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by emptybits 3mo ago
Bemotrizinol is the ingredient being discussed. If you're looking for a specific product to try, check out Ombrelle and also La Roche-Posay's Anthelios line. I share this as a Canadian (bemotrizinol has been available here for yea
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by emptybits 3mo ago
Indeed. The corporation name is literally (in literature !) an example of all-seeing surveillance tools causing harm when (not if ) they fall into evil hands.
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by emptybits 3mo ago
Fair enough and thanks for the correction. I think my point may still stand: between the LLM or the Chief ... which decision maker will be most in tune with the long-term common good of the populace?
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by emptybits 3mo ago
Agreed. But I'm not sure sure which decision maker is more myopic toward the big picture and long-lasting implications of a decision: an LLM, or the top brass at the Department Of War.
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Canada and America Are Drifting Apart. The Pentagon Just Made It Official(thewalrus.ca)
10 points by emptybits 3mo ago|0 comments
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by emptybits 3mo ago
Yeah, I agree. We have a large and persuasive LNG industry influencing government policy. Not a lot of critical discussion is permitted because of the sheer money at stake. So many resource corporations, their employees, towns, and a heavil
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by emptybits 3mo ago
Sure, but nearly half the population of Canada west of Ontario is in BC (5.0M out of 11.8M west of Ontario), and 92% of BC's electric generation comes from hydro (89%) and wind (3%). I like these numbers. https://www.cer-rec
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by emptybits 3mo ago
I disagree. Witness western democracies which have seen incompetent majorities lead populist rebellions to control powerful seats in government, including the highest. Incompetence in large numbers definitely leads to big changes. There ma
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by emptybits 3mo ago
Tell gamers how many months, for the advertised price, they will receive a guaranteed level of service and features for. Then let gamers decide. Example: If I'm reminded, at purchase time, that this $70 game will work online for 24 mon
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by emptybits 4mo ago
Appreciate the pushback, saltyoldman. Yes, we want to respond to credible threats. And, as always, courts and law enforcement can invade privacy when there's reason to believe someone is worth surveilling. But we're talking here a
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by emptybits 4mo ago
Perhaps, depending on specific intent, credibility, and the nature of harm threatened. But since this is about surveillance, I hope that detection of verbal threats is not a goal of government surveillance because it's difficult to ima
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13th Century King Arthur manuscript headed to auction(smithsonianmag.com)
1 points by emptybits 4mo ago|0 comments
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by emptybits 4mo ago
Apparently Flock's ALPR helps police to track activists, demonstrators, protesters. :-/ https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/11/how-cops-are-using-flo...
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by emptybits 4mo ago
Regardless of the official point of Stasi collaborators, what they did was contribute to millions of government surveillance files on fellow citizens. The similarity to a social network of public surveillance is the unpaid, unvetted, untrai
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by emptybits 4mo ago
Yikes. This smells a bit like Stasi-style surveillance. Unofficially encouraged by authorities. Rewards or social pressure or ideology turned a significant % of East Germans into Inoffizieller Mitarbeiters ("unofficial collaborators&qu
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by emptybits 4mo ago
> "a quasicrystal — a kind of matter scientists once thought impossible that challenges traditional ideas about how solids form" Whenever I read a phrase about scientists observing something they thought was impossible ... I ge
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by emptybits 4mo ago
Canadian here. It pains me to say that my country will not keep your data safe from prying eyes, nor safe from sharing and cooperating with USA authorities. Our legislative trajectory includes mandatory encryption back doors, warrantless ac
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by emptybits 4mo ago
If you like Kraftwerk and you're not aware of this book, I recommend it: "Kraftwerk: Future Music from Germany", by Uwe Schütte. It's packed with details of albums, songs, tours, equipment, and people. The anti-nuclear m
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by emptybits 4mo ago
Beautiful. The motivation and execution. Everything about this is why I come to HN. Related... for a native GB/DMG/Z80 take ... the original first person shooter for the Game Boy was Faceball 2000. (1991) The studio was full of co
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by emptybits 5mo ago
When I read those seemingly outrageous claims, I didn't immediately dismiss the author. I allowed him to substantiate the claims and kept reading. I found myself agreeing with his argument and his train of thought of how, once digital
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by emptybits 5mo ago
Yes. Now if you live in a metro centre and are considering a Brompton purchase, this may be less of an issue if you have a handful of dealers … in-stock common parts availability is a good pre-purchase question to ask. It’s a big ticket ite
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by emptybits 5mo ago
Ouch. I also live in a city where bike thefts are … fuck, just part of life. Which is a horrible norm to have to accept. You’re right that a grinder-proof lock does not exist. Having read reviews and listening to bike shop owner experiences
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by emptybits 5mo ago
Piling on with the Brompton love here. Apartment friendly. Car trunk friendly. Motorcycle sidecar friendly. Their hardcase makes it airplane friendly. Theft-resistant, since it's carried and stored next to you more often than most bike
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by emptybits 5mo ago
Aside from AI-proofing, IMO there is value in slow typing or writing. We have to think just a little bit more before putting ink to paper. There is also a higher cost to making mistakes. As a kid, before my family could afford a home comput
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by emptybits 5mo ago
"There is no Star Trek in production or greenlit for the first time in nearly a decade, and the sets for Star Trek: Strange New Worlds and Starfleet Academy coming down means it's truly the end of an era." There are episodes
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The end of Star Trek is now official(screenrant.com)
14 points by emptybits 5mo ago|17 comments
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by emptybits 5mo ago
Thank you! I had a job coding Z80 assembly "back in the day" and grew to love its instruction set so I'm not surprised there is legacy and value to keep stuffing wee Z80ish cores into modern devices. I also found this gem jus
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by emptybits 5mo ago
I assume this is what is meant: | Works Perfectly | Mostly Works | Has Lots Of Bugs -------------------+-----------------+--------------+----------------- Default Install | |
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by emptybits 5mo ago
Just curious what you mean by "fixing the audio"? In GBA emulation or on the hardware? I'm aware that if you need/want PCM audio, there's going to be mixing, probably with a software library, and significant CPU use
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by emptybits 5mo ago
The TI-84+ graphing calculator is still popular and a current model and it is Z80 based. (Though I doubt you'll find a DIP40 socket in one for a swap.)

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