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New comment by sersi in "The Boeing 747 begins its final descent"

sersi — Sun, 28 Jun 2026 21:47:23 +0000

Lufthansa first class on the 747 is definitely something to try once.

New comment by sersi in "A man was gifted his dream car by Kevin Mitnick, who he helped put in prison"

sersi — Wed, 24 Jun 2026 06:54:08 +0000

How would they have been able to install a hijacked Chrome if your computer was on the lock screen?

New comment by sersi in "Ice water drowning survival of young patient (2025)"

sersi — Fri, 19 Jun 2026 06:34:28 +0000

I've done it (it's standard in many countries). Honestly, it's a bit horrifying because you are completely at the mercy of someone else but it's bearable. Colonoscopy is definitely easier.

My only experience with global anesthesia was as a child waking up with a massive asthma attack unable to breathe so I try to avoid it.

New comment by sersi in "How to earn a billion dollars"

sersi — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 05:41:49 +0000

Would jk rowling have been as popular without the marketing from her publisher? What about the work of the editor from the publisher?

New comment by sersi in "Statement on US government directive to suspend access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5"

sersi — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 06:52:09 +0000

Cheaply designed datacenter that don't use a close loop for watercooling and use too much water are a problem

New comment by sersi in "Reading for pleasure is sharply down among schoolkids, report shows"

sersi — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 07:25:45 +0000

At the Montessori school my kid goes to, children read a lot. They have access to the Library, can ask the teacher to go there when they need/want to. The school has a no phone policy, children are not allowed to bring them to school. Computers are only in the computer room for children to access when they want to do research and there are no laptops in the class room.

It works well and the children are both happy and do well academically

New comment by sersi in "Building from zero after addiction, prison, and a felony"

sersi — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 13:56:47 +0000

> Let's say they are correct. What would the solution look like from there? Personally after being diagnosed at 36, I started taking concerta occasionally. Mostly once a week to deal with all the things I have a tendency to not do otherwise. It's helped a lot.

And I'm saying this as someone who lost circa 120k in work I never invoiced because of ADHD

New comment by sersi in "Can the stockmarket swallow Anthropic, SpaceX and OpenAI?"

sersi — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 10:29:18 +0000

Interesting, thanks. Actually slightly cheaper than I expected.

New comment by sersi in "Codex just found a "workaround" of not having sudo on my PC"

sersi — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 10:28:27 +0000

oh I just told it it could install any dependencies it needed. To be fair, the VM runs arch linux and well arch does come with foot guns.

New comment by sersi in "Toy Story 5 shows 'terror' of children's screen addiction, says Tom Hanks"

sersi — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 10:25:46 +0000

which one?

New comment by sersi in "Can the stockmarket swallow Anthropic, SpaceX and OpenAI?"

sersi — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 03:41:21 +0000

Only $3mm needed?

New comment by sersi in "Can the stockmarket swallow Anthropic, SpaceX and OpenAI?"

sersi — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 03:38:18 +0000

If the S&P adopt those rules would there be any index fund that is S&P without the new rules?

New comment by sersi in "United Airlines 767 returns to Newark after Bluetooth name sparks alert"

sersi — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 14:25:03 +0000

Usually the mile high club doesn't involve walking around in the nude though?

New comment by sersi in "Codex just found a "workaround" of not having sudo on my PC"

sersi — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 09:25:57 +0000

It's why all of my agent run in a vm. I refuse to have it run on my own machine. Claude code once managed to render the vm unbootable, I was back in action 5 minutes later after regenerating the vm

New comment by sersi in "United Airlines 767 returns to Newark after Bluetooth name sparks alert"

sersi — Sun, 31 May 2026 14:42:57 +0000

> Main post: https://old.reddit.com/r/unitedairlines/comments/1tse6mq/ua_...

> All the redditors on board: https://old.reddit.com/r/unitedairlines/comments/1tse6mq/ua_...

> A passenger with a hilariously illtimed username: https://old.reddit.com/r/unitedairlines/comments/1tse6mq/ua_...

New comment by sersi in "SF startup is testing robots in Airbnbs, and trashing them, lawsuit claims"

sersi — Fri, 29 May 2026 11:09:49 +0000

I was on the fence about investing in them and ultimately passed on it. Reading the article, glad I did so.

New comment by sersi in "I manage teams without a single call"

sersi — Tue, 26 May 2026 14:03:45 +0000

I don't see those lines in the article text anymore. Wonder if the author edited them out..

New comment by sersi in "Green card seekers must leave U.S. to apply, Trump administration says"

sersi — Sun, 24 May 2026 03:13:10 +0000

And how much does the Trump administration understand and embrace the values and worldview that created the American political system. How much do they agree with the Founding Fathers? ‘We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.’?

New comment by sersi in "Why Japanese companies do so many different things"

sersi — Fri, 22 May 2026 20:53:10 +0000

I worked for a software consulting company in Japan, we had a contract with a big well known company. The contract gave a precise date for the delivery with huge fines if we delivered late but there was also a long bug fixing period after the initial delivery.

So we had overtime for 2 months working from 10am to 4am just so that we could deliver the "feature complete" software. If any bugs were found they were classified as either blockers (feature cannot be shown without) or scheduled to be fixed after delivery.

My boss knew it was stupid, he didn't like it but it was the standard contract from that big Japanese company and we were small and they weren't going to change that.

New comment by sersi in "Claude for Small Business"

sersi — Thu, 14 May 2026 09:16:40 +0000

Sometimes watered down though. When I summon the soul of Linus, he is nowhere near as scathing or biting as the original :)