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Re: on Tuesday July 21, 2026 @04:57PM (#48998202)
Needs a way to copy and paste text to share with friends. I feel like this is what made wordle viral
Re:Sony Deletes 551 Movies PlayStation Owners Paid For on Wednesday July 01, 2026 @01:06PM (#48750028)
I wish library of things had tape writers and readers. Magnetic tape storage is quite cost effective for data backups and archiving.
Re:The unlikely story of Teardown Multiplayer on Tuesday March 17, 2026 @01:49PM (#47415927)
Might have been a key differentiator for Stadia.

Other comments are worrying about the streaming and latency but local split screen could also be another use case here.

Re:Can I Run AI locally? on Friday March 13, 2026 @05:57PM (#47370518)
How does it have details for M4 ultra?
> Let your would-be-rescuers know your position and status

Stupid question, do search and rescue services even have equipment that can tune into HAM frequencies, are they even listening on those frequencies, and do they regularly train on communicating with the HAM community?

I'm sure there are more established ways of radioing for help in the maritime world(Aviation has the guard frequency)

Or this Asianometry video which came out even sooner.

https://youtu.be/MXnrzS3aGeM

Re:Valve Is Running Apple's Playbook in Reverse on Thursday December 18, 2025 @11:45AM (#46315071)
Not just usable, better performant than Windows too.

https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2025/06/games-run-faster-on-s...

When was it thrown out? It seems the ruling against Valve was upheld

https://www.gamesindustry.biz/court-upholds-jurys-decision-i...

Re:Gliding behind existing aircraft, Aerocart cargo gliders on Wednesday October 08, 2025 @07:52PM (#45521943)
Instead, can we implement autonomous formation flying? Each aircraft can still have its own engines and control, but can make a V shape allowing the following planes to run more efficiently.
Re:A terminal command that tells you if your USB-C cable is bad on Wednesday October 08, 2025 @03:41AM (#45513228)
It's a disclaimer that they have no idea what they code does.
Re:Zoox launches its robotaxi service to the public in Las Vegas on Wednesday September 10, 2025 @03:53PM (#45202733)
I agree it's stupid. Relevant video on this:

https://youtu.be/-DAfmFdLIjo?si=wg8inSg84VvXFFLx

Re:Puerto Rico's Solar Microgrids Beat Blackout on Thursday June 26, 2025 @04:34PM (#44391032)
How do beavers increase total water flow? I can see them causing more water to be held upstream.
Re:Intel RealSense Stereo Depth Cameras on Wednesday March 26, 2025 @01:07AM (#43479050)
Is this going to finally replace all the Xbox Kinects everyone uses?
I find this kind of thing a good case for LLMs as they can dumb down the technical jargon:

From Gemini:

```

Imagine you're trying to record someone talking in a noisy room using your MacBook's built-in microphones. This software acts like a super-smart filter:

* It knows where the microphones are: Apple laptops have multiple tiny microphones.

* It listens to all of them at once: It takes the input from all the microphones.

* It figures out where the person talking is: It analyzes the sound to find the direction of the voice.

* It focuses on that voice: It boosts the sound coming from that direction.

* It quiets down the other noises: It reduces the sound from other directions, like background chatter.

So, instead of getting a muddy recording with lots of noise, you get a clearer recording of the person you want to hear. Basically, it makes your MacBook's microphones sound much better in noisy environments. And it's designed to work within audio programs that use a specific plugin format called LV2.

```

Re:Gemini Robotics brings AI into the physical world on Thursday March 13, 2025 @10:11PM (#43358978)
Physical intelligence has a robot that can fold clothes

https://youtu.be/YyXCMhnb_lU?si=zJsQn2m8Fu5ccV6n

Re:How X-Plane Works on Wednesday February 19, 2025 @06:02AM (#43100814)
I don't think vanilla KSP aerodynamics simulate airflow at all. You could have wings clipping and they would still pretend to be generating lift. The F.A.R. mods adds much more realistic aerodynamics.
Re:I Put a Toaster in the Dishwasher on Wednesday August 14, 2024 @06:06PM (#41251007)
Your GFCI outlet may not always trigger:

https://youtu.be/SHGo-52wCDc?si=AzZ71UIpPYVjj31X

Does that mean the RISC-V cores are super low powered?
For a mass produced product, why waste die space on RISC-V cores that can only be used instead of the Cortex cores? Why not just use that die space for more ram or another ARM core? Doesn't it make sense to sell a variant that is entirely RISC-V?
Re:LG and Samsung Are Making TV Screens Disappear on Monday July 29, 2024 @11:45PM (#41105891)
Maybe the screens only emit polarized light which can easily be filtered out?
Could train birds of prey to actively hunt down and rip apart drones.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-12-05/the-milit...

Re:How to Play Renju on Saturday March 16, 2024 @09:02PM (#39730914)
For anyone looking to play online, the site has links to a few places and apps

https://www.renju.net/playrenju/

Re:Google SIMA on Wednesday March 13, 2024 @01:25PM (#39694478)
> disable rendering and keep compute pretty minimal.

So that's what was going on in the Matrix when the humans were staring at all that green text.

The key part for me:

> Momentum has already begun with FY23 4th Quarter NEC ridership achieving 8% above pre-pandemic levels

The Garmin autoland can automatically activate, determine which airport to land at communicate on ATC frequency to say it is going to land at X airport.
Reminds me of the air force discovering that no pilot was average. And that was only looking at 10 dimensions.

https://www.thestar.com/news/insight/when-u-s-air-force-disc...

Cornell is ivy league.
Probably only over thousands or millions of years?
Re:Canned Air is Unexpectedly Supersonic [video] on Tuesday February 20, 2024 @05:59PM (#39448104)
This was interesting so I looked it up

>For a given ideal gas the molecular composition is fixed, and thus the speed of sound depends only on its temperature. At a constant temperature, the gas pressure has no effect on the speed of sound, since the density will increase, and since pressure and density (also proportional to pressure) have equal but opposite effects on the speed of sound, and the two contributions cancel out exactly.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speed_of_sound#Dependence_on...

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