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> promising the impossible — the 19th century version of Steve Job’s reality distortion field. Seriously, that’s your best example of that lately? Not, I don’t know, Tesla FSD? The…

Let me add to that: how about “no uncontrolled left turns onto busy streets” mode? Google Maps does this to me all the time and it’s infuriating, it’s up to me to avoid it.

Yeah I wish I hadn’t, this will not help me get to sleep at night

Mine was just over $1 billion. I thought the email was a phish at first and almost trashed it, but it seemed otherwise very real, so I logged in to AWS just to check. Then I almost…

I really enjoyed the line “The incident was resolved when the attacker’s autonomous agent read a file it shouldn’t have, which is also how the incident started.”

Could really use a good rollback mechanism, is there one in the works perchance? I have broken my home server multiple times with bad InfluxDB and Grafana updates, and rollback was…

Exactly this. Seriously, look at a 10 year graph of SQ/XYZ. How a board of directors puts up with this is beyond me, seems like a massive governance failure.

I do love the random stream of pics at the end.

I appear to be in the minority here, but I really like Liquid Glass on iPhone, Apple Watch, and especially Apple TV. But I do hate it on the Mac, the window borders are so thick an…

Reading about the Azores high, Hadley cells, etc. on Wikipedia is incredibly illuminating. Hadley cells and related phenomena combined with the Coriolis effect explain a bunch of w…

Yeah, I tried to read the post and was immediately put off by the lack of capitalization. Then I came to the comments and had to fight the urge to ask “why not capitals”

Meta, but I’m glad to see Eclectic Light getting some love on HN lately, it’s such a great resource for really in-depth articles on macOS internals (and art!)

Yeah. I mean, the headline is just straight up false: > Whisper Aero unveils ultra-quiet electric leaf blower, powered by aerospace tech

Looks a lot like the app World Clock Pro I’ve used for a while: https://worldclock.pro/mobile/

What a bad headline. “Raises emission standards” sounds like a good thing, i.e. making the standard more strict, but actually the article is about Texas raising emission limits .

The goal was to stop Congress from certifying the vote. That’s not a protest, that’s sedition, plain and simple.

No, the tactic used in non-democratic societies is to take power by force, which is what was attempted on January 6.

Hard to take seriously when the cons list doesn’t even have “versions no longer indicate breaking changes”.

> It contends that there was collusion between Apple and Facebook to protect their abuses of dominance in the marketplace s/Apple/Google/

Besides Reader View as mentioned by others, you can increase the zoom of the page (accessible in the “aA” button to the left of the URL.) This particular site renders pretty well a…

From watching the documentary linked in another comment, a big part of the JWST’s potential is its deep-infrared sensitivity, which in turn requires very cold temperatures and exqu…

If it’s on, apps still have to ask. Global opt-in is what it used to be.