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usui··on Apple May Return to Server Market with Nvidia Technology
Nvidia is the Apple of GPUs, so it's quite an apt pair
usui··on iOS 27, iPadOS 27, and macOS 27
This is going to sound like a really weird and irrelevant nitpick, but I dislike how they changed the version numbers to be year+1. I like that they all unified and have a relationship to the current year, but we're not buying cars. We're getting operating systems and not being confused about chronology is pretty important for bug tracking or other minutiae. Plus, the Mac lineup use(d) the year of release. Why move away from it? Is it really necessary to market and sell an operating system like it's a car or the latest Microsoft Office suite?
usui··on Remember Hong Kong
Wow that artist is nice. Reading that unlocked a memory of this animated video

https://youtu.be/RXAHywPLaD8 "Say No to China Extradition!"

usui··on Show HN: HN Match Maker – Matching "Who Wants to Be Hired?" With "Who's Hiring?"
I think it's naive to be bothered by the scenario you describe just because it's visible to you and yet it's still being done everywhere you go whether you like it or not. Similarly, just because this Show HN is visible to the user it becomes a privacy issue, whereas hundreds of web scrapers are doing the same to HN every day and you don't know about it.

We are living in the Wild West of privacy. If you don't like it, you can share your grievance with the people running the public space or disengage entirely. It's still going to happen.

usui··on Show HN: HN Match Maker – Matching "Who Wants to Be Hired?" With "Who's Hiring?"
The users in question are posting on a public forum under a username of their choosing, and it's still an invasion of privacy to read those posts and play pretend matchmaker?
usui··on Advertisers Could Soon Demand 'Verified Clicks'
The same principle applies: You would have to leave the service when it starts introducing such things.

As a market-driving force in the real world, basically an impossible task for the collective. However, occasionally consumers do successfully band together to abandon a service due to some perceived slight.

usui··on Pixel 11 Pro Fold feels like the end of an era
Been using it for half a year and so far it's doing well. I never remove it from its case so there's not much wear happening on the connector. At least it protects the original port as well.

The creator is really nice and basically handles everything himself. I had n issue in the upper separate piece and I learned just the top part can be ordered and replaced for cheap.

usui··on Pixel 11 Pro Fold feels like the end of an era
You don't have to choose one over the other

https://obsoless.com/products/iph0n3-usb-c-protection-case

usui··on How does IKEA come up with names for its products?
But how can I find the answer to the question without reading punchy headers followed by paragraphs like

> How We Leverage Naming

> Our Naming Strategy, Explained

> Why Swedish Is Important

> The Bottom Line

And unforgettable aphorisms like

> It isn't just a name—it is the output of a scalable, globally coordinated, linguistically validated, Swedish-inspired naming framework designed to optimize brand consistency

to let me know? I'm completely lost on this page and can't find the answer without these.

usui··on uBlock Origin Is Giving Up the Fight to Keep Ads Off Facebook
I don't think ads should be illegal because companies have a right to try to send me information or inform me of their products, but I also have a right to block them. The problem is that client-side computing seems to be lagging behind. Once an effective local video+audio filter is invented, it's either game over for adware or another arms race will begin where humans and classifiers can't tell what an ad is anymore (this has already run to completion on many platforms like Reddit, Amazon, and Google Maps anyway).

Criminalizing information flow is a non-trivial problem that I wouldn't want governments to be in control of.

usui··on uBlock Origin Is Giving Up the Fight to Keep Ads Off Facebook
How long until someone invents a fully-integrated local video and audio adblock filter running on a passthrough VR headset or smart glasses? The progress on this front is taking a while. I wouldn't mind if the audio filter is white noise and a portion of what I see is blurred out. Maybe to make it more efficient, only scan near the places I'm looking at via foveated rendering.
usui··on The brain may be about to have its Ozempic moment
Isn't the answer yes if people still die from overwork despite being caffeined up?
usui··on 3D Pinball for Windows (1995)
https://wikipedia.org/wiki/MilkDrop
usui··on "Please just use plain English, I don't understand what you're saying."
I've had to make the same request multiple times recently. Has anyone noticed it getting worse with the more recent models? It reminds me of when someone is trying to convince you of their intelligence by replacing simple and straightforward explanations with words pulled out of a thesaurus, so maybe that's the objective of these more recent iterations. Throwback to grade school.
usui··on Em dashes are amazing
I mean... would it really be that big of a crime against humanity to insert two or three em dashes if the situation seriously needs it? I already have enough trouble distinguishing an en dash from an em dash.
usui··on Em dashes are amazing
You might think em dashes are amazing—but there is something three times better⸻the "three-em dash" (U+2E3B).

Why this thing exists, I do not know. Unicode people seem to like making bad decisions, like Han unification and emoji sprawl.

usui··on Freeze-Casting
> solution or slurry

> suspension or slurry

> solution or slurry

> suspension or slurry

I'm not sure why this has to be specified more than once. Is a "slurry" meaningfully different enough from a "suspension" or "solution" such that it needs to be specified each time?

usui··on New US homeownership measure puts people first
Fair enough, you're correct. It is... possible
usui··on New US homeownership measure puts people first
I feel like these are much worse than the alternate reality where I simply have to spend more on or lose access to consumables, if I had to choose one or the other. For people that use the same smartphone for 10 years, never shop for clothes, never go out to eat, etc., it seems unfair that we'd construct a dichotomy (assuming it's even a valid one) and choose the one that worsens the resources that everyone needs rather than the more fungible one.
usui··on New US homeownership measure puts people first
What's the point of being able to spend less on cheap junk if the surplus is eaten up and outspent by important things that inflated during that timespan?
usui··on Italy passes obesity law to prevent cardiovascular disease across Europe
What effect does formally recognizing obesity in legislation have? Hasn't the medical profession known about it for a long time and been steering medical outcomes with it in mind?
usui··on Evidence of inconsistencies in evaluation process and selection of winners
You're absolutely right to push back on that.

Bottom line⸻it's not load-bearing, it's structural.

And honestly⸻that's not nothing.

No loads. No bears. Just structure.

usui··on Telegram Serverless
I often see replies to AI-generated posts being pointed out here asking what makes it obvious. Is it that difficult to notice the indicators? Is it mostly undetected by English-as-a-second-language speakers, people inexperienced with generative AI, or is it something else?
usui··on RISC-V Is Inevitable: State of the Union Keynote Argues
RISC architecture is gonna change everything
usui··on Samsung overtakes Apple as smartphone market sinks to a 13-year low
These are all capable devices but they have enough missing capabilities to make them sound like giant on-ramps to me. Gateway devices for people before their next upgrade.

There's a reason why the marketing strategy for smart watches pivoted so heavily to older clientele and became health-centric (Older user = deeper wallet).

usui··on Samsung overtakes Apple as smartphone market sinks to a 13-year low
Apple never cared about having the most marketshare outright. It focuses on gaining marketshare on customers with the higher likelihood to give them a profit.
usui··on SpaceX wants to launch 100k more Starlink satellites for 100x the bandwidth
I believe Viasat internet satellites are placed in geostationary orbit, whereas SpaceX Starlink is not, so the service Viasat provides is already blown out.
usui··on SpaceX wants to launch 100k more Starlink satellites for 100x the bandwidth
Recently I flew on a long-distance (so at least a dozen hours of flight time) low-budget airline that had 60 Mbps download/12 Mbps upload and it specifically called out SpaceX Starlink for being able to provide this for free. A video call went smoothly. There was connectivity from takeoff to landing with no interruption in between. This was the best airline experience I've had yet.
usui··on SpaceX wants to launch 100k more Starlink satellites for 100x the bandwidth
You want them to pay a multi-trillion dollar clean-up and cancer fund for car-sized multi-year-service-life satellites burning up in the atmosphere? How much do you want incumbent multi-decade culprits to pay?

EDT: I should have clarified I'm not only talking about incumbent satellite companies because people are replying about the launch volume. Think about pollution from oil companies and coal plants and consider how that compares to an aerospace company. How much have polluting companies been fined relative to multiple trillions of dollars?

usui··on Every new car sold in the European Union must include a driver monitoring camera
Why are car companies other than Tesla and BYD so dumb with their EV naming strategy, but perfectly fine at naming gasoline cars? Really curious because it seems like you have to put in effort to be this silly at naming. Reminds me of how Microsoft names anything.
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