Even with high effort, the adaptive thinking can just choose no thinking. See bcherny's post they were replying to: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47668520

Yeah I know but you can disable it as we saw

Steganography is (hopefully invisibly) hiding information in an image, not creating an image that so obviously encodes information.

A common misconception is that git works with diffs as a primary representation of patches, and that's the implied reading of "stores diffs". Yes, git uses diffs as an optimisation for storage but the underlying model is always that of storing whole trees (DAGs of trees, even), so someone talking about it storing diffs is missing something fundamental. Even renames are rederived regularly and not stored as such.

However, context would matter and wasn't provided - without it, we're just guessing.

Yes, once you use 'unsafe' to bypass the safety model, you don't get safety.

Edit: If you reply with a reply, rather than edits, you don't get such confusion.

I would probably see text quality issues on that setup. It depends on how far away the monitor is. PPI on phone screens tends to be much higher than PPI on laptops which tends to be higher than PPI on monitors, because each is typically used at a different distance.

If you're not using text around 9 pixels tall, as in the article, you're probably going to be okay. On a 27 inch screen at a typical office screen distance, I'd probably want 6k, but 4k is pretty good and 1080p is terrible.

In my experience, it seems to. My astigmatism (or other eye stuff) seems to move different colours different amounts, leading to wider RGB pixels and making things like Cleartype so much worse. So people were enjoying Cleartype and I was hating the obvious colour-changes and fringes that somehow they weren't seeing. I assume some people are lucky enough to have aberrations that actually make cleartype more pleasant.

It's not like the Cleartype tuner actually does what the pages claim - you can go through and use the magnifier to choose the grayscale-only outcomes and still see Windows doing RGB stripe cleartype throughout. People literally have to install third-party tools like MacType or GDI-PlusPlus to get solid font rendering. So blaming users for using it wrong (especially when they're not even on Windows) is odd.

Also, many people can see and are bothered by particular non-rectangular pixel layouts - it doesn't require doing odd things.

I had the same experience (Z Fold 4, screen protector at hinge broke at the five month mark - I replaced it with a third-party one to avoid a long repair period and another such breakage - the screen itself is now faulty at just beyond the two year mark).

If anyone were to buy a modern Samsung folding phone, I'd suggest you make sure you get the two-year coverage for the screen and assume it will break soon after that, so treat it like you're going to buy one every 2-3 years. But remember that warranty repairs sometimes involve sending the phone away for weeks, and Android's phone transfer story is still incomplete. That's merely my experience, of course.

The inhibition of movement via eddy currents works best while the needle is moving fast, so you can still end up with smaller oscillations for a while - the apparent jump-cut to a stationary needle could be hiding that.

It's far easier to just use a compass with a needle brake - manually dampen the oscillation using the brake (and let go to ensure you aren't holding an incorrect reading) and you get a reading quickly.

Not sure holding a break and making sure to release it to have a correct reading is any easier than something like this (if this is real).

No, they're right and besides the video is fake so there is a fair chance this is a scam.

What’s with the period thing? Do people edit that into their comments after the fact or something?

I think so as you can't delete a comment once it has children.

Ah so saving face

What's the scam? Bad guerrilla marketing? There isn't a call to action or advertisement or product to buy.

publicity stunt, maybe a lie but based on what we currently know, i wouldn't call it a scam

a scam? like, a dishonest stunt to take our money?

i do see the comments about the mysterious needle stop edit

Would you mind checking again? I haven't found any new comments that note the spliced video and old ones I have replied to as well got removed. If someone knows a way to unremove comments, this is the link to one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eiDhbZ8-BZI&lc=UgzCu8FPM4CtR...

The comments on this site (HN) may be what most people are talking about. Youtube comments are too easily censored, so they probably will never manage to stick around.

Your site still says "HOW TO ADD ALMOST EQUAL TO IN HTML? Use an HTML entity, a decimal code, or a hex code."

That is incorrect. As you say, you should just write the character in your HTML and ensure it's served with the correct encoding. If it's just for legacy cases, debugging or such, say so on the site.

Agreed. Updated the HTML section to recommend writing the literal character + UTF-8 by default. Numeric refs/entities are now explicitly framed as legacy / edge-case references.