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abricot commented on Ask HN: Low entry barrier hobby that can potentially generate income?    · Posted by u/shivajikobardan
abricot · 4 months ago
I’ve had this idea that is just too awful for me to actually do it.

Create a script that generates brainrot videos with a voice just reading popular Wikipedia pages out loud.

abricot commented on Why are so many pedestrians killed by cars in the US?   construction-physics.com/... · Posted by u/thelastgallon
abricot · 4 months ago
One thing that isn’t mentioned in the article is that driver’s education in US is a fucking sad joke, and the driving tests even more so.

Many mention rules about yielding, and having to stop when turning right on red: most of the drivers only know a fraction of the rules. They never learned most of them.

I’m not sure about this, but my understanding is that some states don’t even require a license if you are older.

abricot commented on WiFi signals can measure heart rate   news.ucsc.edu/2025/09/pul... · Posted by u/bookofjoe
vkou · 5 months ago
The mirror universe captain of the Enterprise-C uses that exact functionality, in conjunction with a disintegration beam to quietly disappear problem crew members.
abricot · 5 months ago
Or beam them and delete the buffer
abricot commented on New research reveals longevity gains slowing, life expectancy of 100 unlikely   lafollette.wisc.edu/news/... · Posted by u/XzetaU8
melling · 6 months ago
The president of the United States is almost 80. Bernie Sanders is 83. The Stones are still touring, …

Ed Thorpe is well into his 90s. Here’s an interview with him at 89. Seems quite healthy: https://youtu.be/CNvz91Jyzbg?si=VNj61A256ZOBM977

This 10 minutes deals directly with fitness and longevity: https://youtu.be/dzCpUbkC1dg?si=LqV-tUFyxyYMW0qC

abricot · 6 months ago
Mentioning the president is a bit like saying the pope is old. They are both selected/elected old.
abricot commented on Denmark summons top US diplomat over alleged Greenland influence operation   bbc.com/news/articles/c0j... · Posted by u/vinni2
abricot · 6 months ago
> Virgin Islands

Denmark tried to offhand the islands multiple times.

"The islands were eventually sold to the United States for $25 million ($613,570,000 in 2024) which took over the administration on 31 March 1917 and renamed the territory the United States Virgin Islands."

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danish_West_Indies

The controversy is more how it got in the hands of Denmark in the first place.

abricot commented on Ask HN: In 15 years, what will a gas station visit look like?    · Posted by u/thomassmith65
thorin · 8 months ago
Weinermelange!
abricot · 8 months ago
Wienermelange?
abricot commented on Whatever happened to cheap eReaders?   shkspr.mobi/blog/2025/05/... · Posted by u/blenderob
ruined · 8 months ago
thrift stores. root, flash koreader. add a hosts file to restrict network activity to your sync server, or keep it in airplane mode.

i have never paid more than $10 for an e-ink device until boox palma. that one sits in a drawer and i went back to the thrifted kindle.

abricot · 8 months ago
I've never seen an ereader at a thrift store
abricot commented on Amazon's Vulcan Robots Now Stow Items Faster Than Humans   spectrum.ieee.org/amazon-... · Posted by u/Luc
sschueller · 9 months ago
Humans are cheaper than robots too...
abricot · 9 months ago
Only if you don't need to pay them a living wage.
abricot commented on Amazon's Vulcan Robots Now Stow Items Faster Than Humans   spectrum.ieee.org/amazon-... · Posted by u/Luc
djtango · 9 months ago
How does the robot assess whether there is enough space available in each bin?
abricot · 9 months ago
It also stowed the other items, and know how much space they take up.

From the article:

> “When you’re a person doing this task, you’ve got a buffer of 20 or 30 items, and you’re looking for an opportunity to fit those items into different bins, and having to remember which item might go into which space. But the robot knows all of the properties of all of our items at once, and we can also look at all of the bins at the same time along with the bins in the next couple of pods that are coming up. So we can do this optimization over the whole set of information in 100 milliseconds.”

abricot commented on Floating megabomb heaves to near the English coast   cepa.org/article/floating... · Posted by u/itronitron
GaggiX · a year ago
I hope they evacuate the crew and bomb it in the middle of the ocean so we can film the explosion in 4K. Unfortunately, I don't think that's going to happen.
abricot · a year ago
Sadly true. It will likely be 720p vertical.

u/abricot

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