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jackwilsdon

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    This appears to only be in the Steam beta - the version available for download still requires Rosetta. There doesn't seem to be a direct download for the beta - you have to opt int…

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    There are silver pro parts on the marketplace, although I'm not sure if they're more aimed at converting a standard 13 to a pro: https://frame.work/gb/en/products/laptop13pro-input…

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    Comment #46587376

    Moving windows like this is already built into macOS but it's hidden behind a flag for some reason: defaults write -g NSWindowShouldDragOnGesture -bool true You can then use Contro…

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    Pebble Round 2

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NaDPMZKXcBU https://techcrunch.com/2026/01/02/pebble-reboots-its-thinnes...

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    Comment #46397181

    It appears to walk up from the process's working directory searching for a .git directory: https://github.com/pranshuparmar/witr/blob/1e47bdb8fde179b17...

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    Comment #46194935

    From what I can tell, if you're running the latest security preview release[1] then it's already fixed: https://grapheneos.org/releases#2025120400 [1]: https://discuss.grapheneos.o…

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    Comment #46077628

    Both of those have over >400 dependencies each [0] [1] but just in Rust instead - there hasn't been a Rust supply chain attack yet but is this any better? [2] Admittedly you're not…

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    Comment #45913197

    It is doing eye tracking for the foveated rendering - it has 2 cameras inside the visor for it.

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    Comment #45095712

    There's Alexa+ [0] which uses generative AI but it's planned to be a paid option at $20/mo. [0]: https://www.aboutamazon.com/news/devices/new-alexa-generativ...

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    Comment #45084902

    Monzo in the UK is basically app-only. They have an "emergency" web interface but it only allows read-only access (apart from un-freezing your card) and can only be used if you've …

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    Comment #44878140

    Richard Stallman is pretty much already doing this! > I generally do not connect to web sites from my own machine, aside from a few sites I have some special relationship with. I u…

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    Comment #44588551

    Related: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44491071

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    Comment #43915998

    There are community editions of IDEA and PyCharm which are free for commercial use too.

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    Comment #43420918

    RSS feed is here, just doesn't seem to be linked anywhere: https://fastcall.dev/index.xml

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    Comment #42886670

    https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/372170 is a promising step towards running multiple instances of a service with separate configurations and decoupling from systemd.

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    Comment #42521518

    It redirects to https://github.com/new?template_name=shot-scraper-template&t... if you're logged in.

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    Comment #42262233

    It seemed to get stuck in a loop for a while for me but eventually decided "EARTY" was the solution: https://pastebin.com/VwvRaqYK

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    Answered on explain xkcd ((4/π − 1/2) ohms, or roughly 0.773 ohms): https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/356:_Nerd_Sniping