Waterluvian's Law:

> The more an article would benefit from photos, the less likely it’ll have them.

For extra fun, you can make font that are the same as original but then you add ligature for some words and you make ligature using the same font but spelling different word. For example "red" ligature will be "green".

Do this on a document to determine who is copy-pasting or reading it with AI.

Fun though the idea is, assistive technologies such as TTS will also have problems with it.

Accessibility should only ever be an addition, never a limit.

Why should that be true?

Because proposing to limit something needs better justification than a fundamentally limited group can't use it.

It's an out of place performative moralism.

We will all become, or temporarily be, fundamentally limited at times in our life.

It's trivial to build something that accommodates an ideal user, the challenge in software engineering is creating a solution that suits many kinds of people, at different points in their life. Refusing to engage with that challenge is a kind of proud mediocrity.

Engineering is fundamentally about building within limitations.

Do this as a captcha ;)

To whom it may concern, I want $100 grapheneos phone.

The DDR ram costs more than the phone now. Wish I was joking. =3

Pretty much, but you would be surprised at just how low some of these phone RAM setups can go.

I had a low end Oppo 'something', I remember the RAM had a 16bit data bus, the whole thing had a peak theoretical bandwidth at just over 4GB/sec. That phone sauntered through the workload at the best of times. The Mediatek chip was probably not the weaklink for once.

On the upside the battery could go well over a week between charges.

China already has domestic Flash and Dram fabs that are growing rapidly.

Xiaomi and Huawei will likely adapt their supply chains accordingly. =3

=3

ISO and ICC start with the same letter, just saying...

The International Cricket Council does have very strict rules. lol =3

If you opened page and haven't seen video, the page malfunctioned, try reloading it.

On the page there is streamed real time video that is generated by ai. The setting is similar to the movie Truman show with Jim Carrey where he was main character whose life was streamed 24/7. With the limitations of current technology, it is inconsistent slop, the consistency is at most 5-10s, they probably just generate first and last frame of a 10s "scene" and make 2 videos and then stich them together. There is some monetization scheme where users can steer what's happening on screen by paid prompts.

Why is x axis unmarked? Is it hours, days, years, bananas?

Those graphs look like an AI tried to copy Charles Joseph Minard's Retreat from Moscow diagram without understanding what it was or what it was depicting.

It's the past year, but yeah, it should indicate that more proximally to the axis.

"It's a UNIX system! I know this!"

"The Grid. A digital frontier. I tried to picture clusters of information as they moved through the computer. What did they look like? Ships? Motorcycles? Were the circuits like freeways? I kept dreaming of a world I thought I'd never see."

I had a college who would meticulously cut that black thing at the bottom of the apple and also quite a bit of actual apple flesh, like 1cm or even more around it. When I asked him why he cut so much, he said that the black thing is remnant of apple flower and when apple tree is in the bloom it is the most sensitive so they apply most pesticides then and the concentration is highest around that black part. By cutting it away with little bit of flesh he removes most of the pesticides that are in the apple. It didn't help, few years later he died of cancer.

Lots of fruit skins are very edible (kiwis etc.), but they are covered with pesticides. All conventional fruits are.

If you look at the "Dirty Dozen" vs. "Clean Fifteen" lists of fruits/veggies that come out every year, you'll notice that the cleanest fruits are almost always ones that grow with a thick skin or covering, or are covered by soil: banana, pineapple, avocado, corn, (shelled) peas, watermelon, carrot, potato, etc.

And the dirtiest ones have a thin or no skin: greens, stone fruit, blackberries, strawberries, apples, pears etc.

The clean fruits aren't really any cleaner, the study just tests the "edible" part minus the outer skin. If you eat the skin of conventional Clean Fifteen, you might as well be eating a Dirty Dozen.

Speaking of forgotten woodlands, I've talked about this on HN two times already, might as well say it third time. Go on Google maps and look at the size of the Sherwood forest. I've never truly recovered from that experience.

Sherwood is not forgotten of course. Every fan of Robin Hood knows it. But it had the misfortune to be in an early industrial area.

I mentioned Birnam Wood in another post, which features in MacBeth. Shakespeare plays fast and loose with Scottish history, but Birnam Wood was a real place. One or two of the old trees are still there, but not much. The area has been reforested a bit within the past two hundred years.

Did it used to be a lot bigger? Looks like a couple wooded lots side by side now.

Much much bigger. Visiting it now is quite sad.

If you go to England, you're better off going to the New Forest in Hampshire. Despite the name, it was established during the Norman period and at least feels like a substantial tract of older woodland. (Tiny by North American standards of course.)

Forest was more of a legal term, and tended to be focused on deer than trees.

Things with 'new' in the name tend to age quite rapidly. See also Oxford's New College.

Or the Pont-neuf ("new bridge") in Paris being the oldest one in the city.

The reason is Waterluvian's Law:

> The more an article would benefit from photos, the less likely it’ll have them.

It's not an article but rather release notes for people who already use it. The app is only available to users on GrapheneOS as the default SMS/MMS app (eventually RCS). Our users try out the new version directly instead of looking at static images of it.