coryfklein

Wow why have I never thought to look for a portable bidet before!

As a side note, you can get that product at online retailers by searching HappyPo, as it appears the english website is currently down.

I recommend just getting one of the no-frills affordable unpowered $40 bidets on Amazon. The idea of the water not being warm sounds much worse than it actually is, and after just a couple uses you hardly even realize the water isn't heated.

So, what did you find?

Competitive StarCraft (and it's successor) is very much alive still today! I recommend checking out sc2casts's best-of-year lists[0] for each year where you can find a selection of what ends up being the most "interesting" matches played throughout the year.

These can range from games that explore a new aspect of the meta, to nail-biting matches where the apparent loser makes an unbelievable comeback, to the career-making game of an upstart unseating the king.

(I have no affiliation whatsoever with sc2casts.)

[0] https://sc2casts.com/best-of-2023/

Right? Every player comes with those "skip forward 30s" buttons, and surely the creators and advertisers are aware that many folks tap that button anyway.

What latitude do we expect to be able to see this in the USA?

What happens when you get a leak in a random seal in the chamber deep under ground, does all the compressed air escape? How do you ensure such a large reservoir stays air-tight for 20 years?

You say, on a comment that is discussing his suicide.

Isn't meat, like, a significant part of most people's diets?

Wow that spam bot is quite creative! Looks like they've figured out how to create a green account, and perhaps bypassing the spam detection by having each new account only post one spam message.

I'm sure dang is really busy right now.

While indeed there is a launch today, it's not for 3 hours [0], and the above linked article is from last November.

> Liftoff is targeted for 7:04 p.m. ET, with backup opportunities available until 10:40 p.m. ET

[0] https://www.spacex.com/launches/mission/?missionId=sl-6-44

But this is a month old and was already posted and discussed then [0]. Is there something new you noticed in this article?

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39297185

Probably because nothing that plugs into TVs has DisplayPort? Blu-Ray players, receivers, Apple/Android TV, etc.

Hardly? It says the plastic is shuffled off to other recyclers in the EEA, but gives no indication how much of the material those recyclers actually recycle. Maybe it doesn't end up in a Chinese landfill, but substitute "China" with "Latvia" or "Estonia" and the point still stands. Show me the miraculous Estonian recycling industry where 90% of consumer plastics comes from recycled material and I'll take my words back.

What are they actually doing with the recycled plastic? Making it into pellets and flakes. They call out that you could use these to make shampoo bottles, but dare not actually claim that such a thing is happening. My understanding of recycled plastic is that it is inherently lower grade than new plastic. If recycled plastic is that much cheaper but still as useable, then surely manufacturers are jumping at the bit to use it everywhere?

Finally, there is no mention of the energy cost or environmental impact of the recycling.

After watching the video I'm left wondering how k2pilot would respond to the analysis. Is the idea that you could use these jet engines as part of a vertical takeoff?

After watching the video I'm left wondering how k2pilot would respond to the analysis. Is the idea that you could use these jet engines as part of a vertical takeoff?

If mold is growing on the cap, it's probably growing on the inside too. Throw it out.

Does "recyling" include paying Chinese "recyclers" to take it? Because if so then I don't think it's actually being recycled.

What, pray tell, are they doing with this low-grade recycled plastic? Putting park benches out into the environment that will degrade faster, distributing microplastics everywhere?

Or are they investing a ton of time and energy to recycle the plastic into higher use (than park benches), which likely has significant input energy costs, which in turn is probably harming the environment?

You can't get anything for free, and recycling plastics least of all. The most environmentally friendly solution I'm aware of today is to simply relocate it all into one contained location and incinerating it as cleanly as possible or burying it in a landfill with protective sheeting. We're not even close to running out of landfill acreage on this planet.

In the third paragraph:

> The new cap appears as a uniform color in Voyager’s range map... compare it to the old cap, whose silicone valve is denser than the surrounding plastic.

Author: you must be completely blind. Both photos show a wide gradient of colors including blue, green, yellow, and deep orange!

Why does orange in the left photo mean "it is silicone" but orange on the right means "it is PP"?

Can AMD fork HDMI, add in driver support, and call it their own standard that just so happens to be compatible with HDMI?

I'm sure they wouldn't make such a move lightly, but is there something fundamental here about the laws or specifications that prevents them from doing this?

I haven't seen any indication that they promote it, but I'm guessing that something on the order of 98% of instances of Yuzu currently running on CPUs have pirated content in them. If the tool is used primarily for illegal purposes, it seems it would be good and laudable for the creators of it to do something to counter balance that beyond simply not endorsing said behavior?

Again, not saying they are morally or legally obligated to do anything beyond "not endorse", but I assume the creators like video games and want there to be a market for them, and that they are aware of how the tool they create erodes said market.

I love video games. I grew up with Super Mario Bros on the NES and since the 2000's I feel absolutely spoiled by the burgoening and diverse indie game industry. I can hardly believe that today I can mix and match genres, and the fact that the genre "deck building city builder roquelike" (looking at you Against the Storm) even exists is amazing.

This whole industry exists because society has made guarantees that you can in fact license your game for sale and be rewarded for all your hard work. I'm glad that piracy has been far enough on the edges that people still find it worth their time to invest years into dreaming, crafting, and delivering wonderful new games every day.

Where does this leave console emulators? I agree with everyone here that there is nothing inherently wrong with building them. But practically speaking, they do in fact significantly lower the barrier to "I'm going to play this game without paying the creators for it."

If you, like me, love video games and want there to be a healthy and thriving market for them, then what is the right and correct set of rules that we can agree on as a society? I don't think banning emulators makes sense, but it bothers me how much the hacker community completely lacks any sense of nuance for how their "fun hacker project" can have a detrimental effect on the very thing they love.

If the creators of these emulators are doing it out of a love and passion for video games, should they not also encourage users to pay for them? I know Nintendo isn't popular around here, and this particular action of theirs seems overreaching even to me, but if I have to pick a side I'm choosing the one that has some semblance of a future for video games.

I use Firefox as my daily driver. There are in fact some websites that don't work on it, but it is rarely anything mainstream. My example is the website 3M provides for doing medical code grouping. Probably less than 0.01% of the internet uses it, but it only works on Chrome and then just barely.

Metaculus shows a 74% chance Starship reaches orbit in 2024, and a projected date of March 26 for the next launch. That seems pretty bullish to me! Next year (2025) will probably see the beginnings of practical customer usage of Starship.

[0] https://www.metaculus.com/questions/?status=open&has_group=f...

Frankly I do this as well. I think it depends on your personal financial situation and how often you expect to be withdrawing from your emergency fund. By increasing levels of "emergency", do you use your emergency fund to pay for:

* Gas because you forget to plan properly for road trips? Keep your funds in cash.

* Your vehicle's regular oil change which happens every couple years and you should be able to plan for? Maybe a HYSA

* Your transmission goes out and you need a new car? Diversified ETFs probably fine

Many "emergencies" can in fact be saved for, which leaves only the truly rare and uncommon ones, which usually don't require that you have all of the emergency fund available as cash at a moment's notice. Also because they inherently only happen on a time scale of YEARS, then in the long run you're just self-insuring yourself and it's a bummer if the transmission goes out in a down year and you have to exit a position, but statistically speaking you'll come out ahead.

I am not in the chip industry at all, but I understand that chips offload so much heat in part due to cramming as much as performance as possible into a small 2D space. If you increase the number of layers by 10-20x you now have much more "surface area" to work with. Could we see chip designs that operate at a much lower voltage (thus minimizing heat) and are "slower" as measured by chip frequency, but have greater overall bandwidth? Maybe a chip for servers that has 256 cores on it, each with their own caches?

From a Moore's law perspective this would continue the transistor count doubling trend too.

One underutilized strategy for media consumption is literally just buying what you want on eBay. You can get Blu-Rays for nearly any film >7-8 years old for just a few dollars! Any time I think of a film I want to add to my "watch list" I pull it up on eBay and if the price is right I buy it then and there. Now I have a huge backlog of unwatched film/TV that I can pull up at any time.

This puts the power back into your own hands; Blu-Rays are likely to work for a very long time and your discs won't magically disappear from your personal catalogue. You lock-in on the price at purchase, and it never increases over time. And, in my own subjective opinion, the image quality of Blu-Ray video often exceeds whatever streaming-optimized encoding format is used by the online services.

Finally, 90% of the time I check only eBay instead of shopping multiple platforms. The remaining 10% I go to Amazon and if I don't find the right price there than I just shrug: there's plenty of other cinema to watch and there's rarely any single film that I simply can't do without.

Yes, but most of them could be right. Given that Taiwan has cornered the market for so long, now that other countries are at least trying you could see a shift like this hypothetical market share change:

Taiwan 80% -> 50%

EU 1% -> 10%

US 1% -> 10%

South Korea 9% -> 15%

China 9% -> 15%

And if 4/5 of them ended up "being right" would indicate that subsidy policies are effective, right?

Government planning and investment can certainly bootstrap and protect a nascent industry in its infancy, but once the industry becomes competitive it is to the Democracy's own advantage to remove the training wheels and back off.

This book review of How Asia Works[0] gives excellent examples of how South Korea applied this strategy to break out of from economic despair to become a leading economic power, and how other Asian countries failed to apply this formula when their governments were too heavy handed in their approach.

[0] https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/book-review-how-asia-works

> This means there's very little for consumers to spend their money on versus a US consumer.

How does this line up American consumers spending a large percentage of their money on products built in... China? Surely the Chinese products available to Americans are also available to the Chinese? I have to imagine they are orders of magnitude cheaper in China too given the drastically lower cost of shipping and warehousing.