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belinderon Pixel 11 Pro Fold feels like the end of an era

I drop my phone a lot, I have a great case for it so not a scratch after 6 years. I am interested in getting the foldable but apparently the cases don't protect the hinge or let dirt get in? Anyone have experience with this? Maybe I'm not the right audience, too clumsy

belinderon Twenty-five years ago it was cryptography, today it's model weights

Drm is not targeted at the hardcore pirate, it's targeted at a potentially larger percentage of people who would be tempted to get the thing for free if it was easy. Drm may be circumventable, but any complex set of steps for doing so is enough to deter that target audience.

belinderon Postgres transactions are a distributed systems superpower

Why not just put the message queue in the same db

belinderon Half-Life 2 in a Browser

On first look it looks like interpolated frames

belinderon ReactOS (FOSS "Windows") achieves 3D-accelerated Half-Life on real hardware

The exterior is done, the interior not yet

belinderon pg_durable: Microsoft open sources in-database durable execution

Why does it matter it's from the 80s? You're suggesting people back then were incapable of making good decisions, and people now will make better ones?

belinderon DeepSeek makes the V4 Pro price discount permanent

Anyone using deepseek through a gateway (not sure if right term) so there's no data retention? At work we're going through a few hundred million tokens a day in our app (using anthropic models), and we're looking for something significantly cheaper

belinderon Folk are getting dangerously attached to AI that always tells them they're right

You're absolutely right

belinderon Americans are destroying Flock surveillance cameras

All they had to do was not air a very expensive superbowl commercial

belinderon Claude Sonnet 4.6

It's interesting that the request refusal rate is so much higher in Hindi than in other languages. Are some languages more ambiguous than others?

belinderon Indifference is a power (2015)

A bit similar to "Expect the worst, hope for the best"

belinderon All AI Videos Are Harmful (2025)

Maybe in the past. In todays world, when something becomes cheaper, the extra revenue goes straight to the executives. The consumer doesn't see it

belinderon Twake Drive – An open-source alternative to Google Drive

So what's the immich equivalent for file sharing

belinderon Some users have noticed settings that let Meta analyze and retain phone photos

Shouldn't they be required to offer a work phone if they require you to install an app on a phone? It may depend on where you live

belinderon Bring Back the Blue-Book Exam

Sure school is for acquiring skills, but it's also day care. A place to keep children during the day so their parents can work, especially in a society where more and more the expectation is that both parents work.

belinderon Good system design

Exactly, it would only work if you have enough sway with your boss and the willingness to take responsibility for the hire

belinderon Dynamical origin of Theia, the last giant impactor on Earth

Temperature on its own wouldn't be enough for life would it? Isn't everything moving around way too fast after the Big bang and therefore too far apart for whatever life there would be to find food (or whatever equivalent source of energy)

belinderon Our crisis is not loneliness but human beings becoming invisible

How do we stop?

belinderon Lieferando.de has captured 5.7% of restaurant related domain names

In this context it matters because Google maps shows only one website when you search for that pub, if the extorters put their website there first then you can't put your real one

belinderon Uber to introduce fixed-route shuttles in major US cities

Problem is you don't want necessarily to sell this to people you have frequent/consistent trips for, as you're getting a lot of money from that. Here you want to capture the market of people that aren't using the service, so it's not information from the app

belinderon The language brain matters more for learning programming than the math brain

Do you recommend any other resources for children to learn the basics of those theories?

belinderon Business co-founders in tech startups are less valuable than they think

I'd love to build something from scratch but don't have a lot of ideas, where do you find a business co-founder?

belinderon Astronomers Detect a Possible Signature of Life on a Distant Planet

If life evolves on a planet with only oceans, no surface, imagine how much longer it would take to discover rockets that can leave the planet.

Like if there was no surface on earth, and only fish, there must be some very significant reason for advanced fish to even want to leave the water, let alone the atmosphere

belinderon A Postmortem of a Startup

Now where to get a list of such companies and products to decide what to build...

belinderon Earth's clouds are shrinking, boosting global warming

No, darkness comes from density. The denser the cloud (the more water it contains), the less light can come through, thus it looks darker.

belinderon A colorful Game of Life

I like how rendering positioning gives the illusion of there being more shape types than there really are, as the three triangles are the same and circle and hexagon are the same. I'm sure it's been done before but I've never seen it, so nice job

belinderon WikiTok

tvtropes did it first

belinderon Tomatoes roaming the fields and canaries in the coalmine

Who would have thought that tomatoes are creatures that can be herded by a shepherd.

Fraud is on the rise everywhere it seems. Not sure what can be done to stop it

belinderon Laid off for the first time in my career, and twice in one year

Take your resume, select all, copy, paste into notepad. Does it still look how you expect? Then youre ok. Otherwise, fix it until it does.

That's it. That's all you need to do.