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Posted by
watson on Tuesday September 29, 2026 @10:03AM
from the show-hn dept.
https://theotherapple.eu/
I got annoyed years ago that the Apple experience in Europe wasn’t the same as in the US (e.g. missing services or hardware differenceslike the US iPhone trading its SIM tray for a slightly larger battery).With Apple Intelligence, the recent EU regulatory changes, and increasingly strange-looking hardware price differences, I realized I no longer had a clear picture of what was actually...
Or maybe even more if you do send it
I've heard rumors this might be Sonnet 5 rebranded as Opus 4.6. But why? Profit? WDYT?
Posted by
watson on Saturday December 27, 2025 @01:42PM
from the ask-hn dept.
I’m looking for an AI assistant that works with Gmail. My main requirements are that it should remind me of important mails requiring my attention and draft replies. Pricing is almost irrelevant if it can remove the stress, mental load and missed emails that is my current reality. But there’s a lot of options out there. Which do you recommend and why?
This is one of the best arguments for purchasing a 3D printer
Yes MS owns 49% of OpenAI
MacOS has this feature under Settings -> General -> Language & Region -> Preferred Languages. Here you can have an ordered list of languages you wish apps and websites (I _think_ only works for Safari) to use. I don't know how widespread this is in other OS'es or browsers.
Posted by
watson on Monday February 24, 2025 @01:59PM
from the medium.com dept.
Posted by
watson on Tuesday June 18, 2024 @03:01AM
from the reuters.com dept.
> Promises are a nice success story, but without async/await it wasn't really necessary to standardize
One benefit of standardisation that's not tied to async/await is that the JavaScript engines has been able to do performance optimisations not otherwise possible which benefit Promise-heavy applications
Posted by
watson on Thursday March 28, 2024 @02:52PM
from the arstechnica.com dept.
You most likely just don’t realize that your podcast app of choice actually gets its list of podcasts from Apple. That’s the authors point of Apple hosting it for free for everyone.
The ISP sets up rack-cabinets full of equipment in central buildings where the “last mile” fiber terminates, close to the neighborhoods that they service. Each ISP that provides service to the area needs to have their own equipment there. This is how they differentiate and how one ISP can do 1Gbps while another might be able to do 2Gbps. Simply because they have installed different equipment. The fiber itself can of course support much more
They want to close accounts with poor security (i.e. no 2FA enabled). These accounts has a higher risk of being compromised and used to get access to whatever they control
Posted by
watson on Friday August 18, 2023 @12:27AM
from the bbc.com dept.
I would assume so, yes. This is exactly how regular motors get started, unless you have one of those old-timy cranks you had to manually turn to get the motor running
When you enter a query ChatGPT will generate a response that
slowly scrolls down the screen. I presume they mean to stop that.
Last I checked you can't update a torrent. So if Wikipedia changes even a single letter, you'd need to download all the data once more
I really love this tool - We use it to backport commits from master to our older release branches on the Kibana project. I can't emphasize enough how many hours this saves us every week.
It creates a PR for each backport you make and label them "backport", so you can easily see them all here: https://github.com/elastic/kibana/pulls?q=is%3Apr+is%3Aopen+...
Posted by
watson on Tuesday March 31, 2020 @01:37AM
from the github.com dept.
Posted by
watson on Friday March 15, 2019 @06:53AM
from the thenewstack.io dept.
Interesting that the word "hotels" is not mentioned anywhere in the article ;)
When I read the title, I honestly thought this was an official LEGO thing. This is exactly why it's important for a company like LEGO to protect its trademark.
I realize this is just an homage to LEGO and I'm sure they know and appreciate that. But they still need to defend their trademark. If they don't, anybody could just use their name for whatever they wanted - even things they DO NOT want to be associated with.
Posted by
watson on Monday October 01, 2018 @11:43AM
from the github.com dept.
You're free to just depend on ci-info directly if that's all you need of course. The is-ci module does give you one added benefit however: It allows you to run this on the command line:
$ is-ci && echo "I'm running in a CI environment"
But of course that could technically be baked into ci-info. It's just more convenient to use with npx and to reason about if it's a self-contained module
Hi, co-creator of volkswagen here. Just some fun trivia about the project, which Kenneth and I obviously made as a joke years back when Volkswagen got caught cheating:
The Node module actually works. If you use it, it will make all your tests pass.
When writing the code, I put the logic for detecting if code is being run on a CI server into a separate node module called is-ci[1] (which the volkswagen module then depends on). That module (later split out into ci-info[2]) turned out to be so useful for actual work, that today it's being used by both React and the npm cli.
I only found this out recently. Imagine the surprise when a tiny part of a joke project you created years ago turns out to be one of your most popular open source projects :D
[1]: https://www.npmjs.com/package/is-ci
[2]: https://www.npmjs.com/package/ci-info
Hi, co-creator of volkswagen, is-ci, and ci-info here. I extracted is-ci into its own module during the time I wrote volkswagen. It then turned out a lot of people wanted a module like that for actual useful things. But they wanted more info than simply "is this a CI server or not" (which was all that volkswagen cared about). So I made ci-info and moved the logic into that module and then made is-ci inherit from that, so to not have to duplicate the logic