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New comment by renata in "Škoda DuoBell: A bicycle bell that penetrates noise-cancelling headphones"

renata — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 17:35:17 +0000

And seems to sound like a normal bell, or maybe that's just my ears. I guess I can see why they didn't put it up front, but that was also all I wanted.

New comment by renata in "Google Antigravity just deleted the contents of whole drive"

renata — Tue, 02 Dec 2025 18:17:20 +0000

Yeah, there were definitely ö and û and © and stuff too, just anything outside the normal 0x20-0x7E.

New comment by renata in "Google Antigravity just deleted the contents of whole drive"

renata — Mon, 01 Dec 2025 14:22:20 +0000

As I recall pseudoloc is just randomly picking individual characters to substitute that look like the Latin letters to keep it readable for testing, so it would be something like рг (Cyrillic) ο (Greek)... etc, and can change from run to run. It would also artificially pad or shorten terms to catch cases where the (usually German) term would be much longer or a (usually CJK) term would be much shorter and screw up alignment or breaks.

New comment by renata in "ICE plans cash rewards for private bounty hunters to locate and track immigrants"

renata — Sun, 02 Nov 2025 18:58:15 +0000

Heck, they even make TV shows about it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dog_the_Bounty_Hunter !

New comment by renata in "People kept working, became healthier while on basic income: report (2020)"

renata — Fri, 18 Jul 2025 06:03:54 +0000

Technically it was because businesses were banned from raising wages during WW2 but benefits were exempt.

New comment by renata in "Trump's Tariffs Wipe Out over $6T on Wall Street in Epic Two-Day Rout"

renata — Sat, 05 Apr 2025 16:17:08 +0000

Well, we can't count on the entire rest of the world having all their factories bombed and being the only nation with reasonable manufacturing capability all the time.

New comment by renata in "Nintendo unveils Switch 2 ahead of June 5 launch"

renata — Thu, 03 Apr 2025 05:08:24 +0000

Nintendo is going to be doing digital game lending now so that's an interesting addition. I'll probably still buy physical since the first-party games hold their value so well.

New comment by renata in "Real Chilling Effects"

renata — Mon, 10 Mar 2025 17:49:43 +0000

But if you own the biggest social network in the world and say "Taylor Swift is no longer allowed to advertise or promote her music on this platform", just because you don't agree with her politics, people might see that as censorship, or at least shady.

New comment by renata in "Why can't we screenshot frames from DRM-protected video on Apple devices?"

renata — Sun, 02 Mar 2025 03:38:39 +0000

Sure, that makes sense. Sorry again and I'll skip the epithets in the future.

New comment by renata in "Why can't we screenshot frames from DRM-protected video on Apple devices?"

renata — Sun, 02 Mar 2025 03:22:14 +0000

My apologies, I assumed that applied just to participants on HN discussions.

New comment by renata in "Why can't we screenshot frames from DRM-protected video on Apple devices?"

renata — Sun, 02 Mar 2025 00:44:17 +0000

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New comment by renata in "Microsoft is killing Skype"

renata — Sun, 02 Mar 2025 00:24:30 +0000

Signal also doesn't (on IOS at least), I just set it up for my parents and it asks for specific contacts.

New comment by renata in "Microsoft is killing Skype"

renata — Fri, 28 Feb 2025 22:10:11 +0000

I mean, Signal works as TOFU if you're not sharing state secrets or anything.

New comment by renata in "Breaking into apartment buildings in five minutes on my phone"

renata — Tue, 25 Feb 2025 21:44:43 +0000

911 or 9911 is usually a good shot too.

New comment by renata in "Partnering with the Shawnee Tribe for Civilization VII"

renata — Tue, 25 Feb 2025 18:21:40 +0000

Treaties specifically have to be approved by Congress and have approximately the same force of law and durability as the Constitution. Lately we mostly do "executive agreements" instead, which do not require Congressional approval and can pretty much be ignored on a whim by the next president. We could go back to treaties but considering Congress has given up so much of their responsibility to executive agencies because they can't even pass laws, it seems unlikely.

New comment by renata in "Why hasn't commercial air travel gotten any faster since the 1960s? (2009)"

renata — Mon, 10 Feb 2025 18:27:37 +0000

You were 100% right until the random racism thing. I'm completely aware I'm paying a bribe for favorable government treatment. Paying the bribe is better individually though. I'd even agree if you said Global Entry is only $30 more because your fingerprints are part of the payment.

New comment by renata in "Legalizing sports gambling was a mistake"

renata — Fri, 27 Sep 2024 11:21:33 +0000

I think a lot of the recent trading apps marketed to consumers give you a margin account by default though, I know Robinhood does. If you request a cash account you lose instant deposits and trading and have to wait for everything to clear normally.

New comment by renata in "Legalizing sports gambling was a mistake"

renata — Thu, 26 Sep 2024 22:46:49 +0000

America's requirements (https://www.finra.org/investors/investing/investment-product...):

> pattern day traders must maintain minimum equity of $25,000 in their margin account on any day that the customer day trades

> pattern day traders cannot trade in excess of their "day-trading buying power"

> If a pattern day trader exceeds the day-trading buying power limitation, a firm will issue a day-trading margin call, after which the pattern day trader will then have, at most, five business days to deposit funds to meet the call.

New comment by renata in "Harvard Professor Has Plan to Persuade Supreme Court Justices to Retire"

renata — Fri, 30 Aug 2024 18:19:00 +0000

Is assassinating Supreme Court Justices really an official duty of the president? Because that's all they said would be immune from prosecution.

New comment by renata in "Airlines in the U.S. charge separately for checked bags in order to reduce tax"

renata — Wed, 10 Apr 2024 00:16:24 +0000

20-30 years ago they didn't charge extra for checked bags so more people did that instead of dealing with the carry-on hassle.