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New comment by wang_li in "Plug-in solar is coming. Plug-in batteries should follow"

wang_li — Sun, 02 Aug 2026 03:43:57 +0000

If one is not modifying the house wiring how does this prevent backflow into the grid? Does it shutdown completely on power loss from the mains?

New comment by wang_li in "Admin: Terminally Ill Patients Aren't Exempt from Medicaid Work Requirements"

wang_li — Fri, 31 Jul 2026 16:35:46 +0000

The policy being argued exempts such people from the work requirement.

People who are not exempt can meet the work requirements through a variety of different activities from part-time work earning $580/month, or 80 hours through a combination of part-time work, volunteer work, and care giving to dependents.

https://www.chcs.org/resource/a-summary-of-national-medicaid...

New comment by wang_li in "Admin: Terminally Ill Patients Aren't Exempt from Medicaid Work Requirements"

wang_li — Fri, 31 Jul 2026 16:26:29 +0000

Arigatou

New comment by wang_li in "Admin: Terminally Ill Patients Aren't Exempt from Medicaid Work Requirements"

wang_li — Fri, 31 Jul 2026 16:26:05 +0000

HIV is literally called out in the subhead of the linked web page. If you bothered to read the article and get a sense of what is being argued in court, you would understand that there is nothing outre here.

New comment by wang_li in "GCC steering committee announces AI policy"

wang_li — Fri, 31 Jul 2026 15:37:50 +0000

The reason you vouch for someone is that you get the benefit of their contributions to the project and, assuming the person you are recommending is good, you get an improved reputation in the eyes of the person you vouchsafed them to.

New comment by wang_li in "The Visual 6502"

wang_li — Fri, 24 Jul 2026 02:02:06 +0000

The emulator on that page gets an error when booting, but I think the content is the same as this:

https://archive.org/details/riag_004_051_-_MECC_Assembly_Lan...

Which was awesome as a kid to finally see what was "going on" inside there.

New comment by wang_li in "Apple defeats liability for not scanning iCloud for CSAM"

wang_li — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 00:50:38 +0000

No part of Europe has “simply banned guns”. Some countries have stricter policies but it’s possibly to own a gun in every country. Some countries are famous for gun ownership, eg switzerland that expects men to keep their militarily issued gun in the home.

New comment by wang_li in "Apple defeats liability for not scanning iCloud for CSAM"

wang_li — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 00:42:17 +0000

The second militia act of 1792. Though that required you to have a gun. Which in some fashion required monitoring. In modern times many states require you to have a permit to own a firearm and states regularly prosecute people without a license. In Washington state they have laws about safe storage and the police can come into your house to inspect your storage solution without if someone calls them and says you aren’t storing it properly. There’s a constant stream of cases fighting these laws in court. In the 2025-2026 SCOTUS term there were 14 petitions for cert.

https://scotus2a.com/

New comment by wang_li in "Hacker wipes Romania's land registry database"

wang_li — Mon, 20 Jul 2026 15:09:58 +0000

This wouldn't be a bill of attainder, it's simply an infinite assessment against the criminal's estate that can't be discharged in bankruptcy. I don't personally think that people should inherit their predecessor's debts, but I have no problem with debts being able to capture the entirety of a person's wealth including homes, pensions, jewelry, trusts, any accounts from which benefit is drawn, etc.

New comment by wang_li in "Hacker wipes Romania's land registry database"

wang_li — Mon, 20 Jul 2026 14:38:46 +0000

Property is not fluid and doesn't change hands very often. Sure, in a large enough market lots of activity happens every day, but any given property is only involved in a transaction once a decade. You can have very old backups and still capture the state of the market to 99%+. Any recent activity will have brokers, buyers, and sellers, who all have current copies of their activity.

Also, this sort of event should result in some hackers being found and jailed for life as well as their families being bankrupted permanently. Or, if they are being protected by their government, this should be considered an act of war and an appropriate military response should be delivered.

New comment by wang_li in "Who Is America's Homer?"

wang_li — Mon, 20 Jul 2026 04:41:26 +0000

George Gershwin for his musicals. George Lucas and/or Spielberg for Indiana Jones. I considered loughead for publishing Paul Bunyan or Jack London for the likes of Call of the Wild. Poe is a strong contender as is Dashiell Hammett.

New comment by wang_li in "SQLite should have (Rust-style) editions"

wang_li — Thu, 16 Jul 2026 01:17:08 +0000

It’s curious how many people don’t understand what SQLite is and its intended feature set. They get huffy that it’s not a full client server model with multimaster clustering across 8 data centers on 12 continents plus New Zealand with realtime synchronous replication.

It’s a product that allows you to do sql like things without a database server. If you need to have database server behavior, you’re using the wrong product.

New comment by wang_li in "New York becomes the first state to impose a data center moratorium"

wang_li — Tue, 14 Jul 2026 15:45:20 +0000

These feels like bribe seeking behavior. Pol sees an industry that likely will have a lot of potential market within the pol's jurisdiction, pol publicly puts a speedbump or roadblock in front of the industry causing the industry to start lobbying pol/pol's friends.

New comment by wang_li in "Linux 0.11 rewritten in idiomatic Rust, boots in QEMU"

wang_li — Tue, 14 Jul 2026 15:41:15 +0000

I feel like we are past the point where using an AI tool to translate some code, to write some code, to copy some code, is considered interesting or novel.

New comment by wang_li in "AI 2040 and the cult of intelligence"

wang_li — Sat, 11 Jul 2026 18:43:43 +0000

13th.

New comment by wang_li in "The footgun of right-to-left decorative characters"

wang_li — Sat, 11 Jul 2026 03:36:41 +0000

The Unicode committee needs to be dissolved or else Unicode is going to evolve into a full page markup scheme to rival pdf.

New comment by wang_li in "Apple sues OpenAI, accuses ex-employees of stealing trade secrets"

wang_li — Sat, 11 Jul 2026 02:05:27 +0000

Civil disobedience involves flagrantly and publicly and obviously violating the law so you can be arrested to draw attention to whatever issue you have with the law. If you’re breaking the law and trying to get away with it, that’s just criminality and isn’t honorable or respectable.

New comment by wang_li in "Supreme Court upholds broad conception of birthright citizenship"

wang_li — Tue, 30 Jun 2026 19:19:33 +0000

A diplomatic vehicle that is a safety hazard can be towed. A city/state cannot enforce any fines, but they can definitely clear any safety or traffic related issues.

I would start with Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations and go from there.

New comment by wang_li in "Supreme Court upholds broad conception of birthright citizenship"

wang_li — Tue, 30 Jun 2026 17:43:08 +0000

If a diplomat is going on a shooting spree they can be shot and killed with no ensuing issues as a result of US law enforcement enforcing laws in the moment. If they are robbing a seven-eleven they can be arrested and held until arraignment. They can be ordered to remain in their home, aka house arrest. They can be ordered to leave and they have no option to remain in the country. The US constitution does not grant diplomats immunity it is something we have agreed to via treaty and law. They are 100% subject to our laws, that's why our law granting them immunity applies.

New comment by wang_li in "Supreme Court upholds broad conception of birthright citizenship"

wang_li — Tue, 30 Jun 2026 17:31:37 +0000

Illegal immigrants are also working under a different set of laws because they are citizens of another country. Ask yourself this: where would an illegal immigrant apply for a passport? Just like an invading army, citizens of other countries are obligated to follow the laws of the countries where they have citizenship in addition to any laws that may be imposed on them by being present in the US.