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

rprwhite — Wed, 20 May 2026 11:44:50 +0000

My primary issue with the TouchBar, losing the F keys was a concern but lot my primary one, was that it required me to look at it to use it. With keys you can feel them, and learn their place. But, the TouchBar had me looking at it and not the screen to do something. If it was angled so I could see it in my periphery whilst looking at the screen it would been awesome.

New comment by rprwhite in "If I could make my own GitHub"

rprwhite — Fri, 01 May 2026 14:37:36 +0000

This seems like it’s conflating problems. It’s actually two different problems:

1. Is the PR suitable, and therefore should be approved, and

2. Is this person suitable to make that decision.

If 2 is false then the person should remove themselves from the list of reviewers. Then 1 can follow its normal process.

New comment by rprwhite in "Thermoacoustic heat pumps on the verge of commercial breakthrough"

rprwhite — Sun, 26 Apr 2026 23:42:36 +0000

Yeah, I was also under the impression helium was in very short supply. The article doesn’t mention that, at all. But it does say the unit is quiet because it operates at a constant frequency, so they can use noise cancellation very effectively.

New comment by rprwhite in "Z-Image: Powerful and highly efficient image generation model with 6B parameters"

rprwhite — Sat, 06 Dec 2025 23:37:47 +0000

The link with the typo is in the footer.

New comment by rprwhite in "US declines to join more than 70 countries in signing UN cybercrime treaty"

rprwhite — Thu, 30 Oct 2025 15:47:38 +0000

Err... yeah, because that's what USA based companies are known for - PII protection and data privacy?!?

Maybe there is some more complexity to this argument, that I'm missing. But, it's not one that has merit without justification.

New comment by rprwhite in "10M people watched a YouTuber shim a lock; the lock company sued him – bad idea"

rprwhite — Tue, 28 Oct 2025 12:28:41 +0000

It’s tonyhart7’s lucky day https://xkcd.com/1053/

New comment by rprwhite in "Item Flow, Part 1: A new unified concept for layout"

rprwhite — Thu, 03 Apr 2025 03:55:21 +0000

I mean, this is just this https://xkcd.com/927/ actually happening.

Clearly, the answer is more standards!

New comment by rprwhite in "Javier Milei Backtracks on $4.4B Memecoin After 'Insiders' Pocket $87M"

rprwhite — Mon, 17 Feb 2025 01:55:43 +0000

I had the exact same thoughts. But, also, why is it a good thing that risk is passed down to the users of the currency?

In the regular system risk is passed upward to regular bank you deal with, then upward to the government bank. The frustrating part here is that the regular bank makes all, or very nearly all, the profit, yet passes on the risk. This gives them enormous amounts of power, through wealth, which is far from ideal. But, much, much worse is the concept of removing the regular bank, and government bank, replacing them with a random person online. And passing the risk downward to the users of the currency.

New comment by rprwhite in "TokenVerse: Multi-Concept Personalization in Token Modulation Space by Google"

rprwhite — Wed, 29 Jan 2025 03:47:59 +0000

There's two images where the face is transferred to the final image. The references images with blurred faces are all being used for a different reference; the pose, or "necklace", etc. The faces are blurred in every image unless they explicitly want the face transferred to the final image, at least that's how it seems.

New comment by rprwhite in "Multiple new macOS sandbox escape vulnerabilities"

rprwhite — Sat, 09 Nov 2024 06:01:16 +0000

There is a similar option in iOS, where you give an app access to select items only.

New comment by rprwhite in "The other British invasion: how UK lingo conquered the US"

rprwhite — Sat, 05 Oct 2024 09:02:05 +0000

As a less confrontational reply: from my point of view “unwanted fly tipping” is talking about rubbish. The concept of depositing unwanted, yet usable, not rubbish, things somewhere is not something that would happen (outside of the rather recent disposable culture context). As to your sentence (which is perfectly fine), the use of words avoids possibly confusing repetition. Atypical use would be preferred to “no fly tipping, take it to the tip”.

New comment by rprwhite in "The other British invasion: how UK lingo conquered the US"

rprwhite — Sat, 05 Oct 2024 08:51:22 +0000

Challenge accepted - “scon” is the only way! Why? Absolutely no logical reason, but it is, how it is.

New comment by rprwhite in "The other British invasion: how UK lingo conquered the US"

rprwhite — Sat, 05 Oct 2024 07:27:44 +0000

The sound of the word just seems to capture the action, or lack of action, so well.

New comment by rprwhite in "The other British invasion: how UK lingo conquered the US"

rprwhite — Sat, 05 Oct 2024 07:22:57 +0000

I don’t think Aus/NZ would use it in this manner. It would be more likely to see “no dumping”.

New comment by rprwhite in "The other British invasion: how UK lingo conquered the US"

rprwhite — Sat, 05 Oct 2024 07:19:33 +0000

Dump and tip have different connotations. The tip is where one deposits refuse/rubbish. Whilst a dump and is a pile/collection of unwanted things, not necessarily rubbish. It’s a small but often important distinction.

New comment by rprwhite in "DuckDB in Python in the Browser with Pyodide, PyScript, and JupyterLite"

rprwhite — Thu, 03 Oct 2024 04:41:32 +0000

That URL is 404 for me. It needs the "l" in .html added to the end to work.

New comment by rprwhite in "New York disbars infamous copyright troll"

rprwhite — Fri, 15 Mar 2024 08:50:05 +0000

My client, the sky, is suing your client for copyright infringement.

Additionally my client is suing GGP’s client for the offer of water, in which my client believes they have a valid interest but were not given due consideration in the making of this offer.

New comment by rprwhite in "Show HN: I made a free animator. Think Adobe Illustrator but for animation"

rprwhite — Tue, 12 Mar 2024 11:29:00 +0000

I think this might be right up your alley, along with some of the children comments: https://rive.app

It’s pretty much modern Macromedia Flash. Except a JS runtime, rather than plugin.

New comment by rprwhite in "How to ripen and store avocados"

rprwhite — Fri, 01 Dec 2023 11:48:34 +0000

The ascorbic acid in lemon juice is doing the work here. If you’d like read up on the science as to why it works the terms you need are polyphenol oxidase, which are the enzymes primarily responsible for browning in fruit and veg. Then also look into the Fenton chain reaction and how’s it’s interfered by ascorbic acid binding to quinones. It’ll probably be easier to find this if you focus on wine science, more so than fruit and veg in general.

New comment by rprwhite in "Deno Queues"

rprwhite — Thu, 28 Sep 2023 03:47:15 +0000

This sentiment has been repeated in a few comments. But, why can’t the deno deploy implementation be reimplemented, by yourself, by running a foundationDB server with mvSQLite[1]? That shouldn’t require any changes to the code.

[1] https://github.com/losfair/mvsqlite