Hacker News: abrowne

New comment by abrowne in "Sam Bankman-Fried loses bid to appeal against fraud conviction in FTX case"

abrowne — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 13:59:03 +0000

Bankman won't be Fried

New comment by abrowne in "Europe's largest Copper Age tomb: children's bones show ancient health crisis"

abrowne — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 02:49:40 +0000

Source article: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S187998172...

New comment by abrowne in "MacBook Neo Is So Popular That Apple Doubled Production"

abrowne — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 20:24:44 +0000

I agree with your comment generally, but note that Dell's $699 competitor they announced this week has has a slightly larger screen than the Neo with similar resolution and brightness but better color coverage.

New comment by abrowne in "What Is a Dickover?"

abrowne — Sat, 30 May 2026 13:54:52 +0000

I can't imagine browsing the web without user stylesheets. (I guess I can, but I don't want to.)

New comment by abrowne in "What Is a Dickover?"

abrowne — Sat, 30 May 2026 01:39:34 +0000

Any site I visit regularly gets a user stylesheet via Stylus that I use to hide anything like this.

New comment by abrowne in "Bttf is a command line datetime Swiss army knife"

abrowne — Thu, 28 May 2026 14:31:08 +0000

I know that if you want `fd` (https://github.com/sharkdp/fd) you need to `apt install fd-find` and which installs the binary `fdfind` (!).

New comment by abrowne in "Air France and Airbus found guilty of manslaughter over 2009 plane crash"

abrowne — Sun, 24 May 2026 02:02:15 +0000

Hearing this in the news reminded me of William Langewiesche's great piece in vanity fair about the cause: https://www.vanityfair.com/news/business/2014/10/air-france-...

New comment by abrowne in "Vivaldi 8.0"

abrowne — Thu, 21 May 2026 18:28:48 +0000

Sustainable means those sources of income will continue, not that they are positive for users.

New comment by abrowne in "Minnesota becomes first state to ban prediction markets"

abrowne — Tue, 19 May 2026 20:49:39 +0000

There's plenty of legal gambling in Minnesota. To quote the Minnesota Legislative Reference Library it includes

"horse racing, a card club at Canterbury Park, Indian tribal casinos, charitable gambling, and a state lottery."

(https://www.lrl.mn.gov/guides/guides?issue=gambling)

New comment by abrowne in "Iran will impose fees on subsea internet cables in Strait of Hormuz"

abrowne — Mon, 18 May 2026 18:58:34 +0000

14-month old article headline, but hasn't aged a bit:

American Foreign Policy Is Being Run by the Dumbest Motherfuckers Alive

(Daniel W. Drezner https://danieldrezner.substack.com/p/american-foreign-policy...)

New comment by abrowne in "I love Linux, but I can't quit Windows"

abrowne — Fri, 15 May 2026 16:38:05 +0000

Contrary anecdote: I've installed and used Linux, mainly Ubuntu desktop (GNOME) on a dozen or so computers in the last ten years, including several older MacBooks, a Surface Go for my son and an HP I special ordered without Windows. I come from a Mac background and use the terminal, but I've never need to do so to get them to work. Sure I've tweaked them, but only cosmetic things like locales and default fonts. For install and use I haven't done anything special. Old MacBooks need wi-fi drivers, which usually Ubuntu will find. Besides that everything has honestly just worked for me.

New comment by abrowne in "Safari and Firefox change how big sites render based on the domain"

abrowne — Fri, 15 May 2026 01:33:21 +0000

Ditto. The only thing I can remember of is Apple Maps. They used to allow only Windows or something? But they relented eventually.

New comment by abrowne in "MacBook Neo Deep Dive: Benchmarks, Wafer Economics, and the 8GB Gamble"

abrowne — Thu, 14 May 2026 19:06:56 +0000

If a {Dell, HP, Lenovo} firmware update fails leaving the computer bricked, can you use another {Dell, HP, Lenovo} to restore the firmware?

(Honest question: I'm a longtime Mac user, I use Macs at work and I can tell you the correct DFU port for each model. But my home computer for the last 6 years has been an HP EliteBook with Ubuntu.)

New comment by abrowne in "Googlebook"

abrowne — Tue, 12 May 2026 20:18:01 +0000

Cancelled presumably because instead they will move new Chromebooks to this Android OS.

New comment by abrowne in "Googlebook"

abrowne — Tue, 12 May 2026 19:16:11 +0000

I don't think these are Chromebook successors. This is supposed to be a premium line according to the "Android Show" video. But I suspect future Chromebooks will use this OS eventually.

New comment by abrowne in "Googlebook"

abrowne — Tue, 12 May 2026 18:53:43 +0000

Google isn't making these (or having them – the devices themselves – made under a Google brand). Acer, Asus, Dell, HP and Lenovo are making them.

New comment by abrowne in "Mark Zuckerberg is reportedly building an AI clone to replace him in meetings"

abrowne — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 15:11:08 +0000

They're going to be stuck in the uncanny valley where you feel like you can actually trust what the machine says.

New comment by abrowne in "French e, è, é, ê, ë – what's the difference?"

abrowne — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 16:25:19 +0000

The other way – trying to spell a word you hear – is harder, since many sounds have multiple possible spellings. Hence la dictée.

New comment by abrowne in "Court affirms imported beef still allowed to be labeled "Product of USA""

abrowne — Fri, 18 Mar 2022 17:53:33 +0000

I believe the US allows .5 to round down to 0, while I've seen EU labels list e.g. .5 g of fat, so I wouldn't be surprised if they require it.

New comment by abrowne in "Mavis Beacon was the top typing teacher in the US, then she vanished"

abrowne — Mon, 14 Mar 2022 02:03:20 +0000

I would not have guessed that! I like that he last lived in Parma, Ohio.