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Re:BMW Group Product Catalog–Historic Models on Tuesday March 04, 2025 @10:44PM (#43262463)
According to BMW there is no E30 coupé, it’s a two-doored sedan. The first real 3-series coupé came with the E36.
I regularly drive an ID3 and every ten minute or so I accidentally activate a button on the left side of the steering wheel. It’s happening in roundabouts, sharp turns or sometimes even on straights when I just adjust my hand position. The buttons on the left are for the cruise control which this car doesn’t have, so it’s always only showing an error on the driver screen, which is funny on it’s own, but probably a good thing in this case. The software has a lot of unforgivable quirks, but other than that it drives very well.
Re:X is changing its algorithm to highlight smaller accounts on Tuesday November 14, 2023 @08:23AM (#38262972)
Scrolling through the replies to tweets of big accounts, Musk himself is the best example, feels like we are already in a SciFi dystopia. Nearly everything is scam or other weird GPT created nonsense.
Re:Microsoft is retiring Visual Studio for Mac in 2024 on Saturday November 04, 2023 @05:36AM (#38139424)
Yeah, didn’t they market themselves as the framework for IDEs? I can remember in the late 2000s Eclipse was very popular in the php community. The C/C++ plugin was also widely used.
Re:How does macOS manage virtual cores on Apple Silicon? on Tuesday October 24, 2023 @02:30AM (#37995428)
GCD first appeared on 10.6 Snow Leopard, which was marketed as a bug-fix only release and is due to this romanticised until today, but in reality included major changes under the hood and wasn’t very stable in his first versions.
Re:Why 111-1111111 is a valid Windows 95 key on Monday February 27, 2023 @07:04AM (#34955447)
I had it in my feed and watched it some hours before this was posted here.
Re:Making macOS Apps Uninstallable on Saturday February 18, 2023 @07:39AM (#34846453)
That was quite common during the Windows 9x days, leading to that long period of time of problems later under XP with old apps only running under an admin account.
Re:A YouTube chat about chess got flagged for hate speech on Wednesday July 21, 2021 @10:58PM (#27914810)
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Re:Jeff Bezos's phone 'hacked by Saudi crown prince' on Wednesday January 22, 2020 @03:16PM (#22121544)
According to vice [1] he was using an iPhone X.

1: https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/v74v34/saudi-arabia-hacke...

Re:BeOS: The Alternate Universe's Mac OS X on Thursday January 09, 2020 @03:48PM (#22005530)
Some trivia: There was an unofficial successor of BeOS called ZETA from a german company yellowTAB (later magnussoft). I remember this because they tried selling it via a homeshopping channel in german TV which was completely hilarious.

I found a (very bad) recording of this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FQW-q2vp6W4

Re:An electric crate motor you can drop into your car on Saturday October 19, 2019 @11:05AM (#21298840)
That’s a 2nd gen leaf, it has a 40kWh battery and a range around 150 miles (240km).
This is true on the other hand. They should separate their interpretation of that quote as another article or at least paragraph if they want to be journalists.
I believe this is only to calm some people down. If you think about it’s like Sony would say in 2000 „We pause development on VHS, however it cannot be ruled out that we will resume development work on VHS in the future.“
Re:NULL license plate not such a bright idea on Monday August 12, 2019 @05:07PM (#20680016)
It’s not only that. YAML also interprets on / off as boolean.
Re:iMessage: Malformed Message Bricks iPhone on Monday July 08, 2019 @10:44AM (#20383140)
I've seen this popup, too. It will send a silent SMS from your device on activation. Depending on your plan this could cost you money.
Re:Show HN: Browser Extension to Refine the HN Experience on Thursday June 13, 2019 @10:05AM (#20174952)
>Highlight new, unread comments on subsequent visits

sold!

AFAIK keychain access is only allowed for apps distributed through the Mac AppStore since a while. This is why Chrome removed the feature.
Re:Internet Explorer Browser Collection on Thursday May 09, 2019 @10:37AM (#19868655)
I remember the most famous techno club from my nearest city used that to provide a virtual room tour on their website. I was too young then to get past the bouncers and liked that feature :)
Re:A Conspiracy to Kill IE6 on Wednesday May 01, 2019 @05:50PM (#19801998)
I remember that day this banner showed up. My team at the company I was working for at that time was trying to do bleeding edge web development and we desperately tried to convince management to drop IE6 support too. This helped a lot. It’s amazing to read this story and I only can say thank you OldYoutubers!
>I would hope VW puts into production some of their claimed Year 2020 EV models, if so, they will have restored my faith in the company.

As someone who already owned a couple cars out of the Volkswagen brands, currently is seeing them still very critical but following their news closely I am sure they will do. The first ID model will maybe delayed, maybe not better than a Tesla in many points, but I see VW is going full in to EVs and this is something that would never happened so fast if there wasn’t this Dieselgate story. The other german car manufactors are way more conservative with their transition and VW will push a So this is maybe the happy end of all this.

Re:Phone Addicts Are the New Drunk Drivers on Tuesday April 09, 2019 @05:55PM (#19619356)
>I'm a cyclist. Over the past 5 years or so I've learned to check inside of people's cars to see if they have a phone in their hands. If they do, I try to keep as much distance between myself and them as possible.

I guess this is something a self driving car should also keep in mind. Next we have to click on tiles with people using phones before login.

Re:Volkswagen Originalteil Sausages on Tuesday April 09, 2019 @05:35AM (#19613036)
Does this mean by selling these sausages they retain the right to all these entries in your third link? For example the last one „Vermietung von Datenverarbeitungsgeräten“. Someone could make a business leasing computers under the name Volkswagen if they wouldn’t make these wursts?
Re:Crystal Meth Is Spreading on Saturday April 06, 2019 @05:38AM (#19590025)
It was called Pervitin, and found in every soldiers lunch box. Everyone could buy it in his local pharmacy. The germans even won their first soccer world cup on it. Bad stuff.
Next fun fact: Bayer and Monsanto together are now worth less than Monsanto alone at the time of the acquisition.
There is a quite popular iOS lib for layout with the same name [1], where I always thought this, too.

[1] https://github.com/robb/Cartography

Re:Apple Special Event Livestream [video] on Monday March 25, 2019 @02:23PM (#19485197)
I bet they are waiting for Google telling some more about pricing on their Stadia service. Apple Arcade has to be cheaper.
Can you elaborate? How does e.g. Qt, GTK, Cocoa, UWP etc look „cartoonish“ in comparison?
For anyone how needs to get to the content, reader mode on safari will give you the article
Re:Ketamine: From Party Drug to Prescription Medicine on Monday March 18, 2019 @04:30PM (#19424939)
Is Ketamine really a party drug? I've no experience but i thought the effect is more like you sit somewhere and won't stand up for a while...
Re:New iPad Air and iPad Mini on Monday March 18, 2019 @11:50AM (#19422094)
IMHO Homebrew is much better than apt on Ubuntu. E.g. when I read in the news that a new version of my favorite tool is released, i know that’s normally only a brew upgrade away to have it. And i mean now and not until the next OS release happens. With brew it’s also very easy to go back in versions of individual packages in case the current release is buggy or breaks something. You can have this with 3rd party repos in debian, but that’s usually more hazzle from my experience.

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