throwway120385 (u/throwway120385)

throwway120385 commented on Control shopping cart wheels with your phone (2021) begaydocrime.com/... · Posted by u/mystraline

prmoustache · 3 days ago

That is a silly excuse and I say this as a dad. If you don't want to leave the kids for 30 seconds, you return the cart with them.

throwway120385 · 3 days ago

That's a great idea if your kid is less than 15 pounds, but it's very hard to wrangle a willful 2 or 3 year old the 100 feet across a busy parking lot and back to the car without picking them up which is a monumental task for many people. My wife has this issue because our son is more than 30 pounds which is very heavy for her. Every kid is different and people don't always have the same physical abilities as you do.

throwway120385 commented on Home Depot sued for 'secretly' using facial recognition at self-checkouts petapixel.com/2025/08/20/... · Posted by u/mikece

godelski · 4 days ago

The visa is your entry document. The I-94 is your status document[0]. The visa outlines the conditions (including dates) you may enter the country. The I-94 is the record of entry/departure and dictate your required date of departure.

  >  This statute criminalizes unauthorized entry, including entering at unauthorized times or places, evading inspection, or misrepresentation to gain entry.

This is a completely different conversation and scenario that what was being previously discussed. There is a pretty significant difference between illegal border crossing vs overstaying your status. The latter never performed an illegal border crossing. These people are documented.

[0] https://www.uscis.gov/forms/all-forms/form-i-94-arrivaldepar...

throwway120385 · 3 days ago

And I believe all of this conflation of entering the country illegally with overstaying a visa or violating the restrictions on a visa having passed through a Border Control checkpoint is at the heart of a lot of what's happening right now. The whole concept of "illegal immigration" was expanded to contain this other category of person who went through Border Control properly, they have a passport from their home country with a stamp or a visa, but they are not complying with the requirements of the visa or for the entry stamp. These people are not criminals and many of them have put down roots here and would be model citizens if they had citizenship.

Because ICE is having a lot of trouble finding enough people who crossed illegally to round up and put in concentration camps, they're scouring the country for people in the other category. And in many cases the threat of visa cancellation is being used to suppress political speech. A lot of people don't know that because they don't understand that there's a way to get here legally that doesn't involve getting citizenship or a green card. I think if you've never left the country it probably doesn't occur to you that there's a whole system of checkpoints that you can use to enter the country but almost zero control after that other than your own good faith efforts. And this is true just about everywhere else in the world.

throwway120385 commented on How Not to Buy a SSD andrei.xyz/post/how-not-t... · Posted by u/speckx

traceroute66 · 3 days ago

> do you really consider Amazon being a reliable source for anything that is not some unimportant trinket?

Not the person you're asking, but yes, I do.

You know the biggest reason wny ?

Their no-bullshit returns policy.

Seriously. Click button, get your returns label. The refund is sent to you as soon as the courier or post office has scanned the barcode.

Hell, sometimes Amazon just refund you and don't even want the item returned !

You don't get that anywhere else. At most other vendors you have to fight to even get a returns label. And even if those other vendors give you a returns label without a fight, you have to wait until their warehouse has processed your return and hope that you don't get charged a restocking fee or they try to claim some bullshit excuse about you having lightly scratched something.

Oh, you want to know another reason too ?

I don't like spreading my personal data far and wide.

Yeah, sure I'm sure I could buy my widget from some random shop. Probably at a cheaper price than Amazon too, I'm sure.

But that means another place with my personal data on their database.

Open to that company spamming me, and the Russians hacking them and spaffing my personal data all over the darkweb.

Say what you like about Amazon. But I think their Infosec practices are pretty good.

throwway120385 · 3 days ago

I closed off my Prime because I kept having terrible experiences returning things and then having them claw back the refund on things they returned. For a few items I had to call 3 or 4 times over the course of 6 months because the claw-back kept getting re-applied to the card despite the CSR repeatedly telling me it was solved and not to worry about it. That plus the counterfeit items I've gotten over the years plus the general crap quality of everything was enough for me. In my experience you have to really stay on top of them, and you're probably not having that experience because you're not ordering things like clothing where you need to get a lot of items and then return almost all of them for not fitting or for not looking anything like the image online.

throwway120385 commented on The contrarian physics podcast subculture timothynguyen.org/2025/08... · Posted by u/Emerson1

arduanika · 4 days ago

Tim Nguyen has put an extraordinary effort into finding the truth in this entire long exchange, and it's been mostly thankless.

His appearance on Decoding the Gurus was a highlight of the show's early seasons.

https://decoding-the-gurus.captivate.fm/episode/special-epis...

Perhaps you would agree with Weinstein and Hossenfelder that physics today is broken. But that does not in itself prove that the people peddling alternatives aren't even worse.

throwway120385 · 4 days ago

There's always a grain of truth or some shared understanding to every grift. You can see it play out in how people sell you alternative diets or alternative therapies. "Processed foods are bad. Here, eat this thing that's been boiled until it is relieved of all nutrition." "Preservatives are bad, here eat this vegetable that's been heavily salted."

Beware of people who seem to be on the same page with you, especially when they're selling you their own idea.

throwway120385 commented on Home Depot sued for 'secretly' using facial recognition at self-checkouts petapixel.com/2025/08/20/... · Posted by u/mikece

nomdep · 4 days ago

> And since every illegal immigrant is already a criminal...

Not to be pedantic, but by definition it is, isn’t it?

throwway120385 · 4 days ago

Immigration is a civil matter, not a criminal matter. It's not a crime per se to overstay a visa like say shoplifting or killing someone. It's more like there's a proceeding to determine whether you did overstay and then when there's a finding of fact they basically tell you you have to leave or they remove you from the country forcibly. It would be patently ridiculous to jail someone for overstaying or for working on a tourist visa or for any of a number of these things.

throwway120385 commented on Mark Zuckerberg freezes AI hiring amid bubble fears telegraph.co.uk/business/... · Posted by u/pera

woooooo · 4 days ago

Metaverse and this AI turnaround are characterized by the LACK of perseverance, though. They remind me of the time I bought a guitar and played it for three months.

throwway120385 · 4 days ago

When you put the guitar down after three months it's one thing, but when you reverse course on an entire line of development in a way that might affect hundreds or thousands of employees it's a failure of integrity.

throwway120385 commented on AWS CEO says using AI to replace junior staff is 'Dumbest thing I've ever heard' theregister.com/2025/08/2... · Posted by u/JustExAWS

JustExAWS · 4 days ago

ChatGPT is better than any junior developer I’ve ever worked with. Junior devs have always been a net negative for the first year or so.

From a person who is responsible for delivering projects, I’ve never thought “it sure would be nice if I had a few junior devs”. Why when I can poach an underpaid mid level developer for 20% more?

throwway120385 · 4 days ago

I've never had a junior dev be a "net negative." Maybe you're just not supervising or mentoring them at all? The first thing I tell all new hires under me is that their job is to solve more problems than they create, and so far it's worked out.

throwway120385 commented on Intel Foundry demonstrates first Arm-based chip on 18a node hothardware.com/news/inte... · Posted by u/rbanffy

testdelacc1 · 5 days ago

Assuming they’re telling the truth, they’ve successfully built one chip from that fab. That’s good, but it doesn’t mean the fab is capable of manufacturing at scale while turning a profit.

They need an external customer for the fab so they can iterate and work out the issues. It’s anyone’s guess if someone trusts intel to manufacture on their behalf instead of sticking with an established player. They’re stuck in a chicken and egg situation - can’t reach high yields without a customer, but a customer only wants to sign up if the yields and future deliveries are guaranteed.

Intels only hope might be that someone, not naming names, coerces an established company to sign up.

throwway120385 · 5 days ago

Intel has a habit of giving up on things too early. So I'm not sure I would trust them with anything even if they had a better process or were less expensive or easier to work with.

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sfn42 · 7 days ago

You're saying real estate companies actually pay people to investigate "haunted" houses?

That's crazy

throwway120385 · 7 days ago

I don't think so. In my state you get a few days to do a "neighborhood review." If you, as a prospective buyer, walk around to all your potential neighbors and they start telling you about all the ghost stories and freaky stuff that happens in your house at night, you'll probably pull your offer. In aggregate there's money lost. And where there's money lost, there are people trying to fill those gaps.

throwway120385 commented on Electromechanical reshaping, an alternative to laser eye surgery medicalxpress.com/news/20... · Posted by u/Gaishan

benregenspan · 7 days ago

The place I had it done cuts the flap in one room, then has you walk (suddenly legally blind) to another room for the actual correction. A very interesting experience that cannot be adequately captured on video.

throwway120385 · 7 days ago

That would be a huge red flag for me. How is that even sterile or safe? What happens if you fall and need hospital care on the walk from one room to the other? Are you now blind until the hospital care is complete?