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New comment by RomanAlexander in "Did Space Debris Hit A United Flight Over The Rockies Thursday?"

RomanAlexander — Sun, 19 Oct 2025 12:25:17 +0000

cool yeah neat but you can contend with the reality that it does happen right? https://www.pcmag.com/news/spacex-actually-dying-starlink-sa...

New comment by RomanAlexander in "H-1B Visa Holders Disappear from US Housing Market"

RomanAlexander — Fri, 17 Oct 2025 03:33:30 +0000

it's collateralized debt. Definitionally they will recoup the balance.

New comment by RomanAlexander in "$912 energy independence without red tape"

RomanAlexander — Sun, 05 Oct 2025 12:18:32 +0000

similar to Elon Musk talking about pretty much everything software. I don't know why he doubled down on having played poe2. https://youtu.be/cZslebJEZbE

New comment by RomanAlexander in "Trump Orders National Guard to Washington and Takeover of Capital’s Police"

RomanAlexander — Tue, 12 Aug 2025 07:40:01 +0000

Like illegally using the Alien Enemies Act of 1798 to deport people when the act literally states it's a wartime authority (no new wars). like illegally deporting Abrego Garcia to the one country that he wasn't allowed to be deported to.

New comment by RomanAlexander in "Why wordfreq will not be updated"

RomanAlexander — Wed, 18 Sep 2024 18:56:17 +0000

Or AI talking heads posing as the author of books written by AIs. https://youtu.be/pAPGRGTqIgI (warning: state sponsored disinformation AI)

New comment by RomanAlexander in "The t-test was invented at the Guinness brewery"

RomanAlexander — Mon, 27 May 2024 06:48:14 +0000

most people can only see "winners" and "losers" in economic transactions.

New comment by RomanAlexander in "Cloudflare took down our website"

RomanAlexander — Sun, 26 May 2024 22:24:33 +0000

everyone that has used OVH and received an attack is laughing at that.

New comment by RomanAlexander in "Google Says Its Med-Gemini AI Healthcare Models Beat GPT-4"

RomanAlexander — Fri, 03 May 2024 08:19:19 +0000

I'm waiting for the calls of adding TCM or other "regional medicines" as training data.

New comment by RomanAlexander in "Japanese yen weakens to 160 against the USD for the first time since 1990"

RomanAlexander — Mon, 29 Apr 2024 07:20:19 +0000

that's normal for higher end restaurant dining. trying to navigate reservations has always been a pain without concierge.

New comment by RomanAlexander in "Japanese yen weakens to 160 against the USD for the first time since 1990"

RomanAlexander — Mon, 29 Apr 2024 07:18:19 +0000

I just flew out right before golden week started. there's a lot more tourists from countries I hadn't seen represented before 2020.

New comment by RomanAlexander in "Biden signs TikTok bill into law, starting clock for ByteDance to divest"

RomanAlexander — Thu, 25 Apr 2024 13:58:42 +0000

Do you actually need reasons why a liberal society wouldn't want the largest source Americans receive news from to be run by a wildly illiberal society?

New comment by RomanAlexander in "Home insurers are dropping customers based on aerial images"

RomanAlexander — Sat, 06 Apr 2024 21:36:55 +0000

Wouldn't said trampoline simply not be covered by the policy since you lied about it? The agents are checking a box and the underwriter is sticking in a boilerplate "Customer said no trampoline therefore trampolines are excluded from this policy" text

New comment by RomanAlexander in "Modern iOS Navigation Patterns"

RomanAlexander — Tue, 26 Dec 2023 18:17:08 +0000

The difference is iOS has non-standard gestures that is determined by the app, and Android it is enforced by the OS. It is infuriating on iOS trying to locate where someone stuffed the back button (is it a hidden pulldown? bottom left? top left? hamburger? breadcrumb trail? does gesture swipe even work here? ...) Much worse than when apps like reddit/tiktok override the back-to-exit behavior in android.

New comment by RomanAlexander in "Breakdown of faults by car brand: Tesla has replaced Dacia at the bottom"

RomanAlexander — Mon, 25 Dec 2023 09:55:44 +0000

did they remove the service plan? My Model S came with a 4 year service plan where every quarter they would flush the coolant, filters, etc

New comment by RomanAlexander in "Visualizing fighting game mechanics (2020)"

RomanAlexander — Thu, 14 Dec 2023 15:00:33 +0000

That's not true. Geese Howard's pretzel move is very difficult on its own. Even high level players mess up EWGFs. Complicate all this even further by playing in an arcade with a square gate. And not to mention the extreme moves like pentagram input from arcana hearts 3.

New comment by RomanAlexander in "Modern iOS Navigation Patterns"

RomanAlexander — Wed, 13 Dec 2023 09:26:59 +0000

Gesture navigation is the standard in android these days. The OS-provided bar isn't even default on budget oppo or Xiaomi devices.

New comment by RomanAlexander in "Microsoft consumes Activision; and a plea"

RomanAlexander — Mon, 16 Oct 2023 02:30:14 +0000

if I hire you to write a HN News app, do you feel like you're entitled to royalties?

New comment by RomanAlexander in "JSON Schema Store"

RomanAlexander — Mon, 21 Aug 2023 03:09:49 +0000

I've been asking chatgpt to do it for me.

New comment by RomanAlexander in "IRC is the only viable chat protocol (2022)"

RomanAlexander — Sat, 29 Jul 2023 11:22:01 +0000

there's built in support for this https://www.unrealircd.org/docs/Channel_history

New comment by RomanAlexander in "We need more of Richard Stallman's ideas, not less"

RomanAlexander — Mon, 19 Jun 2023 13:31:53 +0000

While that's a cute anecdote, that just means the bid wasn't high enough. QOL for rich people in the USA is at least equal to vastly higher than in the EU.