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dinkblam··on Show HN: See the carbon impact of your cloud as you code
does it include the breaths you take during coding? best if you can specify your lung volume and breaths per minute!
dinkblam··on Director Gore Verbinski: Unreal Engine is the greatest slip backwards for movie
good explanation and i also wondered why many of the CGI effects today are so unbelievably bad - and worse than decades ago.

it still doesn't explain why it is done:

• why do directors and producers sign off effects that are just eye-bleeding bad?

• using a realtime engine to develop the effects, doesn't preclude using some real render-pass at the end to get a nice result instead of "game level graphics". a final render-pass can't be that expensive that ruining the movie is preferred? if 20 years ago a render-farm could do it, it cannot cost millions today, can it?

dinkblam··on Amazon is ending all inventory commingling as of March 31, 2026
> meaning you could order from a good seller but get counterfeit products sent in by a shady one

why allow shady sellers in the first place?

dinkblam··on Photographing the hidden world of slime mould
it irks me more that they are super tiny low resolution. where are the originals?
dinkblam··on Italian Competition Authority Fines Apple $115M for Abusing Dominant Position
no year goes by without Italy imposing random >100m€ fines for 2-3 american tech companies. whenever they need money, they just hit another one without care whether actual laws were violated. the amount they take has no correlation to what has been blamed, only to how much the companies can afford to pay without threatening to leave the country.

the 'Guardia di Finanza' has a long standing tradition of trying to extort money without regards to actual laws. its not long ago that they told all companies 'if you pay X% more than your tax report says you own then we won't destroy your company'. more recently they went after the Agnelli family trying to extort money without having an actual case.

its not the rule of law, its simply Might makes Right or modern robber knights...

dinkblam··on Intermittent hypoxia increases blood flow and benefits executive function
Can you link to a study backing this up?

I'd say most professional athletes are less intelligent than average…

dinkblam··on Search tool that only returns content created before ChatGPT's public release
google results were already 90% SEO crap long before ChatGPT

just use Kagi and block all SEO sites...

dinkblam··on Cherry gives up German production and wants to sell core division
> It needs to be stopped.

forcing germans to buy everything at 10 times of what it costs now is not the way to rescue the country

dinkblam··on Cherry gives up German production and wants to sell core division
> Manufacturing in Germany is dying

no surprise given the high taxes, extreme energy prices, massive bureaucracy, ridiculous regulations, work-hating employees and extremely business-hostile culture

dinkblam··on MIT study finds AI can replace 11.7% of U.S. workforce
My study finds AI can replace 96.83% of U.S. study makers
dinkblam··on Terranova is lifting land out of flood zones using terraforming robots
welcome to the modern internet
dinkblam··on Terranova is lifting land out of flood zones using terraforming robots
> Flood-prone terrain is then elevated by injecting a wood-based slurry 15–300 feet underground. > The Ark system is sized to lift an acre by a foot each day.

this sounds like science fiction, it would need to uniformly lift between 18.500 and 370.000 cubic meter of soil/rock by 30cm a day.

300.000 m³ soil/rock would weigh something like 600.000 tonnes and would require ~1.8 GJ to lift by one foot even with zero loss and discounting all other factors apart from lifting the mass.

dinkblam··on Reminder to passengers ahead of move to 100% digital boarding passes
but you can print for free before heading to the airport
dinkblam··on Tiny electric motor can produce more than 1,000 horsepower
saving 30 kg of weight on a 2000 - 2500 kg car won't lead to "significant efficiency gains"
dinkblam··on John Carmack on mutable variables
// !!!: SWIFTY VAR & LET SUPPORT

#define var __auto_type

#define let const __auto_type

dinkblam··on First convex polyhedron found that can't pass through itself
I conspire to be a colonial governor!
dinkblam··on Mosquitoes discovered in Iceland for the first time
Mosquitoes, Snakes & Jellyfish. Everyone else is welcome to live long & prosper but those 3 we should just remove from our planet...
dinkblam··on NanoChat – The best ChatGPT that $100 can buy
from their promotional material:

>> Why is the sky blue? > The sky is blue due to an optical illusion called the Rayleigh Scattering

Rayleigh Scattering is not an illusion but an effect.

> […] particles are made up of tiny blue and violet particles that cause the light to bend in a particular way.

ugh. no, there are no "tiny blue" particles in the sky.

dinkblam··on Digital euro could drain up to 700B euros of deposits in bank run, ECB says
> it'll need to pick a value that doesn't blow up commercial banks as the article says, and even if does and chooses a very low deposit limit, it'll still cause stress.

or, more likely, everyone in the EU will ignore this "digital euro" nonsense and it will just be another unnecessary waste of taxpayer money.

dinkblam··on Digital euro could drain up to 700B euros of deposits in bank run, ECB says
for all intents and purposes the Euro is already digital. you send money to persons and companies via instant wire transfer, you pay digitally when shopping online and you pay digitally in physical stores with your card or NFC phone.

what possible benefit over what already exists and is in wide use could a "digital euro" offered by the ECB provide to any EU citizen?

dinkblam··on The RSS feed reader landscape
> A deep dive

can't we just call things "A thorough examination / analysis" anymore?

dinkblam··on Study confirms that pianists can shape piano timbre through touch
What are you saying? i can't hear you!
dinkblam··on Study confirms that pianists can shape piano timbre through touch
> this insight is trivial and doesn't require a "scientific study".

isn't this the case for many studies in the past decade? just confirming what we've known all along

dinkblam··on Low-dose radiation offers relief to people with knee osteoarthritis
stuck in cloudflare for 3 seconds so i cancelled loading the website

why to web admins think this is acceptable for visitors?

dinkblam··on Hedge funds have to be big
I studied a lot of computer science in grad school, at world leading elite CS school, and I am a very successful developer myself and can give you sound advice up and down the dev space and quibble your use of terminology.

…

I have no idea what a compiled language is.

dinkblam··on They don't make 'em like that any more: Dyson Pure Cool-Me personal air purifier
> Dyson describes the Cool-Me as ‘bladeless’, although that isn’t really the case – rather, the air-moving elements are concealed in the centre of the unit.

isn't that the case with all of Dyson's 'bladeless' fans?

dinkblam··on Find SF parking cops
can you find out how much revenue the city makes each week with those tickets?
dinkblam··on Pontevedra, Spain declares its entire urban area a "reduced traffic zone"
> Made for People, Not Cars

cars are just people that move from A to B.

if there is no sensible way to move where you need to go it is not a city made for humans but just hostile to people and their requirements.

i need exactly 63 downvotes please, don't be cheap.

dinkblam··on Finnish City Inaugurates 1 MW/100 MWh Sand Battery
a Blast furnace needs closer to 2000° than 400°

in any case, how would you transport high temperatures to the industrial sites? water boils at 100° and few liquids boil above 400°. most liquids will be impractical due to cost or safety (combustibility, toxicity…).

dinkblam··on WinBoat: Run Windows apps on Linux with seamless integration
the requirement to have a windows license would be pretty important and should be mentioned on their GitHub page
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