<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: pta2002</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=pta2002</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Wed, 14 Oct 2026 02:09:11 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=pta2002" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by pta2002 in "Keyboard differences between Windows and Macs"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Another difference I remembered, this time a Microsoft-only idiocy: core Windows and Microsoft (Office) apps TRANSLATE shortcuts! Ctrl+A (“All”) becomes Ctrl+T (“Tudo”) in Notepad if the computer is in Portuguese. Ctrl+S also stops saving and is replaced by Ctrl+G (“Guardar”).<p>I can see why Microsoft thought this was a good idea, but the problem is that ONLY Microsoft apps do this, so you have two sets of shortcuts to remember. I don’t know a single person who likes this.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 09 Oct 2026 07:10:12 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50017101</link><dc:creator>pta2002</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50017101</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50017101</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by pta2002 in "Keyboard differences between Windows and Macs"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>One thing I never see mentioned, probably because it’s not very common, is that on some languages the Mac has a completely different position for symbol keys! This makes using a Mac keyboard on Windows (or vice-versa) extremely annoying (Linux tends to support the Mac layout as well so it’s fine).<p>For instance, in Portuguese, the Mac keyboard [1] has the 
+ key two keys to the right of 0, and you use shift to input *. Meanwhile, on Windows [2], this key is one row below next to P, with the place it is on Mac occupied by «/». Most of the AltGr keys are also in different spots (particularly { and }), which makes this a major pain if you consistently switch between Windows and Mac.<p>Frankly I prefer the Mac layout, in part due to the Cmd/Ctrl split, but also because I believe it assigns more meaningful symbols to keys (I have literally never used «/», the internet will tell you that’s how quotations are done in Portuguese but everyone, books included, uses “/”).<p>I never saw any explanation as to why these differ. Does anyone know of any other languages where this happens? It doesn’t seem to be very common!<p>[1]: <a href="https://store.storeimages.cdn-apple.com/1/as-images.apple.com/is/MXCL3PO?wid=1144&hei=1144&fmt=jpeg&qlt=90&.v=OXlMZU9QcWlBM1JLTWltWHh3VUR5bUplSUFzS2tKYWdhODBINzNubEdCUXk1VXUzQzBNamRxOFhueFJ3ck9OSXhtMFZndCtrU1kyODB4ZjRvMFVoQ2c" rel="nofollow">https://store.storeimages.cdn-apple.com/1/as-images.apple.co...</a>
[2]: <a href="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/2c/KB_Portuguese.svg?utm_source=pt.wikipedia.org&utm_campaign=index&utm_content=original" rel="nofollow">https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/2c/KB_Portu...</a></p>
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<p>I haven’t seen anyone mention this yet, but… other than the Duo, the iPhones have been the same size since the iPhone X? Obviously not counting the Max/Plus/Mini lines, but the standard ones have had 6”-ish screens for almost a decade now (and the screen itself has increased in size, but that’s because they decreased the bezels), so they’ve hardly made a new phone that is larger than the one before since then.<p>Personally, I quite like the size of the standard iPhones, fits in my pocket, can use it one handed well enough, and the display is big enough to comfortably view content. I have quite small hands though and I can see how someone bigger than me would like the size of the Pro Max line.<p>Also this size clearly works, because basically all phones now are this exact same size give or take a few mm.</p>
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<p>I’ve found that those sites tend to charge insane amounts for shipping (20€+ to Portugal at least) which considering the price of the parts in question generally makes it not worth it unfortunately. Maybe it’s better now, I haven’t tried in a few years.</p>
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<p>In Portugal at least, all (I think? At least all the major ones like Benfica, Sporting and Porto) of the clubs are sports associations and are controlled by the club members. This does not mean that there isn’t major money in this, but a club president can get removed by fans, which happened with Porto recently (due to corruption… the club almost went bankrupt).<p>These clubs are often very old as well, and often were small regional clubs that got big, so they are significant in their cities and do a ton more than just football.</p>
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<p>I've used it on trains a bit and it does turn off when the train is going straight ahead. You might be going 200km/h, but if the speed isn't changing and you're always going forward you don't really feel any force, and neither does the phone, so the dots don't need to be there any more.</p>
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<p>A lot of banks won’t even give you the option of a non-instant transfer now, at least here in Portugal. Though non-instant transfers can in theory be recalled since there is some time before the money gets to the destination account, my bank even gives a warning now when doing a transfer to ensure I have the details right because they can not recall a transaction after the money arrives.</p>
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<p>Google’s phones are pretty good nowadays, I feel like they carry that ethos more than modern OnePlus phones anyway. Plus they can be unlocked trivially, which is officially supported, and you can install GrapheneOS on them.</p>
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<p>Ryanair has only ever lost a plane once, due to a bird strike with only some injuries, and they are one of biggest airlines by number of flights (if not the biggest).<p>Turns out plane accidents are expensive, and the reputation loss as well. Don't even need to lose the plane, just the plane being stuck on the ground is expensive (they are also one of the most timely airlines because of this). Really can not afford to have accidents!</p>
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<p>Honestly I just don't really care to anymore. I used to flash custom ROMs on all my phones because I could only afford cheap (100-200€) phones that were filled with bloatware, but ever since I started being able to afford a decent mid-range phone (Pixel 6a was the first one I didn't reflash) I just found out I wasn't actually missing anything, and I definitely enjoy things like contactless payments, and not having something randomly break every time I update.</p>
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<p>Same with me, apparently three different models think I am a minor football player. Looking it up, I am not the first result for my full name, but there also is no minor football player with that name, so…<p>Also have an extremely common name in Portugal (just in my company there are 4 people with my name, including my previous manager), only slightly helped by the fact that we’re one of the few countries that inherits last names from both parents, which helps with differentiation. At least I did snag pedroalves.pt when I found it available!<p>EDIT: Username does better, but for some reason Kimi seems to think I do algorithmic competitions, and Llama 3.1 thinks I am a German football club (no longer just a player, a whole club now!)</p>
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<p>Well, just the motherboard seems to be over 1200€ so it’s not really in the same league… <a href="https://smicro.eu/asrock-altrad8ud-1l2t-1?srsltid=AfmBOoqWFeBjnKLe6UluKvP2XB2hviNTL4EymfdxObOnJtECdO0NckqU" rel="nofollow">https://smicro.eu/asrock-altrad8ud-1l2t-1?srsltid=AfmBOoqWFe...</a></p>
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<p>Indeed, I was misinterpreting the OP's suggestion. Can't edit the comment anymore, unfortunately.</p>
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<p>I believe that's how the varint encoding used by protobut works: <a href="https://protobuf.dev/programming-guides/encoding/#varints" rel="nofollow">https://protobuf.dev/programming-guides/encoding/#varints</a></p>
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<p>They’ve got external kernel modules that they use for some hardware that is not supported upstream, namely the GPU, but also some things like Ethernet I think. Everything else is upstream though, so the situation is similar to a regular NVIDIA GPU.<p>Who would’ve thought that NVIDIA started upstreaming stuff once they realized how much money Linux is making them?</p>
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<p>Nowadays upstream Linux with UEFI mostly works, with their out of tree drivers. I’ve managed to make it work in NixOS with the stock kernel. Look at the open embedded L4T project, they have some recipes for building that. No need to use nvidia’s kernel anymore!<p>Also, supposedly on the second half of 2026 they were going to be moving even more stuff out of their Jetson-specific drivers as they already do for their slightly newer chips (so you could use the standard drivers, and standard CUDA builds). Let’s see how that turns out.</p>
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<p>I assume a selfish benefit is that OpenAI and Google don't want the models to train on their own data. There is just /so much/ AI generated content online that they definitely need to filter it out somehow when assembling the training data. This is a pretty effective way to do that, with the nice bonus of being mostly good from a PR standpoint.</p>
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<p>Not sure if it’s what you’re looking for, but the playdate is pretty neat.</p>
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<p>Update: I was wrong, check max-m's sibling comment! The satellites just move really fast across the camera because they're in LEO, so they can traverse rather large distances before there's a new exposure and a small gap.</p>
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<p>Probably exactly that. If you take a single 10 minute exposure (or really, anything more than a few seconds) you'll get noticeable star trails if you don't put your camera on a rotating mount. Stacking multiple exposures also has other nice benefits such as noise canceling itself out and being able to remove satellite trails.<p>Last time I did astrophotography was a few years ago, before Starlink made the problem considerably worse, but satellite trails were relatively easy to remove with stacking. I'm sure it's harder now but definitely still possible, so I'm assuming in this case leaving them in was done on purpose to highlight the problem.<p>EDIT: Looking better at the picture, I belive this was taken with a star tracker and then composited with a shorter exposure of the foreground. Notice how the foreground, even far away, looks considerably blurrier than the stars, and how the tower in the background has some light streaks. This is exactly what you'll see if you use a star tracker. Rather than star trails, you'll have "foreground trails". This would explain why there are relatively few gaps in the satellite trails, since the exposures can be much longer.</p>
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