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Re:Where's the Beef?: The lab-grown-meat revolution that wasn't on Thursday September 24, 2026 @06:56AM (#49828884)
You should specify an example of what you're talking about maybe? I see a lotao brand jackfruit 'mince' - not sure there's a US equivalent with those macro characteristics.
Re:Scientists observe Einstein's gravity in the quantum world on Monday September 07, 2026 @09:34PM (#49604735)
> Blocked? No. Greatly attenuated and restricted in what modes can be accommodated? Yes.

Can you give me some examples? I guess I'm thinking lead barriers or a Bose Einstein condensate but curious what you mean here.

Re:An ongoing 3D-printer AGPL violation on Wednesday August 26, 2026 @05:00PM (#49455843)
Is it possible to back out the firmware updates and setup that came along with this change to get self sufficient, or is that not necessary? I recall hearing that a firmware update made the printer (P1S in my case) phone home even potentially when in LAN mode. This is an area where I just kind of gave up and let it happen, though I kind of regret it now.
Can you link to some of these cases of cops losing qualified immunity? It's an area in interested in but I understand that to be a vanishingly rare outcome - like only in very egregious cases, not just for run of the mill rights violations.
Pixel response time is a related concept to framerate but more about how long it takes a pixel to change from one color to the next. Usually measured in cycle time from grey to grey again, a low rate just means that images will be smooshy looking, have unclear boundaries, and end up with a 'motion blur' effect. So even if your mbp supports a reasonable sounding 120hz (8.33ms for a full frame sweep), some of those pixels will still be in transition when the next frame hits. At least, my take on it as a somewhat casual gamer.
I've had it refuse to help build an image classifier ml pipeline, pretty innocuous stuff. Got around it eventually but still it's a very dumb constraint to add to an otherwise very smart system
Does SB478 apply to car dealerships? That would be a huge boon to consumers on its own.
Re:IBM Debuts First Sub-1 Nanometer Chip Technology on Thursday June 25, 2026 @01:10PM (#48676401)
Sit on a patent and try to scrape earnings from others, maybe? That is, license or litigate.
This was (I thought) very obvious sarcasm, the man is an easily manipulated buffoon.
Yeah, I have to imagine Donald Trump has better intel and is making wise, measured, well-informed decisions beyond the abilities of your average HNer.
Re:Rothko for your current weather conditions on Friday May 29, 2026 @06:08PM (#48329955)
Seems to have ingested some non-paintings as well :) https://rothko.joonas.wtf/images/rothko-chapel-1967.jpg

Cool project, would make a good variable display in the home maybe; weather prediction but aesthetic

Re:How to convert between wealth and income tax on Sunday May 24, 2026 @12:28PM (#48258646)
This sounds like an investment that didn't pan out - I've had one or two of those myself, never pleasant. But are they providing housing? I guess in my mind the builders, equity incentive assistors, re-zoning advocates, etc might be 'providing housing'. How is a landlord providing housing?
Re:How to convert between wealth and income tax on Saturday May 23, 2026 @02:00PM (#48249729)
In what sense are landlords "providing" housing? Is there an argument around like, stabilizing a demand floor for new construction or something, or is this one of those weird in-group terms that cover over what might otherwise be seen as a relationship of power or dominance?

Either way, if I rent out my house and pull in $5k/mo but spend $2k/mo on principal, $2k/mo on interest, and $1.5k/mo on miscellaneous costs, that $500 "loss" translates into me paying $500 for $2k in principal value, all while gaining the benefits of solid inflation-indexed real estate growth AND assistance up the amortization schedule. So even cash-flow negative rentals are usually pretty long-run lucrative.

Re:Cuba says it has run out of fuel, blames U.S. embargo on Thursday May 14, 2026 @12:58PM (#48138035)
What we're doing to the Cuban people with this blockade is criminal. I don't expect to see justice in my lifetime. What a miserable state of affairs.
Re:Rivian allows you to disable all internet connectivity on Thursday April 30, 2026 @05:30PM (#47968474)
Na it's great stay broke

Edit: and mad

Re:Rivian allows you to disable all internet connectivity on Thursday April 30, 2026 @05:12PM (#47968289)
It was expensive but every day I am happy with my Rivian purchase. Great to have a vehicle where the actual users are obviously thought of (contra for instance the cybertruck where some variety 'cool factor' was obviously prioritized, resulting in finger crunching hoods and such).
Re:Belgium stops decommissioning nuclear power plants on Thursday April 30, 2026 @11:58AM (#47964440)
There is so much misinformation in here, so densely packed.

Ivanpah is is not the largest solar power plant in California. It's an experimental solar-thermal plant. Talking about megawatts per year is not a meaningful term (megawatt-years would be). Ivanpah despite its much talked about failures delivers between 350 and 850GWh per year.

The largest solar plant in California is Edwards Sandborn, producing somewhere around 2500GWh per year (it's newer so numbers are less published).

Diablo Canyon produces around 18000GWh/year, which is huge.

But with all costs combined, Diablo's price per MWh is close to ONE HUNDRED AND TWENTY DOLLARS off of a massive initial capex. Modern solar battery installs trend towards $30-60 for the same output.

So I'm sure your tour guide had some neat numbers but you should be careful not to repeat them verbatim (or unremembered).

Re:ChatGPT serves ads. Here's the full attribution loop on Tuesday April 28, 2026 @11:22PM (#47943839)
Sure, https://iabtechlab.com/standards/openrtb/

There's a standardized, normal (in adtech) approach to building 'creative's (viewed/seen ads) around context-dependent scenarios. It's not hard to extend existing IAB primitives to include things like context-enrichment (system prompt augmentation in this case) or whatever. I don't want to malign my downvoters but suspect they're mad I'm pointing it out, rather than engaging with facts as they are. It's trivial for ads to interact with your(our!) AI usage.

Re:ChatGPT serves ads. Here's the full attribution loop on Tuesday April 28, 2026 @09:49PM (#47943274)
It's not an issue of how - there's a great ADM with markup/down supported already, waiting for system prompts to be injected in realtime via the same online auction system that powers banner ads and smart tv content. There's got to be some latent resistance to the idea for now - but it's so easy to do, it'll happen.
To use agentic what? Off topic as heck but I really dislike this trend of coercing adjectives into true nominals - we're using programmatic! - like some sort of even-more-obnoxious variant on the verb to noun ('the ask') process.

Why does it bother me so? I have no idea.

Re:The becquerel as an SI unit for request rate on Sunday April 19, 2026 @02:05AM (#47822137)
In my experience, rate limits are more often per second. It's easy to talk about kilo or mega-units, so this isn't as big an issue as the awkwardness of talking about very very low volume services. Maybe those (generally) inherently don't care about rates as much?
Hard to talk about favorites in books, but there was a solid decade of my life where I'd have probably said this was my favorite sci fi book. Highly recommend to anyone reading this.
Weird, from the outside it seems like bombing civilians and infrastructure is more inflammatory and antagonizing than some words/propaganda.
Re:Magic the Gathering Deck Shuffler on Friday April 03, 2026 @12:24AM (#47623177)
I was thinking something 2- or 4-player, but that's cool.
Re:Magic the Gathering Deck Shuffler on Thursday April 02, 2026 @05:54PM (#47620674)
Yeah I was hoping for a multiplayer goldfish-style experience, maybe something like tabletop simulator. Maybe I'm doing it wrong but this doesn't seem to be any better than the built in archidekt/moxfield tools
The above claim was that Iran had attacked with thousands of rockets. These are from Hamas.
I can't find sources for "tens of thousands of rockets just since oct 7", can you help me? I see a few thousand as parts of exchanges after the Israel-initiated "12 Days War", and then a few thousand more after the (also Israel-initiated) current conflagration. Notably, the rocket attacks stopped during peace talks that US and Israel entered after starting the wars, only to resume after those peace talks were betrayed with bombing.
Two things to note there. One, many did make a peep; I have friends, coworkers who both ardently discussed and even pointlessly protested in small groups with signs.

The other - I don't pay taxes to the Azeris, every moment of my productive life doesn't support the genocide there, and my soul is in some way not as blackened by the atrocities there. I think people care about Palestine because they rightly feel complicity. Maybe Russian citizens - whose labor indirectly goes to supporting Azeri atrocities - are up in arms?

Re:Flighty Airports on Wednesday March 25, 2026 @01:56AM (#47513814)
Ads? It's not great for users but it's decent monetization. If you really have something good, like actually liked, you can do a donation vs ad-supported model.
As long as you're not achieving Plasma you're probably fine.

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