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Re:Things to know if you get cancer in 2026
on Thursday October 15, 2026 @08:01AM (#50102447)
"The west" is an equally useless and vague term as "Asian"
Re:The United Kingdom Generates Less Electricity per Person Than in th...
on Wednesday October 14, 2026 @10:54AM (#50088631)
These days, if you say anything positive about Britain, you'll be arrested and thrown in jail
Re:Switzerland proposes banning profiling-based ads to minors
on Wednesday October 14, 2026 @09:32AM (#50087546)
This kind of ballot issue is a great filter. It's so obviously correct, the reason of any normal person will be "why was it legal at all?", so anyone arguing against the ban is quite probably paid to do so and should be ignored.
Re:The United Kingdom Generates Less Electricity per Person Than in th...
on Wednesday October 14, 2026 @05:03AM (#50084563)
We're talking about retrofitting to existing typical UK radiators. If I was buying new radiators (and paying an electrician to run electricity to them!) then I would want a better return on investment than cooling from 35C to 30C.
Re:The United Kingdom Generates Less Electricity per Person Than in th...
on Wednesday October 14, 2026 @04:12AM (#50084099)
You can't pipe cold water through radiators, all you'll get is a very wet floor. Think of an ice cold bottle of beer.
Re:The United Kingdom Generates Less Electricity per Person Than in th...
on Tuesday October 13, 2026 @05:19PM (#50078917)
> leave them sitting damp in the machine.
Rinse hold solves this. Even the cheapest machines have it.
Re:Apple HomeView
on Tuesday October 13, 2026 @11:29AM (#50073283)
They're usually big enough to view the whole recipe, unless you got it from some trash website on the first page of Google
Re:Apple HomeView
on Tuesday October 13, 2026 @11:25AM (#50073214)
When in fact EU iOS is the only one that is even semi usable
Re:Claude Haiku 5.5
on Thursday October 08, 2026 @06:39AM (#50004154)
> The models are meant to be used together.
If that was the case, then Claude Code would use smaller models for subagents. It doesn't. The subagent always inherits the parent model unless you tell it specifically not to.
Re:What's Earth's dominant species by mass?
on Thursday October 08, 2026 @03:42AM (#50002916)
Of course it's a two year cycle, they even have incrementing numbers like 119th Congress.
Re:Why Were Victorian Elites So Effective?
on Wednesday October 07, 2026 @11:43AM (#49994434)
This is why grammar schools are so called, they're talking about Latin grammar
Re:What's Earth's dominant species by mass?
on Wednesday October 07, 2026 @06:12AM (#49990649)
The US political system is a two year cycle, as will be demonstrated next month.
Re:Replacement of petroleum based products with plant-based materials ...
on Monday October 05, 2026 @10:48AM (#49965612)
Of course I understand this, but I live in a 10 million population city built centuries/millenia before the motor car and I ride a bicycle pretty much everywhere.
Public transport requires density to be cost effective. You can't have a "great transit system" everywhere in a large country. Not here in small and dense England, and not in Germany or Japan either from what I've seen.
Re:Replacement of petroleum based products with plant-based materials ...
on Monday October 05, 2026 @10:21AM (#49965280)
> I'm asking them to get rid of one of those cars
As said many posts above, nobody is going to voluntarily reduce their standard of living. You will have to force them. How you do that will be one of the biggest political conversations of this century and not at all easy or simple.
Re:Replacement of petroleum based products with plant-based materials ...
on Monday October 05, 2026 @07:43AM (#49963592)
If it's a sparse area then bus service is either going to suck or cost a lot of money.
Re:Sales of sub-€25,000 electric car models set to rise sevenfold
on Monday October 05, 2026 @06:21AM (#49962983)
Huh? I think you have misunderstood. I'm not talking about a hyphen.
Re:Sales of sub-€25,000 electric car models set to rise sevenfold
on Monday October 05, 2026 @04:45AM (#49962249)
Sevenfold! Whatever happened to -fold? It's all 10X this and 5X that these days, nobody says times or fold any more
Re:I Quit OpenAI Because Its Culture Is Broken
on Sunday October 04, 2026 @08:58AM (#49953539)
Are these railways and plants connected to the internet?
Re:Gemini 4 Argon
on Wednesday September 30, 2026 @04:38PM (#49914051)
I have used it for little more than 6 hours or so in total but I'm pretty sure it doesn't have compaction?
Re:Dots: Always-on agents
on Tuesday September 29, 2026 @01:22PM (#49896886)
Dots seem to me to be for the rest of general knowledge work and not specifically developers
Re:DraftKings Is Using AI to Behaviorally Target Chronic Gamblers
on Tuesday September 29, 2026 @01:06PM (#49896573)
"You show me the incentives and I'll show you the outcome"
Re:OpenAI: Tomorrow we are re-opening the Pro $200 subscription
on Tuesday September 29, 2026 @03:40AM (#49889581)
> we guarantee that over time you always get more work done and with an increasing level of quality
or your money back?
Re:Kids turned low-traffic NPR Spotify comments into a secret group chat
on Monday September 28, 2026 @02:55PM (#49882736)
I regularly mourn the photos of my early teens that were on MySpace and no longer exist anywhere
Re:Oracle on the hook to pay data centre investors even if site has no...
on Friday September 25, 2026 @08:54AM (#49843968)
Electricity is only 3% of opex for a data centre?
Re:Claude Opus 5.5
on Wednesday September 23, 2026 @05:34AM (#49813581)
I've been listening to some old Acquired podcast episodes and they do often talk in this type of Claudish. So it's getting it from Silicon Valley startup podcasters... Great...
Re:Teen Social Media Bans Miss the Point
on Sunday September 20, 2026 @10:11AM (#49776078)
I don't think so. Everyone sees the same feed. It's more like the New York Times homepage than it is Facebook.
Re:AI-generated posters don’t have to be horrible
on Saturday September 19, 2026 @06:33AM (#49765255)
It's not that the first one is so awful in isolation, it's that they are everywhere you look when you walk down the street. The barbers, the school fête, the cafe, the church. Everywhere.
Re:EU chief opens door for Canada to become 'associate member'
on Wednesday September 16, 2026 @07:19AM (#49724929)
Under the bus again, I might add
Re:Devil's Arrows: Ancient builders hauled 55k-lb stones 11 miles for ...
on Monday September 14, 2026 @11:41AM (#49698830)
Stones are the Fahrenheit of weight. Useful for the human body but fuck all else.
Re:Devil's Arrows: Ancient builders hauled 55k-lb stones 11 miles for ...
on Monday September 14, 2026 @10:30AM (#49697500)
Surely they don't actually like drill bits measured in fractions of an inch, do they?