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by smcin 2mo ago
Yes. Transit App allows you configure both your walking and cycling speeds. Combine that with selecting which other methods you allow, and you get lots of options, and more accurate ETAs.
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by smcin 2mo ago
What do you mean "but with a waypoint”? What happens if you route on public transit without a waypoint? Do you mean indirect spaghetti routings that seem ok to Google?
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by smcin 2mo ago
Yes, and during the declared drought of 2020-3.
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by smcin 2mo ago
So, the other 25% does not all go to cattle, certainly not California. Some fraction of that alfalfa is exported in containers to China/Japan/Saudi, for their cattle. Doing that from a semi-desert during a declared drought (2020-3
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by smcin 2mo ago
Restaurant reviews and recommendations is necessarily an arms-race, and once a site gets good traction and reputation, it gets overrun with paid fake reviewers. Then the site has to decide how much resource to spend on maintaining integrity
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by smcin 2mo ago
The app sounds interesting but you need to fix the post title. "a power-user search terminal that unifies web search, academic research, media discovery, code search, AI-powered answers, and local file exploration... into a single ter
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by smcin 2mo ago
> Chinese company Picea now owns the Roomba brand following iRobot’s bankruptcy... the five largest robot vacuum brands are all Chinese companies. Even Dyson relies on Chinese manufacturing...
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by smcin 2mo ago
When I try to find out what % of California's alfalfa production is exported, I get conflicting numbers, some as high as 38%, some much lower.
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by smcin 2mo ago
Residential users' water bills aren't (currently) affected by datacenter-related demand, unlike their power bills which are. The resource contention for water is between datacenters and agribusiness (or other industrial users), n
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by smcin 2mo ago
Not multiple Presidential elections, possibly not even one Presidential election. A glitch which briefly existed between June 2023 - June 2024, before that Presidential election.
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by smcin 2mo ago
No they didn't allow 6,600 to vote, in NJ. The article says that: "and nearly 400 cast ballots". Not 6,600. Due to a glitch which briefly existed between June 2023 - June 2024, which will be investigated and was already fixed
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by smcin 2mo ago
Set charge limits to 70%, supposedly quadruples your battery's life (in charging cycles).
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by smcin 2mo ago
with stingrays from Cognyte.
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by smcin 3mo ago
Sounds like good fodder for a videogame though...
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by smcin 3mo ago
"Bad air quality warnings this week in ten US states" is the underlying headline. Please don't quote the Daily Mail, it's notorious.
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by smcin 3mo ago
That seems irrelevant. The most commonly used ID document for many things in the US is a driver's license; it's issued by the states, not federal govt, so what. Similarly you could argue that addresses and zip codes are assigned b
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by smcin 3mo ago
I meant online. Lower-value types of fraud, like e-commerce, prepaid mobile phone bills.
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by smcin 3mo ago
So what prevents people applying for loans or doing identity theft, in other countries?
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by smcin 3mo ago
No, the title only links to https://arstechnica.com/ . That's why I posted the right link for you.
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by smcin 3mo ago
Well, that combined with the expectation that the recipient would also try that daily challenge, then presumably respond with comment/message/reshare comparing how they did.
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by smcin 3mo ago
You didn't post the article link, it's: https://arstechnica.com/security/2026/06/users-cry-foul-afte... Users cry foul after AMD stripped memory crypto from its consumer CPUs AMD’s stripping of TSM
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by smcin 3mo ago
Sounds interesting. FYI I had to vouch this comment because it got killed.
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by smcin 3mo ago
> The funding comes from a consortium of investors led by Jeff Bezos, with participation from several large sovereign wealth funds.
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by smcin 4mo ago
Ok. FYI that comment got auto-deleted too, I had to vouch it to undelete it. You might need to email HN moderation after you start adding your affiliation to your posts, else they'll keep getting auto-deleted immediately.
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by smcin 4mo ago
Brilliant
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by smcin 4mo ago
Shocking, only 10 short years since this (when Merkel was Chancellor): Turkey asks Germany to prosecute comedian Jan Böhmermann (Germany's equivalent of John Stewart) over Erdoğan poem https://news.ycombinator.com/item?
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by smcin 4mo ago
The most reliable up-to-date source is typically Phivolcs, but currently their website is overloaded, so X/Twitter: https://www.phivolcs.dost.gov.ph/earthquake-information/ https://x.com/phivolcs_d
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by smcin 4mo ago
The Doolittle Raiders actually flew B-25Bs 2600 miles, they didn't hitch a ride on a Japanese cargo ship, though. Spiderweb maybe more resembles the 2024 Lebanon pager attack than the Doolittle Raid. Sure it was a huge shock to Russia
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by smcin 4mo ago
"Really?"
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by smcin 4mo ago
Remember in 2017 when 'Hamilton' was the hot thing, and companies emerged with dubious business models about industrial-scale scalping and reselling tickets? This is why we have (/used to have) regulators. Also, 9/2025 P

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