Hacker News: Tagbert

New comment by Tagbert in "Helium escaping from atmosphere of nearby rocky exoplanet in a habitable zone"

Tagbert — Fri, 17 Jul 2026 15:04:34 +0000

Do you have any reference for that? I have a hard time seeing how that would be true once the components were coalesced but maybe before that.

New comment by Tagbert in "The Tower Keeps Rising"

Tagbert — Tue, 14 Jul 2026 20:25:47 +0000

Apple AirPods and Google buds both can do automatic translation. It's still a little too slow and is a little clumsy to use but it's getting better fast.

New comment by Tagbert in "Snails' teeth beats spider silk as nature's strongest material (2015)"

Tagbert — Sat, 11 Jul 2026 15:57:56 +0000

Both are in the same order of magnitude.

New comment by Tagbert in "Every new car sold in the European Union must include a driver monitoring camera"

Tagbert — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 21:38:48 +0000

more likely that this is a harder problem than regulators assume.

New comment by Tagbert in "CarPlay Is Additive"

Tagbert — Fri, 03 Jul 2026 20:47:19 +0000

You really should keep that child strapped into their car seat.

If you are concerned about blocking visibility, none of the screens are high enough to block view of the area in front of the car. They only block the upper part of the dashboard or some of the hood.

New comment by Tagbert in "CarPlay Is Additive"

Tagbert — Fri, 03 Jul 2026 20:42:47 +0000

The things that CarPlay does are not the things that are controlled with buttons. Navigation, music, audiobooks, notifications work best with a screen. The driving and vehicle features like heat, blinkers, etc are where you want dedicated physical buttons.

New comment by Tagbert in "The Meadows of Medieval Summer"

Tagbert — Thu, 02 Jul 2026 16:33:49 +0000

Both the article and the original comment are referencing July, not June.

New comment by Tagbert in "I Stored a Website in a Favicon"

Tagbert — Sat, 20 Jun 2026 16:42:12 +0000

Then there is this one. Seems to be a trend.

“Pong in S Favicon” https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48608681

New comment by Tagbert in "Apple Foundation Models"

Tagbert — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 20:17:26 +0000

No, that post is about Claude for Foundation Models. That is not the same as Apple Intelligence.

the Swift package for Claude for Foundation Models is about sending calls to Claude. That had nothing to do with Apples models which do use local models and models on Private Cloud Compute.

Your accusation that "Apple straight up lied" is based on misunderstanding TFA.

New comment by Tagbert in "Apple reveals new AI architecture built around Google Gemini models"

Tagbert — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 12:54:49 +0000

Consider that they described the development process as taking Siri down to bare metal and rebuilding on a new architecture. I don’t think our previous Siri experience will be particularly relevant.

New comment by Tagbert in "New method turns ocean water into drinking water, without waste"

Tagbert — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 17:23:48 +0000

It’s mostly that it takes energy. If fresh water is we drink that. There aren’t a lot of places where only salt water is available so, for most animals, it isn’t worth it to have evolved a way to extract water from salt water.

Animals in the ocean of course do live without fresh water. Some of them just live off of water extracted directly from their food or from metabolizing that food, which produces water. Some animals have specialized cells that excrete salt so that can take in salt water and separate out the salt.

New comment by Tagbert in "Journey to JPEG XL: open-source experiments shaped the future of image coding"

Tagbert — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 12:51:35 +0000

They are working on it. It is in Firefox Nightly behind a flag.

New comment by Tagbert in "What Apple and Google are doing to push notifications"

Tagbert — Thu, 28 May 2026 05:53:27 +0000

Our Okta is setup so that it usually does the two-factor before asking for password.

New comment by Tagbert in "Nobody understands the point of hybrid cars [video]"

Tagbert — Wed, 20 May 2026 13:45:41 +0000

That is a series hybrid.

The Chevy Volt was one and the current Honda CRV is another. Both of them work mainly by the gas engine driving one of the electric motors as a generator while the other motor drives the vehicle. They have a simple eCVT transmission. However, both vehicles have a mode where they directly engage the engine to the transmission at highway speed cruising because that is more efficient.

Nissan has a series hybrid system that they have used in the Note that is only the series hybrid without the direct connect mode. That saves some money.

New comment by Tagbert in "Haiku OS runs on M1 Macs now"

Tagbert — Wed, 20 May 2026 02:07:12 +0000

FYI it was Apple that bought a struggling NeXT.

New comment by Tagbert in "Apple unveils new accessibility features"

Tagbert — Tue, 19 May 2026 16:48:38 +0000

It is a very manual process and would probably be an inefficient way to collect that data.

New comment by Tagbert in "Apple unveils new accessibility features"

Tagbert — Tue, 19 May 2026 16:47:02 +0000

Also, the Touch Bar seemed to be abandoned as soon as it launched. It only ever launched on the Pro line. There were never any feature updates. They never made it flexible enough for people to customize it.

New comment by Tagbert in "Haiku OS runs on M1 Macs now"

Tagbert — Mon, 18 May 2026 19:54:56 +0000

Funny, I was just thinking about getting an old Intel Mac mini that I could use to play around with Haiku and a few other things. Maybe I’ll revisit those plans.

New comment by Tagbert in "Points are a weird and inconsistent unit of measure"

Tagbert — Sun, 17 May 2026 17:03:48 +0000

center to center.

New comment by Tagbert in "Points are a weird and inconsistent unit of measure"

Tagbert — Sat, 16 May 2026 15:21:55 +0000

Pixels have pitch, which is the distance between pixels. That is what is usually meant when talking about px as a measurement. It is analogous to dpi or ppi or the metric version.