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lanna··on Just 0.001% hold 3 times the wealth of poorest half of humanity, report finds
Wouldn't 0.001% be 82,600?
lanna··on Apple's M1 chip gave the Mac a second life
Fifth if we count Mac OS -> Mac OS X
lanna··on When UPS charged me a $684 tariff on $355 of vintage computer parts
NaCl is a chemical compound
lanna··on Apple Mini Apps Partner Program
A duopoly
lanna··on Old Stockholm Telephone Tower
If you have n nodes, each one needs to connect to n-1 other nodes. But the connection from A to B is the same as the one from B to A. Therefore, there are n(n-1)/2 total connections.
lanna··on 36B solar mass black hole at centre of the Cosmic Horseshoe gravitational lens
Not to be that guy, but English is not French
lanna··on Preliminary report into Air India crash released
Hence the question mark
lanna··on Preliminary report into Air India crash released
Above commenter said _quickly_, not simultaneously
lanna··on Preliminary report into Air India crash released
Fourth? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malaysia_Airlines_Flight_370#M...
lanna··on Transparent Ambition
My Mac screen isn't transparent. Why should its UI be?

If there is "some sort of AR glasses and something smaller form factor than the Vision Pro that will require transparency so you can see through to the real world", limit the transparent interface only to that device.

lanna··on Ask HN: Java why put string in a constant?
You just made TWO typos: "display-name" vs "display_name" and "_name" vs "name", automatically counter-argumenting your point.

It is also for documentation. With the declared constants, we know all possible values. With plain strings, how am I supposed to know which values to use?

The benefits far outweigh the marginal cost.

lanna··on Mexican Navy ship crashes into Brooklyn Bridge leaving two people dead
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil a few years ago: https://youtu.be/31B5X5G5dzw
lanna··on Wikipedia: Database Download
Relevant XKCD: https://what-if.xkcd.com/59/
lanna··on First and 2nd gen Nest Thermostats will lose support in Oct 2025
I would be happy if they worked locally. It is not often that I need to set the temperature remotely, when I am not in the house. But often I am laying in bed at night and don't want to get up and go downstairs to adjust the temperature. Why can't they work on the local network? That would take no resources from Google
lanna··on Evertop: E-ink IBM XT clone with 100+ hours of battery life
The IBM AT used an Intel 80286
lanna··on Don't force your kids to do math
The only thing better than telling a lie and people believing it, is telling the truth and no one believing it. Shows that her achievements are truly remarkable
lanna··on Don't force your kids to do math
I'm fortunate enough that my daughter has an admirable interest (and talent) for Math since very early age. She even won a medal at a renowned nationwide Math competition when she was in Grade 5... competing in the Grade 10 category.
lanna··on Garfield Minus Garfield
The concept would be more interesting and realistic if they removed only Garfield's thought bubbles (after all, Jon can't hear Garfield's thoughts anyway) but still left Garfield in the comic.
lanna··on Powers of 2 with all even digits
How many powers of 2 have just a single even digit? 2, 4, 8, 16, 32, 512...
lanna··on The average American spent 2.5 months on their phone in 2024
Reminds me of this meme: https://i.redd.it/silx0aw4a1v51.jpg

Our phones replaced numerous different devices. All the time we used to spend watching TV, listening to music, reading books, getting the news, playing games, talking to friends is now done on our phones.

lanna··on Did I Just Solve an Unsolved Math Problem? [video]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge%27s_law_of_headline...
lanna··on Apple ordered to open up in-app purchases in Brazil
$43,000/0.00016 = $268,750,000 I doubt Apple sells that much a day in Brazil.
lanna··on All of Earth's water in a single sphere (2019)
Yes. The fresh-water lakes and rivers sphere definitely does not look like it could fill the Great Lakes next to it. I am not saying it doesn't, I'm just saying it doesn't look like it could.
lanna··on Passengers at EU Airports Not Allowed over 100ml of Liquids on Cabin Luggage
Not at tourist destinations in Mexico and Dominican Republic. It is inhumane that those airports offer absolutely no free drinking water options for passengers. Tap water in these countries is not safe to drink.
lanna··on German Navy still uses 8-inch floppy disks, working on emulating a replacement
You got 5" and 8" mixed up
lanna··on An artist's perplexing tribute to the Pythagorean Theorem (2009)
It would have worked if the nuts represented squares instead of points
lanna··on Programming Beyond Paradigms
Easy to achieve the same in any language that supports the uniform access principle, and it does not even look magical
lanna··on macOS 14.4 causes JVM crashes
Maybe not a lot of macOS devs use Java, but a lot of Java devs use macOS
lanna··on Could our Universe be a simulation? How would we even tell?
> all available evidence suggests Earth has the only life

Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence

lanna··on Why Isn't Landfill Mining More Popular?
A mile is 1609m

A sq mile is 1609x1609 = 2,588,881 square meters

Times 10m, 25,888,810 cubic meters

A cubic meter of water weighs 1000 Kg

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