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You'd rather your vacuum be made of metal?

Metal portions would be nice but i get it’s a weight thing. Also emphasis on it being cheap plastic rather than just plastic. Several parts of mine cracked and broke within a year.

There are different plastics, some feel much better than others.

I bought a Dyson vacuum and it felt like cheap garbage, to the point that I returned it. I didn’t trust that it would hold up. It creaked and jangled around. The feel did not match the price tag.

Other plastic products, like the old polycarbonate Macs, felt very solid and well made.


When I first unboxed a new V15, I thought I got a cheap knockoff instead of the real thing. That’s how cheap Dyson plastics look and feel.

Carbon fiber and 3d printed titanium is probably where I'd start for materials to design a high end vacuum to be light/strong/durable. Injected molded magnesium alloy would also be a candidate if production qty was high enough to offset the tooling.

> You'd rather your vacuum be made of metal?

I would - rather it is. My grandfather had a kirby for decades. I've had a kirby for decades. Though mine has the transmission power drive that makes it a joy to use.

I can not imagine ever buying a plastic vacuum.


Hell yeah! I've got a Rainbow from the late 1950s. It will probably outlive humanity and cleans better than anything else I've used.

All the vintage ones I've seen are mostly Bakelite, which is pretty brittle, especially as it ages.

What model is yours?


I think it's a d2 from '58 or '59.

It does have some Bakelite, but is mostly metal.


Tangentially related, but I was rewatching the old iPhone 3G keynote recently, and you wouldn't believe who made an appearance.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_X5xOI_qu9I&t=1649s


Wow red polo with a green polo underneath and double popped collars

That’s a brave look


Did you mean puzzling look? Why is he wearing 2 shirts? In the 90's we would wear a long sleeve Tee under a band t-shirt, but we didn't wear multiple t-shirts...


That was a style then. It may not be your thing or mine, but it's not puzzling that someone was caught up in a fashion style of the times.


If you watch any 2000s comedy film, or just do a high level skim of 2000s pop culture, that was a very standard trendy attire back then. My parents were into me looking like that in school at the time as well + for photos.


I am quite sure long sleeve Tee under a band t-shirt will eventually make a come back, given all the nostalgia wave from Gen Z, experiencing their grandfathers teenage years.


long sleeve layered under a band tee is one of my favorite things actually


It was a preppy frat bro look of the mid-aughts.

It got pretty ridiculous. I had a few people in my classes that would do 4+ layers and show up looking like an artichoke.

https://www.verdalina.com/blogs/journal/the-popped-collar


It was a thing for a while in the early 2000s, mostly as a preppy status symbol. It was pretty much iconic SV founder uniform for a short time.


I like it actually :)

No comment about Loopt or his work since then however: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loopt#SMS_invitation_issues

Just happy to see anything other than grey on dark-grey. The colors are very Apple/SONY too.


2000s Silicon Valley chic


"You'll never have to eat lunch alone--or at a bad place--again"

Classic SV


Funnier when you consider what Loopt amounted to.


Altman is such a shyster


Wow, unbelievable find


what a find


incredible


whoa


The domain "alecscollon.com" was also registered today, according to WHOIS


"This is the one thing we didn't want to happen"


I'd like to see some kind of "whitespace aware" smart diff in whatever comes after git


There's `git diff -w`, and most forges expose a setting for that in their diff views.


Use difftastic. You can do so with current git :)


you can literally plug in any diff program you like into git and even make it extension-aware


https://news.ycombinator.com/submit

> Leave url blank to submit a question for discussion. If there is no url, text will appear at the top of the thread. If there is a url, text is optional.


Ah.

For years I have been submitting links through a bookmarklet that goes to /submitlink rather than submit, so I don't get the text box.

I wonder why this feature isn't used more often.


Christopher Hitchens on Chomsky and 9/11:

"...it would be a credulous fool who swallowed the (unsupported) word of Osama Bin Laden that his group was the one responsible. An attempt to kidnap or murder an ex-president of the United States (and presumably, by extension, the sitting one) would be as legally justified as the hit on Abbottabad. And America is an incarnation of the Third Reich that doesn’t even conceal its genocidal methods and aspirations. This is the sum total of what has been learned, by the guru of the left, in the last decade."

https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2011/05/noam-chomsky-on-...


This is a serious mischaracterization of what Chomsky said. He didn't argue that Osama bin Laden didn't do 9/11, he argued that the American government denied him the right to be innocent until proven guilty in a court of law.


Hitchens supported the war and voted for Bush. Of course he hates Chomsky.


It'd be great if the apparent "world's leading AI-powered developer platform" didn't go down every week.


Every week? You're being very generous to them


They should understand this. If users move away who’s code will the rinse and resell?


Move where exactly? Bitbucket and GitLab aren't that great either.

I'm affected by GitHub outages maybe once every 2 months for a couple of hours. Sure, various parts go down but it's never something super impactful to my workflow.

It's not great but, IMHO, not outrage worthy.


I am not particularly keen on github and microsoft scraping my code and re-selling it via copilot. If you own mission critical ip you can always spin up a vm and setup reliable backups using gitlab, or simply via ssh. It really is that easy to move away.


That tag line isn't for you. It's for aging C-suite exec's who like fancy sounding words.

As for not going down. Meh, at least you don't have to do on-call for it. That's kind of half the point of paying for SaaS. At the end of the day, it's just a human system.


They are being honest about their position. They do call it "artificial intelligence powered"


The sales and marketing people are running the company now


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