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New comment by GrumpyNl in "Solar power has begun to transform the world’s energy system"

GrumpyNl — Thu, 10 Jul 2025 18:14:42 +0000

Despite all the great technology and improvements over the years, consumer energy in Europe has never been so expensive.

New comment by GrumpyNl in "At Amazon, some coders say their jobs have begun to resemble warehouse work"

GrumpyNl — Mon, 26 May 2025 07:48:12 +0000

In the beginning there was a saying, "nobody cares what your code looks like, as long as it works". We went full circle.

New comment by GrumpyNl in "What were the MS-DOS programs that the moricons.dll icons were intended for?"

GrumpyNl — Fri, 16 May 2025 18:13:33 +0000

VB came around 9 years later.

New comment by GrumpyNl in "Irish privacy watchdog hits TikTok with Є530M fine over data transfers to China"

GrumpyNl — Fri, 02 May 2025 12:50:29 +0000

As long as we dont fine the people in charge, these fines are useless and have no impact.

New comment by GrumpyNl in "Sycophancy in GPT-4o"

GrumpyNl — Wed, 30 Apr 2025 13:59:42 +0000

I see more and more GROK used responses on X, so its picking up.

New comment by GrumpyNl in "AI TIMLINE – All prominent events in the field"

GrumpyNl — Wed, 30 Apr 2025 09:50:03 +0000

Typo in the title, TIMELINE.

New comment by GrumpyNl in "Watching o3 guess a photo's location is surreal, dystopian and entertaining"

GrumpyNl — Sat, 26 Apr 2025 16:05:37 +0000

If you ask, where is this photo taken and you provide the EXIF data, why would that be cheating?

New comment by GrumpyNl in "Show HN: BSE – Semantic Zip Engine for Text, Image and Audio"

GrumpyNl — Sun, 13 Apr 2025 07:18:43 +0000

404 on the demo link.

New comment by GrumpyNl in "Google is winning on every AI front"

GrumpyNl — Sat, 12 Apr 2025 11:27:35 +0000

But, its Google, you will end up as the product.

New comment by GrumpyNl in "Ironwood: The first Google TPU for the age of inference"

GrumpyNl — Wed, 09 Apr 2025 16:20:51 +0000

Why doesnt google offer the most advanced voice technology when they offer a playback version, it still sounds like the most basic text to voice.

New comment by GrumpyNl in "Polypane, The browser for ambitious web developers"

GrumpyNl — Tue, 25 Mar 2025 16:29:48 +0000

Its a great tool and for a front end developer its reasonable.

New comment by GrumpyNl in "I won't connect my dishwasher to your cloud"

GrumpyNl — Tue, 25 Mar 2025 10:20:23 +0000

Bluetooth comes to mind.

New comment by GrumpyNl in "Pirate Bay co-founder Carl Lundström has died"

GrumpyNl — Thu, 13 Mar 2025 13:15:28 +0000

We are getting older and so are your heroes. They just die.

New comment by GrumpyNl in "Blunder Free Chess – visualize which squares are attacked"

GrumpyNl — Tue, 25 Feb 2025 18:14:35 +0000

I am a bad player, but this was pretty easy to win, but i like the idea, Nice work.

New comment by GrumpyNl in "A study on how turtles navigate using the Earth’s magnetic field"

GrumpyNl — Sat, 15 Feb 2025 10:27:17 +0000

Sounds more like you can taste static electricity.

New comment by GrumpyNl in "TL;DW: Too Long; Didn't Watch Distill YouTube Videos to the Relevant Information"

GrumpyNl — Sat, 15 Feb 2025 09:08:17 +0000

Or ask the original creator if he can publish the script used.

New comment by GrumpyNl in "Sunsetting Create React App"

GrumpyNl — Sat, 15 Feb 2025 09:06:11 +0000

Nobody knows how to write react anymore.

New comment by GrumpyNl in "Chrome does not have any way to stop video auto play?"

GrumpyNl — Thu, 13 Feb 2025 10:13:08 +0000

I use it because most of my clients use it. Chrome still has a market share of 66%.

New comment by GrumpyNl in "The subtle art of designing physical controls for cars"

GrumpyNl — Wed, 12 Feb 2025 08:45:19 +0000

I applaud the work and thoughts the author put in this system, but for me it just demonstrates why all these complex digital controls fail. I have a older mercedes, my seat heating has one knob, 3 settings, high, low, off. Those buttons, i can find them blindfolded.

New comment by GrumpyNl in "Digital Reality, Digital Shock: Growing Up at the Dawn of Cyberspace"

GrumpyNl — Fri, 31 Jan 2025 14:56:10 +0000

Thats what i meant, the phone part.