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New comment by detourdog in "The iPhone's Last Stand?"

detourdog — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 20:31:11 +0000

The idea of not naming G-d is based on the concept of being human comprehension and not within realm of human language. G-d can name things in our world but it’s a one way street. For humans it’s presumptions to assign a name to G-d. it implies an understanding that can’t exist.

New comment by detourdog in "The iPhone's Last Stand"

detourdog — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 12:25:33 +0000

I’m not sure you thought this through. Why would G-d want to or care to make one have thoughts.

New comment by detourdog in "Making peace with your unlived dreams (2023)"

detourdog — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 00:21:41 +0000

Reading this somewhere in the Atlantic on a sailboat by myself. Nodding yes. A few days from now I will be at home after an almost 2 year journey of learning what sailboat ownership. I still can’t tell if I like the sailboat life. I’m going decide in the fall of 27 If I really want a sailboat. I had to try it or give up the dream. Maybe I’ll go back to my dream of running a small run manufacturer if facility.

New comment by detourdog in "Apple rejected my dictation app for using the accessibility API"

detourdog — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 12:46:56 +0000

Apple is hardly a random big company. Apple's customers specifically chose to purchase the product. Most of their customers don't realize the significance of the exposure to copy and paste between Apps. Apple has taken the position that monitoring this exposure is part of their duty to the customer. Anyone that is aware of this shortcoming in Apple's product is free to purchase a different device.

New comment by detourdog in "Domain expertise has always been the real moat"

detourdog — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 10:11:10 +0000

My favorite part was due to it being a digital line there was no modem negotiation.

New comment by detourdog in "Domain expertise has always been the real moat"

detourdog — Sun, 31 May 2026 11:08:13 +0000

Verizon in NYC was trying to make ISDN happen in the home in the mid 90's. I had it. The hard part was getting an ISP that supported SLIP.

New comment by detourdog in "Domain expertise has always been the real moat"

detourdog — Sun, 31 May 2026 10:47:11 +0000

CuSeeMe certainly was being used before 2000.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CU-SeeMe

New comment by detourdog in "Danish pension fund excludes SpaceX citing governance and valuation"

detourdog — Sat, 30 May 2026 11:02:32 +0000

The governance issues seem much worse than the other issues with pricing and inclusion.

New comment by detourdog in "Canada to order military plane fleet from Sweden in shift from US suppliers"

detourdog — Wed, 27 May 2026 23:25:08 +0000

The Gripen is also a very practical design and much simpler to support. Canada can host the data locally as opposed to in the USA. The F-35 is very sophisticated and but maybe to a fault. I'm reminded of how technically superior Germany's vehicles were in WW2. The simplicity and field serviceability the USA vehicles had made a difference in combat.

New comment by detourdog in "Artificial egg hatched 26 healthy chickens"

detourdog — Sun, 24 May 2026 19:22:33 +0000

Thank you I will look for it.

New comment by detourdog in "Artificial egg hatched 26 healthy chickens"

detourdog — Sun, 24 May 2026 16:14:44 +0000

The book "The Machine Stops" was posted here a a while back it's a 100 years old and just as prescient as "Brave New World" and "1984". https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/e-m-forster/short-fiction/...

I will look up We.

New comment by detourdog in "The weird, wild story of humanity's obsession with gold"

detourdog — Wed, 20 May 2026 11:56:18 +0000

I’m gen-x and used wild in of my my HN comments and it seemed to trigger some responders. I was using as a synonym for unexpected. Next time maybe I’ll use whacky instead.

New comment by detourdog in "The weird, wild story of humanity's obsession with gold"

detourdog — Wed, 20 May 2026 11:53:53 +0000

The movie “The treasure of the Sierra Madras” does a good job of putting gold in it’s place.

New comment by detourdog in "Show HN: Auto-identity-remove – Automated data broker opt-out runner for macOS"

detourdog — Mon, 18 May 2026 22:53:24 +0000

I well stocked research library had phone books from all over.

New comment by detourdog in "I automated opt-outs for 500 data broker sites (open source)"

detourdog — Mon, 18 May 2026 14:10:15 +0000

The mailroom of my apartment building in college in 1988 was full of phone books that were unclaimed. I took enough to make a platform for my futon.

New comment by detourdog in "I automated opt-outs for 500 data broker sites (open source)"

detourdog — Mon, 18 May 2026 14:05:22 +0000

I managed to get off uline’s list I think they have a phone number. If one ever orders from them again the process needs to be repeated. This was a physical address not a PO Box.

New comment by detourdog in "Eric Schmidt speech about AI booed during graduation"

detourdog — Mon, 18 May 2026 13:16:16 +0000

I think it’s that the current crop of tech billionaires are tone deaf douche bags working against the common good.

New comment by detourdog in "Swift bricks to be installed on all new buildings in Scotland"

detourdog — Thu, 14 May 2026 22:17:33 +0000

Another big difference appears to be they live in different parts of the world. Chimney Swifts migrate between North and South America and the common Swift migrates between Europe/Asia and Africa.

https://www.earthofbirds.com/common-swift-vs-chimney-swift/

New comment by detourdog in "Swift bricks to be installed on all new buildings in Scotland"

detourdog — Thu, 14 May 2026 17:34:46 +0000

I have an old 80 foot chimney from a coal furnace. I maintain it simple for the annual chimney swifts. They come in mid April and leave in August. Apparently only 2 raise a family in it but it ends up with 100s at its peak occupancy. It’s getting re-pointed this year and I will have 2 hi-def cameras installed at the top to capture the activity. Might end up being my first AI project.

New comment by detourdog in "The Real Story of Troy"

detourdog — Tue, 12 May 2026 17:48:28 +0000

I have also heard it described as a boat.