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New comment by chrisandchris in "iOS 27 features we didn't see onstage"

chrisandchris — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 20:34:33 +0000

One of the features I personally do not like. That was/is one of the nicest things on iOS IMHO - set volume more silent and it means more silent, not "only in these 3 out of 27 cases".

New comment by chrisandchris in "I Hate (Most) Keyboard 'Fn' Keys"

chrisandchris — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 13:38:55 +0000

Some models do have physical switches on the back witj which you can enable / disable this behaviour.

One of the many cases where physical buttons/switches are superior to software-only options.

New comment by chrisandchris in "The iPhone's Last Stand?"

chrisandchris — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 02:36:30 +0000

No, they don't force it down your throat. You can click "no" once in a while and it looks like it does not exist. Try that with Copilot.

New comment by chrisandchris in "Lies we tell ourselves about email addresses"

chrisandchris — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 02:28:50 +0000

> It turns out that allowing senders to omit dots is common but by no means universal!

I think this is mostly common with Gmail-heavy countries and does not apply to Europe? At least I do not know of anyone that thinks so.

New comment by chrisandchris in "Apple decided not to roll out Siri in EU after denied request for exemption"

chrisandchris — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 19:49:08 +0000

And as a consumer, I am somewhat happy that a company says "well, then not" if it cannot comply with the law.

If the law makes sense, that I cannot judge in this case.

New comment by chrisandchris in "Field of clones: How horse replicas came to dominate polo"

chrisandchris — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 08:40:46 +0000

Wasn't there a study whose result was that people are not actually running faster but the better results are mostly attributed to changing/improving grounds and better shoes?

Edit: Can't find the study anymore. This one [1] at least partially attributes to material.

[1] https://www.balticsportscience.com/journal/vol17/iss2/2/

New comment by chrisandchris in "Google to pay SpaceX $920M a month for compute capacity at xAI data centers"

chrisandchris — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 13:59:02 +0000

I rreally dislike how big corp figured out that the can sell stuff to each other without actually moving some good. Looking at you, Nvidia... I have a feeling that the ordinary people will again pay for that.

New comment by chrisandchris in "SpaceX, Other Mega IPOs Denied Fast Index Entry by S&P"

chrisandchris — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 06:09:29 +0000

If Elon said that, it's probably more like 4% now, 12% in 5 years, then a chicken-out because whatever and never 100%.

See full-self-driving.

New comment by chrisandchris in "Disguised Russian banking app surges to top three on the US App Store"

chrisandchris — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 15:59:32 +0000

Did I miss something or does the article skip from explaining that it is Sirius, a ToDo-app, to a disguised banking app without any further clarification or reasoning?

New comment by chrisandchris in "New York just passed a one-year temporary ban on data centers"

chrisandchris — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 15:46:42 +0000

Actually cannot confirm. I'm once or twice outside of the Zurich datacenters and I really did not ever realize the sound outside.

New comment by chrisandchris in "SpaceX blocked from early benchmark index entry as S&P reaffirms existing rules"

chrisandchris — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 10:02:22 +0000

There's a 404 for this URL.

New comment by chrisandchris in "Show HN: Uruky (EU-based Kagi alternative) now has Image Search and URL Rewrites"

chrisandchris — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 06:20:09 +0000

Kagi does have Quick AI response. It's hidden behind a button and will only automatically answer if the search inputs ends with a question mark (?).

New comment by chrisandchris in "VoidZero Is Joining Cloudflare"

chrisandchris — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 19:05:28 +0000

Last time I checked, VueJs was "quite ok funded" [1]. Sure it's no FAANG income, but it will get you quite far in most parts of this world.

[1] https://opencollective.com/vuejs

New comment by chrisandchris in "HP re-releases classic computer science calculator: The HP-16C"

chrisandchris — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 20:26:01 +0000

Oh, that looks nice! Thanks! it's a bit early for christmas, but I'll keep that in mind :) .

New comment by chrisandchris in "Show HN: RePlaya – self-hosted browser session replay with live tailing"

chrisandchris — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 20:18:14 +0000

How does this compare to e.g. OpenReplay, which looks quite similar?

[1] https://www.openreplay.com

New comment by chrisandchris in "HP re-releases classic computer science calculator: The HP-16C"

chrisandchris — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 20:16:19 +0000

I did never use a 16C, but I have a 42 at home and use it very often. It goes so far, that I also have the 42 app on my phone as a replacement for the default calculator app. I am using RPN, and I think I'm the only one in my age category that does (at least none of my friends who studied ever heard of RPN) - it's such a superior way to calculate. I usually have problems to work with a "regular" calculator due to being used to it "4, enter, 5, times" instead of "4 times 5".

If this would be a 42, I would definetely buy it. My 42 is a gift from my father and time did not only good to it.

/edit switched UPN to RPN, as I got the translation wrong

New comment by chrisandchris in "PHP's Oddities"

chrisandchris — Sat, 23 May 2026 19:14:08 +0000

About undefined vs. NULL:

> Not a warning—a FATAL error occurs if you try to access an uninitialized property. This comes up a lot in cases where you try to deserialize data into a PHP object. If a field's data isn't present you might not initialize the property at all.

I don't think that is an issue, except in interpretet type-unsafe languages it is harder to anticipate when writing code whether that value is NULL or undefined/uninitialized. E.g. it is basically the same in C#, but here the compiler warns you that the value is not initialized and forbids some actions (like reading the value of it).

New comment by chrisandchris in "GitHub is investigating unauthorized access to their internal repositories"

chrisandchris — Wed, 20 May 2026 15:10:46 +0000

It is a closed ecosystem, where - as a viewer - you have gated access and - as a publisher - require your viewers to consent to a third-partys rule. Accessibg ststus.github.com has only the terms of GitHub involved, not also Twitter/X/...

New comment by chrisandchris in "Anyone on the Internet Can Ring Your Doorbell"

chrisandchris — Wed, 20 May 2026 12:26:03 +0000

I think that eeally depends on regions. Where I am located, nobody will ever knock and everybody uses the door bell.

New comment by chrisandchris in "OpenAI and Government of Malta partner to roll out ChatGPT Plus to all citizens"

chrisandchris — Sun, 17 May 2026 05:57:34 +0000

But the internet does, and it is 12% for gambling, against 15-25% for tourism (whichever source you believe).

[1] https://timesofmalta.com/article/the-15-billion-question-is-...

[2] https://www.emcs.com.mt/emcs-tourism-malta-economy/