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tfwnopmt··on The Last Skeuomorph in iOS?
The camera shutter sound is to discourage people in asian countries from taking upskirt photos. It also can't be muted when you've got SIM cards from one of those countries installed.
tfwnopmt··on eBay Restricts Listings of Radio Equipment, but Exempts Ham-Band-Only Gear
For people that didn't read the article, listings will need to include the FCC ID. So most consumer goods will still be available.
tfwnopmt··on Japanese people still aren't having sex. And nobody knows why
It's because they become wizards if they're virgins at 30
tfwnopmt··on Tensorbrife
Reminds me of the worst aircraft disaster in history: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tenerife_airport_disaster
tfwnopmt··on Ask HN: Are requests/demands coming from AI companies for regulation genuine?
Why would they ask to slow down?

One reason is that they really do think they're going too fast, and that scary AGI is right around the corner.

Another possible reason is that they cannot keep up the pace. Throwing more data, compute, and money at the problem isn't getting the commensurate results necessary to justify the investment.

tfwnopmt··on 'Lake America' makes one thing clear: We can't trust U.S. tech companies
mapquest is from the US too
tfwnopmt··on MS deletes account after it was hacked, wiping 25 years of data, €1000s of games
Microsoft shoves onedrive down everyone's throats, only to delete it on a whim.

Sounds more like Google's M.O., honestly.

tfwnopmt··on 3D-Printed Micro Manipulator Can Achieve Accurate Sub-Micron Movement
Interesting mechanism - reminds me of Openflexure

https://openflexure.org/projects/microscope/

tfwnopmt··on Egg consumption inversely correlated with Alzheimer's
I'm not sure what this strawman is going on about, but the cancer-alzheimer's inverse correlation is a well known phenomenon

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41514-026-00442-1

tfwnopmt··on Egg consumption inversely correlated with Alzheimer's
Cancer is also inversely correlated with alzheimer's.

Phrased another way, egg consumption is correlated with cancer.

tfwnopmt··on A 'perfect storm' points to a much smaller U.S. auto market by 2040
How are there so many typos and formatting errors in a news article like that? Do they even have an editor?
tfwnopmt··on Why can't online purchases be as easy as point-of-sale purchases?
Apple pay, when available, has been pretty seamless. I assume it's the same for Google pay (or whatever it's called these days)
tfwnopmt··on Tyler Cowen Is the Tycho Brahe of Economics
He mentions all those other famous danish people but neglects to talk about Niels Bohr?
tfwnopmt··on Hitler as a Unit of Measurement
"A single human death is only 0.1 nanohitlers"

That should be microhitlers

tfwnopmt··on Ask HN: Can there be a YC batch in Europe?
If you can't spend 3 months in SF, you probably can't spend 3 months in any other european city/country.

Is there a city with anywhere near the critical mass of SF?

If that happened to be on the other side of the EU, would you be OK living a 3-hour flight away from Amsterdam, rather than a 13 hour flight away?

Is commuting back and forth 3-hours compatible with the "SF-level work ethic", as you call it?

tfwnopmt··on FCC votes to ban all Chinese labs from certifying electronics sold in the US
According to the article many of the labs are subsidiaries owned by american testing firms.

These EMI labs should already be audited by the FCC, so this just seems like sinophobia to me.

tfwnopmt··on What do you think of people buying Mac mini's to run AI?
It seems to me they've had enough foresight to prevent their openclaw credentials from being stolen via copy-fail
tfwnopmt··on The FCC just saved Netgear from its router ban for no obvious reason
MEGA was founded by Kim Dotcom, who currently lives in New Zealand
tfwnopmt··on Private Credit Is Reeling, but New Rule May Allow It into 401(k)s
I thought index funds were killing actively managed funds already. Why would anyone choose these over a low expense ratio index fund?
tfwnopmt··on Amazon plans smartphone comeback more than a decade after Fire Phone flop
I do hope they force all of the executives and management at Amazon to switch to this new phone and forcibly take away their iphones.
tfwnopmt··on Print your own Mount Everest on a 3D printer (open source, web based)
I looked up Mt Fuji and there are spikes and pits all over the place in the model. Is the satellite scan data no good?
tfwnopmt··on You Should Make Your Own OpenClaw
Can it use locally hosted LLMs, or are you forced to use one of the big players for that portion?
tfwnopmt··on Don't Fear the Repo
I'm gonna need some more cowbell here
tfwnopmt··on "Sanae Takaichi" 32 times in Unification Church's 3200-page secret document
How does that compare with the number of times Abe is mentioned?
tfwnopmt··on Show HN: A stealth ESP32 radar hidden in a phone charger
Why is electrical isolation even a concern? There are no user accessible conductive parts.
tfwnopmt··on Construction to begin on Florida expressway that will charge EVs while driving
Only 3/4 of a mile will be electrified. That's less than a minute of charging at highway speeds.
tfwnopmt··on America's sweetheart meme came from Philly drill rappers depicting gun violence
why is 6 afraid of 7?
tfwnopmt··on A Wealth Tax Floated in California Has Billionaires Thinking of Leaving
That much sale in assets will affect the asset prices themselves. Unless the state is willing to take taxes in the form of assets instead of cash, it doesn't make sense to tax them.
tfwnopmt··on Show HN: I engineered a 2mm micro-bearing D20 ring that free-spin for 20 seconds
If this is a piece of jewelery how are you managing the buildup of sweat/gunk/biojunk?
tfwnopmt··on The Paradox of Memory: Why Forgetting Makes Learning Possible
Why is forgetting necessary? Would willful ignorance suffice?

There's a common phrase "putting that aside for now" which lets you explore other avenues in spite of contradictions

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