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werdnapk··on California farmers are struggling to sell grapes as demand for wine drops
Firefox has a built in VPN now... give it a try.
werdnapk··on California farmers are struggling to sell grapes as demand for wine drops
Canada actually has quite a lot of domestic production across the country. BC and Ontario are the main producers and have many wineries.
werdnapk··on Why is the liver so weirdly regenerative?
Getting "old" is a recent and tiny sliver of human evolution. It's only been the last 100 or so years that we've really started to push the boundaries of what the body is capable of and our biology has never really had a chance to deal with it and "develop" a solution.
werdnapk··on How do traffic signals work? (2019)
Every time I see an intersection fallback to 4 way stops, traffic slows to a crawl. Roundabouts are the true answer.
werdnapk··on IKEA made a mod for Skyrim [video]
Ok, now that I rewatch the video (I lost interest pretty quick), Matt Berry is the minor role... I thought the reference was to the main voiceover.
werdnapk··on I fixed a tractor using John Deere's self-repair service. Farmers aren't sold
A lot of vehicle manufacturers don't even give you access to their repair/diagnostic software even if you want to pay.

Tesla for example lets you pay to access their diagnostic software, so why is John Deere the bad guy here?

werdnapk··on IKEA made a mod for Skyrim [video]
That is not Matt Berry's voice.
werdnapk··on Eating Fruit Skins
Banana peel oleo saccharum... you can add it to drinks and cocktails for a punch of banana.
werdnapk··on Antiquated HTML Snippets and Artefacts
Unexpected ending.
werdnapk··on The Real Luxuries In Life
I can't do boring. I've had bouts of time with really not much to do (pre-kids) and it really starts to pick at my brain as to what am I really doing with my life.
werdnapk··on The largest electric aircraft just flew [video]
So what do regular aircraft do when they run out of fuel? They require a forced landing. Aircraft fly with a buffer of fuel though to avoid such situations, so why can't an electric aircraft fly with a similar buffer on it's range? ie. Always fly less than the current charged range of the aircraft.
werdnapk··on Muse Spark 1.3
Well, all the LLMs are being trained on previous pelicans, so they look the same.
werdnapk··on Hang on to Your Firefox
My data is google too and I own a pixel phone, but I only use Firefox and my google data is perfectly accessible using it.
werdnapk··on Google Has Removed MV2 Extensions from the Chrome Web Store, Including UBO
I've been using Firefox since the beginning and will continue using it. I only use Chrome for occasional testing, but close to 100% of the time, everything works in Firefox unless an overzealous add-on breaks a page and then I simply disable it to get going again.

I'm always so shocked to see so many ads when I see people using Chrome or I have to use it for something myself.

werdnapk··on Black hole singularity is a surface not a point
If it signifies the end of time, then all the stuff in the black hole would need to no longer exist no? If anything is happening in the black hole, then time is still progressing, so nothing must be all that exists?
werdnapk··on HTML Can Do That
<details> is still not animatable?
werdnapk··on Grok Bot
So why didn't you just do it manually? Why use an agent in the first place?
werdnapk··on U.S. used 'virtually all' of its long-range precision missiles during Iran war
There's also the petroyuan [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petroyuan

werdnapk··on Show HN: I was tired of opening 2 tabs for every HN link, so I made a userscript
Thanks for the tip. Didn't know this was added.

I generally open the HN comment link, then click the article link, read it, then click back to read the comments.

I'll see if this split view feature works better for me though, but I think I'd prefer a horizontal split instead of vertical.

werdnapk··on Netflix employee fired for sharing personal details in retreat trust exercise
Medical professionals can also use fentanyl among other drugs that aren't legal for recreational use.
werdnapk··on Firefox Containers Preview
Sure you can. Firefox will treat each open profile as it's own "app/window instance" in a way, so if I want to use my "A" profile, it's running everything under that in it's own window and my "B" profile in another window, etc.
werdnapk··on Is this the end of the once-mighty GoPro?
GoPros (at least the early generations) required a special housing for use in water. My first GoPro was a 2 I believe and I bought it for scuba and it was terrible. Then the newer models came out promising better performance for diving, so I upgraded... and it was terrible as well. Gave up on GoPros after being sucked in twice and not getting the results I was hoping for. It was ok for other things, but anything involving water was not great.

I believe things eventually got sorted out for water use, but I was no longer a customer.

werdnapk··on How Donkey Kong Toppled Atari
I fired up DK in mame after the King of Kong documentary came out and ended up playing quite a lot as I recalled as a kid having a very difficult time getting anywhere in the game. It was fairly satisfying getting through all the main stages for the first time.
werdnapk··on Google Chrome Installed a 4GB AI Model on Your PC
I have been using Firefox for years (decades) and I rarely encounter a page or site that doesn't work... a handful perhaps, but it's a complete non-issue for me. If anything, my ad-blocker can sometimes cause issues and I'll disable that and everything is good again.
werdnapk··on Farmer, marketer at odds over sales of white nectarines
If you spent decades doing selective breeding to obtain a more desirable product, you'd probably be a bit annoyed if others just stole the product from you and made money off of your hard work.

If the products are being bred from tax funded programs, then yes, anybody should have access to the new breeds, but if it's privately funded, then why should it be available for everyone? Without the protection, there isn't much incentive to invest time into developing better foods.

werdnapk··on Apache Burr: Build reliable AI agents and applications
They're all looking the same now. The AI version of bootstrap.
werdnapk··on Cooldown Support for Ruby Bundler
Most gems in Ruby/Rails projects come from rubygems, so if they were published long ago, any exploits should have already been found hopefully. Any old gems that would attempt to release a new compromised version would now get a created_at timestamp and the cooldown applies.

Unless you can compromise the gem server to overwrite created_at fields, I don't see any exploits here.

Private gem servers are either already trusted (if they're your own) or already under some scrutiny and extra care already being taken (ideally), but this last case applies to very few projects I'm sure.

werdnapk··on CSS-Native Parallax Effect
It's been behind a flag for ages. Maybe because of performance issues?
werdnapk··on Show HN: I reverse engineered Apple's video wallpapers
Where did they say they used AI for this?
werdnapk··on I want to live like Costco people
I will not buy coffee at Costco. I've had Costco coffee beans and it's terrible. I only buy premium beans at specialty shops and always will. The masses can drink their subpar coffee from Costco if they wish.
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