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by lysace 7mo ago
It uses raw Xlib to implement a custom widget toolkit. Yeah, it does feel Amiga-ish. A button (thanks for the github link, em-bee): https://github.com/jasper-software/xv/blob/main/src/xvbutt.c
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by lysace 7mo ago
Here's two screenshots: https://snapcraft.io/xv
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by lysace 7mo ago
xv was very neatly and cleverly designed. I liked it a lot in the 90s. Still somehow remember his name.
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by lysace 7mo ago
I built something very broadly similar approximately 20 years ago. Then I forgot about it. It’s not like the data is lost, but availability is. Bringing it back up is a pain. I could probably do it in a full day of work. What I learned: Sta
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by lysace 7mo ago
I have to force-close it about once every 10 mail views or so. I’m using a latest-gen iPhone.
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Ask HN: Does the Gmail iOS app often hang in iOS 26?
3 points by lysace 7mo ago|1 comments
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by lysace 7mo ago
Not quite, but more importantly: American isn’t.
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by lysace 7mo ago
And now an authoritarian one-party country (I think it's decidedly sliding into a dictatorship) is winning car manufacturing - and possibly almost all of manufacturing except high-end semiconductors and optics. The future is going to b
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by lysace 7mo ago
They will offer to rename your account name to something random. They will not delete all your comments. They might agree to delete a very small number of comments. That does not help much in the profile-building/AI perspective. They s
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What's inside a Lego SMART brick? [Teardown/decapping/imaging video](youtube.com)
2 points by lysace 7mo ago|0 comments
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by lysace 7mo ago
I like this. Would have been nice with a 10 gigabit Ethernet NIC and not just USB-C, though. https://eu.store.ui.com/eu/en/category/wifi-special-devices/... 179 EUR + VAT in Europe.
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by lysace 7mo ago
Phew.
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by lysace 7mo ago
> Ah, the joys of waking up to find the Mac's done an overnight upgrade Wait, it does that (from 15 to 26) without user interaction?
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by lysace 7mo ago
I think mostly just Lotus 1-2-3 (the standard textmode spreadsheet application of the time) supported that?
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by lysace 7mo ago
I recently went back to my 1993 Turbo Pascal code (mostly 2D VGA and Sound Blaster game engine experiments) on period correct hardware. I was surprised by how claustrophobic it felt to only see 21 lines of code in e.g. Turbo Pascal 7.0. Sti
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by lysace 7mo ago
No idea if this was a factor, but 80x25 on the IBM PC allows for showing 80x24 plus that extra line of function key labels: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_BASIC#/media/File%3AIBM_Ca... (IBM BASIC screensho
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by lysace 7mo ago
That might be interesting but it’s also completely irrelevant since no PII was actually leaked. Also, no source code of ”Swedish e-government services” was leaked since that is not a thing: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?
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by lysace 7mo ago
Yup
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by lysace 7mo ago
There is no such thing according to Peder Sjölander, IT Director at the Swedish Tax Agency: https://www.svt.se/nyheter/inrikes/uppgift-statlig-it-inform... – Neither our data nor our users' data has been lea
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by lysace 7mo ago
It’s not yet clear if the leaked data is from prod or test. One would hope the latter since it was checked in along with the source code in a local Gitlab instance.
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by lysace 7mo ago
The real fun is on his Twitch channel. https://www.twitch.tv/techtangents
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by lysace 7mo ago
blank vhs covers were kinda beautiful https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e9DfSCk-6Ko
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by lysace 7mo ago
Would be interesting to see some kind of grift estimate as a heat map where the X axis = revenue and the Y axis = age.
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by lysace 7mo ago
Aka the Nonprofit Industrial Complex. Here's a surprisingly factual Teen Vogue primer: https://www.teenvogue.com/story/non-profit-industrial-comple...
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by lysace 7mo ago
I know/knew a bunch of Scandinavians in software engineering who moved to Japan 10-15 years ago. They loved it as long as they worked for the Scandinavian company's Japan subsidiary. They didn't love it so much a few years la
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by lysace 7mo ago
It also allows the other person to take their time to understand and reply. They can use online translation tools etc. (Edit: Now that I read this: I should try writing e.g. Chinese using these tools, next time, instead of defaulting to En
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by lysace 7mo ago
https://www.eater.com/dining-out/916976/yakult-lady-japan-yo... goes into more detail. (I recommend reading the entire article, it's excellent and covers a lot.) Yakult ladies aren’t classified as full-time
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by lysace 7mo ago
Low salaries/wages. Decades of deflation. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lost_Decades
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by lysace 7mo ago
Web browsing is still largely single/few-threaded in practice, afaik. (Right?)
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by lysace 7mo ago
Text is often a lot easier than speech.

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