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New comment by nbernard in "Canvas online again as ShinyHunters threatens to leak schools’ data"

nbernard — Fri, 08 May 2026 10:54:36 +0000

Good luck having people forward an email a) with headers and b) in a way that doesn't break the signature...

New comment by nbernard in "Acetaminophen vs. ibuprofen"

nbernard — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 05:05:22 +0000

They are common in France, but not in such packages: There are restrictions that prevent you from buying more than than 8g/day (theoretically at least, I don't believe they are strictly applied in practice).

New comment by nbernard in "Backblaze has stopped backing up your data"

nbernard — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 10:40:24 +0000

Probably. When available, reader mode can also be activated by clicking the little "page with text" icon on the right of the address bar.

New comment by nbernard in "We have a 99% email reputation, but Gmail disagrees"

nbernard — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 15:59:44 +0000

From your PoV maybe. I would be restless knowing that I may be silently losing important emails because they triggered some blackbox filter in such a way that they didn't even end up in my spam box...

New comment by nbernard in "Artemis computer running two instances of MS outlook; they can't figure out why"

nbernard — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 05:55:01 +0000

The point is that fetchmail doesn't need an admin once it is configured.

New comment by nbernard in "French e, è, é, ê, ë – what's the difference?"

nbernard — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 17:29:54 +0000

> Ë with diaeresis is the easiest case to deal with. The diaeresis (the two dots) signifies that the underlying “e” is pronounced as /ɛ/ (as “e” in “bet”, i.e. the open e), no matter what comes around it, and is used in groups of vowels that would otherwise be pronounced differently.

Yes, but there are other uses. For instance, in "ambiguë", the ë itself is silent but signals that the u before it is pronounced as a standard u. Without the diaeresis, the u itself would be silent but would make the g hard (in French, g before e is soft).

New comment by nbernard in "OpenRocket"

nbernard — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 17:50:02 +0000

I believe it is the same project that was discussed here a few days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47385935

New comment by nbernard in "$96 3D-printed rocket that recalculates its mid-air trajectory using a $5 sensor"

nbernard — Sun, 15 Mar 2026 14:08:44 +0000

> God, I feel like I am going to be on a list after clicking that link.

It's a poor life that doesn't put you on a few such lists!

New comment by nbernard in "The emergence of print-on-demand Amazon paperback books"

nbernard — Sun, 15 Mar 2026 14:02:02 +0000

It does indeed, yet if the review makes it clear that the text of a book is not at fault, that the crappy print on demand edition is the issue, it should not matter too much. It would even give them arguments to ask a few pointed questions to their publishers.

And aggregated over all the books that use print on demand, the editors will notice.

New comment by nbernard in "The emergence of print-on-demand Amazon paperback books"

nbernard — Sun, 15 Mar 2026 11:25:12 +0000

> The current solution? Just return the item.

Yes, and write a low stars review explaining the problem. Returns alone don't hurt future sales of identical items.

Nitrogen, Ammonia, and the Strait of Hormuz

nbernard — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 18:47:50 +0000

Article URL: https://www.science.org/content/blog-post/nitrogen-ammonia-and-strait-hormuz

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47368090

Points: 7

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New comment by nbernard in "Innocent woman jailed after being misidentified using AI facial recognition"

nbernard — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 06:25:51 +0000

Good point! It shows that the settlements are far too low and that the victims should get a lot more.

If a few cities/states were to default due to debts coming from such cases, the others would start to take notice...

New comment by nbernard in "FontCrafter: Turn your handwriting into a real font"

nbernard — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 13:20:56 +0000

IIRC, it is nerfed out. It is more open core than actual open source, and the paywalled features of the online version are missing.

New comment by nbernard in "Ask HN: Are there examples of 3D printing data onto physical surfaces?"

nbernard — Sun, 15 Feb 2026 08:13:05 +0000

Yeah, that's why M-discs were created. Which only displaces the question to "will there still be drives to read them?"...

New comment by nbernard in "Major European payment processor can't send email to Google Workspace users"

nbernard — Thu, 12 Feb 2026 15:45:30 +0000

Some (old?) spam filters may be triggered by html only emails.

New comment by nbernard in "Song banned from Swedish charts for being AI creation"

nbernard — Fri, 16 Jan 2026 15:07:00 +0000

The humans are neither a race nor conscious. They're humans.

New comment by nbernard in "Logistics Is Dying; Or – Dude, Where's My Mail?"

nbernard — Fri, 09 Jan 2026 07:55:24 +0000

Sounds literary, if a bit grandiloquent, more than anything. It was once considered "good style" and books from the XIXth and XXth centuries are full of such sentences. See the works of James Jeans, John McPhee, Carl Sagan, and the like for instance.

New comment by nbernard in "Albert Michelson's Harmonic Analyzer (2014) [pdf]"

nbernard — Sat, 06 Dec 2025 08:16:52 +0000

Not exactly what you are looking for, but you may still want to take a look at Moore's /Foundations of Mechanical Accuracy/. IIRC, it contains a section on the evolution of machining since the early 1800s and covers the transition between the making of parts made to fit together, to parts made to specs.

BTW, in later parts of the book, Michelson appears as interferometry is used to check the accuracy of parts.

New comment by nbernard in "Ask HN: Advice for creating a USB device linking 2 computers"

nbernard — Sat, 25 Oct 2025 20:17:05 +0000

Probably not the cheapest nor the easiest way, but take a look at Cynthion: https://greatscottgadgets.com/cynthion/

On the hardware side, it probably has what you need (and more).

New comment by nbernard in "Alibaba cloud FPGA: the $200 Kintex UltraScale+"

nbernard — Wed, 08 Oct 2025 14:12:56 +0000

And now... 59 sold, more than 10 available!