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New comment by skeeter2020 in "Judge relying wholly on AI in order is covered by judicial immunity, court rules"

skeeter2020 — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 16:51:15 +0000

>> When a judge has made a terrible decision for dumb reasons, you appeal it

This is not how the legal system works. You need grounds for the Appeal - such as procedural - AND need to get another court to agree with your grounds AND be willing to have the case heard again. None of these are gimmes, and they all take time and money.

New comment by skeeter2020 in "Asus Bike Booster"

skeeter2020 — Sun, 16 Aug 2026 13:31:58 +0000

Good plan; instead of a decent bike lock, and asking for some (read: ANY) enforcement & punishment of bike theft I'll just "improve society".

New comment by skeeter2020 in "Asus Bike Booster"

skeeter2020 — Sun, 16 Aug 2026 13:30:10 +0000

nobody steals bikes to buy milk for their baby either.

New comment by skeeter2020 in "Asus Bike Booster"

skeeter2020 — Sun, 16 Aug 2026 13:28:28 +0000

bikepacking bikes rarely have mud guards; maybe something small on the front. dropbar touring bikes often have full fenders though.

New comment by skeeter2020 in "Asus Bike Booster"

skeeter2020 — Sun, 16 Aug 2026 13:27:35 +0000

You must be from somewhere where winter means rain vs. large amounts of snow. I can see if you're doing a road ride with a group (where they often run tight) they'd ask for fenders. Here a road bike would be useless once winter hits.

New comment by skeeter2020 in "Asus Bike Booster"

skeeter2020 — Sun, 16 Aug 2026 13:24:47 +0000

and no one who rides a legit road bike would be seen dead on a "road ebike".

New comment by skeeter2020 in "Asus Bike Booster"

skeeter2020 — Sun, 16 Aug 2026 13:23:43 +0000

>> so I can pay more attention to riding safely and effortlessly.

If shifting gears takes to much of your attention, I'm concerned for all of us, and why do you need to pay more attention to riding "effortlessly"?

New comment by skeeter2020 in "Lovable raises $400M Series C"

skeeter2020 — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 18:20:20 +0000

>> and he's still figuring out how to/if he wants to monetize it

that implies that he's probably not paying for Lovable, and thus their 13B+ valuation is built on influencers and eyeballs?

New comment by skeeter2020 in "5th Heat Dome Expands Across Europe: 40°C+ Target Western and Central Europe"

skeeter2020 — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 15:54:48 +0000

Solar maybe NOW is, but this isn't a 5 or even 10 year old problem. And cost effective compared to what? We'll consider sending people to Mars to save humanity but reactors are "too expensive"?

New comment by skeeter2020 in "uBlock Origin Is Giving Up the Fight to Keep Ads Off Facebook"

skeeter2020 — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 15:50:10 +0000

remember the amazing show "community"?

Elroy: “I got a job through LinkedIn.”

Annie: “What? That’s crazy! People use LinkedIn?”

Elroy: “No, LinkedIn hired me to help figure out why people don’t use it.”

New comment by skeeter2020 in "License plate reader searches should require a warrant"

skeeter2020 — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 15:42:52 +0000

If your police force installed officers in parked cruisers at every intersection to record license plate numbers and then digitized that information so you can build up a dossier of times and locations for a given individual without probable cause that would be both illegal and a huge waste of resources. ALPR just do it at scale so it's cheaper; still illegal without cause.

New comment by skeeter2020 in "New Bedford police officer accused of using Flock cameras to track ex-partner"

skeeter2020 — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 04:15:03 +0000

it's not about privacy in the moment, courts have already said flock is equivalent to warrantless tracking; it's more about privacy in all time-based aspects of your life: where you go, when you go there and the multitude of second order details you can easily infer from this.

New comment by skeeter2020 in "New Bedford police officer accused of using Flock cameras to track ex-partner"

skeeter2020 — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 04:12:03 +0000

patrol officer is more like a junior QA in your analogy

New comment by skeeter2020 in "US hires over 2k video gamers as air traffic controllers"

skeeter2020 — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 01:01:38 +0000

I played A LOT of flight controller on my ipod / ipad back in the day, and habour master too, and you need to start from scratch when you have a collision, just like in real life!

New comment by skeeter2020 in "$580M undersea cable rerouted to avoid the grave of Dobby the House Elf"

skeeter2020 — Tue, 11 Aug 2026 17:26:20 +0000

it's a nice change that a big company suffers the result of an "organic hallucination" brought on by people associating the location with a fictional event; how do we make this happen to AI companies?

New comment by skeeter2020 in "$580M undersea cable rerouted to avoid the grave of Dobby the House Elf"

skeeter2020 — Tue, 11 Aug 2026 17:24:28 +0000

maybe go back and watch the movie; it shows Harry digging his grave slightly above the high tide line, same location.

New comment by skeeter2020 in "$580M undersea cable rerouted to avoid the grave of Dobby the House Elf"

skeeter2020 — Tue, 11 Aug 2026 17:23:06 +0000

When we're talking damage to a sensitive environment an ecologist would have the opposite answer to yours. If you dig up a natural environment you can't "plant seed" to reclaim it.

New comment by skeeter2020 in "Analyzing data from Silicon Valley ventures and founders prosecuted for fraud"

skeeter2020 — Sun, 09 Aug 2026 19:47:42 +0000

This is where PE came from originally, but then scaled to commercial bank / pension fund levels of investment. At least VC and Founders are aligned and honest about their goals (to the moon!); I've seen PE destroy more solid / non-rocketship businesses than VC

New comment by skeeter2020 in "Saying No"

skeeter2020 — Sun, 09 Aug 2026 19:42:49 +0000

This post struck me as overly simplistic; not sure if that was intentional for illustrative purposes, or the classic "I read 50 pages of this management book last night and now will apply it to everything" approach. The answer is almost always the third way, where you both get pretty much all of the essence of what you're after, but not through oppositional simple paths. You don't negotiate WHAT you get, but HOW you get there. The post here is very one-sided and confrontational.

New comment by skeeter2020 in "I added a real-time chat to my blog, people used it to attack me"

skeeter2020 — Thu, 06 Aug 2026 15:19:02 +0000

>> The countermeasures

>> The first and most obvious one was a filter of inappropriate words and expressions.

Wouldn't the first and most obvious one be "drop real-time chat" from a blog?