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mtgentry commented on Engineer restores pay phones for free public use npr.org/2025/08/04/nx-s1-... · Posted by u/andsoitis

vasco · 15 days ago

Of course it's allowed. How far have things come that you think you'll get in trouble for replacing a bulb somewhere in the street?

mtgentry · 15 days ago

I usually agree, but it's fairly high up, the bulb is probably non standard, and it's not clear how to get the top off. Just slightly more work than I'm willing to put in.

mtgentry commented on Engineer restores pay phones for free public use npr.org/2025/08/04/nx-s1-... · Posted by u/andsoitis

dawnerd · 15 days ago

Meanwhile California is ripping out all of the call boxes along the roads even in areas with poor cell service. It can’t really cost us that much

mtgentry · 15 days ago

There’s probably a vast difference btwn what the state says it costs the maintain them, and what it costs this guy. Really wish there were more opportunities for the public to do stuff like this. There’s been a light out in the alley near me for years and the city won’t fix it. I’d happily do it myself if it was allowed.

Posted by u/mtgentry 2 months ago

Ask HN: Is Iran Hidden on Instagram?

mtgentry commented on New Study: Waymo is reducing serious crashes and making streets safer waymo.com/blog/2025/05/wa... · Posted by u/prossercj

rubyfan · 4 months ago

Why don’t we have cars talk to each other and coordinate their routing? Like some sort of peer to peer mechanism that helps them not crash each other. Why can’t vehicles be made to stop at cross walks when someone is crossing with some sort of communication to the vehicle?

mtgentry · 4 months ago

Solve this problem and LA traffic will get much better

mtgentry commented on Trump's Tariffs Wipe Out over $6T on Wall Street in Epic Two-Day Rout wsj.com/finance/stocks/u-... · Posted by u/perihelions

lreeves · 5 months ago

We (Canada) literally signed the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement for trade in 2020... with Donald Trump. Trump this February said "Who would ever sign a thing like this?" and proceeded to make up the story about fentanyl coming from Canada as a pretense to ignore this deal. So there was certainly more than a pinky promise.

Additionally your senate just signed law to repeal the tariffs against Canada specifically so I don't know what other receipts or paperwork you'd like here. Not that I expect Trump to adhere to that of course, but I've never heard the perspective of "well these weren't signed agreements" for things that clearly were.

mtgentry · 5 months ago

Yep, he’s doing to other countries what he’s done to contractors, plumbers, and other tradesmen for years.

mtgentry commented on A filmmaker and a crooked lawyer shattered Denmark's self-image theguardian.com/world/202... · Posted by u/RapperWhoMadeIt

mtgentry · 5 months ago

One nice thing about being on the spectrum is that you can spot morally sketchy situations more clearly—or at least more clearly than most normies. I once walked out of a pitch meeting where we were trying to land a client that completely clashed with a solid, well-paying client we already had. I couldn’t believe no one else saw the huge conflict of interest. No one batted an eyelash.

mtgentry commented on Ask HN: Small Ideas vs. Big Ideas? · Posted by u/amukbils

mtgentry · 6 months ago

Hit a single first before trying for a home run.

mtgentry commented on Oklch in CSS: why we moved from RGB and HSL (2024) evilmartians.com/chronicl... · Posted by u/rob

rglover · 6 months ago

This is one of those "do we really need to do this" type of things. If you go and play with an OKLCH tool like this one, you'll notice that the differences in the OKLCH vs RGB/hex color are imperceptible: https://oklch.com/#65.88,0.2097,41.29,100.

mtgentry · 6 months ago

The gamut is much wider

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