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lowdownbutteron Reforming English Spelling

but that's the magic e.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SI9hHo9_QB8

lowdownbutteron How did AMD Ryzen get 50% faster in two years?

That's why I'm all in on hammers. Garage full of them.

lowdownbutteron Nobody understands the point of hybrid cars [video]

If nobody understands them, why would I watch this video - Either he also doesn't understand them, therefore why would I watch? Or he does understand them, in which case the title is incorrect, therefore why would I watch?

lowdownbutteron A new Bigfoot documentary helps explain our conspiracy-minded era

What do you believe? The news?

lowdownbutteron Ireland shuts last coal plant, becomes 15th coal-free country in Europe (2025)

They know that sometimes it's not windy, and they know about night.

lowdownbutteron “Microslop” filtered in the official Microsoft Copilot Discord server

Maybe you can explain it for we non German speakers.

lowdownbutteron Banning lead in gas worked. The proof is in our hair

Who shall we sacrifice for the greater good? Shall we sacrifice one child for two elderly? One healthy adult for two sick?

lowdownbutteron Banning lead in gas worked. The proof is in our hair

> shouldn't you always decide to help the most people?

no.

lowdownbutteron Replacing Protobuf with Rust

Don't read clickbaity headlines and scan hacker news five times faster.

lowdownbutteron Porsche sold more electrified cars in Europe in 2025 than pure gas-powered cars

Yes it's so easy - Just tell the butler to put it on charge when you arrive home.

lowdownbutteron UK consulting on bringing in social media ban for under 16s

And I don't think social media is a net positive for 16 year olds.

lowdownbutteron Kip: A programming language based on grammatical cases of Turkish

languagejones has a good overview in this video

https://youtu.be/xdpvR3kaXaQ?si=dcNS-3VcH8AMU7dt

lowdownbutteron Network of Scottish X accounts go dark amid Iran blackout

Yes, that's what social media is - a battle ground for nudging opinions.

lowdownbutteron Exercise can be nearly as effective as therapy for depression

> my diagnosis was free

As long as you don't factor in your taxes.

lowdownbutteron Jonathan Blow has spent the past decade designing 1,400 puzzles

spoilers

lowdownbutteron MIT professor shot at his Massachusetts home dies

"Don't ask questions, just consume submission and then get excited for next submission"

lowdownbutteron Is our death from a hydrogen sulfide event inevitable in climate warming? (2005)

I've not read and am instead trusting Betteridge's law of headlines.

lowdownbutteron The 'Toy Story' You Remember

Don't tell me what I remember.

lowdownbutteron Waymo is bringing autonomous, driverless ride-hailing to London in 2026

> London specifically, AFAIK after midnight has no tube service

If only such things were googleable.

lowdownbutteron Everything that's wrong with Google Search in one image

That's not everything that's wrong.

lowdownbutteron How YouTube won the battle for TV viewers

> uncensored news. Get a load of this guy

lowdownbutteron Crypto's Wild West Era Is Over

Well it's not backed by anything, so governments can just print more of it, devaluing all the existing holdings of that currency.

lowdownbutteron Show HN: Vibe Kanban – Kanban board to manage your AI coding agents

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lowdownbutteron Tesla has yet to start testing its robotaxi without driver weeks before launch

Yes the AI would be much easier to train.

lowdownbutteron You Didn't Notice MP3 Is Now Free

> Let me tell you what you do or do not know.

lowdownbutteron Sweden brings more books and handwriting practice back to its schools (2023)

If only we had more than one datacenter.

lowdownbutteron Sci-fi books that you may never have heard of, but definitely should read

Credit for not assuming to know the reader by saying something like "Sci-fi books that you've never heard of!". I now routinely block youtube channels that do such things.

lowdownbutteron Sci-fi books that you may never have heard of, but definitely should read

The same thing occured to me a while back. There is this wikipedia page about it but I didn't get much further than that.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-translation

lowdownbutteron Are rotary mixers better?

Hello to other UK readers having a little chuckle to themselves.

lowdownbutteron Porsche's idea for a six-stroke internal combustion engine

Well that also needs to be heavily vilified and taxed.