KiDD's comments

On: Show HN: Smart Silence – Auto-remind to silence your phone via geofencing

[KiDD]

Isn't this already a native feature with Focus activation via location?

On: Maxed Out Mac Studio's Trade-In Value ≃ Basic MacBook Pro with M1 Pro

[KiDD]

and?

On: Apple Locking Business Accounts

[KiDD]

Have you even tried talking to developer support?

[craig_vg → KiDD]

Can you do that without access to your developer account? I will try if so.

On: Is Apple misleading us in their Lumon Terminal Pro video?

[KiDD]

They mention remoting in multiple times

On: Apple breaks silence on claims it used 'swiped YouTube videos' to train AI

[KiDD]

Wouldn't it be more accurate to say Pile did it.

[boristsr → KiDD]

I've heard this response and it still doesn't make sense to me. If I get caught downloading a movie, it's not a defence to point to the ripper and say "I didn't violate the copyright, they did!"

I don't see how it's a valid defence at all.

On: Apple Approves First Retro PC Emulator for iPhone, iPad, and Vision Pro

[KiDD]

Wow!

On: Apple Users Are Keeping Their Devices for Longer as Upgrades Slow

[KiDD]

Ya but you want that new Apple Intelligence right?

[dylan604 → KiDD]

This might be the first feature driven upgrade cycle that I can see people really wanting. This isn't an incremental update to an existing thing. This is a whole new thing that brings hype wagon to the masses in a probably the best integrated into daily use I've seen pitched.

On: The largest carbon removal plant is here, and bigger ones are on the way

[KiDD]

> They mix the CO2 with water and then pump that slurry deep underground where it eventually becomes solid rock.

How's that now?

[asadotzler → KiDD]

Water plus carbon dioxide gives you a carbonic acid solution which when mixing with metal oxide-bearing rocks like basalt (rich in calcium and magnesium, etc.) forms stable carbonate minerals like calcite and magnesite.

This is high school chemistry stuff, right? Or was my poor Southern state public HS education actually exceptional?

[gus_massa → asadotzler]

The chemistry part is not surprising [1], but I have very litle idea of the composition of rocks, I expected them to be salts like silicates, carbonates, sulfates that don't react with carbonic acid. [2]

[1] I had a specialization in Chemistry in my high school, so I don't know it it's normal to know that.

[2] IIRC someone posted a project to make huge beaches of malaquite. (It would be weird/nice, becuse it's green.). The idea is that it reacts with the CO2, and the waves would do much of the work to break them in small pieces. If I guess correctly, the reaction is Cu2CO3(OH)2 + CO2 -> 2 CuCO3 + H2O

[_tbl6 → KiDD]

Possibly forming concrete underground? Doesn't concrete absorb CO2 while curing?

On: Restaurant Surcharges Are Set to Disappear This Summer Under New State Law

[KiDD]

Exactly!

On: The Apple Vision Pro's eBay prices are making me sad

[KiDD]

Don't forget to factor in the cost of a new light seal and light seal cushion potentially.