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jet_32951··on My lazy Wordle strategy: same words every time
CRANE first. If the A and E are not both present and there are no green consonants, HOIST, else figure out a word that tests common di- or triglyphs (ch, cri) based on known letters that also contains O.
jet_32951··on Android loses 8% of its global OS market share in five years
Bought a stock p5a, stuck on Graphene through the web installer, added apps from F-droid and Aurora. No Google stuff. A hell of a lot of apps run without even installing the Google services framework, and Aurora sure helps: anything requiring GSF is noted in the app descriptions.
jet_32951··on Android loses 8% of its global OS market share in five years
Any of several alternative OSs have small-to-no ties to Google, though Google is a heavyweight in the Android Open Source Project (AOSP). E.g. my phone runs GrapheneOS, and it is doing that while I am not logged in to a Google account, running any Google-branded software, or seeing any pings to the panoply of xxx.google.com sites. Check out CalyxOS or DivestOS as well.
jet_32951··on Why are there 360° in a circle?
It has been tried, but failed to pass in a bill in Indiana in 1897. [0]

Such a bill would probably pass now in Indiana, and many other states, given the wishful thinking on so many other issues that can't be resolved by legislation, but that's not for the want of trying.

[0]https://www.straightdope.com/21341975/did-a-state-legislatur...

jet_32951··on DJI is blocking operations of Ukrainian AeroScope complexes [GT from Ukrainian]
CCP's position on the war defined. Listening to the politicians is a waste of time: what they do is the only touchstone.
jet_32951··on Two dozen retired generals are trying to stop an overhaul of the Marines
Yep. Armor and ground support A/C have been shown much more vulnerable to shoulder-launched countermeasures than they were even ten years ago, and it isn't even close, though I hate to see A-10s rendered obsolete - for that is what they are, now.
jet_32951··on War Got Weird
The British Starstreaks are looking very promising to do just that to ground support A/C.

https://nitter.net/Osinttechnical/status/1510094022970417160...

jet_32951··on Basque–Icelandic Pidgin
ok, so TIL the Basque were a widespread seafaring nation waaay ahead of the Portuguese, with whom my education seems to have started. Terrific!
jet_32951··on Basque–Icelandic Pidgin
Would never have thought it a thing; thanks for piquing my curiosity. It was rewarded in this article [0].

[0]https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Basque_whaling

jet_32951··on Daily coffee may benefit the heart
Yagh. Today coffee is good for you. Yesterday and tomorrow it is bad for you.

The thread running through nutritional research is "yep, could be good or bad for you", so why not do what pleases you?

jet_32951··on Pockit: A tiny, powerful, modular computer [video]
So very many applications! One is it will make lashing up an approximately-OK control system easier early in a project. There are five or six machine designs in my past where having a rudimentary control system was needed for initial testing. This would have saved days or weeks on each one.
jet_32951··on It's now your fault they don't know about it
Do you not find the dispersion of ratings more interesting than the averages? Within most sites that promote ratings there is often a standard-ish dispersion, and an outlier is of far greater concern to me than the average. A solid 3 for a budget restaurant is of far lower concern than a bathtub distribution, which suggests your visit is a crapshoot.
jet_32951··on Ask HN: What dictionary do you use as your source of truth?
Oxford English Dictionary.
jet_32951··on J&J tried to get federal judge to block publication of Reuters story
It was J&J whose reaction to the poisoning of Tylenol is taught as a PR masterstroke in B-school. Apparently they didn't integrate the lesson.
jet_32951··on J&J tried to get federal judge to block publication of Reuters story
Link sent Chromium-based Vanadium to some sort of catch-all Reuters site instead of crashing as it did with Bromite. First time I recall having seen such a wack behavior.
jet_32951··on Please make a dumb car
Needed to be said. I will not buy a post-2012 car because of the invasion of nanny features and telemetry. Current rides: 2003 Tacoma truck, 2005 Subaru wagon.
jet_32951··on Tell HN: Google doesn't work anymore for exact matches
check out searXNG: https://darmarit.org/searx
jet_32951··on NitroPhone 2/Pro with 4.5 years of software updates
I use Grapheneos. The Matrix room #grapheneos:grapheneos.org is everything strcat says it is: yet get used to OpenBSD or Arch levels of "RTFM" as responses to queries. To be fair the docs at grapheneos.org are fair (nothing like OpenBSD's), but without a good grounding in infosec terms of art, they will be between strange and unintelligible. Backscroll search is vital.
jet_32951··on 7k varieties of apples and the 18 you need to know about (2013)
My old place in NorCal had a "My Jewel" (Winter Banana x Newtown Pippin). Most delicious apple I have ever eaten.
jet_32951··on Pixel prevented me from calling 911
Then this seems to mean that the 'Dialer' function in a lot of Android phones separates functionality at the wrong point, is that right? Having 'Dialer' as selectable should not include the ability to select what ought to be a hardware requirement to be able to dial 911. If this is true the whole pachanga falls firmly in Google's court.
jet_32951··on Writing maintainable code is a communication skill
There is a parallel to this comment that is not much thought about in mechanical CAD: some designers use tools that get the job done, but the model breaks if you look at it funny. It is all too easy to fall in this trap unless management is willing to pay for models that are maintainable and not just quickly moved out the door. Asking engineers to use the "principle of least astonishment" and develop work others can maintain is difficult at first. It's inculcating the idea of model maintainability and then supporting it against budget constraints that takes the work.
jet_32951··on Ask HN: What are the best-designed things you've ever used?
HP41C, s/n 2018A00505. Had it since the early 1980s, still works. PPC ROM still works.
jet_32951··on Tim Cook: Users Who Want to Sideload Apps Can Use Android
And yes, they do. The filesystem of the original ipod convinced me that Apple didn't want to build computers that played music but instead wanted to mediate their influence. A site "anythingbutipod.com" convinced me to go forward with Cowon music players. And so it goes, if you want a real pocket computer that does what you wish, it isn't apple.
jet_32951··on Navy failures destroyed the Bonhomme Richard
Whatever is going on with the Navy, it doesn't seem to be well understood by flag officers. There have been far too many reports of crew exhaustion and confusion, too many reports of faulty or ill-designed user interfaces, and too little exhibition of loyalty downward from flag ranks toward the people who act to keep the ship afloat and moving.

Is crew retention decreasing? It is hard to imagine people putting up with conditions in the Navy while there are so many stories like this going around.

jet_32951··on How nimble Keyence grew into a $140B titan
Keyence is my go-to for a number of sensors. Their datasheets are always borne out by the sensors' performance. I never hesitate in ordering their equipment.
jet_32951··on What caused all the supply chain bottlenecks?
Pilatus.[0]

<null>.

UBS Switzerland. [1]

Glencore. [2]

[0]https://www.pilatus-aircraft.com/en

[1]https://swissfirma.com/largest-swiss-companies

[2]https://www.topmba.com/jobs/15-fortune-500-companies-headqua...

jet_32951··on Low-Background Steel
It isn't only steel [0]. Old, low-background lead is necessary for some instruments.

[0] https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2019/10/search-d...

jet_32951··on ISO3103 Tea Preparation [pdf]
It means something, which in this case means "taste is individual". I prefer to take the advice of my green tea supplier, who tells me to use 75°C water for brewing my tea. Using other advice is up to the user. Not my monkeys, not my circus.
jet_32951··on ISO3103 Tea Preparation [pdf]
De gustibus non disputandum.
jet_32951··on ISO3103 Tea Preparation [pdf]
It's just odd that one would not make green tea at anywhere near the right temperature. Green tea is simply not comparable with black; they are fundamentally different. It is as if there were an ISO standard on the quality of fruits and they are "compared" by assessing color (deviation from yellow is a fault, increasing by reflected wavelength difference).
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