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imeronon Climate change is strengthening El Niño, coral records suggest

It's pointless to look for solutions that's against human nature.

imeronon Measuring developer productivity with the DX Core 4

Developers will optimize for what is measured.

imeronon Apple Announces New Mac Sales Record Following MacBook Neo Launch

Oh I think Microsoft got the memo:

This is Microsoft’s plan to fix Windows 11 https://www.theverge.com/news/897834/microsoft-windows-11-qu...

I honestly can't think of a single practical scenario where I'd pick Deno over Node + npm today. Bun, on the other hand, has pretty much claimed the performance crown for itself at this point.

imeronon Blue Origin reaches orbit on first flight of its titanic New Glenn rocket

So what they were aiming for in the last 24 years if not to get into space?

imeronon Alleged M4 MacBook Pro unboxing video

I do wonder if they can continue improving interconnect specs as with Thunderbolt 4 the cable seems to be already the limiting factor. It’s thick, expensive and only available in very short lengths.

imeronon The meat industry blocked the IPCC’s attempt to recommend a plant-based diet

The brain contains approximately 20% of whole body cholesterol, you can't get away with not eating fats. Your brain needs fats.

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Interestingly social setups had 'billionaires' and 'everybody else' too, it was just way worse for everybody else. It's not like there was no unchecked ruling class there.

imeronon Argonne: Lithium-Air battery 1200 wh/kg, 1000 cycles

What’s the co2 hit of aviation compared to the total?

imeronon Starlink Aviation

Why not just use a 100Mbs (4G) unlimited mobile service?

imeronon Plastic might be making us obese

Don't forget that Japanese actively shame fat people! This is very much frown upon in Western societies but it works for them I guess.

imeronon Java 15-18 ECDSA doesn’t sanity check random; breaks JWTs etc.

Java people is not used to 0-days. Eclipse Temurin (Adoptium) is still in the process of building the release. Their target is 2-3 days after OpenJDK GA, even though according to the OpenJDK timeline the code freeze was March 29 for the April 19 release.

imeronon Tell HN: My Microstartups make $500/day while I'm sleeping

You have to decode what they say. Which is really hard because obviously working on the product yourself, you want to believe they care about your product.

For example: - "This is awesome! I would absolutely use this if it would just have this one extra feature it does not have now." --> I absolutely don't care about this product. Please leave me alone. I have better things to do.

imeronon Try charging on the right and not on the left

For the Macbook Pros definitely. Just try a non-4k (or FHD) display to trigger the external GPU to see the fans spinning up. Any ultra-wide screen will do.

imeronon Pfizer's oral Covid-19 antiviral cuts hospitalization, death by 85%

Standard double blind trial protocol: you sign up for the trial. You might get the actual drug or you might get placebo. It's double blind because not even the doctor knows who gets what.

imeronon China surprises U.S. with hypersonic missile test

https://thediplomat.com/2017/12/introducing-the-df-17-chinas...

This article is from 2017, including mentions of testing.

imeronon Speed Matters

Sometimes I think the biggest slowdown for most coders is the inability to make a decision and start working in a certain direction. Not-deciding also includes masquerading procrastination as researching a subject :).

imeronon The scramble to make climate change in Alaska feel real

Looking at the images for all these homes: why does all these new houses have tiny windows? Is the Alaskan landscape that bad to look at? :D

imeronon Chip shortage leads carmaker Opel to shut German plant until 2022

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-04-07/how-toyot...

It wasn't enough it seems.

imeronon Chip shortage leads carmaker Opel to shut German plant until 2022

Volvo dropped a security package too because of the chip shortage: "Volvo is contacting customers who have specified the Driver Awareness package to ask if they want to continue with their orders without the equipment, or wait until the kit becomes available once more."

https://www.autocar.co.uk/car-news/industry-news-manufacturi...

imeronon LibreELEC 10.0

OpenELEC’s last release was in 2017, it was a hard fork :).

imeronon Apple Music Announces Spatial Audio and Lossless Audio

It's https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Lossless

imeronon Lasting immunity found after recovery from Covid-19

Why bother with PCR? You can do the same with any blood test included with any routine checkup.

imeronon Higher quality audio makes people sound smarter

Yeti picks up too much background noise.

imeronon IntelliJ IDEA 2021.1

Started off as very slow on a not-terribly large project > cache cleanup > does not even start without trashing the .idea folder anymore > still slooow.

Command + space takes forever (=seconds) to show the context menu.

IntelliJ feels like a proper IDE now :).

imeronon Numi – Calculator app for Mac

I love Tydlig

imeronon New campaign targeting security researchers

This is a good reason to backup to a cloud provider on the other side of the planet :).

imeronon Living microbes, possibly 100M years old, pulled from beneath the sea (2020)

And how did life start on the asteroid? :D

imeronon New coronavirus variant: What do we know?

https://twitter.com/The_Soup_Dragon/status/13403496399466291...

If this chart is true EU countries announcing the closing borders the last couple of days is waaay to late to prevent the spread of the new strain in Europe.

imeronon Honda claims it will launch the first Level 3 autonomous production car in March

Bulletproof on Japanese roads where immaculate paint is given or also on rural third world country roads?