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3-cheese-sundae··on Man discovers his parents' coffee machine used 1TB of data in 10 days
Belief and stakeholder buy-in is all that it takes for that data to be collected, no?
3-cheese-sundae··on Man discovers his parents' coffee machine used 1TB of data in 10 days
Like everything else in today’s world: scale makes all the difference.

Let everyone file that claim for a single geek squad visit.

3-cheese-sundae··on Car is a smartphone on wheels. Here's who's listening
Oh, I sure have. It’s not all ignorance, unfortunately.
3-cheese-sundae··on It's a Scam
Ah, great. Time to prepare.

Prepare for what? In what way?

3-cheese-sundae··on Deadpan Photography: Enjoying the Pretence
If the parent had kept reading, they might have discovered the retroactive explanation of that sentence:

"This is the form’s real operation. Deadpan does not convince you it is neutral. It performs neutrality in a way that lets you enjoy both the performance and your awareness of it. You are in on the joke. The image says it didn’t choose, and you know it chose, and both of you agree to pretend otherwise because the pretence produces something valuable: attention."

3-cheese-sundae··on The Doorman's Fallacy in action
I am curious to hear why you believe those roles don't provide any value.
3-cheese-sundae··on Pac-Man, but you're the ghost
"Think about it. It's like Kafka wrote a Lovecraft story."

https://www.smbc-comics.com/index.php?db=comics&id=2736#comi...

3-cheese-sundae··on Adobe modifies hosts file to detect whether Creative Cloud is installed
Those particular neurons of mine haven't seen action in quite some time, thank you.
3-cheese-sundae··on We haven't seen the worst of what gambling and prediction markets will do
I think I see where you're coming from, but if we're using them to predict hurricanes, it's likely just meteorological data arbitrage. All else seems like random chance; hardly an example of an oracle.
3-cheese-sundae··on We haven't seen the worst of what gambling and prediction markets will do
In the prediction markets, there's a fine line between predicting and manifesting.
3-cheese-sundae··on Phind.com Is Shutting Down
That's one way to get severance.
3-cheese-sundae··on 'Phased Out'–Google Confirms Bad News for All 3B Chrome Users
Can you help me understand how Privacy Sandbox was going to make the web tracking-free?
3-cheese-sundae··on Show HN: A store that generates products from anything you type in search
I sure feel like I've been involved with some projects that had an atomic BOM.
3-cheese-sundae··on When you're asking AI chatbots for answers, they're data-mining you
They do, if they're asked over one of the many popular non-secure chat platforms.

I feel like most people don't wait until their friends are in the room to ask them questions or exchange info.

3-cheese-sundae··on Vanishing from Hyundai’s data network
Yes. I, too, shall spudge.
3-cheese-sundae··on Ask HN: Have you ever regretted open-sourcing something?
That stings, but how many purchases do you think it's getting?
3-cheese-sundae··on A Logo on a Prosthesis Is Like a Tattoo You Didn't Ask For
I think that's an oversimplification. The market rates for wholesale, private sale, and retail are different. Selling a vehicle to a private party always nets the seller more cash than selling the same to a dealer. As a private buyer, you would have a very difficult time trying to buy a vehicle direct from most manufacturers.

As another said, this is due to lobbying, but that doesn't change the fact that the markets are different.

3-cheese-sundae··on TSAC: Low Bitrate Audio Compression
The first track's corruption sounds to me a bit like the intro to "Knuckles" by The Presets.
3-cheese-sundae··on Anonymous public voicemail inbox
What audio codec and parameters are used for the recordings? You've really nailed the 90s landline sound.
3-cheese-sundae··on Why Do Search Engines Suck Now?
My search engine works great. I just have to pay for it. And for the amount my career depends on being able to find information online, it’s not hard to justify $10/month for a search engine that actually respects my queries to avoid SEO garbage sites.
3-cheese-sundae··on A 45 year engineer clears up electric sauna ventilation
There may be no risk to the phone electronics themselves, but you are abusing the battery and increasing the risk of failure though bulging and thermal runaway.

I would personally not call regularly exposing lithium ion cells to 170+ degrees F “safe”.

Why do you think those protections are there?

3-cheese-sundae··on Spotted water hemlock: the most toxic plant in North America (2017)
Im guessing nobody dies from this, since 30C is water.

The catch is that they’re also without any benefit, and they’re poorer to boot.

3-cheese-sundae··on The Internet Is Full of AI Dogshit
Are you sure about that? Can you conceive of LLM generated SEO spam blogs receiving comments from completely unrelated LLM generated comment spammers?
3-cheese-sundae··on Implementation of Mamba in one file of PyTorch
Ah yes, Conda, definitely something else I've heard of.
3-cheese-sundae··on Okta says hackers stole data for all customer support users
Same here. You can't even scroll to see it. I'm sure it's not intentional.
3-cheese-sundae··on Apple pulls plug on Goldman credit-card partnership
As of this writing, Ally is still higher than Apple Savings account (4.25% APY vs 4.15% APY)
3-cheese-sundae··on Apple plans to equip MacBooks with in-house cellular modems
The cell modem is integrated into the SoC, but the antenna isn't.

You might have to give up wifi and bluetooth if you cut that out, though.

3-cheese-sundae··on New Toyota Camry to Be Sold Only as Hybrid
Can you imagine passing a tractor going 35 on a 55 two-lane country road in a 2500 lb car with 110 horsepower?
3-cheese-sundae··on Tell HN: LinkedIn has one of the worst dark patterns I have seen on the web
I didn't believe you, then I didn't want to believe you, then I checked, and it sure does.
3-cheese-sundae··on We used to build steel mills near cheap power. Now we build datacenters
I’ve wondered that too, and earthquakes/eruptions is my guess. They are more prevalent and unpredictable where geothermal power is available.
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