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It is not always immediately obvious when someone is wearing a pair versus normal glasses. Certainly not from any real distance.

Recently bought a Sovol SV08 printer. It comes with open source binaries, but there is no source code. Turns out they are a known to be violating the GPL. Looks like it can be rebu…

He should not be believed. That’s the consequences of perjury: one lie disqualifies all other testimony.

Yeah, most modern scarcity is artificially induced by producers, who will limit their supply to ensure their margins stay healthy. However, land is one case where they aren’t makin…

One hundred years ago when humans started pumping oil out of the ground and burning it, nobody cared about it. Should a century of infrastructure investment be thrown away because …

Some of Schneider Electric’s software is a house of cards. Source: I maintained some systems for them a few years back. Never will they ever get my money again for anything. To wit…

Wow. I’d kill for even a guy running my hardware tests. Most of my jobs barely seem to leave time to write the code, before it needs to be scraped off my monitor and poured into th…

Embedded means different things. Personally I have a hard time calling anything that runs Linux as embedded, having cut my teeth on microcontrollers.

Not just HOAs. Talk grass allows insects and vermin to move more freely. In cities, this contributes to their spread, so some places have city-wide ordinances that require lawn mai…

Small farmer here: it’s true. Supermarket food is horrible in terms of nutrition and taste, but it’s laden with literal shit too. For example, milk is pasteurized because dairies a…

No, you’re wrong. I think everyone should be forced to remote work, and all offices should be closed forever. … See how it feels to have someone make absolute claims that tell you …

FWIW, they put a header in the message that you can spot from a thousand miles away. That is how they get past the filters. I used to work for a company y that used them, and this …

> I don’t want to sell stuff, I just want to build things. While this resonates with me and probably the majority of the HN readership, I also want to be paid (handsomely) to build…

> Not since the DC-10 have I been so incensed at an institution for its pettiness, personal vanity, and bureaucracy as I am with Congress, the FAA, the NTSB, and the DoD right now.…

To be fair, the problems you describe existed before AI, though I concede it has gotten worse. What baffles me is why anyone would think it a good idea to post and host these image…

Great example of a technical solution for a real world problem… which simply won’t work as intended. Aside from the obvious use as a tool of repression, the real problem will be on…

In general, I think the barrier to entry to providing goods and services is now high enough that it discourages ever larger numbers of businesses from ever being started in the fir…

I would rather food vendors have the right to refuse service than be subjected to laws that effectively squeeze out smaller operators.

I am a gray beard and still use Kermit regularly for embedded development. It’s very handy for automating things over a serial port console. I wonder how much adoption it sees with…

Nice idea but… keys can be stolen. I don’t really see a way to get around the fact that someone could steal that identity and use it to cause mayhem that traces back to an innocent…

I bet it still can’t hide from a shotgun blast.

And probably only after members of the public vocally complained.

Let the best tool win.

The US does not want to compete with China. There’s no profit in it when compared to the riches available from having a captive marketplace.

For a variety of reasons, we no longer cultivate long term familial bonds or friendships, employment, or even product purchases. If you ask me, the world has increasingly become a …