> Backed by the White House

Somehow it hits differently than the similar phrase, "backed by the full faith and credit of the US Govt."

Because in this administration, I guess it is different.

The "US Government" are the people and agencies that DOGE tried to get rid of and that were taken out of their jobs or unable to provide any services due to the shutdown.

Whereas "The White House" is Trump and his buddies.

Welcome to the autocracy...

Were you around in the 90s? Remember when Marilyn Manson was blamed for Columbine?

Nah, maybe the TC-5 could be argued to be relatively inefficient and pretty aggressive on delicate stuff (and loud), but the TR-7 is both efficient and gentle on clothing while being quiet. Have had one for a while and love it. No machine is perfect but this feels pretty close.

The TC5 is fine by me. I've never had a washer that worked this well. The noise level is the last thing I'm worried about when a meaningful cycle completes within 30 minutes.

It’s cool that this isn’t an Ask HN post yet there are still so many personal gems of stories in this thread. Good on ya, lads.

It’s a fun fact that Thomas Jefferson and John Adams both died on the same day, July 4 1826, 50 years to the day after the adoption of the Declaration of Independence.

Ironically enough, Adams’ last words were reportedly, “Jefferson lives”

For those who don't know the story: it's ironic because Jefferson died first.

The point in TFA is that the roads captured by Tesla are likely correlated to income.

And the users of this device are typically who?

The company that needs data everywhere, not just where teslas drive.

So, it's like Python? If only Ruby had something like Pydantic, too.

> Hopefully the case the DOJ brought against them is progressing well

They reached a settlement with the DOJ last week [0].

0: https://www.realpage.com/news/realpage-reaches-settlement-wi...

Calculus for Dummies is surprisingly not bad.

A little tangential/OT, but one of the things I admire about Andy Gavin and the Naughty Dog team is that they were capable of doing things on a brand new system that few ever figured out how to do.

Usually when a new system/console comes out it takes a while for developers to get used to its quirks and figure out optimizations and hacks to eke out whatever little performance gains you can under the constraints of the hardware.

One of the first games for the PS2 was Jak and Daxter: The Precursor Legacy, developed by Naughty Dog. What is remarkable is that Gavin had figured out that a lot of the assets and textures etc. that needed to be available in order to start the game could be loaded while the typical splash screens were displayed at the beginning.

I never noticed it when I played the game years ago, but I picked it up a while back and had a "wait, what?" moment when the PRESS START button appears, and instantly upon pressing it you're launched into the game and can interact with the world. No loading screen, no cutscene, just straight into the game.

Anyway, mad respect for a small team that managed to produce some of the most beloved games from that era.

Jak and Daxter is as legendary for its charm and tech as it was for its crazy tricks. The one I cherish the most is how if Jak was running to the next zone before streaming had completed loading it, Jak would just trip and fall for no apparent reason to the player.

Oh my God is THAT why he would randomly trip over sometimes?? I spent a small but non-trivial amount of time trying to figure out how to do it again when I was younger.

Thank you, you answered a 20-year-old question I didn't even remember I had until now.

I remember laughing so hard at this, during their GDC lecture about Jak's tech. I haven't verified it but I suspect it's this one https://gdcvault.com/play/1022734/The-Technology-of-Jak-Daxt...

This trick was used by later games as well. It was pretty funny in Batman: Arkham Asylum to see Batman faceplant while walking down a hallway.