> I get that everybody is tired of it, I am too, but it feels like we wasted two years of everybody's life just the take the bullet anyway. One year, not two. There was never any hope of containing COVID. It was endemic…
The year is 2027. Power grids still go dark for ransom, but at least the internet has been turned back into TV. If you know how to use Linux, you might be able to pick up a fourth podcast!
Is it a symptom of that, or is it a symptom of the fact that it's much easier for the sorts of people who'd go to protests and do things that get them arrested anyway to call themselves journalists?
If you don't rule out hobbyists, freelancers, and the self-employed, I can declare myself a journalist, start a blog or a Twitter, and start throwing Molotov cocktails, and if I get arrested for it, that's another…
> If you wouldn't be granted press credentials for something, you're probably not a journalist. But if you would, you might still not be. I once got press credentials (and a steep press discount to an event) because I…
It's also how you get a list at all. I don't like EA's "Jeremy Bentham solved philosophy forever" worldview, but at least it gets them thinking big, you know? Is anyone else making these lists?
Brave was a good browser. Now it's... what, a Chromium extension? I liked pre-rewrite Brave much more than post-rewrite. The tab contexts (or whatever they were called, it's been so long that I've forgotten) were great…
SAT IIs are pretty obscure, and I don't think there's any benefit to taking them over AP tests, since APs can sometimes be translated into college credits and have much more support in public schools. One of the points…
Do none of these designers travel? If you go to Amsterdam, you notice motifs from the flag of Amsterdam everywhere. They're everywhere because they're the sort of thing you can put everywhere. If you go to Bremen, you…
> Because the fact that China has not engaged in non-local applications of violence Yet. The PRC has been internationally relevant for a few decades. The US has been internationally relevant practically since its…
And large-scale automated farming is less productive per acre than small-scale labor-intensive farming.
Looks like it's mostly Bing. First five results for 'big chungus': Google: - dictionary.com - knowyourmeme - artsatmichigan.umich.edu - urbandictionary - thetab Bing: - knowyourmeme - silvergames - wikipedia -…
> I agree that Twitter using this to get people to give them PII those don't want Twitter to have, especially when Twitter aren't a good custodian of that PII is terrible, but it's not as though Twitter's other option…
The same thing happened to me. But I was somehow able to create a new account on Microsoft Edge. It hasn't been disabled, but I don't plan to use it. If they want to kill their own business, I say let them.
Fraktur ß is a ligature of s and z; the current form came into use in Latin-script German because the Latin script already had ß, for the ligature of s and s. Some sort of orthographic device is needed - s between two…
Chlorination cycles are part of the regulation. You're supposed to leave pitchers of water out overnight to evaporate the chlorine. But some fast food places hook their water supply straight to the tap.
Drinking fountains aren't all there is to drinking water infrastructure. If your tap water has never come out yellow, reeking of chlorine, tasting like dirt, etc., consider yourself lucky. But drinking fountains add…
The last time I had to go through Union Station in DC, I tried to get water and it tasted like it had come from a pool. An unusually chlorinated pool. I almost threw up. I also don't have reliably potable tap water…
On HN, everyone sees the same things - the same front page, the same comments, and so on. On sites like Twitter and Facebook, this is not the case. What's good for a site like HN isn't necessarily what's good for a site…
Lessening regulatory pressure benefits everyone who doesn't want those regulators stepping in on behalf of politicians and causes they support.
What's the problem with existing ones? And why do social networks draw so much attention relative to other social platform patterns, like forums? I've been thinking for a while that there should be something like a…
Thanks for the information! Qt is fine. I might switch back to Linux in the future, and want to be able to carry over anything I write if I do. I have a working prototype in Python using PySide already (which handles…
Maybe a stupid question: if I want to write cross-platform desktop GUI apps and be able to take full advantage of the desktop GUI (menus, status icons in the system tray, etc.), and I'm mostly developing on Windows,…
The BBC describes Zhukov as a "libertarian activist": https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-50684676
> As a Hebrew speaker, I wish the "shibboleth" idiom (which is a good one) was translated, rather than transliterated. laoned idioms are inherently exotic, and this one is worth demystifying Until a few decades ago, it…
> I get that everybody is tired of it, I am too, but it feels like we wasted two years of everybody's life just the take the bullet anyway. One year, not two. There was never any hope of containing COVID. It was endemic…
The year is 2027. Power grids still go dark for ransom, but at least the internet has been turned back into TV. If you know how to use Linux, you might be able to pick up a fourth podcast!
Is it a symptom of that, or is it a symptom of the fact that it's much easier for the sorts of people who'd go to protests and do things that get them arrested anyway to call themselves journalists?
If you don't rule out hobbyists, freelancers, and the self-employed, I can declare myself a journalist, start a blog or a Twitter, and start throwing Molotov cocktails, and if I get arrested for it, that's another…
> If you wouldn't be granted press credentials for something, you're probably not a journalist. But if you would, you might still not be. I once got press credentials (and a steep press discount to an event) because I…
It's also how you get a list at all. I don't like EA's "Jeremy Bentham solved philosophy forever" worldview, but at least it gets them thinking big, you know? Is anyone else making these lists?
Brave was a good browser. Now it's... what, a Chromium extension? I liked pre-rewrite Brave much more than post-rewrite. The tab contexts (or whatever they were called, it's been so long that I've forgotten) were great…
SAT IIs are pretty obscure, and I don't think there's any benefit to taking them over AP tests, since APs can sometimes be translated into college credits and have much more support in public schools. One of the points…
Do none of these designers travel? If you go to Amsterdam, you notice motifs from the flag of Amsterdam everywhere. They're everywhere because they're the sort of thing you can put everywhere. If you go to Bremen, you…
> Because the fact that China has not engaged in non-local applications of violence Yet. The PRC has been internationally relevant for a few decades. The US has been internationally relevant practically since its…
And large-scale automated farming is less productive per acre than small-scale labor-intensive farming.
Looks like it's mostly Bing. First five results for 'big chungus': Google: - dictionary.com - knowyourmeme - artsatmichigan.umich.edu - urbandictionary - thetab Bing: - knowyourmeme - silvergames - wikipedia -…
> I agree that Twitter using this to get people to give them PII those don't want Twitter to have, especially when Twitter aren't a good custodian of that PII is terrible, but it's not as though Twitter's other option…
The same thing happened to me. But I was somehow able to create a new account on Microsoft Edge. It hasn't been disabled, but I don't plan to use it. If they want to kill their own business, I say let them.
Fraktur ß is a ligature of s and z; the current form came into use in Latin-script German because the Latin script already had ß, for the ligature of s and s. Some sort of orthographic device is needed - s between two…
Chlorination cycles are part of the regulation. You're supposed to leave pitchers of water out overnight to evaporate the chlorine. But some fast food places hook their water supply straight to the tap.
Drinking fountains aren't all there is to drinking water infrastructure. If your tap water has never come out yellow, reeking of chlorine, tasting like dirt, etc., consider yourself lucky. But drinking fountains add…
The last time I had to go through Union Station in DC, I tried to get water and it tasted like it had come from a pool. An unusually chlorinated pool. I almost threw up. I also don't have reliably potable tap water…
On HN, everyone sees the same things - the same front page, the same comments, and so on. On sites like Twitter and Facebook, this is not the case. What's good for a site like HN isn't necessarily what's good for a site…
Lessening regulatory pressure benefits everyone who doesn't want those regulators stepping in on behalf of politicians and causes they support.
What's the problem with existing ones? And why do social networks draw so much attention relative to other social platform patterns, like forums? I've been thinking for a while that there should be something like a…
Thanks for the information! Qt is fine. I might switch back to Linux in the future, and want to be able to carry over anything I write if I do. I have a working prototype in Python using PySide already (which handles…
Maybe a stupid question: if I want to write cross-platform desktop GUI apps and be able to take full advantage of the desktop GUI (menus, status icons in the system tray, etc.), and I'm mostly developing on Windows,…
The BBC describes Zhukov as a "libertarian activist": https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-50684676
> As a Hebrew speaker, I wish the "shibboleth" idiom (which is a good one) was translated, rather than transliterated. laoned idioms are inherently exotic, and this one is worth demystifying Until a few decades ago, it…