Ah, yes, skills like reading and maths...
Sorry for your non-existant attention span. (Not actually sorry)
Feels like you wrote this without reading my comment to the end, where I do point out with Americans it's not much different.
A lot of Chinese do have a policy of "as long as we're comfortable (economically, etc), we'll let the government do whatever they want.", some justifying it by saying "society needs their government to be a strict…
Samples, or sampling of each typewriter's idiosyncracies? This post https://foxfire.blog/explorations/the-typewriter-that-became... claims "specific machine": > The forensic science behind this was genuinely elegant. No…
Also not an expert, I wonder if there's some rule where a "Go around!" order has precedence over any other activity anyone in the cockpit wishes to perform.
I remember reading that Clinton's team was very concerned about Al Qaeda, but the Bush team ignored their warnings. It might have been very different with Al Gore in command. But this article portrays it differently:…
"They wanted us to hide female staff" would get French society to support them again..
And there's respecting of guests' religion. What if the Hindus had said "we are vegans, please don't serve us meat" - probably reasonable enough, although I seem to recall some rightwingers getting angry about some…
Regarding 3) This is France, where in some areas swimwear on beaches is regulated. No "burkini", even non-tight-fitting swimshorts were disallowed. So to shake your head and think "Woke Europe" would be too simplistic.
As a thought experiment, perhaps someone there thought not fulfilling the Indian group's request would be seen as insensitive. I suppose the decisionmaker needs to know what societal values one has to uphold, and in…
Probably not HN-relevant... But I find it flabbergasting that in 2026 someone in the management thought it'd be okay to tell female staff to hide, just because some delegation demanded it. But for the tech-relevancy…
I've read that if you give FB/IG/WA access to all files/photos, and you have GPS metadata for photos (I do, hey it's useful to know where I took a pic), it can trawl that data to see where you've been and when... So now…
My suspicion is that things like URL previews, or when the app calls a handler to open a link (YouTube, browser), are still monitored. So e.g. opening a link to an Amazon product that a friend sent makes you a target…
If Russia financed a German who's fed up with his government, is it Russian sabotage? Seems there's plenty of those around, on the left and on the right.. (there was a left-anarchist sabotage of power distribution in…
Faith that the blog poster chose carefully to convey meaning, including with images. A huge image, 95% of it white, just for "I want to show you the address bar" is incoherent communication. Technical issues like "It's…
As far as I can tell it's not AI slop, but I wish this author had asked one LLM if his example is A/B testing, because the AI would've told him no, and we wouldn't have to have read this garbage.
Somehow it feels like social media spread ever more FOMO for this year's eclipse, there were long queues for eclipse glasses at local opticians, although where I lived we only had 90% totality (people think each person…
The fact that the first screenshot is a totally empty browser window (just to show the address bar) made me lose faith about reading the rest of your writing...
Well, that reads like the justification you want to give to yourself after the fact.. the interesting question is what's the real reason...
"Both sides are just as bad" is copium for when the guy from "your side" is revealed to be a corrupt piece of shit. You don't like it, so you justify to yourself that the other party is also full of creeps and assholes…
So, are any of the sane-ish governments of the world preparing for the upcoming disaster? Maybe prepare for international deployment of help? I guess the Chinese government would do it quietly. Maybe Australia, Japan…
A universal tool (well, since I use Windows, a Windows tool) to modify the clipboard would be cool. So, copy text to clipboard, press a hotkey to popup the menu, and it'll offer options depending on the detected text.…
I want to laugh at an "IT professional" not doing backups, but hmm, the article turned to a mirror...
Hah, what a timeline, that the makers of entertainment like The Godfather series, Forrest Gump, Ferries Bueller's Day Off, Star Trek, Transformers (1) is now part of a genocide-supporting mahinery. But this is barely…
Ah, yes, skills like reading and maths...
Sorry for your non-existant attention span. (Not actually sorry)
Feels like you wrote this without reading my comment to the end, where I do point out with Americans it's not much different.
A lot of Chinese do have a policy of "as long as we're comfortable (economically, etc), we'll let the government do whatever they want.", some justifying it by saying "society needs their government to be a strict…
Samples, or sampling of each typewriter's idiosyncracies? This post https://foxfire.blog/explorations/the-typewriter-that-became... claims "specific machine": > The forensic science behind this was genuinely elegant. No…
Also not an expert, I wonder if there's some rule where a "Go around!" order has precedence over any other activity anyone in the cockpit wishes to perform.
I remember reading that Clinton's team was very concerned about Al Qaeda, but the Bush team ignored their warnings. It might have been very different with Al Gore in command. But this article portrays it differently:…
"They wanted us to hide female staff" would get French society to support them again..
And there's respecting of guests' religion. What if the Hindus had said "we are vegans, please don't serve us meat" - probably reasonable enough, although I seem to recall some rightwingers getting angry about some…
Regarding 3) This is France, where in some areas swimwear on beaches is regulated. No "burkini", even non-tight-fitting swimshorts were disallowed. So to shake your head and think "Woke Europe" would be too simplistic.
As a thought experiment, perhaps someone there thought not fulfilling the Indian group's request would be seen as insensitive. I suppose the decisionmaker needs to know what societal values one has to uphold, and in…
Probably not HN-relevant... But I find it flabbergasting that in 2026 someone in the management thought it'd be okay to tell female staff to hide, just because some delegation demanded it. But for the tech-relevancy…
I've read that if you give FB/IG/WA access to all files/photos, and you have GPS metadata for photos (I do, hey it's useful to know where I took a pic), it can trawl that data to see where you've been and when... So now…
My suspicion is that things like URL previews, or when the app calls a handler to open a link (YouTube, browser), are still monitored. So e.g. opening a link to an Amazon product that a friend sent makes you a target…
If Russia financed a German who's fed up with his government, is it Russian sabotage? Seems there's plenty of those around, on the left and on the right.. (there was a left-anarchist sabotage of power distribution in…
Faith that the blog poster chose carefully to convey meaning, including with images. A huge image, 95% of it white, just for "I want to show you the address bar" is incoherent communication. Technical issues like "It's…
As far as I can tell it's not AI slop, but I wish this author had asked one LLM if his example is A/B testing, because the AI would've told him no, and we wouldn't have to have read this garbage.
Somehow it feels like social media spread ever more FOMO for this year's eclipse, there were long queues for eclipse glasses at local opticians, although where I lived we only had 90% totality (people think each person…
The fact that the first screenshot is a totally empty browser window (just to show the address bar) made me lose faith about reading the rest of your writing...
Well, that reads like the justification you want to give to yourself after the fact.. the interesting question is what's the real reason...
"Both sides are just as bad" is copium for when the guy from "your side" is revealed to be a corrupt piece of shit. You don't like it, so you justify to yourself that the other party is also full of creeps and assholes…
So, are any of the sane-ish governments of the world preparing for the upcoming disaster? Maybe prepare for international deployment of help? I guess the Chinese government would do it quietly. Maybe Australia, Japan…
A universal tool (well, since I use Windows, a Windows tool) to modify the clipboard would be cool. So, copy text to clipboard, press a hotkey to popup the menu, and it'll offer options depending on the detected text.…
I want to laugh at an "IT professional" not doing backups, but hmm, the article turned to a mirror...
Hah, what a timeline, that the makers of entertainment like The Godfather series, Forrest Gump, Ferries Bueller's Day Off, Star Trek, Transformers (1) is now part of a genocide-supporting mahinery. But this is barely…