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New comment by mayoff in "Gone (Almost) Phishin'"

mayoff — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 01:53:36 +0000

It's kind of crazy that the IRS (among other United States government agencies) uses ID.me for account management. The .me domain belongs to Montenegro.

New comment by mayoff in "Windows native app development is a mess"

mayoff — Sun, 22 Mar 2026 19:03:22 +0000

How to add a button in SwiftUI:

    Button(“Click Me”) { buttonWasClicked() }

New comment by mayoff in "Zero ZGC4: A Better Graphing Calculator for School and Beyond"

mayoff — Sun, 22 Mar 2026 18:02:14 +0000

When my daughter finally needed one of those godawful monopoly-priced calculators for school, we went to the nearest pawn shop and found a TI 84 Plus, opened, for $40, and a TI 84 Plus CE in its unopened (but roughed up) original packaging for $65.

Live from GDC 1989: 21 Hours of Vintage Talks from Early Gaming Luminaries

mayoff — Sun, 22 Mar 2026 06:59:25 +0000

Article URL: https://gamehistory.org/cgdc-1989-tapes/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47475111

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by mayoff in "New iPad Air, powered by M4"

mayoff — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 18:20:24 +0000

Somehow Woot still has a supply of the Smart Keyboard Folio for certain 11" iPads Pro/Air.

My wife is still using an older gen 11" iPad Pro and her keyboard folio stopped working (they fall apart after a few years ), so I took a gamble and ordered one. It arrived in the original, sealed packaging. As far as I can tell, it had never been opened, and it is perfect condition and works great. My wife is very happy. I bought a second one for when this one falls apart.

https://www.amazon.com/Apple-Smart-Keyboard-11-inch-iPad-Pro...

New comment by mayoff in "This time is different"

mayoff — Fri, 27 Feb 2026 16:46:21 +0000

Most of the “delivery” (getting it from the factory to its final installed location) was done by machine: forklifts, cranes, ships, trucks, and (I'm guessing) a motorized lift on the back of the delivery truck.

New comment by mayoff in "What if writing tests was a joyful experience? (2023)"

mayoff — Fri, 06 Feb 2026 01:36:29 +0000

If you’re a Swift programmer, the swift-snapshot-testing package is a great implementation of these ideas.

https://github.com/pointfreeco/swift-snapshot-testing

New comment by mayoff in "Data centers in space makes no sense"

mayoff — Wed, 04 Feb 2026 05:40:00 +0000

For an electrification company.

New comment by mayoff in "Teaching my neighbor to keep the volume down"

mayoff — Sun, 01 Feb 2026 21:27:13 +0000

I'm pretty sure you meant something other than "buildings under about 6 feet".

AI hype is 80% real

mayoff — Fri, 16 Jan 2026 19:14:57 +0000

Article URL: https://sealedabstract.com/posts/AI-hype/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46650767

Points: 5

# Comments: 2

New comment by mayoff in "The unbearable frustration of figuring out APIs"

mayoff — Thu, 15 Jan 2026 09:43:37 +0000

Thank you for this. I’ve been using it for years.

New comment by mayoff in "Canada's Carney called out for 'utilizing' British spelling"

mayoff — Tue, 16 Dec 2025 06:23:16 +0000

Maybe just don't utilize "utilize" or "utilise" at all. There are very few cases where utilizing "utilize" or "utilise" is better than using "use".

New comment by mayoff in "Why doesn't Apple make a standalone Touch ID?"

mayoff — Thu, 04 Dec 2025 01:36:44 +0000

I was shocked they didn’t do this when they added the “notch” to MacBooks.

New comment by mayoff in "Disney Lost Roger Rabbit"

mayoff — Mon, 24 Nov 2025 08:24:58 +0000

I don’t know if Cory Doctorow has read the “fantastic 1981 novel”, but I have (decades ago) and as I recall the plot of the book and the plot of the movie are very different from each other. The author of the book didn’t write the screenplay and I doubt he had much (if anything) to do the character designs in the movie. So even if he has the rights to his novel back, it’s not at all clear to me that he could just make (or sell a license to make) a straight, recognizable sequel to Disney’s movie without getting back into bed with Disney, and clearly Disney isn’t interested or they’d have done something by now.

New comment by mayoff in "Being poor vs. being broke"

mayoff — Fri, 14 Nov 2025 18:31:16 +0000

Some people suffer and think "I had to go through this and I hope no one else does."

Some people suffer and think "I had to go through this so everyone else should too."

New comment by mayoff in "Problems with C++ exceptions"

mayoff — Wed, 12 Nov 2025 07:12:19 +0000

The problem is that it's easy to do it wrong and the C compiler doesn't help you. RAII prevents you from leaking the resource, but the complaint in the post is that it can be cumbersome to use RAII in C++ if acquisition can fail and you want to handle that failure.

New comment by mayoff in "Problems with C++ exceptions"

mayoff — Wed, 12 Nov 2025 07:07:30 +0000

Swift doesn't capture a stack trace in the `Error` object, but Xcode can break when an error is thrown if you set a “Swift Error Breakpoint”, and the debugger will show you the stack trace. Under the hood it just sets breakpoints on the runtime functions `swift_willThrow` and `swift_willThrowTypedImpl`.

New comment by mayoff in "Problems with C++ exceptions"

mayoff — Wed, 12 Nov 2025 07:00:40 +0000

Another really nice thing about Swift is that you have to put the `try` keyword in front of any expression that can throw. This means there's no hidden control flow: if some function call can throw, you're informed at the call site and don't have to look at the function declaration.

New comment by mayoff in "Problems with C++ exceptions"

mayoff — Wed, 12 Nov 2025 06:58:47 +0000

Swift gained limited support for “typed throws” in Swift 6.0 (2024).

https://github.com/swiftlang/swift-evolution/blob/main/propo...

I say limited because the compiler doesn't (yet, as of 6.2) perform typed throw inference for closures (a closure that throws is inferred to throw `any Error`). I have personally found this sufficiently limiting that I've given up using typed throws in the few places I want to, for now.

New comment by mayoff in "Revisiting Interface Segregation in Go"

mayoff — Fri, 07 Nov 2025 16:14:06 +0000

See also https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36908369 (“The bigger the interface, the weaker the abstraction")