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Comment · 3 days ago
I don't think the article author is concluding what you think they are.

The HN title reads "literal translation," which I didn't take to mean "literally".

The linked article doesn't really have a title. The article author states [...] "I think a carefully-chosen German word was probably translated as an archaic English word and then never revisited. Unfortunately we do not have the original German text to consult."

Comment · 16 days ago
With Advanced Data Protection enabled (it's not available globally but it is in the US), Photos is E2EE.
Comment · 16 days ago
It's frustrating that Apple doesn't have their own Screen Sharing (VNC) application on the iPhone/iPad, if even just to provide a basic screen-sharing experience. They have something builtin to FaceTime (that I've never tried) as a kind of remote-support app.

RealVNC did not work from iOS/iPadOS to macOS Golden Gate when I tried it relatively recently, although it may have been updated since. It's possible Apple changed something in their version of VNC's auth.

I used to recommend Screens (v4) when it was flat licensed, as it seemed to work well and was well designed in dealing with smaller screens and input differences. Now (v5) it's $5/month $30/year $200/lifetime, which I can't really justify for my casual use case.

Comment · 17 days ago
Another data point: I got 94.74 tokens/s on an M4 Pro Mac mini 64GB with the simonw prompt "Generate an SVG of a pelican riding a bicycle". TTFT was 0.37s. The model thought for 40.75s before answering.

(The resulting pelican was underwhelming.)

Comment · 17 days ago
Another: A particular street address only maps to one person, entity, or family. Counterexample: Giant skyscraper with a zillion tenants, each in a different suite. Or a giant apartment building. Etc.

Still another: One particular suite address only maps to one person, entity, or family. Counterexample: Any of thousands of commercial mailbox-rental / package-shipping stores in US strip malls, which tend to have suite numbers (within the mall) and possibly hundreds of tenants, all at one suite.

Comment · 23 days ago
I saw this linked from MacRumors during the AT&T iPhone 18 Pro Max lockup news discussions. It was interesting to see what AT&T/Apple did to try to get ahead of the issue. So far it looks like they disabled 5G Standalone mode, possibly just to prevent a bug from literally destroying the hardware (possibly only on one batch of phones).

Apple/AT&T still haven't released any kind of statement addressing the issue other than to replace affected hardware.

Comment · 25 days ago
Comment · 26 days ago
Holy cow, thank you for this. On that same IBM[1] link, it reads:

Maximum wet bulb temperature (Only LTO-8 and earlier cartridges) / Maximum Dew Point temperature (LTO-9 and later cartridges), all across the board, allowable / recommended / shipping: 26°C (79°F).

In Florida, we like to refer to 79°F dew points as "Tuesday."

More to the point, the time I want those LTO cartridges to earn their keep is during a disaster scenario. The most likely disaster scenario--other than fire--is hurricane. High temperature and humidity, and no power to run the HVAC to mitigate those. (Unless you have generators with fuel to run for days, and your HVAC, generators, and fuel tanks survived.)

Comment · 1 month ago
Comment · 1 month ago
https://archive.is/20260916181240/https://www.nytimes.com/20...

(Even the NY Times gift link requires a login.)

Comment · 1 month ago
I think GP and TFA mean that some of the states are afraid of public-key disclosure.
Comment · 1 month ago
Well, you know what they say. The best time to blow tens of billions you might never get back on a risky memory fab in your home country is ten years ago. The second best time is today!
Comment · 1 month ago
The colors may also fade/drift upon exposure to air and humidity, not just light.
Comment · 1 month ago
That lander had all sorts of fiddly protrusions on it, so the multiple charts could have been to avoid self-shadowing all of them. Or they were worried about chart stability after shipping it across interplanetary space. Or the test targets were for angles for multiple cameras?

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