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New comment by cardiffspaceman in "81yo Dodgers fan can no longer get tickets because he doesn't have a smartphone"

cardiffspaceman — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 19:32:58 +0000

If the app is meant to defeat counterfeits or reselling the Dodgers won’t be willing to accept printed tickets.

New comment by cardiffspaceman in "F-15E jet shot down over Iran"

cardiffspaceman — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 19:14:37 +0000

What’s the value of having a civilian SecDef if he blathers on like this?

New comment by cardiffspaceman in "AirPods Max 2"

cardiffspaceman — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 19:42:01 +0000

Yep! I own both a pair of AirPods and a pair of Beats. The Beats were designed for a lower price point, without noise cancellation, than the AirPods so I can’t offer a head-head comparison.

New comment by cardiffspaceman in "Gitana 18: the new flying Ultim trimaran"

cardiffspaceman — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 19:32:58 +0000

Yes to get really seasick, you need stabilizers and seven wine pairings.

New comment by cardiffspaceman in "Police Investigate German Historian for Hitler-Putin Meme"

cardiffspaceman — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 19:01:53 +0000

>> "I now have to spend the entire day talking about Hitler."

… ironic result

New comment by cardiffspaceman in "“Microslop” filtered in the official Microsoft Copilot Discord server"

cardiffspaceman — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 19:34:07 +0000

Starting in the CompuServe era, and ending in about 2001, I was a voluntary member of the MVPs for Windows programming. You would get swag, including a full MSDN subscription. My reason for joining this and for otherwise posting hopefully helpfully on forums was to lower the barrier to Windows programming.

I was idle vis-à-vis this by about 1999, and was excluded from the benefits as a result.

Then I posted on several threads within rec.autos.bmw and I got an extra year or two of benefits.

New comment by cardiffspaceman in "uBlock filter list to hide all YouTube Shorts"

cardiffspaceman — Sun, 15 Feb 2026 20:52:33 +0000

I have been happy with the serendipity of YouTube’s algorithm generally. I followed an external link to a YouTube video about an exotic piano, and played a few related videos afterwards. These were videos about other unusual musical instruments, such as very high-pitched and very low-pitched wind instruments. And somehow that was part of a process leading to Japanese metal bands.

Dopamine-driven behavior in ourselves is certainly to be watched for.

New comment by cardiffspaceman in "Converting a $3.88 analog clock from Walmart into a ESP8266-based Wi-Fi clock"

cardiffspaceman — Mon, 09 Feb 2026 21:02:54 +0000

I worked with CFG80211/MAC80211 on an old Linux kernel years ago. I don’t think time of day is in any packet.

New comment by cardiffspaceman in "Waymo robotaxi hits a child near an elementary school in Santa Monica"

cardiffspaceman — Thu, 29 Jan 2026 19:56:57 +0000

As an aside, because it would not be germane to automotive safety…

In the Coast Guard Auxiliary “Sailing and Seamanship” class that I attended, targeting would-be sailboat skippers, we were told the USS Ranger nuclear-powered aircraft carrier had the right-of-way.

New comment by cardiffspaceman in "Waymo robotaxi hits a child near an elementary school in Santa Monica"

cardiffspaceman — Thu, 29 Jan 2026 19:49:10 +0000

In Encinitas, California, that sign would have no more than 20 MPH. In adjacent Carlsbad, I believe 25 is normal.

New comment by cardiffspaceman in "Waymo robotaxi hits a child near an elementary school in Santa Monica"

cardiffspaceman — Thu, 29 Jan 2026 19:44:33 +0000

I vividly recall a shot within a commercial, in which a driver was shown in slow motion, chucking his coffee into the passenger foot well in order to have two hands on the wheel for an emergency. I don’t remember what was about to happen to the car or the world around it. I’m pretty sure that a collision occurred.

New comment by cardiffspaceman in "Notice of collective action lawsuit against Workday, Inc."

cardiffspaceman — Tue, 27 Jan 2026 09:41:32 +0000

40 and over is a “protected group” in US employment law. 30 year old people are not protected.

New comment by cardiffspaceman in "Vietnam bans unskippable ads"

cardiffspaceman — Wed, 07 Jan 2026 17:10:00 +0000

If the right type of mate uses those traits to find their type of mate there’s no downside.

New comment by cardiffspaceman in "Why is calling my asm function from Rust slower than calling it from C?"

cardiffspaceman — Sun, 28 Dec 2025 20:39:15 +0000

To me it implies abstraction such as a constructor, but with no overhead compared to the same steps done in some other way.

New comment by cardiffspaceman in "Wooden compass with single red arrow leads people with dementia to their homes"

cardiffspaceman — Sun, 28 Dec 2025 20:34:09 +0000

Body modification?

New comment by cardiffspaceman in "Ivan Sutherland Sketchpad Demo 1963 [video]"

cardiffspaceman — Sat, 06 Dec 2025 19:25:40 +0000

The company I worked for in the early 80’s was in the market for a CAD system, and they all had constraint systems in the UI, and showed them in the demos.

New comment by cardiffspaceman in "The differences between an IndyCar and a F1 car"

cardiffspaceman — Fri, 05 Dec 2025 01:37:50 +0000

I attended the Long Beach and Laguna Seca races in 1995. Nothing in common with ovals except they were closed loop, just like Monte Carlo.

New comment by cardiffspaceman in "Hello Europe, Joe Biden is gone"

cardiffspaceman — Fri, 28 Nov 2025 22:22:46 +0000

It’s true that the POTUS is subject to the US courts. But I think it is fair to read TFA as a lament about an unwise assumption that is broader than “Biden wouldn’t have done certain things.” The organs of the EU should protect EU interests as if no nonEU organ ever agreed by default with the EU’s values.

New comment by cardiffspaceman in "Slicing Is All You Need: Towards a Universal One-Sided Distributed MatMul"

cardiffspaceman — Mon, 24 Nov 2025 17:32:35 +0000

goto is all you need.

New comment by cardiffspaceman in "How Quake.exe got its TCP/IP stack"

cardiffspaceman — Tue, 18 Nov 2025 17:11:57 +0000

My college required its graduates to pass a minimal swimming test. Just enough swimming ability to give a potential rescuer some extra time to effect the rescue, rather than have us go straight to the bottom of the sea. We all took a test in the first week or so. Those who failed had to take a course and retake the test.