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The effect of overcapacity is null or negative price, which has the property to make more storage viable (who cares if it only gives back 25% if the input is free or very cheap), so I'd say intermittent sources overcapacity is an enabler of on grid storage.

E.g. today in Germany you can buy MWh at 14€ at 13:00 and sell it back at 180€ at 18:00. I didn't look all of Europe but it looked like the biggest spread today... You can make money with crappy storage under those conditions...
No trains? Inter-city trips is where they shine.
I’ve replaced Ruby as the “glue” language on my machine with Crystal, being able to plop out a binary and not worry about the myriad things that can go wrong with needing the entire environment to be perfect, including reinstalling gems for every version etc is such a relief. Bundler is just a frustrating sticky plaster over that.

I’d like to give Zig and Nim a go, but Go and Elixir are probably next on the list, simply because I have unread books for them staring at me.
i am not going to start a sweatshop lol to know that employees with enthusiasm are "more hassle than they're worth".
> How is this not solved yet?

Because what is the problem to solve here? If you do not require services to confirm the age of the user, they will not have to confirm the age of the user. This is a problem created.
As a native German speaker I don’t think I’ve ever heard any of the listed words except Bremsschwelle. Most of them are weird regional slang terms that won’t mean anything to most people, no need to overthink it that much.
Windows NT for Alpha was quite popular, second only to Windows NT for x86
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I think when doing casual person-to-person comparisons, like on here, it is actually easier to compare payslips.

Most importantly, I don't believe that if employer NI went away tomorrow that money would come to me in increased salary. Including it as a tax on me makes the assumption that it would.
For the same reasons that demolishing Gaza, relocating its inhabitants, and letting someone else develop the land is utterly insane.

People aren't random machines that can be moved willy-nilly.
I was framing my question in multiple parts.

I was also unintentionally hitting <return> where I'd meant to insert paragraph breaks (<shift> <return>, as I recall).

I've found that I can instruct the bot to not begin a response until I've specifically requested one (OG ChatGPT).
Apps in app stores already have age ratings.

Websites could easily add X-Recommended-Age or X-Content-Rating headers where browsers could enforce a decent set of filters for adult-oriented content.

Popular platforms, I think, have age ratings on streams (twitch stream age tags), youtube, etc

The above would cover 90% of content-related concerns and combined with things like cloudflare dns filtering you'd have a relatively safe internet experience.

The interacting-whith-people (or oddball harms like character.ai) concerns can then be more easily policed by parents.

The industry has chosen not to implement basic controls and is asking for government controls.
I bought my Sunbeam in 2022 for $44, brand new. The secret is to buy them in Japan off the flea market sites. Apparently in my case the owner bought it have around as a piece of Americana. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
It’s not even about “basic needs.” How much support is there in fat and happy Europe for putting boots on the ground? It sounds like UK and France would go it alone? https://www.euronews.com/my-europe/2025/03/04/which-european...

And it’s not lost on me that both Starmer and Macron represent a minority of the electorate in their respective countries—having won due to a deeply fractured electorate.
This lines up perfectly with Trump’s policy on Palestine and Ukraine. “Let them take the land”, who cares about the people?
Damn. That doesn't sound too hopeful because eventually that Embrace, Extend, Extinguish will catch up :(
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"More than a decade ago, Germany began to phase out nuclear power while failing to ramp up other energy production. The result has been catastrophic for citizens and for the ruling government. In the first half of 2024, Germans paid the highest electricity prices in the European Union."

Catastrophic? If I have to pay 33% more for electricity now than in 2010? And if corrected for inflation the electricity costs in Germany are actually going down. There is some obvious spin in this article which is distracting from the real issue:

It's the housing, stupid!

What is really catastrophic also in Germany is the increase of rents and housing prices.
Purely linguistic tasks like this are the one area where LLMs tend to be great, not sure what you mean.
> Using AI to start a business is not for everyone.

is it for anyone? I don't know even one business that was started 'using AI'.

do you know any that actually make money?
This is basically the George Bush argument "they hate us because of our freedom". Totally absurd.
Good. JSONP requests to a domain you don't control are a security nightmare.
Gulf of Mexico or Gulf of America: How digital maps decide
I think you are being quite generous to him here. He is not saying there is a non zero chance that it didn't happen similar to how there is a non zero chance your entire existence is the dream of a child who is about to wake up. He spends the next fourteen minutes weighing the supposed reasons for why it might have happened and why it might have not happened. Seven years ago he clearly stated that he believed in the moon landing. Here he is actually sowing doubts about the event.

Take it as you will. OP responded to another user saying maybe if there was fly-over video evidence it might convince someone like Rogan as clearly he is not entirely convinced yet. I think that's a fair assessment.
Now that the paper is posted, what are your thoughts on the research?
Its strange that its 2025 and we haven't compiled recursion as a design pattern with rules, like a framework, using which all problems that can be solved by recursion can be represented.
Orion looks interesting... but is it open source?
The reason is simple, straightforward, and the usual answer in these situations: state intervention.
Countries should mandate not owning a car.
What rule is there against discussing piracy on HN?
China is a democracy. It's literally what you're describing Taiwan as. That said I do agree that it does cause China's superiority to be called into question. Imagine if the Confederate states of America managed to take hold of Cuba and hold out.

EDIT: I'm literally factually correct. In 5 of the 6 indexes China has a Democracy score where as Brunei, an absolute monarchy, doesn't!
Show HN: I built an app where you move your character by doing real push-ups
I love sport, I love games, so I merged the two and built this mobile game.

I literally have to do real push-ups to move my character and complete the course.

The app is built in Flutter and Flame, and uses Google mlkit object detection.

I'd love to hear your thoughts on the concept.

(Available on iOS too)
I really enjoyed this and I plan to do some figuring on this to verify...

I was struck by the idea that understanding the arc of movement in the heavens is one of the few natural round things I can think of. The arc can also only be proven through observation and measurement over great time.

Finally I see the cubit as intersection human scale ergonomics with celestial movement.

When I set up my shop a posted a scale based on Nippur Cubits. Which I have defined as 518.5 mm. I'm thinking I should make some adjustments.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_Mesopotamian_units_of_...

I got a lot out of this article but I'm cubit curious.
The owners of the stock are embedded everywhere in high, medium and low places. It's in the top ten of nearly every major index and mutual fund. No one is going to complain about Apple until the stock tanks.
So like the California high speed rail. America really can’t build things anymore.
From what I've read, telemetry is typically opt-in on both EVs and gas. It's tactile mechanical controls that are more important to me. I'm even considering just doing a custom conversion on mine, just as soon as solid-state batteries show up to make the battery life (and hopefully charging time) worth it for heavier vehicles. Any time now...
Glad I had to scroll all this way down to reach reddit.

Also, please take a look here as well, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43252998
I've had enough LLM experience that much of this is obvious to me / what I've worked out.

Some questions are more complex than a simple ask/response, and that's where I've encountered issues.

Canonical example is coming up with suggestions given highly specific tastes and a large set of works already experienced (positively and/or negatively). LLM jumping the gun with irrelevant suggestions in that case is just plain annoying.
> In Javaland this describes assertions, and the term exception is for operating errors, i.e. problems not necessarily attributable to programmer error

Making matters more confusing in Javaland, Errors are separate from Exceptions, but both are Throwables.

An Error is a subclass of Throwable that indicates serious problems that a reasonable application should not try to catch. Most such errors are abnormal conditions. The ThreadDeath error, though a "normal" condition, is also a subclass of Error because most applications should not try to catch it.

https://docs.oracle.com/javase/8/docs/api/java/lang/Error.ht... / https://archive.vn/i5F7B
From what I've seen, scooters and electric bikes aren't competition for cars, but for public transport.
Yeah, the knob and the lack of automated pop-out made me think that they at least deeply evaluated dualit models. I have 2 dualits. Both inherited, both well over 20 years old. There really is not much to repair with these things.

I will say the OP’s design looks cool, it’s certainly an interesting exercise and portfolio item.
First off - it's a sprint forecast, not a sprint commitment. A sprint is timeboxed in the sense of guaranteeing some delivery of incremental functionality for a product on a regular basis. It's aim is not to backdoor the mapping of time to points.

Furthermore, Sprint Planning/Refinement are just innocuous ceremonies whose only aim is to facilitate productive discussion between a Product Owner/Manager and an Implementation team as regards delivery timelines and priority ordering thereof. Done properly, it allows a pragmatic approach to achieving a predictable software delivery cadence via mutual compromise.

If the process turns into 'fit as many features into the sprint as possible' at the expense of Performance/Stability/Functionality or Technical Debt accumulation, you're really just doing the 'fast' version of Cheap/Fast/Good Waterfall Project Management.
> Making music is very easy. Making music people want to listen to is hard, mind-bogglingly so.

Agreed, although making music is "easy" once you've put in the hours to learn how to make music, and getting to somewhat professional standards requires a lot of time investment.

This reduces that to zero.

The point where it becomes a "problem" is the people abusing it to pump out hundreds (or dare I say thousands) of bullshit filler "music" to get some stream income at the expense of people who have put in the effort.
Smaller docs (and more of'em) throws up the problem of findability. The author lists the usual "fixes" but I do not find it convincing.

This is where I'd expect an A.I.-powered tech support chat system to help. Then smaller-is-better might really work well. Just be sure to supply some helpful+necessary context (intro/outro) when directing me to the mini doc. And if there's going to be A.I. then it might help with the items on the author's list too (doc organisation, doc linking, doc hygiene).
Speeding up computational lithography with the power and parallelism of GPUs
That's funny because I just have the database hash the rows and move on with my life, but that might have been a PITA back then.
I don’t think this concept really needs a brand and manifesto, especially not one that will obviously alienate anyone who isn’t a Marxist, etc., etc., etc. It’s not a tough sell to tell people that maybe the permanent revolution / forced march of planned-obsolescent tech products isn’t a good thing for most people. Slapping a bunch of “COEXIST” bumper stickers on that is a better way to slow it down than to speed it up.
Yeah, I’ve racked up more than 2000 km on my e-scooter too with no issues, and I agree with your assessment - I see plenty of people riding responsibly but some people doing absolutely crazy things on scooters (often riding on busy roads, and at similar speeds to cars - crazy) and think it’s just a matter of time when you ride like that…

On bike paths at the legal speed limit here (25 km/h) you’re far less likely to have problems, especially if not riding while affected by any substances.
I've encountered fewer show-stopping bugs in Linux than macOS lately. And of the software that I use on both, the macOS versions have more problems. Honestly, the main thing holding me back from replacing my M1 MBA with a linux laptop is the wonderful speed and battery life. If the software problems get bad enough to negate those I'm switching.
giving up what?

I've made progress in my career being a suck up. I never contradict my superiors. Even the stuff i come up with i make it look like it was originally their "vision" that led to it. I always convince someone above to put their name as primary author on my proposals at work. This extremely simple "trick" has always led to me getting more money and promotions at work.

Its not a joke.
> the US is not going to help defend Taiwan, no matter who is in the White House.

You are skipping a very important detail in the whole equation. The detail that teleportation was not invented yet. For China to take over Taiwan, they need to somehow place soldiers in Taiwan, and there's 100 miles of sea that complicate that.

The war over Taiwan is going to be a complex chess match. US wants to keep being able to prevent China from crossing those 100 miles, and China wants to deny the US the ability to do that. US can perform sea and air patrols, but those are quite expensive, and China can try to make them even more expensive. The war is not going to have a clear starting date, like 24-Feb-2022. It's going to be a gradual increase of the invasion threat posed by China that will force the US to increase its local military posture. A certain type of blockade will happen, but it's going to be intentionally unclear how total the blockade will be. The US and its allies will try a measured response. China will try to create tensions it the US alliance. The US will try some sanctions. China will try to seed disinformation inside the US public debate sphere. Costs will ramp up. Etc, etc.

But it's not going to be as simple as the US will look at the problem and will count the beans and call it quits.
500Mzh vs 233Mhz, if you could afford the cooling. Maybe exaggerating the gap, but I think it was pretty big which contributed to the enthusiasm for DEC alpha.
Sure, if you don't care about climate change at all you can just activate and build coal power plants.
I believe you might be limited by your imagination just how bad out of tree third party drivers can be. We're talking about hardware with DMA access here. It's trivial to create a situation that can not be fixed in the kernel (without breaking other things).

If you are running some generic PC hardware to write this comment, chances are that at least one tiny part somewhere which is dependent on some specific obscure timing to come up properly which just happens to work because someone inserted a small delay somewhere.
The paper doesn't have an official name, but the notepad using it is called "Meteksan Prestige Notepad" [0].

I don't know if it's exported or not. I have a stack of them. :)

[0]: https://www.sarikalem.com/en/meteksan-prestij-bloknot-17x24-...
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The reason is his amusement, something that I assume gets harder when your hedonic treadmill has long ago accelerated beyond what seems humanly possible. As someone who has trollish tendencies myself, I cannot help but feel a bit of grudging respect for his recent accomplishments in that regard, though as one of the "NPCs" in the country he has chosen to troll, I can't say I'm terribly amused. And as someone with a Jewish girlfriend, I'm a bit worried about how far he intends to take the ironic Nazi-ism.
>In court you would have to establish this behavior using context.

Under what law? As far as I know neither copyright nor the various privacy laws care about what an executable on the user's machine is doing, as far as the liability of the company goes. They only care about what the company sees.

>Which again, the license still doesn't allow.

Which is why it doesn't make sense, especially when their privacy policy does spell out that they are selling data collected from the browser (not very much, but there certainly is some)
Apple makes a nice computer hardware. For running Linux.

iPhone is a trap. We see already in GB with removal of encryption.
It is not the time for drooling over some UI animation.
It is time to protect your data and learn to live in a surveillance state.
All the people which are pretending to be a techie and use those types of devices called "smartphones" are plain stupid.

Every stroke on your Mac is collected. Just install Little Snitch and watch it real-time. Same with Windows. Simplewall app is showing it clearly.

This is not only a hostile computing and dark patterns' bonanza.
They want AI governance over there in the headquarters of a global capital.

It is time to stop filling their baskets with cash.
Use your old devices as long as possible. Do not update prematurelly. Educate yourselves. Protect your data.

Degoogled phone is a nice start for this UX.
Simplicity and explicitness are really important to Go design. It's been defended hotly. Personally (using Go everyday) I think it's a terrible trade-off for devx and is mostly stockholm syndrom, but it's very difficult to argue at the "design principle" level: one side says "explicitness!", the other says "readability!", which can't be meaningfully compared.
I didn't say they weren't facts. I said it's whatoboutism:

> Whataboutism or whataboutery (as in "what about ...?") is a pejorative for the strategy of responding to an accusation with a counter-accusation instead of a defense against the original accusation.
>
> The communication intent is often to distract from the content of a topic (red herring). The goal may also be to question the justification for criticism and the legitimacy, integrity, and fairness of the critic, which can take on the character of discrediting the criticism, which may or may not be justified
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whataboutism

The topic is Russia dividing and conquering the USA from Europe and other nations. Not: are Europe perfectly living up to its stated humanist goals.

> Why the aggressiveness?

I guess it comes from this being a very common tactic to shut down any criticism and debate. Maybe you didn't mean to do that, in that case I'm sorry for assigning malignant intentions.
I was referring to the "not that expensive".
I wish we lived in a world where Crystal dominated over Go, but we're far from being there.

Admittedly, the slowness of the compiler (due to the nature of the language), and lack of better tooling are not helping, but 9 out of 10 times I enjoy way more writing Crystal than Go.
Under this climate? Very hard I think.
Coincidentally that's also roughly the birth-rate of the UK 20 years prior (2004: 715,996 [0]), a group of people I assume also arrived on the housing-market by now.

The population (and this hasn't started with the current population) has a tendency to shag around and then make noise about the need of housing (and food, and education, and...)

[0] https://www.ons.gov.uk/aboutus/transparencyandgovernance/fre...
> If you want to make an argument from your book then please do so but linking to it alone is not an argument.

From[1]:

> "The Doctrine of Fascism" (Italian: "La dottrina del fascismo") is an essay attributed to Benito Mussolini. In truth, the first part of the essay, entitled "Idee Fondamentali" (Italian for 'Fundamental Ideas'), was written by the Italian philosopher Giovanni Gentile, while only the second part "Dottrina politica e sociale" (Italian for 'Political and social doctrine') is the work of Mussolini himself.

Please, ignorance is natural, but brazen and wilful ignorance in support of an argument based on nothing but pejorative and performative tribalism is something for Twitter or Reddit, not here. If it were Twitter I’d definitely add a facepalm emoji instead of babying you through this.

> The Nazi salutes mean nothing?

If we’re referring to Musk then I must say that I don’t agree that it was a Nazi salute. In my country, we grew up with the war as a constant cultural reference so I’ve seen thousands of Nazi salutes, I’ve never seen one like that. Wishful thinking for more fodder for those performative pejoratives does not a Nazi salute make.

> The only thing that matters is intention.

Let me know when you do the Show HN for your mind reading device.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Doctrine_of_Fascism
Floats are, by their very nature, imprecise, so "excluding either" would not work up to a point. I would not want my choice of element to depend on the result of 0.1 + 0.1 (e.g. when multiplying by 10).
Brexit. It was Brexit.
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