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Re:Opus 5.5 causing an identity crisis is real on Wednesday October 28, 2026 @08:16AM (#50272393)
A classic blog post of the "I ran an expensive prompt in Claude, included a table of token usage, and wrapped up with a reflection on how machines once took jobs away from wheelbarrow pushers - yet chess players are still playing after Deep Blue" variety.

waste of time.

Re:eMudhra to Exit Global SSL/TLS Certificate Business on Thursday October 22, 2026 @10:35AM (#50195993)
> Just admit you messed up and call it a day.

learn about Izzat and Jugaad in their "culture". That explains the problem itself, as well as the reaction ;)

Re:I built Timeframe, our family e-paper dashboard on Monday February 23, 2026 @07:37AM (#47121520)
- pick up phone (unlock done automatically via face/finger/location)

- swipe finger to the right to show weather OR swipe finger to the left to show callendar

Android widgets show me much more information about weather and calendar view than these monitors (and are free: weawow https://weawow.com/i/app-download + google callendar).

Re:I built Timeframe, our family e-paper dashboard on Sunday February 22, 2026 @03:38PM (#47114413)
~3000€ to show information in some random places in the house even though the household members have a device with a screen called a smartphone next to them 24/7 ?

Well, it's cool, but the usability of it all is below average.

Declutter your life and don't install any more screens in your home ;)

Re:Tesla is committing automotive suicide on Thursday January 29, 2026 @02:30PM (#46815295)
in US? Country built around car-ownership?
Open an company that sells t-shirts with "AI glitched" text on it so people can make every foto of this kind illegitimate.
Re:Googler... ex-Googler on Monday April 14, 2025 @11:35AM (#43682465)
It scares me that people make a talking point out of it XD what an incredible event, someone got fired!
Re:Stoop Coffee: A simple idea transformed my neighborhood on Tuesday March 25, 2025 @03:09PM (#43474683)
In countries where people are free (almost everywhere except the USA) you can simply open a coffee shop in a "residential district". You have these ridiculous zoning laws so at most you can drive to a Starbucks.
Re:Is the World Becoming Uninsurable? on Friday January 17, 2025 @01:11PM (#42741425)
USA != World.
Re:UK bans daytime TV ads for cereals, muffins and burgers on Sunday December 08, 2024 @03:46PM (#42360286)
cool but nobody watches TV this days.
But why?

For 7EUR/month I have 30GB of data transfer + unlimited SMS and calls in my my country + ~8GB of data in whole EU, every month. There is no cheaper option. Who needs public Wi-Fi?

EU should increase the competitiveness of communication operators and not finance such stupid ideas. Also map in that app is online only. So you need internet access to get internet access...

every Samsung Galaxy XCover has IP68 and user replaceable battery.
Please explain how is the app that plays music clips from YouTube and hides the ads is "shaking up the system"?
Re:YouTube Begins Blocking Users Who Use Adblock on Friday October 27, 2023 @05:19PM (#38044111)
it is called greed.
in my city (in Poland) there is a ban on the use of combustion and electric leaf blowers. The aim of the restrictions is to eliminate secondary dust (PM 2.5, PM10) emissions from streets.

https://www.poznan.pl/mim/info/news/zakaz-uzywania-dmuchaw-d...

> If you don't want ads on youtube, just pay the $10 premium fee.

YT premium doesn't actually block the ads that creators put in their videos, SponsorBlock+AdBlock does. Give me the same functionality for 10$ in YT Premium and I will pay.

same for gas, no human required on site to fuel a car but "gas stations" exist.
This is the reason why for some time no company has undertaken to build travel service points in Poland. Investing in a very expensive charging infrastructure (motorways are often located in places where the nearest power transmission line is far away) does not pay off with contracts signed by the state for a short time.
Re:DJI Drone Rescue Map on Thursday July 13, 2023 @09:10AM (#36708559)
Is there also "Killed By Drone Map" available? Russia/Ukraine uses normal commercial drones to drop granades/bombs on top of vehicles.
> This doesn't really affect me since I subscribe to premium

It does. Premium doesn't skip ads inside videos added by creator, SponsorBlock addon (that probably will be banned) does.

Re:Spotify's podcast bet went wrong on Tuesday February 14, 2023 @01:39PM (#34793920)
YouTube + SponsorBlock plugin is better in that regard. Sad that some browser plugin is more user friendly than premium account on Spotify.
Re:Spotify's podcast bet went wrong on Tuesday February 14, 2023 @01:38PM (#34793900)
> It gives a unified experience across my phone, laptop, and car

unified? find "new episodes" tab on desktop

In Poland there is no DRM on ebooks. Nobody uses Amazon, there is plenty of e-bookstores that sell them in all 3 formats (PDF, mobi, epub) and You can just download them od send via email form bookstore to device.

examples: - https://virtualo.pl/ebooki/ - https://ebookpoint.pl/kategorie/ebooki

So you're telling me that all these people exchanges currencies non-stop 24/7? Why can't they have coins in their offline wallet and transfer them to the exchange only before the transaction?

On a similar (sort of) principle, I do not keep 100% savings on the bank account to which my ATM card is attached, I have a separate account where I keep most of my savings and move money between them once a month or when i need to buy something very expensive.

Re:Apple’s iPhone 14 Redesign for Repair on Monday September 19, 2022 @12:28PM (#32900499)
> I’m not sure I care much about repairability. For me, makers should have the freedom to design products as they wish.

No one should have the "right" to create products that turn to garbage when any part of it breaks. A clean planet is more important than "great user experiences". The second thing that they did it only for profit, is ergonomics of new repairable iphone any worse?

Also "software locked" parts should be banned by EU regulators.

Re:Google cracks down on VPN based adblockers on Monday August 29, 2022 @07:43AM (#32637017)
Ok, so using the same logic we should ban all car traffic because someone was raped in a taxi?
Re:Can the Visa-Mastercard duopoly be broken? on Wednesday August 17, 2022 @06:52PM (#32502824)
No problem in Poland, we have Blik https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blik
Re:Abolish Zoning on Sunday June 26, 2022 @01:23PM (#31885862)
And you think that there is nothing between US zoning laws and "industrial factory subsequently next door"?
> What are the arguments in favor of it, from the point of view of the German politicians and/or activists that are pushing for it?

There isnt any, there is only strong coal lobby, russian propaganda against nuclear and lots of stupid people that use Charnobyl as an argument.

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