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New comment by cromulent in "Burning Man death rates – A short lesson in statistics"

cromulent — Thu, 01 Oct 2026 11:20:01 +0000

Depends on the definition of "whatever" but car parks come to mind.

In Finland there are specific signposted pedestrian zones, where cars may enter but must not exceed 20kmh and must give priority to pedestrians (as must cyclists). They are typically the areas surrounding apartment building entranceways.

New comment by cromulent in "macOS 27: Workaround to avoid downloading AI models and save storage"

cromulent — Mon, 21 Sep 2026 20:03:34 +0000

Curious. I have Siri turned off (just checked again) and I use Apple CarPlay daily. Maybe an EU thing.

Nördlinger Ries Impact Crater

cromulent — Mon, 07 Sep 2026 15:56:07 +0000

Article URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nördlinger_Ries

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49599767

Points: 20

# Comments: 3

New comment by cromulent in "Woman pulled over twice after Flock-linked software connected her to homicide"

cromulent — Tue, 11 Aug 2026 18:25:14 +0000

Things have drifted since Robert Peel defined successful policing as "Whether the police are effective is not measured on the number of arrests, but on the lack of crime". Civil forfeiture is a good example that would horrify him.

His insistence that "The police are the public and the public are the police" doesn't really hold up in many countries anymore.

New comment by cromulent in "Tesla Balance Bike"

cromulent — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 09:03:59 +0000

A dandy-horse, or a velocipede.

Designing the Dream House of an 87-Year-Old Tech Visionary

cromulent — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 05:04:35 +0000

Article URL: https://www.wired.com/story/stewart-brand-whole-earth-catalog-house-petaluma/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48565920

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by cromulent in "Blood Pumping Mechanism of the Hoof (2020)"

cromulent — Sat, 23 May 2026 04:06:09 +0000

The calf muscle pump performs the same task in humans.

New comment by cromulent in "An OpenAI model has disproved a central conjecture in discrete geometry"

cromulent — Thu, 21 May 2026 18:03:27 +0000

Fascinating. I had to read up on this. Apparently it was Ritonavir and polymorphism.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ritonavir

New comment by cromulent in "Cursing the government does not fix potholes. Spray-painting them does"

cromulent — Fri, 15 May 2026 13:11:26 +0000

A friend of mine planted a small tree in one, after many months of notifying the local council. It was fixed very quickly.

New comment by cromulent in "Kickstarter is forced to ban adult content by payment processors"

cromulent — Wed, 13 May 2026 16:09:48 +0000

The FT podcast series “Hot Money” season one explained a lot about this. Basically the payment card industry shapes what adult content is produced by governing the money flow.

https://www.ft.com/hot-money

Alaska megatsunami was second largest ever recorded

cromulent — Wed, 06 May 2026 17:52:21 +0000

Article URL: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c1m253033m4o

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48039246

Points: 4

# Comments: 0

Google Says Prompt Injection Moving from Theory into Real Abuse

cromulent — Mon, 04 May 2026 08:29:49 +0000

Article URL: https://www.searchengineworld.com/google-says-prompt-injection-moving-from-theory-into-real-abuse

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48006067

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by cromulent in "Mercedes-Benz commits to bringing back physical buttons"

cromulent — Sun, 03 May 2026 18:54:27 +0000

They have more usability problems than that. Driving Mercedes Benz hire cars a couple of times recently in UK and Ireland was a shock - they have the automatic gearbox PRND selector on the right-hand stalk, and indicators on the left hand one. I could maybe excuse that on a LHD car, but on an RHD car, it is infuriating. Using the windscreen wipers instead of indicating is a trivial low-consequence mistake, bumping into neutral is not.

New comment by cromulent in "Improving ICU handovers by learning from Scuderia Ferrari F1 team"

cromulent — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 15:16:28 +0000

(2012). Another article on the same doctor was discussed recently:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43957231

New comment by cromulent in "Copilot edited an ad into my PR"

cromulent — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 09:52:31 +0000

Regarding Claude: As I have unticked the "Help improve Claude" checkbox, I was under the impression that Claude did not do this.

https://privacy.claude.com/en/articles/10023555-how-do-you-u...

Sorting Algorithms

cromulent — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 15:09:08 +0000

Article URL: https://tools.simonwillison.net/sort-algorithms

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47531459

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by cromulent in "Passengers who refuse to use headphones can now be kicked off United flights"

cromulent — Sat, 21 Mar 2026 20:18:00 +0000

Thanks mate. If he can assault my ears, I can assault his nose, right. Or threaten to ;)

New comment by cromulent in "Passengers who refuse to use headphones can now be kicked off United flights"

cromulent — Sat, 21 Mar 2026 20:09:12 +0000

I had it happen to me, on a long-haul flight, in business class. I was shocked. I stood up to look at the guy after no-one did anything.

I told him that phone speakers "make me gassy" and then he turned it off.

New comment by cromulent in "BYD is seeing a flood of new EV buyers"

cromulent — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 19:13:09 +0000

BYD are about to launch an EV that charges from 10 to 70% in 5 minutes. As much as I recoil at a brand called "Build Your Dreams", that is quite compelling.

https://www.byd.com/us/news-list/DENZA-Z9GT-to-start-Europes...

New comment by cromulent in "Remove your ring camera with a claw hammer"

cromulent — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 21:49:33 +0000

Still trying to catch them. They keep drinking my cider and eating my chickens.