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potatosalad99··on The Download: weight-loss drugs slowing aging and carbon dioxide batteries
Clicked to find out how weight loss drugs slow carbon dioxide batteries.
potatosalad99··on Fragment of oldest known peace treaty found in Turkey
I remember this campaign from Age of Empires
potatosalad99··on The largest privately owned laser just turned on
I was lowkey expecting this to be Styropyro related.
potatosalad99··on World's biggest dark matter detector spots a single weird particle
Single weird particles in your area!
potatosalad99··on Wellington second-hand bookstore's mysterious orders
That’s a funny callback to last weeks RNZ article https://www.rnz.co.nz/life/wellbeing/cosy-ways-to-keep-warm-...
potatosalad99··on Pantograph
Wait a minute! This is Scratch for adults. I love it.
potatosalad99··on [dead]
Let me get this straight: if you have the same profession as someone else in your family, you’re automatically a nepo baby. Never mind how much time and effort you’ve put in to master the craft. Got it!

I love zero nuance content like this! 10/10

potatosalad99··on New Zealand paid Michelin $6.3M to make a guide for the country
Or around 76 million Czech crowns.
potatosalad99··on Scientists find molecular-level evidence for two structures in liquid water
So the OTA firmware updates on my dehumidifier for when they discover a new kind of water will come in handy after all!
potatosalad99··on I am new to GitHub and I have lots to say (2025)
Ugh I’m not sure what I am more confused about. OP on the reddit post is complaining about a package that can be installed from pypi with one pip command being too difficult to install. The fact that he’s complaining about running one pip command even though it’s a command line application it appears, considering he’s asking for a .exe he’s probably never used a command line interface (I somehow doubt he even has a Python interpreter installed on his machine).

And the main concern is that someone like this wants to track down someone’s presence across social media and websites. (That is what the software he’s trying to obtain is for)

I hope no one helps him with this…

potatosalad99··on It's Well Past Time for a Four-Day Workweek
Read: “I’m 14 and this is so deep!”
potatosalad99··on SUV buyers undeterred by warnings of risk to pedestrians
lol, check the comment above yours. It’s exactly the line of reasoning they cite.
potatosalad99··on Ask HN: If HTML supersedes Markdown fr AI, Will it be versatile enough for devs?
What do you mean by the cost of rendering an HTML page in an IDE? You know those markdown previews are almost always rendered by converting them to an HTML snippet first, right? Also HTML does not need to be styled, the tags have their own semantic meanings just like the various semantic structures of markdown. The styling “overhead”, which gets added so the document is easier to visually interpret for a human, is exactly the same. The only time when styling doesn’t come into the equation is when you directly view markdown source.

Also, latency???

potatosalad99··on Why were semiconductors invented in the USA? [YouTube]
*semi-electricity, because semiconductors conduct semi-electricity. Hehehe
potatosalad99··on Daybreak
SCP-001?
potatosalad99··on Why were semiconductors invented in the USA? [YouTube]
I always thought it was because the USA had the best resources for producing semi-electricity in the mid-20th century.
potatosalad99··on Ask HN: What are some good resources on AI Engineering and Prompting
Here is one: don’t. Learn some actual skills instead.
potatosalad99··on Ask HN: How long do you commute by car each day?
0, I don’t even own one because I don’t need one for my daily activities. I can get to work by PT, walk to the supermarket (with multiple options within walking distance of my home), I can also participate in social activities with my friends without having to drive there. And for the 2-4 occasions a year I actually need to go somewhere I can’t reach by other means (or I have to move something I can’t carry on my person) I just rent a car.

Being free from the burden of maintaining a car feels surprisingly liberating.

Especially after growing up in a place where our family had to have a separate car at home for both my father and mother so they could get to their workplaces after dropping us off to school (because there was no safe way for, us the kids to get to school on our from where we lived). It was actually a pretty big financial burden for my family to own two cars even though dad did all the maintenance on both of them.

potatosalad99··on My New Microphone! [video]
This video lives rent free in my head. Never forget chexmaniac nine hun… nine thousand nine hundred and ninety nine.

It’s nice to be reminded of something funny from before all the ai slop.

potatosalad99··on Nvim-treesitter (13K+ Stars) is Archived
Honestly this is just a case of open source software users expecting a free lunch. Firstly, the maintainers of this package don’t owe you anything, secondly the new version of neovim and treesitter-cli are already in Arch extra testing, and since they don’t break anything they’ll probably be in extra next week, so chill the fuck out.

If you have a problem with how open source works just please head back to vscode.

potatosalad99··on Reaffirming our commitment to child safety in the face of European Union inactio
In case any Americans are confused, EU Chat Control was never about protecting children. It was about giving tech giants (mostly US based companies) a blanket excuse to spy on end users even on services which are marketed as end-to-end encrypted.

But even if we give the benefit of the doubt and consider it as a measure to fight online CSAM, anyone with a basic understanding of the world would realise that such a measure would at best be useless and at worst detrimental to authorities’ ability to protect children. On account of being overwhelmed with false positives.

And let’s not even go into the implications of enlisting private corporate giants as a sort of auxiliary police force.

potatosalad99··on Trump official claims Truth Social is blocking his posts about teleporting
This is the FEMA guy who thinks he can teleport because he ends up at a waffle house every time he gets blackout drunk, right?
potatosalad99··on GitHub for Lesbians
This made me think of https://xkcd.com/624
potatosalad99··on A new California law says all operating systems need to have age verification
It’s to stop 14 year olds compiling the Linux kernel.
potatosalad99··on R. A. T. A Upgrade
Another day, another case of AI psychosis…
potatosalad99··on HTTP Cats
I love how there is a Catalan version too! I guess it’s probably a requirement for getting the .cat domain.
potatosalad99··on I asked an AI to create "Unhackable Code". It gave me this. I'm scared
In the most sincere way possible: You need help. You are sick.