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by nxobject 5mo ago
My god, the keys: the keycaps are __double-shot__, have scissor switches, and 3-key rollover.
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by nxobject 5mo ago
"Lust", or "Risp"?
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Guy Goma's Accidental BBC Interview Lives on After 20 Years(nytimes.com)
180 points by nxobject 5mo ago|52 comments
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by nxobject 5mo ago
I know this was a thing re: Copy Fail, but... ...LPE = "local privilege escalation", for everyone not directly involved in the security.
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by nxobject 5mo ago
I'll be shocked if Canvas ever gets held publicly accountable for this. I believe FERPA's PII provisions apply to Canvas and contractors handing PII in general (at least as interpreted by the Department of Education). Now, will Ca
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by nxobject 5mo ago
> and finding a humanist way to deal with depressions and its symptoms If only everyone could afford psychotherapy!
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One of Apple's First Employees Looks Back at 50 Years(nytimes.com)
2 points by nxobject 5mo ago|0 comments
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by nxobject 5mo ago
Oh, I didn't know they split it into two tracks! I was there when you had Math Studies/SL/HL/Further.
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by nxobject 5mo ago
A good answer is “it’s successful because of the mileage we’ve gotten out of Wine” - whether it’s Valve or Apple. The costs are relative to the benefits, no?
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by nxobject 5mo ago
If I ever get the time, I’d like to make Wine as good as possible for UI app distribution - native UI bindings and the ability to slim down and bundle the runtime. Alas!
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by nxobject 5mo ago
But will this go the way of a “non core” product like Optane (or modems for that matter?)
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by nxobject 5mo ago
Faster than a base-config SGI O2, with a MIPS R10000 at 150 MHz! /s
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by nxobject 5mo ago
On my favorite designs ever? The first TI-Nspire "battleship" keyboard. Mini alpha-symbol keys in the corners of actual keys. It looked so annoying, but my muscle memory got very good at it. https://ids.si.edu/ids&
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by nxobject 5mo ago
HL or SL? (It's been a while for me, but I know I needed PDF/CDF functions... and I don't know about the optional modules/Further.)
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by nxobject 5mo ago
I'm curious – is MSFT using this in production, or is this a "20% time" project? I'm not sure MSVC could compile the GNU extensions used.
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by nxobject 5mo ago
And those goddamn displays still have the pixel density of a Tamagotchi.
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by nxobject 5mo ago
Huh, good question. It's actually a very, very old use – the OED gives examples going all the way back to 1740, apparently (see entry 2b. below.) https://www.oed.com/dictionary/litigate_v?tab=meaning_and_us...
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by nxobject 5mo ago
My little piece... it seems like we're litigating your past below, which doesn't seem to be helpful. What's done is done; what is each of us going to do, now?
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USAF Esports Team Wins the 2026 Armed Forces Esports Championship(armedforcessports.defense.gov)
3 points by nxobject 5mo ago|0 comments
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by nxobject 5mo ago
In this case, what would internal floppy drive mean? The last Macs with floppy drives (I think Old World G3s?) used a custom Apple controller, integrated into the chipset, with a bespoke 20-pin cable.
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by nxobject 5mo ago
A majority-conservative Supreme Court's on an originalism kick, so we're very much stuck "when the sacred texts were written".
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by nxobject 6mo ago
Oh, no – I meant Spinel and her tragic past.
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by nxobject 6mo ago
I never expected SU to come up in HN! Unfortunately, it wouldn't be the best reference...
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by nxobject 6mo ago
Or even just a compiler to C piggybacking off <objc/runtime/objc.h>; I think Apple still spends a lot of time making even dynamic class definition work fast. I haven't touched Cocoa/Foundation in a while, but I thi
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by nxobject 6mo ago
This is slightly more niche, but I know it was pretty popular with users of AutoCAD as well. But I would imagine that, for DTP, rasterizing PostScript on the printer would make things a lot easier.
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by nxobject 6mo ago
Especially for a nation-state that's already hoovering up data broker products.
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by nxobject 6mo ago
More details on leaked information from El Reg, especially after (laudably) the British government has been more transparent: https://www.theregister.com/2026/04/23/500k_biobank_voluntee... "The charity
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by nxobject 6mo ago
I'm curious – in which context? I've worked on NIH-funded grants in academic medical centers, throughout the research lifecycle, and I've seen how both stringently data management plans are vetted, and how annual IRB certific
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by nxobject 6mo ago
As a biostatistician who's touched epidemiological studies, I'd argue losing the trust of participants and the public is one of the biggest threats to the viability of the whole research enterprise. It's reckless to jeopard
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by nxobject 6mo ago
I like their idea of an audit log of analysis runs -- beyond transparency, I'm sure it'll help future researchers know how much iteration is needed to work with the messiness of medical records... I'm also amused (in a good w

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