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Yeah it is, because now the typing glasses are an appliance, not just your regular glasses. This makes sense for VR headsets, but it's a large part of how popular Google Glass is today.

GP is saying their choice of the glasses they want to wear all day every day is nothing to do with their choice to have something transcribe words they mouth, the latter shouldn't decide or significantly restrict the former.

The BBC names (and quotes) Sabcobel as one of the manufacturers.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cq1kd1nee80eo

Re:Private Jet plane crashes in Florida on Monday November 02, 2026 @08:56AM (#50336847)
Oops, thanks. Not familiar units for me, and I hadn't had a coffee.. that would be an absurd speed of course (nevermind to also have the composure to report it while experiencing it!).
Re:Private Jet plane crashes in Florida on Monday November 02, 2026 @08:26AM (#50336535)
Last transmission was 22k feet/second, which is 15k mph.

(I thought ATC's cool as a cucumber 'altitude your discretion' was 'interesting' – presumably a formality they need to offer to clear the aircraft, since clearly no discretion was involved.)

Nor did I claim they are, but that doesn't mean we have records of every little thing that fell out of service/production/sale/use.
Re:TCP Use-After-Free: CVE-2026-98432 / CVSS 9.8 on Sunday November 01, 2026 @10:26AM (#50326533)
For some reason the submission I saw here last week (not the same article, and I'm struggling to find now) was flagged to death before getting as popular as this one.
Re:TCP Use-After-Free: CVE-2026-98432 / CVSS 9.8 on Sunday November 01, 2026 @08:58AM (#50325746)
Weird, front page >500points today; flagged to death last week.
> Unfortunately the article does not identify precisely the "miracle" wheat.

> "Triticum turgidum" is ambiguous, because this wheat species has many different subspecies, with very different characteristics.

Is it not T. turgidum var. 'grano del miracolo'? Any previous name being, at least as far as we/the author knows lost to time?

Re:GPT-5.6 Sol can beat Factorio on peaceful mode on Saturday October 31, 2026 @07:34PM (#50321305)
Close on the keyboard to and small Levenshtein distance from Anthropic
> they can dynamically allocate subchannels in each mode based on the immediate needs of their users.

Right, so if I'm still rocking 4G only while 'everyone' else in the area is using 6G with some other stragglers on 5G, ...

What would solar's cost per kWh be? GP means the cost of the asset per peak generation power. 0.1/W seems about right, to an order of magnitude at least.
Re:Binance-hacker-1029 – $5.6B stolen from Binance on Thursday October 29, 2026 @08:28PM (#50298300)
> You don’t want your actual currency to gain value just by waiting.

Relative to what? Talk of BTC gaining value is primarily wrt USD; I'd be perfectly happy with my actual currency (GBP) gaining value wrt USD.

I suppose BTC can only 'deflate' in the long-run (and with an assumed supply of goods and services available in exchange for it) since the mintable volume is fixed. But perhaps it exposes that talking of currencies inflating is a bit sloppy, as it doesn't really make sense for BTC, and it's the economy or banking system that inflates really..

Re:Why Is This Fingerprinting Script Creating Bioweapons? on Thursday October 29, 2026 @05:59PM (#50296739)
Maybe it's an American thing.
It is but what they mean is that many implementations (e.g. PCRE) are not actually regular languages, they're more powerful: https://www.npopov.com/2012/06/15/The-true-power-of-regular-...
Re:Why Is This Fingerprinting Script Creating Bioweapons? on Thursday October 29, 2026 @12:34PM (#50291795)
Using 'they' for an unknown gender has nothing to do with people 'identifying' as they, or anything modern.

It's never been 'he', except in sexism such as 'when the doctor comes he will examine you' (with the doctor's identity and hence gender unknown, but assumed male by profession).

Re:Why Is This Fingerprinting Script Creating Bioweapons? on Thursday October 29, 2026 @12:27PM (#50291676)
We have a special filling cabinet for PRs from bots, Dawn!
Re:Anthropic S-1 on Monday October 26, 2026 @10:16PM (#50253956)
Reading this submission's comments, I'd be interested to see a meta-analysis of HN S-1 submissions' analyses pre- and post- generalised (HN crowd's) Claude usage.
Re:PHP 8.2.35 on Sunday October 25, 2026 @08:51PM (#50237614)
I know. This is about GitHub's behaviour with tags and branches present in different user/org's forks.
Re:PHP 8.2.35 on Sunday October 25, 2026 @08:49PM (#50237598)
I know. We're talking about GitHub here, which does.
Re:Docker Is Weird on Friday October 23, 2026 @10:10AM (#50209327)
I would absolutely say Go took off thanks to kubernetes ecosystem & CNCF projects in general, but I've never particularly associated it with Docker myself.
Re:Docker Is Weird on Friday October 23, 2026 @10:07AM (#50209268)
On the contrary I think quite a lot of luck is usually behind the second part of that.
Is that statistic active watching, or skewed by those that leave it on 24h news or shopping or whatever 24/7?
Re:PHP 8.2.35 on Wednesday October 21, 2026 @01:44PM (#50184809)
Correct. ..did you mean to reply elsewhere perhaps?
Re:PHP 8.2.35 on Wednesday October 21, 2026 @09:57AM (#50181070)
Same on the older few. I'm not sure I understand it though, seems strange you can have a tag for a commit that's only present in a fork?

Is it perhaps a bit misleading, and only means that there's no branch containing that commit?

Well broadly speaking manslaughter is, in my layman's understanding, the killing of a person as a consequence of actions but not of intent. That does fit the bill here, if applied literally (and this problem of pre-determining all the caveats and qualifications is why law is generally not 'code').
IANAL but it seems to me that:

i) it would not be weird to be tried for manslaughter;

ii) it would not be weird to be found innocent/for the case to be dismissed.

Generally people prefer not to experience (i) even if they can expect (ii).

Re:Tell HN: Remember to migrate away from .name domain on Saturday October 17, 2026 @06:21AM (#50129697)
No this is people who have registered john.johnson.name, but johnson.name remains Verisign's (and e.g. unrelated Alice has also registered alice.johnson.name)
Re:How to make System 1 LLMs show System 2 competencies? on Friday October 16, 2026 @11:59AM (#50120049)
I'm struggling to get through TFaS, really don't understand how it became such a 'PopPsych' (if that's a thing) classic.

It's like a collection of the obvious, the wrong, and autobiography of someone you haven't otherwise heard of.

Re:Passkeys Are Not a Trap on Wednesday October 14, 2026 @06:18PM (#50096234)
Trap or not I don't want them and the UX is shit and user-hostile.

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