<rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Hacker News: Tagbert</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=Tagbert</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Sat, 09 May 2026 16:44:19 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=Tagbert" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by Tagbert in "Meta Shuts Down End-to-End Encryption for Instagram Messaging"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>What is your concern about prompts to go OpenAI? Apple has a contract with OpenAI that explicitly prevents them from logging, storing, training, or making any use of your prompts other than to satisfy the specific current request. Apple has some good lawyers and I’m sure that the teeth are prominent in that contract.</p>
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<p>BTW there is a linguistic tradition of “hill hill”. When new immigrants come to an area and ask the locals what that hill is called, the locals say “big hill” in their language. The newcomers call it “bighill” hill in their language. I forget the examples but this has happened enough in England that there are places whose names are five hills deep (Brythonic -> Latin -> Saxon -> Norse -> Norman).</p>
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<p>Perhaps like a pharmacy that mixes their own medications from more basic ingredients and is known as a “compounding pharmacy”.<p>Probably just means everyone has to vibe code their own software.</p>
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<p>zingababba started this thread talking about mixing caffeine and nicotine.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 03 May 2026 17:33:02 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47999332</link><dc:creator>Tagbert</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47999332</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47999332</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by Tagbert in "Neanderthals ran 'fat factories' 125,000 years ago (2025)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>For some reason, Safari (on Mac) is only pulling two paragraphs from the source. it isn't AI generated but the parsing routine seems to break on this page. I don't see any particular properties that make these paragraphs stand out from the others.<p><p><span><span><span><span><span>The Neumark-Nord discoveries are continuing to reshape our view of Neanderthal adaptability and survival strategies. They show that Neanderthals could plan ahead, process food efficiently and make sophisticated use of their environment.</span></span></span></span></span></p><p><p><span><span><span><span><span><span>The authors emphasise the sheer quantity of herbivores that Neanderthals must have routinely been ‘harvesting’ in this warm-temperate phase: beyond the remains of minimally 172 large mammals processed at that small site alone within a very short period, hundreds of herbivores, including straight-tusked elephants, were butchered around the Neumark-Nord 1 lake in the early Last Interglacial, within the excavated areas only. Other exposures in the wider area around Neumark-Nord have yielded more coarse-grained evidence of regular exploitation of the same range of prey animals, at sites such as Rabutz, Gröbern and <a href="https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2309427120">Taubach</a>. The last site contained cut-marked remains of 76 rhinos and 40 straight-tusked elephants. Roebroeks: ‘Safely assuming that with these sites we are only looking at the tip of the proverbial ice-berg of Neanderthal impact on herbivore populations, especially on slowly-reproducing taxa, could have been substantial during the Last Interglacial.’</span></span></span></span></span></span></p></p>
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<p>No “representative” would mean that was a typical outcome and that is not the case. That is what would be called an “exceptional” outcome.</p>
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<p>The $349 iPad has an A16 chip. The Neo has an A18pro chip. the iPad Air has an M4 chip but is $599. The single-core performance of the A18pro and the M4 are the same as they have the same kind of chip cores. The M4 has a couple more cores though.<p>I’m not sure why you are having to much problem with FaceID. Low light shouldn’t matter as it doesn’t use ambient light to “see” your face. It has an infrared emitter that shines a pattern on your face and that is what the sensor picks up.</p>
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<p>Touch and mouse are complementary inputs that must be included. Working on a Windows laptop with touch and an iPad with Magic Keyboard have convinced me of that.<p>Don’t make the mistake of thinking that having touch means you only use touch. Same for a mouse/trackpad pointer. Each has strengths and weaknesses and it better at some tasks than others. The pointer is good for clicking on small UI elements or doing small movements. It suffers with larger movements across the screen. Touch is good for scrolling, zooming, tapping buttons, tabs, and sometimes links. It’s good for jumping around the screen and moving things.<p>The keyboard is a third input/control interface and can be even faster and more precise than the mouse pointer. When the mouse first came on the scene, people derided it as less efficient than a keyboard and complained that you had to move your fingers away from the keyboard to use one. They swore they would never use one.<p>Where these work best is a mix of input modes using different ones for different scenarios. Having a mix if broad and precise inputs means you don’t need to tailor the whole interface for just precision or just broad strokes. The interface can be designed to accommodate the presentation of information and let the choice of inputs be up to the user. A side benefit of having difference input modes is that your hands move in different ways for each. You are less subject to repetitive stress from doing the same hand motion for everything.</p>
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<p>Similar to the reports that talk about health problems with sweeteners. Not enough good data to be informative and actionable.</p>
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<p>You assume that everyone needs more battery life. That need is highly variable based on different use and access to chargers.</p>
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<p>I agree. The ads were an import part of reading those magazines. They were relevant and at least somewhat informative. Also, they gave you a way to buy the products you needed. Back then you couldn't just get on Amazon, Alibaba, or Ebay and buy anything. You had to search for a source.</p>
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<p>I found that the ads in those magazines were also informative. not unbiased, but a good introduction to new products.</p>
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<p>I don't suppose you have Ford F350s in your area? You could put that Ranger in the glove box.</p>
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<p>That tautological is not a mistake. Surviving to reproduce is the definition of fitness from an evolutionary standpoint.</p>
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<p>yea, this was in DOS days.<p>On one project I was using autolisp in AutoCAD, Then another language in an external database, and some pascal work to tie them together. I had to segregate my work to separate days to keep from getting my syntax all screwed up.</p>
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<p>AFAIK - Synapsida were originally termed mammal-like reptiles before the Amniota group was applied.</p>
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<p>I used to do a lot with AutoLisp in AutoCAD back when it ran in DOS. Did a lot of dynamic creation and manipulation of the models with it. It was useful and a lot of fun (aside from parenthesis nesting).</p>
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<p>It’s a movie, not a book. The audio book is 16 hours runtime. The movie is 2 hours. Some things were always going to be left out. The details of the science stuff was one of them. It works better in a book narrative where the process is told than a movie where it’s visual and you have to show.<p>The Martian book has more of the science process than PHM book does to begin with.<p>The movie hit all of the primary points but never got into the details. If you read the book you can fill in the details. I imagine that a lot of people watching the movie didn’t know why some things were happening. Maybe some will be interested enough to read the book or the audiobook. If not, they had a good experience in the movie anyway.<p>It’s still a really good movie.</p>
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<p>That kind of thing is more standard procedure for evolution than an exception. Since evolution doesn't plan but just makes use of what it has with slide variations, changes play out along paths that are easier rather than optimal. That's how you get a thumb on the panda evolved from a projection on the wrist.</p>
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<p>Noted, but I think I'll pass. Doesn't seem to be much benefit if you have to train yourself to discern a difference just so you can stream massive files.<p>Of course this does matter to some people and I say "have fun".</p>
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