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New comment by sand500 in "Sony Deletes 551 Movies PlayStation Owners Paid For"

sand500 — Wed, 01 Jul 2026 17:06:24 +0000

I wish library of things had tape writers and readers. Magnetic tape storage is quite cost effective for data backups and archiving.

New comment by sand500 in "The unlikely story of Teardown Multiplayer"

sand500 — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 17:49:30 +0000

Might have been a key differentiator for Stadia.

Other comments are worrying about the streaming and latency but local split screen could also be another use case here.

New comment by sand500 in "Can I run AI locally?"

sand500 — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 21:57:10 +0000

How does it have details for M4 ultra?

New comment by sand500 in "Ask HN: How many of you hold an amateur radio license in your country?"

sand500 — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 20:27:36 +0000

> Let your would-be-rescuers know your position and status

Stupid question, do search and rescue services even have equipment that can tune into HAM frequencies, are they even listening on those frequencies, and do they regularly train on communicating with the HAM community?

I'm sure there are more established ways of radioing for help in the maritime world(Aviation has the guard frequency)

New comment by sand500 in "ASML unveils EUV light source advance that could yield 50% more chips by 2030"

sand500 — Tue, 24 Feb 2026 17:19:16 +0000

Or this Asianometry video which came out even sooner.

https://youtu.be/MXnrzS3aGeM

New comment by sand500 in "Valve is running Apple's playbook in reverse"

sand500 — Thu, 18 Dec 2025 16:45:14 +0000

Not just usable, better performant than Windows too.

https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2025/06/games-run-faster-on-s...

New comment by sand500 in "Steam Controller"

sand500 — Thu, 13 Nov 2025 02:06:29 +0000

When was it thrown out? It seems the ruling against Valve was upheld

https://www.gamesindustry.biz/court-upholds-jurys-decision-i...

New comment by sand500 in "Aerocart cargo gliders"

sand500 — Wed, 08 Oct 2025 23:52:36 +0000

Instead, can we implement autonomous formation flying? Each aircraft can still have its own engines and control, but can make a V shape allowing the following planes to run more efficiently.

New comment by sand500 in "A macOS terminal command that tells you if your USB-C cable is bad"

sand500 — Wed, 08 Oct 2025 07:41:01 +0000

It's a disclaimer that they have no idea what they code does.

New comment by sand500 in "Zoox robotaxi launches in Las Vegas"

sand500 — Wed, 10 Sep 2025 19:53:15 +0000

I agree it's stupid. Relevant video on this:

https://youtu.be/-DAfmFdLIjo?si=wg8inSg84VvXFFLx

New comment by sand500 in "Puerto Rico's Solar Microgrids Beat Blackout"

sand500 — Thu, 26 Jun 2025 20:34:01 +0000

How do beavers increase total water flow? I can see them causing more water to be held upstream.

New comment by sand500 in "Intel RealSense Stereo Depth Cameras"

sand500 — Wed, 26 Mar 2025 05:07:11 +0000

Is this going to finally replace all the Xbox Kinects everyone uses?

New comment by sand500 in "Triforce – a beamformer for Apple Silicon laptops"

sand500 — Mon, 24 Mar 2025 23:14:40 +0000

I find this kind of thing a good case for LLMs as they can dumb down the technical jargon:

From Gemini:

```

Imagine you're trying to record someone talking in a noisy room using your MacBook's built-in microphones. This software acts like a super-smart filter:

* It knows where the microphones are: Apple laptops have multiple tiny microphones.

* It listens to all of them at once: It takes the input from all the microphones.

* It figures out where the person talking is: It analyzes the sound to find the direction of the voice.

* It focuses on that voice: It boosts the sound coming from that direction.

* It quiets down the other noises: It reduces the sound from other directions, like background chatter.

So, instead of getting a muddy recording with lots of noise, you get a clearer recording of the person you want to hear. Basically, it makes your MacBook's microphones sound much better in noisy environments. And it's designed to work within audio programs that use a specific plugin format called LV2.

```

New comment by sand500 in "Gemini Robotics"

sand500 — Fri, 14 Mar 2025 02:11:43 +0000

Physical intelligence has a robot that can fold clothes

https://youtu.be/YyXCMhnb_lU?si=zJsQn2m8Fu5ccV6n

New comment by sand500 in "How X-Plane Works"

sand500 — Wed, 19 Feb 2025 11:02:28 +0000

I don't think vanilla KSP aerodynamics simulate airflow at all. You could have wings clipping and they would still pretend to be generating lift. The F.A.R. mods adds much more realistic aerodynamics.

New comment by sand500 in "I put a toaster in the dishwasher (2012)"

sand500 — Wed, 14 Aug 2024 22:06:56 +0000

Your GFCI outlet may not always trigger:

https://youtu.be/SHGo-52wCDc?si=AzZ71UIpPYVjj31X

New comment by sand500 in "Raspberry Pi Pico 2, our new $5 microcontroller board, on sale now"

sand500 — Thu, 08 Aug 2024 23:15:14 +0000

Does that mean the RISC-V cores are super low powered?

New comment by sand500 in "Raspberry Pi Pico 2, our new $5 microcontroller board, on sale now"

sand500 — Thu, 08 Aug 2024 15:59:53 +0000

For a mass produced product, why waste die space on RISC-V cores that can only be used instead of the Cortex cores? Why not just use that die space for more ram or another ARM core? Doesn't it make sense to sell a variant that is entirely RISC-V?

New comment by sand500 in "LG and Samsung are making TV screens disappear"

sand500 — Tue, 30 Jul 2024 03:45:51 +0000

Maybe the screens only emit polarized light which can easily be filtered out?

New comment by sand500 in "French company ramps up production to meet demand for its military drone radar"

sand500 — Mon, 08 Apr 2024 22:28:20 +0000

Could train birds of prey to actively hunt down and rip apart drones.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-12-05/the-milit...