Comment Re:No spying possible if no camera & microphon (Score 5, Interesting) 118
How interesting it would be to do a drive-around with an open wifi hotspot in the car -- just to see how many LG TV sets try to connect and find out what data they send.
Just saying, for a friend
Comment We all know the real reason (Score 5, Insightful) 115
Training these models is incredibly expensive. In fact it's so expensive that there is no viable economic model to do so. As such, their options are either to drastically slow down the amount of new models trained or to go bankrupt. This is just a nice whitewashing of that. It remains to be seen if even using their models can be profitable, but we know that with the cost of training the next one they can't be.
Comment Re:Am I missing something? (Score 2) 41
Actually probably not the chip is larger, but the lens is larger. The aperture allows it to be less blurry in bright light.
Comment Re:Am I missing something? (Score 4, Informative) 41
The chip is larger so it collects more light and thus improves low-light photography, but this would make bright-light photography worse (by reducing depth of field). The aperture fixes this for bright light, thus allowing the better low-light performance.
Comment Re: Its very puzzling, isn't it? (Score 1) 95
The examples comparing prices are all comparing them to battery-backed systems that can continuously produce the rated power. The solar panels or wind turbines will be capable of far higher peak power that is used to charge the batteries. I have no idea whether any numbers being quoted here are accurate, but the posters are absolutely describing "base power" when quoting their prices.
Comment Re: NS no value? (Score 1) 97
Yes... we could destroy Putin's nuclear torpedo before it even made it to the UK coast!
Comment Re:architecture (Score 1) 40
There was a parking lot there before. And LA has plenty of other examples of similar architecture, some of it considered LA landmarks
Comment Equality (Score 1) 105
Reading scores fell more sharply in students from better-off backgrounds
Sounds like at least we have achieved equality in stupidity!
Comment Re:Barn Door (Score 1) 165
Comment Re: Barn Door (Score 0) 165
Comment Re:That horse left the barn long ago (Score 1) 25
I get plenty of spam SMS from blue organizations. This is actually one area where "both sides!!!!" argument applies.
Comment Re:Always direct quote when your story is about wh (Score 5, Informative) 224
From Wikipedia, judge for yourself. You are right it would have been nice to include this in the summary!
In 2025, Hansson published a blog post[30] expressing support for far-right British activist Tommy Robinson and the 2025 British anti-immigration protests, as well as mourning that London is "no lounger full of native Brits", defining "native Brit" to mean white. Hansson published another blog post[34] in July of 2026 comparing the Romani population of Copenhagen to Denmark's struggles with its wolf population growth, stating that "When wolves get out of control, you shoot them. When gypsies take over public spaces, you deport them." Anil Dash and Rebecca Bailey expressed criticism of Hansson's post, decrying its "dehumanizing rhetoric" against the Romani people.[35][36]
Comment Re:Don't forget a battery (Score 1) 246
Sorry misread your post. You described the backup interface as "something you will need" but I somehow thought you were saying that these plug in panels include it.
A cheap method that I think would work is to add an outlet to the plug-in panel which will continue working during a blackout (as long as the batteries and solar panel can supply power). Is that possible without adding much circuitry?
Comment Re:Genius (Score 1) 246
No, because as the article mentions, these devices shut-off when there is no power to prevent the back-feed from killing the electrician repairing the wires.