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New comment by jim33442 in "United Airlines 767 returns to Newark after Bluetooth name sparks alert"

jim33442 — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 00:47:12 +0000

TSA precheck was originally for avoiding removing shoes, belts, and laptops. I had it at some point and gave up because random lines kept making me remove stuff anyway, but only telling me that after my bag was already taken aside for search, so it wasn't worth.

Newer xray machines don't require anyone to remove laptops. It's about 50/50 whether I get a new machine lately. Just today at SFO, had to remove laptop but not shoes.

New comment by jim33442 in "Iran stops negotiations with U.S., vows to 'completely' block Strait of Hormuz"

jim33442 — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 00:21:48 +0000

Was Reza Shah any better? He was overthrown by WW2 Allies, mainly UK and USSR. Anyway I wouldn't put it past the US to have messed up Iran during the coup against the PM, but in that case it's the Israeli control I was complaining about. Anything we do in that region is probably not in our own interest.

But Cuba and Venezuela govts deserved what they got, and it was plenty of our business being in our backyard.

New comment by jim33442 in "Iran stops negotiations with U.S., vows to 'completely' block Strait of Hormuz"

jim33442 — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 00:16:22 +0000

Yes them

New comment by jim33442 in "Is Python Becoming Pinyin?"

jim33442 — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 22:34:51 +0000

I was about to guess that Pinyin was yet another Python package manager, that you have to install with pipx

New comment by jim33442 in "Is Python Becoming Pinyin?"

jim33442 — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 22:34:12 +0000

Both of these started as scripting languages

New comment by jim33442 in "Is Python Becoming Pinyin?"

jim33442 — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 22:30:35 +0000

Yeah, I've thought about this since I do prefer JS as a language... Always thought the main advantage of Python was interaction with C libs. Which is also why CPython was the only serious option for an interpreter, even though things like PyPy were faster.

New comment by jim33442 in "Is Python Becoming Pinyin?"

jim33442 — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 22:28:32 +0000

These articles keep coming up, and the author never actually tries agentic coding in Rust vs Python. You will probably find that the LLM does better with Python for kinda similar reasons as humans. It's succinct and can be rerun quickly while you iterate. There's also the difference in training data. If/when a human needs to review code or intervene, same applies.

Can't say I've tried Rust, but my AI tooling has always been noticeably worse at doing comparable tasks in C++ instead of Python. Not just toy examples but real systems in prod with testing, maintenance, oncall, feature rollouts, etc.

New comment by jim33442 in "Iran stops negotiations with U.S., vows to 'completely' block Strait of Hormuz"

jim33442 — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 22:07:43 +0000

I'm fine with Pax Americana, even if you call it American imperialism, but this whole involvement with Israel and its problems is not in our interest. It's abundantly clear that we have traitors in our government working for another country. Sure Iran has a terrible regime, not supposed to be our problem though.

New comment by jim33442 in "United Airlines 767 returns to Newark after Bluetooth name sparks alert"

jim33442 — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 20:04:28 +0000

The cheapo ones probably won't have it. Any brand name will have its own app that will have a rename feature like half the time. Not particularly expensive brands either.

New comment by jim33442 in "United Airlines 767 returns to Newark after Bluetooth name sparks alert"

jim33442 — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 08:58:46 +0000

I mean something like taking control of the plane or else they blow it up

New comment by jim33442 in "United Airlines 767 returns to Newark after Bluetooth name sparks alert"

jim33442 — Sun, 31 May 2026 22:55:59 +0000

That's basically how it is in the US, except that sometimes there aren't enough machines so the lines are long, and it's the spinning scan thing rather than a metal detector. Usually no line in major California airports when I've gone. NYC is hit-or-miss. Just did a transfer through LHR and the security line was insanely long.

It used to be much worse though. I think the new machinery has made the difference.

The bus/train is different because they're harder to weaponize. Everything we got was a response to the 9/11 attacks.

New comment by jim33442 in "United Airlines 767 returns to Newark after Bluetooth name sparks alert"

jim33442 — Sun, 31 May 2026 22:50:06 +0000

Ah so the wording suggests that it's a thought/speech crime, not that the particular event is outlawed. Yeah that's still nuts.

New comment by jim33442 in "Steam Deck sells out in North America within 24 hours of price hike"

jim33442 — Sun, 31 May 2026 22:47:01 +0000

Isn't the whole point of this thing the hardware? Cause it runs free software, but you can't find many pocket PCs. But yeah the specs don't matter so much.

New comment by jim33442 in "Uv is fantastic, but its package management UX is a mess"

jim33442 — Sun, 31 May 2026 22:44:29 +0000

Not sure. Those lockfiles don't seem really human-readable. I wouldn't approve a change that randomly changes the lockfile without explanation, but I would also want the project file to set the requirements rather than relying on the lockfile, cause that's not the lockfile's job.

New comment by jim33442 in "United Airlines 767 returns to Newark after Bluetooth name sparks alert"

jim33442 — Sun, 31 May 2026 22:41:15 +0000

Nowadays I don't need to remove shoes in the US. I vaguely remember times it was randomly required or not, not sure when, and back when it was always required. I'm not TSA precheck or anything. But yeah we have the liquid limit, which always seemed like the one dumbest thing to me, maybe even a way to sell drinks.

New comment by jim33442 in "United Airlines 767 returns to Newark after Bluetooth name sparks alert"

jim33442 — Sun, 31 May 2026 22:39:04 +0000

I mean for a flight that doesn't go to/from the US.

New comment by jim33442 in "United Airlines 767 returns to Newark after Bluetooth name sparks alert"

jim33442 — Sun, 31 May 2026 22:26:47 +0000

Honestly I didn't think about that. Maybe they didn't either. Good example of why seeing something vaguely threatening and out of the ordinary is a reason to turn around, even if you don't know why exactly they'd do it.

New comment by jim33442 in "United Airlines 767 returns to Newark after Bluetooth name sparks alert"

jim33442 — Sun, 31 May 2026 21:56:11 +0000

I agree. Sure you can still get weapons through screening, in fact I've accidentally done it twice with like 4" pocket knives, but not sure what the odds are. A lot of the "security theater" argument seems to be annoyance at having to go through TSA, cause what's the alternative, just barely screen people like before?

New comment by jim33442 in "United Airlines 767 returns to Newark after Bluetooth name sparks alert"

jim33442 — Sun, 31 May 2026 21:45:39 +0000

Does that actually get you arrested, or do you have to go to a Palestinian Action protest? Not that there's that big of a difference.

New comment by jim33442 in "United Airlines 767 returns to Newark after Bluetooth name sparks alert"

jim33442 — Sun, 31 May 2026 21:38:24 +0000

Passenger trying to warn the crew would leave the device on