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New comment by kqr2 in "Car Seats as Contraception"

kqr2 — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 07:48:21 +0000

Why didn't your kids like them?

New comment by kqr2 in "Halt and Catch Fire: TV’s best drama you’ve probably never heard of (2021)"

kqr2 — Wed, 18 Feb 2026 04:02:39 +0000

Syllabus:

https://bits.ashleyblewer.com/halt-and-catch-fire-syllabus/

Code as Design: Three Essays by Jack W. Reeves

kqr2 — Sat, 03 Jan 2026 05:52:05 +0000

Article URL: https://docs.gezam.org/Code%20As%20Design.pdf(2005)[pdf]

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46473179

Points: 1

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New comment by kqr2 in "Debian adds LoongArch as officially supported architecture"

kqr2 — Tue, 23 Dec 2025 09:08:40 +0000

Didn't Richard Stallman use a Lemote Loongson computer before?

https://stallman.org/stallman-computing.html

Cryptology and Physical Security (2003) [pdf]

kqr2 — Tue, 25 Nov 2025 07:36:02 +0000

Article URL: https://www.mattblaze.org/papers/mk.pdf

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46043267

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by kqr2 in "Studies increasingly find links between air pollutants and dementia"

kqr2 — Sun, 02 Nov 2025 16:24:56 +0000

Any recommendations for a good air quality monitor?

New comment by kqr2 in "US economy added just 22,000 jobs in August, unemployment highest in 4 yrs"

kqr2 — Fri, 05 Sep 2025 17:23:39 +0000

But wasnt JPow's slow reaction to initial inflation one of the main problems to begin with? Although the data was signaling rising inflation he kept saying it's "transitory". Now he says we need to look closely at the data which is what he should have done in the first place.

So You Want to Abolish Property Taxes

kqr2 — Wed, 03 Sep 2025 09:16:06 +0000

Article URL: https://progressandpoverty.substack.com/p/so-you-want-to-abolish-property-taxes

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45113743

Points: 5

# Comments: 1

New comment by kqr2 in "UMichigan study: EVs are cleaner than ICEs over average vehicle life"

kqr2 — Thu, 28 Aug 2025 19:13:33 +0000

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44670401

This comment says EVs generate 10-15% more tire dust which is a significant ocean pollutant.

Does anyone know the impact on human health?

New comment by kqr2 in "UMichigan study: EVs are cleaner than ICEs over average vehicle life"

kqr2 — Thu, 28 Aug 2025 10:21:12 +0000

Less CO2 for sure but do any of these studies also factor in increased tire dust from EVs since they are heavier and wear out tires faster?

New comment by kqr2 in "VHS-C: When a lazy idea stumbles towards perfection [video]"

kqr2 — Fri, 22 Aug 2025 12:15:02 +0000

Every time I hear about VHS I like to bring up Marion Stokes : https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/marion-stokes-televisi...

California affordable housing programs on the chopping block after SCOTUS rules

kqr2 — Sat, 02 Aug 2025 16:35:33 +0000

Article URL: https://calmatters.org/housing/2025/08/affordable-housing-developer-fees/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44768986

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by kqr2 in "Universe expected to decay in 10⁷⁸ years, much sooner than previously thought"

kqr2 — Mon, 12 May 2025 23:50:07 +0000

TLDR: Hawking radiation can cause things besides black holes to evaporate.

  Man and moon: 10^90 years

Because the researchers were at it anyway, they also calculated how long it takes for the moon and a human to evaporate via Hawking-like radiation. That's 10^90 years. Of course, the researchers subtly note, there are other processes that may cause humans and the moon to disappear faster than calculated.

New comment by kqr2 in "Car companies are in a billion-dollar software war"

kqr2 — Mon, 12 May 2025 06:28:22 +0000

They also dictate that their suppliers will all use AUTOSAR which is a legacy framework that makes even toggling a GPIO difficult.

https://www.reddit.com/r/embedded/comments/leq366/comment/gm...

  you'll spend a few more months sitting in online seminars while some talking head explains why it takes 6 hours to configure a million goddamn things so their garbage tool can shit out an entire Italian resaurant's worth of spaghetti code just to blink an LED at 1Hz. Except it's not 1Hz, it's 10Hz, or 0.1Hz, or some other bullshit that you didn't want, because you muttered the wrong incantation to the configuration utility somewhere around step 2 out of 800, so guess what, you get to back and do the entire fucking thing again.