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You can pay and get untargeted ads. That there is no option to pay and not get ads at all is a testament that the value goes beyond the individual cost.

> The game was originally planned to be released for Mac OS 9 by Valve in 1999, but was cancelled shortly before launch. The wildest cancel of all was certainly the impressive Drea…

As far as facts go I was thinking of this one case: ... where I seemed to recall it was a social media post, but it is unclear whether it's private messaging, public social media, …

Thanks so that's like the same ballpark, which kind of validates my counterpoint about "small" phones (which at the time were considered immense) Flip phone is cheating! Haha kiddi…

On this matter I'm not searching for excuses, I am reserving my judgement; all we have is a tweet with the counterexample. We don't know how the counterexample was built nor found.…

> If that won't convince you that LLMs do more than parrot existing ideas, you've got your head in the sand. It doesn't. In a nearby comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4…

Conversely, I am counting 6 persons (7 when including myself) in my direct close circle that do not upgrade because there is no Mini on the Apple lineup. I'm not counting people th…

> And it is indeed smaller than most smartphones. Apple never made a small smartphone I couldn't find specs for this thing but from the picture it looks to be about the same size a…

> Russia needed time to update glassnoss satellites GLONASS maybe? or really glasnost era satellites?

Warning: many don't support both at the same time (setting up for one disables the other until reset)

I can't seem to be able to pass these damn captchas

> If things would have worked as you say They work _exactly_ as I say: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heat_pump_and_refrigeration_cy... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_law_of_t…

I've been on SFR and had IPv6 for a decade at this point (through multiple moves and on mobile). It's been absolutely reliable in every way. One of the huge holdups for v6 deployme…

Can't read the article (paywalled) so I'm basing myself on what I see > Green electricity means never having to say sorry for lowering the thermostat I literally just read some rep…

Well, France has 99% IPv6 deployment through both mobile and landline these days https://www.arcep.fr/fileadmin/reprise/observatoire/ipv6/Arc... (2025, from 2024 data) Reason that …

I read it thusly: not "(mostly precisely) zero" but "mostly (precisely zero)" i.e in most reasonable cases the risk is exactly zero and conversely it takes extreme scenarios for th…

SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH is not a Nix thing https://reproducible-builds.org/docs/source-date-epoch/ (although Nix sets it as a default)

I've seen such explorations done over a couple of days during weekend hackathons or gamejams. Have we gotten so addicted to our daily token fix that we can't even fathom focusing f…

Rust being literal Fe2O3 makes a convincing argument that aluminium sure oxidises but doesn't rust pretty much by definition ;)

You can absolutely set up SPF, DKIM, and DMARC for yourself, it's really not that hard if your difficulty reference point is self hosting email. I did it like 10 years ago and I do…

This is the smoking gun

> why Google which has both Gemini and Android can't figure this out, Not the first time an incumbent has four aces in hand and appears to be entirely unable to make anything of it…

Well given there's no abuse of refractive light bending it looks more like whatever frosted glass existed before liquid glass. Also this flag has square corners.

I feel what makes it work well here is also that it's not perfectly transparent so you can still see it wave in the wind and make out it's rectangular shape. I'd definitely take th…