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Re:The history of Alt+number sequences on Tuesday July 02, 2024 @11:25AM (#40857575)
> For example, you could enter ñ by holding Alt and typing Numpad1 Numpad6 Numpad4, then releasing the Alt key.

To this day, this remains the best way to insert the character, I have tried the PowerToys Quick Accent [1] but I had so many missed characters when typing fast.

[1] https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/powertoys/quick-ac...

And everyone in Ireland surely saw this one coming.

It is a sad state the country is in and can't bring themselves to fix it.

Worked for me using A/S/D/F
Re:OpenAI GPT-4 vs. Groq Mistral-8x7B on Friday March 22, 2024 @06:17AM (#39789116)
A bit off-topic but maybe not? Any words on GPT-5? Is that coming? Or is OpenAI just focusing on the Sora model?
Their, at the time, blog post announcement about Pingora: https://blog.cloudflare.com/how-we-built-pingora-the-proxy-t...
I feel like you already know the answer.
Re:Berlin TYPE: The official type for the city of Berlin on Tuesday February 27, 2024 @05:59AM (#39522605)
Thank you! It was a small itch I had while walking around the city and you managed to scratch it, really appreciated.
Re:Berlin TYPE: The official type for the city of Berlin on Tuesday February 27, 2024 @05:07AM (#39522277)
Somehow related(?) but when I was in Berlin I noticed all buildings have a white square with a black number for the building number. This is consistent across most (all?) parts of the town but no local was able to explain me why or what's the background of that.

Something like this: https://www.google.com/maps/@52.5309649,13.4099152,3a,15y,52...

Anyone knows what's the name of the font (on topic!) and any backstory on those?

This reads like a crybaby manager upset with their future metrics.
Re:An app can be a home-cooked meal on Friday January 05, 2024 @08:17AM (#38878735)
You change the file. Simple!
No great loss without some gain!
Re:Advent of Code 2023 is nigh on Friday December 01, 2023 @09:20AM (#38486948)
I will be doing this advent challenge this year instead: https://adventofchess.com/

Looking forward to read your write-ups!

Re:BBC Basic returns on multiple platforms, open sourced on Wednesday November 29, 2023 @11:53AM (#38461843)
And why is always on the HN front page? Seems like never ending stream of news about it.
Re:ChatGPT with voice is now available to all free users on Tuesday November 21, 2023 @04:27PM (#38370454)
More like the flipped a flag and tried to put some good PR out there to calm things down?
Jacques's Law
Sounds desperate, no? Kind of escaping the Titanic before the people in the third deck get into the boats (not that they will have a problem finding enough boats in this analogy)
Re:‘She played it down’: Bletchley Park codebreaker dies at 99 on Wednesday September 06, 2023 @10:41AM (#37405864)
Nitpick but dead announcements usually don't include other than the name: https://hn.algolia.com/?q=has+died

Also, RIP, a true heroine.

Also, also, black top, please, dang.

Re:Cash payments above €3000 to be outlawed in Netherlands on Wednesday August 23, 2023 @10:30AM (#37236564)
If you have a criminal mindset, yes. Otherwise, let them be and be happy.
Re:Kevin Mitnick has died on Thursday July 20, 2023 @04:23AM (#36798056)
A mentor and a beacon for many of us. Rest in peace.
The discussion here is not if it was trained or not in Gmail data, but on personal Gmail data. And that the definition of personal is vague and subject to interpretations.

They can say it was not trained on Gmail data because it was trained with Google’s Smart Compose, which it was trained on Gmail data.

Gmail Data -> Google’s Smart Compose -> Bard

It all depends on where you draw the line to stop reporting. Language is a powerful tool of deception.

Re:SpaceX Starship Grounded Indefinitely by FAA on Wednesday April 26, 2023 @09:58AM (#35713740)
Not surprising, not unexpected. Why shall they let a rich person play with the safety of so many people in the area when their rockets can't go up straight?
Re:Guess the Game on Friday April 21, 2023 @01:52AM (#35650184)
I am doing better than I want to admit...

Taking 1 or 2 tries to guess all the current and past ones.

What do I want to say with this? Well done, you have me hooked!

Re:Imgur Updates TOS, Banning NSFW Content on Thursday April 20, 2023 @08:17AM (#35638846)
Do you have link/source?

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