sim_card_map | 4 years ago | on: How I lost my fear of flying (2011)
Fascinating, thanks for sharing!
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sim_card_map | 4 years ago | on: Google Pixel 6 and Pixel 6 Pro
I've lost hope of getting a 4-4.5'' phone ever.
All companies are obsessed with these phablets.
sim_card_map | 4 years ago | on: MacBook Pro 14-inch and MacBook Pro 16-inch
you get +8 GB of RAM, +256 GB SSD, a much faster CPU, and a 120 hz display for the extra $1000
sim_card_map | 4 years ago | on: Israel’s Covid-19 boosters are preventing infections, new studies suggest
It is true. There's an Oxford Covid risk calculator, and for an average 20 something person, the risk of hospitalization is ~0.002%.
sim_card_map | 4 years ago | on: Nimforum: Lightweight alternative to Discourse written in Nim
Improving its efficiency would mean re-writing it entirely, since it's an SPA app with 4 MB of JavaScript.
sim_card_map | 4 years ago | on: Nimforum: Lightweight alternative to Discourse written in Nim
Doesn't work without JS.
Pass.
sim_card_map | 4 years ago | on: Asahi Linux for Apple M1 progress report, August 2021
yes, completely silent for one (no cpu fan)
also m1 is pretty quick
sim_card_map | 4 years ago | on: Let's write a compiler, part 1: Introduction, selecting a language, and planning
codegen, optimizations, ast transformations
sim_card_map | 4 years ago | on: The Framework Laptop is now shipping
Windows only, no option to use linux instead. Pass.
sim_card_map | 4 years ago | on: Compiling Rust is NP-hard
they got rid of that
sim_card_map | 4 years ago | on: Compiling Rust is NP-hard
How was the tooling dumb?
sim_card_map | 4 years ago | on: More than 30 states sue Google over 'extravagant' fees in Play store
> but Apple's store takes 30% of everything once you pass one million/year
So it's much better to earn 999k instead of 1.1 million...
sim_card_map | 4 years ago | on: The code on the laptop in the stock photo at developer.bbc.com is user-editable
340k of memory quote is a myth
sim_card_map | 4 years ago | on: Vinix – An effort to write a modern, fast, and interesting operating system in V
Do you have links to false claims about Nim?
sim_card_map | 4 years ago | on: Google can't pass its own page speed test
or Gmail for the last 10 years
sim_card_map | 4 years ago | on: Booking.com to repay €65M Dutch State aid after €28M in bonuses for 3 US execs
it's because it was created like this 15 years ago, and if it ain't broke, don't fix it
I wish every website followed this rule
sim_card_map | 4 years ago | on: Booking.com to repay €65M Dutch State aid after €28M in bonuses for 3 US execs
nothing weird about HN
it's perfect
sim_card_map | 4 years ago | on: Microsoft Irish subsidiary paid zero corporate tax on £220bn profit last year
Perhaps all countries should adopt 0% corporate tax then, if it's so beneficial.
sim_card_map | 4 years ago | on: WWDC21
M1 macbooks are amazing, and you are clearly very biased.
sim_card_map | 4 years ago | on: WWDC21
Companies exist to make money.
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