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tssva··on SwiftUI, Universal, CloudKit-Based Free Cocktail App
Wish I could add ingredients to the list of ingredients on hand, there were more choices of glassware and the type of ice could be selected. The 1st drink I went to add is traditionally served in a hurricane glass and is shaken then poured over crushed ice.
tssva··on Ask HN: Why can't I find NDK for Linux ARM64?
Google does not currently provide official linux aarch64 host versions of the NDK. A feature request ticket has been open for several years requesting one and is currently marked as no plans. Directions can be found for compiling the NDK yourself or there are several community provided builds available.
tssva··on Kids Rarely Read Whole Books Anymore. Even in English Class
Are they writing the test questions in cursive? If not I’m not sure what this has to do with my comment.
tssva··on Upcoming Changes to Let's Encrypt Certificates
Maybe you get downvoted because this isn't centralizing all the power of the internet to one organization rather than being downvoted because people don't have an issue with that.
tssva··on Kids Rarely Read Whole Books Anymore. Even in English Class
What? Next you are going to tell me they can’t use an abacus or properly impress cuneiform into clay tablets.
tssva··on IBM to acquire Confluent
I retired a couple of years ago at 54 and now spend my days feeding horses, mucking stalls and spreading the resulting manure (a task consulting prepared me for), but for about 24 of my 30 year career prior to retiring I worked for consulting companies and was lucky enough to never sit on the bench.
tssva··on IBM to acquire Confluent
"It's also weird being in IBM, because if your "contract" ends they put you on the bench. Then you basically have to job hunt within IBM, and if you can't find anything within a month or so you are out. It's super weird."

This is standard operating procedure at most consulting/professional services firms.

tssva··on Ask HN: What is the best Christmas movie?
Die Hard
tssva··on U.S. to Charge International Tourists $100 to Visit National Parks
I don’t agree with a lot that comes out of this administration but am onboard with this decision. The parks are funded by US tax dollars primarily for the benefit of US citizens and residents, so it makes sense to charge more for non-residents. I have to pay more when visiting some county and state parks within the US for the same reason. Also the parks which these increased fees will apply to are some of the most popular parks which are becoming increasingly difficult to gain entrance to as the number of visitors are limited to preserve the nature of the parks. Increasing the fees should help reduce the demand for entrance among foreign visitors allowing more US residents the opportunity to visit the parks.
tssva··on GLP-1 drugs linked to lower death rates in colon cancer patients
I take a glp-1 and suffer no ill effects when I eat something "forbidden".
tssva··on At this SF grocery store, you can't leave unless you buy something
I live in an affulent area of one of the wealthiest counties in the country. The homeless rate and crime rate are significantly lower than the national average for the county as a whole and the numbers for my area of the county are significantly lower than the county as a whole. I went into a local grocery store on Monday and they had installed these gates at some point over the last week.
tssva··on Mysterious Intrigue Around an x86 "Corporate Entity Other Than Intel/AMD"
Zhaoxin is addressed in the article and also why the author considers it unlikely they are the "corporate entity" in question.
tssva··on Liquid Glass Is Cracked, and Usability Suffers in iOS 26
I still find Apple Maps to be awful. It consistently gives poor directions. For example the exit you need to take from the closest major road to reach my neighborhood splits once you are on it. If you continue straight you reach a stop light where you can then take a left and then continue 1/8th of a mile to the turn for my neighborhood. Apple Maps will instead have you go to the right when the exit splits and then have you continue another 1/2 mile before taking a u-turn and heading back the 5/8ths of a mile to turn into my neighborhood. Google Maps does the right thing. I now warn visitors to use Google Maps or to ignore these directions from Apple Maps.

I also live near a large city and a couple of smaller cities with busy downtown areas. In each of them the main streets are virtually impossible to perform a u-turn on because of the large amount of traffic. Apple Maps will insist on giving directions which involve taking u-turns on these streets. Google Maps will instead route you the easier way around the block instead of insisting on an impossible u-turn which in the end is slower because of the difficulty in actually performing the maneuver.

Also I find the directions from Apple Maps when taking an exit which further splits into multiple exits to be highly confusing. The spoken directions from Google Maps is much better in these circumstances.

Every new release I try Apple Maps again just to see if it has gotten better in these circumstances and every release I am disappointed.

tssva··on Ladybird passes the Apple 90% threshold on web-platform-tests
The tweet mentions that this is an arbitrary metric thrust upon them by Apple, so I don’t think they would necessarily disagree with you. During the monthly updates they do also show the passing number of tests without including the encoding tests because of how much they skew things.
tssva··on Ubuntu 25.10's Rust Coreutils Is Causing Major Breakage for Some Executables
I believe the way it generally works is the person that makes a claim has the burden to provide evidence it is true.
tssva··on The QNX Operating System
Do you have any plans to backup the software and ROMs to archive.org? Lack of access to the ROMs has been a stumbling point for creating an emulator for this system.
tssva··on Ubuntu 25.10's Rust Coreutils Is Causing Major Breakage for Some Executables
"No one has ever" regarding human actions is quite a bold claim to make in relation to anything.
tssva··on Fed delivers normal-sized rate cut, sees steady pace of further reductions
As the article states the Fed has to balance two mandates, controlling inflation and strong employment. Unfortunately as is often the case in life these 2 goals are sometimes at odds with each other. The Fed also has limited and very crude tools at its disposal. If employment numbers looked good and inflation was not at the goal rate then we likely would not have seen an interest rate cut, but employment numbers have been weak and look to be trending worse so we get a 1/4 point cut hoping the spur to employment will outweigh the effect on inflation.
tssva··on Tyler Robinson charged with aggravated murder, DNA found on gun trigger
Scumbag on scumbag violence.
tssva··on Ask HN: Has remote work made you happier or just lonelier?
I worked remotely from home for 12 years and never thought that. 80-90% of my work day was interacting with people. I could have used a little less interaction with work colleagues many days. Then there was the in person interaction with friends and family after work and on weekends.
tssva··on Coffee poll: what do you usually order? I order a latte
Is it still an order if you make it yourself? I can’t remember the last time I ordered a coffee at a coffee shop but I make myself a sugar-free pistachio latte every morning.
tssva··on Linus Torvalds calls RISC-V code from Google engineer 'garbage'
A link is provided in the article which will take you directly to Linus's message on the kernel mailing list.
tssva··on Newsom says CA will hold special election to combat Trump, TX redistricting
The article is regarding a ballot initiative proposed by Governor Newsom which if approved by the voters would allow an exception to the law.
tssva··on Ladybird Browser July Update [video]
Opera moved away from presto in 2013 which is 2 years before Microsoft introduced their EdgeHTML engine and 7 years before the final EdgeHTML based version of the Edge browser.
tssva··on BlueOS Kernel – Written in Rust, compatible with POSIX
That’s great but not what the comment you responded to was regarding.
tssva··on BlueOS Kernel – Written in Rust, compatible with POSIX
I’m using the definition that something can’t be done. The comment you responded to was regarding releasing a compiled ko and having it supported by newer kernels. Your response was we solved this by recompiling it.
tssva··on BlueOS Kernel – Written in Rust, compatible with POSIX
I’m confused. That fact that you had to recompile for each new kernel reinforces the quote you are seeking to challenge.
tssva··on It's a DE9, not a DB9 (but we know what you mean)
Maybe next they can work on getting people to stop calling Category 3 - 8 cables Ethernet cables.
tssva··on Travelers to the U.S. must pay a new $250 'visa integrity fee' – what to know
The fee is per visa and not per entry. Non-immigrant work visas usually are valid between 12 - 36 months depending upon the type of visa.
tssva··on Thunderbird 140 “Eclipse”
I delete email everyday.
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