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by massysett 4mo ago
The “2026: Logging on today” section is way off the mark. It says that if you want to read the headlines, you turn on your Windows PC, get nagged for updates, etc. No. You get your phone out of your pocket and it lights up instantly.
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by massysett 4mo ago
This article is but one example of a tiresome genre: the paean to the supposed glory days of aviation. Passengers dressed up, dined on caviar, and smoked cigarettes. Stewardesses were sexy, and liquor flowed in the expansive 747 lounge. The
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by massysett 4mo ago
OpenTTD and 0ad are open-source games that have been under development for many years, which tickles the hacker sensibility. I think these two games fit into the HN mindset much more than Factorio, which is a newer, proprietary game.
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by massysett 4mo ago
“I assume it's because he is seeking to pay rent, food bills, and other expenses through employment.” Fair enough, so if there were one “right” answer, that would be the one to give whether true or not. But here there is no obvious rig
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by massysett 4mo ago
I do not understand why this matters. Judge the content on its merit. It makes no difference if “AI wrote it”.
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by massysett 4mo ago
I frequent a small venue that sells all its tickets through this vendor. They have other venues as well, also using this vendor. https://www.axs.com/
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by massysett 5mo ago
Their "shrink rate" is low. Members are less likely to steal.
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by massysett 5mo ago
As the saying goes, anyone can build a bridge that lasts forever. It takes an engineer to build one that lasts fifty years.
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by massysett 5mo ago
Nine women can already have babies in parallel. That is, nine women cannot have a baby in one month, but nine women can have nine babies in nine months.
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by massysett 6mo ago
“Liquid Glass and Apple's software incompetence is absolutely universally hated,” Author is in a bubble. I know many iPhone users and none complain about Liquid Glass. When it landed on my phone, I shrugged.
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by massysett 6mo ago
I sat in small claims court one day to watch. A plaintiff won a judgment. He asked the judge: “what do I do now?” The judge replied: “well, if you’re reading the paper one day and see ‘defendant wins the Powerball,’ then you know exactly wh
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by massysett 6mo ago
The thing is, everyone can't have 4 empty seats to drive to work in New York City. There's only so much space on the streets and in the bridges and tunnels, and now there's a congestion charge on top of that.
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by massysett 6mo ago
Now I only buy USB cables if they are marked with their speed and wattage. If it’s not marked, I have to assume it carries little power and is glacially slow, which is fine to charge some Bluetooth headphones but is not usable to connect an
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by massysett 6mo ago
The bees live alone and do not seem to socialize in any way, so this is not a “network” or “city”. The study says “aggregation” which is more appropriate.
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by massysett 6mo ago
This is how Texinfo (which this uses) works. It's the same if you navigate it with an Info reader: "n" goes to the "next" node, which behaves as you point out. When I'm reading in an Info reader (almost always
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by massysett 6mo ago
I just looked in my Backblaze restore program, and all my .git folders are in there. I did have to go to the Settings menu and toggle an option to show hidden files. This is the Mac version.
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by massysett 6mo ago
How is the performance? For me it takes Arq over an hour just to scan my files for changes.
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by massysett 7mo ago
Meet macOS System Integrity Protection. Even root can’t do some things. Some hate it, I love it and would never turn it off. I know some parts of my system haven’t been gunked up by random vendors. https://en.wikipedia.org/w
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by massysett 7mo ago
These customers own expensive cars - or at least, cars that were expensive when they were new. The car might now be ten years old or more, and the owner bought it used. They want a prestige marque, but the customer does not have the money
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by massysett 7mo ago
Ok, presume it is. Why is this a useful observation? The author still needed to poke and prod the LLM to produce useful information. She still needed to know what questions to ask and prompts to give, and hopefully steered it right when it
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by massysett 7mo ago
Yeah, but Baby Bell would dispatch a technician to your house if needed.
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by massysett 7mo ago
What kind of Brother laser printer is this? If it’s Postscript or PCL or AirPrint you don’t need drivers.
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by massysett 7mo ago
No. Which doesn’t prove the technology has not been adopted. The internet also consists of much more than public-facing websites. So what’s your point?
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by massysett 7mo ago
“IPv6 is waiting for adoption” A major website sees over 46 percent of its traffic over ipv6. A major mobile operator has a network that runs entirely over ipv6. This is not “waiting for adoption” so I stopped reading there. https:/&#
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by massysett 7mo ago
I don’t get it either. The CMUCL compiler is named Python, no relation to the prominent language. Not sure that’s what this was about though.
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by massysett 8mo ago
Heh, I guess Apple needs to better use AI to review all the AI-written apps.
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by massysett 8mo ago
Easy: MacBook Air. The friend is asking this question, so that’s what they need. If they needed a MacBook Pro, they wouldn’t be asking this question. If they wanted to spend as little as possible, they would have already bought something ch
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by massysett 8mo ago
Few enough differences so that if I could get an old Studio Display at a discount, I would. But right now it seems the old one is still full price where it's available.
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by massysett 8mo ago
Yeah, because it had a government-sanctioned monopoly. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kingsbury_Commitment
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by massysett 8mo ago
Not at all, I fully appreciate that these inventions transformed life. I’m skeptical because so much of the breathless AI chatter claims AI will eclipse all these inventions. It is the breathless AI commentators, not I, who have lost all pe

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