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Re:Unicode 18.0 on Thursday September 17, 2026 @03:56AM (#49737740)
Raku and Racket are language oriented novel programming languages. They may adapt more easy.
Re:iOS 27, iPadOS 27, and macOS 27 on Monday September 14, 2026 @02:18PM (#49701473)
macOS has the prior keycombo for 'home' and 'end' occupied for other uses.

   command + up/down arrow
I don't know how to read to the bottom of a webpage and jump immediately to the top of page.

Plus, the global key at bottom left fails for keyboard shortcut input when defining new binding for managing windowing rearrangement.

Wasn't long ago before 2016 when Alphabet toured Beijing with AI Go that working youth in China's Disney land were incapable of facial human emotion.
The future we want. Not the wasteful F-35 'Fat Amy' lemon future noone except the fighterjet mafia wants..
Ukr Warlab AI field testing
Re:Larger Pacific Striped Octopus on Thursday September 10, 2026 @06:44AM (#49641482)
The nautilus is a genetic precursor to the octopus on the cephalopod branched tree of life and takes 20 years to mature.
Re:Larger Pacific Striped Octopus on Thursday September 10, 2026 @06:38AM (#49641425)
The deep-sea octopus Graneledone boreopacifica has the longest known observed 53 month egg brooding period.
iPhone Uno with single panel narrow display pocketability feel, and with option to plus up to iPhone Duo and dynamically switch everyday.
Uber eclipsed by Tesla Cybertaxi FSD.
Re:Knuth: Literate Programming on Tuesday September 08, 2026 @05:07AM (#49607667)
Can Cognitive HPC common sense automate away the tedious housekeeping chores? and let work flow.
Re:Programming is Art on Monday September 07, 2026 @07:46AM (#49597188)
At one extreme an artist may have only one art object in them to bring to this world.
Used to be an online Los Alamos computer store.
Re:Research carried out using NetBSD on Sunday September 06, 2026 @02:20PM (#49589297)
NetBSD 11 with Firefox 151 from pkgsrc on a custom CTWM is a usable daily driver for Emacs daemon mode GUI/TUI and console tmux simultaneous use. Remote in from a Windows or macOS desktop.
Re:Ask HN: Books Recommendations? on Friday September 04, 2026 @10:58PM (#49572673)
concept of mind by ryle

on minds by rosenbloom

Re:Fine, I'll build my own text editor on Wednesday September 02, 2026 @04:49AM (#49533597)
Is Emacs the planaria species of text editors?
Re:Fine, I'll build my own text editor on Wednesday September 02, 2026 @04:46AM (#49533572)
Emacs and AI go hand in glove.
Re:Fine, I'll build my own text editor on Wednesday September 02, 2026 @04:41AM (#49533536)
The Moon Landing Project text editors may not have survived
Re:Scientists Hunting Dark Matter Found Something Strange on Wednesday September 02, 2026 @03:20AM (#49532877)
A quantized inertia theorist says DM is bogus and a waste of attention.
"Supersize Me" iPhones.
Re:The U.S. Munitions Crisis on Sunday August 30, 2026 @09:29AM (#49498491)
AI ammo must have a "learning rate" sticker.
Re:RISC-V is now officially supported by CPython on Sunday August 30, 2026 @02:45AM (#49496260)
Unison.
Gaza, Lebanon, Syria, Libya, Ukraine? wonder what spermaceti does at biological scale attached to compute over 9P.

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