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"You'll own nothing, and you'll be happy."

I've avoided using AI* for precisely this reason. I don't want my brain to get lazy and rot. (* I can count on one hand the number of time I've used an AI tool.)

> The value of the yen compared to other currencies has fallen through the floor since 2022... That would normally allow them to keep prices of export goods low...

I wonder whether the extra weight of a third, retractable/foldable leg would negate the power savings that could accrue from being able to switch to 3-wheeled mode when appropriate…

iRobot is now Chinese-owned.

Yet the current word list apparently doesn't include "Irish" (even though Welsh, Scots and Brits are all valid). ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

> That's also a lesson on how a closed economy (and open ones too, to some extent) can collapse based on a single actor controlling the rules. That's fair to learn. A timely lesson…

Exactly! If you think about it, every meteorite has passed through 36,000 feet at some point!

ISWYDT. :-)

Likely linked to other recent arrests in the UK: https://www.theregister.com/2025/09/19/scattered_spider_teen...

We've had a serious problem with policy-making in this country for a loooooong time, stretching right back to when RIPA was drafted, nearly three decades ago. With a few notable ex…

Apparently set to become a movie, starring Liam Neeson: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cold_Storage_(film)

What, "JavaThcript"?

Maybe it’s time to revert to Javascript’s original name: LiveScript.

I love the concept. I think the trick to being successful with a project like this is cracking the user experience in a way that makes it powerful enough to be truly useful, while …

It also enabled cipher strength "step up". Back during the '90s and early 2000s (I'm not sure when it stopped, tbh), the US government restricted the export of strong cryptography,…

One of the great things about Sneakers is that the McGuffin's core concept still holds up as reasonably credible 30+ years later. I first saw this movie in the mid-90s, and it spar…

Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6662847 :-D

> I think the pressures of 21st-century capitalism have put every large company into a place where they really can’t afford to be ethical or the financial sector will rip them to s…