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Re:An Apology on Thursday October 15, 2026 @02:17AM (#50099907)
It says right there in the blog post - bike theft prevention.

AirTags are less useful for that use-case right now since the bike thief will get notified of the existence of the tracker on the bike once they transport it, and are hence prompted to find and remove the tag.

Re:Palantir founder purchases large swath of forest in Sweden on Tuesday September 29, 2026 @09:19AM (#49892775)
It's not going to be entirely virgin since you need to actually clear some amount of paths to be able to lay down tracks, but you certainly don't need to clear it entirely. I'd say that cross-country ski tracks are compatible with forest conservation goals.
Re:Hijacking the PS5's RTMP Stream on Monday September 28, 2026 @04:16PM (#49883736)
Linux works quite well for gaming these days. I have a desktop that used to run Windows 11, which is EOL, so I was faced with either upgrading to Windows 12 or trying out Linux on desktop.

So far there have been zero games that have had issues. Granted I've only really had time to play 5 or so games, but I am genuinely impressed with how far it's come.

Re:Exercise intensity is associated with cardiometabolic health on Friday September 11, 2026 @04:23AM (#49655153)
High-intensity exercise is obviously good, but beware of the trap of doing just high intensity exercise and doing it too frequently - the body does not handle that amount of stress particularly well, and it will be counterproductive to your health.

Low intensity exercise that holds your aerobic base is vital as well - and for a well-rounded exercise week, it should constitute the majority of your exercise time.

That is not to say that you should neglect higher intensities, it's just that you cannot do them as often due to the disproportionate amount of fatigue they generate.

Re:GMails custom domain "send as" discontinues January 2027 on Friday September 04, 2026 @11:18AM (#49565925)
I have a domain and a contact email address for that domain that I have exclusively used through GMail, I guess this means I need to figure out a different path forward for that, then?
Re:Fastpotify on Tuesday September 01, 2026 @04:45AM (#49519551)
This is actually wrong, it was never QT. It was however not built with web technologies back in the day
Re:KOReader on Wednesday July 29, 2026 @08:11AM (#49096432)
>Unfortunately on MacOS it seems you have to use Amazon's app to access the filesystem.

I can recommend using a Filebrowser plugin for KOReader, that way you can access the file system over a web interface and upload that way. No cables needed or anything, quite convenient.

Re:Git rebase -I is not that scary on Sunday July 26, 2026 @04:25AM (#49055907)
Adopting interactive rebasing along with curating my commits for the benefit of the reviewer has been the best upgrade I've made to my git usage in probably the last five years.
Re:Claude Opus 5 on Friday July 24, 2026 @01:07PM (#49038604)
Pricing, presumably
Re:The room the economy can't see on Sunday June 21, 2026 @05:42AM (#48617263)
It plummets. Standardizing the building process and building at scale unlocks some major efficiencies.

Were you under the impression that it would be the opposite?

Re:The room the economy can't see on Friday June 19, 2026 @09:51AM (#48598583)
Radical concept: you could provide UBI in the form of housing, food and transportation
Re:The room the economy can't see on Friday June 19, 2026 @09:45AM (#48598526)
Municipalities have far-reaching power in deciding what gets built where. Getting things built can take quite a long time.
I think the reason behind using React and JavaScript is simpler - these tools are heavily vibecoded, and React/JavaScript is what was most present in the training data and as such is what the models excels the most at generating.

The crappy laggy UIs have the same root cause - heavy use of vibecoding with lackluster quality processes

Books3 is public data on the internet in the same way that the Claude code source code is public data on the internet.

Except Anthropic published the Claude code source code themselves, while Books3 was not published by their original authors.

Electric assist helps with the wind.

Or just building some fitness, which in my experience comes automatically when you bike

The 24 hour wait period is the largest of the annoyances in this list, but given that adb installs still work, I think this is a list of things I can ultimately live with.
That's not correct - the flow described in the post outlines the requirements to install any apps that haven't had their signature registered with Google.

That means those apps still keep on existing, they are just more of a hassle to install.

Re:Long Range E-Bike on Sunday March 01, 2026 @12:48PM (#47208922)
>E-bike makers aren't going to volunteer for that it'd destroy their business.

Arguably, complete bans will be even worse for business.

Re:Dan Simmons, author of Hyperion, has died on Friday February 27, 2026 @04:32PM (#47185933)
And I just finished The Rise of Endymion a few days ago. Uncanny indeed.
This can be solved well enough by having the model invoke `--help`
Re:A Bus Ride and the (At Least) 3x UX FAILs on Tuesday December 02, 2025 @02:05PM (#46125183)
I'm a bit jealous of those prices, there are no caps on Stockholm transit if paid for on single tickets, and the price of a single ticket is 43 SEK (£3.45). The best deal available for period tickets is the unlimited monthly pass for 1060 SEK (£85).
Re:A Bus Ride and the (At Least) 3x UX FAILs on Tuesday December 02, 2025 @02:20AM (#46118541)
Public transit in Stockholm has in the last ten years done two things that make for a godlike ride payment UX:

1. Removed the concept of zones - everything is now covered by one single ticket 2. Introduced tap-to-pay support for debit/credit cards

This means that you as a user can always just show up with the overwhelmingly most common way to pay for things in Sweden - by card - tap once, and then you're done. No more actions required. Need to transfer? No problem, the virtual ticket you bought by tapping your card is valid for 75 minutes, no more money will be charged if you tap again within this window.

No fumbling with an app, no awkward QR code scanning, just one tap and go. Peak UX.

Re:Ask HN: How to deal with long vibe-coded PRs? on Tuesday November 04, 2025 @02:48AM (#45808445)
Easy, you reject it.
Re:Harnessing America's Heat Pump Moment on Saturday October 25, 2025 @04:07PM (#45706589)
As it turns out, you regularly get a COP of >3 from heat pumps, as they don't need to generate the heat, they steal it from somewhere else (outside)
You'll be waiting for a long time then, probably. Making codecs is actually a hard problem, the type of thing that AI completely falls over when tasked with.
While funny, that's not really what I would call accurate. Users get reduced data consumption, potentially higher quality selection if the bandwidth now allows for a higher resolution to be streamed, and possibly lower disk usage should they decide to offline the videos.

Better codecs are an overall win for everyone involved.

Re:Yt-dlp: Upcoming new requirements for YouTube downloads on Wednesday September 24, 2025 @04:00PM (#45365283)
It's not really a matter of just turning it on when it comes to the kind of scale that YouTube has on their catalogue. It's practically impossible to retranscode the whole catalogue, so you're more or less stuck with only doing it for newly ingested content, and even there the tradeoffs are quite large when it comes to actually having DRM.

I think we can safely assume that the only content under DRM at YouTube today is the content where it's absolutely legally necessary.

This doesn't really mean much on account of the iOS ecosystem only supporting the latest two OS versions in their apps as a general rule. Once you are behind 2 versions, your device becomes quite useless at that point
Re:Public static void main(String[] args) is dead on Tuesday September 16, 2025 @03:35AM (#45259189)
It's insignificant for day-to-day programming for experienced developers, but has importance for learners.
That's not a good move at all.

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