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New comment by mrkstu in "New 14‑inch MacBook Pro with M6"

mrkstu — Tue, 27 Oct 2026 19:48:50 +0000

This just isn't true on the Mac- as noted, Linux installs fine. The same path is open to MS if they want to patch Windows to install on a Mac.

New comment by mrkstu in "Show HN: OnKey – I'm a bad singer, so I built an app to show where I'm off-key"

mrkstu — Fri, 23 Oct 2026 16:13:15 +0000

Support transposition and maybe a range finder…

New comment by mrkstu in "Publishers Killed the Paperback, Then Blamed Readers"

mrkstu — Mon, 12 Oct 2026 19:37:41 +0000

Which is why most everyone does a subscription model. ~$15 per book, even if its 800 pages written.

New comment by mrkstu in "3rd Yandex Cloud Data Center Was Hit"

mrkstu — Mon, 12 Oct 2026 16:41:24 +0000

https://www.dw.com/en/russian-gru-spies-behind-failed-leipzi...

New comment by mrkstu in "Keyboard differences between Windows and Macs"

mrkstu — Fri, 09 Oct 2026 16:38:57 +0000

My travel agent wife was unhappy when they GUIfied Sabre. Luckily there was enough complaints they brought back some terminal access/shortcuts for the ‘advanced’ users…

New comment by mrkstu in "Nearly 200 people under observation after Irkutsk lab worker dies from plague"

mrkstu — Tue, 06 Oct 2026 19:35:50 +0000

bubonic, so while he looked at death's door, I don't think the timeline was as strict

New comment by mrkstu in "Mistral Large 4"

mrkstu — Tue, 06 Oct 2026 18:22:51 +0000

https://www.dw.com/en/germany-could-scrap-law-banning-insult...

New comment by mrkstu in "Nearly 200 people under observation after Irkutsk lab worker dies from plague"

mrkstu — Mon, 05 Oct 2026 03:44:59 +0000

I'm assuming if its a bio-lab that its a gain of function version that may be immune to conventional antibiotics.

Actually went to a scout camp as a teenager (in the 80s) and one of our scouts got the plauge. Took a long while for the hospital to identify it and get him on heavy antibiotics because no one had seen it in real life before.

New comment by mrkstu in "Transit rewards"

mrkstu — Wed, 23 Sep 2026 14:21:03 +0000

Or it wouldn’t exist at all in in this form…

New comment by mrkstu in "Android 17 is the first since 3.x to add new APIs without releasing to the AOSP"

mrkstu — Fri, 18 Sep 2026 21:38:43 +0000

Any fellow CompuServe users around???

New comment by mrkstu in "AnkiDroid: Google Play no longer allowing Open Collective donation link"

mrkstu — Tue, 01 Sep 2026 15:00:03 +0000

Better framing in their lawsuits- being a ‘market’ is less a thing in a monoculture- i.e. the market for Apple phones vs the market for all Android phones from a variety of makers.

Also in the worldwide market it most definitely isn’t a monopoly in phones at all- which is exactly why the EU had to reform their laws (DMA ect)to get regulatory powers over them.

New comment by mrkstu in "Gemini-3.5-Transcribe"

mrkstu — Fri, 28 Aug 2026 03:16:36 +0000

They have access to each individual’s stream in that case in order to diarize.

New comment by mrkstu in "Apple introduces M6 and M5 Ultra"

mrkstu — Tue, 25 Aug 2026 19:54:08 +0000

Leaving out that apparently high RAM Mac's apparently no longer lose value over time...

New comment by mrkstu in "New Mac Studio with M5 Max and M5 Ultra"

mrkstu — Tue, 25 Aug 2026 19:23:28 +0000

Distinction without a difference in this case...

New comment by mrkstu in "New Mac Studio with M5 Max and M5 Ultra"

mrkstu — Tue, 25 Aug 2026 19:21:32 +0000

I'm sure plenty of Idahoans and Washingtonians, for instance, take advantage of their neighbor status for high ticket items like this...

New comment by mrkstu in "New Mac Studio with M5 Max and M5 Ultra"

mrkstu — Tue, 25 Aug 2026 19:11:02 +0000

Lots, if your time horizon is ~5 years for not buying new hardware, you're good.

Otherwise you'll have to wait to see if the AI circular financing club collapses- if you still have a job, there should be deals to be had...

New comment by mrkstu in "I gave Qwen 3.8 27B a reverse-engineering job and it finished in 30 minutes"

mrkstu — Mon, 24 Aug 2026 07:23:01 +0000

Grit beats IQ yet again…

New comment by mrkstu in "Canada will match US tariffs 'dollar for dollar' as trade talks break down"

mrkstu — Sat, 22 Aug 2026 09:43:26 +0000

Made by the people rather than the politicians- the mainline politicians all thought it would/wanted it to fail- they just thought they’d get a boost from catering to a disaffected minority.

New comment by mrkstu in "Oracle bans AI-generated code from OpenJDK"

mrkstu — Fri, 07 Aug 2026 19:11:22 +0000

Thing is public domain can be used any way you want. The Libre style licenses are specifically engineered to make the source available to the users of the source, no such clause exists in using public domain.

New comment by mrkstu in "Taste Is All That's Left"

mrkstu — Fri, 07 Aug 2026 17:39:28 +0000

Infinite Slop Regress