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hooch··on MacBook Air M4
But no Space Grey?
hooch··on Apple Debuts iPhone 16e
With the C1 modem and in-house wifi/bluetooth, here's hoping that Apple is ready to revisit the mini-sized phone!
hooch··on We can now watch Grace Hopper's famed 1982 lecture on YouTube
That’s part 2

Part 1 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=si9iqF5uTFk

hooch··on Coronal mass ejection impact imminent, two more earth-directed CMEs
OP’s factoring includes washing, food prep, all that other stuff.
hooch··on New findings point to an Earth-like environment on ancient Mars
Imagine their endless frustration as we sailed from place to place felling all the forests to build more ships to sail further afield and fell more forests.
hooch··on Millions of customers in Australia hit by mobile phone and internet outage
I have a Telstra prepaid esim.
hooch··on Mistral releases ‘unmoderated’ chatbot via torrent
That was a great read, thanks for posting.
hooch··on Today's Large Language Models Are Essentially BS Machines
Agreed, it’s a properly reasoned essay.
hooch··on Why does the USA use 110V and UK use 230-240V? (2014)
How does ChatGPT come anywhere close in usefulness compared to the breadth and fan-out of facts, opinion, supports and counter-arguments offered by this format?
hooch··on Magic Mountain – What Happens at Davos?
(2012)
hooch··on The first conformant M1 GPU driver
IMAP notes still works.
hooch··on FreeBSD Experimenting with a Port of Nvidia's Linux Open DRM Kernel Driver
Except DRM in this context is a Direct Rendering Manager [1] which is a slightly different struggle getting pixels onto the screen.

1. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Direct_Rendering_Manager

hooch··on Firefox finally outperforming Google Chrome in SunSpider
Agreed. The dev tools in Firefox are beautifully designed and a joy to use. Chrome is a dogs breakfast in comparison.
hooch··on Show HN: Tetris, but the blocks are ARM instructions that execute in the browser
Telling site visitors to disable cookies via their browser is precisely how apple.com does it.
hooch··on Infinite Mac: Disks, CD-ROMs and custom instances
Aldus?
hooch··on We raised a bunch of money
Eliminating all the policing work to prevent malicious actors exploiting the free tier must be a pretty good reason?
hooch··on Intel agrees to invest $25B in Israeli chip manufacturing plants
Israel has a number of fabs, and Intel itself operates a number of fabs .. ?
hooch··on First impressions: Yes, Apple Vision Pro works and yes, it’s good
If you look more closely at the keynote such AR apps are demoed; a factory process visualisation, and a human heart, if I recall correctly.
hooch··on Using JSX with jQuery
Neat
hooch··on Office Workers Don’t Hate the Office. They Hate the Commute
Dare we suggest, it’s the office culture? Recently started working with a great bunch of smart people in a flat hierarchy and working in the office is actually quite enjoyable.

Previous roles, I agree, working from home was better for me, and better for the employer too.

hooch··on Ask HN: What happened to the PDF HN news magazine
It shut down https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10870796
hooch··on Qualcomm wants to replace eSIMs with iSIMs, has the first certified SoC
Have you traveled? Mobile vendors at airports and also regular mobile carrier stores will happily sell you an eSIM, not a problem. Scan the QR code and it’s done.
hooch··on The history of Southwest Airlines' destruction from within
This WSJ post & HN thread offered more information about that. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34165791
hooch··on Intel plans to rival TSMC and Samsung as a chip supplier
FTA: "Intel also needs to build up a third-party intellectual property portfolio, design services, and a chip packaging and testing ecosystem with partners to make it easier for customers to use Intel's manufacturing process."

... "so far, there is no evidence to show any of these hurdles have been overcome," Shi said.

Apparently it's in this domain that TSMC is king.

hooch··on Examples of large production-grade, open-source React apps
Well curated and meaningful summaries too.
hooch··on YC’s $500k Standard Deal
if it needs to be hidden behind an acronym, then it must be some suspicious fine print full of dilution shit
hooch··on YC’s $500k Standard Deal
wtf is an MFN and why can't you spell it the fuck out
hooch··on Electron 11.0 released with support for Apple Silicon
I hope so too. I tried their Electron apps and they start on Apple Silicon but no window ever opens.

Simply being able to run the iOS versions would be great.

hooch··on Intel’s palpable desperation on display with Rocket Lake
I recall Intel intentionally took the foot off the accelerator in the midst of the GFC, and forfeited or skipped some next development to wait things out a while.
hooch··on Attention is your scarcest resource
Time cannot be controlled. Attention, however?
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