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It's an interesting phenomenon; at its core is the "correct" idea that gas stoves aren't the most efficient and lead to indoor pollution but it is such a negligible problem that th…

Yea this is a GitHub repository that is an advertisement to purchase a book.

McNamara basically admits this himself in the documentary The Fog of War: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Fog_of_War It's worth a watch but it's very soft on him and his role. St…

Freaks me out this article says over and over [...] large enough for a person to enter. I'm not going in there. That's scary.

I've had 0 problems *but I am working on very new hardware that the manufacturer already claims support for Win11. I dislike the interface changes but I haven't liked changes since…

Monkey Island on the MT-32 is amazing. I believe it was composed on that device but it's such an awesome sound.

The Magnasanti video he references brought back some memories. Very fun video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NTJQTc-TqpU

Absolutely, sorry about that.

Thank you new account praising TikTok and saying HN is a waste of time and proving my point. I didn't ask "what's there to hate" but rather almost NO posts on HN get critical prais…

The endless praise for TikTok here is very confusing. I don't think it's in bad faith the account age of the commenters all seem normal and the like. I don't have any strong hatred…

I'm sure this is already known but no one else has mentioned it, you don't boot into recovery mode anymore with Command+R. New M1 mini you just hold down the power button. I know t…

in northern Brooklyn with FiOS and I had issues ~11am-12pm

Think you're likely correct I'm not directly in the market for a purpose built Linux machine yet I know the name System76. This closure notice is the first time I've heard of ZaRea…

The Lenovo P52 models I ordered for my company have a physical slider that covers the camera. This is the 100% sure way nothing can see out of it. Too bad the microphone doesn't ha…

The 'CableCard' system where I lived was pretty big during the TiVO era before cable companies started providing their own DVR systems. You had to get 2 cards one for each tuner ca…

Yubikeys can do FIDO along with storing a static complex password. I know android phones can lock with a password so it seems possible but it would be extremely clunky to have to p…

Jokes that hit too close to home are hard to take.

"ALF was alternately referred to as "a Teddy Ruxpin bear that [looks like he] was horribly disfigured by a revolving door""

Little outside of the topic but: “We expect a quick—and possibly intemperate—response from the White House, and consequently expect a more rapid escalation of trade tensions.” Haha…

"80% of the US federal tax revenue came from the south while most spending benefited the north" That's super interesting was it mostly from cash crops? What benefits were paid to t…

The Jaguar I-Pace does this [1]. It's the stupidest thing. [1] https://electrek.co/2018/03/07/jaguar-i-pace-artificial-moto...

Especially in the sentence prior to it where it says "the ATM started disgorging cash without either man touching it" What's the bank card for if they just stood there and it spit …