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New comment by philistine in "ASML says it sold 'absolutely nothing' in Europe in 2026"

philistine — Sun, 27 Sep 2026 00:53:29 +0000

Europe manages to give a measurably better lifestyle for more people for less money than the US. Europe’s a success.

New comment by philistine in "Factorio that you can touch"

philistine — Sat, 26 Sep 2026 03:58:02 +0000

> I do know that if I wanted to build a 10K SPM kilobase without ever going to space, I still could

Yeah, not everyone plays with the expansion.

New comment by philistine in "Apple iPhone 4 “Antennagate” Q&A (2010) [video]"

philistine — Thu, 24 Sep 2026 20:10:15 +0000

There were what I would graciously call zealots who were adamant Apple had to build on OpenDoc to break Microsoft’s nascent monopoly with Office. When Jobs adequately cancelled all efforts on OpenDoc under the very correct vision that you can’t ship OpenDoc in a shrink wrap package, those zealots were furious.

Apple iPhone 4 “Antennagate” Q&A (2010) [video]

philistine — Thu, 24 Sep 2026 14:35:13 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BiN5ERktXz0

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49831220

Points: 35

# Comments: 31

New comment by philistine in "Canada welcomes EU proposal to become 'associate member'"

philistine — Thu, 17 Sep 2026 18:13:27 +0000

I do not believe that once the ink dries on what the EU is willing to concede that the people in Canada would agree in a referendum.

This reeks of being custom made to enrage one person in particular and give leeway for negotiations.

New comment by philistine in "Automattic's board forces CEO Matt Mullenweg into leave of absence"

philistine — Fri, 11 Sep 2026 00:51:18 +0000

He's as crazy as a coocoo clock.

New comment by philistine in "All grown-ups were once children, but only few of them remember it"

philistine — Fri, 11 Sep 2026 00:44:57 +0000

Kids have a very poor ability to foresee and choose delayed gratification. The cookie experiment is proof of that. To children, a piñata is an exercice in intense delayed gratification. That and you get to hit things.

New comment by philistine in "AirPods 5"

philistine — Wed, 09 Sep 2026 22:11:06 +0000

The long stems were literally the same length as on their wired headphones. They encased a bluetooth antenna and battery inside their existing design.

New comment by philistine in "LG TVs caught spying even when offline or on standby"

philistine — Wed, 09 Sep 2026 14:00:18 +0000

Those people need better glasses.

New comment by philistine in "LG TVs caught spying even when offline or on standby"

philistine — Tue, 08 Sep 2026 21:45:27 +0000

Do not use a display made for commercial kiosk use as a tv.

They have terrible response times, brightness levels meant to be seen under sunlight, not for the fine differences of movies.

New comment by philistine in "Smartphone makers don't bother to comply with EU repairability requirements"

philistine — Mon, 07 Sep 2026 14:26:26 +0000

The whole discussion on what the EU is doing has devolved into this idea that everyone will be forced to offer a backplate that pops out and a battery you can remove with your fingers.

The directive is far more complicated, and you will not see that at all.

New comment by philistine in "Asahi Linux on M3"

philistine — Mon, 07 Sep 2026 02:17:03 +0000

This is it; why make your own CPU, if you can't make large breaking changes because you've promised Linux support?

Apple is not interested in tying their hardware design to Linus Torvalds.

New comment by philistine in "Tim Cook Sold Out Steve Jobs (2025)"

philistine — Tue, 01 Sep 2026 13:42:02 +0000

Apple chose SCSI as its connector of choice in the 90s. It was a standard, it was faster and better than Serial, and PC manufacturers never bothered to offer it.

Apple chose an internal connector that worked with their CPUs. They couldn't even offer the connection styles on PCs; they worked differently.

Apple built its own mouse and keyboard cabling because they wanted to allow their users to connect their mouse to their keyboard, and to start the computer from the keyboard. No common cable offered them that.

Apple was literally first to the common rigid diskette. That they came up with file systems of their own is a measure of their early investments, and their need to maintain compatibility. They couldn't move to FAT, they had already made their own stack.

From my side of the fence, PC makers were laggards trying to save pennies who couldn't be bothered to invest in better technologies. Apple's success in cornering the majority of profits in the computer sector is a measure of their continued failures.

New comment by philistine in "European Commission Revives Push for Encryption Backdoors in ProtectEU Strategy"

philistine — Sun, 30 Aug 2026 22:55:11 +0000

Look to the Westminster system for the true solution to the Commission’s lack of accountability.

Let the MEPs of each country vote on who amongst them will sit on the Commission.

New comment by philistine in "Iceland votes on whether to restart talks on joining EU"

philistine — Sat, 29 Aug 2026 22:35:44 +0000

Not significantly. Your point that only failed states decide to use another nation's currency is automatically a failed state is simply untrue. It can be a marker, but it's not an automatic mark. Montenegro is not a failed state.

New comment by philistine in "Inception-style curved map for turn-by-turn directions"

philistine — Fri, 28 Aug 2026 17:18:22 +0000

Not every road owner in the world has provided how many lanes a road has. To tell you which lane to stay in, it need to know how many there are!

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

philistine — Tue, 25 Aug 2026 17:12:38 +0000

This shorthand that marketing means a bad thing is actually not true for Apple. Apple's marketing is how it ought to be at every company. They do market research to figure out what users need, they famously came up with the iPod's click wheel, they don't just do the ads. Of course Apple is eminently critiquable, but its marketing division is what everybody should do.

New comment by philistine in "hdiutil is deprecated in macOS 27 Golden Gate"

philistine — Sat, 22 Aug 2026 21:57:00 +0000

Yeah, Apple is very weary of breaking user functionality. They'll just break your app's ability to run.

New comment by philistine in "Canada suspends trade negotiations with USA and match tariffs dollar for dollar"

philistine — Sat, 22 Aug 2026 12:30:21 +0000

Québec makes 80% of the world’s maple syrup. You pretty much can’t get it anywhere else.

New comment by philistine in "Grand jury declines to indict Ohio man charged with destroying Flock camera"

philistine — Fri, 21 Aug 2026 18:55:40 +0000

This attitude can be a strong precursor to positive change. In Canada, Dr. Morgentaler performed abortions in Montréal, and prosecutors were unable to compose a jury of enough people who would return a guilty verdict for any abortion. So it created an untenable situation for the government, who had no choice but to let doctors completely break the law until they were deemed unconstitutional against the newly penned charter.