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It will probably be like coding in assembly after the advent of the compilers. There are some people who still code in assembly, but it's rare.

Banks and NFC have been a major obstacle for me to degoogle. Even when I rooted my phone, i could not pay with NFC. Apparently it's a common problem:

https://www.reddit.com/r/foss/s/5myzcPg2rw

@grok summarize

I am on Google ecosystem since the original T-Mobile G1 - now at Pixel 9 Pro XL. The moment this is rolled out, I am getting iPhones for me and family.

It's not impossible that what's now called HTML5 would have been Flash, had Adobe not acquired Macromedia. Steve Jobs had long-running personal bad blood with Adobe.

Sad seeing formally geeky and entrepreneurial HN being converted into political agitprop. Eternal September.

It's my primary Mac browser but unfortunately they have been gradually dumbing down the built-in co-pilot, now it's fast mode is nearing the level of the paperclip in Microsoft Office

Double down on KYC /s

I am slightly more optimistic, because the API may not be fully centralized- there may be more than one foundational AI company in the end. Like WhatsApp exists because there's the iOS/Android duopoly, an agent-neutral IDE from a non-foundational company without its own API aspirations may continue to exist

Thus this was in 2016. 9 years have passed.

In the case of the rotating generators, yes. In the case of the solar panels, I do not know: I guess it depends on the inverters characterists? Spanish is not my native language, so I may have mixed it up when talking to him.

According to my friend, the freq drop was caused by a sudden large supply surplus over the instantaneous demand. Nuclear plants were offline and there was nothing to absorb the freq drop at that moment.

The cause is the frequency drop that was not compensated by the inertia of rotating turbines due to increasing use of photovoltaics. See https://x.com/shellenberger/status/1916893181876326868?t=32a... A high level engineer in a Spanish generation plant confirmed this to me.

Very interesting ending of the post:

```There was a comment section here. It's gone now. As of March 16th, 2025 the United Kingdom's Online Safety Act has gone into full effect. The law presents a lot of challenges for hobbyist websites like this one to present any user-to-user content (like y'know, blog comments) and comes with some pretty serious repercussions for non-compliance.

The odds of Ofcom (the regulator whose job is to enforce this) kicking my door down over this blog are low if we are being honest with ourselves. But the odds are at least somewhere above zero and the punishment is a life ruining £18 million fine(!!) so it's just not worth the risk.

A kind lawyer has written up the implications of this law for self-run blogs like this one and the only way to guarantee that I am not in-scope would be to manually review all comments made before being available to the public. Not to be a big baby about it all but I don't really want to do this! I liked my current setup!

So I guess as a little act of protest and to hedge against any risk I've removed the comment section entirely. Sorry about that!```

Pakistan zindabad!

there's no reason that one government should control that currency.

"At 1:30 pm, Donald Trump posted on Truth Social that he was pausing most of the tariffs he had imposed earlier that month. "

he actually posted at 1:18. not that there is nothing to see here, but it would help the credibility if the article was accurate

there's no reason for the USD to be the reserve currency, being the currency of a country that doesn't produce anything anymore

from the house of representatives or the white house? and how do you know?

About 14 months after purchase, screen bezel of my MacBook cracked. Apparently there was a tiny food crumb jammed between the screen bezel and the keyboard bezel. It was then that I found out that the screen bezel is made of glass. And that Apple recommends to wipe the keyboard before closing the lid.

You mean, the police has low IQ or higher IQ police is policing me, the low IQ poster?

Report me to OfCom

"Initially messages were sent by an operator using Morse code. The reception was very bad on the 1858 cable, and it took two minutes to transmit just one character (a single letter or a single number), a rate of about 0.1 words per minute."

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transatlantic_telegraph_cabl...

I guess your bandwidth in 1980 was a bit higher.

is there a way to plug say Grok or Chatgpt API into LibreOffice writer or sheets? such that it can have write access to the documents?

that was 1854. You basically only needed Ohm's law for that, which was discovered in 1827

Similar has been already tried in the USSR, it was called a Communal Apartment: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communal_apartment

Pure ideological drivel. Anti technology.

In the meantime, the products that people used to use are decaying. Just today I found out that clicking on the departure date, and viewing the round-trip prices, then changing the departure date is broken in Google Flights. When Pichai leaves, it will be too late.

Are they also banning uBlock v2 though?

Unfortunately the opposite is happening: Cursor is going to pay-per-use model:

https://x.com/ericzakariasson/status/1898753771754434761

https://old.reddit.com/r/cursor/comments/1j5kvun/cursor_0470...

I am afraid that the endgame of programming will be who has the biggest budget for an LLM, further consolidating programming to megacorps and raising barrier to entry.