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Re:Intel stock collapse worsens as $3.5T chip rout spreads on Monday November 02, 2026 @10:07PM (#50347529)
The average millennial and younger don't use a non work computer, and haven't had one for 10 years.
Re:Citroen revives the 2CV for an electric age on Tuesday October 13, 2026 @04:57AM (#50068687)
A smaller range that is only 2x the needed range of the average longer distance commuter.

The Nissan Leaf original 80 mile range was perfect for my colleagues that lived in the suburbs and commuted 25+ miles each way every day. Especially with a charger at the work parking deck.

Re:The US state replacing power plants with home batteries on Thursday October 01, 2026 @10:03AM (#49921863)
"Home" is an interesting caching location, because per transformer or per neighorhood (especially at a point of going under ground) would likely scale better and provide the same race condition coverage.

For Residential, the race condition is typically on the heat pump first stroke. Smart thermostats with dithered (5 minute wait) starts go a long way for this; home/away schedules reduce collisions more, and then rate based timing adjustments go distance.

But, the problem is still uptake, smart thermostats are only peak reliability as long as there aren't 2 units holding out; and assuming no 2 units have failing capacitors, compressors, or a refrigerant failure at the same time. Real life is more pareto, at least 20% of your neighbors will unmaintained systems.

(Resistive electric water heaters are the next biggest draws, that have a dithered cache based on loss of water temperature; getting all of these units to smaller spot units or heat pump will be a huge step in grid reliability)

Re:Reddit saves your keystrokes in text boxes on Wednesday September 09, 2026 @10:55AM (#49627659)
They provide automatic saving of comments drafts in case you return. Is it possibly abused by analysis, sure. Do they let you know that they're saving drafts, pretty clearly.

The standard html behavior of only an alert does not handle much of. the user desires.

Re:U.S. Science Is in Chaos on Wednesday June 17, 2026 @11:12PM (#48580296)
It's especially interesting because prior to the time of the election, the administration approved food funding to states that GOP run states rejected.
Re:U.S. Science Is in Chaos on Wednesday June 17, 2026 @11:09PM (#48580266)
This implies that the money saved by cutting research was fungible and not part of a still increasing deficit, that the government doesn't debt spend, and that there aren't positive externalities (including jobs, education, and supporting services in addition to outcomes from the research.

Indeed, not only did research programs get cut, but so did USDA funding which both balanced farming and put food on table. And this was a year after the previous administration reduced the deficit, sent food funding to states, of which ~13 rejected the funding.

Food funding, which, has been studied to increase economic output beyond it's costs, similar to research funding.

Glass is 30% cheaper to make from recycled glass.

But transport and sorting (glass is hard and sharp) eat into that margin, so presort

> it takes as much energy if not more than just making new.

It saves 30% of the energy inputs to reuse slightly contaminated glass, especially when done locally.

That's ignoring the energy inputs of mining and delivering the silica.

https://learn.sustainability-directory.com/learn/what-are-th...

Re:What I Learned Making an App for My Family on Thursday May 07, 2026 @02:59PM (#48053371)
It's more hardware intense, but yes, add an rfid tag to each key, use a btle obd dongle, centralize computing in an arduino; phone home to a webserver the last logs.

Then at the end of the month debit each account that used negative gas.

The only thing this misses is encouraging fill-up before empty, but it could give notice when the tank is below ¼ before a trip

Re:Appearing productive in the workplace on Wednesday May 06, 2026 @04:04PM (#48041030)
This is definitely ¾ of what you pay a mechanic to do; 1 publisher writes a maintenance manual for a car; mechanics all around the globe can use that to work on that specific car.

It's the mechanics that don't reference Google or the Haynes manual that are more likely to get it incorrect.

As a kicker, mechanics also have a pricing book for the task, they know how many hours a task will take on a certain car (rounded up for the most part).

Re:Sauna effect on heart rate on Monday April 20, 2026 @01:49PM (#47838002)
Your comparison reads to suggest that Japan doesn't have Onsen culture or that sauna does not exist in Norway.

That's to say, many cultures from around the globe have developed similar activities that heat the body.

Re:Sauna effect on heart rate on Monday April 20, 2026 @01:33PM (#47837749)
40° internal body temperature is not the same as 40° weather.

Yucatan is not the same as Dubai in Summer.

Your body is under heat shock trying to keep up in a Sauna (that isn't considered warm until 60°). Versus a healthy body CAN keep up in 40°.

The Yucatan equivalent of a Sauna is more like doing hard labor on a roof on a sunny day with no breeze.

And if Sadam did, then by proxy the US did.
It's even worse when your goal is commercial viability of carrying a relatively flammable liquid.

Tankers moving at a slow speed, across a narrow strait.

They don't have to sink to not be commercially viable; a few deck fires negatively impact your days at sea without incident.

Re:Layoffs at Block on Thursday February 26, 2026 @10:52PM (#47176281)
You and the poster above disagree about the state of Twitter.

Twitter had been a growth company, it was early/missed the market with Vine, but was showing ad growth.

Now, as a private company, backed by the world's richest man, sovreign wealth funds, and banks that have written down their stakes, it has different economics than a tech / growth company.

It's ad revenue is now, not in the ballpark of the fortune 500 or trendy Instagram ads, but somewhere between reddit and sin site markets.

Re:Will vibe coding end like the maker movement? on Thursday February 26, 2026 @03:47PM (#47171817)
> Did the maker movement end? I dont think so

Bump.

Because we had our first high profile murder using a 3d printed weapon just last year.

> But sure, let's not work on multiple paths.

The article is about a sign of failure of one of the multiple paths that was pursued by Japan and Ca State subsidies that was attempted over the last 20 years.

You can work on multiple paths, but to not measure and adjust defeats the purpose.

I think you just described American cable boxes... Except they charge us a monthly fee and an additional monthly fee for the box.

Or any smart tv with free ip tv.

Re:Alabama offers three tricks to fix poor urban schools on Thursday February 19, 2026 @09:42AM (#47074277)
It's metric chasing;

If the metric is everyone passes, then you either taught really well or lowered the standard.

Re:IBM Triples Entry Level Job Openings. Finds Limits to AI on Sunday February 15, 2026 @10:29AM (#47024439)
In context of the thread, that's because AI fixes the key problem with comments, because it maintains them when the code is updated.
Re:IBM Triples Entry Level Job Openings. Finds Limits to AI on Sunday February 15, 2026 @10:26AM (#47024425)
> engineer that submitted it

This is a poor metric as soon as you reach a scale where you've hired an additional engineer, where 10% annual employee turnover reflects > 1 employee, much less the scale where a layoff is possible.

It's also only a hope as soon as you have dependencies that you don't directly manage like community libraries.

Re:Ask HN: Why electronics are still so unrecyclable? on Wednesday February 11, 2026 @03:22PM (#46980370)
To put this in perspective, there are huge issues recyling lead acid batteries exposed this year.

I consider lead acid batteries relatively simple with all materials being large and not particularly binding.

But it's somehow easy to outsource this to a smelter with inappropriate smelting, and no controls on worker safety.

So anything smaller, more complex, or more interewined, with things like silica involved...

Re:The US is flirting with its first-ever population decline on Tuesday February 10, 2026 @02:23PM (#46965395)
> when it was about differences in fiscal policy and taxation.

It was never only about that. But they weren't saying the quiet part out loud.

Keeping a 1-2 car's length stopping distance is likely over a 50% reduction in at fault damages.
Many companies provide a life insurance benefit equal to 50%-150% of annual salary.

If your sport has any mortality or long term risk (concussions, cardiac events) then this could be seen as a nice extra insurance policy.

Re:Tesla ending Models S and X production on Wednesday January 28, 2026 @07:15PM (#46803767)
S launched in 2012.

X launched in 2016.

Both launched with slow rollouts.

Meanwhile, the average car in use today is 13 years old and getting older. (I currently drive a 22 year old car)

It definitely turns me off buying a used model S to know it's being discontinued. And if I extrapolate that to the 3/Y, a new purchase.

Given my desire for a midsize family sedan, it makes it feel like BMW i4 or Porsche Taycan just won me over in the future.

Alt; typical western coverage. Has completely ignored other journalists publishing of the plight fitness bands have caused in doctors "am I getting a cold, my watch/ring says I'm getting a cold, give me antibiotics now"

Or how vo2 max is hard to measure, or how not wearing a wearable or wearing it loose changes results, to, I gave an llm a range to rate without really giving it context of what I want the range to really represent or the methods of gathering data.

Tldr; author bought everything, read nothing, complained to an expensive professional, and now hopes that we read his article.

Because corn fed beef isn't as flavorful as grass fed beef. (Or healthy for the cattle)
Historically, this is called "fiber", and has already been regulated to be required in European breads
Only on a local level.

And businesses can already expense that tax, so it's 20% off, while individuals have been subject to the SALT cap

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