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Re:macOS 27 Golden Gate: The Ars Technica Review on Wednesday September 16, 2026 @05:35PM (#49733362)
My macbook only has about 3GB of spare disk space currently, so I guess this isn't for me
Re:As a Windows user, it's a surreal way to install a program on Saturday August 08, 2026 @04:29AM (#49219899)
I've been using a Mac for 4 years. I still just want a nice simple install button.
Re:Babylon 5 Is Now Free to Watch on YouTube on Saturday February 14, 2026 @05:56AM (#47013496)
It would depend on what mood I'm in! Although if I forced to only pick one, it would be DS9
> You are, generally, supposed to put the new answer on the old question

If you're asking the question, you don't know the new answer.

If you're not asking the question, you don't know the answer needs updating as it is 15 years old and has an accepted answer, and you didn't see the new question as it was marked as a dupe.

Even if you add the updated answer, it will have no votes and so has a difficult battle to be noticed with the accepted answer, and all the other answers that have gathered votes over the years.

Not sure, let me go ask AI
Re:Tiny electric motor can produce more than 1,000 horsepower on Monday November 03, 2025 @07:30AM (#45798355)
Apologies for the turbulence, we're just flying through a thunderstorm to top up the batteries
Re:All British adults to require a digital ID 'Brit Card' on Friday September 26, 2025 @10:55AM (#45387232)
I won't hold my breath. It'll take 5 times longer than planned, cost 10 times more, won't do everything it originally set out to do, then won't work on the tech that everyone will have when finished, and a future government will decide they don't like it and will start over.
Re:Online Safety Act: What went wrong? on Friday August 01, 2025 @04:30PM (#44762131)
By default for me (in the UK) it still seems possible to view porn in a Google image search in an incognito browser tab. I don't think non technical parents can be expected to change their DNS settings to something safe to block it. I'm a bit unclear as to what the online safety bill is solving if Google can ignore it.
I would have suggested HumpAI if hump didn't have another meaning that might attract users you didn’t intend :)
I had assumed 'Flatten PDF' was to make the PDF smaller so just used it without thinking or comparing!
So do these collectors have the ability to play back these recordings? If so, could they at least make some recording (even if pointing a camera while playing back would be better than nothing) to send to the BBC. Otherwise if they have no means to play it back, I fail to understand why they'd not want the opportunity to watch their collection!
"I've never signed into OneDrive but it is taking up 60GB of space in my AppData folder"
Re:Show HN: Send Emails from Your Terminal on Monday July 17, 2023 @01:28PM (#36761202)
I remember using 'elm' for terminal based email back in the 1990s.
Re:Ding Liren Wins the Fide World Chess Championship on Sunday April 30, 2023 @12:20PM (#35764029)
I'm guessing she was briefed to sensationalise everything to try and keep it exciting. It was too much for me, I mostly watched the much more calm chessnetwork stream instead
I used GOTO's
Re:Ask HN: Why is everybody copying layoffs? on Saturday January 21, 2023 @03:22AM (#34464838)
10 years ago I was put at risk of redundancy with the rest of my team. I was ultimately fortunate to keep my job and was told later I was never at risk, they just had to include the whole team for some HR reason. However due to the stress at the time both my mental health and physical health (IBS) hasn't been the same since.
Re:Ask HN: What Are You Doing? on Tuesday December 13, 2022 @09:28AM (#33969310)
Nursing a badly cut finger I injured washing up a chipped jug.
Re:A History of Oxford University Computing Services (2008) on Friday November 04, 2022 @08:48AM (#33465689)
I hadn't used a shell prior to 1993, looking back I'm amazed at how much I learned in my first few weeks using black. Fond memories of using elm for email, tinyfugue to connect to muds and writing my first web pages. I can't remember if it was black or sable that a small group of us crashed a few times with a deliberate fork() bomb. Not our proudest moment looking back!
I got the exciting job migrating Oracle Forms to Oracle Jet and learning new JavaScript stuff. Job now: Spend half my life having to rewrite everything since the Oracle Jet team constantly deprecate features, replacing them with some new "Looks the same but completely new API" feature that I then don't have time to learn
Re:EndBASIC on Wednesday June 08, 2022 @05:21AM (#31664993)
Software for the Agribusiness sector - mostly around the manufacture and selling of animal feed. So data entry, processing, interfacing, reporting. We had the legacy system which was a text terminal interface, as well as a newer browser based system that interfaced via webservices to the OpenVMS BASIC code. After 40 years it went end of life at the end of last year.
Re:EndBASIC on Tuesday June 07, 2022 @04:29PM (#31659693)
I spent 20+ years in my day job programming in BASIC on OpenVMS without using line numbers or GOTO's. Yet the first thing I did here was fall back to my childhood Sinclair/BBC BASIC of trying 10 PRINT "Hello" 20 GOTO 10
Perhaps Google just wanted to scare businesses on the legacy plan into migrating to the paid service, expecting that those who could afford to pay wouldn't leave it to the last minute.
Re:Ask HN: Was this a phishing attempt? on Tuesday April 26, 2022 @04:42AM (#31165294)
I would be suspicious if I got a message on linkedin that wasn't a recruitment message.
Re:Folding bicycle small enough to fit in hand luggage on Tuesday March 22, 2022 @06:07PM (#30772199)
A use case is crowded rush hour trains where space for bikes is at a premium
If Merc had pitted Lewis, Max would have stayed out and gained P1. At that stage Merc didn't know if the race would have finished under the safety car. They'd have looked equally foolish if it had as they'd have looked to have given up P1 for no reason.
Re:Workspace Trust in VS Code on Tuesday July 06, 2021 @03:57PM (#27753475)
I'm likely going to blindly say yes every time I get the dialog out of habit. Making it useless.
One minute they're suspending use of AstraZeneca, the next they're complaining they aren't getting enough deliveries of the vaccine they don't want to use.
Re:Murray Walker has died on Sunday March 14, 2021 @06:15PM (#26459921)
He didn't come up with that one (he wished he did), he just worked on the Mars account at the time
Re:Ask HN: Why are 5 inch USB floppy drives so uncommon? on Thursday January 07, 2021 @06:21PM (#25679061)
Also remember that popular home computers often went from say ZX Spectrums (Cassette) to Amiga/Atari ST (3.5 floppy) - so there was no intermediate 5.25 floppy stage.
Would those people who truly care about 60fps also care about resolution, so have a 1080p or 4K screen? I would like to think most people watching at 720p would be happy with 30fps.

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