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Since I move a bunch of USB devices between my personal and work MacBooks anyway, I just wired my Magic Keyboard and Trackpad up to the same KVM switch and that works fine. However, it wouldn’t work for a Magic Mouse if I decided to use that, so I’ll give Magic Switch a try (especially compelling since it doesn’t require the same Apple ID as Continuity does). I’d like to see if I can wire it up to switch when the KVM switches from one laptop to the other.
Re:Floci: Locally emulating any cloud service on Monday September 28, 2026 @05:28PM (#49884641)
As a Romanian, I chuckle at this.
Re:Nvidia announces native GPU programming in Rust on Thursday September 17, 2026 @02:24AM (#49737092)
Do it in Go and I’m interested
Re:Lex Speedman: We love you, Lex. but You talk too slow on Thursday September 03, 2026 @08:17AM (#49549022)
This is so perfect!
Re:Using floci to emulate Cloud platforms (GCP, AWS, Azure) on Tuesday September 01, 2026 @06:26AM (#49520101)
Romanian: Chuckles.
Re:Debian votes to allow "responsible use of generative AI" on Saturday August 29, 2026 @12:04PM (#49491021)
This should be the policy anyway, everywhere.
Re:New Mac Studio with M5 Max and M5 Ultra on Wednesday August 26, 2026 @05:04AM (#49445936)
Why do I only have two kidneys dude
Why do I only have two kidneys dude
Re:Clamiga: Common Lisp for the Amiga on Monday August 17, 2026 @05:10AM (#49328204)
Ah yes, chlamydia.
Re:Claude Is Down on Sunday August 16, 2026 @06:02PM (#49324154)
Hello!
Re:iOS 26 Gets First Jailbreak Thanks to Dopamine on Sunday August 09, 2026 @01:18PM (#49233382)
I remember the days of jailbreaking my iPhone 3G to add multitasking and a control centre! Good to see it isn't fully dead. That being said, we are getting iOS 27 in a month.
I love the idea in general of query params encoding all the necessary state to be able to share it. Very useful.
The Weather app in Windows is more ads than weather, so it checks out.
Re:Premier league bans gambling sponsors on Saturday August 01, 2026 @08:44AM (#49133972)
RIP Stoke City.
Cool, now do Red Alert 2.

Just kidding, fantastic effort! But still looking to play RA2 on my iPad :)

Re:Steam Machine on Tuesday June 23, 2026 @06:58AM (#48643112)
Man it's so unfortunate that this launch coincided with the component crisis, forcing the prices to be just outside the range of people that were debating between getting this and getting a console, it would've made so much more of an impact if the prices were $200 lower.
Go or bust.
Re:What was your "Oh Shit" moment with GenAI? on Sunday June 07, 2026 @01:01PM (#48436668)
I'll be really honest, I was running out of time on a mid size ticket at work. Basically swapping ~50 models from Go native to Protobuf messages, preserving some sane defaults we had in some already declared `.pb`s. I let it do it, it one shotted it, then I thought "hmm, would be nice for it to keep a changelog of big changes it does for me from now on so I don't have to keep reminding myself. I told it, and it created a hook for itself to do just that. From that chat onwards, every change bigger than what it considered "trivial" got added to an `AGENT_CHANGELOG.md`.

That got me hooked.

Re:Ian's Secure Shoelace Knot on Thursday June 04, 2026 @07:26PM (#48406050)
Eyy, I stumbled upon this website when I was 10, glad to see it’s still up!
Re:Ten Basic Clouds on Friday May 29, 2026 @08:07AM (#48322081)
Not offline for me
Still looking for a nicer solution to just deploy some personal projects that are usually 1 container big but might end up being 2-4, and being able to do logging, tracing, rolling updates, networking, etc; For now using Docker Compose for most of that.
Re:Review of 1984 by Isaac Asimov (1980) on Thursday February 05, 2026 @06:20PM (#46906843)
This also happened heavily under the Romanian communist regime. My parents were first hand witness to that.
You know how yawning is also a social function, and seeing someone yawn makes you yawn? I just got forced into a good neurofluid flow reorganization session just by reading the title.
So glad I upgraded my PC right before this.
Re:Ask HN: How to deal with long vibe-coded PRs? on Tuesday November 04, 2025 @03:08AM (#45808565)
Vibe merge review it using Copilot or equivalent, and then close it :)
What are the specifics of the SSDs you chose? I understand you have to go for specific types/models to make sure they don't melt down too quickly.
HA HA HA HA HA I really hope the C-suite that decided this gets no bonus and hopefully a salary cut this year. Stupid, anti-consumer measures like this need proper consequences so they stop happening. Until then, let's keep boycotting companies with anti-consumer practices.
Re:What to Do with an Old iPad on Sunday September 07, 2025 @06:48AM (#45157059)
502: Bad Gateway - Host Error. Hilarious
Re:University of Cambridge Cognitive Ability Test on Wednesday September 03, 2025 @04:32AM (#45113487)
Don't ask me why but I did feel a tiny bit bummed out after getting 50 and being told I'm in the 68th percentile out of 13000~ people.

It's worth considering who the other participants are, has this been mostly shared just among University of Cambridge students / staff (and HN readers now)?

Re:Why Romania excels in international Olympiads on Sunday August 31, 2025 @04:44AM (#45081553)
Lived in Romania until I finished high school. Professors would always push us to compete in the olympiads, there was an informal system where some professors, even if they were not the one teaching your class, would take you under your wing to prepare you to hit county/national/international level, you’d be allowed to skip school for a week/month depending on the level you got to, there was even some prestige to be gained.

I was personally never motivated to go past county, but it was a fun time.

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