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sndean commented on Recovering Anthony Bourdain's Li.st's sandyuraz.com/blogs/bourd... · Posted by u/thecsw

I know we shouldn’t be discussing website design, but using light grey font on a white background is not only ugly, it is basically illegible for anyone with oldster eyes.

sndean · 11 hours ago

I thought the same thing but noticed my dark mode extension changed the dark gray font into light gray. It looks fine to me with that extension turned off. Not sure if that happened to you.

sndean commented on Putting email in its place with Emacs and Mu4e eamonnsullivan.co.uk/post... · Posted by u/eamonnsullivan

qazxcvbnm · 4 days ago

By the way, anyone have experience using emacs to analyse and visualise data (think spreadsheets and charts)? I’d really like to be able to use it to view any sort of data I happen to have.

sndean · 4 days ago

My first thought was Emacs Speaks Statistics (ESS) to do this in Emacs via R, but I bet there are many alternatives.

sndean commented on Testing shows automotive glassbreakers can't break modern automotive glass core77.com/posts/138925/T... · Posted by u/surprisetalk

thefourthchime · 15 days ago

The article glides over the fact that FMVSS 226 is a performance standard, not a materials mandate. Manufacturers can stick with tempered glass if they beef up the side curtain airbags enough to prevent ejection, which is exactly what happens on a lot of base models and rear windows to keep BOM costs down. The list of brands using laminated glass is accurate, but it applies mostly to their premium trims or front rows only.

There is also the issue of fleet turnover. With the average age of US vehicles pushing 13 years, the install base is still overwhelmingly tempered glass. Writing off the tool entirely because new luxury cars have moved on ignores the reality of what people are actually driving. You are statistically much more likely to be trapped in a 2012 Civic than a 2025 S-Class.

sndean · 15 days ago

The smartest thing to do would be to check your car’s windows for any indication (the AAA report, page 19, cited in the article has examples) of whether they’re laminated or tempered. AFAICT, whether my new-ish Subaru Ascent’s windows are laminated depends on location (front or rear) and installation differs between the Ascent trims. Best to check for your specific car and where you’re likeliest to be sitting.

sndean commented on Tell HN: Happy Thanksgiving · Posted by u/prodigycorp

sndean · 16 days ago

Happy Thanksgiving and I hope you had (or are having) a good day. Or if it wasn’t good—stressful, tiring, etc.—here’s to hoping for some great sleep.

I don’t remember kids being out of school for so long around Thanksgiving when I was younger. All I can hope for is eight hours of sleep after a full week of childcare. I guess I’m most thankful for teachers and schools being open.

sndean commented on Germany to ban Huawei from future 6G network bloomberg.com/news/articl... · Posted by u/teleforce

PeterStuer · a month ago

Both Nokia and Ericsson have substantial Blackrock and Vanguard investment.

sndean · a month ago

Blackrock and Vanguard own surprisingly large portions of Rheinmetall, Siemens, Airbus, SAP and other German government/defense/security contractors. If avoiding their investments is the goal, there’s a lot of work to do.

sndean commented on GrapheneOS is ready to break free from Pixels androidauthority.com/grap... · Posted by u/MaximilianEmel

giantg2 · 2 months ago

I wonder what percentage of Pixel sales ended up running Graphene. It feels like running Graphene is the only real benefit to a Pixel. I wonder if Google is getting out of phones after Pixel 10 or 11.

sndean · 2 months ago

Could estimate ~1% (+/- 1%) given the Graphene user estimates [1] and the tens of millions of Pixels sold at this point.

[1] https://discuss.grapheneos.org/d/21946-grapheneos-popularity...

sndean commented on Ultrasound is ushering a new era of surgery-free cancer treatment bbc.com/future/article/20... · Posted by u/1659447091

JumpCrisscross · 2 months ago

> Stride…was very interested in bubbles

This reminds me of Feynman s spinning plates.

It also drives home the serendipity of science. One can easily pander a researcher spending their days thinking about bubbles from a place of ignorance. Yet this is what basic research often looks like—play.

sndean · 2 months ago

As someone who has worked on bubbles from a bioengineering/synthetic biology perspective, it is definitely play at some level. Like “what happens if we freeze dry them?” And of course determining which extremely specific kind works best for whatever application, etc.