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Re:Creating a Garmin "MCP" on Thursday October 15, 2026 @04:34AM (#50100894)
I just connected my Garmin watch to charge via usb, enabled disk access, going into folder GARMIN/Activity/ and uploaded one of the .fit files to claude web and asked a summary and graph, it seems I had a nice evening bike ride that day :)
Re:Carbon-aware electricity pricing, measured daily on 38 grids on Friday September 04, 2026 @07:34AM (#49563190)
Yes, but then when the wind doesn't blow, you miss upto 960MW of capacity, you can choose how to fill that; solar, coal, gas, waterpower, diesel, nuclear.

And the question is, are those wind turbines without subsidy?

Here in the Netherlands some big energy users like Aldel already have stopped, those big users are also good in up and down scaling energy usage on demand, and also those products have to come from somewhere else now, so in the end the question is about energy and availability.

Some (or a lot of) subsidies can be justified.

Re:The End of Programming on Wednesday August 26, 2026 @05:08AM (#49445965)
It is about functionality.

Functionality iterations or adaptations are just faster with good architecture and principles.

I also like the percentual change, that is a lot of comma's.
Re:Why American ambulance rides are so expensive on Friday July 10, 2026 @04:06AM (#48857127)
Its a collective emergency service, which can save lives.

If by law this service is required and you bill only the rides, you get this, high bills per ride.

It would be nice to see a chart of countries with cost of ambulance rides, cost for the patient and average response times.

Yes, but you can't sign the device, that is what Google and Apple do.

From fingerprint/face id to digital id..

Like banking apps are now using play protect/depending on Google.

(Just a matter of time Google/Apple will be a banks themselves, as is the danger with governments)

Ofcourse the world could be a more open place, but constraint, rules and control are too pleasing to not implement, sadly.

Re:Google Hits 50% IPv6 on Sunday June 21, 2026 @08:47AM (#48618469)
In NL we have this one: https://heeftodidoipv6.nl

Their core network has IPv6, but not their customers, 17% market share in telecom in the Netherlands.

Are there more?

Re:The rise of industrial software on Wednesday December 31, 2025 @06:18AM (#46443230)
It is just going to be even more less important software.

There is a difference between writing for mainstream software and someone's idea/hope for the future.

Software that is valued high enough will be owned and maintained.

Like most things in our world, I think ownership/stewardship is like money and world hunger, a social issue/question.

Re:Spec-Driven Development: The Waterfall Strikes Back on Saturday November 15, 2025 @06:15AM (#45936661)
Defining the spec is ofcourse also needed in an agile process.

The difference is when is this done; In a upfront discussion, while developing, or after user feedback.

For LLM we know it needs to be written down. (At least if we want human tracability)

And agile ofcourse is a shortend waterfall to get user feedback early on.

Giving enough context is important for every case.(humans and llm's alike)

It should be a setting (like macos) otherwise full control of all the devices is always at the mercy of Apple.
Yes, lets dismiss Japanese culture..
Re:Exploring PostgreSQL 18's new UUIDv7 support on Saturday October 18, 2025 @05:05AM (#45625978)
DB multi-master, or the DB not being responsible for primary key generation, is the use case, I think.

And then having uuidv7 as primary and foreign keys, can give you a performance gain.

Re:YouTube Is a Mysterious Monopoly on Wednesday September 10, 2025 @02:03AM (#45193889)
Vimeo is not working to view random videos in the EU, I saw last week to my surprise.

https://help.vimeo.com/hc/en-us/articles/30298226209169-Chan...

Re:Boycott IETF 127 on Friday March 21, 2025 @02:47AM (#43432503)
Well, reality is more complex then this. It misses intersex as a biological option. Not common, but still, it is not in there, but reality for some humans.
Re:The top 10% owns 87% of the stocks on Monday March 03, 2025 @03:11AM (#43239442)
It makes the rich less rich, the poor more poor.
Ok, but are humans not using predictions while reasoning?

And are LLM's unable to reason?

Re:Pushed Authorization Requests (Par) in Asp.net Core 9 on Sunday November 10, 2024 @04:41AM (#42099316)
It looks nice. Are there plans to (try to) remove all the GET request parameters from the authentication flow? The Authorization request maybe seems one (the browser would need to support that, or use Javascript, or maybe a shortlived cookie) And also "8" GET tokens using the code, is potentially one?
But is this content available somewhere else then? Should it not have been archived then or given to those who hold those rights so they could publish?
Ofcourse oil companies are players, this is where regulations and rules are important, governments are also players in this arena.

Is Microsoft a player, like that? I don't think so that much, they only have an active control on there own energy/oil usage.

The only thing that will happen if Microsoft is giving in to these demands of employees, it will be perceived as morally good, and then in reality the oil companies still have a need and switch supplier. All because energy demand didn't change, only morals.

It is like the Maslows hierarchy of needs, but then applied at a world scale, we need to take into account everybody's (humans, animals, nature, companies and other societal structures) needs, and address the problems from the ground up. Otherwise the world will end up in a fighting mess, like what you describe in the UK, fighting solar and wind energy, or those employees of Microsoft, all never actualizing the energy transition.

The energy hunger of the people of the world (you and me). Stopping Microsoft supporting oil companies won't fix reducing fossil fuel usage, we have to look at cause and effect.

The best course of action to reduce fossil fuel usage is to see which processes on earth use that fossil fuel, and see if that can be transformed to use renewable energy. A combination of scientific research, regulation, awareness, education and trying to change human behaviour is probably the best way forward.

Blaming specific companies, for helping solving an energy need, seems not helpfull in that way.

Re:I scraped all of OpenAI's Community Forum on Thursday March 28, 2024 @12:21PM (#39853626)
https://community.openai.com/ (when you are logged in on platform.openai.com, there is a link from the menu)
It depends, you could also interpret it as a compliment or recognition, as the paper is about (pure) ideology
Re:The day I canceled my Spotify subscription on Monday February 19, 2024 @05:52AM (#39428312)
I like Spotify, not because of the algorithm, but because of the availability of music and the ability to listen to it, I know how it was with casette decks, cd's and napster.

I think Spotify did set and still sets an example how content can be distributed and made available for a pretty acceptable price, I still have to see somthing like it for video.

And algorithms can be a nice feature, but fastly can become generic or a bubble, being able to actively choose what you want to listen to, that does if for me.

Yes, that looks like to be the idea, to keep an option for a man in the middle attack.
That could be of the transactions, innodb will keep your data reads intact (of that is not of importance, if the update is more important than the result based on the current state of the data, for example with UPDATE SET field = field + 1)

You could maybe have matched with a change in the transaction isolation level for innodb

You could also do

innodb_file_per_table=ON

InnoDB supports database transactions, so you/an update/insert can use rollback, which MyIsam and Aria tables can not do (they work like auto commit)

Re:Deep Neural Nets: 33 years ago and 33 years from now on Saturday August 26, 2023 @07:12AM (#37271713)
Maybe, but the input in 2055 will be more something in the form of continuous/realtime data input streams.
Re:As TikTok grows, so does suspicion on Sunday July 10, 2022 @02:45PM (#32047585)
I think the danger is way more in the addictive part.

It is al interessting, and the users are a nice research group.

But here in the Netherlands, 25% of the young people have the chance to become illiterate (yes become, reading/writing/communication skills dropping after primary and/or high school), part of it is the mobile phone, part of it social status and background.

Ah, yes, this part I can understand: to late with support and then the UST holders started selling, taking their loss, and in the proces devaluating UST

But the backing of UST(or Luna?) should be visible in soms large/or a lot of transaction in a small time window somewhere, if they started buying/supporting it with $3B, I would think

I don't understand, if $3B in bitcoin is sold to save UST we should also be able to see a equivalent of that $3B in Terra/Luna/UST buys?

I don't understand crypto, and or how the Luna/UST works, but if you supported/buy something this should be visible, not only in vanished bitcoins, or am I mistaken?

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