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Re:iOS 27, iPadOS 27, and macOS 27 on Monday September 14, 2026 @02:26PM (#49701597)
Your specific usecase has a native solve. Tap the status bar on any scrollable content view to scroll immediately to the top of the page. This has been around since, I believe, iPhone OS 1.
Re:Running local models on an M4 with 24GB memory on Sunday May 10, 2026 @11:06PM (#48090651)
> Obviously you can't do anything with less than 64 GBytes these days

I don't think that's true. Plenty of people can run basic workflows at 8GB on the MacBook Neo and most others are fine at 16 GB.

Per Goodfellas, "Paulie and the gang" ended up in jail while Henry Hill received witness protection. So, it wasn't just for show
I agree in principle but Homebrew only supports the latest 3 versions of macOS. Right now Ventura 13 which came out in October 2022 is unsupported.
Re:A Fond Farewell from Farmers' Almanac on Friday November 07, 2025 @04:23AM (#45844809)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Farmers%27_Almanac

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_Farmer%27s_Almanac

People do know things other people do not. They are fairly notable, though obviously not as much in today's society, hence this one's retirement

Re:Ollama Turbo on Tuesday August 05, 2025 @06:35PM (#44805334)
You are thinking of Elon Grok, not Groq
Re:Show HN: Wordle-style game for Fermi questions on Saturday August 02, 2025 @02:27PM (#44770040)
Do you think you could support typing answers in scientific notation? So 8e9 for 8,000,000,000. It would make typing in answers easier considering my guesses always end in a bunch of zeroes!

Does the orange mean your answer is within 25% of the absolute value? Or that your logarithm value is within 25% of the logarithm value of the true answer?

Thanks for making this, this is awesome

Re:Working with CSV files on shell/terminal on Wednesday June 28, 2023 @01:54AM (#36502800)
I didn't know that and my Google fu is lacking, does anyone have a resource I could read to understand that limitation?
Re:Beej's Guide to Network Programming on Sunday May 21, 2023 @10:31PM (#36026787)
Could be wrong, but isn't this the same Guide?
Re:Shoshikantetsu on Thursday March 16, 2023 @01:24AM (#35178430)
> Having a high say-do ratio has always been important to me

You probably mean a "high do-say ratio"? That is, to complete as many things as you set out to do.

Great story though, it reminds me a bit of how the German language has individual words to describe specific intents and feelings. Of course the German equivalents are far more verbose!

Re:The plague of emoji insertion in French docs on Monday November 14, 2022 @12:22PM (#33597469)
I think the title should say "in French *Google docs." As is, it seems like French code documentation/papers are littered with emojis?
It wasn't Kyrie, it was the Yankees. The opening came just before the start of the MLB season but well into the NBA season.
3 digits? So up to $999/year? That sounds extremely low. In the US salaries are done per year, so a 6-figure salary is >=$100,000/year.

Do you mean as an hourly wage? That would be $200,000+/year and a 6-figure salary.

Re:Decoding AWS Reserved Instances on Monday August 29, 2022 @12:33PM (#32640193)
> Reserved Instances are a major piece of AWS Billing, accounting for $100B in revenue along side Saving Plans (SPs).

I think I know what you mean, but this reads like Reserved Instances earn AWS $100 billion/year which is almost impossible. I don't even think AWS earns that much annually.

Re:Google's Switch to Android Is on the App Store on Tuesday July 26, 2022 @07:37PM (#32245397)
> I would not be surprised if Apple intent to use it as their PR later along with shit loads of submarine articles

What is a submarine article?

http://www.supersimplestorageservice.com/

> The Super Simple Storage Service (S4) is a new innovation in cloud storage. Our advanced write-only storage provides the highest security, lowest cost, and simplest management available.

Re:Code from the FBI’s Anom encrypted messaging app on Thursday July 07, 2022 @02:05PM (#32017313)
In a word, yes.

> Messages: Most message attachment types other than images are blocked. Some features, like link previews, are disabled.

https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2022/07/apple-expands-commitm...

Re:Mastering Nim – now available on Amazon on Wednesday June 29, 2022 @09:54PM (#31927925)
Re:GitHub Copilot is generally available on Tuesday June 21, 2022 @01:15PM (#31826512)
> We’re making GitHub Copilot, an AI pair programmer that suggests code in your editor, generally available to all developers for $10 USD/month or $100 USD/year. It will also be free to use for verified students and maintainers of popular open source projects.

> Do you want to start using GitHub Copilot today? Get started with a 60-day free trial, and check out our pricing plans. It’s free to use for verified students and maintainers of popular open source software.

Seems pretty clear. If you're willing to do your own research (aka going to the CoPilot site): https://github.com/github-copilot/tp_signup, you'll see that pricing reflected here as well as the date when the free period ends, which is August 22nd.

In fact, the de facto upper limit for laptop batteries is 100 watt hours since this is the largest battery size permitted on a flight by the FAA (the US air travel regulatory body) without special approval [1]. The CPU would drain such a battery in 1 hour and 50 minutes.

[1]: https://www.tsa.gov/travel/security-screening/whatcanibring/...

Re:License to Use JSLint for Evil on Thursday April 14, 2022 @07:56PM (#31035035)
I read this and it is interesting. I get why asking JS Hint contributors to re-submit/approve their changes is clear of the Do No Evil clause.

But, I don't understand why all changes before that (from JS Lint Day 1 until it was forked into JS Hint) aren't subject to that same clause. Why is the Eclipse Foundation not subject to it?

Re:Stripe 2021 Business Update [pdf] on Friday April 08, 2022 @01:52PM (#30960320)
Dumb question, how does CashApp make so much money? Isn't it a free app with no fees? I have to imagine the free 1-3 business day deposit is highly preferred to the 1-3% transaction free instant-payment-deposit feature.
Re:Dictionary Compression on Tuesday March 01, 2022 @02:17PM (#30518682)
This is really cool and I love that people are using Wordle to explore and explain computer science concepts (to people like me).

> The speed-up is significant, about 20x faster. This makes sense because instead of scanning half of all words on average, you only need to scan half of the words with the same first letter. I’ll assume this isn’t exactly 13x due to letter distribution.

Extremely minor, but I think one would still expect a 26x speedup, right? You go from searching half of all words to half of 1/26th of all words. Obviously there are more words starting with S than X and all, but my question is just in theory.

Re:Things Delta told the SEC about its SkyMiles program on Saturday February 12, 2022 @01:00PM (#30314773)
Clearly my Google Fu isn't as strong as yours. Could you share a link about Real Engineering?
>no expressive switch/case statement

match/case (not a drop in switch statement)

>breaking out of loops

  break
>ending scripts early (for explorative programming)

  exit() or sys.exit()
Re:2021-22 Tesla Model Y earns highest IIHS accolade on Tuesday December 21, 2021 @07:09PM (#29643764)
In fairness, I understand that every car manufacturer is going through the same supply and delivery delays.

I would also seriously hope that they aren't going to charge you the new, elevated price.

Re:AWS (Honest) Service Health Dashboard on Tuesday December 07, 2021 @04:39PM (#29478556)
Does this pull data from anywhere else? (e.g. I've heard the Personalized Dashboard is more realtime and representative of actual health)

Or does it take services that the official AWS Status page lists as impaired and then increase the severity of the issue?

Re:Astrophysicists unveil glut of gravitational-wave detections on Wednesday November 10, 2021 @01:53PM (#29178755)
*the second nearest star

:)

Re:Gpsd bug may create a 1024 week time warp on October 23 on Monday August 02, 2021 @06:22PM (#28043436)
Even more unrelated, but equally pedantic, I've always thought it's weird when people write "null != val" instead of "val != null" for the same reason.

When said out loud, "null is not val" just feels wrong.

Re:Math Problems for children from 5 to 15 (2004) [pdf] on Monday July 19, 2021 @02:28PM (#27885792)
6.5 + 0.5 is 7.0, not 7.5, so that should be valid.

The book's cost can lie anywhere between [7, 8).

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