<rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Hacker News: musicale</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=musicale</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Fri, 23 Oct 2026 10:21:26 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=musicale" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by musicale in "New Apple TV 4K"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Agreed. Adhesion contracts that consumers cannot understand or meaningfully agree to should not be enforceable.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 23 Oct 2026 06:18:28 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50205087</link><dc:creator>musicale</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50205087</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50205087</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by musicale in "Epic Games Inc v Apple Inc"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Epic still being Epic.<p><a href="https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2020/08/as-epic-attacks-apple-and-google-it-ignores-the-same-problems-on-consoles/" rel="nofollow">https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2020/08/as-epic-attacks-apple...</a></p>
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<p>I suggest using a semicolon and adding "the":<p>> "Kept pace with" is fine; consider using this in the future.<p>Thanks.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 18 Oct 2026 04:04:45 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50137818</link><dc:creator>musicale</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50137818</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50137818</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by musicale in "DHS Inspector General Finds That TSA Is Not Safeguarding Facial Recognition Data"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Probably safeguarded just as well as the other data they collect.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 16 Oct 2026 03:45:58 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50113820</link><dc:creator>musicale</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50113820</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50113820</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by musicale in "I designed a nose guard for my dog and gave it away. Now 500 dogs wear one"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> I designed a nose guard for my dog and gave it away.<p>poor dog<p>> Now 500 dogs wear one (snoutcover.com)<p>enterprising dog</p>
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<p>> vanilla safari has a bunch of default favorites, and when you open a browser window it contacts each one of them and sets cookies<p>Last I checked it was grabbing the favicons; intentionally bad or not, this is still obnoxious anti-privacy behavior that needs to stop.</p>
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<p>Tracked means "followed" and I find the meaning clear enough, but if you don't then please substitute "kept pace with" and/or rewrite as needed to clarify the point, which is the productivity - wage gap.</p>
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<p>This is ugly. Time for some more lawsuits probably.</p>
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<p>1. The business pitch for automation (seen commonly now with AI) is that it can reduce payroll costs.<p>2. Wages have not tracked productivity increases for half a century or more.<p>3. Over the past 40+ years, automation appears to have increased income disparity.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 13 Oct 2026 06:38:25 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50067652</link><dc:creator>musicale</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50067652</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50067652</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by musicale in "Two Steam games made $560K but the co-creator took home $15K/year"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> This isn’t iOS or a game console<p>And iOS and game consoles aren't even the only handheld gaming devices. There are lots of options (Android phones and tablets from dozens of vendors, Steam Deck and its many competitors, Switch 1/2, PS Portal, etc.)<p>But presumably developers see value in being on the leading game stores (Steam, Google Play) for hardware from multiple vendors, and on walled-garden game stores (iOS, Nintendo eShop, etc.) for single-vendor hardware.</p>
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<p>> Those costs have surged, topping $100 billion in the U.S. in four of the last five years. Exxon, meanwhile, reported nearly $19 billion in earnings over the first six months of this year alone.<p>Fortunately for Exxon the $100B is mostly externalities that do not affect the bottom line.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 11 Oct 2026 21:39:39 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50048085</link><dc:creator>musicale</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50048085</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50048085</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by musicale in "Brain does not process information and it is not a computer (2016)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> computers really do operate on symbolic representations of the world<p>They used to, but modern ML is more statistical and usually opaque. Though it turns out that the symbolic representations were a good idea, so we're adding them back as world models and workflows.</p>
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<p>Soup seems to be different - it's more satiating than a solid version of the same ingredients, and keeps you fuller longer.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 11 Oct 2026 04:26:51 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50039790</link><dc:creator>musicale</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50039790</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50039790</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by musicale in "Keyboard differences between Windows and Macs"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Yes, and I still want Apple to make a decent desktop-style electromechanical keyboard that I enjoy typing on. I (mostly) like Apple's design language and "it just works" Mac compatibility and convenience, but their current low-travel "magic" monstrosities are like laptop keyboards, where usability is compromised for portability.<p>And although the long nightmare that was the butterfly keyboard ended in 2020, Apple laptop keyboards are still worse than they were in 2015.<p>And of course third-party keyboards don't feature Touch ID.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 10 Oct 2026 03:59:15 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50029415</link><dc:creator>musicale</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50029415</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50029415</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by musicale in "Richard Garriott is officially regaining control of the Ultima series"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>We can only hope that the new Ultima game will feature achievements.<p><a href="https://ultima.fandom.com/wiki/Killing_Lord_British" rel="nofollow">https://ultima.fandom.com/wiki/Killing_Lord_British</a></p>
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<p>It might be helpful to explain in plain language what you mean by increasing liquidity. As I understand it, marginal spread reductions only marginally improve your ability to sell at or near a particular price, and they provide no benefit to you if no one is buying near your sell price, or if there aren't enough buyers available overall.<p>But it would be interesting to see some quantitative data on the effect.<p>Increasing volatility and enabling fast algorithmic trading may not be good things overall, even if some traders benefit.<p>And as I noted, if you care about fairness in an online game, usually you try to remove the penalty effects from long ping times (or the bonus effects from short ping.)</p>
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<p>> First, it sits near your pinky instead of your thumb<p>It's not bad if you have a keyboard (e.g. topre) with control in the caps-lock position (or remap it, which I usually do).<p>And I also agree that the Lisa/Mac-style command-[zxcv] works really well (particularly if you use a mouse with your right hand.)<p>MacOS has no problem with both control-c (break) and command-c (copy) - why isn't this common in Linux as well (at least for keyboards with a command or windows key, which seems to be many, many keyboards.)</p>
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<p>I just wish Apple would get back to making decent electromechanical keyboards.</p>
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<p>> Transition of college teaching from tenured professors to gig workers<p>This is a huge, and likely permanent, change.</p>
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<p>Robot monks aren't replacing humans yet, even if their traditional crafts (brewing etc.) could be automated.<p>Human-crafted religious items and artwork may be more appealing than machine-crafted replicas.</p>
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