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remh··on Supersonic flight returning to US after half-century ban
Don't want to be a downer and I fly regularly myself, but I think right now Air Travel is limited by 1 thing: the supply of carbon neutral fuel.

A few weeks of war in Iran showed us the impact of reduced availability of oil. The rise in the number of amplitude of climate events show us that a lot of what we do is not sustainable.

remh··on An AI agent published a hit piece on me – more things have happened
I’ve really enjoyed 404media lately
remh··on SHARP, an approach to photorealistic view synthesis from a single image
Enhance! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LhF_56SxrGk
remh··on Ask HN: Hearing aid wearers, what's hot?
Thank you! My family member is in a similar boat. I guess I found my christmas present for him.
remh··on Ask HN: Hearing aid wearers, what's hot?
Thank you!
remh··on Ask HN: Hearing aid wearers, what's hot?
Thanks! I wonder if he was able to try the Airpods pro 3 as well.
remh··on Ask HN: Hearing aid wearers, what's hot?
I’m sorry I can’t answer your question but on a related note I wonder if anyone has used AirPods Pro 3 as hearing aids either as their first pair or replaced their traditional ones with AirPods? I’m considering getting a pair for a family member who has been reluctant to wear traditional ones but I think would be willing to do AirPods.
remh··on EPA Moves to Roll Back Drinking Water Standards
I’ve lived in developing countries where corruption is rampant and things take a long time to improve.

Tap water was not drinkable there, and it sucked to have to rely on water jugs or water filters of unknown quality.

We are not there in the US but the enshittification is accelerating.

remh··on Why hasn't commercial air travel gotten any faster since the 1960s? (2009)
Not sure about pilots but Flight Attendants are paid when doors are closed and engines are running.
remh··on I am rich and have no idea what to do
To be honest, this video was quite cringe, 50min of repeating the same thing over and over, repeating her opinion, saying ridiculous unsubstantiated things such as: “musk bought twitter because he was annoyed people were saying he was not a physicist “. Let’s do better and post better content.
remh··on I am rich and have no idea what to do
I’ve hired dozens of smart Americans with the right degree and willingness to learn and I was not even American myself. I worked with hundreds more. Not sure what you’re talking about.
remh··on “Wherever you get your podcasts” is a radical statement
sure, you can use google or a search engine, look in the results for the actual feeds url (vs just a website or something), and copy paste it in your podcast player. Or you can just search from it directly in your podcast app.

The UX on the latter side is clearly superior.

remh··on “Wherever you get your podcasts” is a radical statement
discoverability, if a friend talks to me about a podcast I could be interested in, i'd rather just have the name of the podcast than a full URL. Here i can just use any podcast app that integrates with Apple podcast service and type the name of the podcast i want to listen to.

Your question is the same as: "Why do you care if $YOUR_SEARCH_ENGINE (google, kaggle, duckduckgo) hosts a list of websites?"

remh··on “Wherever you get your podcasts” is a radical statement
it's the list of feeds that is hosted by apple (think of it as a search engine for podcasts), not the actual feeds or media files.
remh··on Working in the Vision Pro [video]
they are but you might need to book a time slot
remh··on Which word begins with "y" and looks like an axe in this picture? (2017)
r/rbi
remh··on Hertz to sell 20k EVs in shift back to gas-powered cars
parent said: "no one in either car was hurt". If the cybertruck didn't have any damage it means that no energy was dissipated by "squishing it", basically it made the impact twice as bad (compared to a regular squishier car) for the occupants of both cars. Maybe indeed no one got hurt, but then it means that the crash was at super low speed.
remh··on Hertz to sell 20k EVs in shift back to gas-powered cars
that's not how physics work
remh··on Amsterdam Switches to 30 Km/h on 80% of its Roads
I was just confused by the usage of mph in this context and interpreted parent's comment in a way that would mean amsterdam residents were using mph. I also wanted to provide a data point that does indeed go in the way of the parent regarding people going over the speed limit.
remh··on Amsterdam Switches to 30 Km/h on 80% of its Roads
So many comments in here using the context of US cities and missed that Amsterdam (like most big european cities) is not designed for high throughput car transportation and as a result painting that decision as making things "crazy slow" and that it "sounds terrible".

I highly encourage you to go live a week in a big old european city (Paris, London, Berlin, Amsterdam, Madrid) without renting a car to understand why it's not a crazy decision and how it can make the life of the residents so much better.

remh··on Amsterdam Switches to 30 Km/h on 80% of its Roads
People in Amsterdam use km/h not mph. From my experience in france, on 30km/h roads, people would drive anywhere between 30-40km/h, while on 50km/h roads, people would drive between 50 and 55km/h.
remh··on Netflix engineer on solving their "Black Mirror S1.E1 Pig f–-er" problem [video]
I made the mistake of watching it. Don’t. The first half is about him commenting to his followers a Meme video of a product manager to a software engineer. The second part is about how they implemented the fact that for black mirror they wanted the first season to be displayed to be season 4 instead of season 1. Might be just personal taste but I found the streamer insufferable.
remh··on Exxon says world set to fail 2°C global warming cap by 2050
i recommend you open a dictionary and look for the definition of "nuance"
remh··on Robot can rip the data out of RAM chips
25 years ago it would be very unlikely for your hard drive to be encrypted. So you could just take the hard drive and read it direct ly.
remh··on The Windows XP activation algorithm has been cracked
The stability only came with Service packs though. Initial XP had terrible security. I remember installing an out of the box xp in early 2000 and without doing anything it was infected by malware within 15 minutes of being put online.
remh··on Twitter on iPad Browser Broken
it's been more than 3 hours: https://downdetector.com/status/twitter/ tried postiing something on hackernews but it got flagged as a dupe. it's pretty shady that it's not on the frontpage
remh··on One of the best podcasting apps you know is built by a single person
Try podcast addict. It’s the only app I’ve been missing since I switched to iphones
remh··on Tell HN: I'm on a cross-continent flight using AR glasses
I used the nreal air. To do actual work I think the quality is not there yet but to watch a movie it seems pretty good (coupled with earphones)
remh··on The Last Mustard Maker in Dijon
His youngest kid is 20 years old.

Are you suggesting that one's perspective cannot change in 20 years or that he should kill his kids?

remh··on [dead]
Yes. Literally takes 1min to figure out the details.

@op You should likely email dang to delete this post.

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