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New comment by unsignedchar in "Claude Design"

unsignedchar — Sat, 18 Apr 2026 01:17:59 +0000

But were you trying to learn CSS in the first place?

New comment by unsignedchar in "The Gemini app is now on Mac"

unsignedchar — Sat, 18 Apr 2026 01:11:34 +0000

it may not be meaningful for you (the user), but usually has benefits for the provider, from binding arbitration clauses in the ToS to deeper commercial suveillance.

https://pluralistic.net/2025/10/27/shit-shack/#binding-arbit...

> Remember, an app is just a website skinned in the right kind of IP to make it a felony to add an ad-blocker to it

New comment by unsignedchar in "Middle schooler finds coin from Troy in Berlin"

unsignedchar — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 19:33:02 +0000

the museum is small but excellent; it has a wall covered just in Dire Wolf skulls found there

New comment by unsignedchar in "Historic Engineering Wonders: Photos That Reveal How They Pulled It Off"

unsignedchar — Mon, 01 Dec 2025 17:31:14 +0000

Interesting collection but mostly focused on western world and mixing different eras so feels incoherent, like a low-effort ‘content creation’

New comment by unsignedchar in "Who needs Git when you have 1M context windows?"

unsignedchar — Tue, 07 Oct 2025 18:08:29 +0000

Can someone come up with a conversion factor for context window sizes to glacier depletion?

New comment by unsignedchar in "How Intel Missed the iPhone: The XScale Era"

unsignedchar — Fri, 30 Aug 2024 20:27:36 +0000

> So it seems like Apple was looking to build their own processors even before the iPhone became huge (the original iPhone only sold around 7M units while iPods were selling around 50M/year at the same time).

This is almost certainly true once they decided that iOS was going to be based on MacOS. Those software design choices had to have been based on a very aggressive hardware roadmap

New comment by unsignedchar in "How Intel Missed the iPhone: The XScale Era"

unsignedchar — Fri, 30 Aug 2024 20:18:15 +0000

The acquisition of PA Semi was announced in April 2008, so it is possible discussions were already in progress by the time of the first iPhone launch

New comment by unsignedchar in "Apple Vision Pro review: magic, until it's not"

unsignedchar — Sat, 03 Feb 2024 15:42:51 +0000

> The third AR thing I saw was the loading screen of Super Fruit Ninja, which allows you to throw a strawberry at a pig that’s running around on your floor. This seems slightly less historic.

That seemed to me the most historic if true!

New comment by unsignedchar in "Unix as IDE (2012)"

unsignedchar — Thu, 28 Dec 2023 14:00:37 +0000

embedded systems/firmware where the same code may need to be built for multiple HW platforms/cpu architectures.

They Hacked McDonald’s Ice Cream Machines–and Started a Cold War

unsignedchar — Thu, 10 Aug 2023 15:15:36 +0000

Article URL: https://www.wired.com/story/they-hacked-mcdonalds-ice-cream-makers-started-cold-war/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37077221

Points: 4

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New comment by unsignedchar in "Building the Future of X"

unsignedchar — Thu, 03 Aug 2023 16:35:05 +0000

Gruber had a fun take on this

https://daringfireball.net/2023/07/translation_yaccarino_x

New comment by unsignedchar in "Religious Faith Is Surging Among Young People"

unsignedchar — Tue, 25 Apr 2023 19:56:20 +0000

Does this have anything to do with decline in public education?

New comment by unsignedchar in "Hundreds of changes made to latest editions of Roald Dahl's books"

unsignedchar — Sun, 19 Feb 2023 10:26:59 +0000

> you could assume that people of color simply didn't exist back then

Places where people of color have been making art for a few thousand years would beg to differ.

New comment by unsignedchar in "Poor schemas, poor cataloguing: why music tagging sucks"

unsignedchar — Sun, 19 Feb 2023 10:07:22 +0000

There are also multiple issuings of the same recording, sometimes from multiple remasters, or from different new labels for historic recordings (like Furtwanger’s pre-1945 recordings). Often those have significant differences due to different types or generations of noise-reduction techniques used.

New comment by unsignedchar in "ChatGPT is a blurry JPEG of the web"

unsignedchar — Thu, 09 Feb 2023 17:10:48 +0000

> well it can’t do my dishes or clean the house

the correct response would have been "yet"

New comment by unsignedchar in "Vim is touch-typing on steroids"

unsignedchar — Fri, 13 Jan 2023 06:36:02 +0000

Yeah that was weird. How were we using vim for 20 years before that book ?

New comment by unsignedchar in "Vim is touch-typing on steroids"

unsignedchar — Fri, 13 Jan 2023 06:29:14 +0000

vim has had these keybindings/controls as primary features for decades, and people that have these in their muscle memory the benefits have accrued over a long time and a number of different platforms.

New comment by unsignedchar in "P-22 has been euthanized"

unsignedchar — Mon, 19 Dec 2022 09:12:34 +0000

Banff has quite a few of them so sounds like LA should be able to afford more than one

https://canadiangeographic.ca/articles/as-banffs-famed-wildl...

New comment by unsignedchar in "An ode to that “coffee friend”"

unsignedchar — Thu, 27 Oct 2022 06:55:36 +0000

Agreed. A related point: it is often hard for someone who’s not into some specific interest, to know which attributes make something better. Like most people don’t have the same standards of freshness for coffee beans as coffee needs (and wouldn’t know to care)

New comment by unsignedchar in "Ask HN: Why are banking/finance apps so heavy?"

unsignedchar — Tue, 20 Sep 2022 20:57:06 +0000

A similar dynamic seems to play out for apps of health insurance companies, where the typical user with employer-provided insurance doesn’t get to choose the provider