I would love to see usage metrics on that. Probably well below 1% of all browsing sessions, quite possibly even less than 0.1%.
Nobody asked to this. Interpreting websites for its users is categorically not what a web browser is for.
Readit Newshankman86 commented on 15-Fold increase in solar thermoelectric generator performance nature.com/articles/s4137... · Posted by u/bookofjoe
hankman86 commented on 15-Fold increase in solar thermoelectric generator performance nature.com/articles/s4137... · Posted by u/bookofjoe
We have passive thermal heat tubes on our roof to heat our pool. It works amazingly well. I want to put PV on our roof, but that’d mean having to pull up those tubes first and replacing our pool heater with something electric.
Turns out there’s companies that do hybrid systems! Water is used to cool the PV, increasing the efficiency of the panels in the process, and then the heated water is used wherever you need it.
Unfortunately it seems there’s only a couple of providers, it’s rare to find installers that do it, and it’s ssuuuppppeeerrr expensive relative to the normal options. Such a shame. I wish there were more options here. It seems like a great approach.
We just did the opposite and ripped up our solar hot water system. We have a metal roof and a salt water pool. Problem is that these systems can and do leak. Salt water on a metal roof makes creates rust.
With photovoltaic panels being dirt cheap, we decided to rather heat our pool with a heat pump that is powered by our own electricity.
hankman86 commented on Microsoft Introduces 'Copilot Mode' in Edge blogs.windows.com/msedged... · Posted by u/Bogdanp
Why has basic product management gone out of the window in this new era of AI enablement? Like on the most basic level: who ever asked for this, where is product-market fit for this kind of browser automation?
hankman86 commented on AMD CEO sees chips from TSMC's US plant costing 5%-20% more bloomberg.com/news/articl... · Posted by u/mfiguiere
Seems like a low price to pay for eliminating the risk to have your production facilities overrun by Chinese invaders.
I have been wondering how culturally conservative societies would use future medical interventions that could shape people’s sexuality. Not necessarily the government requiring expecting mothers to subject the unborn child to some sort of “cure” for gayness. But parents doing this voluntarily and on their own. Even western couples might then be tempted to travel to countries permitting these treatments.
At the same time, it seems unlikely in the near future. It so happens that western societies will not fund this kind of research. And that culturally conservative countries do not have the scientific prowess to conduct research in this regard. Also, their scientists are busy developing nuclear bombs.
I don't know if it's the case for folks with Down Syndrome (I suppose it's likely not), but hearing-impaired folks have their own culture to the point that in the past it was seen as some as a betrayal to the community to seek out cochlear implants. I think having their own language does a lot to create unity among them.
All that above is to say that I wonder if some folks in Down Syndrome might actually prefer their status quo abnormal development?
Most do not have the cognitive abilities for these kinds of philosophical debates.
As soon as someone starts ascribing towards a "normal" and using the pronoun "them", warning bells should go berserk.
No. Down Syndrome leads to an objectively worse outcome for the affected individuals. And their parents, I might add.
We should not let compassion for these people obstruct some basic facts. My only consideration would be the potential risks and side effects that are to be expected for any medical intervention. But if we were expecting a child that was diagnosed with Down Syndrome, I would not hesitate for a second to give this child the chance for a normal life. And us parents the chance for normal parenthood.
hankman86 commented on Ex-SAP CTO walks away with €7.1M payout after scandal theregister.com/2025/03/0... · Posted by u/rntn
Reading the article my biggest take away is how low executive compensations are in Germany compared to the US. The top ranking ICs at US tech companies can hit low 7 figures!
To be fair, even outside of this sexual misconduct the CTO of SAP has not actually earned a high salary. Do you hear anyone talking about SAP when it comes to technological innovation? They are followers, not leaders. Not in AI, not in cloud computing, not in mobile or any other technical domain really. Their ERP software stack sits on a technological foundation of ABAP (a COBOL derivative) and a home-built database system that relies on large main memory caches to process complex queries at a halfway acceptable performance.
v8 could be optimized to reduce its memory footprint if it detects that no JavaScript is running - or wasm-only applications could use an engine like wasmer and bypass v8 entirely.
Another factor is that web technologies are used to write desktop applications via Electron/similar. This is probably because desktop APIs are terrible and not portable. First class wasm support in the web would translate to more efficient desktop applications (Slack, VSCode, Discord, etc) and perhaps less hate towards memory heavy electron applications.