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New comment by roger110 in "US orders diplomats to fight data sovereignty initiatives"

roger110 — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 06:08:03 +0000

I didn't post a link

New comment by roger110 in "US orders diplomats to fight data sovereignty initiatives"

roger110 — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 06:06:25 +0000

It's almost every site big and small, so there must be plenty of cases where they don't even want to track users.

New comment by roger110 in "AIs can't stop recommending nuclear strikes in war game simulations"

roger110 — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 03:09:21 +0000

I don't really buy the nuclear deterrence thing. Say a country just invested in conventional military and went to war with a nuclear one, maybe even full-on invasion trying to capture it. They really gonna get nuked?

Arab nations did try to capture Israel multiple times, but maybe you don't count this because the war never swayed much in their favor.

New comment by roger110 in "AIs can't stop recommending nuclear strikes in war game simulations"

roger110 — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 03:01:36 +0000

What do they get for cooperation? This reminds me of Diplomacy (the board game), where there are clear scoring rules kinda like Prisoner's Dilemma.

New comment by roger110 in "Why isn't LA repaving streets?"

roger110 — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 02:53:41 +0000

The part about bike lanes is annoying. Whenever some city or district goes all in on bike lanes, the end result is almost nobody using those, and more congestion. It makes sense in like Manhattan.

New comment by roger110 in "Why isn't LA repaving streets?"

roger110 — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 02:48:47 +0000

Two people crashing in big SUVs/trucks aren't really safer than two people crashing in smaller cars. As for the difference, my guess is the driving standards.

New comment by roger110 in "Why isn't LA repaving streets?"

roger110 — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 02:43:52 +0000

It takes less power to accelerate a lighter car, but about the same to keep it moving. And some of the energy is recouped during gen-braking.

New comment by roger110 in "Why isn't LA repaving streets?"

roger110 — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 02:42:52 +0000

Was this that one year when the whole auto market was completely screwed up? This is normally not an issue. Also why do you need a hatchback instead of just a regular car?

New comment by roger110 in "Why isn't LA repaving streets?"

roger110 — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 02:41:21 +0000

This is the sole reason I've always hated Teslas. Didn't care that they're EV and new and have stereotypes about the drivers, just that the lights are way brighter. Or sometimes pointed further up out of the factory for some reason.

New comment by roger110 in "Why isn't LA repaving streets?"

roger110 — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 02:39:12 +0000

How are we being forced to buy SUVs? There are plenty of regular cars for sale.

New comment by roger110 in "US orders diplomats to fight data sovereignty initiatives"

roger110 — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 02:35:57 +0000

So every article on some site I try to read doesn't throw a full-page modal, sometimes with a delay. At least reader mode will sometimes ignore those banners.

New comment by roger110 in "New accounts on HN more likely to use em-dashes"

roger110 — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 02:31:01 +0000

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New comment by roger110 in "Windows 11 Notepad to support Markdown"

roger110 — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 02:30:15 +0000

The problem is usually when you're using notepad, it's in some situation where you don't want to install another exe. Like you're using someone else's PC or a random one in a library or something. This needs to be built in.

New comment by roger110 in "Windows 11 Notepad to support Markdown"

roger110 — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 02:27:12 +0000

I've never liked Windows but did appreciate the dumb simplicity of parts of it. Especially MS Paint. Like Mac Preview has always had all these nice advanced features, but lacked one simple thing most people need, a frikin pencil tool. Then they added a pencil but made it try to turn your scribbles into neat shapes every time... with fill.

New comment by roger110 in "US orders diplomats to fight data sovereignty initiatives"

roger110 — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 02:17:57 +0000

I'm pretty sure this is right, except does geo-blocking legally release you from the liability of an EU citizen using a VPN?

New comment by roger110 in "Never buy a .online domain"

roger110 — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 02:16:24 +0000

I mean .org or .gov is fine, just not stuff like .online or .info.

New comment by roger110 in "US orders diplomats to fight data sovereignty initiatives"

roger110 — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 02:12:44 +0000

I think the US basically sees DMA, GDPR, etc as a tariff

New comment by roger110 in "US orders diplomats to fight data sovereignty initiatives"

roger110 — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 02:09:39 +0000

How easy is it really, seeing how nearly every website ends up having them? Even if they don't think it's needed, seems the legal risk isn't worth.

New comment by roger110 in "US orders diplomats to fight data sovereignty initiatives"

roger110 — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 02:04:04 +0000

I want to be pedantic. It's not the company making my browser store/serve cookies, the browser is doing that itself. If you really care, you can turn that off or wipe after session. And third-party cookies in particular are already globally disabled in Firefox and Safari because they're almost useless besides tracking, but Chrome still has them.

New comment by roger110 in "US orders diplomats to fight data sovereignty initiatives"

roger110 — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 02:02:28 +0000

I don't care if the company does that