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Comment · 1 month ago

I have a unique perspective on this as a former federal rulemaker. One thing you should know is that when it comes to rulemaking, the FAA isn't an ordinary rulemaker--they do the most of it and they're the best in the business. When I went to my intro to rule making classes, the FAA always rolled deep.

If you want a change and you want to make sure the right people see your request, I suggest you start here:

https://www.transportation.gov/regulations/petitions

Comment · 7 months ago

I have to agree here. I love ripgrep, but at times I've had to go back to regular grep because I couldn't figure out what it was ignoring and why, and there were far too many settings to figure it out.

Comment · 1 year ago

This is going to date me, but I had a t-shirt with basically a code-golf version of DeCSS printed on it and it said "This shirt is illegal" on it or something like that. I never actually wore it in public.

Comment · 2 years ago

I always love seeing modern technology on old hardware. The Dreamcast was an amazing machine in a beautiful form factor.

Comment · 2 years ago

I have a Framework 13, and I'm excited about this. I've been looking forward to moving to RISC-V for years now. I'm one of those weirdos who is willing to pay more for less performance. I guess they know their customers.

Comment · 2 years ago

Just wanted to chime in that I love my Framework 13 as well. It's been running great on Ubuntu for well over a year now--no complaints.

Comment · 3 years ago

I wanted to know this as well. I'm guessing that the author created a drop-in substitute for the SSL library it already head.

Comment · 3 years ago

Any reasonable person can see that there's much greater danger in allowing a child to ride in a car on a highway--which no doubt would be considered perfectly acceptable by these police. Look at this visualization of cause of death by age: https://wisqars.cdc.gov/data/lcd/home. For those kids, the number one cause of death is "unintentional injury," the biggest component of which is motor vehicle crashes. Unfortunately, these police wield incredible power in our legal system, and, as a lawyer, I don't see any easy fix. It makes me sad that I'll be raising my child in this kind of environment.

Comment · 3 years ago

Can’t imagine why they didn’t print the name.

Comment · 4 years ago

I never understood why programmers have such a hard time with time. There are two and only two pieces of information you need to work with time: seconds past the epoch and location. Everything else is applying legal and social context to the actual data.

Here both of those pieces of information are missing on all three questions, so no answers can be given. Any answer to these questions makes assumptions or deductions about those pieces of information.

Comment · 4 years ago

Does anyone have a rec for great iOS Gemini client?

Comment · 5 years ago

Nice to hear Russ's name on HN. Not completely forgotten I see. He also opposed the Patriot Act when it was extremely popular which I thought was courageous.

Comment · 6 years ago

It's the opposite. If you're being offered "drugs" by people on the street, it's because you look like a mark.

Comment · 7 years ago

The Times newsroom doesn't posit premises (and certainly not the one you suggest) or debate tax policy, it reports facts. I find the ignorance on the basics of journalism and its role in American society on hacker news to be shocking and embarrassing.

Comment · 7 years ago

So this response says the story is factually incorrect, but doesn't dispute a single fact. If the story is inaccurate, FedEx should describe what was wrong, in detail, and ask for a correction.

That they didn't do that makes me wonder.