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Re:Em Dash Is Fine – It Is AI That Sucks on Tuesday August 25, 2026 @01:34AM (#49429485)
That’s an en-dash, used to denote a range, i.e. 1950–1975. The em-dash includes the shift key as well.
According to wikipedia[1] the first industrial steam engine (1712) was invented almost 100 years before the invention of the steam locomotive (1804), arguably its greatest evolutionary feat.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_steam_engine

Re:German Dog Commands on Sunday April 19, 2026 @02:06AM (#47822141)
What do you say when it should go outside?
Re:I Won't Download Your App. The Web Version Is A-OK on Tuesday April 07, 2026 @05:27AM (#47672629)
For iOS Safari there's a few extensions that do the trick, search the app store for “dev tools” and theres quite a few relevant results. Personally I use web inspector and it works as advertised.
Re:Fabrice Bellard Releases MicroQuickJS on Sunday December 28, 2025 @04:14PM (#46414579)
Safari has
Re:Experiment: Making TypeScript Immutable-by-Default on Wednesday November 19, 2025 @12:13AM (#45976096)
Your toy truck is being overly pedantic
Re:The <output> Tag on Saturday October 11, 2025 @04:37PM (#45552481)
Different rule set
Re:uBlock Origin Lite now available for Safari on Wednesday August 06, 2025 @06:46AM (#44810314)
A hide elements feature has been part of 1blocker for years now, definitely possible
Re:uBlock Origin Lite now available for Safari on Wednesday August 06, 2025 @05:58AM (#44809989)
As someone currently on 1Blocker (and decently happy with it, esp. the 'vpn' hack to block in app content too); what made you switch and how does it improve over 1BLocker?
Re:Monitor your security cameras with locally processed AI on Tuesday August 05, 2025 @04:48PM (#44804065)
Because privacy is a basic human right. Europe still has some of those.
It’s allowed over RTC
they improved over the butterfly keyboards of that era but the M1 and beyond keyboard are still significantly worse than before 2016. I recently used an older MacBook pro and the difference was quite staggering.
You do associate those traits with birds in the raven family.

I figure the usual association with birds or perhaps animals in general is still mostly based on ‘humans smart; animals dumb’ instead of actual research.

Impressive, it took me 113K bunnies for a single frame drop on an iPhone 14pro
Re:Tesla sales dropped 60% in Germany on Wednesday February 12, 2025 @03:50AM (#43023289)
The “Roman salute” you’re referring to never existed in history up until the 19th century when popular media introduced it. It’s fiction, it resonated with Italian facist which is why they started using it.
Re:Tesla sales dropped 60% in Germany on Wednesday February 12, 2025 @03:49AM (#43023276)
The “Roman salute” you’re referring to never existed in history up until the 19th century when art and later film took creative liberties.

It’s fictional symbolism that resonated with Italian fascists and eventually became the greeting associated with nazism.

Re:Ask HN: What ist your AdBlock strategy? on Friday November 01, 2024 @07:48AM (#42016006)
Security works best in layers
Re:Unlocking the Power of JSON Patch on Saturday October 19, 2024 @04:17AM (#41886443)
Not only that; both a dot (“.”) and a forward slash (“/”) are allowed to be used in/as a JSON property name.

An array of keys alleviates this issue entirely because any string element of the array can be used as a JSON object property name too.

A less vicious but similarly dumb ‘ux/security’ measure is when the password being entered only registers after a key event fires while the field is in focus. An event that never occurs with password manager autocomplete, making the user add a random character and then remove it.
Re:Ultra high-resolution image of The Night Watch on Saturday September 21, 2024 @12:22PM (#41610900)
Van Gogh is modern art
Funny that you say that because to a European the US worker and consumer rights seem very archaic. There just might be more to life than tech innovation and startups.
Epic also gave AltStore a bag of money and as a result the Apple mob fee to install AltStore (€1,50/year + VAT) has been covered by AltStore themselves. Amazing how Epics pettiness now subsidises the pettiness of Apple.

https://x.com/altstoreio/status/1823826482046886273

Re:Show HN: If YouTube had actual channels on Thursday August 15, 2024 @01:52AM (#41253438)
iOS and macOS too, found in accessibility settings.
Re:How to avoid losing items? Holding pens on Monday August 12, 2024 @02:31AM (#41221647)
We throw everything out (to thrift stores if possible) after a year of no use. Has bitten us almost never and when it has it’s usually something useless to someone else too (cheap to replace).
Look up the Dutch tax return scandal where the Dutch tax arm of the government (‘IRS’) used machine learning to identify fraud but it turned out to be very racially biased and it uprooted thousands of families with years of financial struggles and legal battles.

See https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dutch_childcare_benefits_sca...

Re:Build your own React (2019) on Monday July 08, 2024 @03:50PM (#40908850)
> and I absolutely hate that there is no separation of concerns

There is a separation of concerns when using react but it’s not split by technology but by responsibility. A react components is an isolated piece of the puzzle which’s concerns are separated from the other puzzle pieces.

That number has to be so big I’d be absolutely confident to never exceed it before ever considering it.

Nobody has time to manage/backup multiple keys with the fun game of ‘what account is stored on which key’.

Re:A Rant about Front-end Development on Friday June 21, 2024 @01:41AM (#40746520)
In 2001 the EU switched (mostly) from a local currency to the euro. For years people would calculate prices back to the currency of old. If you do it nowadays, over 2 decades later, people look at you funny.

People who still rant about the simplicity of jQuery are of the same cloth.

Re:Apple is launching its own password manager app on Tuesday June 11, 2024 @04:41PM (#40651235)
You’re right on the money but it already works in chromium browsers and windows but none of the others you mentioned.
I know from experience that raising the speed will immediately raise the speed speedsters are willing to go. When the highway in my country went from 100 to 130km/h, people who drove 120 then started to drive 150.

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