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The user wants to "disable data collection ". The manufacturer offers only a kill switch for all connectivity , with all the unwanted effects (which they helpfully list). I've seen…

The birth rate in Switzerland (just as in many highly developed countries) is already way below 2.1 children per woman, which would be required to sustain the population. Any popul…

YES! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6fm567YGy5c

Because you can conceiled carry a smartphone? Please explain.

Even after Google puts this crap in place, you can still uplodad your own apps to your own Android devices, using ADB. Doing the same for iOS, using Xcode, costs you USD 100 or mor…

My personal perspective: 2 out of 3 MacBook Pro, I worked with, had expanding batteries after about 5 years. Replacement was a big hassle and the new no-name batteries are nowhere …

> We have people who can still do maths well after the introduction of the calculator. I assume by "do maths" you mean doing simple calculations, like adding a bunch of small numbe…

It created some "unconventional" routing :) The PCB also could be much smaller and the price seems a bit steep, when the IC itself costs only about $3: https://www.digikey.com/en/p…

My observation is that there's a certain group of programmers who "don't get graphical CAD" (their words) and prefer code based CAD. Now with LLMs, many of them like to spin up the…

Similar to mdview.io (markdown only, not offline) and a suggestion I made a while back: https://tinyurl.com/mrpas5dc

It doesn't feel like more ideas are explored, it feels like more variants of the same old things are produced. Ideas have always been hard and AI doesn't help with that.

Have you actually done it? Mine were 15" MacBooks, not 13" like in the video – maybe that makes a difference. It took me about 20 minutes. In the video the outer two battery packs …

MacBooks are not easy at all. I did it twice and it's an annoying, dangerous mess (danger of tearing the battery open). Apple won't even bother with it. If you want an "official jo…

You're wrong about that: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47835530

> without requiring […] thermal energy, or solvents to disassemble the product. No heat or solvents required. Sounds good.

212 cycles, still 100% capacity (maybe 99.5 rounded up) "relative to when it was new". Doesn't that seem a bit dodgy to you?

Of course it doesn't help if a beginner doesn't understand why their curl command fails. I wrote this half in jest, because everytime PowerShell comes up, people like to Bash it fo…

If you're on Windows, run this once: 'Remove-Alias curl, wget' >> $PROFILE Now please stop whining about these stupid aliases.

What the fuck is this? What even is a can holder for?

True, the logarithmic scale lends itself to programmatic creation. I just wanted to show that the wrapping part is easy. Actually much easier – that code looks non-trivial.

> wouldn't generally be easy to do with Fusion 360 Actually... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DNiQJyRTs50 You would create the numbers and marks in a vector drawing program (Inksc…

I understand the concerns, but some things just make life much harder. I would definitely want to spare my child from living with autism, ADHD and certainly Down syndrome, given th…

> AEPD […] known to be brutal. Nice. I wish more countries had something like that. Many of these organizations are lethargic and have to be forced into action by civilian efforts …

> This article’s framing and title are odd. It's called clickbait.

"Swift uses Automatic Reference Counting (ARC) to track and manage your app’s memory usage." https://docs.swift.org/swift-book/documentation/the-swift-pr...