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nom··on Germany Just Banned Windows to Save €15M
AI channel
nom··on Geek Fighter – 2d fighter game
it's really not though
nom··on The TEMU-Fication of Software, Digital Goods and Services
I'm sure they can't automate shirts because the super cheap ones somehow always are Made in Bangladesh. If they could use less human labor they would make them somewhere else.

I believe socks can be fully automated and are mostly made in china.

nom··on How do I permanently disable random Google Photos popup to backup photos? (2024)
It is worse than that. It fills up your accounts cloud storage, where your Google docs, sheets, drive files etc are stored.

Once full you are caught in their trap: pay a monthly fee to the mafia or delete your data!

This flow is intentional and they have set up everything to bring you there. The Photo-Backup popup (and arguably the whole photo feature) helps to shovel users more quickly to the end of the monetization funnel.

nom··on Trump has amassed staggering wealth in 'most openly corrupt' presidency
living the American dream
nom··on Ask HN:Why do websites today refuse to work on EDGE/2G?
probably overwhelmed by other background services making network requests
nom··on Caring for Rubber in Vintage Devices, the Curators' Way
It's not reversible, unfortunately. The polyurethane breaks down through hydrolysis. Keeping it in a dry environment is the best you can do.

Apparently you can slow it down by driving the water out with heat, but that won't fix the already broken down PU.

nom··on TV Pickup
1. it is a cultural thing, many are doing it 2. they have very powerful kettles
nom··on Claude shared chats and Artifacts may have ended up on Google
The operator of the links has to do this. Not the person sharing the link. It's the job of the companies to make sure their pages don't get publicly indexed. It's basic web dev stuff that has worked like that for decades now.
nom··on Claude shared chats and Artifacts may have ended up on Google
you can also do it via http response header, feels cleaner to me
nom··on Claude shared chats and Artifacts may have ended up on Google
It's up to them to tell Google to not index those pages, either via <meta> or X-Robots-Tag http header. Once accidentally indexed they have to tell Google via search console to reindex them to actually get it out of the index.

Somehow this keeps happening, followed by a rediscovery of this ancient old knowledge.

nom··on Switzerland turned its train tracks into solar power plants
it is less stupid solar roadways, but it is still very stupid
nom··on Timeline Scan – AI fixes the dates on your scanned photos
vibes
nom··on Frieve Vinyl Explained – Microscopic stylus/groove physics simulation
nice, it even squishes the dust particles :D
nom··on Apple sues OpenAI, accuses ex-employees of stealing trade secrets
I'd watch that movie
nom··on FanDuel sent personal message from Phillies star to gambling addiction
milking the whales. they all do it.. it's very lucrative and very immoral:

find the most addicted gamblers with big bags on your platform (it's in the metrics) and target them specifically

they assign personal handlers to 'work with them' , to keep them hooked and squeeze as hard as possible

it's profitable to have devs build custom games for individual users, tuned to their specific behavior..

it's a vile industry

nom··on AI Seinfeld is taking over Twitch (2023)
it came back and is still running, now two people watching
nom··on Doma.in Na.me Ha.ck Cl.ub
> s.ai

Game over, Sai wins.

nom··on Study on the effects of listening to podcasts on headphones vs. speakers
no.
nom··on The French are painting their windows with chalk to beat the heat
emergency blankets works great and are cheap too

however, you get even better cooling with a coating that radiates the heat, it cools below the air temperature which feels so wrong

NighthawkInLight on YouTube has explored this and created recipes, the results still feel impossible to my intuition

nom··on Cloudflare teams up with big browsers to help websites detect unwelcome visitors
Hey, do you want one of my poison-free donuts? It's safe and has no arsenic in it.
nom··on Polymarket says hackers stole users' funds
> compromise at a third-party vendor allowed hackers to inject malicious code into its website

this gets often overlooked

Kate from marketing has full permission on Google tag manager.. phish her and inject whatever you want into the website.

And if Kate doesn't have access, the ad agency supporting the marketing department certainly will.

nom··on Android developer verification: Building a safer ecosystem together
I feel safer already.
nom··on Midjourney Medical
Not a joke, they really think that doing billions of full body scans will reduce healthcare costs and make people less anxious.

Any scientist not on the payroll will tell you the opposite. You will get millions of false positives, causing anxiety and unnecessary interventions. This has been studied extensively and we have the stats.

I too wish I could just jump into a machine every month and it declares me free of cancer. Instead it will find new irregularities every time with no easy way to confirm it's benign. This idea does not work.

nom··on U.S. pulling ocean sensors a 'shock' for Canadian research as El Niño nears
That is exactly what is happening.

Records of environmental data are a huge pain in the ass for those invested in fossil energy and adjacent industries.

The truth is hurting business and they seem to be going on a rampage actively killing it at the roots. Stop collecting and recording data, destroy and hide the existing data and close the institutions.

nom··on Police officer investigated for using AI to 'create evidence' in multiple cases
that is not what happened, no.
nom··on Rio de Janeiro's "homegrown" LLM appears to be a merge of an existing model
why not?
nom··on You can power on a Mac remotely
It's not about being searchable, it simply gets more clicks because of our stupid human brain. That's why there is a surprised face on half of them.

It makes a noticeable financial difference for creators and almost everyone seems to have accepted it.

Unfortunately, I agree.

nom··on BYD to install 5-minute EV chargers across Europe
They will probably sell more models in the future.
nom··on Germany's €100B bid to make the trains run on time
> Just 60 per cent of long-distance German trains arrive on time, down from 84 per cent two decades ago.

If that's from the official statistics, it's even worse. The definition of 'on time' has expanded (6 minutes late is perfectly punctually and on time, right?) and they stopped counting trains that are too late by simply canceling them. If the train is not running, it cant be late. Brilliant.

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