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Re:The creator of Jujutsu has joined ERSC on Tuesday September 01, 2026 @03:14PM (#49526634)
The article says this:

> von Zweigbergk will continue to be a core maintainer of JJ as an open source project under the Apache 2.0 license.

God forbid an article presents all the evidence from all parties and asks you to reach a conclusion by yourself...

Sorry for the snark. But I genuinely think the way they did this was perfect.

In American English, "insure" can also mean "to make sure" as in "ensure", in additional to meaning "to take out insurance for".
Re:Google releases Gemma 4 open models on Friday April 03, 2026 @09:16PM (#47634537)
Re:Show HN: Will my flight have Starlink? on Wednesday March 18, 2026 @04:17PM (#47430892)
Just noting that the phrasing "readily available alternatives" by itself is slightly ambiguous: it could be read as subsetting ("the alternatives that are readily available") or just attributive ("the alternatives, which are readily available").
Re:TikTok's 'Addictive Design' Found to Be Illegal in Europe on Friday February 06, 2026 @05:34PM (#46919082)
For the record, almost the exact same expression exists in English: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don%27t_throw_the_baby_out_wit...
>> I also am wearing machine-fabricated clothing and enjoying a host of other products of automation.

> I'm not really a fan of the "you criticize society yet you participate in it" argument.

It seems to me that GP is merely recognizing the parts of technological advance that they do find enjoyable. That's rather far from the "I am very intelligent" comic you're referencing.

> The very least you can do is not impede those trying to fight for those futures if you can't/don't want to fight yourself.

Just noting that GP simply voiced their opinion, which IMHO does not constitute "impedance" of those trying to fight for those futures.

Re:The struggle of resizing windows on macOS Tahoe on Monday January 12, 2026 @04:58PM (#46594857)
Why put it above the _keyboard_, though? what you described sounds just like the macOS menu bar, but perhaps a bit more customizable. Why not just do that (make the menu bar more customizable)?

As a user of the touch bar, I _hated_ having to look down from the screen, and move my hands away from the keyboard home row / touchpad area, _all the way up_ to the touchbar area to finally use it. It completely breaks the flow every single time. I don't think just inserting physical Fn keys beneath it would have won me over at all.

I'm not familiar with the stream deck, haven't even heard of it until just now.

Re:The struggle of resizing windows on macOS Tahoe on Sunday January 11, 2026 @10:36PM (#46583775)
That was a sensible chuckle indeed... but then it also made me realize that grabbing things IRL _moves_ them, not _resizes_ them. Nothing IRL really resizes.

So while it makes a lot of sense to grab inside the object to move it, IMO it actually makes less sense to grab _inside_ the object to resize it. (Imagine the reverse argument -- IRL you can actually grab the middle of the plate to move it, but if grabbing the middle of the window resized it, that would also be very bad.)

I've been trained to grab the edge to resize windows. So I wouldn't try to reach so far inside the rounded rectangle as OP, although it doesn't invalidate their entire argument.

Re:The struggle of resizing windows on macOS Tahoe on Sunday January 11, 2026 @10:30PM (#46583730)
Very much agree. Nostalgia is a hell of a drug. Not saying GP's opinion was pure nostalgia, but a lot of people certainly selectively remember only the good parts as they complain about the now.
Re:The struggle of resizing windows on macOS Tahoe on Sunday January 11, 2026 @10:26PM (#46583701)
Curious why you liked it so much. Removing the fn keys was a big no-no, yes, but also it was just located in a place I'm never going to look at. So why do you think it would've been a hit feature?
Re:Cloudflare CEO on the Italy Fines on Friday January 09, 2026 @11:36PM (#46562803)
FWIW, this is the least effective way to disagree with someone on the internet. Everyone knows it, even yourself.

(snark aside -- either say _why_ you disagree, or just don't engage at all if you think it's a troll.)

Re:Cloudflare CEO on the Italy Fines on Friday January 09, 2026 @11:26PM (#46562739)
how ever did you reach that conclusion? For 1, his tweet literally says "That, of course, is DISGUSTING and even before yesterday’s fine we had multiple legal challenges pending against the underlying scheme." 2 is something that happens behind the doors, and it's rather uncharitable to just assume he skipped it.
Re:Tell HN: Merry Christmas on Thursday December 25, 2025 @02:30AM (#46382825)
Gemini 3 Pro gave some rather unimpressive answers: https://gemini.google.com/share/3cbcbe1fd64c
Re:Gemini 3 Flash: frontier intelligence built for speed on Wednesday December 17, 2025 @07:29PM (#46307522)
I'm a total noob here, but just pointing out that Omniscience Index is roughly "Accuracy - Hallucination Rate". So it simply means that their Accuracy was very high.

> In the Hallucination Rate vs. AA-Omniscience Index chart, it’s not in the most desirable quadrant

This doesn't mean much. As long as Gemini 3 has a high hallucination rate (higher than at least 50% others), it's not going to be in the most desirable quadrant by definition.

For example, let's say a model answers 99 out of 100 questions correctly. The 1 wrong answer it produces is a hallucination (i.e. confidently wrong). This amazing model would have a 100% hallucination rate as defined here, and thus not be in the most desirable quadrant. But it should still have a very high Omniscience Index.

Re:Nano Banana Pro on Thursday November 20, 2025 @07:41PM (#45999896)
thanks for the update. One small note: for the d20 test, NB Pro had duplications of 13 and 17 too, not just 19.
Re:Nano Banana Pro on Thursday November 20, 2025 @03:22PM (#45997178)
thanks, I love your website. Are you planning to do NB Pro for the text-to-image benchmark too?
Re:Binocular Shot on Sunday March 09, 2025 @03:13PM (#43312589)
> It currently features 36 fantastic films and also White Noise (2022).

_oof_

Re:Touchscreens are out, and tactile controls are back on Monday November 04, 2024 @02:44PM (#42045324)
I love the new UI. Reduces a lot of visual clutter and lets me focus on the code. I don't understand the problem with telling where a tab ends and the next begins; I don't click on the borders of tabs anyway, just the text. (And there's an icon in front of the tab name.)
Re:Unicode is hard on Monday May 29, 2017 @11:57PM (#14442936)
> т is a homoglyph of T—because one could mistake one for the other.

I believe gp is talking about the font. In some fonts (especially italic/cursive), the letter "т" looks like "m", and nothing like "T" -- so it's really hard to say with which one it's "visually equivalent".

Re:What Rust Can Do That Other Languages Can't on Monday February 06, 2017 @04:02AM (#13577749)
I'm sure you understand that not all language features fall under Turing-completeness.
Re:Mozilla launches new brand identity on Thursday January 19, 2017 @05:26AM (#13434620)
Alternatively, when a protocol "moz://" does pop up, they can just register the domain 'a'.
Re:Google – My Activity on Tuesday November 08, 2016 @04:50AM (#12898923)
> It's because it's designed to be used in Directions mode with location services enabled, and only in Directions mode with location services enabled.

If you don't provide a source for this, I'm going to call bullshit.

Screenshot of desktop Google Maps without sign-in: http://prnt.sc/d4j744

Screenshot of Android Google Maps without sign-in: http://prnt.sc/d4jwdy

Both look full of street names to me.

Re:Google – My Activity on Tuesday November 08, 2016 @03:38AM (#12898589)
One reason: Google needs this info in order to give it to you.

Sure, you can acquire this info via some other means, but that would mean someone else having it.

Re:Functional Programming, Abstraction, and Names on Saturday May 21, 2016 @08:57AM (#11744512)
I think you missed his, though -- which was that any person with a high-school math background can easily grasp the concept of monoids with just a tiny bit of effort.
Re:Stdio or iostreams? – A Modest Alternative for C++ on Monday April 11, 2016 @01:54AM (#11469866)
re your first point, the author did point out that this would pollute the namespace with names like hex, integer, etc.