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New comment by IneffablePigeon in "GrapheneOS project: pixel 11 no longer supports hardware memory tagging (MTE)"

IneffablePigeon — Sat, 29 Aug 2026 21:10:46 +0000

...have you tried any of the cameras from the last 5 years or just the pixel 6? My 11 pro's cameras are by far the best cameras I've ever used on a smartphone, my previous iPhone included.

New comment by IneffablePigeon in "Bomb fishing is wreaking havoc on Indonesia's coral reefs"

IneffablePigeon — Wed, 26 Aug 2026 07:29:23 +0000

Football field and pitch are fairly interchangeable in the UK.

New comment by IneffablePigeon in "New Mac mini, featuring M6 and M5 Pro"

IneffablePigeon — Tue, 25 Aug 2026 16:36:12 +0000

Two of those are the same thing and both are much cheaper in countries other than the US where the government is much more involved

New comment by IneffablePigeon in "Apple announces changes for apps in the European Union"

IneffablePigeon — Wed, 19 Aug 2026 08:55:06 +0000

Which law? Seems like it is under EU law.

New comment by IneffablePigeon in "The Golden Age of British Ice Cream"

IneffablePigeon — Wed, 05 Aug 2026 09:48:53 +0000

The brand of ice cream I associate the most with being tasteless and cheap is Carte D’Or so I’m not sure this is the burn you think it is

New comment by IneffablePigeon in "The Golden Age of British Ice Cream"

IneffablePigeon — Wed, 05 Aug 2026 09:43:31 +0000

It is the story of ice cream popular in Britain.

New comment by IneffablePigeon in "Why Large Language Models Fail at Tabular Prediction"

IneffablePigeon — Tue, 04 Aug 2026 20:35:44 +0000

Watching an LLM interact with the Honeycomb MCP is interesting. When returning a query result it returns not only the tabular data but also an ascii art chart. Presumably they have tested this and it improves the LLM’s ability to interpret the data.

New comment by IneffablePigeon in "Show HN: We Fixed UniFi's Slow PPPoE Performance with PPPoE Half-Bridge"

IneffablePigeon — Mon, 03 Aug 2026 15:05:20 +0000

Mind telling us which assertions are false? They make no claims about pppoe adoption other than that’s what their connection uses.

My fibre connection in the uk uses pppoe (2gbps)

New comment by IneffablePigeon in "The unreasonable difficulty of time series forecasting"

IneffablePigeon — Tue, 21 Jul 2026 21:31:57 +0000

They used to plan not just for major live events but for the end of popular soaps like Eastenders. With live TV becoming less important culturally and renewables eating the world most of their forecasting these days goes into weather predictions I think. Interestingly even other forms of power generation are affected by the heatwaves we have seen recently - it can reduce gas turbine efficiency by 10% or so and can even reduce the safe output of nuclear if their cooling water comes from a source that gets too warm.

But I’m sure the World Cup is still pretty relevant for operations.

New comment by IneffablePigeon in "EU ban on destruction of unsold clothes and shoes enters into application"

IneffablePigeon — Sat, 18 Jul 2026 16:38:25 +0000

People eating donated bananas are not buying bananas if there are none available for free. They are just not eating bananas.

New comment by IneffablePigeon in "EU ban on destruction of unsold clothes and shoes enters into application"

IneffablePigeon — Sat, 18 Jul 2026 16:36:12 +0000

The result of laws like this is not that the store will never buy too much, it’s that when they do buy too much they will give it away to somewhere it can be used instead of destroying it. It will not cost them much if any more to simply give things to food banks or charity shops.

New comment by IneffablePigeon in "Europe's new climate in seven charts"

IneffablePigeon — Sun, 05 Jul 2026 11:51:47 +0000

The conditions leading to the Cold War were reversible, this crisis is becoming very much less so. Despite what the carbon capture techno optimists say.

New comment by IneffablePigeon in "I Accidentally Started a Small Business Three Weeks Ago"

IneffablePigeon — Sun, 05 Jul 2026 07:51:46 +0000

My mother is a speech therapist. 20 years ago she used to bring these devices home to set up for kids she worked with and would get me to record the voice sometimes for her kids who had a similar voice to mine. Even then, as a child, it struck me how basic and expensive those things were.

The arrival of iPads was a wonderful thing for her, not because the functionality got better but because an iPad was far far cheaper than the array of 20 buttons with self-printed laminated labels she was using with most of her kids.

All that to say, this is fabulous, and well overdue.

New comment by IneffablePigeon in ".self: A new top-level domain designed to support self-hosting"

IneffablePigeon — Tue, 30 Jun 2026 07:56:24 +0000

I am SO tired of the Claude docs site getting a rich preview every time anyone mentions “claude.md”. At least it’s registered by Anthropic, but what a terrible decision to allow these TLDs.

New comment by IneffablePigeon in "Feds Killed Polestar and Spared Volvo"

IneffablePigeon — Sun, 28 Jun 2026 09:16:08 +0000

Huh? Polestar and Volvo’s electric models share a very large part of their software stack, see [1]. I’ve seen forum posts talking about where the service centre accidentally loaded the Volvo software onto a Polestar. There is really quite a lot shared between the vehicles of these two companies.

[1] https://insideevs.com/news/774024/volvo-software-ex90-fixes/

New comment by IneffablePigeon in "Extreme Heat conference cancelled due to extreme heat warning"

IneffablePigeon — Wed, 24 Jun 2026 03:18:14 +0000

There was a good More Or Less (uk radio programme) episode about this last week. Essentially, the European statistics on this tend to be based on excess mortality during hot periods, while US stats currently are much more about what words are used on death certificates. Very different measures and hard to compare.

New comment by IneffablePigeon in "The brain was not designed for this much bad news"

IneffablePigeon — Sun, 21 Jun 2026 08:21:49 +0000

There are many places in the world this is not true. I would say about half the people I know who live in London don’t own a car. They travel plenty - probably more than the people I know who don’t live in London. If they really need a car once they get to their destination they will rent one, or use taxis.

New comment by IneffablePigeon in "Recreate famous water profiles using supermarket bottled water"

IneffablePigeon — Thu, 21 May 2026 16:12:02 +0000

I always thought this was baloney but James Hoffman’s recent video where he steamed water with the steam wand instead of boiling it normally for an americano changed my mind. I tried it and it was a genuinely different tasting drink. Not sure what causes it but different dissolved gases seems plausible.

New comment by IneffablePigeon in "Shutterstock to pay $35M over hard-to-cancel subscriptions"

IneffablePigeon — Mon, 18 May 2026 21:23:13 +0000

I had been paying monthly for 13 years straight and they still demanded a cancellation fee because it turned out I was on an annual commitment (which by the way they hiked the price of by 50% with a month’s notice and by the time you notice the larger payment go out you are in a whole new 12 months).

So yes, I complained about that.

New comment by IneffablePigeon in "Tesla Solar Roof is on life support as it pivot to panels"

IneffablePigeon — Mon, 18 May 2026 07:44:36 +0000

Looks, no need for bird caging to stop nests underneath the panels, and I don’t believe it is particularly more expensive if you do it when replacing the whole roof. It’s more expensive if you don’t want to replace your roof.