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> I repeat - no person can argue successfully against facts.

In some aspects, times have changed..

Sweet. I will have to take a look at.
Always free, with 12GB and 2 cores? What's the catch?
Re:GPT‑6 and Intelligent UI for everyone on Thursday October 08, 2026 @04:40AM (#50003326)
It's the "intelligent UI" you didn't know you wanted..
Re:How California Closed the Montana License Plate Loophole on Wednesday October 07, 2026 @04:24AM (#49989855)
> it can amount to 1500-2000€

That's a crazy amount of money for a third-party liability insurance.. It looks like insurance cartels are having a field day..

Re:Testing 12 different Zigbee temperature/humidity sensors on Tuesday October 06, 2026 @06:41AM (#49976621)
See some of the other comments for further information about Aqara problems:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49957835

Re:Mosquitoes Are a Choice on Monday October 05, 2026 @11:31AM (#49966183)
Only $988 for a gadget that probably doesn't work. Nice!
Then it's a way to subsidize agriculture?
Insane to think those are reasonable prices.

10 years ago, a new Renault Clio had a starting price under 14 000 €.

Re:How Singapore's government-run dating service works on Friday October 02, 2026 @05:44AM (#49931655)
> Which is often what the users want too.

Or at least to start practicing how to make babies.

> that you remove and *secure* before the search.

In a dark body cavity?

Re:September 2026: The world today, as seen by one Polish guy on Wednesday September 30, 2026 @12:17PM (#49910877)
> see this event as probably the largest nail ever driven into the oil coffin.

It will probably go like this:

war -> fuel costs explode -> economic crisis -> AI bubble burst -> bigger economic crisis -> eventually rebuild on the ruins of what is left and go electric

Re:The US state replacing power plants with home batteries on Wednesday September 30, 2026 @05:51AM (#49906620)
How is the price system set up when re-injecting to the grid?

Do you get the full 5 minute spot price, or do they then charge you re-injection costs per kWh?

And are the grid-costs fixed yearly, or do they also charge you per kWh re-injected?

Re:US Forces Exit Iraq on Tuesday September 29, 2026 @03:52AM (#49889657)
> I remember a certain powerpoint presentation ...

I remember a speech at the UN, with a certain vial being held..

Re:Pirating the Pirates on Monday September 28, 2026 @02:58PM (#49882770)
Isn't the article explaining that it is supposed to be the "better" version?
Re:Toyota is finally taking its best-seller electric on Monday September 28, 2026 @10:37AM (#49878708)
Yeah. Completely insane.

10 years ago, an "equivalent" entry-level Renault Twingo was about €10.8k.

Re:Intellectuals Are Fucking Idiots on Monday September 28, 2026 @07:07AM (#49876187)
Savour the irony.
Re:Toyota is finally taking its best-seller electric on Friday September 25, 2026 @04:51AM (#49841855)
> VW doesn't sell new ICE models in the sub 25k€ segment anymore.

Knowing VW, I read that as: "VW doesn't sell cars in the sub 25k€ segment anymore."

Re:VSCode's SSH Agent Is Bananas (2025) on Thursday September 24, 2026 @05:52AM (#49828405)
> I don't know what Microsoft is thinking if they allow this.

First time?

Re:VSCode's SSH Agent Is Bananas (2025) on Thursday September 24, 2026 @05:51AM (#49828402)
> You can restrict SSH access arbitrarily to ensure whatever security or access guardrails you need.

How, specifically for VSCode?

Re:Mercury 2.5 LLM hits 770 tokens per second on Thursday September 24, 2026 @05:42AM (#49828338)
Then again, good luck writing a coherent paragraph in French without an "e". :-)
Re:Attention is all you have on Tuesday September 22, 2026 @08:46AM (#49800355)
Keeping track of what a car costs you.
Well, if Google search actually returned anything useful, other than the SEO-rigged trash and AI generated slop it pushes forward as results to queries, then there would be a reason to actually use Google.

For the time being, AI seems to be doing a much better job in most cases, so as we say: So long Google!

Funny, I just finished that book.

They were using a few more mappings per number for instance:

0: 's', 'z', soft 'c'

1: 't', 'd', 'th'

6: 'j', 'sh', 'ch', soft 'g'

etc

The problem I have, is that they present them from 1 to 0, and the first 4 have some mnemonic logic added to them: a bar in 't' for 1, two bars down in the 'n' for 2, three in 'm' for 3, and the 'r' from fouR in 4.

Great. And then mnemonic logic goes out the door. 5: 'l'. Ah. A single bar. Err.. is it 1 or 5..? 7: 'k'. Imagine the K looks like a 7. Ok, maybe.

So the mapping itself starts getting confusing. Unless you do what they claimed all along the book you shouldn't do: rote memorization.. Which was grinding my gears a bit..

Gotta adapt to the decreasing attention span economy.
Re:Saving Jet Fuel on Wednesday September 16, 2026 @06:25AM (#49724390)
I have no doubt that Dr. J. Sun, tenured assistant professor at the TU Delft faculty of Aerospace Engineering, has absolutely no understanding whatsoever of the impact of temperature on aircraft performance.

> To give you an idea of data complexity, all airliners come with hundreds or thousands of pages of closely printed tables giving performance at specified weight, temperature, altitude, etc.

Make you wonder about who comes up with the theory on how to write those performance tables..

Scikit-decide, hosted by Airbus.

Thanks!
Re:Linux from Scratch on Tuesday September 15, 2026 @09:23AM (#49712152)
Tangential, but how good/useful/approachable is the book you cited as example?

How would it compare, in your experience, to other (modern) cooking books with a similar scope?

Ah. I see we are going around the autocratic circle. Past and present!
> one was a full leather design made in Spain

Would you care to share the brand name, for posterity?

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