mjlee

Next, go to Germany or the Netherlands where half ten means 9:30.

When I was in high school I brought in a copy of The Hacker's Dictionary to show a friend. A teacher saw it.

A few weeks later there was a hacking incident! The shared spreadsheet of every pupil's grades that every teacher had full access to was modified, boosting the grades of some students (including me) and lowering the grades of others (including people I didn't get on with). I was immediately sent home during the investigation. Nothing came of it in the end.

Years later my friend revealed the advanced technique of finding his music teacher's password (bassoon) on a post-it note under their keyboard.

The single purpose nature of the iPad makes it pretty good for quite a few tasks. I find it much easier to stay focused. I’m not saying that justifies the cost, but seeing as I have one anyway, it’s what I use for a lot of my writing like tasks.

Of course, you can now multi window in iPadOS but the experience is awful enough that I don’t.

I can’t find what you want, but you can buy PoE splitters. PoE in, ethernet and power out.

Surely a matter of time until someone does this…

It's a great read! A story of how the scientific elite stalled progress because the right answer wasn't the one they hoped it would be, and didn't come from the sort of person they thought it should.

If you get the chance, you can see some of Harrison's chronometers at the Royal Observatory in London, though I don't know if they're always on display.

I'll add a recommendation for Sextant by David Barrie.

I used to be a professional sailor, and love finding nautical terminology in programming. At sea dead reckoning is navigating using the speed and direction of the ship, and adding tide and wind to calculate a fix based on the last known position. The term dates back to the 1600s.

It is fun to point at a chart and confidently state “We’re here! I reckon...”

This sounds extremely susceptible to unconscious bias, or even just straightforward discrimination.

Practically anything! Vibrant colours work best, and there are techniques to do transitions, fades, and masking to get multiple colours, though I’ve never done those myself.

13 year old me who anodised remote control car chassis completely agrees the process is quite simple.

In the context of a MacBook, it’s not. Removing just the aluminium components and leaving everything that doesn’t like baths undamaged is practically impossible for amateurs. I’m not sure it’s something many professionals would take on.

People Look For:

Specific language tells, such as: unusual punctuation, including em–dashes and semicolons; hedged, safe statements, but not always; and text that showcases certain words such as “delve”.

Here’s the kicker. If you happen to include any of these words or symbols in your post they’ll stop reading and simply comment “AI slop”. This adds even less to the conversation than the parent, who may well be using an LLM to correct their second or third language and have a valid point to make.

I find MCP beneficial too, but do be aware of token usage. With a naive implementation MCP can use significantly more input tokens (and context) than equivalent skills would. With a handful of third party MCPs I’ve seen tens of thousands of tokens used before I’ve started anything.

Here’s an article from Anthropic explaining why, but it is 5 months old so perhaps it's irrelevant ancient history at this point.

https://www.anthropic.com/engineering/code-execution-with-mc...

If you like man trivia (and why else would you be reading this?) you could check out the top comment at https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/405783/why-does-man...

(discussed at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27994194)

I was about to ask if anybody had looked at what it was sending home. I’m travelling so I’m not in a position to run this through a proxy for a couple of weeks, but also I’m travelling so this could be useful!

That counts! I suppose I’m lucky enough to know of more reliable resources (macadmins.org Slack is an excellent community), and so I turn to them after reading more than a couple of threads on the Apple Support Community. Perhaps it has improved or I never dig deep enough.

I’d be at a complete loss for any obscure Windows issue though.

I am genuinely curious if anybody knows of a non-trivial problem being solved on one of these forums, at least for a huge company that’s palming off customer support. It just feels like screaming in to the void, only for someone to (deliberately?) misinterpret your question and give you some generic advice.

I use Fastmail with my own domain and 1Password. Together they give me a “masked email” button for forms that generates a random enough email address (two common words and four digits) and records the domain it was for. You can also create them ad-hoc from Fastmail’s interface.

As well as simply attributing leaks, it’s most valuable as a phishing filter. Why would my bank ever email an address I only used to trial dog food delivery?

Ocrelizumab/ocrevus. Initially as an infusion, but the doctor recommended monthly injections after neutropenic sepsis.

After moving to injections there was a hospitalisation for an upper respiratory tract infection, but not nearly as serious.

On a positive note, MRIs have shown no new lesions, and bio markers seem to show no relapses.

Anokion (now bankrupt) also seemed to have some progress along these lines (link below).

A close family member suffers from MS and is on the more effective but less safe drugs available. They haven’t suffered a relapse since starting them four years ago, but they have been hospitalised twice as a result of side effects.

As we learn more about the relationship between the immune system and various seemingly unrelated diseases the research and understanding has massively increased over the last few years. I’m cautiously optimistic that better treatments aren’t far away. An ancestor was lobotomised for hysteria in the 1960s, before being diagnosed with MS.

https://clinicaltrials.gov/study/NCT04602390

I wrote a longer comment already (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47352526) but looking at the hot run performance and making big hand wavy guesses, the performance difference might not be as big as you'd expect.

I haven't tried the newer I7i and I8g instance types (the newest instances with local storage) for myself, but AWS claims "I7i instances offer up to 45TB of NVMe storage with up to 50% better real-time storage performance, up to 50% lower storage I/O latency, and up to 60% lower storage I/O latency variability compared to I4i instances."

I benchmarked I4i at ~2GB/s read, so let's say I7i gets 3GB/s. The Verge benchmarked the 256GB Neo at 1.7GB/s read, and I'd expect the 512GB SSD to be faster than that.

Of course, an application specific workload will have its own characteristics, but this has to be a win for a $700 device.

It's hard to find a comparable AWS instance, and any general comparison is meaningless because everybody is looking at different aspects of performance and convenience. The cheapest I* is $125/mo on-demand, $55/mo if you pay for three years up front, $30/mo if you can work with spot instances. i8g.large is 468GB NVMe, 16GB, 2 vCPUs (proper cores on graviton instances, Intel/AMD instance headline numbers include hyperthreading).

This isn't true for iOS at least. You can include device erase capabilities in the MDM profile without enrolling as a managed device.

Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) MDM profiles typically don't allow personal data access outside of their sandbox, but they almost always include remote wipe capabilities.

iOS at least displays a very clear warning when you import the profile telling you exactly what it can do.

Not that this isn't awful, but it's good to be clear on what this can do when used within normal expectations.

Wacom have been selling "pen displays" for years, at least since ~2013. You can buy a brand new one for $300.

Apple has been doing that on their base spec iPhones for the last 3 years.

That's the first thing I saw too. dataJAR (an Apple MDM service company in the UK) were targetted in the UK for using a different shade of pink in a different industry.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-sussex-44107621

To add to this, this is probably due to Amazon Brand Registry which promotes products from brands with a trademarked name. The sellers only care about the brand so far as it's trademarkable. Mashing on the keyboard is the simplest and quickest way to make that happen.

In the UK a fish and chips shop is sometimes called a "chip shop". The New York Times helpfully translated this in a recent article:

“I’ve seen lots of students my age struggling, trying to get work and even the basic necessities,” Agastya Dhar, 17, said. Mr. Dhar has a part-time job in a French fry restaurant, but said even getting that job was tough.

French fry restaurant is now my preferred term for the local chippy. For those outside the UK chip shops normally have no seating, or maybe a couple of uncomfortable, uninviting, flourescent lit plastic benches and tables, normally bolted down, maybe sprayed clean at the end of the night.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/world/europe/uk-budget-yo...

If you account for the wastage/insurance costs using standard freight carriers that seems reasonable to me as a proportion of value. I’m sure this is shipped insured, well packaged and on a pallet.

Walmart might be able to resell a damaged/open box $2k TV at a discount, but I don’t think that’s so easy for speciality calibrated equipment.

If you enjoy this, you might like to read about the Zimmermann Telegram - British SIGINT that took advantage of this network, bringing the USA in to World War I.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zimmermann_telegram

I know! I definitely need those. For the kids, of course.