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New comment by mminer237 in "FPS.cob: A first person shooter in COBOL"

mminer237 — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 22:49:41 +0000

Where you order ingredients doesn't take away from the preparation and cooking.

Pushing a button and having a machine turn those ingredients into a final product does eliminate its specialness.

New comment by mminer237 in "A Farmer Donated Land to Turn into a Park. The City Is Building a Data Center"

mminer237 — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 16:31:30 +0000

I think your quote is incorrect. I haven't seen that the family has done anything since the donation. It was unrelated neighbors who sued.

New comment by mminer237 in "Hacking your PC using your speaker without ever touching it"

mminer237 — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 12:13:12 +0000

If you can "just type stuff", it is absolutely trivial to download absolutely any payload you want as long as you have network access and your antivirus doesn't stop it.

New comment by mminer237 in "Preparing for KDE Plasma's Last X11-Supported Release"

mminer237 — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 03:30:22 +0000

Also, I still haven't found a clipboard manager that works normally on Wayland.

And I rarely get it to recognize all my monitors first try. And it crashes semi-regularly.

Not sure how much is inherent to Wayland vs Gnome, but life is way better since I upgraded to Xlibre & Cinnamon.

New comment by mminer237 in "EY Canada published a cybersecurity report and most citations were hallucinated"

mminer237 — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 23:02:06 +0000

To be honest, I don't use it at all professionally except I guess transcription or search engine summaries to point me to actual documents. I mostly come across it when a client makes a contract or legal memo on his own and sends it to me to review. If I'm drafting a lease or a trust or whatever, I already have forms that cover everything they need, have been used thousands of times, and can be easily tweaked as needed cuz I half have them memorized at this point.

I can't imagine using them for a court filing. Those are either so short that they're trivial or they require painstaking research, precision, and often citations for every single sentence.

New comment by mminer237 in "My 15-year-old relative was killed for refusing to marry her cousin"

mminer237 — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 21:38:18 +0000

Not that either is great, but there is a world of difference between saying "a 16-year-old can marry another 16-year-old if the couple and both sets of parents agree" (an often a judge too) and saying "a 12-year-old can marry a 30-year-old against her will".

New comment by mminer237 in "EY Canada published a cybersecurity report and most citations were hallucinated"

mminer237 — Sat, 30 May 2026 20:03:04 +0000

As an attorney, I feel like vetting AI output takes longer than just doing it from scratch, let alone versus just using a traditional form.

With AI, I have to read through everything, often explain why it's wrong, and then rewrite everything anyways. I mean, I get way more billables, but I think it's symptomatic of how AI loses its advantage of being quick and accessible to those who don't understand the subject matter.

New comment by mminer237 in "Who wins and who loses in prediction markets? Evidence from Polymarket"

mminer237 — Thu, 21 May 2026 23:51:20 +0000

You do not have to be an accredited investor for IBKR or Robinhood.

New comment by mminer237 in "Mini Shai-Hulud Strikes Again: 314 npm Packages Compromised"

mminer237 — Thu, 21 May 2026 04:33:09 +0000

Most malware isn't either, especially with Node.

New comment by mminer237 in "ABC News has taken all FiveThirtyEight articles offline"

mminer237 — Fri, 15 May 2026 22:25:41 +0000

This is true in some states, like Texas; but not in Delaware where Disney is incorporated and where directors and officers owe fiduciary duties of care and loyalty to both the corporation and the shareholders.

(Not legal advice. I'm not licensed in either state.)

New comment by mminer237 in "Gmail registration now requires scanning a QR code and sending a text message"

mminer237 — Mon, 11 May 2026 14:32:33 +0000

There is a big difference between advertising your services and trying to literally steal people's money.

New comment by mminer237 in "UAE to leave OPEC in blow to oil cartel"

mminer237 — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 16:12:38 +0000

The UAE is trying to expand its ability to ship oil through Fujairah, so this could potentially undermine both KSA/Iraq and Iran.

New comment by mminer237 in "South Korea police arrest man for posting AI photo of runaway wolf"

mminer237 — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 12:23:20 +0000

That would be so vague as to be useless.

New comment by mminer237 in "US Department of Justice has officially reclassified cannabis as less dangerous"

mminer237 — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 15:39:10 +0000

Biden did start the process, but Trump actually just cancelled that process and started a totally different process.

New comment by mminer237 in "All phones sold in the EU to have replaceable batteries from 2027"

mminer237 — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 16:20:42 +0000

Thanks. I couldn't find the text for the life of me. Glad to be wrong.

New comment by mminer237 in "All phones sold in the EU to have replaceable batteries from 2027"

mminer237 — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 16:19:23 +0000

I did actually look for the text for several minutes but couldn't find it anywhere. Thanks for doing what the news apparently couldn't.

New comment by mminer237 in "All phones sold in the EU to have replaceable batteries from 2027"

mminer237 — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 14:25:47 +0000

Heat guns and pryers are commercially available. I don't think this will change anything there.

New comment by mminer237 in "Sauna effect on heart rate"

mminer237 — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 14:18:18 +0000

Edit: I posted this accidentally when editing without noticing. Hypertrophy isn't necessarily a bad thing. I thought I was discarding the comment cuz I realized I was out of my depth. whoops

Please ignore my comment, though I will leave it to make the below comments less confusing.

Original: You don't want to "work out" your heart though. Cardiac hypertrophy is a bad thing.

The benefit of exercise is that your muscles become more oxygen-efficient. Your heart endures some stress now, so that it can work less in the future.

New comment by mminer237 in "I wrote to Flock's privacy contact to opt out of their domestic spying program"

mminer237 — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 18:21:42 +0000

If you go to Rent-A-Center and rent a DSLR, that doesn't make Rent-A-Center responsible for the pictures taken by their cameras.

New comment by mminer237 in "In Case of Emergency, Make Burrito Bison 3 (2017)"

mminer237 — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 13:45:13 +0000

They're still developing and posting, just not on their blog: https://www.facebook.com/juicybeast/

Made a few games since then as well: https://juicybeast.itch.io/