johndoughy's comments

New rule: as long as companies can donate infinite amounts of money to lobbyists and politicians, employees can organize around political issues within those companies.

If either of those is wrong, I’d say they both are.

> our results suggest that alcohol ethoxylates were the main culprit component of the rinse aid responsible for the observed toxicity and damage to the epithelial barrier integrity.

Did you end up paying the tickets or fighting it?

Reminds me of when my motorcycle was towed from my apartment complex. It was held by a private towing company, but for some reason the city suspected the bike was stolen, so the tow lot (allegedly) couldn't release it until the city completed their 'investigation'. Meanwhile I was on the hook for every day that it sat in the tow yard (not to mention the rental car to get to work), but powerless to get it out. Eventually the city cleared it and I owed like 2k. I desperately wish I fought it but for some reason I just paid it...

> Despite having almost 150 desks there is a limit of 3 sinks, 6 stalls, 2 urinals, and 6 hand washing sinks. Full stop.

Who instituted the limit? Was it in the lease terms, city ordinances, or something else?

You sure it’s not just the caffeine? Caffeine withdrawal symptoms includes depression and a host of related symptoms.

Aw shucks, I spent far too long making it, but your comment makes it all worth it =)

Appreciate the suggestion, that's a great idea. I wasn't familiar with rerere until I started this project but it looks like a useful feature.

Hey HN, I've long wished that git rebase was less tedious, so I made a tool called 'debase' to help make it easier.

debase lets you edit your git repo using drag and drop in your terminal. I didn't want a full GUI because I prefer using git from the terminal, but rebasing is often easier when done visually rather than textually. So debase tries to fill that gap.

debase supports macOS (x86_64 / arm64) and Linux (x86_64). I spent a fair amount of time on it so I decided to make it shareware ($10) but it has a 7-day trial.

Anyway, would love to hear your thoughts and suggestions.

The Psions really felt ahead of their time. I got a Revo for Christmas and good luck convincing 12 year old me he wasn't James fucking Bond.

Not according to the "out-of-court settlement" link:

> And it’s worth noting that trying to license the image would have been moot. When asked how much he would’ve charged for a license, Maisel told his lawyer that he would never have granted a license for the pixel art.

I think it's from Black Mirror: Bandersnatch:

https://transcripts.thedealr.net/script.php/black-mirror-ban...

EEVblog is a great YouTube channel for EE information

Couldn't agree more about consistent keyboard shortcuts. It's crazy to me that mere copy/paste doesn't have a consistent keyboard shortcut across the system (eg terminal uses ctrl-shift-c or something). And if copy/paste isn't consistent, there's little hope for other shortcuts.

> Those terms are used in relation to dependencies and who consumes what.

I think your response exactly illustrates the point of the post: if upstream and downstream had clearer names, you wouldn't need to define them. And if they indeed mean what you say, wouldn't producer and consumer be clearer?

> I don't really see the point it's trying to make - we use technical terms not to be human friendly but to be technical.

I don't think I can agree that technical terms aren't meant to be human friendly. After all, languages exist to convery ideas to other humans; words aren't opcodes intended to be executed by machines.

If technical terms aren't meant to be human friendly, why did humans invent them at all? And if they are intended to be human friendly, why not optimize them for clarity and precision?

They must have spent tons of engineering effort to create this virtual computer to act as their foundation for further exploits. They don't deserve any sympathy of course, but it must really suck that their foundation disappears immediately with the fixed vulnerability.

I've had similar experiences after heavy workouts. It puts me in a better mood but my cognition feels like 50%. I assumed it was due to blood diversion from the brain to the muscles.

I'm using an ice40 FPGA to make a camera. It reads an image from an image sensor, writes it to an SDRAM, and then writes the SDRAM content to an SD card. Doing all that with a regular CPU would require lots of specialized peripherals (especially since the data rate is 1.2 Gbps -- 12 bits per pixel @ 100 MHz). An FPGA can handle all the requirements quite well.

I've never understood why ISPs and cellular carriers aren't prepaid by default, which would avoid the credit system entirely. Do these companies benefit somehow by being post-paid and relying on credit?

It should be standard practice for the operator of a firearm to check whether it's loaded with blanks or live rounds. Pushing that responsibility off to an 'armorer' invites situations like this.

The $200 deposit would effectively never be refunded though right? I think libraries would see a huge decline in usage if a library card cost $200, even if it's a lifetime membership.