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dinkblam··on Moist-Electric Wallpaper for Indoor Energy Harvesting and Humidity Management
> A 1596-unit array powers a wireless keyboard and simultaneously reduces indoor humidity from 38% to 32%,

isn't below 40% "bad"?

dinkblam··on macOS Golden Gate Is a Buggy Mess
not to mention that the Music app that has been completely destroyed in macOS 26 is still completely unusable
dinkblam··on When did Google get so weird?
isnt that why we invented religion?
dinkblam··on Where's the Beef?: The lab-grown-meat revolution that wasn't
it is sad how the lobbying of old evil industries like tobacco and animal-killing can convince the politicians and the public to outlaw and demonize their less-evil competition like vaping and lab-grown meat to make sure to hold on to the status quo.

but why write more than 7000 words to communicate a simple point (lab-grown meat was promised 1-2 decades ago but failed to arrive and won't arrive in the foreseeable future)?

dinkblam··on Just Bury Your Trash
thats assuming the plastic bag is used once, but i've always reused them, sometimes had the same bags for 10 years

however i have never re-used a paper bag because they are awfully loud and cannot be compressed. it is the worst kind of bag.

dinkblam··on You Probably Don't Get Why Stripe Bought OpenRouter
> Moving money naively is a commodity; > banks did it for centuries at rock-bottom margins

must have misspelt "ridiculous margins"

dinkblam··on App Store Rejection of the Week: Dark Hours
overselling the safety is very euphemistic

many years ago we made a list of malware apps on the Mac App Store:

https://www.corecode.io/_malware_on_the_macappstore.html

(yes, the list was made after being disgruntled because totally legitimate apps were refused for nonsense reasons just like in this story)

dinkblam··on Ask HN: What are the viable alternatives to DuckDuckGo?
been on Kagi 2 years, super happy - haven't googled at all for like a year.
dinkblam··on How old is Ann?
Barely legal
dinkblam··on Berkshire's $397B Bet Against an Overheated Market
all of the text implies the opposite of the headline?
dinkblam··on Modern decor may be straining people's brains
flickering lights are not "modern decor" but a broken (and possibly dangerous) appliance
dinkblam··on Why skilled workers come to Germany and then leave again
Colors are a a continuous spectrum, yet we put them in a bunch of categories.
dinkblam··on What does Jeff Bezos think is going to happen?
on the other hand 14 years of usage of a ~100$ device sounds ok. these days you need to be happy if things last more than a few months…
dinkblam··on For first time, a cell built from scratch grows and divides
transportation is NOT "passenger cars"
dinkblam··on Canadian boy, 11, dies of rabies after waking to bat on his face
> while their children suffer

and (if there are too many of them) the rest of society

dinkblam··on The Wisdom of Quinn the Eskimo (Apple Developer Technical Support Engineer)
Most likely he will also help you if you file a Tech Support Incident with Apple.
dinkblam··on For first time, a cell built from scratch grows and divides
> cars are the leading source of carbon emissions.

WTF? cars are less than 7% and even including trucks we are barely around 11%. when you look at greenhouse effect instead of "just carbon", the percentages are even tinier.

If you are looking for leading sources of climate change look at electricity/heat, industry and agriculture.

just because (bad) politicians are always talking about cars when talking about climate it doesn't mean the are actually a meaningful component. it is smoke and mirros…

dinkblam··on The case for physical media ownership
Many things are confused here. Why would you want to "own" media, physical or otherwise? What you actually want is

a.) to be able to use the media however you wish. no ownership is required, just download it b.) to give back to the content creator to thank for his creation. no ownership is required here either, you can send him money, go on a concert, etc

trying to merge those two points into one (=>purchase the media) is not necessarily the best way as you might end up with something you cannot properly use (DRM, etc) while not really giving that much to the creator anyway (90% for the label, wtf?)

dinkblam··on The deadly rise of giant trucks and SUVs
All of the problems (high hood, bad visibility downwards) are fixed by sports cars and especially mid-engined and rear-engined sports cars. Plus, the brake distance is much lower.
dinkblam··on Pledging Another $400k to the Zig Software Foundation
No.
dinkblam··on ARC-AGI-3
what is the evidence that being able to play games equates to AGI?
dinkblam··on Wine 11 rewrites how Linux runs Windows games at kernel with massive speed gains
it seems if you want the same on macOS, this is the place to contribute:

https://github.com/Alien4042x/Wine-NTsync-Userspace-macOS-ba...

dinkblam··on The engine of Germany's wealth is blocking its future
everything in germany's economy is going downhill, the troubles in their car industry is just one symptom (but not the cause)
dinkblam··on Voxile: A ray-traced game made in its own engine and programming language
I have fond memories of porting Cube, Sauerbraten and AssaultCube to the Mac back in the day. Given what i've seen from Wouter back in the day i am not surprised he is still on it full steam…
dinkblam··on The Physics and Economics of Moving 44 Tonnes at 56mph
great article but the 44 tonne limit is not "physics", it is regulation. if an electric truck would be allowed to weigh 5 tonnes more all these calculations would be different.
dinkblam··on Antarctica sits above Earth's strongest 'gravity hole' – how it got that way
trying to click on the link i got a "security verification" screen.

i aborted after 5 seconds of waiting.

dinkblam··on Bitcoin Looks Set for Longest Monthly Losing Streak Since 2018
> that Bitcoin is a stable source of value

no sane person could have ever held that notion - there is no underlying value.

dinkblam··on Spanish track was fractured before high-speed train disaster, report finds
Spain basically does not do the required maintenance:

https://www.reuters.com/world/spains-deadly-rail-accidents-p...

dinkblam··on Alarm overload is undermining safety at sea as crews face thousands of alerts
on around 300 days per year i see a "severe weather alarm" on the iPhone Weather app, although nothing at all is happening, completely ridiculous.
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!
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