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Re:N.C.A.A. Excludes Transgender Athletes from Women's Sports on Thursday February 06, 2025 @04:53PM (#42966866)
That isn't true. They excluded male athletes from women's sports.

I.e., they brought back the women's category that they deleted years ago by opening it to cheating men.

I can't believe it's a controversial opinion that women's sports should be allowed.

If you want men in women's sports you're just saying you women's sports banned. And you're a vile anti women's rights extremist.

Re:Companies Ending/Reducing DEI on Wednesday January 29, 2025 @11:49PM (#42874972)
Thank god the madness is finally coming to an end. I hope the rest of the world can finally start to move past the insane sexism and racism that is DEI. Hiring should be based on merit, not skin colour or because you're trans.
Re:Windows 7 boots slower if you set a solid background color on Tuesday January 28, 2025 @04:46PM (#42858486)
I mean, you have to uncompress an image to display it anyway, so it would've made no difference.
Re:We're bringing Pebble back on Monday January 27, 2025 @10:36PM (#42848586)
I second this. I'll be very hesitant to buy in if it's locked to a cloud service. And people are waking up to this, with the Bambu controversy and all. Please don't make this mistake.
Fascinating. I love seeing practical applications of computer vision. I want to understand how image embeddings work.

I wonder how practical it would be to add specific multidimensional similarity metrics the user could adjust. For example, if they didn't care whether it was a photo or drawing, but still had to be the same type of object. Or if they didn't care about the art style. Or if it had to be an SUV driving thru a river, but they don't care what colour SUV.

Re:Ask HN: Anyone want models snail-mailed to them? on Monday January 27, 2025 @04:53PM (#42846107)
In Australia the government legally mandated that I (and most of the country) am not permitted to have a wired internet connection above 25mbit/s. I am very bandwidth constrained.
Re:Google open-sources the Pebble OS on Monday January 27, 2025 @04:49PM (#42846059)
Every Pebble model used an LCD display. It being epaper has to be one of the most pervasive myths in tech history. It was a low powered, reflective LCD, so it did improve on other LCDs in those areas somewhat, but it wasn't eink technology.
Re:Google open-sources the Pebble OS on Monday January 27, 2025 @04:44PM (#42846004)
Pebble Time used an LCD display just like every other Pebble
Re:The future of Rebble on Monday January 27, 2025 @04:42PM (#42845970)
Pebble had an LCD screen. It didn't use Eink at all. You can look this up, it was an LCD display manufactured by Sharp.
Re:We're bringing Pebble back on Monday January 27, 2025 @04:09PM (#42845644)
Which watch has an e-ink(/epaper) display? I can only think of Watchy. Pebble was LCD.
Re:New Tesla Model Y on Thursday January 23, 2025 @10:31PM (#42810214)
They kept the wrong stalk :/ I wanted the mode stalk kept, I don't mind the buttons for indicators.

In right hand drive countries, the indicator and mode change are now on the same side, so you have to do them with the same hand one after the other.

Re:LM arena public voting is not objective for LLM evaluation on Thursday January 23, 2025 @07:00PM (#42809292)
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God damn that name is absolutely perfect. I'm upvoting it for that alone.
Re:Ask HN: What cars do you drive? on Wednesday January 22, 2025 @04:25PM (#42797695)
Tesla Model 3
The threat of Bambu not being able to remotely brick your printer in 5 years when they want to sell you a new one
Re:Show HN: Ad Free Facebook Video/Reel Downloader on Monday January 20, 2025 @05:12PM (#42773704)
Thankyou, I was looking for something like this the other day. Ended up screen recording. I'll check this out when I'm not at work.
As Burnie Burns pointed out on Morning Somewhere this morning... wasn't the censorship when the US banned tiktok that led to this in the first place? China censors certain posts, the US banned a whole platform.
Re:Teetotalism on Monday January 20, 2025 @04:58PM (#42773554)
My dad is 74 and only drank alcohol one time in his life, no smoking or drugs and healthy diet. And it shows. He looks and feels fantastic for his age, you'd think he was about 55, and he's not on any regular medication, which doctors keep saying is exceptionally rare at that age.
Re:Email address validity checks suck on Sunday January 19, 2025 @10:46PM (#42764780)
I don't get why they do this.

Email validation can be done by sending an email to the specified address. Why bother differentiating between "invalid" and "valid but doesn't exist"?

Just check there's an @ symbol with something before it and something after it and if so, send it an email.

Any reason not to do it this way?

Re:Reverse Engineering Bambu Connect on Sunday January 19, 2025 @10:16PM (#42764632)
I'm so happy Bambu is getting what's coming to them after screwing us so badly <3
Re: on Sunday January 19, 2025 @05:16PM (#42762574)
It looks like a chicken egg.
...Why did they not have a backup? Were they not aware their computer could break or get stolen?
Oh. I was going to buy a P1S in a few months. Looks like they don't want my money.

What's the best alternative?

Re:Nintendo announces the Switch 2 [video] on Thursday January 16, 2025 @04:11PM (#42730959)
I know. My mind is blown. I was convinced they wouldn't be able to resist the temptation to name it something stupid.
Re:Nintendo announces the Switch 2 [video] on Thursday January 16, 2025 @04:08PM (#42730933)
The Steam Deck has two trackpads, tho obviously games don't support them specifically, they get mapped to existing controls
They should fund it by selling early access mammoth burgers.
Why didn't they just... keep the rights...?
Re:Contra Paul Graham on Wokeness on Tuesday January 14, 2025 @07:43PM (#42705978)
>"He defines wokeness as “An aggressively performative focus on social justice.” By doing this, he concedes that the woke are correct (implying that differences between groups are a problem worth solving), but just thinks the way they’re going about it is the problem. "

I generally agree with Erik here, but to some extent both of these people are missing part of the point, or at least the severity of it. Wokeness is an anti-equality movement that aims to take away rights from already disadvantaged and marginalized people.

For example, in Australia, it's now illegal to have any single-sex gay spaces or meetings. Gay dating apps are banned because trans people demand access. Lesbian bars and parties are illegal because woke people call exclusive same-sex attraction "bigotry". A man sued a lesbian dating app to gain access and won. Gay people now have to have their meetings - both online and in person - in secret again, like they did 50 years ago, because woke people have successfully campaigned against gay people having rights.

Children are sterilized and mutilated because woke people are willing to risk someone's life to make sure they fit precisely into one of two 1950s gender norm boxes, and if anyone doesn't conform they'll come after them with a scalpel. Yarden Silveira died in agony at the age of 23 with his intestines spilling out of his fake vagina onto a hospital bed because woke people told him he wasn't allowed to not conform to a gender box, and had to get surgery to fit into one.

Male rapists are placed in women's prisons, because woke people fought for the "right" for male rapists to be locked up with women so they have access to more victims to rape. Women's sports doesn't exist anymore because woke people demanded that men can cheat by competing in the women's division.

Woke people tell young gay and autistic people they were born in the wrong body and have to mutilate it or kill themselves. My friend (a lesbian) was manipulated into going on testosterone by woke groomers and regrets it but can never undo the damage to her body.

Woke people are the bad guys, NOT the good guys.

Re:Hotel booking sites overcharge Bay Area customers on Tuesday January 14, 2025 @04:54PM (#42704440)
Back before Creative Cloud was a subscription, to get Creative Suite in Australia, it was cheaper to book a flight to America, a hotel for three nights, buy Creative Suite there, and a flight home, than to just pay the markup Adobe gave us as punishment for being Australian.
Re:Mastodon announces new European non-profit, change of CEO on Tuesday January 14, 2025 @04:29PM (#42704155)
Algorithmic curation is exactly what ruined the existing social networks. They were absolutely better without it.

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