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Miniatures are fascinating.

There's also the San Francisco Bay Model, located in Sausalito, CA:

<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S._Army_Corps_of_Engineers_B...>

There's a model of Biblical Jerusalem at Temple Square in Salt Lake City, though I've no idea of its actual accuracy. This is located in the North Visitor's Centre: <https://www.myutahparks.com/things-to-do/attractions/temple-...>.

There's another such model at the Israel Museum in Jerusalem itself: <https://www.imj.org.il/en/wings/shrine-book/model-jerusalem-...>, and several others elsewhere in the world.

There are several models of ancient Rome, including appropriately one in Rome itself, the Plastico: <https://mymodernmet.com/scale-model-ancient-rome/>.

The Thorne Miniature Rooms at the Art Institute of Chicago are another delightful experience: <https://www.artic.edu/highlights/12/thorne-miniature-rooms>.


But i.reddit.com does not. That was the original mobile experience.

And worse: neither would propagate to on-site links. That is, if someone had explicitly linked "www" rather than "old" or "i" at reddit, then regardless of which interface you'd arrived at it from, requiring you to constantly re-specify the actual interface you want. Particularly when not logged in to the site.

I'd begun using Reddit nearly 15 years ago, my last comment is now two years old, and my subs private (and inactive). Site's dead to me.


It used to be that you could set old.reddit.com as the default interface for www.reddit.com URLs, with the new interface still being available at new.reddit.com - is that no longer the case?

You can specify the interface as preferred, if you are logged in to your Reddit account.

However *if you're visiting the site via a specified hostname ("www" or "old", previously "i"), following any arbitrary link from a post, comment, or Wiki page to Reddit will not respect the hostname you'd arrived at that link from.

This to me is absolutely maddening behaviour, as it's now necessary to edit the URL within the browser nav bar. Tedious on desktop, painful on a touchscreen device.

I no longer read Reddit.


For those near the SF Bay Area, the De Young Museum in Golden Gate Park, with its copper-cladded exterior, is an excellent instance of this.

I suspect that the effect was unintentional, but (at least until internal WiFi access was provided) the consequences were delightful.

Any metallic grid should attenuate signals effectively. Old-school lathe-and-plaster construction (which often incorporates a wire mesh) is well-known WiFi / cellular poison:

<https://www.techwalla.com/articles/how-to-get-a-wifi-signal-...>


What are your concerns / objections to Termux?

People are holding it wrong.

Instead of embracing the Java/Kotlin userspace alongside C and C++ on the NDK, with the official APIs, they try to subvert into GNU/Linux.

First of all bionic isn't glibc, secondly the Linux kernel is only a matter of convenience for Google, which they could in theory replace by something else, while keeping the Java/Kotlin and the NDK C/C++ APIs.

Which is exactly termux isn't without issues on modern Android versions, not much different than using cygwin/mingw on Windows.


This is exactly Termux's point, to subvert Android into linux cheaply. Same for MinGW or MSYS2. I want to invest as few as possible on Andriod or Windows, while still able to use them in the way that I prefer.

I don't see cloning UNIX every piece of hardware with a CPU as positive, so it isn't a valid point for me.

As computer nerd I favour diversity just like I had the pleasure to enjoy during the 8 and 16 bit home computing days.

Vertical integration of computers with a soul, full stack experience.

“Using UNIX is the computing equivalent of listening only to music by David Cassidy.”

— Rob Pike


That's your use case.

Mine is that the Unix environment is a preferred one, particularly on a device which is nominally a Unix derivative (Linux -> Android) but which fails to deliver in its stock incarnation.

Termux doesn't solve that problem entirely, but it does remarkably well given the underlying limitations.


Termux itself is a red-headed step-child on Android, with current releases installable only from F-Droid, and quite possibly subject to further restrictions in future.

Mind: Termux is the only thing on Android which has not precisely sucked in my own 15+ years' experience with the platform. It remains both crippled and emperiled by the OS and Google.

<https://web.archive.org/web/20210103151837/https://wiki.term...>

There's ... some Google Play availability as of June 2024: <https://github.com/termux/termux-app/discussions/4000>.

F-Droid's own future viability is at risk given Google's recent Android directions:

<https://www.techdirt.com/2025/10/07/googles-requirement-for-...>.

My own interests lie more in the ability to run Android emulated under Linux, and switching from phone / tablet devices to a small form-factor laptop (Framework 12 or 13 most likely) for on-the-go computing.


Given that 8 hours after your comment mainstream news sites are still reporting on ongoing SAR ops for the 2nd F-15 crewmember, it's likely those stories were false or confounded recovery of an A-10 pilot (also downed, separate incident) today.

<https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2026/apr/04/middle-ea...> (Live updates at The Guardian, as of 15 minutes prior to my own comment.)


Yeah i was wrong on that one, I think the X noise at the time as about the A-10 pilot that had been rescued.

Ahead of your time, as the 2nd crew member was eventually rescued.

<https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/4/5/us-rescues-airman-wh...>


Several have (Deluzio, Slotkin, Kelly, Crow, Goodlander, and Houlahan), Nov 2025:

<https://deluzio.house.gov/media/press-releases/joint-stateme...>



Assigned-cabbie-at-birth...

What specifically about that scene? Video won't load for many HN readers.

Apparently it's "The Wind Rises: The Looming War", a Japanese anime film.

<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wind_Rises>


Ah, it's a scene set in the late 1930s where a German stays at a mountain retreat in Japan, and bonds with the Japanese protagonist who also visited Germany (to learn how to make warplanes). It becomes clear that the German man is fleeing the Nazi government.

https://www.cornel1801.com/animated/Wind-Rises-2013/video-qu...

- It is a nice night. Hier ist Der Zauberberg.

- "The Magic Mountain" Thomas Mann.

- Yes. A good place for forgetting. Make a war in China. Forget it. Make a puppet state in Manchuria. Forget it. Quit the League of Nations. Forget it. Make the world your enemy. Forget it. Japan will blow up. Germany will blow up too.

This recklessness is a theme I keep seeing when reading about preludes to major war. There is always a side who wants diplomacy to fail and war to break out. It seems to me like the American administration is champing at the bit for a war of aggression.


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