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Gotcha. I look forward to checking it out.

Ooh, is this public anywhere? Definitely an area of interest of mine :)

Seconded. I went in with only a vague awareness of what Bois' thing is and knowing it somehow involved Tims, Als, and oceanic telegraph cables. I was not disappointed.

Ah, interesting - I saved the video but haven’t gotten around to watching it yet. I don’t know if this is touched on, but it certainly does seem like Gabe’s statement could be a ni…

Apple’s new Foundation model for the 27 OS releases does some interesting things in exactly this area: https://machinelearning.apple.com/research/introducing-third...

I was so steamed about this as a teenager back when it happened - pretty sure it was one of the foundational reasons I started to consider building my own gaming PC once I got the …

Yes, I mean, that’s also a possibility - or someone didn’t know they needed to screw on the antenna, or it’s otherwise borked. Every PC motherboard (sample size of four, three for …

Ooh, thanks for the insight, I didn’t realize that - though that makes sense given how they work. My initial reaction is, I like the idea of the pure hardware-locked passkey as you…

I recognize the point of your post is more about the lack of clarity and details around passkeys. That's real, and I don't really have an answer for that - other than, I think mayb…

I have a history of asking incredibly basic questions about the assumptions that are going in to a debugging issue for exactly these kinds of reasons. Something changed somewhere; …

Given they’ve had several skirmishes with customs and law enforcement agencies around the world, this always struck me as similar to the “don’t talk about installing retail Switch …

To be clear, while there is _specific_ language around DEI/gender identity, the actual language of parts of this goes far, far further, and essentially codifies giving political ap…

I just finished a video game called 1000xResist this afternoon. There's a lot going on, to say the least - a sci-fi story involving an alien virus, intergenerational trauma, what i…

The reasoning tokens are really just there to extend the amount the LLM can "compute" the problem; put another way, the only way a given model can "think" more about a problem is t…

…lots of major mail services do? https://www.fastmail.help/hc/en-us/articles/360060591413-Spa... https://senders.yahooinc.com/smtp-error-codes/ https://www.xfinity.com/support/arti…

I would buy this argument if Flash as a browser plugin had been proven to perform well on a mobile device of the time, but it never was, on Android or any other platform. Even AIR …

For the first year, Scott Forstall, the Senior Vice President in charge of the iPhone's software, very directly encouraged companies like Pandora[0] to jailbreak iPhones in order t…

re: #2: I'm in this description, and I am anguished by how much I do not like it. (reference: https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/im-in-this-photo-and-i-dont-l... )

My understanding is that the case was flimsy enough that no "hardcore" lawyers wanted to represent him. It's not just a matter of money; their record (and, therefore, future earnin…

At least as of when I left the company, GitHub was being deployed to fairly close to once every 60-90 minutes (the frequency of a deploy train/merge queue batch going out) 24 hours…

Oh, I completely agree. But I admit I'm a bit of a retro enthusiast and preservationist at heart, so I was curious what "mattered" to a rando HN commenter :P

Wow - I remember that from the System 7 days. I thought that was long gone - how did I not notice that checkbox was still there in Get Info this whole time?

Why doesn’t this project “really matter?”

EDIT: For anyone unfamiliar, the MiSTer is a homebrew FPGA project originally built around a Terasic DE-10 Nano that can emulate in hardware a wide variety of consoles and computer…