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You could try to open it (carefully, you might damage your precious lamp. Also please plug it out beforhand). Often times smart devices like these have debugging ports left on the board you can easily access with some clamps.


Or failing that, desolder the offending speaker to keep the rest of the functionality intact.


I love the images in that patent. Just imagine lawyers discussing images like this one: https://www.j-platpat.inpit.go.jp/gazette_work2/domestic/A/5...


Where is my .exe file to run the entire planet in ~30 minutes?

To add some value to my joke comment: I would assume this is running "Open Street Map" locally on a webserver.


Shocking that such things still exist in 2024. Even though you can say that this will not hurt the "big companies", I still feel that this is very close to fraud/stealing.


Author here - I should maybe have made the disclaimer at the end more prominent - "All the bugs were discovered, verified, and reported. Any issued tickets were canceled and not used."


Ah, the 90s - a time when <table> was the answer to every web layout question. Miss aligning your text? <table>. Need a fancy menu? <table>. Creating a full website? Nested <table>s! Who needed CSS when you had rows and cells to hack your way through design? Good old days of <td>-ing everything!


Still true for email layout in 2024


Still true for layout in Hacker News in 2024


But don't forget that you'll have to add the `<font>` tag in _every single cell_.


It was all TDD back then. TD-Driven design.


I still love tables. They are so awesome for dynamic design. The support column and row spans, alignment, weights.

And CSS is still way more complicated than good old tables.


That's because Tables actually map to how digital imaging works: dividing an area into little squares and deciding what to show in it. The screen does it, the driver does it, the window manager does it, the desktop primitives do it... and then you get to the browser screen, and suddenly you have to figure out a byzantine system of self-mutating shapes.

I was an early CSS supporter but man, didn't the boffins screw up that one.


Exactly and this is why CSS grid has changed my life. CSS grid is tables on Wheaties.


And now we get some more semantically correct way to do it.

<div class="row"><div class="col">


Hang on. Those don’t look like auto-generated React classes!


<table> was the Robitussin of the web.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BvyHEijg59A


Sadly, I still find using table-based layouts easier to understand than most CSS today. I grew up with the 90's internet...


Ah cmon, take a few minutes to gen up on flexbox it’s not too hard and you’ll thank me.

https://css-tricks.com/snippets/css/a-guide-to-flexbox/


It does seem decent. I don't do much front end work these days (and thanks!)


Being Dealt a Royal Flush in Poker. NO but pretty close.

Being Born on February 29th. NO


Royal flush in poker is more like 1 in 6493. ;-)


How did you get there? GP is talking about being dealt it, I think you've calculated the chance of it occurring in a round or something?

Wikipedia has GP's at 649739, so yeah 'almost' a million, roughly speaking. 4 / ((52 nCr 5) - (4 nCr 1)). (Four suits, one way to do it in each suit, deck of 52, five card hand.)


In games where hands are made from 5 out of 7 cards (e.g. texas hold'em), the odds are 30,939:1

I can't think of any common form of poker where it would be ~6000:1


The way he looks at the audience, expecting a positive reaction, it seems to me that the memes have really got into his head and he thinks people still love him for being so edgy and 'funny'. Instead, he comes across as a dangerous lunatic with too much power and money.


> Instead, he comes across as a dangerous lunatic with too much power and money.

To you (and me) he comes across that way.

But we're not his target audience.


This is short sighted with many assumptions. Shouldn't this be considered for greying out?


Comments get greyed out when users have voted the post negative, it's not something mods do.


No, not since The Tweet(tm). He fell from Nerd Jesus to Nerd Satan in one day, so armchair pathologizing or insulting Musk has been highly encouraged on HN since that day.


Elon has claimed to be slightly autistic, as the parent of an autistic kid I believe him, perhaps we all are to some extent.

He is an extremely busy man, and the same set of skills that lead to his success at engineering don't translate at all to success in the social realm. To simplify his social interaction decision making he looks for huristics, such as the tried and true: woke = bad!

So increasingly in following a simple heuristic he seems to have outsourced much of his personal philosophy to the Joe-Rogan-O-Sphere, and all the anti vax, transphobic, supplement pill pushing, pizzagate conspiracy believing, Jew-baiting quackery that entails.

The macho attitude of doubling then tripling down on unforced blunders works well if you are a contrarian podcast host "just following the questions...", but less so when you are CEO with obligations not to rock the boat, not to become a clown presiding over a circus.


Have you watched the interview?

It's worse than I expected. Musk is out of his gourd. I don't know if it's the drugs or actual insanity but I don't just see an asshole but someone losing touch with reality. It's not autism or even "outsourcing his politics", he is barely coherent. This man will likely need institutional help.


My prediction is that Elon will end up like Hughes before long, and likely in much worse shape.


I don't think that would be a fair to Howard Hughes - he was a real deal engineer and suffered his illnesses and injuries mostly in private.

I see Musk more on the Tony Hsieh / John McAfee / John DeLorean type trajectory: the drugs, the ego, the need for attention and probably a few indictments as things fall apart.


That's fair. And he didn't drag half the world down with him.


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Elon cucking to Trump loving in one comment plus a drudge report link. Truly this comment has it all.


Yet another who cannot spell correctly (but can read minds)! Oh, the horror!8-((

"The Lord giveth and the Lord taketh away."

Looks like 303uru has more than the average share of "taketh"'s. So sad!


As an autist myself, I’ve never acted like Musk. My autistic family and friends have not either. Musk may be autistic but he is also extremely narcissistic and egotistical, that much should be clear. Let’s maybe focus on that instead of autism causing his bad behavior.


Yeah I agree, his actions could also be explained by narcissism, or a combination of factors.

A topic that I became aware of at University is how society casts people with disabilities (sorry if that term if that offends anyone) as villains, ie Captain Hook becomes a big old meany because an alligator took his hand. Of course this is a harmful stereotype and should be retired as a crutch for lazy writers, thinkers and society at large.

But I also believe that anyone can be the hero or the villain, or think they are doing good when they are clearly misguided. Wouldn't it be just as weird if neurodivergent people were never actually the bad guy? Isn't never being allowed to think of someone as both autistic and in some way maladjusted also a harmful stricture?


Not saying we neurodivergents can’t be bad people or villains (I think Kingpin is supposed to be autistic), nor that we shouldn’t be called out where appropriate.

But we have enough social stigma going against us. Musk’s antics are on the morning news now, so I’d much rather the word “narcissist” be on people’s mind than “autist”. Because when I tell people I’m autistic, I don’t want them to think that means I’m prone to screaming “go fuck yourself” to a live studio audience.

That’s a good point about Hook. Villains are also frequently queer coded. Hook is an example of this too. So is Jafar, Scar (disfigured), and Ursula (overweight). Probably more examples. This is to draw a contrast to the blonde haired, blue eyed, able bodied, conventionally attractive hero.


trojan13 says >"The way he looks at the audience, expecting a positive reaction, it seems to me that the memes have really got into his head and he thinks people still love him for being so edgy and 'funny'."<

You can read minds then?


> a dangerous lunatic with too much power and money.

I think you are exaggerating further beyond the line than one (likely autistic) man swearing in frustration.

Of all the dangers in the world today


I dunno - a guy with 200 billion dollars that thinks the world is out to get him can do an awful lot of damage.


No, it did make an impression on me he does constantly say something edgy or (an attempt at being) funny and then looks around for approval, that isn't there.

This is no surprise. Aside from his Twitter bubble, he's in a bubble even offline. Tesla presentations are full of people profiting off Tesla YouTube videos, selling investment "lessons", crypto bros, and fanboys.

They DO laugh at all his jokes. They DO clap at everything edgy he says. And so he, almost reasonably, believes the rest of the world is like that, and the mass media just hates him for dropping heavy truths with a hammer.

He's deluded.


I would say around a 6 or 7 for someone with mid-level experience. For a junior dev, it might be closer to an 8, given the multiple components involved.


It's fun and a great idea but I think the AI should reward comedy a bit more (if it is capable to understand it).


Do you mean outlandish scenarios should end up in survival?


Nice seeing a nuxt-webapp in production.


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