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Tomte · 2025-12-26T20:43:45 1766781825

> Bradley Kühn's

I saw that spelling for the first time last week, I think.

Did he change his name? Has he always been Kühn, but went with Kuhn, because Umlaute are hard for Americans?

ralph84 · 2025-12-26T20:55:10 1766782510

He changed his name.

https://fedi.copyleft.org/@bkuhn/115461658201124515

Tomte · 2025-12-26T14:28:37 1766759317

> Lego is great to assemble and sometimes tricky to detach. But it is always possible.

Set 75313 has a building technique that every fan would have deemed illegal until then, because it cannot be completely taken apart again.

> With Lego, you have all the necessary bricks and none should be left over.

All 1 by 1 parts have a spare in the bag.

Tomte · 2025-12-25T18:06:44 1766686004

Encrypted DjVu, and the viewer doesn‘t run on modern Windows.

medler · 2025-12-25T23:53:35 1766706815

It runs great on windows 11. The install took a long time but I didn’t have to do anything special to make it work

Tomte · 2025-12-26T05:34:02 1766727242

Maybe we have different editions? I never got mine to work.

Tomte · 2025-12-24T10:07:22 1766570842

> blacks are more like dark grays, even in a dim room

A projector cannot take light away. So unless your room is truly dark (no candles even), you cannot expect black. “Dim” is not nearly enough.

Tomte · 2025-12-24T08:38:10 1766565490

Or tag-value, which is actually preferred by many practitioners. Nesting is implicit in that format, but SBOMs should be mostly flat, anyway.

Unfortunately, T-V hs been dropped in SPDX 3.0.

zvr · 2025-12-24T08:59:22 1766566762

It was dropped exactly because it was flat and it was becoming completely unmanageable.

SPDX v3 is based on a graph model that can represent hierarchies natively. It can then be serialized in a file, for example, in JSON format.

Tomte · 2025-12-24T09:56:20 1766570180

But it was the best format for manually creating an SBOM.

Most SBOM use cases don‘t need the ability to put your detailed software architecture in the SBOM.

zvr · 2025-12-25T20:57:37 1766696257

"manually creating an SBOM" is a much lower priority requirement than "easily, accurately, and completely creating an SBOM".

The whole idea is to use specific libraries to produce and consume SBOMs.

You wouldn't expect people to "manually create" JPG images, would you?

Tomte · 2025-12-25T21:06:48 1766696808

I would expect people to do a lot of manual work in SBOM and licensing, yes. Because that‘s we do now.

Tomte · 2025-12-24T07:10:16 1766560216

Software licensing information is the big use case where SPDX originated from.

In CycloneDX you can also express things like attestations/certifications, possibly down to the code review level (although I think nobody does that).

Tomte · 2025-12-24T07:03:24 1766559804

I learned (an academic expression of) German grammar at university, in computational linguistics. There was a class „Syntax I“, and it had us break down phrases and sentences in a graphs, a (constituent) C structure and a (functional) F structure.

Best class I ever had!

eszed · 2025-12-26T21:33:03 1766784783

Yeah, I loved my university-level grammar class, which I took as a requirement for a TESOL (Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages) certification. But I was able to speak and read and write at an extremely advanced level long before that. In fact - though I got a private kick out of breaking down sentences, and it certainly was a help teaching second-language speakers - I don't think it helped my own ability to express myself in English in any way. Grammar's fun for nerds, and useful for adult language acquisition, but not worth the time it takes to teach to the general population.

HPsquared · 2025-12-24T13:15:15 1766582115

I too enjoy mentally putting parentheses around parts of speech.

AnonymousPlanet · 2025-12-24T13:38:06 1766583486

You'd probably like the way Thomas Mann uses language then (not parentheses but subordinate clauses, or nebensatz).

Tomte · 2025-12-20T18:22:43 1766254963

No Java devroom this time?

Tomte · 2025-12-17T06:39:39 1765953579

https://archive.ph/UZyDI

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

Tomte · 2025-12-15T04:08:25 1765771705

Dark mode is fashion. If it were about headaches from bright screens, you would turn down the brightness.

_jzlw · 2025-12-15T04:21:18 1765772478

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tomhow · 2025-12-15T13:41:10 1765806070

> Oh, fuck off. I am sorry but you are exactly the reason this article was written. Ignorant people like you

I understand you find that comment upsetting, but it's never acceptable to post personal abuse like this on HN, no matter who or what you're replying to.

The guidelines make it clear what style of participation is expected and what is off limits. If you wouldn't mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and taking the intended spirit of the site to heart, we'd be grateful.

remslave · 2025-12-15T07:51:32 1765785092

Bright text on dark backgrounds is unreadable garbage to me, like a kaleidoscope of strokes and shapes. I think it is because of astygmatism, not sure.

When software doesn't provide a light theme, I can't use it at all. Thankfully websites are easy to fix with browser addons... ffmpeg documentation in particular looks so bad by default in my opinion.

You should always give the user a choice because it's usually very trivial to make a theme and saves everone trouble down the line. Finding the option to switch can still be a pain sometimes which is silly.

kbon · 2025-12-15T04:37:45 1765773465

yes, and pushing the colour inversion (or 'turning down the brightness') breaks all of the default settings meaning the user's keyboard flips from dark to bright. This results on people with low vision who rely on darkmode having to toggle colour inversion on and off constantly - a 5 min task becomes 50mins!