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Could personhood be applied to autonomous cars, potentially absolving manufacturers of all liability, if a car they built, kills a human being?

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I think the reason AirTag works is because Apple turns it on-by-default on i-devices and people can't be bothered to go turn it off. For a chat to work on the same scale it would l…

20+ years as a professional developer and I still have to argue with coworkers on why MongoDb is a terrible fit for their data, which is clearly relational, just because said cowor…

> High currents, often resulting from rapid charging, quick acceleration, or high-speed driving, can negatively affect the battery’s state of health. So to preserve battery health …

> then that has to be replaced by finding the perfect candidate who can immediately be productive. We're called freelance consultants. And we charge a high price for that service.

> (which AFAIK you only need for NVIDIA GPUs). Which is what a lot of users have.

An alternative in sitautions where OTP-only is allowed. E.g. I work as a freelance contractor and every single customer requires MFA with GPS tracking. Some also require accessing …

GrapheneOS is nice for people using Google Pixel phones. And useless for anyone else.

How is this something "every programmer should know" ? I mean 95% of us work with software that is not performance critical, where security/auditing/monitoring/stability/maintainab…

I was under the impression that hacker news was not a place for sharing personal anecdotes, but rather a place for factual debate.

Why are the top comments in this thread all personal anecdotes? Is this reddit now?

One downside to pirated content is: 99% of the time it only has English audio track and the majority of the world's population does not have English as their native language. I hav…

> Btw. Ads in front of streaming content I just selected, to tell me about other streaming content on the same service I did NOT select should also be on the NO list. I'm looking a…

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proton_(software) is driving Steam running windows games on Linux

So because I think it is ok that smoking cigarettes is legal, therefore I am perfectly happy if my wife or child started smoking?

How is this any different from any job? I need money to eat and pay rent and I am forced to offer my body as a tool for an employer in exchange for payment, regardless if that job …

> LLMs in particular can be a very fast, surprisingly decent (but, as you mention, very fallible) replacement for Stack Overflow I think that sentence nails it. For the people who …

So what you're saying is Twitter/X works the same way as every other human communication medium, i.e. provocative statements get more attention. On the other hand, if zero people r…

Or just pay the $10/month to Kagi, for search results that aren't garbage.

> For minimal system requirements, the Tube Archivist stack needs around 2GB of available memory for a small testing setup and around 4GB of available memory for a mid to large siz…

Did you read the article? > We believe that making people invest time, commit to a trial, and put skin in the game will help you build a more engaged user base. This friction weeds…

The original Settlers 1 game, released in 1993, had ingenious copy protection built in. It had multiple levels of copy protection, that would activate, if the copy protection was a…

> - use an open source version of Android on your phone, without the Google services Having tried this many times over the last 10 years, I have never encountered a stable, non-ven…