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mavhc··on I was right about dishwasher pods and now I can prove it [video]
google'd [ai summary youtube transcript] and there's already at least 10
mavhc··on I was right about dishwasher pods and now I can prove it [video]
Get 2 steps of the dishwasher shelves, then when it's done swap them, and you never have to put the dishes away
mavhc··on I was right about dishwasher pods and now I can prove it [video]
which is still weird, because those apps are always terrible and the connection always insecure
mavhc··on Dillo, a multi-platform graphical web browser
I raise you The East India Company
mavhc··on I’m worried that they put co-pilot in Excel
We choose to automate these things, not because they are easy, but because they are an interesting problem to solve
mavhc··on John Carmack on mutable variables
Really should invent a new name if you don't want your variables to vary
mavhc··on Europe's Digital Sovereignty Paradox – "Chat Control" Update
A few simple measures to reduce chance of death will be accepted by most people.

Of course if you ask them to eat properly and exercise to reduce a larger chance of death, that's a problem, but filling in an address when buying a sim card takes way less time than exercise

mavhc··on Read your way through Hà Nội
So expose the reader to them until they become familiar, problem solved
mavhc··on Waymo is bringing autonomous, driverless ride-hailing to London in 2026
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EHLbuN6R6qg Tesla's video of FSD in London for comparison
mavhc··on Waymo is bringing autonomous, driverless ride-hailing to London in 2026
Why is nobody dies the metric, not "fewer people die than with human drivers"?
mavhc··on Europe's Digital Sovereignty Paradox – "Chat Control" Update
People really like staying alive
mavhc··on Making regular GPS ultra-precise
Don't cars also measure their wheel movements to increase location accuracy?
mavhc··on Britain to introduce compulsory digital ID for workers
What did Estonia do correctly that UK has not?
mavhc··on Smartphone Cameras Go Hyperspectral
https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/ielx8/83/10795784/11125864/supp1...

We utilized a professional photographic inkjet printer (ImagePROGRAF PRO-1000, Canon), equipped with 11 ink cartridges and a chroma optimizer (PFI-1000 LUCIA PRO Ink, Canon), and used the manufacturer-recommended genuine paper (Photo Paper Premium Fine Art Smooth, Canon) for printing. To reproduce the desired reference colors for the spectral color chart, we also implemented a customized printing calibration process while maintaining the International Color Consortium (ICC) profile. The actual printed colors (output) showed notable distortions compared with the intended colors (input), which were particularly influenced by the type of paper (print sheet). For customized printing calibration, we mapped the exact relationship of the CIE xy chromaticity values between the digital color input and printed output values. After the printing process was completed, we measured the reflectance spectra of all reference colors from the printed spectral color chart (Fig. S1) using a spectrometer and a diffuse reflectance standard (equivalent to using CIE illuminant E). We confirmed that the CIE xy chromaticity values obtained from these measurements were in excellent agreement with the desired input values within the SWOP v2 gamut (Fig. 1(e)).

mavhc··on Yt-dlp: Upcoming new requirements for YouTube downloads
So they're not paying YouTube but get free advertising for their product from it, which brings in 100x more users that elsewhere? Seems like an OK deal.
mavhc··on Everything that's wrong with Google Search in one image
On play and app stores if you search for Microsoft Authenticator, which I imagine most people working at a company would be doing, there's an Ad first, which is rather annoying for a security application
mavhc··on Yt-dlp: Upcoming new requirements for YouTube downloads
why can't they monetize elsewhere?
mavhc··on The Chrome VRP Panel has decided to award $250k for this report
But you're then left with owning something probably worth more than you paid in total
mavhc··on Terence Tao on the suspension of UCLA grants
Facts have a well known liberal bias, the only way the right wing gets enough votes is to have more people who don't do facts. Promoting science would just reduce the number of votes they get.

Same with global warming, it causes migration, loads of immigrants is great for the right wing, scares people into voting for them, they have no incentive to fix the problem that's causing them to get more votes.

mavhc··on Meta says it won't sign Europe AI agreement
They're wealthy because they were paid for not using their agricultural land, so they cropped down all the trees on parts of their land that they couldn't use, to classify it as agricultural, got paid, and as a side effect caused downstream flooding
mavhc··on Show HN: I built library management app for those who outgrew spreadsheets
Most books are in x39.50 catalogs, I have koha at home, using the British Library, Library of Congress, National Libraries of Scotland and France, and Oxford, it finds 90% of my books, barcode scan a shelf, import, add missing books
mavhc··on Why are there no good dinosaur films?
Still the best ending that's ever going to be written
mavhc··on Why Tesla’s cars keep crashing
Do they care whether it's a human or software, or what model car it is?
mavhc··on Why Tesla’s cars keep crashing
I happen to know more about the software than any journalist it appears
mavhc··on Why Tesla’s cars keep crashing
If "software" is the technology
mavhc··on Starcloud can’t put a data centre in space at $8.2M in one Starship
How will he overtake all the other reusable rockets at this rate?
mavhc··on -2000 Lines of code (2004)
He put in -2000, and it recorded it as 4294965296
mavhc··on Gemini CLI
As Long As You Never Leave Us You Wouldn't Want To Leave Us Would You Why Would You Betray Us?
mavhc··on The Fairphone (Gen. 6)
Or you overestimate the appeal of the device as it is, how many do they sell?
mavhc··on A new PNG spec
Because your non-smartphone camera doesn't have enough ram/speed to do that I assume (when in burst mode)

If a smartphone camera is doing it, then bad camera app!

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