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markild commented on Annual Production of 1/72 (22mm) scale plastic soldiers, 1958-2025 plasticsoldierreview.com/... · Posted by u/YeGoblynQueenne

nippoo · 2 days ago

The author (and many others) assume that quality 3D printers are expensive, as a throwaway note in the last sentence.

A plastic soldier set is on the order of $20, and collectors will often purchase dozens.

A Bambu A1 mini (which is sufficient for the level of detail needed for these figurines) is about $200, which breaks even after 10 sets.

markild · 2 days ago

A bit besides the point, but an FDM printer is definitely not good enough to reproduce these somewhat convincingly. That being said, a cheap-ish resin printer will probably do the job, and they are generally in the same price range.

markild commented on Cloudflare Global Network experiencing issues cloudflarestatus.com/inci... · Posted by u/imdsm

bnjm · a month ago

SLA breaches have consequences, no big conspiracy there

markild · a month ago

Not at all saying it's a conspiracy, I just think it's a lack of transparency.

I get why, but it would give me more confidence if they would tell me about everything.

markild commented on Cloudflare Global Network experiencing issues cloudflarestatus.com/inci... · Posted by u/imdsm

rollulus · a month ago

Classic. I see issues. Vendor’s status page is all green. Go to HN to find the confirmation. Applies to AWS, GH, everyone.

Edit: beautiful, this decentralised design of the internet.

markild · a month ago

I get the feeling that all "serious" businesses have manual processes for publicly facing status pages, for political reasons.

I don't like it.

markild commented on Fastmail desktop app fastmail.com/blog/desktop... · Posted by u/soheilpro

lexlambda · 2 months ago

I find it rather strange that so many email providers have to develop their own "app".

There are so many good clients out there, and I'd rather have 1. The team focus on their core offering, and 2. the existing email client is for the same reason (limited developer time, and matureness) a much better choice for security

markild · 2 months ago

It's very practical when you use a lot of different devices. It's nice to use native built in email apps, but when using multiple different OSes and device types, it can be very annoying to have the different clients play nice with each other.

markild commented on Germany must stand firmly against client-side scanning in Chat Control [pdf] signal.org/blog/pdfs/germ... · Posted by u/greyface-

byteknight · 3 months ago

Encryption is defined as "the process of converting information or data into a code, especially to prevent unauthorized access."

What you describe is the same thing just not cryptographic.

markild · 3 months ago

Specifically, steganography: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steganography

markild commented on The great sameness: a comic on how AI makes us more alike itsnicethat.com/features/... · Posted by u/CrociDB

Antibabelic · 3 months ago

I'm not one to usually defend AI, but if I understand you correctly, humans also fail your criteria for being capable of creating original, innovative content. If you ask people the same question over and over again, I imagine the variability in the responses you'll get will be quite limited. Tell me if I'm misunderstanding your thought.

markild · 3 months ago

While I do think that's true, I'd say a more apt analogy is that for humans each model will produce fairly similar results on each prompt, but it helps having 8 billion different models running.

I'd also argue that we tend to have a larger context. What did you have for dinner? Did you see anything new yesterday? Are you tired of getting asked the same question over and over again?

markild commented on Apple Photos app corrupts images tenderlovemaking.com/2025... · Posted by u/pattyj

ben_w · 3 months ago

The clipboard is no longer reliable.

Not sure when exactly that changed, but it was probably a few OS releases ago?

markild · 3 months ago

Could be because of shared clipboard between devices?

markild commented on GPT-5: It just does stuff oneusefulthing.org/p/gpt-... · Posted by u/paulpauper

nicetryguy · 4 months ago

"Vibe Coding" seems like magic at first but starts falling apart realllll quick at a certain complexity level or if you want to make changes to existing code. If you don't keep an eye on your architecture, you will end up with a bowl of untangleable spaghetti code and some comically terrible engineering choices. That said, agentic coding in the right hands with well defined tasks can have you outputting days / weeks of work in one session; it's not every task, it's not every session, but if you can drive the "idiot savant" in the right direction it's truly an awe-striking and almost alien process to behold.

markild · 4 months ago

Very well put.

I've just recently set off time to have a few extended coding sessions, and the results are all over the place.

Guided in a good way for well defined tasks, it has saved me days if not weeks. Given more vague, or perhaps unreasonable tasks, it will quickly devolve into just delivering something, anything, no matter how "obviously" wrong it is.

markild commented on Hands-On with Vescin: MINI's New Vegan Friendly Interior That Replaces Leather motoringfile.com/2023/08/... · Posted by u/teleforce

stevage · 10 months ago

Framing it as "vegan" feels misleading and confusing. Just call it "synthetic". There are leather hiking boots and synthetic hiking boots. Leave the bloody vegans out of this.

markild · 10 months ago

It is actually meaningful though, as it says something about the origin of the materials. Synthetic could still mean that it was based off of animal products.

markild commented on Going Nuts over NIST’s Standard Reference Peanut Butter (2016) nist.gov/blogs/taking-mea... · Posted by u/rbanffy

i_v · a year ago

NileRed has a humorous YouTube video where he bakes cookies using only NIST reference ingredients. It costs something like $2000 to bake a single cookie and has all the flavor of cardboard.

markild · a year ago

I really love the channel, but I can't help to feel that he was held back by his, ehm, limited knowledge of cooking.