Hacker News: throwaway87543

New comment by throwaway87543 in "Sony Deletes 551 Movies PlayStation Owners Paid For"

throwaway87543 — Wed, 01 Jul 2026 16:40:43 +0000

Studio Canal directly got paid for each individual purchase. It isn't all on Sony, Studio Canal sold a product then took it away.

New comment by throwaway87543 in "Amazon drops Sam Altman movie after announcing OpenAI partnership"

throwaway87543 — Fri, 19 Jun 2026 20:43:28 +0000

Amazon can't bury it without alienating Luca Guadagnino. Instead they are allowing anyone else publish it. Maybe A24 will want it, it is screening well.

New comment by throwaway87543 in "Re: [PATCH] OOM_pardon, a.k.a. don't kill my xlock (2004)"

throwaway87543 — Sun, 31 May 2026 21:01:57 +0000

I see you are an AMD VCACHE enjoyer.

New comment by throwaway87543 in "How many products does Microsoft have named 'Copilot'?"

throwaway87543 — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 20:35:05 +0000

Okay. But how many products have Gemini or Claude in the name?

New comment by throwaway87543 in "First 6 days of Iran war cost $11.3B"

throwaway87543 — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 17:41:18 +0000

Ground invasion would literally be Vietnam again. And don't say they'll never do it. Reports from classified briefings indicate a draft is seriously being considered.

New comment by throwaway87543 in "Someone needs to go to jail"

throwaway87543 — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 21:12:26 +0000

Campaign finance laws were set up tell you where the line is. There needs to be a line because the amount of reach you have should not grow with your wealth. But Citizens United made the money as speech an unlimited right. Spending $250 is a completely different category than spending $250 million.

New comment by throwaway87543 in "Zuckerberg's "fix" for child safety could end anonymous internet access for all"

throwaway87543 — Mon, 23 Feb 2026 00:32:03 +0000

Authentication & Authorization is a OS feature. But instead of the OS collecting everyone's age, just give parents the ability to verify their child's phone is in child lockdown mode. Then the phone narc's to the website: "the user is under age". Not "the user was born on Feb 29 2001." We can rely on parenting to ensure a child doesn't have a non child mode phone. Enable parents, not control everyone.

New comment by throwaway87543 in "TikTok users can't upload anti-ICE videos. The company blames tech issues"

throwaway87543 — Tue, 27 Jan 2026 20:44:50 +0000

TikTok USDS Joint Venture LLC is only within the US (controlled by Larry Ellison). You still get ByteDance.

New comment by throwaway87543 in "The LLMentalist Effect"

throwaway87543 — Sun, 09 Feb 2025 13:10:10 +0000

Some people seem to want to believe that true thought is spiritual in nature. They will never accept that something physical and made by man could do it. They would stop believing humans are intelligent if given conclusive proof of how the brain works.

New comment by throwaway87543 in "Epic vs. Google: Google Loses"

throwaway87543 — Tue, 12 Dec 2023 00:36:50 +0000

Pardon me, didn’t Apple win the exact same suit by Epic? Apple’s app store is fine, but Google’s isn’t?

New comment by throwaway87543 in "C Is Not a Low-level Language (2018)"

throwaway87543 — Mon, 16 Oct 2023 12:22:09 +0000

Other than assembly, which barely qualifies as a language, what programming language is lower than C?

New comment by throwaway87543 in "Tidal energy is not renewable"

throwaway87543 — Mon, 04 Sep 2023 18:42:53 +0000

But is it possible to extract that much energy from the tides with current techniques? That starting point in their math may be invalid. But it is good to know that not very much energy is available from the tides.

New comment by throwaway87543 in "Reddit appears to be restoring edited/deleted comments"

throwaway87543 — Fri, 16 Jun 2023 15:30:02 +0000

Looks like every time a lemmy instance gets posted, that instance gets nuked off the planet. Maybe if you want to post something from lemmy, you should find the mirror on lemmy.world or lemmy.directory and see if that can handle the traffic.