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New comment by lloda in "US orders diplomats to fight data sovereignty initiatives"

lloda — Wed, 25 Feb 2026 16:37:37 +0000

The data sovereignty initiatives have been massively promoted by US policy. All this advocacy will achieve is make the US look even less trustworthy.

New comment by lloda in "Thomas Piketty: 'The reality is the US is losing control of the world'"

lloda — Tue, 16 Dec 2025 15:57:10 +0000

The US military budget hasn't been reduced and the adventurism is going on as strong as ever, so that doesn't seem to be the reason.

New comment by lloda in "AirPods libreated from Apple's ecosystem"

lloda — Sun, 16 Nov 2025 17:46:32 +0000

Not just non-Apple devices. I have a machine with older MacOS and the current Apple keyboard doesn't report battery status. I can't think of a reason why that would work differently from Apple's own older keyboards, but it does.

New comment by lloda in "Steam Frame"

lloda — Thu, 13 Nov 2025 06:50:54 +0000

I think the passthrough is more useful when there's a VR OS to take advantage of it (map your real room/hands/kb/screen onto VR, let you pin stuff, etc.) and I'm not sure Valve is even planning to do that, or anyone is on the Linux side of things (?)

New comment by lloda in "iPhone Pocket"

lloda — Tue, 11 Nov 2025 15:01:13 +0000

They themselves are the best at doing it, really.

New comment by lloda in "Armed police swarm student after AI mistakes bag of Doritos for a weapon"

lloda — Fri, 24 Oct 2025 07:01:38 +0000

Or they'd have looked at whatever images the system had used for its decision and see it was a false positive without having to send anyone over.

New comment by lloda in "Why Is Python So Popular in 2025?"

lloda — Wed, 01 Oct 2025 19:48:41 +0000

Just about anything that has a repl has a better repl than Python.

New comment by lloda in "Swiss voters back e-ID legislation"

lloda — Mon, 29 Sep 2025 05:51:33 +0000

The main reason I voted against was because it is tied to smartphones with only the vaguest promise that it won't stay so. Ironically one of the arguments in favor was independence from megacorporations (or foreign countries for that matter). But you couldn't find this point in the main opposition website. The opposition was very weak with weak arguments and the parliament was massively in favor.

New comment by lloda in "I want an iPhone Mini-sized Android phone (2022)"

lloda — Thu, 17 Jul 2025 19:28:11 +0000

I think a squat format like 4:5 would be much more practical than 9:16 or whatever most phones are. It's unfortunate that's the format that's come to dominate, especially when you consider the rise of vertical video.

DIY Janko Piano

lloda — Mon, 10 Mar 2025 04:00:11 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCvhk9ASFpKPvqxIzvwaOIiw

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43316884

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by lloda in "Spherical Harmonics"

lloda — Mon, 23 Dec 2024 10:28:57 +0000

The vector version of these is used in antenna theory to represent and transform the radiation of finite sources, like when measuring antenna patterns.

New comment by lloda in "Using Guile for Emacs"

lloda — Mon, 16 Dec 2024 18:05:21 +0000

The biggest roadblocks are 1) lack of continued effort and 2) reticence on the Emacs side. I'd say 1) is the most important by far.

New comment by lloda in "Handwriting but not typewriting leads to widespread connectivity in brain"

lloda — Sun, 01 Dec 2024 22:52:19 +0000

I've seen left handed people tilt the paper 90° and write more or less downwards. Their writing looked fine.

New comment by lloda in "You receive a call on your phone. The caller says they're from your bank"

lloda — Fri, 03 May 2024 06:14:02 +0000

My bank's app has a built in messaging system, but they seem to hate using it themselves. When they want to contact me they always call, or they send me paper letters. If I contact them through the app, they don't reply there but call me about it. It's bizarre.

New comment by lloda in "The Apple Vision Pro"

lloda — Tue, 06 Feb 2024 17:11:35 +0000

Apple sells a wire. It's $300.

New comment by lloda in "BLIS: A BLAS-like framework for basic linear algebra routines"

lloda — Wed, 24 Jan 2024 21:27:37 +0000

BLIS is a different library from BLAS, with a better API. For example when you pass an array, you can pass independent strides for all axes, and you can give independent transpose/conjugate flags. It does have a BLAS compatibility interface.

The interface isn't perfect though. For example they didn't commit to supporting zero strides. That used to work anyway, but it's broken now for some archs.

New comment by lloda in "The evolution of C64 games 1982–2023"

lloda — Sat, 20 Jan 2024 18:34:55 +0000

if you compare the c64 palette to other ~16 color computers of the era, the c64 has a definite brownish/purplish tint to it, i don't think the video misrepresents it.

New comment by lloda in "Smallest Typeface"

lloda — Fri, 29 Dec 2023 03:53:55 +0000

in the text modes of old computers, there isn't anything to separate one character from those next to it, so that space has to be in the character itself.

New comment by lloda in "Proposal on implementing permanent time zones in the European Union"

lloda — Thu, 30 Nov 2023 18:17:44 +0000

I'd put Portugal and Ireland in the western zone.

New comment by lloda in "8GB vs. 16GB M3 Mac"

lloda — Fri, 10 Nov 2023 17:52:01 +0000

If 8 GB is ok for you, you don't need an M3 chip with tons of cores, either. You can just keep using your old laptop. Apple has kept the same base memory on these machines for a decade and now they are horribly unbalanced.