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Is there any evidence that it was "years of regulatory and industry pressure" that did it?

When Apple introduced Lightning it was as the "modern connector for the next decade" and... that's exactly what happened.

bhjon Show HN: PanicLock – Close your MacBook lid disable TouchID –> password unlock

Pressing and holding Power + Vol Up/Down is the current combo

bhjon The Document Foundation ejects its core developers

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advanced_Linux_Sound_Architect...

(presumably)

bhjon Prediction: Microsoft will eventually ship a Windows-themed Linux distro

They might be referring to when Apple removed subpixel antialiasing around ~2018. It caused some consternation at the time because there were still plenty of non-retina Macbook Airs in service. While it technically works, macOS really is not meant for non-high DPI displays.

bhjon Beyond Text: On-Demand UI Generation for Better Conversational Experiences

Yes, there’s a video where Michael Okuda (with Adam Savage, I think?) recalls the TNG cast being worried about where to tap, and his response was essentially “you can’t press a wrong button“.

bhjon Deep Musk

Hah, yes. Satire can be "deceptively" effective. I didn't create this, and naturally it was flagged for a time, but if it made someone chuckle it was worth posting on a Saturday night.

bhjon Siri Is Super Dumb and Getting Dumber

You can set it so you don’t need the “hey” anymore. Tough habit to break though…

bhjon Hollywood Can't Ditch Its Teslas Fast Enough:"They're Destroying Their Leases.."

At some point we have to judge based on actions, not beliefs.

bhjon Playstation 5 Pro Shows the Futility of the Video-Game Graphics Race

The fidelity vs. performance decision is precisely what Sony markets the PS5 Pro as eliminating. I’d also just prefer developers make 60fps the baseline, then use any additional horsepower for more frames or more real resolution.

bhjon Apple to upgrade base Macs to 16GB RAM, starting from Apple M4 models

And each level up in RAM typically includes a bump to CPU and/or GPU core counts as well, so it is even more difficult to discern the true pricing. Annoying, but also understandable that they don't want to produce every possible combination of specs.

Don't get me started on needing to buy a 1TB+ iPad Pro to get double the RAM, though.

bhjon Californian fed up with stolen mail sends Apple AirTag to herself to catch thief

The linked article says:

> He [Epperson] is currently conducting a multisite study in Chicago, Milwaukee, and St. Louis that examines the development and implementation of deferred prosecution programs, a prosecutor-led innovation to divert people with nonviolent charges from traditional criminal justice processing.

Seems reasonable to me, and a far cry from "an explicit, open policy of not prosecuting petty crime" that is somehow country-wide.

bhjon iPhone SE 4 due in early 2025 with OLED and Apple Intelligence

"Apple Intelligence" was named precisely to be a marketing differentiator from any supposed "non-useful AI". It's also a hedge, in a sense.

bhjon Passengers at EU Airports Not Allowed over 100ml of Liquids on Cabin Luggage

"We, alongside the mujahideen, bled Russia for 10 years, until it went bankrupt and was forced to withdraw in defeat ... So we are continuing this policy in bleeding America to the point of bankruptcy."

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2004/nov/03/usa.alqaida

bhjon Apple Vision Pro U.S. Sales Are All but Dead, Market Analysts Say

> how Apple announcing they've cancelled the next Vision Pro to work on a lower cost version is squared up

Apple's made no such announcement, and the presence of the "Pro" moniker implies that a non-Pro version has always been planned.

bhjon Apple's new AI leaves out more than 90% of current iPhone users

Yes, 25% more RAM is significant. As you said, the M1 has significantly less performance, but it has enough memory. We can infer that RAM is the deciding factor from that.

bhjon Apple's new AI leaves out more than 90% of current iPhone users

It’s about RAM, I think. Only A17 Pro has 8GB, which we can infer is the new baseline.

bhjon Sandy Hook families want to seize Alex Jones' social media accounts

> no more shenanigans with mail-in ballots

Ludicrous. Remember how T**** told supporters to not use mail-in ballots[0], then tried to stop the counting of mail-in ballots? [1] Or told people to vote twice? [2] Yes, one party is demonstrably more anti-democracy than the other.

As for your voter fraud FUD: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Post-election_lawsuits_related...

[0] https://www.factcheck.org/2020/09/trumps-repeated-false-atta...

[1] https://www.c-span.org/video/?c4920640/user-clip-donald-trum...

[2] https://www.newsobserver.com/news/politics-government/articl...

bhjon 5 years ago Valve released Proton

MoltenVK exists. You might also be interested in this thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30755407

bhjon Bun v0.7.0

Base M2 tops out at 24GB.

bhjon Speed running Monkey Island

Highly recommend this channel for well-researched and entertaining mini-documentaries on adventure game speedrunning: https://www.youtube.com/@OneShortEye

bhjon SomaFM

SomaFM is periodically posted, so I figured it's that time again. Please show them some support if you enjoy this kind of commercial-free, listener-supported internet radio. Rusty (the station manager) is a great guy and has even patiently gone out of his way to help me diagnose streaming issues.

A few favorite channels:

- DEF CON Radio (Music for Hacking): https://somafm.com/defcon/

- Space Station Soma (Spaced-out ambient and mid-tempo electronica): https://somafm.com/spacestation/

- SF 10-33 (Ambient music mixed with San Francisco public safety radio traffic): https://somafm.com/sf1033/

Previously:

12 months ago (679 points, 166 comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31572031

4 months ago (2 points, 2 comments): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34747216

bhjon Apple to occupy 90% of TSMC 3nm capacity in 2023

AS supports Thunderbolt just fine. Isn't the lack of eGPU support due to lack of ARM drivers for them?

bhjon AMD promises its new laptop chips will crush the Apple M2 and it’s got receipts

That 64GB RAM isn’t also VRAM though. Not exactly a direct comparison.

bhjon GitHub Copilot X – Sign up for technical preview

I would much rather use it as a code review tool than become the code review tool. I suspect the latter will happen at a lot of companies, though.

bhjon GitHub Copilot X – Sign up for technical preview

You should care if your code's license is being violated by being reproduced without attribution. Undermining OSS's licenses can ultimately weaken it, and the cynic in me suspects MS is fully aware of this.

bhjon Ask HN: What's Going on with the HN Algorithm?

Yes, another good reason to use something like https://github.com/hnrss/hnrss instead of depending on a (very transitory) front page.

bhjon TikTok’s Ugly ‘NPC in Real Life’ Trend

Definitely possible; for example: https://github.com/deezer/spleeter

bhjon Why do all these 20-somethings have closed captions turned on?

Even better would be for the compressor/limiter to detect whether the source is music, dialogue or explosion and adjust its parameters accordingly. Come on Apple, make it smarter!

bhjon Why do all these 20-somethings have closed captions turned on?

Most home theater systems are in a home where the noise floor is significantly higher than a theater, which the audio mix was targeting. Dynamic range compression is often appropriate and when applied correctly improves the experience in homes.

bhjon Why do all these 20-somethings have closed captions turned on?

> The Apple TV has a setting called "reduce loud sounds"

This does help, but at some point Apple increased the compressor’s release time so that it’s far too quiet even 10-15s after the loud transient. I wish they would make it behave more like a brickwall limiter.