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"I put every Star Trek series into a Collection on my Plex, pointed Coax at it and now I have a channel that's playing a random Star Trek episode at any given moment. It's fantastic." (https://mastodon.social/@Moltz/116896945313382677)

It's ironic that I had to download the video to get the original version in english language. Youtube thinks that I would like the awful ai-translated german version. And there's no other way to disable this behavior.

Well, if the ecological niches are the same there could be analogous developments that are not homologies. So I without a reconstruction of the environment I'm not certain that the proposed tree is valid.

The article is about the valuation of companies invested in AI - but have a look at the valuation of Tesla in the graphs.

Oh my. I was about 11-12 years old in 1987, my father promised me a game for the Atari ST, we were in a computer store and the Dragon looked so cool on the cover so I chose the game without knowing what it was.

My parents played Shanghai for more than 10 years daily. Me not so much.

Edit: I repeated this kind of mistake a bit later by choosing "Knight Orc", a text adventure game with static pictures but with a cool cover. In english. Not the best choice when you start learning english in school when you're 10.

I really like the idea to print lines on the paper so that you can see more easily where every fold comes from. But why are they used only in the overview/thumbnails and not in the step by step folding directions.

(leaving hn to print lines with different colors on every side on sheets of paper)

In case you didn’t know xkcd before: https://xkcd.com/1053/ (It’s worth checking out regularly.)

reminds me of this classic: https://xkcd.com/327/

Gift-link: https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/2026/06/how-to-win-jeop...

Here is a 2 year old video of a BYD electric vehicle floating for real: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7fFKDV2p2C0

OK, but getting charged with "having no valid boat registration" sounds as stupid as driving into a lake.

Older and more active discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48184350

I'm relatively new to Jellyfin but for iOS and tvOS Swiftfin is a joy to use.

Edit: It's native and open source: https://github.com/jellyfin/swiftfin

It was Windows first for some time, now it's Windows only.

I remember thinking then: That can't work.

Yes and then sometimes your mouse is gone (just to be found on some iPad display) :-/

The title on the page is "The Decameron is dirtier than you remember" and that's true. The reason I think could be that the sexual parts are overshadowed by the "parable of the ring" taken from the Decameron and made famous by Lessing for "Nathan the Wise".

The project was geo-blocked in Germany for a long time: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29024039

No, the described dichotomy doesn't exist (at least for me). There is more options to failing than a) not working hard or b) being stupid (to use the example from the article). There is c) my mood, d) the circumstances, e) luck , ... and all combinations of them. I don't need the option of "I did not work hard" to preserve self worth. I avoid working hard because it's ... hard, not to justify failure later.

I just want to let this Atari ST classic here: Ballerburg (1987) is massive fun.

Yes, it is. Interesting are the ways they try to spin it: e.g. they compare the performance to older Intel machines ("Today’s Windows PCs vs. a Five-Year-Old System") and not to the MacBook Neo - of course you get a performance boost in that comparison.

(the linked pdf whitepaper covers the methodology)

The reason someone has to risk his life to get to the US could be because the US is the greatest country, at the same time you could also consider the influence that the US in its history has had on other countries so that the life of the people are miserable there.

(e.g. backing and installing dictatorships[1], contributing massively to climate change, ...)

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Military_dictatorship_of_Chile

A study commissioned by Microsoft: "the total value comparison favors Windows decisively" by including "12 months of Game Pass Ultimate" and "12 months of Microsoft 365 Premium".

[OpenAI] also emphasized that the ChatGPT model implicated is no longer available and suggested that current models are safer and "The safeguards in ChatGPT today are designed to [...] safely handle harmful requests

These sentences are certainly meant as a defense, but to some they may also sound like an admission.

"Although we do not believe Gemini was used"

I don't get the "although": Are they happy that Gemini was not used in cybercrime oder are they bothered because somebody used a (probably better) alternative?

No that's not the case:

  However, several officials and energy experts have rejected the idea that renewables are to blame. EU energy commissioner, Dan Jørgensen, stated that there was "nothing unusual" about the electricity mix at the time of the blackout, and that the outage was not due to a "specific source energy". [1]

So "right to repair" is "duty to repair" now? /s

BSA rebranded itself “Scouting America.” The new name initializes to “SA,” common shorthand for sexual assault.

Well, as a german and history conscious person I think the acronym could also be taken in a completely different way.

Depends on the use of the water body - as a reservoir for drinking water it would make sense [1], if you want the water for fishing not so much.

[1] https://www.sciencealert.com/here-s-what-s-really-going-on-w...

Incredible how fantastic 1-bit-graphics can look.