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I feel like this could be a good system for rural areas etc. (and "demand responsive transport" is already a thing for those cases), but in populated areas it's not going to help much over fixed routes which are much simpler to use and don't require pre-booking your journey
Fixed routes provide certainty, if on some days your bus randomly doesn't come because there weren't enough other people near you who wanted to go that way then you can't rely on it and will need to have access to another mode of transport such as a car, which defeats the point
Re:F-Zero X on Nintendo 3DS on Monday October 26, 2026 @08:03AM (#50242286)
From what I understand if you take certain precautions like not doing piracy, installing anything to the homescreen or cheating in multiplayer games you can use homebrew online without being banned, I've been used it occasionally and not been banned at least
My dog did this too for a while, he saw a cat behind a neighbor's hedge and made a hole in it and then he would poke his head through the hole every time
Re:Siri is so bad at everything on Thursday October 15, 2026 @02:17PM (#50107880)
For me I only use them to do things (turn light on and off, play background noise, set alarm, check time) when I'm in bed and don't want to open my eyes and use my phone
I've also seen them described as ICE cars (internal combustion engine)
Re:Google ending ChromeOS support two years early on Tuesday September 29, 2026 @12:41PM (#49896185)
I think they mean save money on hardware based on the previous part of the sentence
Re:What my dad taught me about AI coding in the 90s on Sunday August 30, 2026 @01:09PM (#49500549)
I think when people say non-deterministic what they mean is closer to chaotic, like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaos_theory as in very small changes in conditions can produce completely different output making predictions difficult
I guess it depends on the culture but I would think it's a good thing to show interest and passion for this stuff by talking about things you do in your free time like setting up Minecraft servers, whoever you're talking to will probably have similar things like that
Re:Decompiling a Nintendo 64 Game in 84 Days on Friday August 28, 2026 @08:25AM (#49477531)
Being available to the public if they bought the game doesn't mean it's in the public domain and you're allowed to upload a copy of it (or a derivative work) onto GitHub, though

(I like these projects but I really don't think they could defend themselves legally if you company went after them)

Re:Show HN: Buslens – where can I get to by bus? (UK) on Wednesday August 26, 2026 @08:00AM (#49447482)
My approach is generally just to put the destination into Google Maps and select public transport, it works on the same data source as this and has live tracking
It is confirmed and the algorithm has been reverse engineered, though not by looking at firmware

https://w2.eff.org/Privacy/printers/docucolor/

Seems like the algorithm is simple enough that they did it just by looking at some prints

Re:Spaghettifying DRAM on Thursday August 13, 2026 @01:26PM (#49289170)
I struggled to understand the article, it doesn't properly explain what the exploit is in a way I could immediately understand, after staring at it for a bit and reading comments here I think it's a hardware register that's exposed to user software that shouldn't be but I really didn't understand that at first glance ("Poke the DRAM controller" made me think a hardware exploit) and I'm still not sure if I'm right about that (if it is, just start by explaining that instead of all the unnecessary filler and diagrams and animations of the Mona Lisa being scrambled and talk of bath salts which I still don't understand the relevance of)
Re:Python string literals are kinda funny on Saturday August 08, 2026 @07:02PM (#49226724)
This is still significantly more clunky than f-strings, especially when you're writing them a lot for debugging purposes
Re:I'm So Tired of "Is This AI?" on Friday July 24, 2026 @08:34AM (#49034671)
Generally, people have to make an active decision to spread false information, or be misinformed themselves in the first place, and that's not actually particularly common, whereas for LLMs it's just the default due to how they work and it's difficult to filter out due to how they present everything with such confidence and authority
Re:I'm So Tired of "Is This AI?" on Friday July 24, 2026 @06:31AM (#49033541)
I think it matters because AI can hallucinate so it makes me doubt the truthfulness

It's also somewhat dishonest to present unedited AI-written content as your own work

Re:Decoding the obfuscated bash script on a Uniqlo t-shirt on Thursday July 09, 2026 @08:18AM (#48844683)
Not by the definition on Wikipedia at least: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quine_(computing)#Source_code_...
Could you not develop the same sense by just looking in front of you without the viewfinder? I don’t see how a frame that doesn’t actually have any relation to what the camera is capturing helps you at all
But if it’s giving you no information about what will actually be in frame you might as well just look in front of you and guess
It would be nice if they made a web app, that would make it work on iOS but also desktop and every other platform with a web browser at the same time
A web app would also make it work on iOS (and other non-Android platforms) at the same time
Re:Printing Gaussian Splats on Thursday June 25, 2026 @08:56AM (#48672659)
Trying a bunch of sizes in their studio tool (all cubes to make it easier):

5mm x 5mm x 5mm (smallest I can select): $32.58

10mm x 10mm x 10mm: $36.58

20mm x 20mm x 20mm: $82.86

30mm x 30mm x 30mm: $143.60

50mm x 50mm x 50mm: $509.14

100mm x 100mm x 100mm: $3,028.58

150mm x 150mm x 150mm: $9,618.86

195mm x 195mm x 195mm: $20,641.32

(it says it's an estimate excluding tax and shipping)

Re:Google Flight Simulator on Wednesday June 17, 2026 @08:57AM (#48569842)
It’s only new for the web version (but this seems way worse than the one in the desktop version, sadly)
Re:Google Flight Simulator on Monday June 15, 2026 @10:30AM (#48541854)
This is new for the web version
I think they should just have to properly explain how AI tends to make things up when it doesn’t know, and that it’s good for coming up with ideas or suggesting directions for research but that you shouldn’t rely on it, because currently their advertising makes you think you can rely on it

The “AI can make mistakes” kind of disclaimers they hide in the corner don’t really cut it

If there are charge points in the street or there’s a way to run a cable there then I don’t see why that has to be an issue
Do you not ever want to show someone something on your screen? For a bug report or to demonstrate a project you’re working on? Or do a screen share to ask for help with setting something up (which is admittedly a bit different from a recording but only in that it’s live)?

I can see a lot of non-techy people not knowing how to do this but among people who know how to do it I bet it’s above 50% who use it

I think virtually everyone who works an office job uses Teams/Zoom very often nowadays, I can’t think of anyone I know who wouldn’t
Screen recording is not niche, anyone who works remotely probably does video calls daily and the others are somewhat more niche but I'd guess that at least 50-70% of people do at least one of these things
Use cases for hardware encoders in PCs:

- Video calls

- Screen/webcam recording

- Live streaming

- Real-time transcoding for media servers (don’t know much about this but I’ve heard it’s a thing)

- Game streaming

- Video editing (making exporting less frustrating)

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