blastersyndrome

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Comment · 10 months ago
I'm not so sure about that. If Microsoft actually removed all the cruft, then they would need around 5% of the employees currently working on it. They'd all be unemployed.
Comment · 11 months ago
Legally speaking, what is stopping someone from just reverse-engineering the specification and publishing it online somewhere?
Comment · 11 months ago
This last line is concerning:

>The Light Aircraft Association (LAA) said it now intends to take safety actions in response to the accident, including a "LAA Alert" regarding the use of 3D-printed parts that will be sent to inspectors.

Does this mean that anybody using any 3d printed part in an aircraft will be subjected to this scrutiny? If I use the proper materials with a suitable printer (eg, printing PEEK with a properly specced printer), how much convincing will it take to get these governing bodies off my back?

Comment · 11 months ago
I took it for one week.

I haven't taken any antidepressants since.

Comment · 11 months ago
When I was a teen I was put on Prozac because I threatened to commit suicide.

The drug absolutely destroyed me. Within a few days of taking it, I was in a bizarre state of delirium where I would sleep something like 18 hours a day. When I wasn't asleep I would gnash my teeth at my parents. At school I would lash out at my classmates and randomly punch the walls of my classroom. I was taken off the drug after about five days but I didn't fully recover.

To this day, my emotions are severely blunted. I still have complete anhedonia and avolition. I can go on a roller coaster and feel not a shred of an adrenaline rush. Nothing. I struggle maintaining relationships with people because I have no innate "desire" to do so.

The drug is absolutely evil and should never be given to minors.

Comment · 1 year ago
Realistically, what can be done to stop this?

In my eyes, Google is violating my rights because I did not agree to them stopping independent installation. I view them pushing this update as criminal vandalism.

Comment · 1 year ago
My takeaway from this announcement is that are going to ruin Arduino's current IDE and replace it with... something called Arduino App Lab? They didn't go into specifics as to what this is, other than it will integrate AI, somehow.

The other thing they announced is that they are going to sell at least one of their SBCs under the Arduino brand. That's kind of cool, I guess.

This announcement was very difficult to read. The whole thing sounds like it was written by chatGPT and it and it really shows. It took them roughly four pages to announce these two things and nothing else. I can't help but feel there is some level of malice to this, like they are taking out of Microsoft's playbook of "Embrace, Extend, Extinguish".

Comment · 1 year ago
Qualcomm did not need to buy Arduino in order to do that.
Comment · 1 year ago
Why do I keep seeing news stories about Bluesky here? It really feels like there some kind of campaign to shill Bluesky on this site.

Does anybody else get this vibe or am I going crazy?

Comment · 2 years ago
Can it run the most recent version of SolidWorks? Can it run any version of SolidWorks?

If it can, I am switching to Linux immediately.

Comment · 2 years ago
It seems I lost my faith in Raspberry Pis a lot sooner than most people. I gave up on them around the RPi3 days because it stopped working with the random chargers I had just laying around my house. I traced the issue back to my power supply having too much voltage ripple, with it still being within the spec for USB. Essentially, I needed to run it with their charger which was built to work better than industry standard.

This, coupled with the mini HDMI ports basically requiring an adapter, means that you more than total the cost of the Pi just in peripherals to get it up and running. It all seems like a waste of money anymore.

Comment · 2 years ago
for a short time, he was monitoring the referral header and made his website display an offensive message if you clicked the link from HN.

HN's mods then edited links to his domain so they would emit the referral header, and he responded by implementing a browser exploit to detect if certain HN URLs were in your browser history.

In any case, I apologize for using the wrong wording.

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