Hacker News: pasc1878

New comment by pasc1878 in "WWDC 2026: Apple is Folding"

pasc1878 — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 08:32:10 +0000

Yes but smaller than an iPad mini.

My pockets are not wide enough for a mini but would take a folding phone - the depth is much less of an issue.

New comment by pasc1878 in "WWDC 2026: Apple is Folding"

pasc1878 — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 14:54:25 +0000

It is a pain to carry an iPad and a phone if you are walking. You need either large pockets or a handbag. If it is warm then you don't want either,

New comment by pasc1878 in "WWDC 2026: Apple is Folding"

pasc1878 — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 14:52:38 +0000

You get more to see.

Maps are too narrow on phones.

Books also are easier to read.

New comment by pasc1878 in "Italy region: +200% tax on datacenters built in green/agricultural areas"

pasc1878 — Wed, 27 May 2026 15:16:02 +0000

But EU does not pay farmers to farm efficiently and produce more food but does it to keep inefficient ones going so not much to do with actual food security.

New comment by pasc1878 in "Using Kagi Search with Low Vision"

pasc1878 — Fri, 22 May 2026 12:20:15 +0000

Hmm. This page eats memory on both Safari and Vivaldi and Orion even with Javascript off.

New comment by pasc1878 in "Using Kagi Search with Low Vision"

pasc1878 — Fri, 22 May 2026 12:01:02 +0000

Google a long time ago did that, but I assume those sites are where they get money from and so they removed that choice.

New comment by pasc1878 in "Apple unveils new accessibility features"

pasc1878 — Wed, 20 May 2026 06:43:43 +0000

I would note that Steve Jobs would have probably supported removing the F keys.

See the NeXT keyboards - no F keys. http://xahlee.info/kbd/NeXT_computer_keyboard.html

The ones with the command key beneath the space were nice - except for the help key being so prominent.

New comment by pasc1878 in "Details of the Daring Airdrop at Tristan Da Cunha"

pasc1878 — Fri, 15 May 2026 08:46:53 +0000

What if you were Ukrainian?

New comment by pasc1878 in "Scrcpy v4.0"

pasc1878 — Wed, 13 May 2026 09:12:35 +0000

What are the functions that the EU asks Apple has to supply.

1) Remove access from Android phone to macOS.

2) Remote access from iOS to Windows.

Then if both doesn't the EU regs also require remote access from Android phone to Windows

Plus same questions for Linux.

scrpy is lucky as not regulated so does not have to provide iOS.

Could Apple package this and thus allow its iOS version to be released in EU. Or would they still need 2.

New comment by pasc1878 in "SQLite Is a Library of Congress Recommended Storage Format"

pasc1878 — Thu, 07 May 2026 06:41:42 +0000

Now that is different.

Access gets used for a shared DB and that is quite easy to corrupt. It is much more cost effective to have that in a proper central database (I supse SQLLite is better here as well)

New comment by pasc1878 in "Pgbackrest is no longer being maintained"

pasc1878 — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 14:41:53 +0000

ANd that gets rather looked on here as the authors being deceitful and not really Open Source doing a bait and switch.

New comment by pasc1878 in "The seven programming ur-languages (2022)"

pasc1878 — Sun, 19 Apr 2026 12:46:29 +0000

Or for Lisp you might as well start with Emacs Lisp - you are going to use it for a decent environment unless you have the Common Lisp IDEs which you have to pay for or Racket.

New comment by pasc1878 in "Microsoft suspends dev accounts for high-profile open source projects"

pasc1878 — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 11:50:06 +0000

The problem is that the social media companies have not been dealing with abusive posts of various sources. Governments can't take action against the bad posters are they are from another Government (and in some cases are employed by that government to cause trouble). Thus Governments have to take actions which they can control, unfortunately these actions will affect more than the bad abusers.

New comment by pasc1878 in "The worst volume control UI in the world (2017)"

pasc1878 — Sat, 21 Mar 2026 08:04:24 +0000

MacOS requires there to be an App as First Responder - what app should be that if you quit all apps?

The nearest that makes sense is Log Out.

New comment by pasc1878 in "The MacBook Neo"

pasc1878 — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 08:57:40 +0000

Yes but only comp sci ones do - and if you are doing that then you need more than a base computer.

Students in non STEM areas will not usually need more than writing and reading tools.

New comment by pasc1878 in "Moldova broke our data pipeline"

pasc1878 — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 08:59:53 +0000

And you get the under reporting of COVID information in the UK as they passed around CSV files with too many rows for the tools they used.

An interchnage format needs to include information showing that you have all the data - e.g. a hash or the number of rows - or JSON/XML/s-expressions having closing symbols to match the start.

New comment by pasc1878 in "Show HN: Unfucked - version all changes (by any tool) - local-first/source avail"

pasc1878 — Sat, 28 Feb 2026 09:14:39 +0000

If this is on Homebrew then it is on macOS.

Why not just use TRime Machine?

New comment by pasc1878 in "Bus stop balancing is fast, cheap, and effective"

pasc1878 — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 12:22:20 +0000

Busess are improving many of them are now fully electric.

20% of London's busses are zero emission - agree that London is dense enough for this to work - long didtance busses still have to be diesel, although Tfl have some 15 mile routes that are electric

New comment by pasc1878 in "Bus stop balancing is fast, cheap, and effective"

pasc1878 — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 12:16:53 +0000

But when you drive you can't read.

Thus you get more done when using public transport. Nowadays with phones and portables you can even read your email and work rather than justb read the newspaper as commuterts did 20 years ago.

New comment by pasc1878 in "Bus stop balancing is fast, cheap, and effective"

pasc1878 — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 12:01:38 +0000

Elderly in all of England have the equivalent of a Freedom Pass but just for busses (Freedom Passes include almost all Tfl transport, e.g. underground, trams, DLR and some Nationbal Rail inside London)

Unfortunately the bus passes and freedom passes are not interchangeable and sometimes have to be manually checked if not in the local region,