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GrumpyNlon Solar power has begun to transform the world’s energy system

Despite all the great technology and improvements over the years, consumer energy in Europe has never been so expensive.

GrumpyNlon At Amazon, some coders say their jobs have begun to resemble warehouse work

In the beginning there was a saying, "nobody cares what your code looks like, as long as it works". We went full circle.

GrumpyNlon What were the MS-DOS programs that the moricons.dll icons were intended for?

VB came around 9 years later.

GrumpyNlon Irish privacy watchdog hits TikTok with Є530M fine over data transfers to China

As long as we dont fine the people in charge, these fines are useless and have no impact.

GrumpyNlon Sycophancy in GPT-4o

I see more and more GROK used responses on X, so its picking up.

GrumpyNlon AI TIMLINE – All prominent events in the field

Typo in the title, TIMELINE.

GrumpyNlon Watching o3 guess a photo's location is surreal, dystopian and entertaining

If you ask, where is this photo taken and you provide the EXIF data, why would that be cheating?

GrumpyNlon Show HN: BSE – Semantic Zip Engine for Text, Image and Audio

404 on the demo link.

GrumpyNlon Google is winning on every AI front

But, its Google, you will end up as the product.

GrumpyNlon Ironwood: The first Google TPU for the age of inference

Why doesnt google offer the most advanced voice technology when they offer a playback version, it still sounds like the most basic text to voice.

GrumpyNlon Polypane, The browser for ambitious web developers

Its a great tool and for a front end developer its reasonable.

GrumpyNlon I won't connect my dishwasher to your cloud

Bluetooth comes to mind.

GrumpyNlon Pirate Bay co-founder Carl Lundström has died

We are getting older and so are your heroes. They just die.

GrumpyNlon Blunder Free Chess – visualize which squares are attacked

I am a bad player, but this was pretty easy to win, but i like the idea, Nice work.

GrumpyNlon A study on how turtles navigate using the Earth’s magnetic field

Sounds more like you can taste static electricity.

GrumpyNlon TL;DW: Too Long; Didn't Watch Distill YouTube Videos to the Relevant Information

Or ask the original creator if he can publish the script used.

GrumpyNlon Sunsetting Create React App

Nobody knows how to write react anymore.

GrumpyNlon Chrome does not have any way to stop video auto play?

I use it because most of my clients use it. Chrome still has a market share of 66%.

GrumpyNlon The subtle art of designing physical controls for cars

I applaud the work and thoughts the author put in this system, but for me it just demonstrates why all these complex digital controls fail. I have a older mercedes, my seat heating has one knob, 3 settings, high, low, off. Those buttons, i can find them blindfolded.

GrumpyNlon Digital Reality, Digital Shock: Growing Up at the Dawn of Cyberspace

Thats what i meant, the phone part.

GrumpyNlon Advice for a friend who wants to start a blog

Host your own. Keep it simple.

GrumpyNlon Digital Reality, Digital Shock: Growing Up at the Dawn of Cyberspace

Born in 1959, i miss the days without cellphones.

GrumpyNlon A WebAssembly compiler that fits in a tweet

Twitter was based on sms, the standard SMS character limit is 160. They used 140 so they could use the remained 20 chars for other purposes.

GrumpyNlon Nokia Design Archive

The interface is a mess, but the data is phenomenal.

GrumpyNlon Take the Pedals Off the Bike

We call them steps or sitting steps, thats how we learned how to ride a bike.