jotux

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by jotux 7d ago
Funny, because literally every single apple product page gets posted as "news" to HN and every time I see one I think it's just apple marketing astroturfing. Especially since most of the product updates the last few years see
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by jotux 7d ago
>I'd be interested to see if opponents of mass surveillance could draft good legislation to curb potential abuses Isn't this just warrants? We have infrastructure in place, if police have reasonable suspicion a crime has occurr
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by jotux 27d ago
Found it awful to look at, tried to zoom out and everything on the page got larger. Seriously gross accessibility.
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by jotux 27d ago
Not sure if you watched the video, but the chain they're using is extremely heavy. I would think the projectile would be on the order of one of the single chain links at the end of the small side.
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by jotux 28d ago
>And what you have ended up with is something that looks like.... A whip! Had a similar feeling come to me as I watched this video a few weeks ago. It made me really want to see someone make a whip-based trebuchet that uses a big spring
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by jotux 1mo ago
This is an exceptionally small amount of data to draw any conclusion from.
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by jotux 1mo ago
https://www.foxnews.com/video/6398250508112 "SpaceX makes its historic stock market debut today, set to be the largest IPO of all time with a $1.77 trillion valuation. Elon Musk, founder and CEO, anticipates becom
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by jotux 1mo ago
Couldn't you make the same arguments for basically all other due process or privacy protections? I think I can accurately summarize your statement here to: Mass Surveillance deters crime and makes the job of law enforcement easier. I
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by jotux 1mo ago
It's funny how our perceptions are driven by the source of our news. I generally perceived the positive coverage in regular news as unrelenting. I know the tech news sources I read were constantly complaining about rule changes and m
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by jotux 2mo ago
Love this "auto" truckers hitch: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1J8MuOWO0Qs Edit: Same knot, with an explanation before showing what I knew as the classic trucker hitch https://www.youtube.com/wat
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by jotux 3mo ago
I've had a Brother HL-L2340DW for 10 years now.
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by jotux 3mo ago
>You should also make sure not to bring your phone to anywhere where a nearby crime is happening because that's all it takes to make you a suspect Proximity to a crime makes you a suspect even without the phone, right?
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by jotux 3mo ago
Everyone needs to go transparent. Secrets are lies. Sharing is caring. Privacy is theft.
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by jotux 3mo ago
How are they for lots of text? Do your eyes fatigue at all?
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by jotux 3mo ago
>but I instead bought USB C display glasses How did you use these? Did you like them?
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by jotux 4mo ago
>kind of enthusiastic about just taking stuff from those who have it, considerably more than the current understanding of private property (or even taxation) considers acceptable. Funny how you can use that description for how AI compani
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by jotux 4mo ago
How would you feel about a machinist refusing to use CNC machines and only manually machining parts?
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by jotux 4mo ago
>I just believe that there is going to be a MASSIVE increase in demand for high performing software professionals with experience... we just aren't seeing it right now because of the business cycle. I'm pretty concerned for ear
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by jotux 5mo ago
Not defending the legitimately douchey things amazon does, but it explains it right in that article : >In short, an Amazon listing features prices not only offered by Amazon, but by other sellers. Some of these sellers may offer the item
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by jotux 5mo ago
Some info on the new one: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/artemis-iis-toile... https://ntrs.nasa.gov/api/citations/20220005710/downloads/NA...
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by jotux 5mo ago
>It'll be interesting to see how many people get methanol poisoning from trying their hand at it without doing the research properly. If you're into home brewing or distilling, the first and only comment people completely unfam
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by jotux 6mo ago
I rewrote the article, it's even better now: The tomahawk entered service in 1983, in 2026 they only produced 57. DO THE MATH! This means the military can only have (2025-1983) * 57 = 2394 Tomahawks. But the military says they have app
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by jotux 6mo ago
A better article: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/u-s-tomahawks-iran-war-faster-t... >The maximum rate of production is estimated to be 2,330 per year: Three contracts from Raytheon each have a capacity of 600 and a BA
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by jotux 6mo ago
>might make Karen suggest to her boss that they accept PDF files. I'm not sure what state or country this was written in, but requiring physical copies or a fax is very likely a legal requirement.
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by jotux 6mo ago
I suspect this is some light with chronically-bad timing that gets run by tons of people every day. The camera is taking a photo with a bunch of vehicles in the frame and it's ticketing the one that had the license plate unobstructed,
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by jotux 7mo ago
Maybe you could reach out to Flock directly and ask them to install cameras in your kitchen and bedroom too (for crime reduction reasons).
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by jotux 7mo ago
Meta needs to make a find-your-lost-dog commercial for their smart glasses ASAP.
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by jotux 7mo ago
Tariffs, and retaliatory tariffs, have really messed up the US export market for alcohol too.
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by jotux 8mo ago
Template metaprogramming, move semantics, const correctness, multiple/virtual inheritance, implicit conversions, many ways to initialize variables, argument-dependent lookup, static variables/methods, SFINAE...add all of that and
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by jotux 9mo ago
Left federal and my private 401k is 150% match up to 6%. Better than TSP in everything except fees, which are slightly higher. But that mattered a lot less than my pay, I was a GS-15 in a leadership role and took a role in the private secto

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