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NewJazzon Apple's smart home camera reportedly won't record video

How small? Under 900sqft? I've got 70W (20x 3.5W) in ny living room and it is quite bright at 100%, I usually dim to around 20-50%.

NewJazzon California bans child marriage, a practice still legal in 32 US states

This is factually untrue. There was no minimum age.

NewJazzon Apple's smart home camera reportedly won't record video

Yeah even at 16W per bulb that's over 60 bulbs. Either a big house or a very very bright one.

NewJazzon Memory executives expect RAM shortage to continue through 2028

Think about the app sitting on some developer's laptop, necer getting deployed anywhere else! Or the thousands getting uploaded to app stores to slurp and sell data!

NewJazzon Using Opus 5.5 to discover a new eyewitness record of the dodo

What about DNA? There are things we do that we never read in a book, maybe never seen someone else do them vefore, but we still do them. Or we still feel a certain way. That doesn't come from "human training data", unless you count the DNA as training data.

NewJazzon Apple's smart home camera reportedly won't record video

Also how much are we saving flipping lights off for a few hours in the age of LEDs? Most of my electricity bill is either fixed costs or from heating water.

NewJazzon Using Opus 5.5 to discover a new eyewitness record of the dodo

It's "dumb" error, but hard to say the model itself if dumb because it does other very hard things so perfectly.

Maybe the model isn't intelligence in any form, except perhaps as an imperfect reflection of the intelligence of its training data.

NewJazzon Ballmer Peak

Usually the bar is "have news sources written about it" for a lot of subjects.

NewJazzon NASA asked several former SR-71A staffers to help secret restart

But then Luke wouldn't have been able to use the force!

NewJazzon California bans child marriage, a practice still legal in 32 US states

California had/has until jan 1 no minimum age. But it requires judicial approval.

NewJazzon California bans child marriage, a practice still legal in 32 US states

Yes technically allowed with parental consent and judicial approval. Not sure how often it happened.

NewJazzon California bans child marriage, a practice still legal in 32 US states

Non paywalled article

https://calmatters.org/politics/2026/09/child-marriage-ban-n...

NewJazzon Moist-Electric Wallpaper for Indoor Energy Harvesting and Humidity Management

It would probably depend on how you use the water. Watering plants (including via gray water systems) would mean a lot of the water would evaporate or transpirate. Flushing it down the drain means it exits the system.

NewJazzon Ukraine Can't Stop Russia's Jet-Powered Shahed Drone

Guidance to hit a stationary target is easier than to hit a moving target. Especially considering the shaheds aren't particularly exact about what stationary target they hit.

NewJazzon ChatGPT Pro 500

Because it is still cheaper than API usage, and more convenient than multiple subscriptions.

NewJazzon California farmers are struggling to sell grapes as demand for wine drops

This graph isn't adjusted for inflation.

NewJazzon California farmers are struggling to sell grapes as demand for wine drops

That's a pretty big claim. Alcohol's harm to major organs like the liver is pretty well known. What kind of harm does THC/CBD cause when consumed orally?

NewJazzon California farmers are struggling to sell grapes as demand for wine drops

Edibles/beverages are widely available now. Previously you'd have to purchase flower on the black market then use your home kitchen (which could be shared with your parents) to decarb and infuse it.

Maybe don't just think about pot smokers.

NewJazzon California farmers are struggling to sell grapes as demand for wine drops

Econ 101 usually teaches a simplified model... Still my lower divs covered the relationships between scaling supply and costs. It really just depends on the market, sometimes you are amortizing a high capital cost over each unit sold, while other times you are paying high input costs that are directly related to your scale. Scarcity/abundance of inputs is another major factor.

NewJazzon California farmers are struggling to sell grapes as demand for wine drops

But lower teen drinking can lead to lower lifelong drinking. Habits formed during those years have inertia.

NewJazzon U.S. Strategic Petroleum Reserve Falls to Lowest Level Since 1982

The primary Democratic position is demand reduction, not importing. Also plenty of democrats have allowed drillibng and pipelines.

NewJazzon Palantir founder purchases large swath of forest in Sweden

Bunker.

NewJazzon Palantir founder purchases large swath of forest in Sweden

But would he still have Palantir? Also a large portion of thr forests are likely in public trust, and they'd be hesitant to sell all of it I'd think. Especially to one person with no track record of land management.

NewJazzon Sonnet 5.5

I would also consider this a bug. I think ajy reasonable consumer would.

NewJazzon Fakecloud: Local AWS cloud emulator for integration tests

In the case I described you are trusting the developer at least a bit. But you aren't trusting them to keep their website secure.

Furthermore, you can be sure that theversion that you download is the same version it has always been and it is the same version everyone else sees. Curl|bash can mean getting a version of the code that is different from everybody else.

NewJazzon Fakecloud: Local AWS cloud emulator for integration tests

Yeah but at least with a binary you can verify the checksum of a recent official immutable github release rathrr than just trust a script hosted on the website.

NewJazzon An agent used DNS to reach an external chatbot

Management interfaces can exist without routing/forwarding to the internet. A machine being colocated doesn't mean it has to be on the same network.

NewJazzon Automattic has a new board after failed attempt to put CEO on leave

It is unclear if the staff are working for him and his mom, or if his mom also has a lawsuit.

NewJazzon Automattic has a new board after failed attempt to put CEO on leave

Most folks probabpy use the "render wordpress site to static site" model to avoid the security issues.