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[dead] 1 year ago

This is very, very bad, but not armaggeddon (probably) for most people. It does decrease our preparedness for armageddon-like disasters - imagine a more aggressive HIV-like disease, for example. If you're an academic or a federal employee, it might be the end of your career which is like a little mini apocalypse targeted only at specific walks of life.

As someone who's been in a position like this before, I suspect the author is angry at the manufacturers and feels they're not being honest by not providing proper specs. It's hard to spec out a project when no one will tell you exactly what their parts can do. It's like if you were trying to buy a light truck for work and intsead of telling you how much weight it could pull or how often maintenance would be needed, the manufacturer refused to say anything more than "it can tow a speedboat" and "it requires infrequent maintenance."

That specific problem sounds like you just have bad software in your car. My car takes a second for the infotainment system to boot, but it doesn't start blaring anything until it's ready to process input.

Looks to me like it's intended as a link with preview, and part of the idea is that user agents could do a sort of animated transition morphing the preview into the content of the destination page.

Bunkers in Albania 2 years ago

I thought the article was entertaining because of how absurd and obviously bad the idea of constructing the bunkers was.