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New comment by fjlunky in "From brain waves to words: a new path to communication without surgery"

fjlunky — Wed, 01 Jul 2026 04:24:43 +0000

I imagine you’re wanting instead something the size of a hat, but smaller fMRI are certainly in development, for example [0] with discussion about the size at [1].

[0] https://med.umn.edu/news/university-minnesota-developing-com...

[1] https://designawards.core77.com/Strategy-Research/95329/A-ne...

New comment by fjlunky in "The Upper Middle Class Trap"

fjlunky — Thu, 07 May 2026 20:36:40 +0000

I’m experiencing the same in New Zealand. In-zone houses for high-performing public schools are more expensive than adjacent houses (I.e. out of zone) by almost exactly the amount of the local private school fees. House price scales with the number of bedrooms in the same way that private school fees scale with the number of children enrolled. So the question is; is it more beneficial for the children to get the more expensive education or to inherit the more expensive property?

Side note, “public school” here means state-owned and “private” means “owned by private individuals”, which I have heard is the opposite nomenclature to what’s used in the UK?

New comment by fjlunky in "Show HN: Brutalist Concrete Laptop Stand (2024)"

fjlunky — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 21:22:15 +0000

Or a hi-fi? [1] I’ve heard concrete is a popular material in the DIY speaker crowd for reducing resonance

[1] https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O1227026/concrete-stereo-...

New comment by fjlunky in "Just Send the Prompt"

fjlunky — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 18:41:12 +0000

I think that is the authors point? The author is asking you to send your intent rather than the non-deterministic outcome.

New comment by fjlunky in "Windows 11 January Update Breaks Notepad"

fjlunky — Tue, 27 Jan 2026 19:51:10 +0000

The market loves it too, MSFT is up 6% this week. There are likely other things that drive this but my hope is that the share price is increasing on the idea that these patches are so disastrous that even Microsoft should be able to see that their current strategy isn’t delivering a good product.

New comment by fjlunky in "Fix macOS 26 (Tahoe) exaggerated rounded corners"

fjlunky — Tue, 20 Jan 2026 09:49:54 +0000

TopNotch also solves the problem this app targets I think: the rounded corners are not visible when the menubar is black.