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New comment by hed in "Why are Flock employees watching our children?"

hed — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 20:57:26 +0000

The council meeting alluded to in the article happened a few days ago and is on YouTube[1]. Public comment starts around 23m, the commenters bring up some of the things in the article, and the council still moves to approve around 1h20m.

[1] - https://youtu.be/AqOYDNKBr3g?si=EFOTKlKIRK01mVvL

New comment by hed in "Editor's Note: Retraction of article containing fabricated quotations"

hed — Mon, 16 Feb 2026 03:20:36 +0000

Exactly. And they don’t just rip down the old article but annotate it with a disclaimer that an earlier version said XXX

New comment by hed in "An AI agent published a hit piece on me – more things have happened"

hed — Sat, 14 Feb 2026 13:33:21 +0000

I can only conclude it’s what they want at this point

New comment by hed in "How to effectively write quality code with AI"

hed — Fri, 06 Feb 2026 21:08:44 +0000

I think it's analogous to writing and refining an outline for a paper. If you keep going, you eventually end up at an outline where you can concatenate what are basically sentences together to form paragraphs. This is sort of where you are now, if you spec well you'll get decent results.

New comment by hed in "I now assume that all ads on Apple news are scams"

hed — Fri, 06 Feb 2026 14:34:05 +0000

Exactly. It's a way to get games that aren't going to immediately ask for other games to be bought or make you watch ridiculous ads to keep playing.

New comment by hed in "Emoji evidence errors don’t undo a murder conviction"

hed — Wed, 19 Nov 2025 16:03:11 +0000

It's interesting because like the article says legal teams may have to get smarter about recreating all the context when evidence like this is used. Even if the emojis rendered the reference implementation of Unicode and what vendors actually represent can vary quite a bit by platform or OS version.

New comment by hed in "Vitamin D3 breakthrough halves risk of second heart attack"

hed — Mon, 10 Nov 2025 17:24:14 +0000

It's amazing to get tested and thinking you're heavy dosing and when tests come back it turns out you're barely in the green (low).

New comment by hed in "America's future could hinge on whether AI slightly disappoints"

hed — Tue, 14 Oct 2025 16:13:33 +0000

Sure, all probabilities go to 1 over a large enough time span. I don't think there's anything useful you can do with that information. Being early is the same as being wrong.

New comment by hed in "Myocardial infarction may be an infectious disease"

hed — Sun, 14 Sep 2025 00:24:35 +0000

I believe it depends on the state.

New comment by hed in "Creative Technology: The Sound Blaster"

hed — Mon, 08 Sep 2025 11:25:08 +0000

> Layoffs of some staff in Stillwater, Oklahoma followed in 2008.

How did Creative end up with offices there? Was there some kind of research going on at Oklahoma State University?

New comment by hed in "A computer upgrade shut down BART"

hed — Fri, 05 Sep 2025 16:31:26 +0000

You'd think trains would use a rolling release

New comment by hed in "Notion releases offline mode"

hed — Tue, 19 Aug 2025 20:45:05 +0000

What are you using to sync with TickTick?

New comment by hed in "Counter-Strike: A billion-dollar game built in a dorm room"

hed — Tue, 19 Aug 2025 01:04:35 +0000

I loved coming home from curfew in HS and firing up the server browser to find a 24+ person as_oilrig. Such a fun time

New comment by hed in "Why Wisconsin's county highways are lettered, not numbered (2019)"

hed — Sat, 09 Aug 2025 12:48:07 +0000

https://www.modot.org/projects/routepproute30

New comment by hed in "The Saltgator: A Desktop SoftGel Injection Molding Machine"

hed — Tue, 29 Jul 2025 16:07:51 +0000

Reminds me of the modified EZ-bake I had 30+ years ago [1]. I tried putting hooks in those to mixed success. One side was always flat though.

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PTFiJAH63xo

New comment by hed in "A technical look at Iran's internet shutdowns"

hed — Sun, 13 Jul 2025 23:42:07 +0000

The Starlink gateway out is a good solution, but I sure wouldn't share it with friends/family over the ISP networks if at all possible.

New comment by hed in "Happy 20th Birthday, Django"

hed — Sun, 13 Jul 2025 18:00:11 +0000

I’ve used Django since 0.96 and keep coming back to it any time I need a web site that works. I’ve dabbled in other stuff but this one just clicks for me.

Here’s to another 20!

New comment by hed in "A $20k American-made electric pickup with no paint, no stereo, no screen"

hed — Sat, 26 Apr 2025 12:53:35 +0000

And how many stations did that yield?

New comment by hed in "How much do you think it costs to make a pair of Nike shoes in Asia?"

hed — Wed, 09 Apr 2025 22:54:36 +0000

Direct To Consumer. Selling directly to their customers on Nike.com disintermediating Foot Locker or another distributor/retailer network.

New comment by hed in "The Golden Age of Japanese Pencils, 1952-1967"

hed — Mon, 03 Mar 2025 18:17:11 +0000

Fascinating article. Seeing the "uni" and wondering if that was in fact the beginning of what we know as uni-ball was neat.

And since the authors' shop is local to me I'm going to have to go see what they've got!