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tijtij··on The TEMU-Fication of Software, Digital Goods and Services
There is a startup called Unspun that wants to make many types of clothing production fully automated by weaving the complete end product in place. Similar to how socks are woven today.
tijtij··on The game designer playing through his own psyche
The latter has also been less of a vitriolic edgelord on Twitter since he started working on Infiniminer.
tijtij··on The young, inexperienced engineers aiding DOGE
By quoting "far-left" the poster is indicating that he himself does not believe that Obama is far left but that it is something someone has said or written about Obama.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scare_quotes

tijtij··on Reservoir was built to save Pacific Palisades. It was empty when the flames came
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KIWzK9IOzuU

According to this video some areas in Malibu have burned 9 times in the past 90 years

tijtij··on Passport Photos
Art imitating life

"Rebelse Belg trekt broek naar beneden in stemhokje"

Translation: Rebellious Belgian pulls down pants in voting booth

https://www.ad.nl/buitenland/belg-trekt-broek-uit-in-stemhok...

tijtij··on New Mac Mini with M4
Modern versions of macOS don't support subpixel rendering, what Windows calls ClearType, so that is why macOS will always look worse on low resolution displays.

Using BetterDisplay to force a "2x" resolution will give you better rendering but at the cost of lower usable/effective resolution.

tijtij··on Physics is unreasonably good at creating new math
Funny joke. Reminded me of this xkcd comic but with the roles reversed.

https://xkcd.com/435

tijtij··on New technology could reduce the amount of energy for air conditioning
I have newerish phone and I still run Kiwi Browser with the uBlock Origin extension for this very reason.
tijtij··on The golden age of scammers: AI-powered phishing
>(1) cheaper methods work too well for now to even bother with sophisticated approaches

Pig butchering scams uses all forms of kidnapping, human trafficking, and slave labor

tijtij··on ICC prosecutor seeks arrest warrants against Sinwar and Netanyahu for war crimes
Putin wanted to visit South Africa for the BRICS summit. South Africa warned him that they would be obligated to attempt an arrest if he did.
tijtij··on Calendar types in watches
I have a cheap Casio watch that has both Spanish and English days
tijtij··on 3D framework for the web, built on Svelte and Three.js
You mean like a zooming user interface https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zooming_user_interface ?
tijtij··on Biden signs TikTok bill into law, starting clock for ByteDance to divest
How does China ban Facebook?

Rhetoric aside, it will be done through blocking commercial activity on US soil. The US government can seize tiktok.com for example.

tijtij··on New York medical school eliminates tuition after $1B gift
What if the cop wants to ruin the lives of a large group of people? How about if it's a group people living in the next town over, can he get away with it? If he does manage to ruin the lives of people, will he get voted out or dismissed?

Bill Gates improved the lives of countless people around the world. He could as easily made the lives of countless worse if he wanted to or as an unintended consequence of his projects.

tijtij··on Private company landing on the moon today
There was (or still is?) the abortion bounty-hunter law which would allow any private citizen in Texas to sue him if he did what you are proposing. There were also some counties that made it illegal to use their roads to transport someone for the purpose of getting an abortion.

In Texas, there is a clear push to criminalize the act of going out of state to get an abortion.

tijtij··on How to Choose Cookware (2014)
>It should also only ever be used with a rubber spatula or plastic utensils.

Why not? Nonstick cookware scratches easily, aren't heat resistant silicone utensils a good way to avoid damaging them?

tijtij··on Show HN: I saw this mind-blowing experiment, so I made a simple version of it
https://twitter.com/_nonfigurativ_/status/172798055677504755...

Here the original creator is demoing the behavior on multiple monitors

tijtij··on Whisky: Wine supercharged with the power of Apple's game porting toolkit
There is a cost to maintaining and keeping it functional as macOS gets updated. Apple doesn't care about legacy support or backward compatibility, so they will eventually drop it as they had dropped 32-bit support. I am sure Apple wants developers to view Rosetta 2 as already deprecated and to update their new releases to Universal 2 binaries.
tijtij··on A California hedge fund bulldozed state labor laws, imposed harshest noncompetes
Maybe the reason that the most IP-paranoid hedge fund makes the largest charitable donations in California is to proactively secure favorable publicity in case they become embroiled in a scandal that could impact their financial standing.

Moreover, it raises the question of who truly benefits from these charitable contributions. For example, Ikea is owned by a charity for tax optimization purposes. The mission of the charity is to promote interior design and architecture. Essentially, strategic investments that will ultimately benefit Ikea itself in the long run.

tijtij··on Google requiring all ‘G Suite legacy free edition’ users to start paying
By default it sets up a wild card local-part so any and all email sent to your domain will be forwarded. So you don't have to predefine aliases for every online account/service that use.

What the 25 aliases allotted in the free tier allows you to do is have 25 different domains.

tijtij··on Facebook-owned sites were down
I think texasbigdata is talking about backup tapes and maybe mistyped tectonic plate

Backup tapes and in production servers are kept at different colocation sites to protect data from fire and other catastrophes of that level

Using colo sites on separate tectonic plates would protect you from catastrophes on a geological cataclysm level