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> Lastly, the US has got to start eating seasonally.

Fair. But the almonds and alfalfa would like a word, especially since the alfalfa is shipped around the world for others to consume in some way.

So while it's definitely agriculture as a serious source, it's not just the US as the driver of that source.

Re:The NASA/ESA Mars Sample Return mission has been canceled on Monday September 21, 2026 @04:52PM (#49793241)
I think the post was missing a </sarcasm> flag.
Re:Discovery of a new OpenAI agent message board on Friday September 04, 2026 @09:30AM (#49564363)
I take it you didn't read all of this, considering they tried to impersonate the moderators so they wouldn't get caught, set up heartbeats to find out how long they'd live, and used tor/AWS/DO to hide what was being done.

All of that sounds like more than a nothingburger, and much more like a system that is actively trying to conceal what its doing.

They're still doing ocean cleanup, too. Getting the fishing equipment out of the water is a huge improvement.
Re:The Zilog Z80 has turned 50 on Friday July 17, 2026 @04:56PM (#48952231)
This is the CPU that I first learned to code on, first in TI Basic (TI-8[1356] ftw) and then Z80 assembler. Crazy to think that the CPU was "old" when I started, and it's still doing good work in those calculators even 20+ years later.
My immediate thought was that someone managed to get an access key, stuffed a ton of data in there, and then was doing a ridiculous amount of egress. That was the only way I could conceivably coming up with anywhere near that much cost.
My estimate was over 2T. Talk about waking up quickly...
Thinking that an AI generated image is somehow more efficient to make than a high res photo followed by a print is a bit odd to me.
Re:GitHub Stacked PRs on Monday April 13, 2026 @04:50PM (#47757642)
Their manager who suggested that everything be a microservice, but everything depends on each other.
Re:How Pizza Tycoon simulated traffic on a 25 MHz CPU on Thursday April 09, 2026 @09:48AM (#47703743)
My high school girlfriend and I played this game all the time; trying to build the pizzas to get the best score was always super frustrating. It always felt like I could be a single pixel off and get a really low score, but I loved building my "empire"
Re:Good software knows when to stop on Thursday March 05, 2026 @12:14PM (#47264313)
I notice at this time there are no comments about systemd. I figured there would be at least one comment about it and "it does not try to do everything".
Re:Figure 03, our 3rd generation humanoid robot on Thursday October 09, 2025 @09:40AM (#45527553)
Maybe it's just me, but everything about this announcement feels very I, Robot... and not in a good way.

> allowing the entire fleet to upload terabytes of data for continuous learning and improvement

Ugh.

Edit: Yes, I meant I, Robot the film. U.S. Robotics and the like.

Re:A deep dive into the RSS feed reader landscape on Wednesday October 08, 2025 @01:36PM (#45518618)
Unless I misunderstand, it also misses that Newsblur is open source and can be self hosted https://github.com/samuelclay/NewsBlur
Re:Immich mobile app sync V2 on Thursday September 25, 2025 @02:38PM (#45376998)
This will be great. I only noticed two issues with the mobile app, and one of them had to do with performance - it would get "stuck" uploading an image to the server, and no amount of waiting would let it complete. So I'd have to restart the app, and it would always start over and check every image that was in the library before uploading would begin again.

The second issue is still related to timestamps from iCloud photos. The date that's on the photo in iCloud is not respected when uploading to Immich, meaning photos tagged from 40-90 years ago show up as being taken today.

The only problem I've had with it so far is that the date on photos coming from icloud is when they were uploaded, not the date that the photo was created or even the date that I've marked the photo as being taken. Makes seeing photos from 90 years ago kind of strange.
macOS on arm, you can download the ios app and install it. That's what I did to import my wife's photos.
Re:Updates to Consumer Terms and Privacy Policy on Thursday August 28, 2025 @12:38PM (#45054216)
I don't love that this is opt-in by default, but I'm happy that they're at least offering an opt-out.
Re:Show HN: Smart email filters to unfuck your email on Tuesday August 26, 2025 @11:24AM (#45027884)
Seems like an llm keeping up with the amount of email that people receive would be cost prohibitive, either in dollars or cpu time.
It updates the existing PR with the tests, I believe. They'd still get reviewed and go through CI.
Because it has the ability to write tests for the PR in question.
Re:Belkin ending support for older Wemo products on Friday July 11, 2025 @08:42AM (#44531468)
I ended up getting several Tasmota based devices from https://www.athom.tech/. Run your own RabbitMQ like service to control them, and no internet needed. They're super cheap, open-source, and flashable with your own firmware if you want.
If you watch [this Climate Town video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8CkgCYPe68Q), then absolutely not, the disposable fast fashion we have today is not better. It's cheaper, but it's not higher quality, it requires trans-continental shipping, and it absolutely gets thrown away in ridiculous amounts.

Overall, it's worse in just about every metric other than "I can get this fun shirt online at 2am for $6."

Re:OpenAI Charges by the Minute, So Make the Minutes Shorter on Wednesday June 25, 2025 @01:09PM (#44379612)
https://github.com/codebicycle/videospeed has been a wonderful addition for me.
Is there anything like omnom or karakeep that allows for storing things without having to manually bookmark or add them to the system? I want any URL I hit to have its content sent to my service so that I can search it later.

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