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New comment by bhj in "The Document Foundation ejects its core developers"

bhj — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 19:45:17 +0000

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advanced_Linux_Sound_Architect...

(presumably)

New comment by bhj in "Prediction: Microsoft will eventually ship a Windows-themed Linux distro"

bhj — Mon, 19 Jan 2026 02:33:20 +0000

They might be referring to when Apple removed subpixel antialiasing around ~2018. It caused some consternation at the time because there were still plenty of non-retina Macbook Airs in service. While it technically works, macOS really is not meant for non-high DPI displays.

New comment by bhj in "Beyond Text: On-Demand UI Generation for Better Conversational Experiences"

bhj — Fri, 16 May 2025 17:50:00 +0000

Yes, there’s a video where Michael Okuda (with Adam Savage, I think?) recalls the TNG cast being worried about where to tap, and his response was essentially “you can’t press a wrong button“.

New comment by bhj in "Deep Musk"

bhj — Sun, 30 Mar 2025 15:51:16 +0000

Hah, yes. Satire can be "deceptively" effective. I didn't create this, and naturally it was flagged for a time, but if it made someone chuckle it was worth posting on a Saturday night.

New comment by bhj in "Siri Is Super Dumb and Getting Dumber"

bhj — Fri, 24 Jan 2025 18:21:46 +0000

You can set it so you don’t need the “hey” anymore. Tough habit to break though…

New comment by bhj in "Hollywood Can't Ditch Its Teslas Fast Enough:"They're Destroying Their Leases..""

bhj — Sat, 21 Sep 2024 15:57:55 +0000

At some point we have to judge based on actions, not beliefs.

New comment by bhj in "Playstation 5 Pro Shows the Futility of the Video-Game Graphics Race"

bhj — Mon, 16 Sep 2024 01:58:20 +0000

The fidelity vs. performance decision is precisely what Sony markets the PS5 Pro as eliminating. I’d also just prefer developers make 60fps the baseline, then use any additional horsepower for more frames or more real resolution.

New comment by bhj in "Apple to upgrade base Macs to 16GB RAM, starting from Apple M4 models"

bhj — Mon, 26 Aug 2024 23:50:19 +0000

And each level up in RAM typically includes a bump to CPU and/or GPU core counts as well, so it is even more difficult to discern the true pricing. Annoying, but also understandable that they don't want to produce every possible combination of specs.

Don't get me started on needing to buy a 1TB+ iPad Pro to get double the RAM, though.

New comment by bhj in "Californian fed up with stolen mail sends Apple AirTag to herself to catch thief"

bhj — Fri, 23 Aug 2024 18:50:53 +0000

The linked article says:

> He [Epperson] is currently conducting a multisite study in Chicago, Milwaukee, and St. Louis that examines the development and implementation of deferred prosecution programs, a prosecutor-led innovation to divert people with nonviolent charges from traditional criminal justice processing.

Seems reasonable to me, and a far cry from "an explicit, open policy of not prosecuting petty crime" that is somehow country-wide.

New comment by bhj in "iPhone SE 4 due in early 2025 with OLED and Apple Intelligence"

bhj — Sun, 11 Aug 2024 21:32:40 +0000

"Apple Intelligence" was named precisely to be a marketing differentiator from any supposed "non-useful AI". It's also a hedge, in a sense.

"Do not hallucinate": Prompts meant to keep Apple Intelligence on the rails

bhj — Tue, 06 Aug 2024 20:44:43 +0000

Article URL: https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/08/do-not-hallucinate-testers-find-prompts-meant-to-keep-apple-intelligence-on-the-rails/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41175146

Points: 3

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New comment by bhj in "Passengers at EU Airports Not Allowed over 100ml of Liquids on Cabin Luggage"

bhj — Sun, 04 Aug 2024 16:23:06 +0000

"We, alongside the mujahideen, bled Russia for 10 years, until it went bankrupt and was forced to withdraw in defeat ... So we are continuing this policy in bleeding America to the point of bankruptcy."

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2004/nov/03/usa.alqaida

New comment by bhj in "Apple Vision Pro U.S. Sales Are All but Dead, Market Analysts Say"

bhj — Thu, 11 Jul 2024 21:23:26 +0000

> how Apple announcing they've cancelled the next Vision Pro to work on a lower cost version is squared up

Apple's made no such announcement, and the presence of the "Pro" moniker implies that a non-Pro version has always been planned.

New comment by bhj in "Apple's new AI leaves out more than 90% of current iPhone users"

bhj — Fri, 14 Jun 2024 23:02:32 +0000

Yes, 25% more RAM is significant. As you said, the M1 has significantly less performance, but it has enough memory. We can infer that RAM is the deciding factor from that.

New comment by bhj in "Apple's new AI leaves out more than 90% of current iPhone users"

bhj — Fri, 14 Jun 2024 17:38:52 +0000

It’s about RAM, I think. Only A17 Pro has 8GB, which we can infer is the new baseline.

New comment by bhj in "Sandy Hook families want to seize Alex Jones' social media accounts"

bhj — Fri, 14 Jun 2024 16:35:27 +0000

> no more shenanigans with mail-in ballots

Ludicrous. Remember how T**** told supporters to not use mail-in ballots[0], then tried to stop the counting of mail-in ballots? [1] Or told people to vote twice? [2] Yes, one party is demonstrably more anti-democracy than the other.

As for your voter fraud FUD: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Post-election_lawsuits_related...

[0] https://www.factcheck.org/2020/09/trumps-repeated-false-atta...

[1] https://www.c-span.org/video/?c4920640/user-clip-donald-trum...

[2] https://www.newsobserver.com/news/politics-government/articl...