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kjkjadksj commented on YouTube's CEO limits his kids' social media use – other tech bosses do the same cnbc.com/2025/12/13/youtu... · Posted by u/pseudolus

Gud · a day ago

The television set was never in every kids pocket, though. And obviously "lol don't buy your kid a smartphone then lol". sure, easy to say, but the world is getting more and more connected.

kjkjadksj · a day ago

Plus a lot of the times there was nothing interesting to watch on TV even if you did have it in front of you.

kjkjadksj commented on Freeing a Xiaomi humidifier from the cloud 0l.de/blog/2025/11/xiaomi... · Posted by u/stv0g

airstrike · 2 days ago

Can you do HP printers next

kjkjadksj · a day ago

I have an hp envy 5030. It has done nothing dystopian so far. Just acts as a dumb wlan printer it seems.

kjkjadksj commented on Freeing a Xiaomi humidifier from the cloud 0l.de/blog/2025/11/xiaomi... · Posted by u/stv0g

wnevets · 2 days ago

> On a tangent note: don’t use ultrasonic humidifiers. Unless distilled water is used, they create a shit-ton of pm2.5 particles.

Not according to my uHoo air quality monitor. I have had one running a few feet from the monitor for over a week and there hasn't been any notable increase in PM2.5 particles.

kjkjadksj · a day ago

The ones I had for a bit basically fogged out the apartment immediately and left white (i’m guessing salt) deposits all over everything. I know you are supposed to use distilled but it’s cost prohibitive at the rate these blow through water unless you also have a home distillery.

kjkjadksj commented on Freeing a Xiaomi humidifier from the cloud 0l.de/blog/2025/11/xiaomi... · Posted by u/stv0g

piskov · 2 days ago

On a tangent note: don’t use ultrasonic humidifiers. Unless distilled water is used, they create a shit-ton of pm2.5 particles.

Use evaporative humidifiers (just disks with myriads of small notches for water to cling on and a fan): https://us.smartmiglobal.com/pages/smartmi-evaporative-humid...

kjkjadksj · a day ago

Drying clothes indoors is also effective. When I set up my laundry rack rh can surge by 30%. I imagine setting up a tray of water under a ceiling fan might be similarly effective.

kjkjadksj commented on Photographer built a medium-format rangefinder petapixel.com/2025/12/06/... · Posted by u/shinryuu

ulnarkressty · a day ago

The biggest issue with these diy builds is that they need the mechanics to be inside the lens - which is not necessarily a bad thing, however it severely limits the lens choice for the system, and introduces additional cost (you basically need to buy a shutter with every lens). The scene has definitely improved over the years, there are a number of very interesting x-pan-like builds which have been made possible by advancements in 3d printing.

I'm looking forward to the day someone figures out how to modify a full frame shutter assembly (plenty and cheap on ebay) to work with medium format film.

kjkjadksj · a day ago

You don’t go out and buy a shutter separate. You can just buy a TLR lens that has the leaf shutter already integrated.

kjkjadksj commented on Sick of smart TVs? Here are your best options arstechnica.com/gadgets/2... · Posted by u/fleahunter

microbass · 2 days ago

I saw some giant TV on LTT recently which has a DP port.

kjkjadksj · 2 days ago

A DisplayPort Port you say?

kjkjadksj commented on macOS 26.2 enables fast AI clusters with RDMA over Thunderbolt developer.apple.com/docum... · Posted by u/guiand

kjkjadksj · 2 days ago

Remember when they enabled egpu over thunderbolt and no one cared because the thunderbolt housing cost almost as much as your macbook outright? Yeah. Thunderbolt is a racket. It’s a god damned cord. Why is it $50.

kjkjadksj commented on Rivian Unveils Custom Silicon, R2 Lidar Roadmap, and Universal Hands Free riviantrackr.com/news/riv... · Posted by u/doctoboggan

testing22321 · 2 days ago

obviously there are still TONS of cars. Just look at the highway infrastructure and traffic.

kjkjadksj · 2 days ago

55 million and change rides a year on dart. It isn’t nobody riding

kjkjadksj commented on OpenAI are quietly adopting skills, now available in ChatGPT and Codex CLI simonwillison.net/2025/De... · Posted by u/simonw

AdieuToLogic · 2 days ago

> I'm not sure English is a bad way to outline what the system should do.

It isn't, as these are how stakeholders convey needs to those charged with satisfying same (a.k.a. "requirements"). Where expectations become unrealistic is believing language models can somehow "understand" those outlines as if a human expert were doing so in order to produce an equivalent work product.

Language models can produce nondeterministic results based on the statistical model derived from their training data set(s), with varying degrees of relevance as determined by persons interpreting the generated content.

They do not understand "what the system should do."

kjkjadksj · 2 days ago

When do we jump the shark and replace the stakeholders with ai acting in their best interest (tm)? Seems that would come soon. It makes no sense to me that we’d obsolete engineering talent but then keep the people who got a 3.1 gpa in a business program around for reasons. Once we hit that point just dispense with english and have the models communicate to each other in binary. We can play with sticks in caves.