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New comment by aiiane in "Philly courts will ban all smart eyeglasses starting next week"

aiiane — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 02:44:40 +0000

The important part of the article:

> From then on, any eyewear with video and audio recording capability will be forbidden in all of the First Judicial District buildings, courthouses, or offices, even for people who have a prescription. Other devices with recording capabilities like cell phones and laptops continue to be allowed inside courtrooms but must be powered off and stowed away.

It's defined as having recording capability, which is quite a reasonable restriction to make, IMO.

New comment by aiiane in "10% of Firefox crashes are caused by bitflips"

aiiane — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 08:20:16 +0000

I remember one of the first impressions I had in GW1 during test events was the sense of scale in the world that still managed to avoid excessive harsh geometry angles for the most part. Not surprised to hear it was pushing more polygons than average.

P.S. GW1 remains one of my favorite games and the source of many good memories from both PvP and PvE. From fun stories of holding the Hall of Heroes to some unforgettable GvG matches, y'all made a great game.

New comment by aiiane in "Wikipedia was in read-only mode following mass admin account compromise"

aiiane — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 01:08:12 +0000

aka tiny, relatively speaking, compared to similar sites with the same user base

New comment by aiiane in "Tailscale state file encryption no longer enabled by default"

aiiane — Wed, 07 Jan 2026 20:44:24 +0000

Seems like the issues in question are not within Tailscale's span of control (basically, the devices themselves with TPMs are too unreliable in the general population, so the feature is more appropriate for controlled environments that opt in to its usage).

New comment by aiiane in "Trap the Critters with Paint"

aiiane — Fri, 17 Oct 2025 17:03:20 +0000

Resizing the window smaller makes the game a lot simpler.

New comment by aiiane in "Just let me select text"

aiiane — Wed, 24 Sep 2025 19:03:18 +0000

Someone played EVE Online.

New comment by aiiane in "Harvey Mudd Miniature Machine"

aiiane — Thu, 11 Sep 2025 02:22:44 +0000

Very different. HMC has fewer than 1000 students, all undergraduates, and is a private college, whereas Stony Brook is a public school with ~25k students including ~8k postgrads.

New comment by aiiane in "Visa and Mastercard are getting overwhelmed by gamer fury over censorship"

aiiane — Mon, 28 Jul 2025 23:33:00 +0000

Yes, and in some cases both, e.g. Scotiabank has debit cards that allow both Visa and Interac transactions: https://www.scotiabank.com/ca/en/personal/ways-to-bank/debit...

New comment by aiiane in "Visa and Mastercard are getting overwhelmed by gamer fury over censorship"

aiiane — Mon, 28 Jul 2025 19:42:31 +0000

Interac doesn't have a monopoly in Canada; Visa / MC obviously have a presence as well.

New comment by aiiane in "Visa and Mastercard are getting overwhelmed by gamer fury over censorship"

aiiane — Mon, 28 Jul 2025 19:40:08 +0000

Interac is an example of a debit card system that specifically isn't using the Visa / Mastercard protocols.

New comment by aiiane in "After court order, OpenAI is now preserving all ChatGPT user logs"

aiiane — Thu, 05 Jun 2025 00:09:53 +0000

A set of encryption keys is a lot smaller than the set of all user data, so it's much more viable to have both more redundant hot storage and more frequently rotated cold storage of just the keys.

New comment by aiiane in "Wikidata Is a Giant Crosswalk File"

aiiane — Sat, 05 Oct 2024 20:38:18 +0000

dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41745591

New comment by aiiane in "Show HN: OpenFreeMap – Open-Source Map Hosting"

aiiane — Wed, 25 Sep 2024 01:31:03 +0000

You can still go back in time on Street View. There's a "See more dates" link next to the address info in the top left (at least on the desktop Maps interface) that when you click it opens a film strip of different dated captures for that location. Here's the 2007 capture of 1 Embarcadero (outside the Ferry Building in San Francisco) for example: https://maps.app.goo.gl/ArrucFgus9uMvdSaA

New comment by aiiane in "Development Notes from xkcd's "Machine""

aiiane — Wed, 08 May 2024 22:38:25 +0000

We also set up the minimum requirement for the submit button to be unlocked to not be too strict, to avoid frustrating people, but held a bit of a higher standard for the things we selected to be part of the public machine. So designs that only just barely work well enough to occasionally unlock the submit button are probably too unreliable to get selected for inclusion (but we made occasional rare exceptions if the submission was particularly interesting / inspired for other reasons).

New comment by aiiane in "Development Notes from xkcd's "Machine""

aiiane — Wed, 08 May 2024 22:34:44 +0000

Permalinks are only for machines that have already been approved via the moderation queue as part of the shared public machine. Submitting a machine only submits it as a candidate for inclusion, it doesn't guarantee that your submission is the one picked for the slot.

New comment by aiiane in "Development Notes from xkcd's "Machine""

aiiane — Wed, 08 May 2024 22:26:40 +0000

A member of the community has been creating an index: https://github.com/scpso/incrediblexkcd

New comment by aiiane in "Development Notes from xkcd's "Machine""

aiiane — Wed, 08 May 2024 22:25:33 +0000

It's still live. https://xkcd.com/2916/

Machines that make it into the overall public version can be permalinked, but there's no permalinks for individually created things that don't get selected via the moderation queue. This was an intentional decision to avoid the risk of hosting unmoderated user-generated content on the comic's domain.

New comment by aiiane in "Development Notes from xkcd's "Machine""

aiiane — Wed, 08 May 2024 20:16:29 +0000

Most comics are just Randall, but there are a handful of people who contribute to the occasional more unique / interactive comics, such as the April Fools ones.

New comment by aiiane in "Ask HN: Did you encounter any leap year bugs today?"

aiiane — Thu, 29 Feb 2024 21:27:09 +0000

Yes - on any day, subtracting a year might mean subtracting the average length of a year (which is a bit more than 365 days), or wanting the same day and month number in the previous calendar year, or wanting the same semantic difference ("last Monday of the month in January"), to name a few possible meanings.

New comment by aiiane in "Ask HN: Did you encounter any leap year bugs today?"

aiiane — Thu, 29 Feb 2024 20:49:36 +0000

What is your definition of "subtracting a year"? Seems like that's a relatively ambiguous operation without more specification.