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tobr

14,322karma·2,388submissions·April 2, 2012
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You have to form a new word. It starts as HIM.
7mo ago·view thread
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Ok, so they have to. Or else what? Back of the envelope, it would take somewhere between 200k and 1 million years of 24/7 work to pay it back at that rate.
7mo ago·view thread
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I have to say, I don’t understand what ”for you” means in ”best/worst possible life for you”. At first I read it roughly as ”given the fundamental unchanging circumstances of your life, such as w…
8mo ago·view thread
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Why would it? A comment in itself might contain information about anything and anyone, and always contains some personal information about its author, such as the time they published it and the handle…
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Fitting HN, that seems to follow the Silicon Valley mindset perfectly - we’ll ignore laws and trample on people’s rights in the name of reducing some absolutely trivial ”pain”.
8mo ago·view thread
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I think it should be called a Blue Gray.
8mo ago·view thread
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US Gov already has an ”official” open source typeface, Public Sans. https://public-sans.digital.gov/ Unfortunately, it’s also intended to be not just accessible, but ”principles-drive…
8mo ago·view thread
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For what it’s worth, the very page we’re on here still uses tables and spacer gifs, in 2025. (EDIT: I don’t mean to imply that this is good, just an inescapable observation in this context)
8mo ago·view thread
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> It's not hard It’s also not hard to look around for a few seconds to find that information, is my point.
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> They say "the API that we are building" and assume I know who they are and what they're working on, all the way until the very bottom. This is a common and rather tiresome critique…
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TIL people have very strong feelings about bringing back Touch ID, to the point where a comment like the above is getting downvotes.
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On the topic of Alan Dye and the home button though, the swipe gesture interface they introduced when they removed the home button strikes me as one of few genuinely successful system-level Apple desi…
8mo ago·view thread
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Liquid Glass I agree with. Not sure if the Touch ID comment is intended as a joke.
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For a good while, Mac hardware was held back because of hardware design. That changed soon after Ive left. Maybe the same can happen with software now.
8mo ago·view thread
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They have linked to an example from one of the blog posts: https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/14vnipl/rust_f... …
8mo ago·view thread
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It’s good in the sense that it feels like a Mac app. It still has its fair share of bugs and unimplemented features though.
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For images, https://same.energy is a nice option that, being abandoned but still functioning since a few years, seems to naturally not have crawled any AI images. And it’s all around a gre…
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The context was whether there is automatic enforcement, not whether you need to abide by the license.
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Curious, is there some alternative that would give you both higher order continuity and numerical stability? Or are they fundamentally at odds?
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> How can you “communicate” something you yourself don’t understand? This goes both ways: how can you (as a scientist) communicate something when you don’t understand communication? The answer to b…
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The interview in question https://youtu.be/XpIXRgMlPo4
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