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I'd argue that for informal uses like HN, this is very much okay! It's grammatically correct and gets the point across. And most importantly, these paragraphs read more like someone's personal voice than some pithy but edited-to-death couple of sentences.

See: 'accountability sinks'[1]

[https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41891694]

It's just about installing `gnome-keyring` if you're running VS Code on KDE, right?

We do! It recognises the 'Do Not Track' sent, at least on FF for me. I get a very small popup telling me it's respecting this setting, and no request for accepting anything else:

> "Do not Track"-Modus erkannt! Es werden nur technisch notwendige Cookies verwended. [Datenschutzerkl"arung](...)

Lovely. If only the rest of the web looked like this.

Hi, do you happen to have to have some resources for someone interested in using red light therapy? Or even just a simple buying tip to get started. As someone with quite high myopia and a little bit of astigmatism thrown in, I'm at higher risk of myopic macular degeneration, so red light therapy might be extra useful!

Hills, sure, not too many of them. But there are sooo many bridges that require shifting. And the flat landscape can also give you terrible headwinds where again, shifting is very handy. So I don't think that /that/ is the reason for the lack of manual shifting.

On some keyboard layouts, pressing the quote mark starts a modifyer and then depending on the layout the following character is combined with the quote mark. Most English layouts don't include ś in this, but some Eastern European (?) languages use that character more often and so include them in this modifyer shortcut.

This is an older article. Today, the coalition decided on a measure with 'urgent advice' to not be allowed smartphones, tablets and smartwatches in the classroom [1]. Starting Jan 1st 2024, and so far only for secondary education, though they're deciding on primary education today.Schools are free in how they implement it, could be in the entire building or just classrooms. I don't expect any hard rules any time soon, with the coalition being so divided on the topic.

There's been interesting debates in parlement preceding this measure, with several interesting position papers on the topic from researchers, and even student associations [2]. The researchers emphasize that adolescents are much more susceptible to the bad effects of smartphones, due to inexperience with dopamine and its effects on dopamine production, being easier to condition, FOMO. The main adverse effect they name is what they call a 'crumbling brain', with a short attention span unable to focus on one thing for a longer time. An often-repeated soundbyte is that students using smartphones often score in average 1-1.5 points less on tests, on a scale of 1 to 10.

I dunno what to think about it. As noted by the student association, it seems like children won't get the chance to learn how to handle the traps smartphones pose. Then again, I was free to use mine in high school and I'm still addicted to the thing :/

[1] https://nos.nl/artikel/2481424-kabinet-geeft-dringend-advies...

[2] https://www.tweedekamer.nl/debat_en_vergadering/commissiever...

That's like saying you shouldn't worry about reducing your personal wasting of food because it doesn't solve world hunger—like when choosing not to fly often there's a small impact that is very much noticeable on a larger scale if more people did it.

Even if the industries, the western world, developing countries forced to use coal plants for cheap energy (and you can choose many more actors that play a larger part in causing the climate crisis) contribute to the problem more than you as an individual, at least you're not actively making the world a worse place.

Oh man, I know that feeling of dread as you're waiting for the next shout or clank. It took some time to try out various earplugs, which at first made me sleep even worse, but once I was used to wearing them while sleeping (after 2 weeks) the difference was night and day.

The pins usually don't fit exactly (because they still need to be able to move up and down), meaning that you can turn the lock slightly even without the pins at the right positions.

If a pin is pushed up completely, and you turn the lock slightly, the pin can get stuck in the right position. This is done with a torsion wrench, keeping torsion on the lock while trying to get the pins in the right position with picks, hooks, or rakes.

What's wrong with criticizing things one doesn't believe in?

Especially if, as the parent noted, that thing one doesn't belief in has—through the actions of people that do believe—negative impacts on one's life?

> You better not know what else scientists do to rats.

Most people know what scientists do to animals—there have been enough awareness campaigns over the years. Animal experiments are tolerated, and usually strictly regulated [1], because they can potentially improve the lives of people.

> Entertainment in the form of science fiction is crucial for inspiring new generations of scientists.

I don't see why that (if it is true at all) is a reason to abuse animals for movies. If you wanted, you could make 'inspiring' science fiction showing harm to animals by using special effects.

[1]: https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX%3A...

I think that is what they mean—the 'acquisition' in Open Source land is just the successful integration of one open platform into the other!

I can't wait until it gets warmer, immersion cold brew is sooo good :)

It is rather sweet with arabica, is that less so with robusta? How would you compare the taste?

Well, I'd say that two locks are nice to have, if not entirely necessary. You can quickly use just the ring lock if you're hopping in and out of a store, and get out the larger one to lock your frame when you're storing your bike for a longer period.

Yeah, most bikes in NL are not that expensive and/or old, have only integrated ring locks and are still not be attractive to opportunistic thieves.

Still, I'm glad that most places have proper Sheffield stands at most one block away here.

> every web site had somebody involved who officially or not served as a "voice of the user"

Not really, no. Before GDPR lots of websites also had popups for example asking you to subscribe.

The cookie law introduced lots of annoying popups that were of no use, I agree with that. GDPR at least made it so that you can be sure you have the option to disagree to tracking that way.

Personally, I don't know anyone that would blame developers for 'not having empathy for users' or something similar. The consensus seems to be that the fault lies with the people in charge of a) the website making use of monetization through user tracking and b) the services that allow websites to monetize user tracking.

Not parent but here's some, downloadable from the built-in plugin store:

- Advanced Tables: for automatic formatting and table operations of markdown tables

- Dynamic Table of Contents: allows you to include a codeblock that automatically renders a table of contents from headers of some level

- Natural language dates: insert dates in your preferred format using language like 'next Friday' or 'first Monday of June'

- Quick latex for Obsidian: autoformat and autocomplete common latex commands (e.g. 'a/b' becomes '\frac{b}{a}'

- Tag Wrangler: rename, merge, toggle and search tags easily

- Sliding Panes: changes notes to panes that can be stacked similar to the ui of Andy Matushchak's notes [0] (check it out, it's rather neat)

[0] https://notes.andymatuschak.org

I believe the point is more that there is a growing sentiment that colleges are a waste of money, and that—purely for learning a trade—you're better off doing a bootcamp or self teaching.

That might be true, but apart from education, colleges offer lots of opportunities to make friends without explicitly trying to do that. You can make friends being self-taught, but you'll have to be proactive in going to social events because you won't be surrounded by like-minded people by default.

I also followed a course that was based on the Silberschatz/Gagne/Galvin book, and when searching for background I found many courses based on the same - they were structured extremely similar.

Honestly, I don't see the point of all these instructors making their own summaries of the same book. I think that all these summaries condense the material to the point they're barely more than PowerPoint lists.

Can someone that learns better using this format explain why?