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sand500

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    Comment #48998202

    Needs a way to copy and paste text to share with friends. I feel like this is what made wordle viral

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    Comment #48750028

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

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    Comment #47415927

    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.

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    Comment #47370518

    How does it have details for M4 ultra?

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    Comment #47280648

    > 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 list…

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    Comment #47139736

    Or this Asianometry video which came out even sooner. https://youtu.be/MXnrzS3aGeM

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    Comment #46315071

    Not just usable, better performant than Windows too. https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2025/06/games-run-faster-on-s...

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    Comment #45909596

    When was it thrown out? It seems the ruling against Valve was upheld https://www.gamesindustry.biz/court-upholds-jurys-decision-i...

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    Comment #45521943

    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 ef…

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    Comment #45513228

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

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    Comment #45202733

    I agree it's stupid. Relevant video on this: https://youtu.be/-DAfmFdLIjo?si=wg8inSg84VvXFFLx

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    Comment #44391032

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

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    Comment #43479050

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

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    Comment #43466409

    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 yo…

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    Comment #43358978

    Physical intelligence has a robot that can fold clothes https://youtu.be/YyXCMhnb_lU?si=zJsQn2m8Fu5ccV6n

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    Comment #43100814

    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 rea…

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    Comment #41251007

    Your GFCI outlet may not always trigger: https://youtu.be/SHGo-52wCDc?si=AzZ71UIpPYVjj31X

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    Comment #41197402

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

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    Comment #41192930

    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…

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    Comment #41105891

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

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    Comment #39974384

    Could train birds of prey to actively hunt down and rip apart drones. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-12-05/the-milit...

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    Comment #39730914

    For anyone looking to play online, the site has links to a few places and apps https://www.renju.net/playrenju/

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    Comment #39694478

    > disable rendering and keep compute pretty minimal. So that's what was going on in the Matrix when the humans were staring at all that green text.

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    Comment #39665278

    The key part for me: > Momentum has already begun with FY23 4th Quarter NEC ridership achieving 8% above pre-pandemic levels

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    Comment #39661760

    The Garmin autoland can automatically activate, determine which airport to land at communicate on ATC frequency to say it is going to land at X airport.