Cockbrand

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by Cockbrand 7d ago
> you could never do fancier than a 1500 buck iphone There's always high-end commercial modders like Caviar [0], who help customers flex both their wealth and their extremely bad taste... [0] https://caviar.global/ca
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by Cockbrand 10d ago
Or hit ⇧⌘N
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by Cockbrand 14d ago
Wow, that frog game - I haven't thought about this in a loooong time! Didn't it also come with the demo disk for the 1541?
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by Cockbrand 15d ago
I'm currently reading that book, and I find this sentiment interesting (not knowing any better myself) - is there a critique/fact-check somewhere?
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by Cockbrand 16d ago
This is great stuff, thank you for sharing!
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by Cockbrand 28d ago
I haven't tried the LLM approach recommended in the sibling comment, and I agree that the UI is quite cumbersome. Yet, once it clicks, it's still not super straightforward, but it allows for quickly implementing whatever one needs
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by Cockbrand 28d ago
I'm still quite often amazed by BTT's capabilities, for example right now by the fact that they bothered to implement Logitech's HID++ protocol.
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by Cockbrand 1mo ago
Very fair, and I'd differentiate between being bored as a kid (unbearable) and being bored as an adult (enjoyable to some extent). Maybe "mild meditative zen state" would be a more precise definition than "boredom"
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by Cockbrand 1mo ago
> It’s sort of the opposite of an activity, and the brain hates it. While this is true, I'd word it differently: It's sort of the opposite of an activity, and we've conditioned our brains to hate it. Boredom used to be a
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by Cockbrand 1mo ago
TIL there's burgerschachteln.de, because of course there is a person collecting burger packaging on the Internet.
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by Cockbrand 1mo ago
I had never heard this name until now, but I owe Dr. Tim King a significant part of my career. Never having been a DOS user, AmigaDOS was my gateway drug to the command line interface, and to me learning the Linux CLI a few years later. Tha
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by Cockbrand 1mo ago
For a brief period of time, CD ROMs were already a thing, and people still had 5.25" diskettes lying around. So someone came up with the idea to put a self-burned CD into the plastic shell of a floppy disk, and I actually found that qu
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by Cockbrand 1mo ago
So will it be replaced by Hepatitis Rust for memory safety? (I'm sorry, and I'll see myself out, thanks)
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by Cockbrand 1mo ago
This refers to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Instrumental_convergence#Paper... . Here's a popular game based on it: https://www.decisionproblem.com/paperclips/index2.html
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by Cockbrand 2mo ago
Sounds about right. How I understand it: Mary is 24, Ann is a few (n) years younger M = 24 A = M-n Mary is twice as old as Ann was when Mary was as old as Ann is now. So we have to deduct the age difference twice from Mary's c
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by Cockbrand 2mo ago
The Finder has an interesting take on this: copy a file with ⌘C, then move it somewhere with ⌥⌘V. This is much nicer than the Windows Explorer's CTRL+X and CTRL+V, where the user is unsure what happens when they never paste the file.
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by Cockbrand 2mo ago
The Mac now has a clipboard history as well, it's just a bit awkward. You can open Spotlight with ⌘Space, and within Spotlight open the clipboard manager with ⌘4.
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by Cockbrand 2mo ago
I remember that there had been a discussion about providing free Interrail tickets to all EU citizens at some age (18 or 19 maybe?), which I found a brilliant idea. I don't know whether this actually ever materialized, though.
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by Cockbrand 2mo ago
This is how I learned cursive in school, and it never occurred to me that this may interrupt my writing flow. I agree that doing the backtracks after writing the entire word would add to my mental load, but that's probably because I&#x
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by Cockbrand 2mo ago
Similarly, why don't photos get auto-straightened, maybe with an option to revert to original? I spend too much time aligning the horizon properly on snapshots that I took while cycling. The phone even has the data from the rotation se
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by Cockbrand 2mo ago
A different UX issue I have with these buttons is that the designers seen to have chosen the wrong rotation direction. I almost always need to rotate photos 90⁰ to the right, so I have to tap that button three times. Apart from that, if I
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by Cockbrand 3mo ago
I was too, and I was going to ask whether this is a good use of taxpayer money, as the ICANN fee for registering a TLD is $227,000. But given the fact that the Web was invented at CERN, I could imagine that they got a special deal. Happy to
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by Cockbrand 3mo ago
As an aside, Rogue Amoeba are one of an ecosystem of great and greatly passionate indie software houses for the Mac. All of them create excellent software with polished UIs, provide excellent support and never forget to have fun. This seems
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by Cockbrand 3mo ago
Let me correct myself: Too bad that these images predate the wide availability of popcorn in the old world and its common usage as a snack eaten during entertainment .
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by Cockbrand 3mo ago
Gotta love how some of the spectators on the larger Joseph Heintz the Younger painting enjoy the entertainment. Too bad that these images predate the invention of popcorn!
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by Cockbrand 3mo ago
A bit unclear - it says > Weller’s largest study yet is due to be published later in 2019 But in the header, it also says > Updated May 31, 2024 I'd still love to know whether there has been further research in the meantime.
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by Cockbrand 3mo ago
Let me be the first to say that this is a lovely website in a lovely, slightly modernized turn-of-the-millennium style.
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by Cockbrand 3mo ago
Probably hundreds of millions, maybe even billions of people still suffer from this truth each and every day.
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by Cockbrand 3mo ago
This may not always be an option for the somewhat more than 8 billion people who don't live in areas served by Waymo.
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by Cockbrand 3mo ago
*Every* time I try to be smart on HN, there's ~someone who outsmarts me~ an opportunity to learn - and that's one of the reasons why I keep coming back. Thank you :)

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