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by tom_ 3mo ago
The iPhone is normal phone size width and depth, but it's meaningfully shorter than just about everything else. It doesn't sound like much on paper but I've always found it adds up once in a pocket. (All dimensions height x w
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by tom_ 3mo ago
My current theory to explain this phenomenon: a lot of the posts I read on HN, possibly even the majority of them, are made by different people, and those different people sometimes have different opinions.
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by tom_ 3mo ago
XBOX here presumably refers to the entire division, so it's not limited to just people playing on the games console.
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by tom_ 3mo ago
One of the HN readership submitted it.
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by tom_ 3mo ago
I expect the post is written for readers who care about or know the author.
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by tom_ 3mo ago
Slightly struck by the term "builders" here. What is this trying to say, that, say, "developers" wouldn't? ("build" does seem to have been settled on as the word for the thing you do when you have the LLM
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by tom_ 3mo ago
Previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48612943
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by tom_ 3mo ago
Not unrelated: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48470248
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by tom_ 3mo ago
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2026-06/msg00...
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by tom_ 3mo ago
I'm inclined to believe them too, so when he said he used LLMs to tweak the wording, I'll accept that was the case. Perhaps the opening post was ill-phrased, but I think the second post clarifies it a bit: https://news.
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by tom_ 3mo ago
We shall see.
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by tom_ 3mo ago
People clearly can, though, because they did.
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by tom_ 3mo ago
And maybe reword the submission title while they're there, though the current one is well chosen for maximizing engagement I'm sure.
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by tom_ 4mo ago
Amusingly, Chen's article refers to the Wikipedia page as evidence that Tony Krueger did the port. The article's evidence for that in its latest version? A link back to Chen's article...!
105.
by tom_ 4mo ago
OP doesn't say they wrote it. They say they built it. This seems to be the word that people have settled on to describe having the llm put something together according to your requirements.
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by tom_ 4mo ago
One man's attempt at a wry observation is another's shitty attitude, I suppose. It just struck me, as 2/3 of the target audiences mentioned are made up of people, and here is a doc that's been more than just breathed on
107.
by tom_ 4mo ago
Slightly struck by the concept of hand-writing the config parsing but not, apparently, the documentation...
108.
by tom_ 4mo ago
You can look it up in a dictionary? See, e.g., https://www.oed.com/search/dictionary/?scope=Entries&q=fruga...
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by tom_ 4mo ago
Needs a [26th March 2026] tag. That's, like, 3 months ago. Can anything in it still be relevant?
110.
by tom_ 4mo ago
I am typing this in a textarea in Chrome, and the basic Emacs navigation commands all work: C-a, C-b, C-e, C-f, C-n and C-p. (The M- equivalents don't, though. You just get some special chars: å, ∫, ´, ƒ, ñ (dead char for the accent),
111.
by tom_ 4mo ago
I couldn't say for sure where it came from, but both my Macs (one with Ventura, one with Sequoia) have a ~/.gitignore_global file with an entry for .DS_Store, plus whatever stuff in the global git config makes git ignore stuff men
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by tom_ 4mo ago
I don't get it. Now your options are to lose your work, or for somebody else to lose theirs, or, maybe an un-fun manual merge process - and this after you've both done the work! With a per-file lock, on the other hand, you can&#x2
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by tom_ 4mo ago
They got sold to a private equity company in 2016.
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by tom_ 4mo ago
Yeah, I agree about the docs. I started on the system design page and my head started to swim after about 5 minutes. So exhausting to read! On the flip side, I expect the project itself will be workable - well, assuming they're actuall
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by tom_ 4mo ago
I rather agree. The layout actually looks pretty straightforward, but the controls make it annoyingly hard. Though, in real life, people often don't look at the road markings - possibly even more true in America, where people are perha
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by tom_ 4mo ago
There must be at least two of us!
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by tom_ 4mo ago
You can call setbuf(fp,NULL) after opening, and now the stream is unbuffered. What this means is apparently implementation-dependent. As to why you'd do that? - well, who knows the exact circumstances in this case. Perhaps this was fas
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by tom_ 4mo ago
The standard says that fread calls fgetc multiple times for each object: > For each object, size calls are made to the fgetc function and the results stored, in the order read, in an array of unsigned char exactly overlaying the object (
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by tom_ 4mo ago
You're right. Looks like it's more around 90 ms, at least for my iPhone 12 Mini. Test setup was taking a photo of the iPhone 12 Mini watching an incrementing counter on a 50 Hz CRT.
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by tom_ 4mo ago
Watching your own hand movements through your phone camera is a good demonstration of this. Set 60 Hz video mode, and the latency is probably less than 30 ms - but still extremely obvious.

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