bradleybuda (u/bradleybuda)

bradleybuda commented on Heathrow scraps liquid container limit bbc.com/news/articles/c1e... · Posted by u/robotsliketea

chihuahua · 13 days ago

No successful terrorist attacks on planes going to/from western countries after 9/11/2001, that's a pretty good record. Maybe we can't prove that the security theater was responsible for that, but still, the only planes that were bombed after 9/11/2001 were inside Russia or going from Egypt to Russia.

bradleybuda · 13 days ago

Last I checked, in the US there has not been a single instance of the TSA detecting and preventing a terror attack in its 25 year history.

And presumably they wouldn’t be shy about telling us if they had.

bradleybuda commented on Tell HN: Bending Spoons laid off almost everybody at Vimeo yesterday · Posted by u/Daemon404

nness · 19 days ago

I don't understand this model. Such significant layoffs would indicate that there is no real appetite for expansion or growth.

Their goal might be be to acquire, dramatically cut costs, and then run the product for as long as they can at a profit before breaking it down and selling it off (or hope for a buyout by a bigger player.) But that wouldn't make sense — customers of a depreciating SaaS product surely churn after a 1-3 years, so they wouldn't make enough of a return from their existing customers to justify the investment...

bradleybuda · 19 days ago

HN: VC is a cancer, businesses don't need to grow forever at all costs, products can be finished, what we need is sustainable small companies

Also HN: No, not like that

bradleybuda commented on Backing up Spotify annas-archive.li/blog/bac... · Posted by u/vitplister

raw_anon_1111 · 2 months ago

You have been able to buy DRM free digital music from all of the record labels since 2009 from Apple and other stores.

bradleybuda · 2 months ago

“I only pirate because evil corporations make it too hard to pay for my favorite content” is a multi-decade ever-shifting goalpost. Some people just like to steal shit and will justify it to themselves on the thinnest of pretenses.

bradleybuda commented on Pebble Index 01 – External memory for your brain repebble.com/blog/meet-pe... · Posted by u/freshrap6

rendx · 2 months ago

Regulation (EU) 2023/1542 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 12 July 2023 concerning batteries and waste batteries

Article 11

Removability and replaceability of portable batteries and LMT batteries

1. Any natural or legal person that places on the market products incorporating portable batteries shall ensure that those batteries are readily removable and replaceable by the end-user at any time during the lifetime of the product. That obligation shall only apply to entire batteries and not to individual cells or other parts included in such batteries.

A portable battery shall be considered readily removable by the end-user where it can be removed from a product with the use of commercially available tools, without requiring the use of specialised tools, unless provided free of charge with the product, proprietary tools, thermal energy, or solvents to disassemble the product.

Any natural or legal person that places on the market products incorporating portable batteries shall ensure that those products are accompanied with instructions and safety information on the use, removal and replacement of the batteries. Those instructions and that safety information shall be made available permanently online, on a publicly available website, in an easily understandable way for end-users.

[…]

https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX%3A...

(This is active law; there is however a grace period for products until 2027.)

bradleybuda · 2 months ago

Wow, sucks to bE yoU!

bradleybuda commented on Why are 38 percent of Stanford students saying they're disabled? reason.com/2025/12/04/why... · Posted by u/delichon

heddelt · 2 months ago

People respond to incentives. Give disabled people advantages and you get more disabled people.

bradleybuda · 2 months ago

Reminds me of "Miracle Flights", in which dozens of people require wheelchairs to board but only a few require them to deboard. Of course, if you are in a wheelchair, you get to board first.

https://www.explore.com/1804742/not-divine-story-miracle-fli...

bradleybuda commented on OpenAI needs to raise at least $207B by 2030 ft.com/content/23e54a28-6... · Posted by u/akira_067

perlgeek · 2 months ago

https://openai.com/charter/

> OpenAI’s mission is to ensure that artificial general intelligence (AGI)—by which we mean highly autonomous systems that outperform humans at most economically valuable work—benefits all of humanity. We will attempt to directly build safe and beneficial AGI, but will also consider our mission fulfilled if our work aids others to achieve this outcome.

Note that it doesn't say: "Our mission is to maximize shareholder value, and we develop AI systems to do that".

bradleybuda · 2 months ago

In fairness, no company’s mission statement says “maximize shareholder value” because it doesn’t need to be said - it’s implicit. But I agree that AGI is at the forefront of OpenAI’s mission in a way it isn’t for Google - the nonprofit roots are not gone.

bradleybuda commented on Building a message queue with only two UNIX signals leandronsp.com/articles/y... · Posted by u/SchwKatze

bradleybuda · 4 months ago

This is awesome. Does POSIX guarantee the order of signal delivery? And I'm dying to see what the bandwidth / throughput of this channel is...

bradleybuda · 4 months ago

Answering both of my questions, from the post:

  sleep 0.001 # Delay to allow the receiver to process the signal

bradleybuda commented on Building a message queue with only two UNIX signals leandronsp.com/articles/y... · Posted by u/SchwKatze

bradleybuda · 4 months ago

This is awesome. Does POSIX guarantee the order of signal delivery? And I'm dying to see what the bandwidth / throughput of this channel is...

bradleybuda commented on US cities pay too much for buses bloomberg.com/news/articl... · Posted by u/pavel_lishin

jibe · 4 months ago

A literal bus factory may not be critical for national security, but the ability to manufacture a vehicle is. So the know-how, the supply lines, and the manufacturing facility are important. The ability to manufacture a fuel injector, a transmission, a windshield is going going to apply to a bus, a plane, a tank..

bradleybuda · 4 months ago

If only there was an entire American city filled with people and companies who had this expertise. We could call it the "Motor City".