Precision matters, and legos only have a certain amount of precision.

Besides that, things like the number of holes in the calendar ring matter.

Check out Clickspring on youtube, he's one of the people who narrowed the hole count down to 2 numbers, and this paper argues hard for one of those.

He's building a replica of the mechanism using period tools, and it's amazingly precise so far.

...and that example was actually used in one of the dissenting opinions.

Yes, I will take Sotomayor’s well voiced dissent as golden over an opinion on HN any day of the week. I might have been less worried it at least one of the conservatives had voted against this attempt to validate Executive assassinations and imprisoning opponents as the law of the land, but it was 6-3

We really need legislation in the US to regulate the use of data... something like the GDPR with enforcement for people who are careless with their customers.

As well as strongly regulating sales of data/data brokers, of course.

Honestly, something as simple as statutory damages would be enough. Probably makes the most sense since it's going to be difficult to shown whose database was used for identify theft.

You want to compile a database on your 1 million customers? Go ahead but you're going to pay $X * 1 million if you don't protect it.

We are, all of us, born EBCDIC. The world teaches us ASCII, and we can make no sense of all we knew.

The reward is the find. No magnet fisherman except the ones on Youtube or Patreon actually makes enough to pay for their magnets.

You don't do this to try to make money, you do it for fun, knowledge, and the occasional cool (but not very valuable) item.

"...And they shall know no fear."

https://imgur.com/a/5oMQhEu

See also "Open Plan Workspace".

AI Bubble!

Think about it... Google could train its AI to recognize malicious behavior for moderation purposes, to recognize astroturfing and manipulation of public opinion (for purposes of stopping it or carrying it out).

There's not much value in training it to simulate a redditor, but there's a lot in modeling bad behavior.

They haven't innovated in years. The only real changes to reddit have been a cosmetic re-work and release of an app for mobile use.

Well, that and the API changes that drove away something like a third of the users.