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Comment · 6 years ago
> I've intentionally not linked these because burdening the relatively heavyweight source viewers with idle HN readers who are mostly going to glaze over and not read once they discover it's tricky C++ code seems unfair

Seems like a good use case for linking to their respective GitHub mirrors

Comment · 6 years ago
> For example, in the UK our right-wing party is currently in power, which means that arguments that their lockdown rules are illegitimate and exceed their powers mostly come from supporters of the other, left-wing party. The justifications for why they're exceeding their powers actually look similar in many ways to the ones in this lawsuit.

Not convinced you’ve even been following British politics then. The main criticism coming from Starmer is about late decision making and inaction. I haven’t heard anything about abuse of powers or a clamour to reopen from them.

Comment · 6 years ago

  brew install sdl2
Comment · 6 years ago
it seems to compile/run fine for me on catalina but everything is absolutely huge (hidpi compatibility issues?)
Comment · 6 years ago
At what point will it be “is not GitHub, GitLab, or SourceHut”
Comment · 6 years ago
I've never had an issue with pocketability even with the largest phones on the market. I don't really understand the problem. Do you have really tiny pockets?
Comment · 6 years ago
Newsflash: the Mac is currently quite successful.
Comment · 6 years ago
In fairness the Raspberry Pi is only $5 so it’s not like it’s a huge deal
Comment · 6 years ago
In my opinion it is a mistake to thinks that to compete with China we need to become China. It would benefit us greatly in the long run to figure out and fix whatever problems in the market are preventing more companies from competing in this space.
Comment · 6 years ago
Library, Radio, Search
Comment · 6 years ago
A bootrom exploit has been found that works on all pre-2019 iOS devices.
Comment · 6 years ago
> expensive, bureaucracy, not so good transport

Compared to where exactly?

Comment · 6 years ago
you've got some advanced lump of labour nonsense going on here
Comment · 7 years ago
What you said was correct a year ago but Kapten and Bolt exist now, they’re often the same fare or cheaper than Uber.
Comment · 7 years ago
You should be able to press Cmd+Shift+I and open the developer console.

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