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New comment by shmeeed in "SimCity 3k in 4k (2025)"

shmeeed — Thu, 28 May 2026 12:31:32 +0000

No it won't. You're not "taking a stand". This isn't a bar fight. You're mistaking responsible defensiveness for cowardice, and passive-aggressiveness for civil courage.

There is zero chance they'll recognise your dominance, let alone moral superiority, and walk away changed from a teaching moment. They're not even seeing you as a person. They only see your car as one more obstacle among so many other "idiots", and it's quite probable you're provoking only more reckless behaviour.

New comment by shmeeed in "Tech CEOs are apparently suffering from AI psychosis"

shmeeed — Thu, 28 May 2026 10:54:34 +0000

Not with all tasks, but it's bound to become an awesome speed typist.

New comment by shmeeed in "The Problem with the Ferrari Luce EV Offers a Lesson for Every Leader"

shmeeed — Thu, 28 May 2026 10:53:01 +0000

Let' just hope it doesn't bend.

New comment by shmeeed in "Tech CEOs are apparently suffering from AI psychosis"

shmeeed — Wed, 27 May 2026 17:03:25 +0000

And maybe it's got 6 fingers on each hand.

New comment by shmeeed in "The Steinwinter Supercargo"

shmeeed — Wed, 27 May 2026 09:41:33 +0000

>Its steering wheel resembles the four spoke wheel found in BMW’s e36 3-series

What? This is a standard issue Mercedes Benz W123 steering wheel, even the logo is right there. Why would the author need to refer to BMW?

New comment by shmeeed in "Goodbye Visa and Mastercard: 130M Europeans switching to sovereign payment"

shmeeed — Thu, 21 May 2026 18:08:05 +0000

Je n'accepte rien

New comment by shmeeed in "'We mould trees to grow into the shape of chairs'"

shmeeed — Mon, 18 May 2026 18:24:09 +0000

See my other comment - it's neither bamboo nor rattan, but a kind of asparagus.

New comment by shmeeed in "'We mould trees to grow into the shape of chairs'"

shmeeed — Mon, 18 May 2026 18:16:56 +0000

Akshually, it's an asparagus - dracaena sanderiana (or, usually erroneously, - braunii).

Thanks for inspiring me to look it up! I'm gonna have so much fun at the next party :D

New comment by shmeeed in "'We mould trees to grow into the shape of chairs'"

shmeeed — Mon, 18 May 2026 15:12:48 +0000

Your comment made me think of those helix-shaped bamboos from IKEA. While this is of course on a whole different level, it does suggest some kind of shaping is possible for bamboo as well. And it wouldn't take decades...

New comment by shmeeed in "'We mould trees to grow into the shape of chairs'"

shmeeed — Mon, 18 May 2026 14:56:10 +0000

Please do!

New comment by shmeeed in "Reverse engineering Android malware from popular Chinese projectors"

shmeeed — Mon, 18 May 2026 10:44:25 +0000

Like many people, I've always been vaguely suspicious of IoT devices like these. But I've never seen reverse engineered what it is they actually do. The conclusion goes way beyond my expectations and is rather chilling:

>My $35 projector wasn't just spying on me. It was selling my network. Anyone who paid Kookeey for proxy access could route their traffic through my IP

New comment by shmeeed in "Hindenburg’s Smoking Room"

shmeeed — Mon, 18 May 2026 10:00:03 +0000

Obligatory Admiral Cloudberg blog link (they're strangely hard to google): https://admiralcloudberg.medium.com/the-crash-of-varig-fligh...

New comment by shmeeed in "Kraftwerk's radical 1976 track"

shmeeed — Sun, 17 May 2026 19:01:15 +0000

I'm thinking I may have misunderstood you. Who did you refer to that supposedly embraced the accident to influence policy?

New comment by shmeeed in "Kraftwerk's radical 1976 track"

shmeeed — Wed, 13 May 2026 16:11:02 +0000

Occam's razor.

New comment by shmeeed in "The rise and fall of snake oil"

shmeeed — Tue, 12 May 2026 07:10:25 +0000

I clicked on it expecting an article about antivirus solutions... guess I'm primed the wrong way.

New comment by shmeeed in "Outlook on Windows silently scales your email by 1.5×"

shmeeed — Mon, 11 May 2026 20:32:31 +0000

Well, that explains a lot.

New comment by shmeeed in "The greatest shot in television: James Burke had one chance to nail this scene (2024)"

shmeeed — Mon, 11 May 2026 09:47:50 +0000

I absolutely adore both Burke and the Connections series, and without a doubt this is a lovely shot, but I feel the same: I don't get the hype. It's been memefied to death for no real reason. There's no incredible feat involved. It wasn't a tightrope walk without a net live on air. You can bet they had stand-in footage done before that they could have made a montage of in case Burke stumbled a line.

New comment by shmeeed in "Google Chrome silently installs a 4 GB AI model on your device without consent"

shmeeed — Tue, 05 May 2026 11:05:16 +0000

I for one would love to see someone try and shove hamburgers down everybody's throats in order to increase consumer demand.

New comment by shmeeed in "1966 Ford Mustang Converted into a Tesla with Working 'Full Self-Driving'"

shmeeed — Tue, 05 May 2026 09:49:15 +0000

Second this. I love his dry humour.

New comment by shmeeed in "Removable batteries in smartphones will be mandatory in the EU starting in 2027"

shmeeed — Mon, 04 May 2026 20:39:49 +0000

The Power for All Alliance exists, just buy into their system.