But seriously, why is it such an impossibility to get an iced coffee over there. You have affogato! You can take a caffe americano and pour it over ice!

You can ask for Caffè in ghiaccio and will likely get it, let alone something fancier like a shakerato.

(FWIW, The author did say cold brew, and not iced coffee, but still...)

Who’s pumping all this gaussian splatting content onto hn, and why?

The interest isn't artificial; A lot of people (especially me) are just highly interested in this tech. I myself am working on a 2D variant meant for low-bandwidth environments to replace low-res pixel grid images.

You personally may not feel it, but there is a real, genuine interest, especially given how good it is at replicating photorealistic environments in realtime, relatively cheap (in comparison to NeRF). It's awesome.

Also, what would the ulterior motive be for someone to 'pump' this? There isn't a financial or clout-based motivation to do so. It's just interesting tech, which I believe we are all at least partly here for.

It's a really cool technique, and this particular article, LLM-written or not, is the best tutorial I've seen for it.

It's been decades at this point since I did any 3D graphics work, so I've completely lost touch with the field. I didn't feel like I was missing much until I saw the literal holy SHIT-class demo at https://superspl.at/scene/c67edb74 (which was also linked on HN a while back.) I don't care about terminal-based rendering specifically, but this page did a good job of bringing me up to speed on what a Gaussian-splat pipeline looks like and how it differs from polygon-based renderers.

Those who aren't interested can just move on to the next distraction, instead of trying to police a site they don't own.

>author, being Czech

Sapkowski is from Poland, though. Still Slav, but still.

Of course it’s Slav, and of course he’s Polish, but he draws from Slavic folklore.

Maybe just don’t worry yourself with anecdata.

Maybe your equation. Not theirs.

You would be surprised most of PE is not the evil enterprise it is characterized as.

What’s Palantir’s angle on this?

If that’s what it take to draw attention to enshittification then, as the meme says, let them fight.

The DOD terms are RADHAZ and HERP (Hazards of EM Radiation to Personnel.) There is plenty of literature out there on what frequencies turn you into a microwave oven for cooking your insides, based on your length as a living antenna.

Any specific ones you would care to recommend?

PS: I found Electromagnetic Fields of Wireless Communications: Biological and Health Effects edited by Dimitris Panagopoulos.

And let go of Costco regret.

Then why keep signing up? You clearly don’t need the bulk quantities, so why put up with that inconvenience?

To justify the subscription I made the commitment to buy all my necessities there that I could, and in return I get back the equivalent of a month’s worth of free groceries.

That’s my point, it didn’t work and we did quit shopping there.

The prices never really worked out in our favor and the experience of finding a cool product we did truly love only to find it not stocked the following month is awful.

It really makes me wonder how astroturfed the brand is.

Out of curiosity, where do you shop instead? Around me the prices are better than any other stores except Aldi.

Charleston, SC circa 2018-2022