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Re:I Hate (Most) Keyboard 'Fn' Keys on Wednesday June 10, 2026 @11:55AM (#48478256)
Layers are usually quasi modes, i.e. the non default state requires an active holding of a modifier key.
Re:Lies We Tell Ourselves About Email Addresses on Wednesday June 10, 2026 @07:24AM (#48474686)
But the portion of us is so negligible that it’s not worth for the spammers to handle our edge case. :D
Archiving that without the behemoth of LLVM is really impressive! On the other hand, there are Lisps—with all their dynamic wishy-washiness—that archive similar performance.
Does it not being an English philology paper mean they are free to spell “fish” as “ghoti”?
Re:ESP32-S31 on Wednesday June 03, 2026 @07:11PM (#48391361)
Damn, I’ve only checked the last month for duplicates.
Re:ESP32-S31 on Wednesday June 03, 2026 @07:06PM (#48391320)
I can’t say Apple’s naming approach is perfect. Those AirPods you’ve mentioned are actually “ AirPods Pro 2 with MagSafe Charging Case (USB-C)” or something.
Nice handle!
Re:Radxa Dragon Q8B: A Laptop Cosplaying as an SBC? on Tuesday June 02, 2026 @04:27AM (#48367477)
How could I forget about the staggering complexity of USB versions! Of course the answer is “maybe”.
Re:macOS needs its grid back on Tuesday June 02, 2026 @03:30AM (#48367121)
I can’t speak for the ancestor, but I think making every screen recording app prominently visible in the status bar would fit the bill.
Re:macOS needs its grid back on Tuesday June 02, 2026 @03:07AM (#48366974)
I do as well, but no app should be able to add itself to the login items: ask me or better have me navigate to the login items settings pane and add it manually.
Re:Radxa Dragon Q8B: A Laptop Cosplaying as an SBC? on Monday June 01, 2026 @01:17PM (#48359774)
Hmm, is it possible to skip the Ethernet adapters in a configuration of USBC-Eth-Eth-USBC and connect USBCs directly one to another?
I prefer temporarily toggling notifications on because I really don’t trust my internal metronome.
Re:Mini Micro Fantasy Computer on Wednesday May 27, 2026 @10:06AM (#48294624)
Yeah, I guess it’s prototype-based and the authors meant classes are indistinguishable from objects. And they all are just special cases of map.
Re:I keep bouncing off the Scheme language on Monday May 25, 2026 @12:23AM (#48263372)
But are you learning programming in Chicken or in Claude?
Re:My I3-Emacs Integration on Sunday May 24, 2026 @06:15AM (#48256043)
I know, right? However, one of the strongest points of Emacs is the huge amount of existing packages.
Re:It's time to talk about my writerdeck on Sunday May 24, 2026 @04:03AM (#48255446)
"Clojure/Nix templating, or why human interaction is important" /j
Re:delta time on Thursday May 14, 2026 @04:27AM (#48132594)
Hmm, I'm using Safari and don't see anything like this in the browser settings. And the OS is definitely set up to use the one true way.
Re:delta time on Thursday May 14, 2026 @04:15AM (#48132491)
Thanks for making this. Genuinely something I needed, but not enough to actually build it. ^^

(Hope this doesn't sound wrong. I believe the "trimming hangnails" is an important and often overlooked job.)

Re:delta time on Thursday May 14, 2026 @04:11AM (#48132468)
Very cool! Thanks for including psychophysics setting. I wish there was one for date format because mm/dd/yyyy breaks my brain a little.
Re:The Emacsification of Software on Wednesday May 13, 2026 @10:38PM (#48130481)
How to upvote in bold? /j
Re:Ask HN: We just had an actual UUID v4 collision... on Friday May 08, 2026 @05:48AM (#48060863)
A site previously posted here could be useful: https://everyuuid.com/
Re:StarFighter 16-Inch on Wednesday May 06, 2026 @12:20AM (#48032130)
You know, I’ve actually gone back to a mouse with a ball. And it’s gorgeous!

https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Trackball

Haha, listening to music in the other language I understand (from the language required for the task) helps in my case. ;)
Where do you get your Phish?
Re:Warm Burnout: editor and terminal color scheme on Thursday April 30, 2026 @12:33PM (#47964965)
I really like the look (generally prefer warmer themes myself), but the pitch with its unnecessary numbers and health-related claims sounds a bit snake-oil-salesman-ish. E.g. the caption “warm everywhere, blue nowhere” looks weird considering one of the colours is literally 0x90AEC0. You’ve made a nice-looking warm theme — just say so.

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