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New comment by tpolm in "Pokémon Go Scans Trained the Navigation Tech for Military Drones"

tpolm — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 16:32:54 +0000

“We just launch it and we know everything will be dead – everything that will be found there in this particular area will be dead,” says Kokhanovskyy.

Everything! Everything! Like all the deer, all the rabbits, all the decoys! Obviously we trust Kokhanovskyy

New comment by tpolm in "Pokémon Go Scans Trained the Navigation Tech for Military Drones"

tpolm — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 09:42:29 +0000

Come on, Russian "страна наиболее вероятного противника" (the country of the most likely enemy) was always the military name of the US since the Cold War. Now used in military texts and also as a sarcastic cliché

New comment by tpolm in "A walking tour of surveillance infrastructure in Seattle (2020)"

tpolm — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 15:28:15 +0000

If the survelliance tech is so great, why post amber alert messages with the license plate numbers all over all highways to help find the car?

New comment by tpolm in "Outsourcing plus local AI will soon become more economical vs. frontier labs"

tpolm — Tue, 26 May 2026 15:09:53 +0000

What is expensive in nuclear energy? Reason there is not more of nuclear reactors is not the cost, it is regulation. Regulation can be changed (it also seem to already have, recently, IIRC - starting 2024 NRC law changes by Biden admin and later by Trump admin)

New comment by tpolm in "Outsourcing plus LocalAI will soon become more economical vs. Frontier labs"

tpolm — Tue, 26 May 2026 15:08:02 +0000

> The US just cannot build cheap energy

Nuclear power anyone?

New comment by tpolm in "Uber’s COO says it’s getting harder to justify money spent on tokenmaxxing"

tpolm — Mon, 25 May 2026 17:56:23 +0000

Vegas: ordering a tax "to a hotel" - hotels have different entrances, pickup / dropoff there during crazy times is hard. Uber UI for Vegas is unique / some features are designed to make it easier for driver and passanger to find each other

Airports: different regulations, different rules for pickup/dropoff. Also scammers who pretend to be in a car, walk with their phones around pick-up ares in airport and do bait-and-switch (saw that in Istanbul SAW and in Dubai Al Maktoum)

New comment by tpolm in "I let AI build a tool to help me figure out what was waking me up at night"

tpolm — Mon, 11 May 2026 22:35:22 +0000

Second this

Have the same pattern, issue is cortisol/stress, not sounds / etc that happen precisely at night

Built simular things tonwhat Op did (thoug using Oura for sleep tracking, not Garmin)

Result: no statistically significant variations in sounds, CO2 normal etc. Cortisol is what doctors/AI told me first

New comment by tpolm in "Proof of Corn"

tpolm — Sat, 24 Jan 2026 02:30:04 +0000

Modern-day Turing test: AI receives $100,000 and must make $1m

What Caused Flooding in Dubai

tpolm — Sat, 04 Oct 2025 23:40:23 +0000

Article URL: https://www.bloomberg.com/features/2025-dubai-storm-floods-cloud-seeding-geoengineering/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45477730

Points: 4

# Comments: 0

New comment by tpolm in "Temu pulls its U.S. Google Shopping ads"

tpolm — Tue, 15 Apr 2025 18:50:59 +0000

well, produce own steel. Own processors, own drug precursors...

New comment by tpolm in "Upcoming Windows 11 builds cannot install without internet and Microsoft Account"

tpolm — Sat, 29 Mar 2025 10:18:16 +0000

Does oobe trick no longer work?

New car buying guide: the algorithm (2021)

tpolm — Mon, 26 Feb 2024 03:36:22 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/kutinden/buyingacar/blob/main/README.md

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39507402

Points: 138

# Comments: 158

New comment by tpolm in "SAP plans voluntary buyouts or job changes for 8k employees in restructuring"

tpolm — Wed, 24 Jan 2024 16:49:47 +0000

Oh, this is surely AI, not something related to SAP "voluntary" leaving the Russian market.

New comment by tpolm in "I worked in Amazon HR and was disgusted at what I was seeing with PIP plans"

tpolm — Thu, 30 Nov 2023 16:43:35 +0000

Money

Large scale precursor correlations between cosmic rays and earthquakes (2022)

tpolm — Mon, 03 Jul 2023 15:21:42 +0000

Article URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2204.12310

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36574173

Points: 59

# Comments: 8

New comment by tpolm in "Konstantin Tsiolkovsky"

tpolm — Thu, 23 Feb 2023 00:25:54 +0000

It wasn't Russian pension, it was the famous Soviet pension, yeah.

Not so ironical much, eh?

New comment by tpolm in "Konstantin Tsiolkovsky"

tpolm — Wed, 22 Feb 2023 23:57:03 +0000

The Wikipedia article says that he had a lifetime pension and died in his 70s from stomach issues.

Where did you get this "died in poverty" nonsense from?

New comment by tpolm in "Meta to ask many managers to become individual contributors or leave"

tpolm — Tue, 07 Feb 2023 22:51:31 +0000

simple: more layoffs

New comment by tpolm in "Want quick answers? Ask questions well"

tpolm — Wed, 31 Aug 2022 18:26:28 +0000

http://aka.ms/nohello

New comment by tpolm in "Preparedness Paradox"

tpolm — Tue, 16 Aug 2022 01:41:10 +0000

Well, why not "look at Sweden", then?