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New comment by fnordfnordfnord in "Show HN: GovAuctions lets you browse government auctions at once"

fnordfnordfnord — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 01:35:31 +0000

Love this. I have the same affliction. https://www.publicsurplus.com/ if you're taking requests.

New comment by fnordfnordfnord in "Two pilots dead after plane and ground vehicle collide at LaGuardia"

fnordfnordfnord — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 02:17:32 +0000

Video has been released showing that the REL's were operational at LaGuardia during the crash. It isn't definitive that the REL's that are facing the fire truck's view are working but they will have video and we will know soon.

Tweet showing the video of the collision:

https://x.com/MCCCANM/status/2036131991792550351?s=20

Here is a diagram showing their locations.

https://www.faa.gov/air_traffic/technology/rwsl/media/LGA.pd...

New comment by fnordfnordfnord in "France's aircraft carrier located in real time by Le Monde through fitness app"

fnordfnordfnord — Sat, 21 Mar 2026 16:27:23 +0000

They're huge. Also, it's never a secret where they're being sent. That's the whole point of an aircraft carrier.

New comment by fnordfnordfnord in "A new California law says all operating systems need to have age verification"

fnordfnordfnord — Sat, 28 Feb 2026 00:22:13 +0000

I'm just catching up on the subject myself but, here's a news article:

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-07-11/age-verification-sear...

It appears that the Australian and UK versions don't go as far as what seems to have been proposed in the US.

New comment by fnordfnordfnord in "A new California law says all operating systems need to have age verification"

fnordfnordfnord — Sat, 28 Feb 2026 00:02:11 +0000

There’s a concerted global effort to push this legislation. It’s also been proposed in Colorado and, some version of it’s been passed in the UK and Australia.

New comment by fnordfnordfnord in "Breaking down a record-setting day on the Texas grid"

fnordfnordfnord — Wed, 21 Aug 2024 23:35:10 +0000

Austin Energy? There aren't many providers that I am aware of in Texas that have variable rates.

New comment by fnordfnordfnord in "DUNE scientists observe first neutrinos with prototype detector at Fermilab"

fnordfnordfnord — Thu, 15 Aug 2024 02:06:51 +0000

A bit more than that.

>Combined, the four detector modules will hold nearly 70,000 tons of ultrapure liquid argon.

https://lbnf-dune.fnal.gov/how-it-works/detectors-and-comput...

New comment by fnordfnordfnord in "DUNE scientists observe first neutrinos with prototype detector at Fermilab"

fnordfnordfnord — Thu, 15 Aug 2024 01:55:58 +0000

800 miles.

https://lbnf-dune.fnal.gov/how-it-works/detectors-and-comput...

New comment by fnordfnordfnord in "Stuck at sea for years, a sailor's plight highlights a surge in ship abandonment"

fnordfnordfnord — Thu, 30 May 2024 19:18:01 +0000

At the time of abandonment, the ship may not be seaworthy. If it requires more repairs or fuel than the crew can afford from their own resources, then they cannot move the ship.

New comment by fnordfnordfnord in "FDA Designates MM120 (LSD) Breakthrough Therapy for Generalized Anxiety Disorder"

fnordfnordfnord — Sat, 09 Mar 2024 18:34:10 +0000

Same as Ketamine. Ketamine therapy is available now but, the cost very high so, it is practically unavailable to most.

New comment by fnordfnordfnord in "Solar Storm Rendering"

fnordfnordfnord — Sat, 09 Mar 2024 18:31:13 +0000

Reminds me of a game that I played on Apple II a very long time ago. Can't remember the name but, it was a very basic two player shoot artillery at each other game and I loved it.

New comment by fnordfnordfnord in "LoRA from scratch: implementation for LLM finetuning"

fnordfnordfnord — Tue, 23 Jan 2024 02:46:25 +0000

I thought this was going to be some neat software defined radio stuff. Still quite interesting though.

New comment by fnordfnordfnord in "US lawyer who put Big Tobacco on trial takes aim at sports betting"

fnordfnordfnord — Mon, 11 Dec 2023 22:57:00 +0000

I notice that you don't have a response for 1. I understand, because, it's very challenging to solve real problems like preventing all gambling over the internet. In which case, it's easier to regulate it for fairness than to have it remain underground and completely unregulated; that's not good enough for some people though.

New comment by fnordfnordfnord in "US lawyer who put Big Tobacco on trial takes aim at sports betting"

fnordfnordfnord — Mon, 11 Dec 2023 18:43:14 +0000

1. How do you propose to prevent it? 2. Do you want to live in a free society, or do you want a lot of regulation over your behavior?

If you start letting moralizers regulate everyone's behavior "for their own good" where do you stop?

New comment by fnordfnordfnord in "FBI director admits they rarely have probable cause for using NSA collections"

fnordfnordfnord — Tue, 21 Nov 2023 23:19:17 +0000

I don't believe it. I've been scolded so many times, including by users here, that the FBI would never. There must be some misunderstanding!

New comment by fnordfnordfnord in "The boy who stole Half-Life 2 (2011)"

fnordfnordfnord — Fri, 01 Sep 2023 10:54:35 +0000

>Then, he stole and published the hl2 source

Do you disagree with the article or did you just not believe it? Because, Gembe denied publishing the source code and there was no evidence that Gembe is the one who published it.

New comment by fnordfnordfnord in "RFC 9446 Reflections on Ten Years Past the Snowden Revelations"

fnordfnordfnord — Fri, 11 Aug 2023 19:55:56 +0000

>The vast, vast majority of collected data is discarded without having ever been read.

[Citation needed]

Notably, you're omitting anything about the role that intelligence collection and Parallel Construction play in prosecuting Americans for crimes which have nothing at all to do with national security, and which they have no possible way to defend themselves against the use of that information.

New comment by fnordfnordfnord in "Cops still take more stuff from people than burglars do (2021)"

fnordfnordfnord — Wed, 02 Aug 2023 20:59:03 +0000

Hand waving a reasonable question away.

New comment by fnordfnordfnord in "Louis Rossmann: Autodesk turns lifetime licenses into subscriptions [video]"

fnordfnordfnord — Sat, 01 Jul 2023 13:32:36 +0000

Can't wait to rid myself of Autodesk dependency.

New comment by fnordfnordfnord in "Twitter now requires an account to view tweets"

fnordfnordfnord — Sat, 01 Jul 2023 13:24:02 +0000

I've been rate limited all morning and all I do is casually browse and occasionally retweet, with infrequent replies. Something is wrong over there.