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New comment by staticautomatic in "EmDash – A spiritual successor to WordPress that solves plugin security"

staticautomatic — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 01:18:09 +0000

Is this not often trivially solved with islands?

New comment by staticautomatic in "Google's 200M-parameter time-series foundation model with 16k context"

staticautomatic — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 20:07:10 +0000

No. Prophet is based on curve-fitting.

New comment by staticautomatic in "Microsoft: Copilot is for entertainment purposes only"

staticautomatic — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 15:48:57 +0000

Guys they're just disclaiming warranties relax

New comment by staticautomatic in "Judge finalizes order for Greenpeace to pay $345M in ND oil pipeline case"

staticautomatic — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 23:45:35 +0000

That's not how jury selection works. You never have enough peremptory strikes to "dismiss a huge fraction of the jury pool."

New comment by staticautomatic in "Judge finalizes order for Greenpeace to pay $345M in ND oil pipeline case"

staticautomatic — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 06:47:40 +0000

It’s actually not that uncommon to lose a ton of people for cause in cases that are a good fit for a transfer of venue motion. But of course it does come down to the trial judge. I don’t understand who this “next judge” is that you’re referring to.

New comment by staticautomatic in "Judge finalizes order for Greenpeace to pay $345M in ND oil pipeline case"

staticautomatic — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 16:33:29 +0000

Not peremptory strikes, but you have unlimited removals for cause (and admittedly a steep appellate hill to climb if they’re unfairly denied)

New comment by staticautomatic in "Trump's global tariffs struck down by US Supreme Court"

staticautomatic — Sat, 21 Feb 2026 03:17:36 +0000

You’re always on your own to collect.

New comment by staticautomatic in "Why I Joined OpenAI"

staticautomatic — Sun, 08 Feb 2026 05:23:42 +0000

I’ll see your Art and raise you Life https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=aEdrey6U5dU&pp=ygUSVGVjaGNydW5...

New comment by staticautomatic in "A new bill in New York would require disclaimers on AI-generated news content"

staticautomatic — Fri, 06 Feb 2026 17:20:36 +0000

How does one get involved?

New comment by staticautomatic in "Photographer built a medium-format rangefinder"

staticautomatic — Sun, 14 Dec 2025 06:50:17 +0000

I can't speak for the Mamiya Press but the Zeiss Planar 80mm f/2.8 for the Graflex XL is rad.

New comment by staticautomatic in "When did the job market get so rude?"

staticautomatic — Sun, 14 Dec 2025 06:26:10 +0000

I did expect there to be more strong applicants, but that hardly means I expect "perfect" applicants or "cream of the crop for nothing." With one role, for example, there are basically unqualified people, and qualified people who won't accept the top of our range (~$120K).

New comment by staticautomatic in "When did the job market get so rude?"

staticautomatic — Fri, 12 Dec 2025 22:18:32 +0000

I have multiple open roles right now and am finding that I can’t afford to hire the top applicants. I honestly did not expect to have so little leverage.

New comment by staticautomatic in "The Walt Disney Company and OpenAI Partner on Sora"

staticautomatic — Thu, 11 Dec 2025 17:20:02 +0000

Don't forget the Native Americans in Peter Pan!

New comment by staticautomatic in "Is America's jobs market nearing a cliff?"

staticautomatic — Tue, 02 Dec 2025 06:26:11 +0000

Just dropping by to say how much I passionately hate documentation that uses fib() as an example.

New comment by staticautomatic in "Don't push AI down our throats"

staticautomatic — Tue, 02 Dec 2025 05:51:13 +0000

Well, it would probably need to be part of a physical product and not software alone unless the vendor is dumb and forgot to disclaim the warranty (see https://repository.law.uic.edu/jitpl/vol16/iss2/6/).

Second, it’s not exactly about whether the change constitutes a drop in quality but whether it renders the product unfit for its ordinary purpose. The argument would essentially be that the change is a deliberately introduced defect.

It’s a little weird but a plausible claim given the right facts.

New comment by staticautomatic in "Don't push AI down our throats"

staticautomatic — Mon, 01 Dec 2025 05:42:31 +0000

As a lawyer I think this could potentially be litigated as a breach of the implied warranty of merchantability.

New comment by staticautomatic in "A modern 35mm film scanner for home"

staticautomatic — Wed, 12 Nov 2025 06:36:13 +0000

I wonder how this compares to Technical Pan, which I imagine it was modeled after.

New comment by staticautomatic in "Hiring a developer as a small indie studio in 2025"

staticautomatic — Tue, 11 Nov 2025 17:32:08 +0000

Eh, kind of. Right now I'm hiring for a role where nobody remaining in my applicant pool is qualified (all have only some of the experience I need) but I'm probably still going to hire one of them. Does that "qualify" them? No. It just means I'm probably going to hire despite it.

New comment by staticautomatic in "Judge says Education Dept partisan out-of-office emails violated First Amendment"

staticautomatic — Sun, 09 Nov 2025 02:12:49 +0000

There’s always treason

New comment by staticautomatic in "I Want You to Understand Chicago"

staticautomatic — Sun, 09 Nov 2025 01:59:54 +0000

That has never worked well in America.