Camillo

For comparison: https://www.google.com/search?q=%22tank+man%22&tbm=isch

The blue leds actually add a further layer of symbolism, invoking impermanence and the flight of fashions. When they became widely available (early 2000s?), for a short time blue leds were a distinction for premium devices, but soon they started showing up on anything electronic. Then people realized that they were extremely annoying to have in your room, since they shine like searchlights at night, and their use as indicator lights declined.

This clock was unveiled in 2008, which I think was already at the tail end of the blue led's popularity. The clock is meant to last at least 200 years, but that design choice pins it down mercilessly to a fad that was dated in a few short years.

The problem seems to be that all browser development teams consist entirely of users of the second group.

Tabs were 95% solved years ago by the visionary genius Piro with his "Tree Style Tab" extension: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/tree-style-ta...

> So you’ve heard about how fish aren’t a monophyletic group?

> When we say a bird is a dinosaur

Lol no, you're not getting away with that. As long as you bastards are going to keep harassing the populace with the "fun fact" that birds are dinosaurs, then fish are monophyletic, dinosaurs are fish, birds are fish, and so are whales. Eat what you ordered.

Yes, there should be easier ways for learners to experiment with AWS without risk. In general, people should be made aware of how much something could cost them before they can agree with it. We have regulations towards this end when it comes to investments. Huge unexpected bills used to be a big problem with phone companies, and it took a lot of effort to move past it. I hope the cloud industry can make progress in this direction.

What I'm going to say next should not be taken to detract from that in any way.

(And I know you don't want to hear it, and I could just save everyone some trouble and not say it. But I'm going to say it.)

When I read this:

> please help I made a ticket and called support but i really need to make sure this is dead please Im 20 i really dont have $200 for them please help

I honestly did a double take when I got to the "20". If you'd put a blank in there and asked me to fill it, I would have said "13". I'm still not 100% sure that the blogger didn't alter the age to obfuscate personal details.

I don't mean to single out this person as especially immature, quite the opposite: the interesting thing is that they assume that a 20 year old is obviously a smol bean who could not possibly be expected to figure out AWS billing or come up with $200, _and we agree_. The notion didn't stand out as surprising to the blogger, or to any of the other commenters on HN so far.

I'm not saying they're wrong! I just find this a remarkable signal of how far we, as a culture, have gone in extending childhood well into college age.

FWIW, a recent clinical trial appeared to show that nitrous oxide is an effective treatment for Covid-19: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20210315005197/en/UK-...

Would be pretty cool if we had a pill that was, say, 20% more effective and 300 times more expensive.

Is it better to buy a home for investment than it is to buy stocks?

I'll never understand how the American system of government is meant to work. You've got a legislature that typically fails to legislate, an executive that sometimes does the legislature's job, and a judiciary that can randomly step in and write both laws and decrees as long as someone brings the case before them.

I hasten to note that many of everyone's favorite decisions came out of this process, so it seems to work. But from a civil law background, it just looks bizarre. Why would anyone design a system like this?

If you're buying a hub now, you don't want any of these things, you want Thunderbolt 4. I'd really like to see an equivalent article for it.

You might as well give up now. They can't even let you match across ONE color! https://9to5mac.com/2018/04/16/space-gray-odyssey/

> The airline web site could then present things Google can't do. Like "hey, we see you haven't checked in yet" or "TSA wait times are longer than usual" or "We have a more-legroom seat upgrade if you want it".

If I'm a passenger, there's plenty of ways for airlines to notify me. If I'm searching for a flight status online, it's because I'm picking someone up. If I want more information, I'll click through. I don't see how either me or the airline are hurt.

> You see this recently with Wikipedia. Google's widgets have been reducing traffic to Wikipedia pretty dramatically. Enough so that Wikipedia is now pushing back with a product that the Googles of the world will have to pay for.

Why is that even a problem for Wikipedia?

> Why not have user curated and shareable blocklists?

Because often the goal is to control what _others_ can see.

In some countries, the rule is that if you make a public offer (e.g. advertise a price for a product or service), then you must accept all customers. I have no idea how common each system is, though.

I'm curious: if Apple decides not to fix this bug, does Ms. True have any recourse? It seems that in America businesses have the right to refuse service at their pleasure, except for specific forms of discrimination which are explicitly banned. Could Apple, legally, decide that fixing the bug would cost more than they expect to make from her as a customers, and simply reject her business?

That's why leaf blowers should not be banned, but _outlawed_. An outlaw, in the traditional sense, is a criminal who is placed outside of the protection of the law, so that he can be killed with impunity. Similarly, anyone who sees a leaf blower in operation should be legally allowed to destroy it (without hurting the operator, of course).

What is your conflict?

Many of the problems with C descend from a common root, the decision to use bare pointers (memory addresses) as the basic way to refer to strings, arrays etc.

If they had used a {pointer, size} pair instead, it would have avoided all of these string problems, most buffer overflows, even the GTA Online loading problem that was on HN recently.

But many of the PhDs minted at first-tier colleges have no career prospects but to teach at second-tier ones, and so forth. You need lots of students down the chain to keep them employed; it's basically a Ponzi scheme.

So you've got problems on two sides: lots of people getting into debt for no reason on one end, and lots of disaffected pseudo-elites on the other. A recipe for destabilization.

> If the market solves all problems why would the government even need to mandate winterization?

But Texas has a government and it _hadn't_ mandated winterization. So it doesn't seem to have done better than the market in practice.

> Somehow, these blueberry-sized beads made their way from what is now Venice, Italy, to the Brooks Range mountains of Alaska at some point during the mid-to-late 15th century, according to new research published in American Antiquity.

They somehow managed to put the "what is now" hedge in the worst possible place in that sentence.

> However, since Apple now proxies Google Safe Browsing traffic, it further safeguards users’ privacy while browsing using Safari.

It still shares the same amount of information, it's just being shared with Apple instead of Google. If it was a privacy problem before, it remains so.

> Do it if $5 is pocket money for you. If not for this then for something else he have done.

But what if in a few years Greenwald falls (further) from grace and you find yourself in hot water for having financed him? Better use a prepaid card.

Bindings for Apple's APIs for other languages come out every once in a while. For example, PyObjC for Python, RubyCocoa and MacRuby, Apple's own old Java bindings, etc.

Usually these garner early interest, but no significant programs come out using them, and they tend to be abandoned within a few years. I don't mean to discourage the author, but I wonder if he's aware of the history and if he has thoughts on why Go may fare better.

That lowercase "m" is criminal.

> From what I've gathered (unfortunately mostly on Reddit, before this article), Ursula von der Leyen wasn't exactly fondly thought of in Germany before this and somehow keeps managing to fail upwards. Is that accurate?

That's how EU politics work. It's a storage area for unpopular politicians that did not do well at the national level, and a recycling center for unpopular legislation that was not approved in national legislatures. An example of the latter, also from Germany, is the copyright directive, which recycles proposals that German publishers could not get passed in their Bundestag.

I've clicked the first five google search results for "DSSSL" and not one of them dares to show an actual example of DSSSL code. I think that says enough.

Clickbait title.

There's no way to say that conclusively. Influenza also spreads via aerosols, and the size of the virion is in the same range as that of the coronavirus. It's unclear why the same physical measures, applied with the same degree of compliance, should fail to stop one but nearly completely stop the other.