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It’s always hard to tell whether a comment like this is supportive or sarcastic so this is either me agreeing or disagreeing with you… For me this kind of simple, straightforward, …

One of my favourite quotes from the late Terry Pratchett: > When the first explorers from the warm lands around the Circle Sea travelled into the chilly hinterland they filled in t…

NTSB preliminary report into the March LaGuardia crash

It might be in the original French, but it’s been anglicised and adopted as an English language term: https://www.oed.com/dictionary/toot-sweet_adv?tl=true

Sorry, I should have been clearer. I too get the same for Mac apps, but for iOS apps still see the same competitor results returned first. For me, that's the same whether I use the…

I just searched within the (edit: iOS App Store) App Store app for ublock origin lite “ublock origin lite” For the unquoted search, there are twelve different apps/items returned a…

I wonder if this has survived the recent cutbacks to USAID? And recently they are celebrating some big news on the lead fighting front: This week, UNICEF and the United States Agen…

Wonderfully, the official government webpage[1] lists his duties as: Larry spends his days greeting guests to the house, inspecting security defences and testing antique furniture …

It seems wrong that each individual sysadmin human in Space X would need to (a) login to my device remotely, and (b) require individual credentials to do so. Having some way to rem…

https://www.detective-store.com/optical-fibre-micro-camera-s...

I too would have asked the same question as GP, and also meant it genuinely. It feels like HN is a place where someone could summarise the (presumably strong) arguments against thi…

In the UK, they tend to rate highly in terms of reliability. They can’t be that differently made to the US? For example [1], [2] [1] https://www.warrantydirect.co.uk/blog/most-reli…

Better link to the original announcement: https://www.spreadsheet.com/blog/spreadsheet-com-will-be-ret...

This was a regular court process, with an independent judge and jury. It’s just the prosecution was run directly by the post office and not the public prosecutor. It still had very…

The killer features of BBC Basic for me were: - instant-on - you turned on the power switch at the back of the BBC Micro, got the double beep, and in less than a second were droppe…

The yahoo link you reference in [1] notes “All numbers in thousands” I think you might be off by 3 orders of magnitude and google could “afford” to pay every homeless person a thou…

How much cheaper are RISC-V chips in reality? I get there might be a saving for not having to pay ARM a royalty of some kind, but are RISC-V chips cheaper in practice as a result? …

A sibling comment makes the more relevant point about powerline, but it’s worth considering that whatever the power company has to pay, you the consumer will be paying for in the e…

> Elon will allow people he disagrees with on the platform I’m not comfortable relying on a single “benevolent” dictator decided what is and isn’t allowed on the platform. Particul…

I like to think some awards are less bad than others. See Autocar’s blog[1] about how they voted for the Car Of The Year award which they do every year. It seems to be reasonably t…

To be fair, a glance at her LinkedIn profile (top google search result for her name) suggests that 1969 could well be her birth year.

I’d go further for the specific example of the book. For me the price of reading a good book isn’t a price at all. It’s a gain. I’ve paid the first up front price to be able to rea…