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New comment by anArbitraryOne in "Filing the Corners Off MacBooks"

anArbitraryOne — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 23:52:41 +0000

Try exfoliating your wrists with square virtual windows

New comment by anArbitraryOne in "Filing the corners off my MacBooks"

anArbitraryOne — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 23:49:05 +0000

It's great how apple makes everything so customizable

New comment by anArbitraryOne in "Filing the corners off my MacBooks"

anArbitraryOne — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 23:46:54 +0000

If only they'd round the edges/corners of the body instead of the screen and the UI

New comment by anArbitraryOne in "I ported Mac OS X to the Nintendo Wii"

anArbitraryOne — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 22:06:56 +0000

I love it. I mean I hate MacOS, but great project

New comment by anArbitraryOne in "Cocoa-Way – Native macOS Wayland compositor for running Linux apps seamlessly"

anArbitraryOne — Sat, 28 Mar 2026 11:57:53 +0000

Absolutely. I went through great lengths to install Asahi on my work M1, only to have most things not work (RTFM). So when one is forced to use MacOS, may it round corners in hell, for work…

New comment by anArbitraryOne in "Cocoa-Way – Native macOS Wayland compositor for running Linux apps seamlessly"

anArbitraryOne — Sat, 28 Mar 2026 11:49:29 +0000

Now if we could switch MacOS to use Win/Linux keyboard commands, MacOS wouldn't be so insufferable

New comment by anArbitraryOne in "Ordered dithering with arbitrary or irregular colour palettes (2023)"

anArbitraryOne — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 11:47:31 +0000

I love dithering in a platonic way

New comment by anArbitraryOne in "Ubuntu 26.04 Ends 46 Years of Silent sudo Passwords"

anArbitraryOne — Sun, 22 Mar 2026 10:26:31 +0000

I can't believe there's an easy way to revert - that's just bigotry toward MacOS

New comment by anArbitraryOne in "AirPods Max 2"

anArbitraryOne — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 02:55:42 +0000

still can't play doom on them

New comment by anArbitraryOne in "MacBook Pro with M5 Pro and M5 Max"

anArbitraryOne — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 02:24:43 +0000

Cool, make me one without MacOS

New comment by anArbitraryOne in "From Tobacco to Ultraprocessed Food: How Industry Fuels Preventable Disease"

anArbitraryOne — Tue, 03 Feb 2026 10:55:00 +0000

I'm glad consumers have a choice. Unlike the ultraprocessed crap they fed us in school.

New comment by anArbitraryOne in "Show HN: isometric.nyc – giant isometric pixel art map of NYC"

anArbitraryOne — Fri, 23 Jan 2026 02:28:52 +0000

Not to mention much of long island and the bronx

New comment by anArbitraryOne in "We will ban you and ridicule you in public if you waste our time on crap reports"

anArbitraryOne — Thu, 22 Jan 2026 12:36:51 +0000

Nice. But it deters people like me who aren't totally confident in sending reports, trading false positives for false negatives

New comment by anArbitraryOne in "You need a kitchen slide rule"

anArbitraryOne — Thu, 15 Jan 2026 03:36:29 +0000

I improved everything by converting to metric first if the recipe happens to be otherwise, and using metric measuring tools

New comment by anArbitraryOne in "Are two heads better than one?"

anArbitraryOne — Wed, 14 Jan 2026 00:52:45 +0000

It would be more straightforward to remove the permutations and just display the combinations and the symmetry between heads and tails. And solve it analytically Eg: if p is the probability that the NPC is correct

  P(A|AAAA) = p^4 
  P(A|BBBB) = (1-p)^4

Anyway, the apparent strangeness of the tie case comes from the fact that the binomial PMF is symmetric with respect to n (the number of participants) and n-k.

  PMF = (n choose k) * p^k * (1-p)^(n-k)

So when k = n/2, the symmetry means that the likelihood is identical under p and 1-p, so we're not gaining any information. This is a really good illustration of that; interesting post! (edit: apparently i suck at formatting)

New comment by anArbitraryOne in "Garbage collection is contrarian"

anArbitraryOne — Mon, 12 Jan 2026 11:11:29 +0000

I clicked on this hoping is was about physical garbage collection

New comment by anArbitraryOne in "Why does a least squares fit appear to have a bias when applied to simple data?"

anArbitraryOne — Tue, 06 Jan 2026 00:52:29 +0000

Shear with one component always in the y direction

New comment by anArbitraryOne in "Why does a least squares fit appear to have a bias when applied to simple data?"

anArbitraryOne — Tue, 06 Jan 2026 00:50:28 +0000

"...sum of squared distances to the line" would be a better description. But it also depends entirely on how covariance is estimated

New comment by anArbitraryOne in "Satellites reveal heat leaking from largest US cryptocurrency mining center"

anArbitraryOne — Tue, 23 Dec 2025 04:33:15 +0000

I learned about turning energy into useful work and having heat as a byproduct, but never thought about turning it into useless work

New comment by anArbitraryOne in "Explaining the widening divides in us midlife mortality: Is there a smoking gun?"

anArbitraryOne — Thu, 18 Dec 2025 04:28:17 +0000

So it's basically saying that smoking is a proximal cause of mortality, and locale is a distal cause of smoking, intensified by not having a college degree?