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by mft_ 10mo ago
They should read HN. Don’t they know you can get Hetzner servers starting from $5/month?
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by mft_ 10mo ago
Apple probably has swathes of real-world usability data showing that virtually no-one uses their phone for prolonged periods of time while it's laying down on a hard flat surface. You may be right about the aesthetics (and Lord Jobs ma
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by mft_ 10mo ago
> Yea, I don't understand why people use LLMs for "facts". You can get them from Wikipedia or a book. Because web search is so broken these days, if you want a clean answer instead of wading through pages of SEO nonsense
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by mft_ 10mo ago
Well-meaning feedback: on the front page, there's a pricing section lower down, which only mentions credits and doesn't give a price ; the click-though goes to a login screen. I found this so instantly frustrating that I rage-clo
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by mft_ 10mo ago
I think you're trying to shift the goalposts, or you're just not seeing that we're stuck in circular logic. ---- You originally said there isn't an economic basis to locals' antipathy to outsiders. I provided eviden
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by mft_ 10mo ago
The original disagreement was (to simplify) around whether locals' objections to tourists was due to economics (housing becoming more expensive), or other possible factors (including xenophobia). So we seem to have agreed that, yes, in
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by mft_ 10mo ago
The keyboard is already poor on iOS 18; does it regress even further?
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by mft_ 10mo ago
Does (I’m assuming) your screen reader cope with text that’s displayed in (for example) a raster or a vector image?
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by mft_ 10mo ago
So… except for the places where the concept applies, it doesn’t apply?
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by mft_ 10mo ago
I'm not sure you've looked very hard. Let's consider Mallorca. It's not all a resort town, but no doubt it's an attractive destination. Estimates of course vary, but there are estimates that 60% of the total hou
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by mft_ 10mo ago
It may be much more straightforward than you suggest, and not at all related to xenophobia. A core problem is that an influx of tourists hits the housing supply. Short-term tourism incentivises conversion of local housing to accommodate the
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by mft_ 10mo ago
> Also, personal experience: My own ISP (in Germany) experimented with some similar stuff a few years ago: They mandated use of their own home routers where only they had root access. At some point, they pushed an OTA update that made th
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by mft_ 10mo ago
Related: I've posted similarly recently, but I wanted to share again how much improved I've recently found FreeCAD. I'm self-taught with CAD, and have repeatedly tried and discarded FreeCAD for several years. I've frequ
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by mft_ 10mo ago
Similar humour if opposite directions to an old favourite: https://joelgrus.com/2016/05/23/fizz-buzz-in-tensorflow/
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by mft_ 10mo ago
It’s not a bullshit response. It’s hidden in swathes of typical CEO bullshit corp-speak, but underneath that he’s clear that they’ve made the deliberate decision to be responsible for the full infotainment UX/UI, despite the trade-offs
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by mft_ 10mo ago
Would it be feasible for a driver patch to be shared via e.g. an anonymous torrent, with a checksum (to certify authenticity) held somewhere more reliable, like GitHub?
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by mft_ 10mo ago
I think it’s strongly implied that Lizzy would have married someone poor that she loved and respected.
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by mft_ 10mo ago
Agree; the choosing ports thing is a gimmick. These days, one video/charging-capable USB-C on each side, plus a USB-A and maybe an SD slot somewhere are enough for most use cases.
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by mft_ 10mo ago
And, sadly, also the price. I’d also love to get one but when I last needed a new laptop it was about 60% more expensive than the similarly-spaced Zenbook OLED I bought instead.
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by mft_ 10mo ago
I’m with you, and further, I’d apply this (with some caveats) to images created by generative AI too. I’ve come across a lot of people recently online expressing anger and revulsion at any images or artwork that have been created by genAI.
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by mft_ 10mo ago
> I have been considering a move back to Linux. It is only Microsoft Teams on Windows that I have to use daily that is holding me back. Me too. I've not tried this yet, but will soon: https://github.com/IsmaelMartin
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by mft_ 11mo ago
> They have no reason to invest tons into a platform Maybe not 'tons', but they've got a solid reason to consider some investment: additional sales from millions of Mac users able to access a huge library of games they wer
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by mft_ 11mo ago
Quite similar to the first gen Honda Insight, which was similarly focussed.
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by mft_ 11mo ago
Forgive the basic questions, but you were using Spanish original videos, with first-order Spanish subtitles already available, then adding second (English?) subtitles via language reactor? I ask because I went down this path a little to hel
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by mft_ 11mo ago
> I'll never really understand how they ruined the opportunity presented Greed, “growth”, “shareholder value” —> enshittification?
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by mft_ 11mo ago
Agree with this. I've tried the various programmatic CAD options before, and creating initial shapes is relatively easy, but figuring out how to refer to parts of those subsequent shapes - to e.g. modify further, or build from, or con
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by mft_ 11mo ago
I agree with this. Per my comment just above, I've been one of the HNers recommending against FreeCAD for years, because that was my experience. I've recently started to change that opinion; using the build I linked above, it&#x2
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by mft_ 11mo ago
I'm self-taught with CAD, and have repeatedly tried and discarded FreeCAD for several years. (Tangent: perceived absence of a decent CAD solution in Linux is one of very few things keeping me using Windows.) I recently happened upon a
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by mft_ 11mo ago
Hmm, very cool project and maybe just the inspiration I need. I bought a Baby Einstein Magic Touch Guitar for a friend’s daughter a couple of years ago, and while it was okay as a toy, it was disappointing as a musical instrument because th
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…unless someone has sufficient time and/or money to spend on it, and wants to do so as a point of principle. If I had large amounts of spare money, I’d love to seed small endeavours that (according to my personal world view) made the w

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