javawizard

It's stylistically typical in English for someone writing on behalf of an organization to use "we" to refer to the organization in its entirety, not to the individual or individuals doing the writing - so in something such as this, "we" is indeed appropriate as Apple the company definitely was there when they released Private Browsing back in 2005.

Or frozen food.

The sort of situation where I order DoorDash now (too busy to go out, going through a major depressive episode and don't have the emotional energy to cook) I would have microwaved a frozen meal 10 years ago.

> Argon [...] cost about $2 per liter each.

Uh, what?? No it doesn't.

I'm a hobbyist welder. When TIG welding you typically use 100% argon gas. I have a 60 cu ft cylinder hooked up to my welder right now; it costs $89 to refill at my local Airgas store.

That's approximately 5.2 cents per liter.

Here's a 40 cu ft tank of argon for sale on Amazon for $205: https://www.amazon.com/100-Argon-Welding-Tank-CGA/dp/B00I4Z6...

That's a new cylinder so most of the cost is the cylinder itself, but even then, that only comes out to 18.1 cents.

How on earth did TFA come up with $2/liter? Did they get liters and cubic feet mixed up while doing their research?

Not sure what you're saying, can you elaborate?

Xoogler here.

This exactly. There is so much boilerplate involved in writing anything inside Google.

AI was great to cut that down a bit. It's still nowhere near what it's like in the outside and/or non-Java world.

Which isn't to say that this isn't progress - just that that stat should be taken with context.

Source? A brief perusal around the internet seems to indicate this is an urban legend.

Given that it's not a Show HN, I would assume the author and the person who posted it are different people.

Without discounting any of your other points, I just have to note the irony in saying:

> TSL is not really a language to be pedantic, because it is an EDSL

where the "L" in "EDSL" stands for "language" :)

I'm guessing GP meant something more like:

What's so newsworthy about this?

You must not be a fan of https://youtu.be/_ve4M4UsJQo?si=99yLl7V2hisVp0zT then.

(That commercial literally had Honda execs complimenting the team on the quality of their CGI when they first saw it. Needless to say they were blown away when they found out it was real.)

> (Relatedly, the connector used for Ethernet is not an RJ45.)

Wait, what? I cannot find a single source on Google for this - they all say RJ45 is the correct term.

If it's not an RJ45, what is it?

Fair enough :)

How on earth is this related to the article?

Those stickers seem like an example of good and obvious design.

Am I missing something?

I believe the word "trite" generally implies overuse to the point of uselessness. These warnings very much have a use to indigenous peoples, and they serve that use well - so I'd argue that they don't qualify.

Nope.

Passkeys use public-key authentication wherein the server only stores the public half of a keypair and the client authenticates by correctly signing a challenge sent by the server, which the server then verifies using the public key.

At no point is the private key ever sent over the network or otherwise exposed to any infrastructure or code controlled by the server.

Mine does! The last two renewal cycles my insurance bill has dropped by ~3%.

It's not much but it's something. I suspect it has to do with my car getting older and my comprehensive being worth less.

The risk of your password getting stolen in between your browser and whatever hash algorithm the service you're authenticating with puts your password through before storing/verifying it.

That's the benefit you get from passkeys that no password manager will otherwise be able to give you.

> If you use a software-based password manager, passkeys are indistinguishable from passwords both from a UX perspective and a security perspective.

That's not correct. Passkeys use public-key cryptography and a challenge-response authentication mechanism, so an adversary in possession of a read-only copy of the database of the service you're trying to authenticate with won't be able to authenticate as you - which is very much a security improvement over passwords, even when both are stored in a password manager.

I'll save everyone else the Google search then: https://www.phoenixnewtimes.com/news/michael-lacey-jim-larki...

> for a family of 4

may be the bit you're missing :)

Was it? From TFA:

> [...] despite a large portion of the game being doable in singleplayer [...]

I think they're referring to:

- The standard BART fleet

- eBART: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/EBART

- The Oakland Connector: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oakland_Airport_Connector

All of which use completely different and mutually incompatible rolling stock.

I'm relatively ambivalent on the name issue specifically, but I do think this has been hashed over ad nauseum to the point of making for boring reading. This line from the HN guidelines:

> Please don't pick the most provocative thing in an article or post to complain about in the thread. Find something interesting to respond to instead.

stands out as particularly relevant.

Yeah I wonder about that. They mention the whole glass build unit enclosure thing - that seems like that gives them a massive advantage over other SLA printers already.

Wonder what else they've done?

(And for that matter, how big is the risk anyway? As another commenter pointed out, flour is explosive too, but we don't have to do anything special with our flour bins at home to deal with it.)

Holy shit, this is mind blowing.

I really hope they're able to pull it off. FDM printing is great but not when it comes to arbitrary geometries. I needed to print a 3-way ducting tee the other day that would have been incredibly time consuming to do on my Bambu X1 with all the support filament switching that would have been needed - whereas this printer would have been able to knock it out in no time flat.

Really looking forward to when this releases.

You can print them, but the "hollow" chamber you print will be full of powder with no way to remove said powder. That's a well-established limitation of both SLS and SLA printing.

The classic way of getting around that is to leave a small hole in the chamber that's open to the outside - then you drain the powder out of that hole and, if needed, plug it up after you're done.

The term you'll want to search for is "digitizing". It's roughly the embroidery equivalent of CAM design in CNC manufacturing.

Depending on how much time you have, this video[0] is a decent in-depth overview[1] of the various ins and outs of embroidery patch digitizing. I'd give it a watch while you're on a walk or something.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/live/jATHlfz8mtM?si=Lvw-ZTq8tmLg9ij-

[1] Heh, "in-depth overview" sounds like a total oxymoron. Hopefully you get what I meant!

There's a general term for this, designing for manufacturability[0].

I've made something of a hobby of learning new ways to manufacture things. Every time I learn a new manufacturing technique I start to notice things that were made that way in the real world, and I especially start to notice aspects of design that would have been influenced by how the thing in question was manufactured.

Case in point: injection molding. When you injection mold parts, the sides have to be tapered so that the part can detach from the mold easily (the term of art for that is "drafting"[1]). Once you know that, you see it everywhere.

Back to the topic at hand: owning an embroidery machine and learning how to digitize completely opened my mind to all the intricacies of patch design and why all of what the parent comment said is true. Case in point:

> military patches look best when using lines with fixed-width

This is because the thread itself is fixed width, and you can either do a straight stitch for really thin lines (they call that a running stitch[2]) or you can do a sort of zigzag stitch that's so tight that the thread runs horizontally and fills up the line width (they call that a satin stitch[3]). Satin stitches only look good within a certain narrow range of widths; wider and the threads are too loose, narrower and the needle holes are close enough that they impact the structural integrity of the backing the design's being embroidered on to.

Anyway. I could go on for hours, but to wrap up: DFM is a fascinating world to explore.

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Design_for_manufacturability

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Draft_(engineering)

[2] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Straight_stitch

[3] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satin_stitch

One of the most relevant to the HN crowd: Yukihiro Matsumoto, a.k.a. Matz, the creator of Ruby.

A much better way of phrasing my comment, thank you.

It's perfectly valid for PH to say "we don't believe the requirements of the law are reasonable so we're choosing to not do business in Texas rather than comply" - but that's a very different conversation than "the requirements the law imposes on us/other adult websites are impossible to satisfy from a technical perspective".