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New comment by himinlomax in "Sony deletes more movies from the accounts of people who ‘bought’ them"

himinlomax — Fri, 17 Jul 2026 07:58:54 +0000

*Digital Versatile Disc

New comment by himinlomax in "Sony erases digital content from libraries"

himinlomax — Tue, 30 Jun 2026 11:35:20 +0000

> They were never "purchases" and it's more that the terminology has been faulty and misleading, more so than the business model.

They were advertised as purchases. That they were not in actuality has a name: fraud.

New comment by himinlomax in "French physicist and media star loses doctorate after plagiarism investigation"

himinlomax — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 19:09:04 +0000

They died of it too early for that.

New comment by himinlomax in "Meta enables ADB on deprecated Portal devices [video]"

himinlomax — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 08:21:13 +0000

What's ADB?

New comment by himinlomax in "Bambu Lab is abusing the open source social contract"

himinlomax — Tue, 12 May 2026 15:22:42 +0000

Prusa, but it's more expensive.

New comment by himinlomax in "Tesla’s 4680 battery supply chain collapses as partner writes down deal by 99%"

himinlomax — Mon, 29 Dec 2025 18:24:05 +0000

The promise of self driving is what's driving Tesla stock.

Two things can happen:

The dream is a bust, and Tesla is worthless.

Or the dream pans out, and almost all other car companies are worth a lot less.

Unless you absolutely want to believe that either self driving is impossible, or Tesla is uniquely unable to achieve it, the valuation is not entirely unwarranted.

Put shortly, Tesla is not a car company, it's a bet on self-driving cars.

New comment by himinlomax in "UK House of Lords attempting to ban use of VPNs by anyone under 16"

himinlomax — Thu, 11 Dec 2025 22:47:23 +0000

A distinction without a difference.

New comment by himinlomax in "Instagram chief orders staff back to the office five days a week in 2026"

himinlomax — Tue, 02 Dec 2025 11:59:43 +0000

I don't think we read the same Deep Work book.

New comment by himinlomax in "Cloudflare Global Network experiencing issues"

himinlomax — Tue, 18 Nov 2025 22:24:44 +0000

You can't protect against _latent bugs_ with phased rollouts.

New comment by himinlomax in "Waymo rides cost more than Uber or Lyft and people are paying anyway"

himinlomax — Sun, 15 Jun 2025 11:34:45 +0000

Before Uber, in France half of the time you got an irascible driver who never had change and whose credit card terminal was non functional.

New comment by himinlomax in "Show HN: I modeled the Voynich Manuscript with SBERT to test for structure"

himinlomax — Sun, 18 May 2025 18:35:08 +0000

There are many aspects that point to the text not being completely random or clumsily written. In particular it doesn't fall into many faults you'd expect from some non-expert trying to come up with a fake text.

The age of the document can be estimated through various methods that all point to it being ~500 year old. The vellum parchment, the ink, the pictures (particularly clothes and architecture) are perfectly congruent with that.

The weirdest part is that the script has a very low number of different signs, fewer than any known language. That's about the only clue that could point to a hoax afaik.

New comment by himinlomax in "US Administration announces 34% tariffs on China, 20% on EU"

himinlomax — Thu, 03 Apr 2025 09:31:48 +0000

10% on British Indian Ocean Territories, whose sole inhabitants are US soldiers at the Diego Garcia base.

New comment by himinlomax in "Chatbots-Are-AI-Antipatterns"

himinlomax — Thu, 27 Mar 2025 15:28:33 +0000

> That said the ability to describe desires in "fuzzy" ways is a usability value unlock.

Ctl-Shift-P does the job where available. Not entirely sure how AI makes it any better.

New comment by himinlomax in "Turkish university annuls Erdogan rival's degree, preventing run for president"

himinlomax — Wed, 19 Mar 2025 09:28:24 +0000

> An entire generation of women from conservative backgrounds couldn't attend university in Turkiye until the 2000s because of the hijab ban.

They could have just removed their hijab. Nobody was forcing them to keep it on.

New comment by himinlomax in "Italy moves to reverse anti-nuclear stance"

himinlomax — Tue, 04 Mar 2025 13:38:19 +0000

> For European reactors that seems to be either Mali/Niger, or Russia. Both not excellent if the goal is geopolitical independence.

Australia, Kazakhstan and Canada are main suppliers.

New comment by himinlomax in "Italy moves to reverse anti-nuclear stance"

himinlomax — Tue, 04 Mar 2025 13:36:50 +0000

What's the price of solar power at night?

New comment by himinlomax in "Nuclear fusion: WEST beats the world record for plasma duration"

himinlomax — Wed, 19 Feb 2025 06:39:37 +0000

The solution may already be here, in the form of ceramics already used in aeronautics. A French startup is working on a small reactor for industrial heat with them.

New comment by himinlomax in "Nuclear fusion: WEST beats the world record for plasma duration"

himinlomax — Tue, 18 Feb 2025 21:16:31 +0000

There's just no economic case for fusion. It's useful research, but current fission does the job better, and we already have decades of proven reserves, centuries likely if we kept looking for new reserves ... and then thousands of years from sea water extraction.

There's also many paths to improved fission. Fast neutron reactors, thorium, small fast neutron reactors for industrial heat, thorium reactors, accelerator-driven subcritical reactors ... Millions of years of fuel available and new ways to use the output beyond boiling water for electricity.

Note that I'm not mentioning slow neutron SMR, they're mostly pointless and just an excuse not to build current and perfectly fine PWR/BWR/heavy water reactors.

New comment by himinlomax in "IPv6 Is Hard"

himinlomax — Mon, 17 Feb 2025 10:04:26 +0000

The dual stack strategy was criticized 20+ years ago on these grounds, it seemed pretty obvious to me, and as you point out critics were right.

New comment by himinlomax in "Smoke in the cabin of two 737 MAX caused by Load Reduction Device system [video]"

himinlomax — Thu, 13 Feb 2025 08:58:23 +0000

> Keep in mind that for most aircraft the airline can pick and choose between different engines.

737 Max can only have CFM Leap engines.

A320 can have either Leap or PW GTF.