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mxfhon Hot coffee could cause oesophageal cancer

The study is called Hot Drinks and Oesophageal Cancer, so that's all you need to know about this kind of headline.

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ijc.70654

mxfhon Inception-style curved map for turn-by-turn directions

I once saw a patent on that already earlier somewhere, which i assumed was the reason none of the automotive navigation UI's where doing this.

Just checked again, and it's verbatim this use case and even active until 2030 still:

https://patents.google.com/patent/US20100305853A1/en

3-D map display

Abstract

A computer generated 3-dimensional map display includes a reference icon identifying an observation point in the geographic area defined by the map, the map being presented on a curved surface which extends from a first plane to a second plane which is substantially orthogonal to the first plane. The observation point is located in the first plane. The display is configured such that the height of landmarks and buildings in a defined foreground of the reference icon are presented normal to the first plane, the height of land marks and buildings at a defined far distance are presented normal to the second plane and the height of land marks and buildings in a defined middle ground are presented normal to the non-linear portion of the curved surface. The geographic area represented can be translated along the curved surface to provide a perception that the reference icon is roaming through the displayed geographic area.

By no other than "Here and There" Schulze and Webb Ltd later rebranded to BERG.

The generic use case of a multiperspective camera method for that was arguable covered in a 1997 Disney paper latest.

Multiperspective Panoramas for Cel Animation https://www.cs.princeton.edu/courses/archive/fall00/cs597b/p...

mxfhon Starbase, LA

The main purpose of SpaceX is separating pension funds from their money. /s

mxfhon Folding Paper Globes

The offset also forces the gore to be bent in two directions, so it’s also bit tricky, and makes the gore stiffer then it needs to be, dampening the paper there certainly helps.

mxfhon Folding Paper Globes

https://observablehq.com/@mxfh/a-papercraft-friendly-world-m...

I made a custom projection once, that's a bit friendlier to fold and comes in one tile.

Has no rendered flaps, but you should get the idea where to place them.

Still somewhat stiff, but managed to actually build two of them, would recommend printing on heavy A3 sheets or bigger.

Anyone is welcome to iterate. There even is a todo list with obvious things to improve upon.

mxfhon Why Book Corners won't sync contributions back to OpenStreetMap

Also I don't get the point why you would want them easily scrapeable to begin with. If you have eyes to read and can walk across YOUR neighborhoods, you would have eventually seen one. I thought that was the whole point? They are not exactly hidden. I find those public bookcase incidental low barrier offerings to a reading exprience you just stumble upon, nothing you would seek out on a map.

Why would you want to have more people from anywhere else possibly raid them for anything useful? This way nobody is inclined to put anything worthwhile in there if it just ends up outside of their communities. Not that I'm in general pessimistic, just would like to know what is gained by putting the exact location into a map and not just have a list of neigborhoods with a book corner and optional photo on that neigborhood level, if people want to network around them.

mxfhon The hardest way to make a GIF

No reference to Ulead GIF Animator? Was expecting some time travel step in between.

mxfhon Map of the world's great castles and fortresses

If you submit some map, at least don't have the title contradict the content description:

"the 2,435 most significant landmarks worldwide, ordered by a fame ranking that blends Wikipedia coverage with real readership."

or someone fix the title here please to what on the app right now:

"Map of the world's great castles & fortresses" whatever that means.

Germany's Saxony alone has 700+ fortications with about 100 being touristically interesting. In the map I count like 9.

mxfhon Decoy Font

Until robots discover FFT.

mxfhon Vancouver PD website features Quick Escape button that wipes itself from history

Just hope this does not get flagged as spam by google and demotes useful sites, so they are not found to begin with, which would make this useful feature a net negative.

Because same methods can also used by bad actors for deceptive and spammy actions and we are not allowed to have nice things ever.

Therefore Google has something against messing with browser navigation state back button behavior and history such actions usually got demoted in rankings.

I think it's also fine for all sort of marginal and ephemeral actions that should not spam the browser history, like panning over a map or how far you scrolled down a page, but want to end up back there on reload and shares possibly.

https://developers.google.com/search/blog/2026/04/back-butto...

mxfhon Most arguments are about ego, not ideas

That obviously stopped to be a useful indicator two years ago latest too:

I’ve never said that just because you’re invoking the Nazis you’re losing the argument. If you’re going to compare somebody to Hitler or the Nazis or raise the specter of the Holocaust, be sure you’ve got your facts right.

https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2023/12/19/godwins-la...

mxfhon Why I Stopped Arguing with People

This whole honesty based approach stopped working a decade ago latest online and in politics, there is no accountability anymore and who is the most persistent wins an argument in the public sphere, those actors exactly bank on that most people will give up eventually.

mxfhon Framework's 10G Ethernet module exposes USB-C's complexity

More amazed by the complexity in bundling offers, of decking out your Framework device with 6 flush USB-C port extension ports sets you back 60 bucks already.

That's like a weird hidden tax.

In a network world where 1GB Ethernet randomly can handshake at 100Mbit still, getting reliably more than 3/4 of the advertised Bandwith from the Adapter seems quite harmless.

https://frame.work/marketplace/expansion-cards?search=USB-C

No they dont come free in the base config either, you have to pay a minimum of 10 for every slush port.

mxfhon All time best of Split Depth GIFs

I just tried that again, looks like the urlparam part gets stripped here after submitting by how HN sanitizes URLs https://old.reddit.com/r/SplitDepthGIFS/top/?sort=top&t=all

mxfhon Help I accidentally a wigglegram

Have to bring back split depth GIFs a decade later too?

Just works with depth hinting no actual stereo information.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48630210

mxfhon An OpenAI model has disproved a central conjecture in discrete geometry

That's the whole point of LLM, connecting all the missing dots no single human could possible keep in working knowledge, even just for a subfield of mathematics alone. The era of polymaths is over for a reason, so we build a new one to tackle that. If LLMs can build on top of that once all remaining ones are found or if this stalls is yet to be proven, but humans stalled out there too.

mxfhon Red Hot Chili Peppers ink $300M deal with Warner Music to sell catalog

With the trend of things, this seems like good timing for the RHCP estates with a not so unlikely collapse of licensing revenue happening in the near future.

mxfhon Red Hot Chili Peppers ink $300M deal with Warner Music to sell catalog

This is one of the reasons we can't have proper soundtracks in video games or non AAA TV shows anymore or re-releases of old TV-shows anymore.

I just feel bad for all the pension fonds backing this Bain Capital PE joint venture who will have an off chance of making back their investments with the current state of IP and AI trends.

mxfhon Killed by Apple

But killing a service is something completely different then discontinueing hardware or interface standards. A lot here is still well supported.

This page could have used some heavy editing after asking the LLM to compile all stuff from wikipedia.

Lost it at the Lightning listing, which apple still first party even:

https://www.apple.com/shop/product/muqw3am/a/lightning-to-us...

mxfhon Chrome's AI features may be hogging 4GB of your computer storage

We're at 2021 prices, but ok.

mxfhon 245TB Micron 6600 ION Data Center SSD Now Shipping

Nobody is stopping anyone from buying a USB-C powered and connected very portable 2 or 4 slot external NVMe enclosures.

The old SATA SSD form factor is dead and wont come back.

OWC ThunderBlades exist, but 32TB will set you back 9 grand.

You should be able to assemble something with USB-C for under 5k. That's not a mass consumer market thing, but perfectly doable, if your use case warrants it. We are stuck with 2021 pricing, but now with options of 8TB per NVMe drive at way higher speed.

36TB+ HHD external WD drive combos were always around EUR 1000 over last 5 years. With a short low end around EUR 600 in 2023

https://www.owc.com/solutions/thunderblade?sku=OWCTB3TBL8X32

mxfhon 245TB Micron 6600 ION Data Center SSD Now Shipping

You were not are renter in 2021 when NVMe were same price as now by TB, stuff is just becoming more expensive on market shortages.

Last half year ate up three to four years of earlier price regression, that's about it.

As long as this plateaus here, as prices did for last 4 months, that's just the new equilibrium where it has the chance to get better again, would no be all doom and gloom about personal computing yet.

mxfhon Meta in row after workers who saw smart glasses users having sex lose jobs

Meta ended its contract with Sama

At this scale, this sound like some insider joke contract made up only to make some hustle on the side capitalizing with stock options on the possibility of adhoc news trading bots glitching out on the keyword, here "x.com/sama" signals.

mxfhon ML promises to be profoundly weird

Even if nothing substantial come out of this, having shortest paths to the corpus of all human expressions in all languages! and media formats is quite something by itself, what could be the ultimate hard information retrieval tool is hiding those trace behind untracked convolutions is the real shame here. Found so much real information in between less and less hallucinations already that was impossible to retrieve otherwise in that time frame. Basically tokenrank kills pagerank.

mxfhon A nearly perfect USB cable tester

Like the price point and portability of the base Treedix testers.

Talking about near perfect wishlist:

Some standard hardware with fail-safe power connections a set of fully wired ports like in display-less Treedix USB platine tester version.

On the other side powered and extended diagnostics through USB-C can then be done from any smartphone or pc providing the display and updateable extended software layer.

Bonus for connectivity to some brother label printers.

mxfhon Epic Games to cut more than 1k jobs as Fortnite usage falls

Can you do basic math on the number of support tickets Valve is handling to answer that question for yourself?

if not:

https://www.valvesoftware.com/en/jobs?job_id=113#:~:text=The...

mxfhon Epic Games to cut more than 1k jobs as Fortnite usage falls

You know what contractors are?!

mxfhon France's aircraft carrier located in real time by Le Monde through fitness app

They are usually called Public Affairs Officers :D

mxfhon France's aircraft carrier located in real time by Le Monde through fitness app

Strava tracks can also be spoofed and you have no guarantee for them to appear on a schedule either. I just find this to be on the sensationalist side of "data" journalism lacking any sort of contextualization or threat level assessment. Unless there was evidence of some more sensitive locations that have not been published along this story, it looks like some serious unserious case of journalism to me.

mxfhon System76 on Age Verification Laws

sure, let all retailers sell alcohol to children to test your theory.