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New comment by raldi in "On A.I. regulation and messaging"

raldi — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 10:03:01 +0000

I don’t understand your edit; can you quote an example switch?

New comment by raldi in "Gateway 2000's hilariously bad ads in the 90s (Part II)"

raldi — Sat, 08 Aug 2026 15:09:30 +0000

“These are the worst ads I’ve ever seen.”

“But you have seen them.”

New comment by raldi in "GhostLock, a stack-UAF that has existed in all Linux distributions for 15 years"

raldi — Mon, 13 Jul 2026 04:02:49 +0000

I don't actually see that change, unless I misunderstand the meaning of toptext.

New comment by raldi in "Let's Reinvent the Scroll Wheel"

raldi — Fri, 10 Jul 2026 17:08:13 +0000

This post would be improved by adding a sentence explaining what ScrollPods are. I don't mean the technical details that you promise in an upcoming post, but rather anything whatsoever about what it's like to use them.

New comment by raldi in "How does a pull-back car work? Illustrated teardown"

raldi — Wed, 01 Jul 2026 00:43:37 +0000

Why is the wind-up gear needed? Couldn't the axle be connected directly to the spring gear?

New comment by raldi in "A stray "j" ruined my evening"

raldi — Sun, 28 Jun 2026 13:15:45 +0000

Yeah, I don't understand this. What broken tool is turning newlines into j?

New comment by raldi in "Underarm bowling incident of 1981"

raldi — Sat, 27 Jun 2026 15:39:46 +0000

Taking a knee to lock in an American football victory used to be considered unsportsmanlike, but then the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miracle_at_the_Meadowlands happened, where the Giants were up 17-12 with 30 seconds left and played normally. They fumbled the ball, the Eagles recovered it and scored a touchdown, the Giants' offensive coordinator was summarily fired and never worked in the NFL again, and ever since, dropping to your knee when it ensures your win is standard, accepted, and even sometimes called the Victory Formation.

New comment by raldi in "Why does kinetic energy increase quadratically, not linearly, with speed? (2011)"

raldi — Sat, 27 Jun 2026 05:13:51 +0000

Because if the one falling 20ft lands on a seesaw, the other side of it will toss two balls each of the same mass 10ft up.

New comment by raldi in "The Doorman's Fallacy in action"

raldi — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 21:18:05 +0000

To me this sounds more like the Icarus Fallacy: "The lesson of isn't don't fly close to the sun, it's make better fucking wings."

New comment by raldi in "Japanese symbols that speak without words"

raldi — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 05:35:16 +0000

I've never heard of a big red L but I've known about the Japanese new-driver icon for decades.

New comment by raldi in "Claude Fable is relentlessly proactive"

raldi — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 03:41:49 +0000

Do you think it’s dangerous to be in a car going at freeway speed? Do you ever do that anyway, even though you could be walking instead?

New comment by raldi in "Dopamine Fracking"

raldi — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 13:18:18 +0000

People were definitely addicted to IRC.

New comment by raldi in "Magnifica Humanitas (Encyclical Letter)"

raldi — Mon, 25 May 2026 14:21:55 +0000

Priests will read it and then talk to their congregations about it on Sundays throughout the year, if not explicitly, then in how it shapes their homilies.

New comment by raldi in "Math Jokes in Alice in Wonderland"

raldi — Mon, 18 May 2026 14:31:35 +0000

Yeah, every US sixth-grader can instantly tell you 12x12=144 but will have to puzzle out 2x13 the long way.

New comment by raldi in "Math Jokes in Alice in Wonderland"

raldi — Mon, 18 May 2026 13:40:56 +0000

I agree. She’ll never get to 20 because kids only do the times table up to 12.

New comment by raldi in "The map that keeps Burning Man honest"

raldi — Sat, 09 May 2026 08:03:52 +0000

Looks like something that would pop a tire if you drive over one

New comment by raldi in "The map that keeps Burning Man honest"

raldi — Thu, 07 May 2026 18:41:38 +0000

The Org should make a deal with a manufacturer to produce some huge bulk quantity of these and just sell them pre-cut to camps.

New comment by raldi in "The map that keeps Burning Man honest"

raldi — Thu, 07 May 2026 16:00:57 +0000

The best solution I know of is to get three-link segments of chain and put one on each screw as it goes into the ground. That not only marks the spot, it also gives you a flexible attachment point which is useful in all sorts of situations. (Two links would be pinned in a stationary fashion.)

Biggest problem is it’s a pain in the ass to chop up all that chain, and nobody sells them in pre-cut lengths.

New comment by raldi in "How did Banksy erect a statue in Central London?"

raldi — Sun, 03 May 2026 23:02:29 +0000

When I click the actual link I get a paywall.

New comment by raldi in "California high-speed rail price tag jumps to $231B, nearly 7x 2008 estimate"

raldi — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 21:01:55 +0000

Can't blame unions, considering how easily Europe gets it done. Most likely issue is that in the US, every landowner and minor municipality is empowered to delay and obstruct these projects and thus milk them.