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jml7c5··on ESP32-S31
Oh, I wouldn't worry about posting a dupe. Announcement vs release is different enough, and people are clearly interested in it. I didn't link it as any sort of admonition; there was just some good discussion there.
jml7c5··on Rsync and outrage
>If there had been no major regressions, do you think anyone would have complained?

If there had been the same regressions but no AI, do you think there would be a 300 post issue full of people complaining? People are holding the update to a higher standard just because they used AI.

jml7c5··on ESP32-S31
Previous discussion from two months ago, when this was announced: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47561678
jml7c5··on Webcam head tracking, webcam to control in‑game FOV
I loved that demo, but the problem with "monitor as a window into the world" is that monitors are relatively small and people don't sit very close to them. The FOV you obtain with most setups is disappointingly small. You need to be relatively close to a large display for it to work well. It's one of the reasons why the idea never took off in the first place, I think.
jml7c5··on Do turmeric and curcumin have any actual health benefits?
The problem is that this is either unsupported by evidence or a meaninglessly shallow claim. After all, almost every herbal remedy does something, but it doesn't mean it's actually therapeutic for some given condition.
jml7c5··on What are locusts and what happened to them?
Ah, my mistake! I saw the references to writing style and assumed. I'm sorry. Unfortunately I can't delete or edit my comment any more.
jml7c5··on Re: [PATCH] OOM_pardon, a.k.a. don't kill my xlock (2004)
Thanks. I was confused for a bit, given these days you can do

    echo "-1000" > /proc/<pid>/oom_score_adj
to disable OOM killing for a process.

https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/master/include/uapi/l...

jml7c5··on Testing the WWI concrete ships and WWII concrete barges
Probably a copy-paste mistake while quoting the source. If anything, it makes me less inclined to believe it's AI generated.
jml7c5··on What are locusts and what happened to them?
>that doesn't smell like AI

Note that it is AI-generated. It appears to be based on a human-written outline: https://github.com/Explosion-Scratch/locusts/blob/main/artic...

jml7c5··on Power bills more than 250 per cent higher near data centres
The 267% number is the rise from 2020-2025, so it already includes that.
jml7c5··on Erin Brockovich made a map to track data centers around the country
I thought that might be what you were referring to. As far as I know the issues there were construction causing turbidity, and water used for construction accidentally going metered. Neither are really relevant to it being a datacenter. Apparently it'll use closed-loop cooling, so it's not going to draw much water in operation either.

It does seem like a canard.

https://dustinrhone.substack.com/p/on-fayetteville-georgia

jml7c5··on Erin Brockovich made a map to track data centers around the country
>In Florida a data center drew water in an unauthorized way and the surrounding community had issues with brown water and had to go into water rationing.

Can you cite a source for this? I can't find it anywhere.

jml7c5··on Power bills more than 250 per cent higher near data centres
Searching for "267%", I think the source of this claim is a misinterpretation of Bloomberg's September article on datacenters: https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2025-ai-data-centers-elec...

I that article, 267% represents the highest increase seen. It's not any sort of average. It's odd that it's reappeared in this article now.

jml7c5··on Nobody cracks open a programming book anymore
It's a bit different than that analogy would suggest. Learning things piecemeal can leave strange gaps in one's knowledge, in my experience. A book is often much quicker.
jml7c5··on Click (2016)
That reminds me of this story, from developing for the Playstation:

>In the main engineering room, there was a whoop and cry of success.

>Our company financial controller and acting HR lady, Jen, came in to see what incredible things the engineers and artists had come up with. Everyone was staring at a television set hooked up to a development box for the Sony Playstation. There, on the screen, against a single-color background, was a black triangle.

>“It’s a black triangle,” she said in an amused but sarcastic voice. One of the engine programmers tried to explain, but she shook her head and went back to her office. I could almost hear her thoughts… “We’ve got ten months to deliver two games to Sony, and they are cheering over a black triangle? THAT took them nearly a month to develop?”

https://rampantgames.com/blog/?p=7745

jml7c5··on Temu is advertising filet mignon on X
This is probably part of their "weird stuff" marketing scheme. They pick strange items to draw people in: either an item that is truly inscrutable (though often appearing related to sex) or an item that doesn't seem like it would/could be sold on their marketplace.
jml7c5··on eBay Rejects GameStop's $56B Takeover as Not Credible
>To them, I have a question like, are we watching the same interview? How can anyone watch that interview and then consider it in any way positively or anything like that, like huh, have we watched the same interview?

It all comes down to a belief in "trolling". Once you assume that your chosen individual might act stupid on purpose, you lose the ability to discern between actual stupidity and fake stupidity. GameStop enthusiasts see that interview and assume Cohen is mocking the interviewers as a show of intentional disrespect. They think he's not actually clueless, just trolling.

Unfortunately, this sort of belief is self-reinforcing. Once you get over the hurdle of believing in trolling the first time, the next instance seems completely plausible. Every time it happens, you become more convinced that the person engages in a pattern of trolling — after all, you've seen it so many times! You don't realize that the source of your belief is not accumulated independent evidence, but a chain that rests on a single link.

jml7c5··on How an oil refinery works
I suspect this is confusion between the statistic that 40% of global shipping traffic is transportation of fossil fuels.

https://qz.com/2113243/forty-percent-of-all-shipping-cargo-c...

jml7c5··on Supreme Court to hear arguments in landmark Roundup weedkiller case
The Wikipedia page for it is pretty good. Basically, there are a number of short-chain carbohydrates that tend to pass through the small intestine (where nutrients are digested and absorbed into the bloodstream) and reach the large intestine (where water is removed). Bacteria in the large intestine eat these nutrients (fermentation). In some people, this causes intestinal distress. (Bloating, gas, discomfort, watery stool, etc.) It's not clear why this only affects some people.

You hear a lot about it because a large subset of people have discovered that a low-FODMAP diet relieves their torment of intestinal distress.

jml7c5··on In the UK, EVs are cheaper than petrol cars, thanks to Chinese competition
Unfortunately, because the number of imports is restricted the cars will likely be about as expensive as the competition. Chinese car companies have no strong incentive to undercut the market when they can take a fat margin and still sell out anyway.
jml7c5··on "cat readme.txt" is not safe if you use iTerm2
That reminds me of "Real Life Tron on an Apple IIgs". There's something so charming about system memory being misinterpreted.

https://blog.danielwellman.com/2008/10/real-life-tron-on-an-...

jml7c5··on The buns in McDonald's Japan's burger photos are all slightly askew
No, unless the terminals being "stupid" is the issue.
jml7c5··on Elon Musk buys a fifth of his own Cybertrucks
It's saying "Available for Immediate Pick Up" for me (90210 zip code).
jml7c5··on The buns in McDonald's Japan's burger photos are all slightly askew
Why do you want them to take your order if you have access to a terminal?
jml7c5··on The 1987 game “The Last Ninja” was 40 kilobytes
Is this even correct? It was a two-sided disk, and each side was 174 KB.
jml7c5··on German implementation of eIDAS will require an Apple/Google account to function
Is the link broken for anyone else? I'm getting ERR_CONNECTION_CLOSED.
jml7c5··on Two pilots dead after plane and ground vehicle collide at LaGuardia
This shifted the race of trainees, but it doesn't seem to have changed the more important metric of how many people were actually hired. The author claims it had an effect, but as far as I can tell he's never quantified it.

The real issue is just insufficient slots.

jml7c5··on iPhone 17 Pro Demonstrated Running a 400B LLM
A more whimsical method is to put the thing in a glass of water with the cord sticking out. :-)

https://www.reddit.com/r/EmulationOnAndroid/comments/1m269k0...

jml7c5··on MM120, a pharmaceutical form of LSD, shown to reduce anxiety symptoms (2025)
HN has some peculiar medical fixations. It comes in waves. For a while there were a lot of submissions about intermittent fasting. 15 years ago people were excited about polyphasic sleep. 10 years ago it was all about modafinil. Enthusiasm about ketamine for depression was big, but it seems to have finally fizzled out.
jml7c5··on Canada's bill C-22 mandates mass metadata surveillance
Can you change the title? It's far more inflammatory than the content, and people here are reacting solely to it.
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