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New comment by guyzero in "Pixel 11 Pro Fold"

guyzero — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 17:09:14 +0000

The Pixel 9 Pro Fold had a lot of warranty replacements due to a failing internal cable. The 10 seems to have resolved the issue, but time will tell.

Other than that, the Pixel Fold has been a great phone. It's like having a tiny tablet with me everywhere I go.

New comment by guyzero in "Map of the world's great castles and fortresses"

guyzero — Tue, 21 Jul 2026 16:34:37 +0000

Interesting that in Canada Rideau Hall counts, but Casa Loma does not.

New comment by guyzero in "The World's 2,400 Castles"

guyzero — Tue, 21 Jul 2026 16:33:39 +0000

The title of the page is "Map of the world's great castles & fortresses". So those are latter.

New comment by guyzero in "India's surprise baby bust"

guyzero — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 15:47:02 +0000

Canada has always accepted immigrants. Rapidly increasing the number of foreign students to goose the slumping post-secondary education sector did not work out great. Even with the reductions, there are always immigrants coming into Canada.

New comment by guyzero in "India's surprise baby bust"

guyzero — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 00:26:43 +0000

No one cares. Japanese culture today is nothing like it was 200 years ago.

New comment by guyzero in "India's surprise baby bust"

guyzero — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 21:08:49 +0000

In English they can, in fact, be used, at times, interchangeably!

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/accept

Accept: to give admittance

Why is every argument against any level of immigration that the people of Japan are unchangeably xenophobic? Japan is bringing in more immigrants than ever: https://soranews24.com/2025/08/13/foreign-population-in-japa...

New comment by guyzero in "India's surprise baby bust"

guyzero — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 20:39:08 +0000

Japan is already accepting immigrants! It's right there in the article I linked! It's just a question of raising the quota slightly.

It's hardly going to solve every problem, it will keep restaurants from closing.

New comment by guyzero in "India's surprise baby bust"

guyzero — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 20:19:05 +0000

Japan is not without problems related to a shrinking population i.e. https://eastasiaforum.org/2026/05/21/japans-immigration-poli...

but it's a problem easily solved by just letting in more immigrants.

New comment by guyzero in "India's surprise baby bust"

guyzero — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 19:21:58 +0000

Japan, a country famous for no one knowing what its culture is.

New comment by guyzero in "Astronauts told to return to ISS after sheltering over air leak repairs"

guyzero — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 19:15:26 +0000

Delta P is one atmosphere or less, like 15 PSI. Lots of stuff can handle 15 PSI.

Now, will it immediately off-gas and embrittle on exposure to vacuum? Different question.

New comment by guyzero in "Declining America"

guyzero — Wed, 20 May 2026 21:23:12 +0000

Do you think the US is going to have Nuremberg trials? Do you think there will be a deep national reckoning about what happened?

New comment by guyzero in "Haiku OS runs on M1 Macs now"

guyzero — Mon, 18 May 2026 19:22:00 +0000

Sad that we'll probably never be able to run this on M1/M-series iPads.

New comment by guyzero in "Googlebook"

guyzero — Tue, 12 May 2026 20:56:30 +0000

Regardless, Chromebooks are as adopted as anything is likely to get in the current Windows-Mac duopoly.

New comment by guyzero in "Googlebook"

guyzero — Tue, 12 May 2026 18:36:49 +0000

Chromebooks had a higher market share than Macs in 2021.

New comment by guyzero in "Googlebook"

guyzero — Tue, 12 May 2026 18:35:52 +0000

If you watched the rest of the announcements, apparently social media influencers.

New comment by guyzero in "Amazon employees are "tokenmaxxing" due to pressure to use AI tools"

guyzero — Tue, 12 May 2026 17:18:28 +0000

Once you have a score, you have a game. Once you have a game, people will do whatever it takes to win.

New comment by guyzero in "California leaders report four to six weeks worth of gasoline and diesel supply"

guyzero — Thu, 07 May 2026 17:44:13 +0000

Everyone loves gas and hates refineries. It's a tough choice.

New comment by guyzero in "California leaders report four to six weeks worth of gasoline and diesel supply"

guyzero — Thu, 07 May 2026 17:43:52 +0000

Weirdly California doesn't get all of its gas from domestic refining.

https://timesofsandiego.com/state-region/2026/04/23/prices-c...

"California’s top foreign refinery supplier of gasoline and blendstocks this decade is Reliance Industries Ltd.’s Jamnagar refinery complex in western India. "

"More than 9 million barrels arrived via this loophole in 2025"

Now, that's a tiny fraction of the 320M barrels of gas used in CA annually, but anything that affects global oil shipments will be felt in California.

New comment by guyzero in "'Hairdryer used to trick weather sensor' to win Polymarket bet"

guyzero — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 17:16:17 +0000

I don't understand who is taking the other side of all these insane Polymarket bets. Is Polymarket doing it?

New comment by guyzero in "Louis Zocchi, games industry pioneer, has died"

guyzero — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 07:15:44 +0000

More than just the d100 he was a pioneer of being very exacting when it came to making polyhedral dice. See http://www.1000d4.com/2013/02/14/how-true-are-your-d20s/