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New comment by SchemaLoad in "USB Power Delivery: Plugging into the Benefits"

SchemaLoad — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 23:55:57 +0000

There's also the fact that devices would still need an internal PSU to convert the 28v USB-C to the multiple voltages that all the parts inside need. It would be smaller without the AC to DC conversion though.

New comment by SchemaLoad in "USB Power Delivery: Plugging into the Benefits"

SchemaLoad — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 23:54:12 +0000

You ideally want to get a USB-C brick that's over specced and from a reputable brand. Like if you get a macbook 140w usb-c brick it will work fine with everything.

Even for actual PSUs it's always been the advice that you want a decent amount of headroom to avoid issues.

New comment by SchemaLoad in "USB Power Delivery: Plugging into the Benefits"

SchemaLoad — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 23:45:05 +0000

I think what they mean is not PD related at all, but the fact some cheap junk has a broken USB-C setup where it's missing the resistor that signals a device has been plugged in and to turn on the 5v power. While USB-A just have 5v live at all times.

If you use a USB-A to C cable the device works because it results in a USB-C cable with an always active 5V.

New comment by SchemaLoad in "If you are asking for human attention, demonstrate human effort"

SchemaLoad — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 23:38:22 +0000

It's the empty calories of literature. More would be more if there actually was more but AI writing is making it bigger without adding anything actually more. It inserts loads of fluff and repetition that takes longer to read but doesn't exchange more information or ideas.

New comment by SchemaLoad in "If you are asking for human attention, demonstrate human effort"

SchemaLoad — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 23:36:37 +0000

We just need bots to read all these facebook posts and then we can put the phone down and go back to doing something real.

New comment by SchemaLoad in "EU-banned pesticides found in rice, tea and spices"

SchemaLoad — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 23:49:53 +0000

We have seen over and over again chemicals which are "safe to consume" or "not that bad" actually do have very severe effects. It's just very hard to link cause and effect. When someone dies of cancer we can't pinpoint it to coming from the pesticide on the blueberries they ate a few months ago.

We have all these terrible illnesses that we ascribe to bad luck, and then all of these new chemicals we haven't fully studied yet being sprayed on everything.

New comment by SchemaLoad in "EU-banned pesticides found in rice, tea and spices"

SchemaLoad — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 23:47:12 +0000

In terms of fresh meat and vegetables, it's pretty much all grown/produced in Australia. Anything canned / dried is often imported though. Things like rice or coffee beans you technically can buy Australian grown but you'd have to go out of your way to find it.

New comment by SchemaLoad in "EU-banned pesticides found in rice, tea and spices"

SchemaLoad — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 23:43:55 +0000

People don't even know. I had long assumed that it was only the obvious nylon pyramid tea bags that were plastic, and only recently discovered it's _all_ tea bags.

New comment by SchemaLoad in "Siri AI"

SchemaLoad — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 23:37:20 +0000

They would have to build the product twice one for mobile chips and one for server, and then there would be functionality discrepancies. Or even worse, the on server one might work better than the on device one that newer phone users get.

If you want hosted AI you can already install the Gemini app or whatever. The only advantage Apple can offer is something that runs on device.

New comment by SchemaLoad in "Ask HN: So what happened to Facebook "localhost" tracking?"

SchemaLoad — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 23:36:31 +0000

Most of the time this prompt comes up it's actually for a genuine purpose, like spotify trying to find devices on the local network that can play audio, VLC looking for chromecasts, I saw my DJ app ask for local network and discovered it can discover my decks on the network and stream my library over the local network to it.

The problem is this prompt is new so the software doesn't show the user why it's just triggered the prompt and the user has no info to work with.

New comment by SchemaLoad in "Throwing AI-generated walls of text into conversations"

SchemaLoad — Fri, 22 May 2026 00:23:06 +0000

When a person expands bullet points they add extra information from their own knowledge and research in the process of writing. When AI does it, it adds filler and repetition.

Long form writing itself isn't a problem, it's the empty fake long form we have now.

New comment by SchemaLoad in "Throwing AI-generated walls of text into conversations"

SchemaLoad — Fri, 22 May 2026 00:11:53 +0000

There's a difference between a long text and an essay. You wouldn't spend hours typing a message and formatting it with headlines for example. You wouldn't insert loads of unessorasy creative writing techniques in to a message asking for help.

New comment by SchemaLoad in "Throwing AI-generated walls of text into conversations"

SchemaLoad — Fri, 22 May 2026 00:10:30 +0000

We are in hell

New comment by SchemaLoad in "Throwing AI-generated walls of text into conversations"

SchemaLoad — Fri, 22 May 2026 00:02:40 +0000

But now I can use AI to summarise the wall of text back in to the original bullet points.

New comment by SchemaLoad in "Throwing AI-generated walls of text into conversations"

SchemaLoad — Thu, 21 May 2026 23:59:15 +0000

Except 99% of the time they are asking it's because they explicitly need a real opinion or the info couldn't be found via LLMs. But instead of giving an "I don't know", they paste back an wall of text with an incorrect answer that the sender hasn't even read or verified to be true.

At least with "I don't know" the asker can move on to someone who might know faster.

New comment by SchemaLoad in "I turned a $80 RK3562 Android tablet into a Debian Linux workstation"

SchemaLoad — Mon, 18 May 2026 00:35:08 +0000

Most individual programs will run with 4GB but you won't be able to have multiple open at the same time.

New comment by SchemaLoad in "GenCAD"

SchemaLoad — Sun, 17 May 2026 23:58:46 +0000

It could be anything which is why the question was asked what it actually outputs. I had a skim through the page and code but couldn't see what the output was.

New comment by SchemaLoad in "GenCAD"

SchemaLoad — Sun, 17 May 2026 23:37:06 +0000

How does it not matter? Every CAD program is not going to have exactly the same interface and commands. I doubt for example this will for example generate and OpenSCAD text file.

New comment by SchemaLoad in "New arXiv policy: 1-year ban for hallucinated references"

SchemaLoad — Thu, 14 May 2026 23:33:39 +0000

Sad the suggestion here is to just disguise the slop to make it harder for reviewers to spot rather than not submitting slop to begin with.

New comment by SchemaLoad in "Linux gaming is faster because Windows APIs are becoming Linux kernel features"

SchemaLoad — Thu, 14 May 2026 03:40:38 +0000

Completely agreed, I think most hobbies have this perverse side aspect that is just themed consumerism. And it's so easy to get sucked in to watching youtube videos about the latest board games that you just need to buy, while the reality is you aren't even playing the ones you already have.

It's much harder to step back and realise you don't need the new thing most of the time. Sure if you have a 15+ year old desktop and you can't run the new games at all then an upgrade could be good, but I'd guess most hardware purchases come from people who already have great hardware.