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abcd_f··on The new iPad mini
Is iPad mini finally smaller than iPhone maxi?

Or this exciting marketing twist still to come?

abcd_f··on The Goose Programming Language
In Windows, by default, thread's stack is capped at 1MB. Main thread gets more but that's somewhat off the point.
abcd_f··on Today, we hacked what we'd set out to hack: the iPhone
> Vote with your wallet.

But what are the options?

abcd_f··on Faster than earcut: triangulating 3.7M map polygons in 489 ms
Fantastic write-up, kudos to the author.
abcd_f··on Nordwand Mono – A monospace font for coders and adventurers
Don’t threaten him with good Times.
abcd_f··on Nordwand Mono – A monospace font for coders and adventurers
It makes its creator happy.
abcd_f··on Nordwand Mono – A monospace font for coders and adventurers
> I'm very passionate about the font I am using for my terminal and overall neovim experience

And who isn't?

Squints - m is too weird - tab closed :)

abcd_f··on William Gibson and the trademarking of cyberspace
Just like AutoDesk, my subtraction skills aren't what they used to be :-/
abcd_f··on William Gibson and the trademarking of cyberspace
This was almost 30 years ago, in 1989.

Autodesk was quite alright back then.

abcd_f··on Show HN: Wonderhop – A daily game: guess what most people say, or what none do
Looks like a straight https://krillion.io clone with some trivial extensions and a much smaller sampling base?

Beijing being 3rd less popular answer for "Asian capital city" is pretty bizarre.

abcd_f··on RPKI now protects 70% of internet routes
It's a feedback for whoever was responsible for publishing this article.

Explicit and vocal pushback of unwanted practices is surprisingly effective.

abcd_f··on C++26 Contracts: Introduction to Preconditions and Postconditions
As they used to say on slashdot:

From the "C++ design committee was so preoccupied with whether they could, they never stopped to think whether they should" department.

Asserts:

1. You don't like the being conditional on NDEBUG ot aborting the program - roll out your own. Will still be a one-liner.

2. You want them act as documentation of pre-conditions in headers - just add a comment there.

The only somewhat reasonable development here are the post conditions for functions with multiple returns, but post/s are dramatically less common than pre/s, so their utility is also debatable.

abcd_f··on Donaldson Futuro House in Idyllwild, California, USA
It's not they are ugly or beautiful.

It's just that it's one thing to like how something looks and another is to want to have it.

abcd_f··on Grace Hopper Celebration Cancelled
Source for _legally_ ?
abcd_f··on Sorry, I'm in a meeting
It’s all with a British accent though ... it won't fly for long!
abcd_f··on Margaret Hamilton has died
... an audacious choice of words according to the Austrian association of (real) engineers that get all red-faced and jittery even thinking about it! These peasants, bah, they can't even...
abcd_f··on Tell HN: GitHub refuses to remove cracked copies of my software after a month
> More importantly, when detecting that Photopea is pirated, if it runs for 3-6 minutes and then crashes, it's more likely to look like a bug in the export than a deliberate anti-piracy attempt.

This is a very frequently repeated point, which is invalid.

Crashing pirated versions do not affect the reputation of the original. It’s an urban legend.

People using pirated versions are perfectly aware of the fact that they are using butchered versions of the original. So when it crashes, chances are it's because of a botched DRM bypass. It's an obvious connection, has always been.

abcd_f··on Car is a smartphone on wheels. Here's who's listening
Can you describe the process of the GDPR request?
abcd_f··on European payments groups join forces to challenge US dominance
You can't be serious. Getting rid of the need to pass purchases through these two American behemoths will be a huge step in the right direction.
abcd_f··on Sustainable energy without the hot air (2008)
And a straight angle is just 10 degrees away from the water's boiling point. Might be something in it too :)
abcd_f··on Joseph Szabo’s pictures of American adolescents
Must've been that. Will check if there are any markings on slides. I do remember the process being rather involved.
abcd_f··on Joseph Szabo’s pictures of American adolescents
Don't know if they were Kodachrome, but I still have some color Kodak slides that my dad developed at home in the late 80s.
abcd_f··on Two-tier encryption in the UK
Back in the early 00s the UK seemed to go all in on mass surveillance, with massive amount of cameras in public places and all that. I still remember how shocking it all looked even from Canada. So these 1984 parallels are certainly not a new development.
abcd_f··on A rough guide for going back to the Moon
First Lunar flyby, first Lunar probe landing, first photos from surface, first Lunar rover - all Soviets.

Crewed landing is a massive achievement, but it being the finish line of the race is the US framing, primarily due to getting beaten in all other firsts.

abcd_f··on A rough guide for going back to the Moon
> won the space race

Some of it.

Not first to the space, not first to the Moon, not first in human spaceflight, not first in spacewalk, etc.

abcd_f··on I Connected My Withings Body+ to Home Assistant with an ESP32
Does this API go through cloud?

Because OP's hookup works offline, via the Bluetooth.

abcd_f··on Mom gets 6-month suspended sentence for letting 5-year-old walk to the pond
The GP dramatically exaggerated the state of affairs or perhaps it's how things are in their specific village/canton.

In French cantons you can bring your kids to school, you can drive them there and there are spots for stopping and all respective signage. But there is indeed a lot of very young kids walking to school.

abcd_f··on Intrusive linked lists (2019)
The main benefit is that adding/removing items to/from a list requires no heap operations. All control elements are basically preallocated.
abcd_f··on Restroom Archive
... et voilà, we now know where the GP is from :)
abcd_f··on “I just chose words carefully”
Forgot the ever succinct

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