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MarioMan commented on Changes to OpenTTD Distribution on Steam   openttd.org/news/2026/03/... · Posted by u/canpan
TylerE · a day ago
Why the simutrans folks decided on a weird hardcoded frame rate (40fps) that looks janky as hell on every single display ever I will never understand. Unplayable. instant motion sickness.
MarioMan · a day ago
It sounds to me like a product of the ‘90s. CRTs were still common, and they support essentially arbitrary fixed refresh rates. It wouldn’t have been a big deal at the time. It’s like how the original Doom runs at a native 35fps when you don’t use interpolation.
MarioMan commented on New accounts on HN more likely to use em-dashes   marginalia.nu/weird-ai-cr... · Posted by u/todsacerdoti
have_faith · 19 days ago
Unlikely in non-english languages (I seem to remember some super wide Arabic "single character" ones...?)
MarioMan · 19 days ago
Last I’d checked, “﷽”is the widest Unicode character.
MarioMan commented on Fix the iOS keyboard before the timer hits zero or I'm switching back to Android   ios-countdown.win/... · Posted by u/ozzyphantom
bigyabai · a month ago
> That data is end-to-end encrypted across your devices and is unreadable by Apple.

Sure, Jan. Next you'll tell me that Google isn't evil and Apple truly does care about human rights.

MarioMan · 24 days ago
If you have evidence to the contrary, it would make for a great lawsuit. Apple is very explicit that they cannot read it. This data is end-to-end encrypted, much like the data collected by the Health app. They never have the keys to it.

In comparison, Apple also has plenty of your data “encrypted at rest”, where they have the keys (unless you use advanced data protection). That data is only superficially secured. That’s not what this feature uses.

MarioMan commented on Fix the iOS keyboard before the timer hits zero or I'm switching back to Android   ios-countdown.win/... · Posted by u/ozzyphantom
singpolyma3 · a month ago
To be fair my iPhone spys on me in much more actively creepy ways than my android ever did. Showing ads for nearby pizza places at lunchtime on the homescreen. Telling me at about the time of my son's soccer that I may be interested in going to the place where his soccer is about now (despite me never using navigation on my phone) etc
MarioMan · a month ago
Not sure where ads for pizza places are coming from, but the suggested maps trips are part of the “Significant Locations” feature. That data is end-to-end encrypted across your devices and is unreadable by Apple. It can be disabled if you don’t want it tracked.
MarioMan commented on Porsche sold more electrified cars in Europe in 2025 than pure gas-powered cars   newsroom.porsche.com/en/2... · Posted by u/m463
dmix · 2 months ago
The main issue will always be price. Whether that's purchase price, resale, or maintenance. Even the budget brand cars from South Korea and Ford can figure out the basics of interior/exterior design where customers are happy. That mostly just leaves the price and it's only gone up.

Car prices have increased well above the rate of inflation over the last decade and even used cars are more expensive than ever. Average new car price is $50k, mostly because EVs are so expensive https://www.caranddriver.com/news/a69047202/average-new-car-...

MarioMan · 2 months ago
>Car prices have increased well above the rate of inflation over the last decade

This is a fair concern, but also, looking at the rise of average car prices is like looking at the rise of average iPhone prices. That is to say, cars (and iPhones) are providing increasingly premium offerings that didn’t exist decades ago. If you look at the entry levels of both these things, you find that the bottom-line price broadly keeps pace with inflation. And for cars, that’s with the addition of now-standard safety and convenience features. When you match cars feature-for-feature (an unrealistic comparison, as there aren’t really bare-bones cars on offer anymore), you’d see that cars are increasing in price much more slowly than inflation, and in other words, are effectively cheaper. Ultimately, whether car prices are rising or falling depends a lot on how you calculate things.

I’ll also add that EV pricing doesn’t have to mean insane car costs. The US market has the Chevy Bolt and Nissan Leaf each selling for about $30k new and can be readily bought for half that with used inventory.

MarioMan commented on The U.S. Government Just Followed Through on Its Ban of DJI Drones   popularmechanics.com/tech... · Posted by u/DamnInteresting
appplication · 2 months ago
It’s hard to say on this one. There is a pretty extensive history of Chinese govt spying via consumer products [0]. Having worked formerly with the intelligence community, they tend not to tip their hand when they are aware of asymmetrical information.

It’s plausible that the determination was made that there were backdoors/spy equipment/whatever in the products, so no audit or smooth talking from corp representatives would make a difference in this case, given the supply chain remains controlled by an adversary. If you don’t trust that an audit can be executed with integrity then there’s not much point in conducting one at all.

The fact that this has been extended to all foreign drones does make that feel like more of a political statement though, or at the very least the original intent is being hijacked for political theater.

0. https://www.cisa.gov/news-events/cybersecurity-advisories/aa...

MarioMan · 2 months ago
The link you shared details hacker groups exploiting consumer hardware. This is very different than selling compromised, backdoored hardware.
MarioMan commented on Toys with the highest play-time and lowest clean-up-time   joannabregan.substack.com... · Posted by u/surprisetalk
dotancohen · 3 months ago
Finish a set? Lego Enterprise? Don't want to build anything else with it?

I see that the Lego I remember and the Lego of today are two vastly different things.

MarioMan · 3 months ago
It’s still there; it’s just nowhere near as popular. The Classic theme is what you’re looking for.
MarioMan commented on Who Watches the Waymos? I do [video]   youtube.com/watch?v=oYU2h... · Posted by u/notgloating
MarioMan · 3 months ago
Very interesting to see the workers in yellow presumably cleaning and manually plugging in the cars to charge.
MarioMan commented on Show HN: Gemini Pro 3 imagines the HN front page 10 years from now   dosaygo-studio.github.io/... · Posted by u/keepamovin
gslaller · 3 months ago
Just did the same with claude-sonnet-4-5-20250929

https://2035.future-hackernews.workers.dev/news

The page looks much more consistent to the original. Only produced the html as output and the thinking in the comment of the html.

MarioMan · 3 months ago
All of the usernames being directly related to the headlines is uncanny.
MarioMan commented on iPhone Pocket   apple.com/newsroom/2025/1... · Posted by u/soheilpro
cnees · 4 months ago
I'm still waiting for them to collaborate with Levi's to bring iPhone sized pockets to women's jeans.

u/MarioMan

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