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New comment by neutronicus in "Ousted Savannah police officer gave ICE agent husband access to Flock system"

neutronicus — Mon, 19 Oct 2026 15:38:12 +0000

As you intuited, I'm in the US.

It seems like our federal system is an obstacle. I'm in Maryland and a huge fraction of our biggest habitual traffic violators somehow get Virginia license plates.

> Do other countries not enforce fines?

Where I live (Baltimore, MD) the 10 vehicles with the most unpaid speeding tickets owe $81,000 between them. So you can push 10k in unpaid fines and remain on the road somehow.

New comment by neutronicus in "If you don't run your own LLM proxy, how do you know whats going on?"

neutronicus — Mon, 19 Oct 2026 15:20:28 +0000

“Lab” is a typo, it should be “lap”.

“Drop [an unwelcome surprise] in your lap” is a common English idiom.

New comment by neutronicus in "Ousted Savannah police officer gave ICE agent husband access to Flock system"

neutronicus — Mon, 19 Oct 2026 13:55:33 +0000

1. Enforcement via traffic stop is extremely dangerous to everyone, cops included.

2. Automated enforcement is generally in the form of fines, which habitual violators ignore.

3. Confiscating vehicles as an escalating consequence of automated enforcement is so unpopular no one will even suggest it.

New comment by neutronicus in "Simons Foundation launches $15M effort to help mathematicians navigate AI era"

neutronicus — Thu, 15 Oct 2026 19:03:09 +0000

Make protecting the data centers expensive enough that it isn't cheaper?

New comment by neutronicus in "Amazon pushes up prices across the Internet"

neutronicus — Wed, 14 Oct 2026 20:56:06 +0000

Maybe it's regional, here in Baltimore it's still head and shoulders above.

New comment by neutronicus in "Documents Add to Evidence in Climate Deception Case Against ExxonMobil"

neutronicus — Sun, 11 Oct 2026 15:23:55 +0000

Probably French style capital punishment

New comment by neutronicus in "I would like the value of my home to rise, while my property taxes fall"

neutronicus — Sat, 10 Oct 2026 16:10:52 +0000

It is my impression that predatory car loans are basically ubiquitous

New comment by neutronicus in "Keyboard differences between Windows and Macs"

neutronicus — Sat, 10 Oct 2026 11:09:06 +0000

What kids games require double clicking? All the ones my wife finds are basically just mobile interfaces in the browser now

New comment by neutronicus in "Keyboard differences between Windows and Macs"

neutronicus — Fri, 09 Oct 2026 17:41:04 +0000

Double-click is difficult for my six-year-old, too.

New comment by neutronicus in "Navier–Stokes Lost in Translation"

neutronicus — Wed, 07 Oct 2026 17:56:57 +0000

Hmm.

I don’t think that actually explains the idea of a momentum density transport equation well at all.

New comment by neutronicus in "Sharing AI progress in mathematics"

neutronicus — Wed, 07 Oct 2026 02:36:15 +0000

iPhone would be my guess

New comment by neutronicus in "EDG C++ front-end goes public"

neutronicus — Thu, 01 Oct 2026 14:03:37 +0000

Wouldn't it be Microsoft, since they rely on it for IntelliSense?

New comment by neutronicus in "DraftKings is using AI to behaviorally target chronic gamblers"

neutronicus — Wed, 30 Sep 2026 00:53:02 +0000

Yes, banning video games would probably be a win for society.

No, you probably won’t get anyone to admit to that here.

New comment by neutronicus in "Windows 11½"

neutronicus — Mon, 28 Sep 2026 20:56:37 +0000

I use the KDE Plasma Fedora. It feels basically like Windows 10.

New comment by neutronicus in "Plunging test scores are a slow-moving catastrophe"

neutronicus — Sun, 27 Sep 2026 21:15:20 +0000

Ramp up Adderall production and drug em into soldiers

New comment by neutronicus in "Plunging test scores are a slow-moving catastrophe"

neutronicus — Sat, 26 Sep 2026 19:53:20 +0000

This may be true, but I think the electorate would go fucking bananas for free GLP-1s.

New comment by neutronicus in "The Mafia may be keeping fentanyl out of Italy"

neutronicus — Fri, 25 Sep 2026 15:15:45 +0000

> how do you get the reins of a company that size with something antithesis to their product and identity?

Convince shareholders that it's been leaving money on the table.

New comment by neutronicus in "Toyota is taking the Corolla electric"

neutronicus — Fri, 25 Sep 2026 13:35:43 +0000

> Germany and Europe will recover from this eventually

One could characterize WWII that way, but maybe it still would have been better prevented.

New comment by neutronicus in "Ideas on modernizing the open-source desktop"

neutronicus — Thu, 24 Sep 2026 14:23:32 +0000

Yeah I just installed the KDE Fedora on a new laptop and it's basically just feels like a sparse Windows 10.

Feels like my work box, except it isn't constantly showing me ads and pegging 2 cores with an anti-malware process of some kind.

New comment by neutronicus in "Ideas on modernizing the open-source desktop"

neutronicus — Thu, 24 Sep 2026 14:14:46 +0000

The general argument in favor of the animation is that cues where the window went in case you minimized it (or whatever) accidentally.