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New comment by invalidusernam3 in "Claude Fable 5"

invalidusernam3 — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 11:38:35 +0000

What about allowing people to synthesize dangerous virus protection?

New comment by invalidusernam3 in "1worldflag: A blue dot on a transparent background"

invalidusernam3 — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 08:34:31 +0000

It's a novel and fun idea! I also wonder how it would be represented correctly as a digital image, could be as an actual png or maybe the white/grey checker pattern from PhotoShop? Realistically probably just with a white background

New comment by invalidusernam3 in "United Airlines 767 returns to Newark after Bluetooth name sparks alert"

invalidusernam3 — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 09:33:00 +0000

My girlfriend and I were staying at her sisters apartment one Christmas (while the sister and her partner were away). They made homemade kombucha which gave the apartment an overpowering smell. You couldn't escape it anywhere in the apartment, particularly the kitchen. On the first night of arriving while lying in bed my girlfriend wanted to connect to the wifi but we didn't know the password. I guessed it first attempt, and yes it was kombucha

New comment by invalidusernam3 in "Scorched Earth 2000 – Web"

invalidusernam3 — Thu, 14 May 2026 07:35:21 +0000

This reminds me of something similar I did as a teenager in the 90s. Also some shareware game, can't remember exactly what it was about (I think a submarine game?). The shareware version only gave access to the first map. After digging around the files I found that it included all the maps and simply renaming map n to map 1's file name allowed you to play it

New comment by invalidusernam3 in "Googlebook"

invalidusernam3 — Wed, 13 May 2026 07:21:37 +0000

Google: site:apple.com "Apple Intelligence"

303 results including https://www.apple.com/apple-intelligence/

New comment by invalidusernam3 in "Talkie: a 13B vintage language model from 1930"

invalidusernam3 — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 07:47:25 +0000

Czech Republic didn't become Czechia, it's still called Czech Republic. Czechia is just the official English short name.

New comment by invalidusernam3 in "ChatGPT won't let you type until Cloudflare reads your React state"

invalidusernam3 — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 08:44:35 +0000

But why block the ui until then? Surely you can just not make any requests until the checks are complete?

New comment by invalidusernam3 in "Glassworm is back: A new wave of invisible Unicode attacks hits repositories"

invalidusernam3 — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 11:40:41 +0000

eval is the major red flag here

New comment by invalidusernam3 in "Ireland shuts last coal plant, becomes 15th coal-free country in Europe (2025)"

invalidusernam3 — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 15:15:14 +0000

How much impact does it realistically have on climate change? I would expect it to be relatively small compared to things like owning a car?

In a perfect world we would want to reduce emissions as much as possible in every facet of life, but in the real world I think we should pick battles that have the biggest impact.

New comment by invalidusernam3 in "Living human brain cells play DOOM on a CL1 [video]"

invalidusernam3 — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 14:56:13 +0000

Why do you quote only the end, the full sentence is: We cannot discard, for example, than an ant has a greater qualia level than

They're saying that since we don't know how to "measure consciousness" we can't be certain that an ant doesn't have more "consciousness" than us. Obviously it seems very unlikely, but we can't be certain

New comment by invalidusernam3 in "Half million 'Words with Spaces' missing from dictionaries"

invalidusernam3 — Wed, 25 Feb 2026 12:33:05 +0000

If the compound words all have single word entries in the dictionary that when combined mean the same thing what is the point?

Water: transparent, odorless, tasteless liquid

Boiling: having reached the boiling point

Boiling Water: transparent, odorless, tasteless liquid which has reached the boiling point

If Boiling Water had some other completely different meaning that has nothing to do with the individual words then sure, maybe, otherwise this is completely redundant and opinionated.

New comment by invalidusernam3 in "xAI joins SpaceX"

invalidusernam3 — Tue, 03 Feb 2026 12:08:04 +0000

Here's an interesting post linked elsewhere in this thread https://taranis.ie/datacenters-in-space-are-a-terrible-horri...

New comment by invalidusernam3 in "The Overcomplexity of the Shadcn Radio Button"

invalidusernam3 — Tue, 20 Jan 2026 10:01:35 +0000

Agree, this kind of complexity is there for a reason. I would rather have a complex component that handles all the cases within its usage in the codebase over having a bunch of little hacks/changes in the usage. It's far easier to maintain one complex component than many different usages of that component.

And you don't have to use such a complex component library if you don't need it. For small codebases it often is overkill. But for large codebases it's a massively worthwhile investment.

New comment by invalidusernam3 in "N-Body Simulator – Interactive 3 Body Problem and Gravitational Physics"

invalidusernam3 — Mon, 01 Dec 2025 11:18:32 +0000

Love the presets! The Broucke one is my favourite

New comment by invalidusernam3 in "We stopped roadmap work for a week and fixed bugs"

invalidusernam3 — Mon, 24 Nov 2025 11:37:03 +0000

I like the idea of this, but why not just have some time per week/sprint for bugs? At my company we prioritise features, but we also take some bug tickets every sprint (sometimes loads of bug tickets if there aren't many new features ready for dev), and generally one engineer is on "prod support" which means tackling bugs as they get reported

New comment by invalidusernam3 in "AWS multiple services outage in us-east-1"

invalidusernam3 — Mon, 20 Oct 2025 11:44:22 +0000

What if the fall-back also never comes back up?

New comment by invalidusernam3 in "Traffic lights with four colors and a new white light are coming"

invalidusernam3 — Tue, 14 Oct 2025 11:11:51 +0000

Public transport is often the fastest way to get around in some cities for some locations. I live in Prague and it's generally faster to take the metro or tram than drive. Obviously not in all cases, but the majority.

Walkable city doesn't mean you can't have a car, it means there are other (often faster) transport options and amenities within easy travel distance without a car. Children and elderly can still be transported by car.

New comment by invalidusernam3 in "Gmail will no longer support checking emails from third-party accounts via POP"

invalidusernam3 — Thu, 02 Oct 2025 10:00:56 +0000

I've been using it for many years, super simple way to have many email addresses deliver to a single gmail. The effort I'll spend migrating will be better spent setting up a non-Google alternative

New comment by invalidusernam3 in "Imgur pulls out of UK as data watchdog threatens fine"

invalidusernam3 — Wed, 01 Oct 2025 11:00:22 +0000

Why would you think that? Leaving the EU was not a geographical event

New comment by invalidusernam3 in "iPhone Air"

invalidusernam3 — Wed, 10 Sep 2025 08:48:20 +0000

I don't really see the point of making phones so thin when the camera sticks out as much as much as the phone is thick. I would rather have a flat phone that is thicker