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New comment by rodric in "John Ternus to become Apple CEO"

rodric — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 03:54:09 +0000

> You can't have separate scroll directions for your trackpad and your external mouse.

The worst. There are even separate toggles in Settings for mouse and trackpad scrolling direction, but changing one changes the other. It is truly amazing that this has persisted for 15 years.

New comment by rodric in "John Ternus to become Apple CEO"

rodric — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 03:34:03 +0000

> Maybe the sync is fast now, but my usage would put my in a higher iCloud tier than I'd like

You can use Messages on the Mac without storing messages in iCloud. iPhone, iPad and Mac can all send and receive the same account’s messages, effectively staying in sync without actually syncing them to iCloud’s servers.

New comment by rodric in "Is the Q source the origin of the Gospels?"

rodric — Tue, 05 Nov 2024 02:35:38 +0000

If Q is not a written source, the Q hypothesis falls apart. The point is to explain what Matthew and Luke (but not Mark) have in common, much of which is word-for-word the same. Whole sentences between them that are verbatim in the Greek point to literary dependence, not oral tradition.

New comment by rodric in "Is the Q source the origin of the Gospels?"

rodric — Tue, 05 Nov 2024 02:08:37 +0000

On the Farrer hypothesis, Luke used Matthew as a source, accounting for their shared material. Mark Goodacre may be the current leading academic proponent of the Farrer hypothesis. His article ‘Fatigue in the Synoptics’ (https://www.markgoodacre.org/Q/fatigue.htm) is a short read that makes part of the case.

New comment by rodric in "The 1600s were a watershed for swear words (2022)"

rodric — Sat, 02 Nov 2024 17:51:12 +0000

Setting aside the truth value of any religious claim — I find ‘Jesus **** Christ’ to be in gratingly poor taste. Imagine going around saying ‘Prophet **** Muhammed’ or even ‘Martin **** Luther King.’ It’s gauche.

New comment by rodric in "Arrest of Pavel Durov, Telegram CEO, charges of terrorism, fraud, child porn"

rodric — Sun, 25 Aug 2024 15:35:59 +0000

Two days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41328688

Probably an unrelated coincidence.

New comment by rodric in "Euclid's Proof that √2 is Irrational"

rodric — Thu, 22 Aug 2024 14:19:08 +0000

> Eu, definitely a good name

I see what you did there.

New comment by rodric in "Euclid's Proof that √2 is Irrational"

rodric — Thu, 22 Aug 2024 14:14:02 +0000

You are right, of course. Clearly, I have been away from mathematics too long.

New comment by rodric in "Euclid's Proof that √2 is Irrational"

rodric — Thu, 22 Aug 2024 13:41:03 +0000

> the set of such roots is actually closed under multiplication, addition, and subtraction, and there is even an analogue of prime factorization if you squint

I did a maths undergrad, but I don’t think I ever studied algebraic integers. That’s something I shall have to remedy now, thanks!

New comment by rodric in "VLC vs. the App Stores"

rodric — Sat, 20 Apr 2024 17:58:23 +0000

VLC is up to date on F-Droid, for what it’s worth

New comment by rodric in "Did English ever have a formal version of "you"? (2011)"

rodric — Mon, 25 Dec 2023 04:20:45 +0000

> The V is gradually being dropped in Spain and in the last few decades the process seems to have accelerated

I own a Spanish textbook printed (in English) in 1958 that says about «usted»: ‘It is the universal respectful address of society, and the only one the foreigner is ever likely to employ or hear addressed to him, unless he marries a native or forms intimate friendships.’ How times have changed!

New comment by rodric in "Odd and unsafe baby car seats from the past"

rodric — Wed, 23 Aug 2023 19:23:22 +0000

> "total deathtrap" is a wild exaggeration.

Sarcasm ;-)

New comment by rodric in "uBlock Origin Lite now available on Firefox"

rodric — Tue, 22 Aug 2023 04:34:14 +0000

The web is, in theory, an open venue, and somebody publishing on the web is not unlike somebody performing in the street. It is not your duty, as the consumer, to ensure the producer’s income—particularly not at the expense of your privacy. The producer has something to say, and you the consumer are willing to hear it: that may just as well be the extent of your relationship. How, or even whether, the producer monetizes this state of affairs is not the consumer’s responsibility, though some consumers (who can) may choose to patronize the producer.

New comment by rodric in "People over-emphasize the recycling aspect of "reduce, reuse, recycle""

rodric — Thu, 27 Jul 2023 14:39:49 +0000

> Require anyone who sells a new physical product have to accept returns of that physical product at the end of its lifetime

This is the correct solution

New comment by rodric in "South Korea adopts new law to join the international standard of age counting"

rodric — Wed, 28 Jun 2023 13:05:37 +0000

The day you turn 30 you begin your 31st year of life.

New comment by rodric in "The Reddit blackout has left Google barren and full of holes"

rodric — Wed, 14 Jun 2023 16:53:16 +0000

How great is your wish? If you host your own instance of Whoogle, which gives Google search results, you can set one of the environment variables to block particular websites from search results.

New comment by rodric in "Windows 11 calls a zip file a 'postcode file' in UK English"

rodric — Wed, 07 Jun 2023 21:17:36 +0000

Modern French has had little influence on English. As I understand it, the -our forms are evolutions from the Norman French spellings that introduced these Latinate words into English after the Conquest. In the Renaissance, as many words made their way into English directly from Latin, there was something of a desire to Latinize the spellings of these words to their original -or forms. This had some traction in Britain (eg, horror, tremor, governor) but really took root in America.

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New comment by rodric in "John Ternus to become Apple CEO"

New comment by rodric in "John Ternus to become Apple CEO"

New comment by rodric in "Is the Q source the origin of the Gospels?"

New comment by rodric in "Is the Q source the origin of the Gospels?"

New comment by rodric in "The 1600s were a watershed for swear words (2022)"

New comment by rodric in "Arrest of Pavel Durov, Telegram CEO, charges of terrorism, fraud, child porn"

New comment by rodric in "Euclid's Proof that √2 is Irrational"

New comment by rodric in "Euclid's Proof that √2 is Irrational"

New comment by rodric in "Euclid's Proof that √2 is Irrational"

New comment by rodric in "VLC vs. the App Stores"

New comment by rodric in "Did English ever have a formal version of "you"? (2011)"

New comment by rodric in "Odd and unsafe baby car seats from the past"

New comment by rodric in "uBlock Origin Lite now available on Firefox"

New comment by rodric in "People over-emphasize the recycling aspect of "reduce, reuse, recycle""

New comment by rodric in "South Korea adopts new law to join the international standard of age counting"

New comment by rodric in "The Reddit blackout has left Google barren and full of holes"

New comment by rodric in "Windows 11 calls a zip file a 'postcode file' in UK English"

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New comment by rodric in "It's time for an RSS revival (2018)"