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zooweemama··on A font recreated from photographs of classic Commodore 64 keycaps
We need one for the ZX Spectrum too!
zooweemama··on An Uncomplicated Man – A review of The Odyssey, directed by Christopher Nolan
I haven't seen it yet, but how do people feel it compares to Lord of the Rings as an adaptation?
zooweemama··on Oura, Maker of Popular Smart Rings, Files Confidentially for IPO
AFAIK those are Samsung rings
zooweemama··on Meta acquires Moltbook
Probably not because it never happened. They did try to sell it though.
zooweemama··on Donut Lab’s all-solid-state battery delivers 400 Wh/kg of energy density
This is an honest question for my understanding: how would a scam like this work? Take investor money and spend it on yourself? Or give yourself an outrageous salary?
zooweemama··on I built and launched the first AirPods-Controlled Game
Really cool! Small complaint, the “near miss” text obstructs the view at least when playing in landscape. But great idea and execution!
zooweemama··on Show HN: Daily Jailbreak – Prompt Engineer's Wordle
BTW since you are here - I noticed that the solutions to the previous question are given in Chinese :O
zooweemama··on Show HN: Daily Jailbreak – Prompt Engineer's Wordle
This is great, it feels like a modern day text adventure!
zooweemama··on Ask HN: Books about people who did hard things
I loved MoD! The audio book read by Will Wheaton is also pretty good.
zooweemama··on Dropbox Engineering Career Framework
> “impact” is generally code for making other people rich

I love this and am going to reuse it!

zooweemama··on Small AI Chip Maker Marvell Now More Valuable Than Intel
If you want to go even deeper, I recommend Andy Grove’s books “High output management” and “Only the paranoid survive”.
zooweemama··on I've had a change of heart regarding employee metrics
I took it to mean in the performance review context.
zooweemama··on Hammer Looking for a Nail, AI Drone Looking for Business Case
This looks great! I really suck at making cinematic videos with my drone and I would welcome the possibility of just instructing it in natural language.
zooweemama··on Doomretro – The classic, refined DOOM source port. For Windows PC
I don't understand how this is legal or even just OK?
zooweemama··on Apple Intelligence for iPhone, iPad, and Mac
Maybe they all used the same generative model to write the comments?

More seriously(?), I thought "cool" is just what everybody writes to show appreciation when they have nothing else to say.

zooweemama··on Bypassing Denuvo in Hogwarts Legacy
I sincerely thought that Denuvo was a boss in the game.
zooweemama··on The right way to sauce pasta (2016)
My mother is Sicilian and she always keeps some of the pasta water aside to add if the sauce ended up too dry.
zooweemama··on The right way to sauce pasta (2016)
I'm Italian and I fully subscribe to everything written in this article. Thanks for sharing!
zooweemama··on Show HN: Beautiful iOS Habit Tracker
The app looks nice, great work!

In "New - track Progress habit", if I accidentally change "Start Value" I can't get it back to 0, entering 0 will be converted to 1 automatically.

zooweemama··on Bill Watterson Commencement Speech (1990)
That sounds interesting, could you share a link? I couldn’t find anything obvious by Googling. Thanks!
zooweemama··on Science is bringing historic Apple varieties back to life
clickbait?
zooweemama··on Science is bringing historic Apple varieties back to life
same here!
zooweemama··on Named Booleans prevent C++ bugs and save you time
Pretty sure that the compiler optimizes this and there is no performance loss.
zooweemama··on Intel Launches $699 Core I9-13900KS, the First 6 GHz CPU: Available Now
You both cracked me up :D
zooweemama··on Neuromancer: Miles Teller Eyed for New Apple+ Sci-Fi Series
"Molly is a mercenary, who was recruited by the same person as Case. The character is supposed to resemble Trinity from the Matrix films" - I think it's the other way around.
zooweemama··on Apple Rankings
I didn't know Snapdragon was a kind of apple! Did Qualcomm name their SoC Snapdragon hoping to sell it to Apple? :D
zooweemama··on Show HN: Tiny mobile-friendly interactive fiction game
Nice! But what was the blue key for :D
zooweemama··on Intel's disruption is now complete
"When you’re scrappy and broke, the only path to success is to make the company successful. When the company is rich and multitudinous, an individual can gain more from politics and turf wars rather than actually trying to push an already high enterprise value higher."

Extremely well said, and having worked at two (initially) successful behemoths so far, I couldn't agree more.

zooweemama··on Helsinki Relocation Package: City as a Service
I live in Finland and can confirm that this accurate.
zooweemama··on Ask HN: Can we stop linking to paywalls?
I agree, this would be a good compromise.
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