trades still include hard work and rule following for a long time. And many trades have a culture of crusty old assholes being in charge and then turning the young entrants into th…

How do you integrate the 48V system with the existing 12V system when doing aftermarket/DIY work? Do you add a 48V inverter? A buck-boost DC-DC converter? between the battery (or m…

This is the coolest thing I have seen all day! I’ve been using Jared [1] running on a Mac VM to send and receive iMessages from my locally hosted AI. If I could just use a python l…