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Stephen H.

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linux2647··on Run Android ARM64 VR APKs on Apple Vision Pro
Any screenshots of this? I didn’t see one in the README
linux2647··on Fastmail offers EU data region
Agreed. I imagine they’ll announce an EU-only option later once they get more EU infrastructure in place
linux2647··on US strikes $1.2B deal to pay German firm to halt offshore wind projects
> dangerous to wildlife

Is this claim substantive at all?

linux2647··on No leap second will be introduced at the end of December 2026
Not anymore forever. We’re just not adding one for this year. We might need one next year, we might not. It all depends on the Earth’s rotation and orbit
linux2647··on Show HN: Davit, a Apple Containers UI
Yeah it’s an unfortunate SwiftUI thing
linux2647··on Time to talk about my writerdeck
Vim swap files (.swp) are periodically saved out to disk. In the event of a crash, reopening a file will present you with a screen asking if you want to recover the file. I doubt it’s character by character, but I’m sure vim has a setting to speed it up
linux2647··on Anatomy of the .claude/ folder
> Oh and don't get me started on leadership adding random AI generated images to their emails just to show that they use AI

Feels like generated AI art like this is modern clipart

linux2647··on Anthropic takes legal action against OpenCode
I still think Anthropic should've bought Clawdbot/OpenClaw. Feels like a missed business opportunity to expand your market share by capitalizing on the hype.
linux2647··on Hacker News front page now, but the titles are honest
If you click into the comments, it takes you to the real HN comments page with the real title
linux2647··on Agent design is still hard
The tmux usage referenced at the end of the article was fascinating to watch. I’d never considered using tmux as a way of getting more insight into how an agent is working through a problem. Or to watch it debug something
linux2647··on Experimenting with Local LLMs on macOS
Unrelated but I really enjoyed the wavy text effect on “opinions” in the first paragraph
linux2647··on British man claims he's unable to watch porn as tattoos confuse age check system
It was a turning point, but Star Trek lore also had Earth go through World War III before things actually got better
linux2647··on TrackWeight: Turn your MacBook's trackpad into a digital weighing scale
Sometimes you can get capacitance to be detected if you hover your finger just millimeters over the trackpad
linux2647··on Plwm – An X11 window manager written in Prolog
Sorry, I don’t understand this analogy
linux2647··on Plwm – An X11 window manager written in Prolog
Could you explain the difference?
linux2647··on Spaced repetition systems have gotten better
The folks at SaySomethingIn, that originally started with Welsh and other Celtic languages, have recently expanded to Japanese. I haven’t tried it myself, but I’ve found some decent success with one of their other courses. It’s all about spaced repetition and focuses exclusively on listening and speaking.

https://www.saysomethingin.com/en/

linux2647··on Apple Exclaves
I think it’s not just the camera LED, but the indicators that appear on screen, like the amber, green, or blue dots that appear in the menu bar when the microphone, camera, or screen recording are accessed by apps.
linux2647··on Brain Hyperconnectivity in Children with Autism and Its Links to Social Deficits (2013)
(2013)
linux2647··on Show HN: Modest – musical harmony library for Lua
I wrote something like this for fun years ago, although I don’t think I published it. I think my library had a scale defined by a root note and a set of steps. A chord could be constructed from a scale and a root note, with modifiers such as inversions and others like X7, Xb5#13, etc. The scale has the blueprint and the notes follow. You already have the primitives with notes and intervals.

Parsing chords from notes is more difficult, as are most parsing tasks.

linux2647··on How many Alpine packages can you install at once? (2024)
I wonder how large of a container that world create. Sounds like a good exercise for the reader :D
linux2647··on Ask HN: What skills do you want to develop or improve in 2025?
How to parent/be a parent. I don’t have much choice in the matter, as my firstborn is coming this spring ^_^
linux2647··on Astral: Next-Gen Python Tooling
FWIW I’ve never heard of these tools until today
linux2647··on New iMac with M4
I’ve definitely been memory limited on a 32GB MacBook Pro. Though it’s probably due to Docker, Slack, multiple IDEs, and dozens and dozens of browser tabs all open at the same time. Consider me part of the exception.
linux2647··on Helping wikis move away from Fandom
> But how did Vim get in a Fandom in the first place?

It was created back when Fandom was Wikia, back when it was a good place to host a wiki

linux2647··on Sanding UI
“Sanding” shouldn’t be the only approach to testing an app. Developers should test using a variety of techniques. Some bugs are discovered through unit or integration tests, others by brute force, others still from end users
linux2647··on Notepat – Aesthetic Computer
2600 lines long, and an additional 1700 lines of completed items moved to a different file: https://github.com/whistlegraph/aesthetic-computer/blob/main...
linux2647··on Hacker Purity Test (1989)
Yes exactly this. For example on the PDP-11: https://cdn.changelog.com/uploads/news_items/RRqw/large.jpg?...
linux2647··on Low level of Magnesium linked to disease-causing DNA damage
Magnesium glycinate not very effective for being a laxative. Magnesium citrate is probably what you want.
linux2647··on "We ran out of columns"
It’s kind of like an idempotency key assigned either by the request or generated at the beginning of processing that request
linux2647··on Ask HN: How do you choose a hostname for personal devices?
Human languages. There are more than 7000 and I highly doubt I’ll ever have more than a few hundred devices in my lifetime.
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