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New comment by dtgm92 in "Google to pay $1.38B over privacy violations"

dtgm92 — Wed, 28 May 2025 06:05:23 +0000

Privacy violations should just pay the people affected. If you are gojng to put a dollar value on someone's personal data, at least give them it.

New comment by dtgm92 in "Denmark to raise retirement age to 70"

dtgm92 — Sun, 25 May 2025 17:12:03 +0000

This is because of their low birth rate primarily right?

I think the system has failed at this point, when you are expected to work that long.

New comment by dtgm92 in "OpenAI's o3 model sabotaged a shutdown mechanism"

dtgm92 — Sun, 25 May 2025 08:39:00 +0000

>thing doesn't do what I told it to do

ironically very humanlike for intelligent things to not do what they are told

New comment by dtgm92 in "Duolingo is replacing hearts with energy"

dtgm92 — Tue, 13 May 2025 05:43:34 +0000

You lose a heart every mistake you make in lessons, to regain them you do a practice session, or wait and they regen over time... like health in a videogame.

I'm guessing you pay for duolingo? Or maybe it is different on smartphones, idk but it has had hearts for a while.

This sounds way better, it really is annoying to fail your daily lesson and then have to go do practice to keep your streak intact. I regularly fail grammatical gender in danish and can't bother trying any harder so this is nice.

New comment by dtgm92 in "In a democracy, you should have two votes instead of one"

dtgm92 — Tue, 06 May 2025 11:39:14 +0000

This is about voting in an election... essentially voting for who will be voting on your behalf for the next x years.

I don't get it honestly, If you aren't actually voting on actual decisions yourself. If democracy isn't a dumb idea, then that is how it should be. The moment someone else is deciding things for you is when it makes no sense.

But even then, if we did vote on everything, someone else is still deciding what the voting options are. And the rest is being decided without a vote by other random people nobody voted to elect.

Giving you an extra vote just for the electing process isnt really going to improve the democratic system.

New comment by dtgm92 in "'Absolute miracle' breakthrough provides recipe for zero-carbon cement (2024)"

dtgm92 — Sat, 03 May 2025 17:16:53 +0000

Sulfur can be melted and recycled indefinitely and used to make various kinds of concrete that are superior in certain circumstances... thought this would be something like that.

But this sounds like they are more just combining the necessary calcining with waste heat from steel production?

New comment by dtgm92 in "Firefox Profiles Feature"

dtgm92 — Tue, 29 Apr 2025 16:31:49 +0000

The part about having multiple profiles open at the same time... reminds me of the official multi-container firefox addon which lets you open persistant private window sessions as new tabs in a regular window... among other powerful things. With this new profile method it seems each new profile spawns another firefox instance in memory which is kinda bad in my opinion.

New comment by dtgm92 in "Ask HN: Bitcoin mining as an alternative to ad revenue"

dtgm92 — Sun, 27 Apr 2025 16:18:00 +0000

Great way to get your site blacklisted

New comment by dtgm92 in "I asked Grok something and it replied that it's OpenAI:X"

dtgm92 — Wed, 23 Apr 2025 17:13:45 +0000

I asked a sleeping person and they said they were Barack Obama

Same thing!

New comment by dtgm92 in "$2,150 for an iPhone?"

dtgm92 — Fri, 11 Apr 2025 15:16:00 +0000

i slow charge it overnight as well, it takes like 6 hours. i think that has kept the battery in a good shape

New comment by dtgm92 in "$2,150 for an iPhone?"

dtgm92 — Fri, 11 Apr 2025 15:14:00 +0000

still use my 2015 galaxy s6 every day

nothing has been repaired or replaced on it, same battery also

i was curious how long it would last so i kept using it. i run it in low power mode with screen dimmed. it only sees wifi, no actual phone calling. a lot of apps dont work anymore for it, but it plays videos fine, lets me take notes, and i can browse the internet so thats more than enough. fdroid app store is helpful to find older versions of apps that work

New comment by dtgm92 in "A student accidentally broke the laws of thermodynamics while mixing fluids"

dtgm92 — Wed, 09 Apr 2025 16:23:10 +0000

Would be interesting to see how the changing container geometry affects the shape because It looks like the clear liquid is 'clinging' to the sides in the vials

New comment by dtgm92 in "About 90% of Migrants Sent to Salvador Lacked US Criminal Record"

dtgm92 — Wed, 09 Apr 2025 16:18:42 +0000

Greater criminal potential

New comment by dtgm92 in "Are porn algorithms feeding a generation of paedophiles – or creating one?"

dtgm92 — Sun, 06 Apr 2025 13:59:04 +0000

Not even porn algos, regular algos provide a feast for those people. Tiktok, previously musically, youtube, it is all filled with questionable underage content. The worst part though is that if you are into such things, it recommends more to you, and other similar users history and activity gets recommended to you, thus distributing the content. It is no different from how these algos learn you like mountain biking or gardening.

New comment by dtgm92 in "Global rooftop solar panels could cool Earth by 0.13°C, modeling study suggests"

dtgm92 — Wed, 26 Mar 2025 13:02:13 +0000

What if we just painted all dark roofs white?

New comment by dtgm92 in "AMD launches Gaia open source project for running LLMs locally on any PC"

dtgm92 — Sat, 22 Mar 2025 12:55:53 +0000

... also with specific new AMD hardware, it seems?

New comment by dtgm92 in "College Kids Burned to Death Inside a Cybertruck Because the Doors Wouldn't Open"

dtgm92 — Thu, 13 Mar 2025 20:32:30 +0000

Does not say whether the occupants inside were conscious and trying to unlock the doors to escape? Because a locked car door is a locked car door, doesn't really matter what brand of car it is.

New comment by dtgm92 in "Ask HN: Has AI made you stop caring about the intricacies of English grammar?"

dtgm92 — Tue, 11 Mar 2025 14:36:19 +0000

Why bother anything when you could just have AI do it

New comment by dtgm92 in "Geist: A font designed for developers and designers, from Vercel"

dtgm92 — Thu, 06 Mar 2025 14:23:39 +0000

The example display section is handy, but the mono variamt is not included there

New comment by dtgm92 in "Push to strip soda from state food-aid programs is getting personal"

dtgm92 — Mon, 03 Mar 2025 15:03:14 +0000

Maybe soda and other junk food should require an adult to purchase