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Revisional_Sin··on How can England possibly be running out of water?
Huh, I did not know about the wholesale price issue, that's pretty bad.

It also incentivises avoiding cheap sources from dominating the market.

Revisional_Sin··on How can England possibly be running out of water?
You can't switch water suppliers, so there is no such incentive to be competitive.
Revisional_Sin··on How can England possibly be running out of water?
The system works fine for electricity and gas, because the grid itself is maintained by the government. You have private energy producers competing to produce electricity, and private energy companies buying it off them and selling it to the consumer. Maybe it would be more efficient if it was maintained solely by the state, but it's not too bad.

Unfortunately, the water system doesn't work that way. It has been parcelled off to various private companies, giving them a natural monopoly.

Revisional_Sin··on Formatting code should be unnecessary
Putting a trailing comma stops that.
Revisional_Sin··on Formatting code should be unnecessary
Constants in the code are easier to navigate to than config files.
Revisional_Sin··on New research reveals longevity gains slowing, life expectancy of 100 unlikely
Okay, sure. But it seems reasonable to expect we can keep improving the tradeoffs.
Revisional_Sin··on Grok Code Fast 1
And they were criticised for this by many other Jewish organisations.
Revisional_Sin··on Grok Code Fast 1
Then why did he publicly do a Nazi salute?
Revisional_Sin··on Gemini 2.5 Flash Image
Slop, slop everywhere.
Revisional_Sin··on Gemini 2.5 Flash Image
> So some people adapted to this fact by not wearing clothes anymore.

Erm... What?

Revisional_Sin··on How to build a coding agent
This looks much better, thank you.
Revisional_Sin··on Claude Code is all you need
How does using an offline model give up your privacy?

Also, running models locally requires good hardware to get acceptable performance. It's still a large barrier to entry.

Revisional_Sin··on The End of Tesla?
No. There are videos of them waving and pointing. They look nothing like what Musk did.
Revisional_Sin··on The End of Tesla?
It was clearly a Nazi salute.
Revisional_Sin··on Imagen 4 is now generally available
Wasn't Imagen 4 released months ago?
Revisional_Sin··on FDA approves eye drops that fix near vision without glasses
That sounds absolutely awful.
Revisional_Sin··on We shouldn't have needed lockfiles
So you need to test if the version worked yourself (e.g. via automated tests)? Seems better to have the library author do this for you and define a range.
Revisional_Sin··on Content-Aware Spaced Repetition
FYI, this looks awful on mobile. (Chrome on a pixel).
Revisional_Sin··on Objects should shut up
When my wireless earphones reach 20 minutes of charge it starts warning me about this every minute. So this essentially cuts 20 minutes off it's battery life cause it's too annoying to use from then.
Revisional_Sin··on Women dating safety app 'Tea' breached, users' IDs posted to 4chan
Unfortunately for some of us, the UK has gone the opposite direction. We now have to verify our age (or use a VPN) before accessing certain websites.

https://theconversation.com/porn-websites-now-require-age-ve...

Revisional_Sin··on The AI Replaces Services Myth
> What the article is really about is the idea that all of the money that is now paid in wages will somehow be paid to AI companies as AI replaces humans.

Is anyone actually claiming this?

Revisional_Sin··on Switching to Claude Code and VSCode Inside Docker
You either have the option of approving each command manually, or you can let it run commands autonomously. If you let it run any commands then you have the risk of it doing something stupid (mainly deleting files).

You also have MCP tools running on your machine, which might have security issues.

Revisional_Sin··on Supreme Court's ruling practically wipes out free speech for sex writing online
If you decide you want to know I can provide a description to help you figure it out.

If you REALLY don't want to know, it might be best to remove this comment, in case somebody decides to grief you.

Revisional_Sin··on The Rise of Whatever
They are saying that the option to make AI art, but not doing so, helped to clarify their purpose for making art.
Revisional_Sin··on Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (June 2025)
Sounds useful!

Does this only work with JS code?

Revisional_Sin··on Show HN: Spegel, a Terminal Browser That Uses LLMs to Rewrite Webpages
SEO. Longer articles get ranked higher.
Revisional_Sin··on Writing Toy Software Is a Joy
That's a great list!
Revisional_Sin··on Ask HN: What cool skill or project interests you, but feels out of reach?
But then you risk harassment from the anti-AI crowd.
Revisional_Sin··on At Amazon, some coders say their jobs have begun to resemble warehouse work
That was exactly their point.
Revisional_Sin··on Watching AI drive Microsoft employees insane
You were agreeing with him by saying his comparison was awful?

That doesn't make any sense.

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