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by arp242 1y ago
> so they're going to be pretty un-generous with their analysis This does not follow at all. People really can be fair and dispassionate on topics they disagree with. I can, for example, write a "why you should use PHP" ar
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by arp242 1y ago
Stop posting this. You've been told off by a moderator at least once already for literally exactly this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44640416
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You're ignoring the "X" and "Reddit" and focusing purely on Bluesky. Your post here is a good example of confirmation bias in itself, and it's sad that you're not realising it.
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by arp242 1y ago
That's not really how nice levels have worked traditionally, and would disallow specifying "run on Performance cores, but yield to other processes quickly".
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by arp242 1y ago
> I wonder what he's implying about GitHub Nothing. It's just a common(-ish) reference/joke.
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I checked and it's €750 extra to get a 2TB here in Ireland (just to compare apples with apples wrt. Framework Desktop). Wahahaha, this is the most ridiculous thing I've seen.
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by arp242 1y ago
Framework also charges quite a surplus on the SSD. For example "WD_BLACK SN7100 NVMe 2TB" is €229, but a more typical price is around ~€140, so that's about €90 extra. Don't know how that compares to Apple.
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by arp242 1y ago
I looked at the Framework Desktop a few week ago; mainly to get something that has nicer gaming performance than my laptop's iGPU. I'm not a big gamer really, but as of late I've been wanting to play some things, like The Wit
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by arp242 1y ago
I'm not so sure about that, at least not for all of them. Same with cryptocurrencies: there seem to be plenty of folks who really seem to believe all the nonsense. I'm not entirely sure what's worse: the true believers who th
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Lidl has a bakery that sells fairly decent sourdough and some other breads. Definitely not made in China. Obviously I didn't mean that every single product at Lidl is good.
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What people mean with "trust" here is whether they trust there are no subtle security issues. While I think "don't roll your crypto" has been somewhat overstated at times ( someone has to write crypto), there is ce
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Pretty much anything you get in mainland Europe is still tons better than the vague bread-shaped organic matter they sell at supermarkets in Ireland or the UK. Seems to be an Anglo thing because my experience in New Zealand was similar (can
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by arp242 1y ago
There's a "vouch" button on flagged comments and some flagged stories, which will unflag a story. I'm not entirely sure under which conditions it's available on flagged stories (it's almost always there for fla
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Israel relying on Microsoft cloud for expansive surveillance of Palestinians - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44810708 - Aug 2025 (36 comments) (was flagged, because of course)
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by arp242 1y ago
You can't use your driving license under the proposed SAVE act, as it's not proof of citizenship. Only a few states offer "extended" driving licenses, which do, but also need to be requested separately in most (or all?)
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by arp242 1y ago
> Mopeds are becoming increasingly rare. How will we demonstrate the Doppler effect to kids now?! I haven't lived in NL for about ten years, but I still have PTST from these 100dB mopeds at 4am. Whatever else can be said about e-bik
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by arp242 1y ago
> For the teenagers of which country, exactly? United States, obviously. Article makes zero pretence being about anything other than that and it's stated right there in the opening paragraph: "among America’s youth".
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> if left unchecked, the term scientist will eventually have the same meaning as the word priest. Except if you base things like planes, computers, or medicine on science they provably work. Obviously it's not perfect and probably n
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by arp242 1y ago
I get "invited" to fake or semi-fake conferences all the time. Also fake or semi-fake "awards". I just have a programming blog. I would not expect any other field to be any different.
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by arp242 1y ago
GitHub has had unlimited free private repos for several years now. IIRC there is a limit on the number of collaborators you can add.
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by arp242 1y ago
Was already flagged. I vouched it and it became unflagged. Now it's flagged again... (I don't think every story about this conflict should be on HN by the way, as a "major on-going topic". But IMHO this particular story
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by arp242 1y ago
I'm not sure how that's relevant for a new "ZPNG" format vs. lossless WebP?
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China isn't invading Ukraine, assassinating people in Europe, and things like that. But no, I don't like the Chinese government either.
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The difference is barely noticeable in real-world cases, in terms of performance or battery. Decoding images is a small part of loading an entire webpage from the internet. And transferring data isn't free either, so any benefits need
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by arp242 1y ago
The numbers seem small enough that it will rarely matter, but I suppose there might be a use case somewhere? But lets be real here: this is basically just a new image format. With more code to maintain, fresh new exciting zero-days, and all
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Comparison of "zpng" (PNG wth zstd) and WebP lossless, with current PNG. From https://github.com/WangXuan95/Image-Compression-Benchmark : Compressed format Compressed size (bytes) Compress Time Decom
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Everyone else had free plans too. Often better free plans even.
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Private repos were a paid plan on GitHub for a long time. Actually, a lot of people used GitHub for public stuff and BitBucket for private repos, because BitBucket did offer free private repos.
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Previous: Mozilla Firefox – Official GitHub repo - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43969827 - May 2025 (468 comments) According to the top comment, hg is synced from git (rather than the other way around), and they b
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Is it still used at Facebook? I know they did in the past, but reading up a bit on the background on all of this I found https://github.com/facebook/sapling , and it seems that's what they're using now?

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