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New comment by 716dpl in "Rank the 50 best Apple products"

716dpl — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 16:07:27 +0000

I feel that anything that was a brand new thing in its time should rank highly: Hypercard, Apple I, original Macintosh, OS X, PowerBook 100, original iPhone.

New comment by 716dpl in "Rank the 50 best Apple products"

716dpl — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 16:01:49 +0000

Watch your mouth, kid!

New comment by 716dpl in "VitruvianOS – Desktop Linux Inspired by the BeOS"

716dpl — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 14:36:06 +0000

I find it soothing. There is ornamentation in its design, but it's precise and minimal, but also friendly. The icons, in particular, look so good.

New comment by 716dpl in "RFC 454545 – Human Em Dash Standard"

716dpl — Tue, 10 Mar 2026 15:32:36 +0000

A simpler solution may be to use an en dash, even though they are not interchangeable and em dashes are the proper punctuation for parenthetical phrases. As a typography pedant, I’m annoyed that LLMs have forced us to talk about this.

New comment by 716dpl in "MacBook Neo"

716dpl — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 13:21:30 +0000

Apple Computer had a strong focus on the education market back in the day. I wonder if this is a play to re-enter that market.

New comment by 716dpl in "Following 35% growth, solar has passed hydro on US grid"

716dpl — Wed, 25 Feb 2026 18:52:04 +0000

Limited water resource. In recent drought years, gas-fired power plants in California had to make up for reduced hydro generation.

New comment by 716dpl in "New accounts on HN more likely to use em-dashes"

716dpl — Wed, 25 Feb 2026 16:17:04 +0000

As a typography nerd, I’m upset that my pedantism may get me labelled as a bot. (Yes, I just used a typographic apostrophe instead of a straight single quote.)

New comment by 716dpl in "Ultrasound is ushering a new era of surgery-free cancer treatment"

716dpl — Tue, 14 Oct 2025 15:55:56 +0000

There was a game in the early '80s called Microsurgeon where you piloted a robot probe into a body to cure it of diseases. It was armed with an array of tools, one of which was ultrasound that you could use to destroy cancer. I wonder how long this idea has been around for.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsurgeon_(video_game)