Reminds me a lot of a final year group software project at uni. Instead of building a solution for our client we built a kind of meta solution, then ran out of time to actually solve his problem in it.

I have one. It's my main computer. I can use it on a desk, on my lap, at a cafe.

I find smaller laptops much harder to understand because they compromise the coding experience so much.

Huh I'm the opposite. I find the copilot chat slow and low value compared to ChatGPT. But I use the tab autocomplete a lot.

Otoh I disabled all the intellisense stuff so I don't have the issues described in TFA: tab is always copilot autocomplete for whatever it shows in grey.

Same. copilot auto complete with powershell seems better than cursors given by how often I use each

I would just do the digital version of that: add 100% black bars then screenshot page by page and probably increase the contrast too.

But if they're just false hits it's easy to filter them out, right?

It is more difficult than you may be assuming. How do you know the hits are false? These "hits" are collections of samples at points in time, not continuous tracks. The "tracks" are reconstructed by making inferences from the samples.

Determining whether any pair of sequential samples represents the same entity or two unrelated entities is an extremely difficult inference problem with no closed or general solution. If there is too much clutter, it becomes almost unresolvable. Aliasing will create a lot of false tracks.

History has shown that any heuristic you use to filter the clutter will be used by your adversary as an objective function to hide from your sensors once they know you are using it (e.g. doppler radar "notching").

For this reason the inference algorithms are classified but they will degrade rapidly with sufficient clutter no matter how clever. It is a limitation of the underlying mathematics.

That's a great explanation, thanks.

Yes, but it increases the difficulty of finding an aircraft moving near them.

You've obviously never used Garmin software. It's always been woeful and lags well behind the rest of the industry.

The one bright side is that when I switched from Apple Watch to Garmin I couldn’t stand the notifications UX. It finally got me to turn off watch notifications and I feel much freer.

> . Paysafe, for example, is a publicly traded company with thousands of employees, the constellation of regulatory supervision you’d expect, and a subsidiary Openbucks which is designed to give businesses the ability to embed Pay Us With A Cash Voucher in their websites/invoices/telephone collection workflows.

Fascinating footnote.

I thought so as well. It also confuses me the more I think about it… it seems like they have all of the things a normal bank has, so why isn’t it just a bank? What is preventing them from just offering a bank account to people who are traditionally unbanked?

> When New York State authorized the NYC speed camera program they explicitly precluded it from reporting to insurance, and made it not part of the “points” system that triggers license suspension if you accumulate too many infractions, so all that happens is that you get a $50 ticket each time.

At the risk of hearing a depressing answer...why?

> it turns out that they got dozens of speed camera tickets per year.

Are you saying you can legally keep driving despite dozens of speed camera tickets in a year, as long as you keep paying the fines?

That's wild.

Around here (Melbourne, Australia), you'd lose your licence very quickly. A single speeding ticket is a minimum of 3 points off your licence (of which you have 12), and bigger infringements lose more points. So at most you could speed 4 times, but probably fewer. And it takes a few years for the points to come back.

This gave me a good chuckle:

> You have mentioned being Australian at least five times as a personality trait just to remind us that our pennies are stupid and our tap-to-pay is thirty years behind yours.

Fair!

The XKCD comic generation was impressive.

The "your HN front page in 2035" doesn't really make sense to me because afaik personalised front pages are not a thing? (Or maybe they will be in 2035...)

It would have made more sense if it was "your upvoted submissions in 2035"