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New comment by ndsipa_pomu in "A particle made of force: physicists say they've found mysterious 'glueball'"

ndsipa_pomu — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 07:35:17 +0000

Matter is usually made of fermions (half-integer spin) whereas force is mediated by bosons (integer spin).

New comment by ndsipa_pomu in "ICE Shot a Journalist and Threw Him in Detention. He's Approaching 300 Days"

ndsipa_pomu — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 19:33:18 +0000

However, he tries to portray himself as smart and knowledgable but is clearly quite stupid. That doesn't track with his supporters both believing what he says and also thinking that he is stupid.

In contrast, Boris Johnson (ex-UK Prime Minister) deliberately made himself look like a blundering fool (messy hair, stumbling over words etc.) whilst being very smart. Unfortunately, he lied a lot and abused his power, so we eventually got rid of him - not the kind of person you want to have power, but the type of person who seeks power.

New comment by ndsipa_pomu in "The G.L.O.V.E. – CD3 Compliance Tool"

ndsipa_pomu — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 11:19:05 +0000

These are the gloves that are apparently going to be used by ICE agents.

It's ironic that Compliant Technologies' logo looks similar to the OCP logo in RoboCop.

The G.L.O.V.E. – CD3 Compliance Tool

ndsipa_pomu — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 11:14:04 +0000

Article URL: https://www.complianttechnologies.net/the-glove

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49329131

Points: 2

# Comments: 1

New comment by ndsipa_pomu in "The weekend is 100 years old"

ndsipa_pomu — Sun, 16 Aug 2026 23:41:27 +0000

Just as the clock face has 4 quarter corners, an Earth hemisphere has 4 quadrant corners. Those 4 different corners equate to 4 different Worlds, with each having its own separate day, own separate year and a separate human race.

New comment by ndsipa_pomu in "ICE Shot a Journalist and Threw Him in Detention. He's Approaching 300 Days"

ndsipa_pomu — Sun, 16 Aug 2026 23:38:47 +0000

I've never understood how there's a cult of personality around Trump when he's not got any redeeming qualities.

New comment by ndsipa_pomu in "The weekend is 100 years old"

ndsipa_pomu — Sun, 16 Aug 2026 23:31:03 +0000

We should just switch to the only calendar that makes sense:

    5 seasons of 73 days each (5 × 73 = 365 days)
    5 days in each week (73 ÷ 5 = exactly no remainder!)
    5 Apostle Holydays (one per season, on the 5th day)
    5 Season Holydays (one per season, on the 50th day)

Why fives? The Law of Fives states that all things happen in fives, or are divisible by or are multiples of five, or are somehow directly or indirectly related to five. “The Law of Fives is never wrong.” — Principia Discordia

New comment by ndsipa_pomu in "The weekend is 100 years old"

ndsipa_pomu — Sun, 16 Aug 2026 23:28:03 +0000

4 Earth Quadrants simultaneously rotate inside 4 Time Cube Quarters to create 4 - 24 hour days within one Earth rotation.

New comment by ndsipa_pomu in "Count Binface receives over a quarter of votes in Clacton by-election"

ndsipa_pomu — Sat, 15 Aug 2026 22:07:24 +0000

> another brexit exit (a singular, definable political question that can cleanly classified in a binary label)

Yes, the referendum was a binary choice, but I think it was flawed in that Brexit covered many different, incompatible options (e.g. soft, hard, in-between). If the referendum had depicted the situation more accurately, then we wouldn't have wasted so much time and money going through the whole charade (mainly because "remain" would have won).

I like to think of an analogy where people are asked what they want to eat for dinner and they're given a choice of "meat" or "vegetarian". If 40% want vegetarian, 30% want beef and 30% want pork, then the "meat" option will win, but then someone has to choose whether it's beef or pork. That ends up with a choice that only suits 30% of the voters.

Also, it makes sense for a referendum to specify the required margin for whether the choice is carried through and I think the vote was too close to lead to such a destructive change.

New comment by ndsipa_pomu in "The Ploopy A+ Trackball Is Here"

ndsipa_pomu — Sat, 15 Aug 2026 13:55:59 +0000

I love the Adept trackball - it's got one of the best bearing setups and rolls really smoothly. However, the problem is that all their products are wired and that's awkward for using with a laptop unless you want to constantly move both laptop and trackball to one side when getting up etc.

New comment by ndsipa_pomu in "Count Binface receives over a quarter of votes in Clacton by-election"

ndsipa_pomu — Sat, 15 Aug 2026 13:48:11 +0000

Farage basically managed to dodge the investigation into his non-declaration of £5m for about five weeks (due to him not being an MP). Now that he's an MP again, the investigation has re-opened. What's likely to happen is that he'll get suspended for breaking the rules and there'll be yet another Clacton by-election.

Clacton has to bear all the costs of these by-elections, but then it's their own fault for being stupid enough to follow Farage.

New comment by ndsipa_pomu in "Count Binface receives over a quarter of votes in Clacton by-election"

ndsipa_pomu — Sat, 15 Aug 2026 13:43:48 +0000

Water companies used to be publicly owned until Thatcher privatised them. Unfortunately, as they are a natural monopoly (you cannot choose which company to supply your water services apart from moving to a different part of the country), the companies have basically been extracting as much money as possible from the public and not investing in the infrastructure. This has led to ridiculous bills for water and disastrous performance in terms of not pouring sewage into waterways. The classic example is Thames Water which is now saddled with incredible debts and is asking for yet more money to invest in infrastructure (which they didn't do all the other times they asked for more money).

New comment by ndsipa_pomu in "Eclipse: The Xiaomi 17 Ultra Confuses the Moon and the Sun"

ndsipa_pomu — Fri, 14 Aug 2026 12:10:49 +0000

That's no moon

New comment by ndsipa_pomu in "Controversial creators are benefiting from monetization programs run by Meta"

ndsipa_pomu — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 14:38:49 +0000

Most of the calls for censorship of right wing voices has specifically been about them inciting violence and riots (e.g. against asylum seekers).

Europe is the fastest warming continent. What is to blame?

ndsipa_pomu — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 08:16:40 +0000

Article URL: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/aug/12/europe-worlds-fastest-warming-continent-climate-crisis-explainer

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49269274

Points: 13

# Comments: 2

New comment by ndsipa_pomu in "London Underground begins scanning passengers' faces"

ndsipa_pomu — Tue, 11 Aug 2026 13:10:03 +0000

If you are about to be watched by an abusive person, it may be better to immediately switch the browser to an innocent page rather than possibly closing it down which may look more suspicious.

New comment by ndsipa_pomu in "Windows 11's built-in Weather app wastes more than 1 GB of RAM"

ndsipa_pomu — Mon, 10 Aug 2026 17:49:07 +0000

I've tried that previously (or sudo dcfldd to give better feedback), but it doesn't always seem to work for ISOs. Ironically, I've had issues writing Linux ISOs onto a USB stick under Linux, so nowadays I just use Rufus which has never failed me.

I've installed a few SBCs and they don't tend to have an issue booting, so I do use dd/dcfldd for those. I wonder if it's because they use SD cards that they don't have an issue.

New comment by ndsipa_pomu in "'Pervert glasses': Backlash against Meta's smart glasses grows"

ndsipa_pomu — Mon, 10 Aug 2026 16:48:17 +0000

They could have been of use to replace bike cameras for cycling (so that you have evidence of close passes etc), but the battery life and resolution isn't great, so bike cameras are currently a lot better for that.

New comment by ndsipa_pomu in "Windows 11's built-in Weather app wastes more than 1 GB of RAM"

ndsipa_pomu — Mon, 10 Aug 2026 11:46:38 +0000

I find that Rufus (https://rufus.ie/en/) is excellent for writing USB disks. I believe it's Windows/DOS only, but even as a Linux user for several decades, I boot into Windows just to run it if I need to burn an installer.

New comment by ndsipa_pomu in "White House drafting executive order linking vaccines and autism"

ndsipa_pomu — Sat, 08 Aug 2026 10:17:02 +0000

I was going to go with 3, but there's precedent for 3.2 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indiana_pi_bill