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Cuba is better location for a Trump beachside hotel and casino than, say, Gaza.

Alternate approach: Delete the app. Use safari to replace the app icon on your home screen with a website. That website is goatse.

Chevron is already involved.

But will they not be able to expand their operation significantly now? And I assume they will keep donating a lot of money to the GOP. And there will be other companies getting involved for all the minerals Venezuela has in addition to the oil.

The symbian source code is available. Looks like it uses a class-specific operator new() overload.

https://github.com/SymbianSource/oss.FCL.sf.os.kernelhwsrv/b...

2. Initialisation of the CBase derived object to binary zeroes through a specific CBase::operator new() - this means that members, whose initial value should be zero, do not have to be initialised in the constructor. This allows safe destruction of a partially-constructed object.


That's very nice. I used to do http://perfectpitchpuzzle.com daily, which is similar but shorter and with wordle mechanics.

I don't know how other people do these things but I've got my keyboard next to my computer so that's where I work it out and the number of attempts (that you know about) isn't meaningful. But it's still great practice.


On the mac you just type — for an em dash or – for an en dash.

Is this a troll?

But anyway, it’s option-hyphen for a en-dash and opt-shift-hyphen for the em-dash.

I also just stopped using them a couple years ago when the meme about AI using them picked up steam.


well, audio books:

- Salem's Lot

- the Moon is a harsh mistress

- Stranger in a Strange land

- The Stand (1990 edition, which initially confused me since I read the 1980 edition long ago)

- The best short stories of Mark Twain

- Nightmares and Dreamscapes

- Liar's Poker

- The Big Short

- The intelligent investor (2009 revised edition -- my ears perked up when he casually mentioned microsoft vs microstrategy during the .com bomb)

- Flash boys

- Next

- Bonfire of the vanities

- Barbarians at the gate

- The man who solved the market

- The Fund

- The world according to Cunk

- The house of Morgan (currently 5 hours in and currently tired of the phrase "house of")


'The South fought hard to include the "except as punishment for crime" clause in the 13th amendment.'

I don't think that's historically accurate. The 13th amendment was passed in the Senate on April 8, 1864 and HoR on January 31, 1865.

At the time, the senate and congressional seats from the 10 southern states were vacant.

So the only fighting the south was doing was in the civil war, which didn't end until May 26, 1865.

The text itself is identical to the text in the Northwest Ordinance of 1787, which prohibited slavery (but allowed for the return of fugitive slaves) in what would later be Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, Wisconsin, and part of Minnesota.


I don't use firefox so I can't confirm, but one issue might be 15+ (?!) different config settings needed to disable AI and it still won't go away.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46095873


That's a UX issue, but I keep hearing complaints about privacy.


Anything that makes it easy to accidentally send local data elsewhere is a privacy issue.


> Anything that makes it easy to accidentally send local data elsewhere is a privacy issue.

How is it "easy" if nothing is sent unless you configure the AI?

What I'm asking is: If I do a brand new profile, default configuration, how can any AI related feature send anything that is of privacy concern? If you don't set up an LLM provider, it has nowhere to send to.

I may be wrong, which is why I'm asking in the thread. So far, no one has shown what the problem is.


I have no idea whether any of the AI features require explicit setup vs. automatically use a paid-for API somewhere.

But it also doesn't matter, because that's the kind of distinction that I've seen go back and forth elsewhere.


OK, to be frank, it seems like people are needlessly crazy paranoid.

I agree with:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46316763

278 comments, many very angry, and no one can clearly articulate how privacy is being compromised because of the AI features.

On a project whose source is available.

Insane.


Look, it's pretty simple: A bunch of companies have been shoving AI into their products without a lot of consideration for what their users actually want and need. This is a signal for current and future actions that are user-hostile, both directly involving AI and in general (indicative of their current mentality).

"Open source" doesn't help when it's a huge project and users aren't actively auditing all of the changes. (And in general we want to trust the developers; if you're having to audit all features, trust has already been lost.)


As one of the commenters pointed out, altitude.

A geostationary orbit is ~26,000 miles. Dollars to donuts, that's where it is.


If you account for the satellite being further away because it would be above the point the distance works out okay - except that geostationary satellites go around the equator and that is a thousand miles away from that.


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