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New comment by rajbot in "Waymo pauses Atlanta service as its robotaxis keep driving into floods"

rajbot — Fri, 22 May 2026 00:44:20 +0000

A Waymo is already a dramatically safer driver than a human, and it isn’t even close.

There have been, and will continue to be, many cases drive into flood zones and die.

New comment by rajbot in "Tour de France confronts a new threat: Are cyclists using tiny motors?"

rajbot — Wed, 30 Jul 2025 00:17:08 +0000

From the article:

> Cycling now spends far more money on anti-doping programs than any other sport

New comment by rajbot in "DJ With Apple Music launches to enable subscribers to mix their own sets"

rajbot — Thu, 27 Mar 2025 04:11:27 +0000

Yes:

“”“ The popular DJing app djay by Algoriddim already offered Apple Music integration since last year, and additional platforms that are now supported include AlphaTheta, Serato, and inMusic's Engine DJ, Denon DJ, Numark, and RANE DJ. For example, you can now access the entire Apple Music catalog in AlphaTheta's rekordbox app for iPhone and iPad.

"Apple Music support has finally arrived," says the release notes for today's rekordbox update.”””

https://www.macrumors.com/2025/03/25/dj-with-apple-music/

New comment by rajbot in "Tj-actions/changed-files GitHub Action Compromised – used by over 23K repos"

rajbot — Sat, 15 Mar 2025 04:58:28 +0000

This GitHub Action is still compromised, leaving thousands of repositories vulnerable.

Is there anyone here from GitHub that can help get this fixed?

New comment by rajbot in "FaSTer: Atari ST Digital Magazine"

rajbot — Sat, 23 Nov 2024 14:25:35 +0000

After spending all week reviewing and commenting on gdocs, I have to say that the Papyrus interface looks really beautiful. I love how they implemented sticky notes!

New comment by rajbot in "I Don't Have Spotify"

rajbot — Tue, 12 Nov 2024 00:39:39 +0000

https://musicbrainz.org/doc/MusicBrainz_Identifier

> One of MusicBrainz' aims is to be the universal lingua franca for music by providing a reliable and unambiguous form of music identification; this music identification is performed through the use of MusicBrainz Identifiers (MBIDs).

New comment by rajbot in "Gandi's .com renewal price is up 60%"

rajbot — Sun, 22 Sep 2024 20:50:04 +0000

Route53 domains uses gandi as a registrar, so their prices go up when gandi’s go up

New comment by rajbot in "Xiaomi releases electric car $4K cheaper than Tesla's Model 3"

rajbot — Sat, 30 Mar 2024 00:17:46 +0000

Every company sells their first electric car at a loss.

The first Roadsters sold for $110K and the BOM alone was $145K per car. No one accused Tesla of price dumping.

New comment by rajbot in "15 years ago, I helped design Google Maps"

rajbot — Fri, 24 Nov 2023 03:47:17 +0000

""" Here’s how it could look: - Keep the search box - Keep the bottom bar - Remove everything else from the map """

If you followed these suggestions you would end up with something that looks very much like Apple Maps

New comment by rajbot in "Naomi Wu and the Silence That Speaks Volumes"

rajbot — Thu, 17 Aug 2023 16:10:41 +0000

It is a dupe, but it seems none of the comments there address the actual trigger for silencing her, which admittedly is at the bottom of that difficult to parse post.

She believes she was silenced for disclosing an IME vulnerability that allows Chinese authorities to read Signal messages via third-party android keyboards that are extremely prevalent in China.

New comment by rajbot in "How do we save water: Stop growing alfalfa in Imperial County"

rajbot — Wed, 16 Aug 2023 14:53:43 +0000

The alfalfa growers and the industries they support, such as the beef industry, have successfully convinced Californians that their water issues are entirely due to growing almonds. There have been so many news stories about growing almonds in the California desert, but almost none about alfalfa.

New comment by rajbot in "Is Mastodon mainly for far left?"

rajbot — Mon, 31 Jul 2023 16:59:04 +0000

There are plenty of right-wing mastodon instances full of climate deniers. Trump’s TruthSocial is one, gab.com is another.

New comment by rajbot in "Backup driver in first death by fully autonomous car pleads guilty"

rajbot — Sun, 30 Jul 2023 16:35:45 +0000

If the backup driver is guilty of failing to stop the primary driver of killing someone, then that means the primary driver is also guilty of killing someone.

New comment by rajbot in "Millennials Are Not an Exception. They’ve Moved to the Right"

rajbot — Mon, 12 Jun 2023 03:51:31 +0000

Their data goes back to 1992, the start of the Clinton presidency.

New comment by rajbot in "The Bay Area German bar that brought down Apple’s famed iPhone security"

rajbot — Sun, 11 Jun 2023 17:15:17 +0000

Click on the special coverage section -> three dot menu -> block channel.

Or better yet, just don’t use their feed.

New comment by rajbot in "The Bay Area German bar that brought down Apple’s famed iPhone security"

rajbot — Sun, 11 Jun 2023 16:25:49 +0000

You can. First you can just use it like Reader Mode. Safari -> share menu -> open in News for any HN link you click on that has too many popups.

Or, in the News following tab, click Edit, remove all “suggested by Siri” topics, and block low-quality channels. I blocked the National Review, WSJ, USA Today, and People Magazine and my feed got a lot better.

New comment by rajbot in "The Bay Area German bar that brought down Apple’s famed iPhone security"

rajbot — Sun, 11 Jun 2023 14:50:33 +0000

If you have an Apple News/One subscription you can read it as this link. Much more readable, and the publisher still gets ad revenue:

https://apple.news/AlNrxUYEHQPGfrBna1YfVqQ

New comment by rajbot in "Millennials Are Not an Exception. They’ve Moved to the Right"

rajbot — Thu, 01 Jun 2023 15:12:10 +0000

The NYT doesn’t mention that white people of all generations lean republican, and non-white people of all generations are strongly for democrats. White millennials identify as or lean republican 45% to 43%, while non-white millennials identify as democrats, 61% to 23%.

This is important because as the population is getting more diverse, gerrymandering districts and suppressing non-white votes are more important than ever for republicans.

https://www.pewresearch.org/politics/2015/04/07/a-deep-dive-...

New comment by rajbot in "Apple brings Final Cut Pro and Logic Pro to iPad"

rajbot — Tue, 09 May 2023 15:26:31 +0000

It’s not. I bought FCP X in 2011 for $299. If you are just counting my own usage, that is $25/yr over the last 12 years, but I get to keep using for many more years, and both my kids use it through family sharing as well, so we are down to $5/year per person or less, without having to mess with yet another subscription.

I used to work on a competing product, and subscription pricing will work better for most people who are in this market, so my personal use case is an outlier I know.

Edit: all that said, I’m excited to be the first person to subscribe to Logic on the iPad. I hope that subscription is Family Sharing enabled as well!

New comment by rajbot in "Apple brings Final Cut Pro and Logic Pro to iPad"

rajbot — Tue, 09 May 2023 15:14:42 +0000

Although I understand the reasoning, I’m sad to see the move to subscription pricing.

I bought Final Cut and Logic a long time ago in the Mac App Store, and now my kids get to use them through Family Sharing. One of them has written hundreds of songs in Logic and published an album.

The one-time purchase of Final Cut and Logic with Family Sharing and a lifetime of upgrades has been such an unbelievable value for such powerful software.