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Russia opens first road bridge with North Korea

everybodyknows — Mon, 07 Sep 2026 17:04:28 +0000

Article URL: https://www.dw.com/en/russia-opens-first-road-bridge-with-north-korea/a-79142595

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49600499

Points: 8

# Comments: 0

New comment by everybodyknows in "Bill Gates tries to install MovieMaker"

everybodyknows — Mon, 07 Sep 2026 16:54:15 +0000

2023 post, recounting an incident from 2003.

Risks Digest – April 2026, the final issue

everybodyknows — Mon, 07 Sep 2026 16:45:13 +0000

Article URL: https://catless.ncl.ac.uk/risks/34/91

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49600285

Points: 4

# Comments: 2

New comment by everybodyknows in "The revolt of the reader"

everybodyknows — Sun, 06 Sep 2026 18:49:28 +0000

There's a rather simple reason this is so: A thought is typically most powerfully expressed in a sentence that puts the most surprising or notable word last, immediately before the period. Ideally, without any qualifying adjective/adverb.

And "... a wife." really turns on the ears, no?

So advice to prefer active voice is not wrong -- but the skilled writer adds other values into the balance.

New comment by everybodyknows in "M-DISC – DVD/Blu-ray compatible discs that may last up to 1000 years"

everybodyknows — Sun, 06 Sep 2026 18:00:56 +0000

Also this single bit of "anecdata": I was once told that in long storage attraction between the electron orbitals of head and platter could gradually drive out the air gap, leaving them bonded too tightly for the drive motor to overcome.

New comment by everybodyknows in "What is nueralese and why is it bad"

everybodyknows — Sun, 06 Sep 2026 15:21:21 +0000

Title is misspelled -- "ue" for "eu". In a neologism, some nuisance.

Artificial Intelligence as a Judge Advocate's Force Multiplier

everybodyknows — Sun, 06 Sep 2026 14:48:58 +0000

Article URL: https://www.lineofdeparture.army.mil/Journals/Army-Lawyer/Archive/Issue-2-2026/AI-as-Force-Multiplier-for-Judge-Advocates/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49587018

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

UN votes to adopt new map that makes our world look different

everybodyknows — Fri, 04 Sep 2026 16:12:17 +0000

Article URL: https://www.cnn.com/2026/09/04/world/un-vote-new-world-map-intl-scli

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49566622

Points: 18

# Comments: 3

US Forest Service closing 23 research facilities as part of reorganization

everybodyknows — Thu, 03 Sep 2026 20:39:48 +0000

Article URL: https://apnews.com/article/forest-service-research-centers-closing-4735447f7487743d8e4aceb471b21d01

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49556591

Points: 4

# Comments: 0

New comment by everybodyknows in "Dutch central bank moves 86 tonnes of gold from US citing 'geopolitical unrest'"

everybodyknows — Thu, 03 Sep 2026 05:17:41 +0000

To put in human terms, it's roughly three day's labor of every worker in the Netherlands.

New comment by everybodyknows in "Apple reveals 'shocking evidence' from ex-employee's MacBook in OpenAI suit"

everybodyknows — Tue, 01 Sep 2026 21:31:15 +0000

It's actually forbidden, by advice of legal counsel, because in court the other side would present it as evidence of knowing culpability.

New comment by everybodyknows in "Global Trade and the United States Navy"

everybodyknows — Tue, 01 Sep 2026 12:40:54 +0000

It's yet another borrowing of the prestige of technical terms -- propagated by LLMs, but in rampant misuse by poseurs even before AI: inflection point, exponential growth, order of magnitude, evolve, viable, ...

New comment by everybodyknows in "Wildfire Survivors Push Back Against Newsom-Led Utility Bailout"

everybodyknows — Mon, 31 Aug 2026 19:06:27 +0000

Do you have to maintain a strip on top, free of any new tree roots?

New comment by everybodyknows in "Wildfire Survivors Push Back Against Newsom-Led Utility Bailout"

everybodyknows — Mon, 31 Aug 2026 18:15:39 +0000

The theoretical owners of those profits now see the market's valuation of that privilege fallen by 24% today. Evidently big news is out.

https://www.cnbc.com/quotes/EIX?qsearchterm=

DoD confirms 'refrigeration disruption' at military commissaries

everybodyknows — Sat, 29 Aug 2026 05:13:21 +0000

Article URL: https://www.militarytimes.com/news/your-military/2026/08/28/dod-confirms-refrigeration-disruption-at-military-commissaries/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49487076

Points: 7

# Comments: 1

New comment by everybodyknows in "Flock CEO gets his house blurred out on Google Maps and Zillow"

everybodyknows — Thu, 27 Aug 2026 19:17:38 +0000

It's easy? How please do we get Zillow to do that?

Zillow publishes, right now, interior shots of my house -- put up years ago for a sale listing. I have claimed the place as mine, but Zillow won't let me take them down.

Zillow allowed inserting new photos in the list, so I did: dozens of big wildlife photos. Considered a raging fire scene, or maybe a crack den, but then of course I might some day want to sell ...

New comment by everybodyknows in "Please stop flooding our projects with AI slop to furnish your CV"

everybodyknows — Thu, 27 Aug 2026 13:54:39 +0000

> I closed all three PRs without comment.

> Maybe this was unreasonable, but truthfully, I’m just not interested in encouraging people to take up our time with this kind of busywork.

Not only reasonable, but necessary to recovery for the Github system.

The other, complementary, systemic piece will come when Github materializes the cause of the rejections as reputational damage to the PR-spammer.

New comment by everybodyknows in "Brain preservation as existential risk reduction"

everybodyknows — Thu, 27 Aug 2026 13:15:26 +0000

AI-generated bait for the head-freezing hustle.

New comment by everybodyknows in "What's new in Emacs 31.1"

everybodyknows — Wed, 26 Aug 2026 00:23:44 +0000

An LLM is great at writing a first shot at key bindings to suit your taste, and recipes for Emacs' four syntactically different yet functionally overlapping configuration schemes.

The maybe complementary, or at least deterministic source of advice is old school 'M-x info'.

New comment by everybodyknows in "To become a better writer, read as much as you can"

everybodyknows — Sun, 23 Aug 2026 14:49:46 +0000

To become a writer, and publisher of work much like that of the blogger:

https://nappertime.com/my-books-where-to-start-reading/

Follow it. No doubt sincerely meant.