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New comment by gniv in "Food processing influences metabolism and brain activity"

gniv — Sat, 10 Oct 2026 10:16:42 +0000

This is the main thing of Jessie Inchauspé. One of her many videos on the subject: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HEEUrIQ_3O4

New comment by gniv in "Treachery in the Rodin Museum 3D scan verdict"

gniv — Sun, 04 Oct 2026 12:27:09 +0000

It sounds like that's besides the point. High res scans already exist. They just wanted to make a point it seems.

New comment by gniv in "Newgrounds.com – A community of games, music, and art"

gniv — Sat, 03 Oct 2026 11:51:11 +0000

Doesn't load at all for me.

New comment by gniv in "Gemini 4 Argon"

gniv — Fri, 02 Oct 2026 07:07:46 +0000

Is he running for office in November?

New comment by gniv in "Gemini 4 Argon"

gniv — Thu, 01 Oct 2026 10:55:18 +0000

Had to read it twice lol. The syllable that is stressed makes a huge difference in some words.

New comment by gniv in "Gemini 4 Argon"

gniv — Thu, 01 Oct 2026 10:48:11 +0000

Judging by other comments here this model has been available internally for a few weeks. So the public release is likely imminent. The timing of the announcement might have to do with end of quarter for some obscure reason.

New comment by gniv in "Gemini 4 Argon"

gniv — Thu, 01 Oct 2026 10:27:59 +0000

Jevon's paradox is the most likely answer. Tons of stuff to do.

New comment by gniv in "Gemini 4 Argon"

gniv — Wed, 30 Sep 2026 20:26:23 +0000

They are playing a longer-term and more enterprise-oriented game.

New comment by gniv in "September 2026: The world today, as seen by one Polish guy"

gniv — Wed, 30 Sep 2026 17:53:36 +0000

I don't live in Romania so I don't know the details but that probably makes me more objective. I think the situation is better for the future than it was in the 90s. In hindsight, back then it took many years for things to get better. Whereas now with so much upheaval in the world Romania is well-positioned to keep growing.

New comment by gniv in "September 2026: The world today, as seen by one Polish guy"

gniv — Wed, 30 Sep 2026 11:57:05 +0000

> I lived through the 1990s here in Romania, the future does not look bright in the slightest.

Why? Inflation was much higher then. There were almost no highways. Very little foreign tourism. Towns were ugly. Industry was barely functioning. Etc. Things are way better now. Just because Romania has high debt is no reason to be pessimistic. Everybody has high debt.

New comment by gniv in "America.gov"

gniv — Wed, 30 Sep 2026 06:24:32 +0000

A cultured bureaucrat.

New comment by gniv in "California farmers are struggling to sell grapes as demand for wine drops"

gniv — Tue, 29 Sep 2026 13:41:10 +0000

Based on the large selection of no-alcohol beers I'm seeing I would say yes.

New comment by gniv in "Anthropic's IPO prospectus shows AI vision, surging costs"

gniv — Tue, 29 Sep 2026 08:58:50 +0000

That was my question too. 2025 is really old in AI-company time. But I'm suspecting the "leak" was on purpose so they can now come and show how much better (but still not great) the first half of 2026 was.

New comment by gniv in "LA Metro has some of the slowest escalators"

gniv — Sun, 27 Sep 2026 20:02:07 +0000

Wow, funny and informative that video.

The salient bit: The Prague escalators were made by the Soviets and ran at 0.9m/s (aka very fast) so it's likely the ones I rode in Moscow were similar. They are "illegal" now and being replaced.

New comment by gniv in "LA Metro has some of the slowest escalators"

gniv — Sat, 26 Sep 2026 21:11:32 +0000

I remember taking the escalators in Moscow in the 80s and thinking they were freakishly fast. According to this article they are not that fast. I wonder if they lowered the speed or it was just my lack of familiarity with long escalators.

New comment by gniv in "Toyota is taking the Corolla electric"

gniv — Fri, 25 Sep 2026 20:40:09 +0000

> On the other hand any large improve in batteries may gradually bring Toyota into EV world

A relatively fast and large improvement in battery cost would bankrupt Toyota. Everybody will just buy BEVs.

New comment by gniv in "Toyota is taking the Corolla electric"

gniv — Fri, 25 Sep 2026 20:17:12 +0000

> Indeed. Toyota's days are numbered.

> BYD is selling EVs for US$14K in Australia.

It's not even about BYD. All of Europe is now buying EVs like crazy. How many of these are Toyota? One 40k€ model basically.

New comment by gniv in "GPT-6 Astra has gained the ability to drive a car"

gniv — Wed, 23 Sep 2026 16:06:30 +0000

This recent post form Waymo suggests they already use large general models: https://waymo.com/blog/2026/08/10ailessons/

New comment by gniv in "Apple has added persistent 'ads' to iOS, and it's driving users crazy"

gniv — Tue, 22 Sep 2026 17:53:45 +0000

Ads on Maps were inevitable. Google does it too. Those services just cost a ton of money to run. (I know the article talks about other ads too.)

New comment by gniv in "Muse – Meta’s personal AI agent"

gniv — Tue, 22 Sep 2026 11:28:51 +0000

Pics or it didn't happen.