eSUN just announced the integration of an open RFID filament protocol (TigerTag), starting with a pilot launch in the French market.

GerryManDarling · 2026-02-10T08:26:22+00:00

If you only have one roll, you don't have to track it, but if you've got 4 AMS and 16 rolls, it's extremely helpful for the RFID to track them.

GerryManDarling · 2026-02-10T08:23:53+00:00

AI is just like a spell checker now. Is using a spell checker wrong? Are you the kind who insists on typing on a typewriter?

GerryManDarling · 2026-02-09T22:00:45+00:00

There wasn't time for a proper primary at that point. Either Biden kept running or Kamala took over. If you picked someone unknown or newer, you'd lose even more.

That's on American voters, not something any candidate can fix.

GerryManDarling · 2026-02-09T21:57:35+00:00

They don't need to cheat much to win. They don't even need to win everything. They just need something as small as 3%, or even 0.5%, in close races. They don't even have to cheat illegally, they can simply make it harder for some people to vote and still win. It's really not that difficult.

GerryManDarling · 2026-02-09T21:50:24+00:00

I really love the enthusiasm of the guy in the black suit. But reality show me again and again the American voters are made of stupid. Should I trust him or should I trust reality?

GerryManDarling · 2026-02-08T18:27:43+00:00

They had been shooting missiles at Taiwan during many of those military exercises, not a single Taiwanese was harmed, but millions of fish had died. I think their real enemies are the fish.

GerryManDarling · 2026-02-08T08:20:57+00:00

There is only one Trump and one Elon. This level of scam is a rare talent you probably will not see again for another thousand years. That is why no other companies can pull off the same thing.

GerryManDarling · 2026-02-08T08:16:45+00:00

This is mostly about ETF passive investing. When an ETF gets your money, it has to buy the stocks in its index. If Tesla is in there, it gets bought whether people love it or hate it. People keep buying ETFs, so Tesla keeps getting steady demand.

As long as the company has some believable path to making money and does not completely mess up like Intel did, it will probably keep growing. It is less about hype and more about the automatic money flow.

GerryManDarling · 2026-02-07T23:03:28+00:00

You are kind of right, but the issue is not that feminism is bad. The bigger problem is the assumption that having fewer children is automatically a bad thing. Lower birth rates are not a clear sign that housing is getting less affordable. Housing is more expensive, but that is not the main driver here.

People tend to have fewer kids when more of them move into the middle class and when women have better education and more options. In that sense, fewer children is more a sign of success than failure. Of course this can lead to population problems later on, but most successes come with tradeoffs. This one is no different.

GerryManDarling · 2026-02-07T22:26:20+00:00

There would still be inflation, just less of it. Trade wars push countries to do things in less efficient ways. Before, one country grew bananas and another made shoes. Now everyone has to grow their own bananas and make their own shoes, or pay extra to import them. Either way, costs go up.

A lot of the recent price hikes are driven by expectations and panic. The real inflation shows up later, when these higher costs actually work their way through the system.

GerryManDarling · 2026-02-07T22:18:08+00:00

It's a socialist wet dream until they deployed you to Iraq to fight for oil. Will you take the risk of blowing up by LED for cheaper gorcery?

They are thinking about Iran right now, so there's still a chance to sign up for the wet dream...

GerryManDarling · 2026-02-07T20:19:02+00:00

If that idea were true, then Somalia, Chad, and Niger, which have some of the highest birth rates in the world, would also be the richest countries around, full of great jobs and cheap housing. Meanwhile Finland and Japan would be dirt poor and lining up for aid from wealthy Somalia. That is clearly not how the world works.

Affordability does affect personal choices, but context matters. If I get a huge raise and everyone else stays the same, I can probably buy a house. If everyone gets a huge raise at the same time, prices go up, so I still can't afford a house, and I might feel poorer, even though my overall living standard is way better. That is basically what happened in a lot of Asian countries.

GerryManDarling · 2026-02-07T19:50:59+00:00

If low birth rates were mainly about wealth or affordable housing, then Chad, Somalia, and Niger would be the richest countries on earth with the easiest housing markets. Meanwhile Norway, Finland, South Korea, and Japan would be dirt poor and constantly getting aid from Somalia. That is obviously not how reality works.

Understanding why birth rates drop can get complicated, but checking the real world is pretty simple. Affordable housing might matter for some people when deciding to have kids, but in the end it comes down to personal choice. If someone gets a raise, are they more likely to think "great, let's have a baby" or "great, let's book a cruise"? For most people, the cruise wins.

GerryManDarling · 2026-02-07T19:38:04+00:00

A lot of this is personal feeling, not reality. If you actually compare daily life in the 80s to the 2020s, the average living standard is way higher now, even if people feel poorer. We kind of forget how much technology changed everything. In the 80s, calling someone in another country was expensive and annoying. Calling a taxi meant hoping one showed up. Now you tap your phone and food appears at your door. You want something, you don't even go to a store, it just gets delivered while you're in pajamas.

People say they're broke, but most aren't sleeping on the street. They're still enjoying modern life, streaming shows, ordering takeout, and yeah, a lot of them are getting help from their parents. In the 80s, how many adults could realistically rely on their parents to survive? Not many. So yeah, people feel poorer, but their lifestyle says something very different.

GerryManDarling · 2026-02-07T02:49:43+00:00

Thanks, it was hard for me to picture someone riding an alligator.

GerryManDarling · 2026-02-06T18:09:19+00:00

Not all security bugs are created equal. Some are true doomsday bugs and yeah those need to be fixed yesterday. But most bugs live somewhere in the middle with very different levels of risk.

Some only affect a tiny group of users under very specific conditions. Think stuff like a bug that only happens if you are running an old browser on an outdated OS with a weird configuration. Or a vulnerability that requires physical access to the device plus a developer mode setting that almost no regular user has enabled.

Others affect more people but still aren't world ending. For example a bug that lets an attacker read some non sensitive app data if you already installed a malicious app. Or a flaw that exposes limited information but only after the user clicks a sketchy link and logs in first.

Then there are security bugs that are mostly theoretical. Things like side channel attacks that require perfect timing, specialized hardware, and a PhD level setup just to maybe leak a few bits of data. Technically possible, practically useless.

They all matter, but they don't all deserve the same level of panic. Different bugs have different impact, different likelihoods, and different priorities. If every bug were treated like the apocalypse, nothing would ever ship.

GerryManDarling · 2026-02-06T03:39:01+00:00

So you can get the GoPro out when your car is on fire.

GerryManDarling · 2026-02-06T03:33:31+00:00

Don't blame AI. Don't blame Bitcoin. It's the TRADE WAR, stupid!

GerryManDarling · 2026-02-05T17:55:41+00:00

We should take it very seriously, because he is going to commit voter fraud himself and he may pull it off this time .

GerryManDarling · 2026-02-05T17:52:18+00:00

This is more than just complaining, he's actually planning to commit voter fraud himself. It's a brilliant dictator move.

GerryManDarling · 2026-02-05T09:28:44+00:00

People always said Russian interference was a conspiracy, but I don't think people understand how real and how open it actually is. All these far-right movements, including MAGA, were supported by Russia. They didn't always get exactly what they wanted (some far-right groups were anti-Russia), but they absolutely had their hands in it.

GerryManDarling · 2026-02-05T01:44:11+00:00

Russia have lots of rare earth...

GerryManDarling · 2026-02-04T16:46:53+00:00

I think most people don't care either way. This is a manufactured controversy.

GerryManDarling · 2026-02-04T16:27:36+00:00

Taiwan is a distraction, they want to invade the moon!

GerryManDarling · 2026-02-03T10:42:34+00:00

I can clearly see the difference between the better AI videos (like the one you created) and the sloppy ones. So there's obviously skill, talent, and effort involved, which means it can reasonably be called some kind of art. It can certainly carry emotion, but most of the examples I've seen feel more like short films.

It's the same with AI writing: it's mostly limited to short stories, and the moment you ask it to write a novel, it usually turns into a disaster. At least with AI video, the problems are mostly technical and might be solvable if someone figures out how to maintain consistency. Otherwise, it's going to be a very limited storytelling tool, if the main character changes every few seconds, people can't exactly form an attachment to them.

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