earthling8118
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2 years ago
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on: Self-pay gas station pumps break across NZ as software can't handle Leap Day
As recently as 2019 I would refuse to purchase gasoline at a station that was pay-before-pump. There were enough options. This is no longer the case sadly.
earthling8118
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2 years ago
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on: Man convicted for trying to help undercover game wardens recover deer with drone
Over-selling tags for profit generation sounds like a problem that needs to be taken care of.
earthling8118
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2 years ago
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on: The creator economy can't rely on Patreon
That doesn't mean that it couldn't pay for the slot. Just that something could turn out more money. Many of us value things beyond pure profit at all cost.
earthling8118
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2 years ago
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on: Researchers created a device with capacity of up to 1.6 petabits with a DVD area
But that's the issue: they aren't using petabytes as a unit, they are using petabits
earthling8118
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2 years ago
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on: Mozilla Firefox is below PG&E threshold for support
They may as well be for a lot of us. I'd never heard of Kroger before a few months ago, and apparently they're one of the biggest grocery store chains. Their size doesn't mean that everyone knows about them.
earthling8118
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2 years ago
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on: Mozilla Firefox is below PG&E threshold for support
3% isn't that low when you consider how many people there are.
earthling8118
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2 years ago
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on: Biden administration to cancel another $1.2B of student loans
This is hardly a drop in the bucket compared to what was paid for PPP loans. It can't even remotely be compared to the actual corruption.
earthling8118
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2 years ago
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on: The Death of Free Shipping
If there were stores that were within walking distance I'm sure they would be used more. For a lot of us this isn't true. And often the prices will be higher and with a more restricted selection of items.
I think there's a lot of room for improvement here if we can make use of planning more. Consolidating deliveries, local production of goods, and better transportation infrastructure (for items and people)
earthling8118
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2 years ago
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on: Ask HN: 36 months of unemployment and depression. How to go back?
And if you do these things and it doesn't solve your problems, don't feel bad about it. People really hype up the effects of working out but for some of us it doesn't change anything.
earthling8118
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2 years ago
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on: When every ketchup but one went extinct (2022)
They might've passed your family by but it isn't that rare to hear of a Heinz preference and that includes the Midwest.
earthling8118
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2 years ago
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on: New York's new credit card surcharge mandate takes effect: What to know
I'm sure they could find a way to use the commerce clause for this if they wanted. They can use it for nearly anything already.
earthling8118
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2 years ago
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on: Deleting and destroying finished movies
Someone is saying "the way this works is wrong, it should work differently" and you're responding "that's not how this works" to that. How does that help?
earthling8118
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2 years ago
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on: Immich is changing its license from MIT to AGPLv3
Setting it up in a way that is sufficiently robust is non-trivial. It's not unworkable but we shouldn't underestimate it.
earthling8118
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2 years ago
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on: Incremental Rust Builds in CI
I guess this shows that people will do or build anything to avoid using nix
earthling8118
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2 years ago
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on: Just 137 crypto miners use 2.3% of total U.S. power
How would the power usage of bitcoin scale if it did serve every American? Until that question has an answer I don't think this argument can be considered valid. It's an incredible waste as it is, but just dismissing it outright doesn't make sense. If the number of transactions scaled up would the power usage become more reasonable?
earthling8118
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2 years ago
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on: Just 137 crypto miners use 2.3% of total U.S. power
The amount of economic activity it supports is somewhat of a poor measure without further information. Yes, it is a complete waste in its current form. But that doesn't strictly mean that the electricity usage will scale with the percentage of economic activity that takes place using it. I would be interested in knowing how this number would change if it supported most economic activity. Surely it would go up, but I doubt it would do so linearly.
earthling8118
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2 years ago
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on: X becomes No. 1 app on US App Store
We absolutely owe it to ourselves to continue calling it what it is: twitter. X is a letter, not the name of a website.
earthling8118
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2 years ago
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on: Bard is now Gemini, and we’re rolling out a mobile app and Gemini Advanced
That's an incredibly subjective take. I don't agree at all. I don't care what they call it but I don't understand this reasoning.
earthling8118
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2 years ago
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on: McDonald's pushed customers to the brink on price. They're starting to push back
That doesn't sound right. The fries alone cost nearly that much now. I'm also nowhere near as expensive of an area.
earthling8118
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2 years ago
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on: The Potent Pollution of Noise
Nobody mentioned trombones. This discussion is about automobiles.
