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Speaking of cold weather and warming up computers... I've had my fair share of long bicycle commutes during cold winters and I always wondered whether booting up the laptop right a…

Sure, visibility would be worse than on a normal truck, but no worse than a low sportscar (which is also road legal and no problem to drive). I don't think it would have been much …

This is very cool! And very impressive that it was made to work on PICO-8. A small nitpick: I'm pretty sure the sand worms wouldn't eat foot soldiers in the original, only vehicles…

> With this tunnel done, I believe Copenhagen to Hamburg will be less than three hours. Even when the tunnel will finally be done, Deutsche Bahn will find creative ways to make it …

Great, I live in coastal northern Europe, so the question will be whether I'll freeze to death from AMOC shutting down, or drown from the rising sea levels. Maybe I should move to …

If you're into folding bikes and recumbents, check out the prototype for the folding Baron: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QTsTKdqVTY8 It's a shame that it never went into product…

Not for a BMW though.

It's mildly interesting, but ultimately it's just a little greenwashing project. They even painted it green to make that clear :)

Funny; for me, a backlit keyboard is one of the most unnecessary features I can think of. Even for those who can't touch type, the keyboard is just inches away from the bright scre…

Yeah, not to mention that you even needed to connect to their servers to play the fucking single player campaign. I hated that so much, and then it more or less became the standard…

Interesting... so, what is the most straight-forward and least shady way of investing in it?

> This is so obviously written by an LLM I can’t get past the first paragraph. When will this end? I'm not disagreeing, as you might very well be right, but... why exactly do you t…

> the land belongs to the one with the bigger guns, and a willingness to use it Not necessarily. USA certainly had bigger guns in Vietnam and Afghanistan, and yet they eventually h…

I previously asked about how hard it would be to create a forgery and got a nice answer here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29173562#29175946 TLDR: it would be very hard, pe…

If anyone wants to have this style but in an actually usable keyboard, you can buy (at great expense) these keycaps and put them on whatever cherry-mx-compatible keyboard you like:…

Here in Germany, the somewhat paradox situation is that the right-wing party AfD has been pro-diesel and anti-ev for a long time, while it's usually the more progressive and/or lef…

The new one is rumored to feature hall-effect sticks on the Joycons which would hopefully solve that issue.

Yeah, and this might make first-person shooters and some strategy games play a lot nicer if (big if) it works well. Perhaps the next iteration of Mario Maker might also make use of…

I would like it if there was a hard mode, where every wrong keypress would spawn another enemy.

Perhaps this should be kept in mind while rebuilding all those houses that were lost?

I wonder whether the active ingredient in the betel nuts is the same substance that also causes the cancer? Because if not, maybe the problem could be solved by extracting or sythe…

Let's see... nuclear power is super expensive, relies on finite uranium resources and there is no safe solution to store the waste. Do we really want to rely on this?

I love that they want to recreate it, as I spent quite some time with the original when I was younger. However, right now it doesn't seem to run that well. I'm getting estimated fr…

At the time I'm writing this, there are over 260 comments to this article and yours is still the only one that mentions the enormous energy consumption. I wonder whether this is be…