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DerekL··on S.F. Democratic Party stands behind Flock surveillance cameras in vote
No, they are usually different things.

Robbery is theft using force or the immediate threat of force. The article you linked to says that much of the phone theft is done by pickpocketing.

DerekL··on House Defies Automakers and Mandates AM Radio in New Cars
Why not also add a requirement to receive NOAA Weather Radio, too?
DerekL··on How big are factorials?
Stirling’s approximation is mentioned in the article.
DerekL··on A coffee shop owner used AI to make a menu poster. Then came the angry DMs
Neither, the biggest danger is being a chiropractor (her main job), taking people's money and wasting their time with useless treatments.
DerekL··on Show HN: OpenTIE and OpenXWA, Modern Ports of Tie Fighter and X-Wing Alliance
I guess you could fork it and add support for retro systems.

It looks like much of the engine uses fixed-width types (for example, int32_t), so maybe you don’t need to change that code at all.

DerekL··on GUIs should be fully keyboard-driven
*cues
DerekL··on Google: Lake Ontario/Lake America name change in the U.S. will appear in Maps
The Department of War was split into the Department of the Army and the Department of the Air Force in 1947. The Department of War didn't include the Navy.
DerekL··on Show HN: OpenTIE and OpenXWA, Modern Ports of Tie Fighter and X-Wing Alliance
Here are some features, common in other simulator games, that could now be added to these games:

• Custom control panels, with various switches and levers, and lights and displays.

• Multiple displays.

• Virtual reality.

• Mixed reality that shows your hands and your custom control panel, combined with the VR display outside your craft.

• Speech recognition for giving commands to your allies.

• Cockpit motion control and seat rumble.

DerekL··on England set to be one of the first countries to eliminate hepatitis C
It's Robert F. Kennedy Jr., not John.
DerekL··on Show HN: Scroll through all 43252003274489856000 Rubik's Cube states
It's actually about 4x10^19 (exponent 19, not 9).
DerekL··on How to Make a Nintendo 64 Game in 2026
Though for Infocom, portability was secondary benefit. The primary purpose of the Z-machine was smaller code size, compared to assembly or a high-level language compiled to machine code.
DerekL··on How did the H1B visa become the 'Indian' visa
The title is misspelled. It's “H-1B”, with a hyphen.
DerekL··on Dark Sky Lighting
From the article:

> See 6 important reasons for using it, or skip to What is Dark-Sky Lighting?

DerekL··on Apple Announces macOS 27 'Golden Gate', Drops Support for Intel Macs
The actual title is “macOS 27 'Golden Gate' delivers more Liquid Glass and updated Siri”.
DerekL··on Citing 'severe' math deficits, UC faculty demand a return to SAT tests for STEM
“High school” is two words.
DerekL··on The Invention of Buses
The article says that horse-drawn buses were successful.
DerekL··on Let’s Encrypt: Stopping Issuance for Potential Incident – Resolved
It's fixed now. Thanks!
DerekL··on Let’s Encrypt: Stopping Issuance for Potential Incident – Resolved
The title is misspelled. It's “Let's Encrypt”, with an apostrophe.
DerekL··on Tempest vs. Tempest: The Making and Remaking of Atari's Iconic Video Game
Did you actually play Tempest on the Atari 2600? As far as I know, Atari did a prototype, but never shipped it.

https://www.atariage.com/software_page.php?SoftwareLabelID=8...

DerekL··on John Ternus to become Apple CEO
“We broadcast most episodes live on Wednesday nights at 8 PM US Eastern time.”

https://atp.fm/live

DerekL··on Building a Z-Machine in the worst possible language – Whitebeard's Realm
Portability between different computers is only a secondary reason for the Z-machine. The most important reason is code size, making the largest possible game that can fit on a floppy disk.

See the article “How to Fit a Large Program Into a Small Machine” by Marc S. Blank and S. W. Galley, in the July 1980 issue of Creative Computing. https://archive.org/details/creativecomputing-1980-07/page/n...

DerekL··on Why Objective-C
Hopefully, you're using ARC by now, so that's a no-op!
DerekL··on Motorola announces a partnership with GrapheneOS
Are you confusing Motorola Mobility with Motorola Solutions? The article is about Motorola Mobility, which makes cell phones. Motorola Solutions makes two-way radios and surveillance systems. They split in 2011.
DerekL··on Nvidia with unusually fast coding model on plate-sized chips
Also, the original title is only 77 characters long, so there was no reason to change it. And the title should never be changed to something that misrepresents the article.
DerekL··on Palantir CEO wants to spray "fentanyl-laced urine" on analysts
Karp has also bought into the myth that fentanyl can be ingested by contact. It can't, unless it's been prepared as a patch, and those act slowly.
DerekL··on LT6502: A 6502-based homebrew laptop
I actually used an Amiga to browse the web, back in 1994 or 1995. I started with Lynx, but then I switched to a graphical browser (probably Mosaic).

This was an Amiga 500 with maxed-out RAM (8 MB) and a hard drive.

DerekL··on Michael Abrash doubled Quake framerste
Title has a typo, should say “framerate”.
DerekL··on Beginning fully autonomous operations with the 6th-generation Waymo driver
Are these the cars where the safety driver is in a car tailing the robotaxi, or do they actually run without the need for a safety driver?

https://electrek.co/2026/01/22/tesla-didnt-remove-the-robota...

DerekL··on Semaglutide improves knee osteoarthritis independant of weight loss
Title is misspelled, should be “independent”.
DerekL··on Fined $48k for using a jammer to keep commuters from using phones while driving
Good point. The title needs “(2014)”.
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