Timja

That would take years.

I use Debian Stable.

I think Plasma has something like "Decorations" - can a custom decoration be used? Can one use scripts in the "Decorations"?

This is something I have been missing in KDE for a long time!

How does one use it?

Is it a script I can put somewhere on my laptop and then the borders will have outlines?

Does not work for me because it somehow prevents reader mode in Firefox.

The interface could be just like Twitter or Hacker News.

In fact, users could use any service they like.

It would not matter what client you use to reply to me. Your reply would appear on Hacker News, because HN would follow the protocol and accept properly signed comments relayed to it.

A replacement could be just a protocol.

If you signed your message with "This is a reply to msg 33398198 by Timja. Signed: twblalock", then nobody could take this converstion away from us again. I could copy it and put it on any server. Owned by myself or run by some service provider. And it would always be clear to everybody that this conversation really took place between the two of us.

Twitter is the only platform I know where you can search for people who share your interests and then connect with them. The whole #buildinpublic community is just insanely great. Everybody is building something. Everybody is having similar issues to talk about. You can make so many great connections and help each other out.

But I feel that with Twitter becoming a private company owned by a single controversial person, Twitter lost a lot of its appeal.

It could be very unfortunate (if Twitter just goes down the drain without a replacement) or it could be the start of something new, if a new way to interact comes up.

If the community moves to another form of communication, I hope it will be something decentralized that can not be taken away from us again.

That is the reason why I am not enthusiastic about Mastodon. Mastodon is not decentralized. Unless you run your own instance, you do not own your social graph.

What surprises me is that Amazon's market cap is back to a pre-covid level.

The market things the whole Covid thing after all did not boost the value of Amazon?

And neither does all the newly printed money? During Covid, the monetary base doubled:

https://www.federalreserve.gov/monetarypolicy/bst_recenttren...

Interesting that https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33360234 is considered to put other people's work down.

I asked about some terms and if they are common among the HN crowd. Ako replied that people who are doing enterprise software integrations know them. Then I ask if the HN crowd is nowadays people who are doing enterprise software integrations. (Because that is not what I would associate with hackers / startup founders. So maybe what initially was a community of hackers + startup founders is now a community of grown ups with enterprise jobs.)

Whose work have I put down by asking this?

Thanks for the explanations!

I get kind of a "no code" vibe from it?

When I want to read data from an API, transform it and put it into a DB, my approach would be to write a few lines of Python. A script that does an http request to the API, transforms it and then writes the data to SQLite.

That seems much easier and more future proof to me than to bring in a 3rd party service.

Javascript being 41x faster than Python seems a bit excessive.

In my experience, having done quite a lot of dynamic language benchmarks, Javascript is about as fast as PHP and both are about 6x faster than Python.

Has someone looked at the Python code used here, if it has any obvious gotchas?

Depends on how the broken program writes to the log.

If it does

    while true; do echo hello >> bad.log; done

Then renaming bad.log will not solve the challenge.

The idea is really cool, but all I see is "Waiting for server..." and nothing happens.

The idea that Bitcoin "needs" a lot of energy is also a misconception.

How much resources are used to produce something is determined by the value of that something. At the moment, about $6B worth of Bitcoin is mined per year. So roughly $6B of resources are used to mine Bitcoin. About half of it is hardware and half of it is energy.

At the same time, about $150B of gold is mined every year. So roughly $150B of resources are put into gold mining. Energy, dynamite, melting, transportation etc. The use of these resources is just as "bad" for the climate.

So if you wanted to do something for the climate, going against gold mining would be more than 20x more effective than going against Bitcoin mining.

Additionally, the production of Bitcoin is halving every 4 years. While the production of Gold will go on indefinitely.

It is surprising that in 2022 this is still a popular misconception, even on a site like Hacker News.

The amount of transactions the Bitcoin blockchain handles does not impact how many transactions can be done in Bitcoin via higher layers like the Lightning Network.

I think the reason is that secure and trustless payment methods are a new thing that only came up a few years ago, and nothing like it existed before in the history of mankind.

There have been higher layers like banknotes that "represented" gold, but it always involved trust to use them.

With cryptographic solutions like Bitcoin+Lightning, no trust is needed anymore.

Plus sandboxing.

By running software in a container, I know my machine is pretty nicely shielded from malice, incompetence and carelessness on the side of the developer.

Starting a title with a "<" sign seems pretty confusing to me.

And dropping the "after recovery" goes astray from the central point of the article. That we are mistaken when we think that people have recovered.

Your dropped the "after recovery". Which I think is the central point of the article. That even when we consider people to have recovered, the majority still has symptoms.

Looks like I can still edit the title. Care to make a suggestion how to phrase it?

Yes, I tried to put "hospital patients" into the title, but it was too long.

Interestingly, there was another article about Long Covid posted just before I posted this one. And that one has some theories on what the causes are:

https://www.cleveland.com/news/2022/10/in-cleveland-and-beyo...

It seems like the primary theory is that the virus is still in the body even when tests are negative.

And that the virus causes all kinds of immune responses which cause the symptoms.

How much freedom does the player have in this type of game?

From watching these videos it seems like the player does not influence the story at all?

What if you jump into the river for example? Would you be able to swim around in it? Would bystanders be worried about you, call the police, the police would come and get you out of the water etc?

Or would a magic hand keep you from jumping into the water and you have to stay very closely on track to the scripted story?

Aha. It seems to be like a midi file that includes the instruments it uses as samples.

Very confusing.

My first question: What is a "module"?

Is it something like a midi file?

Easier said than done. See my other replies in this thread.

Are you sure? Have you tried?

When I try, I don't get the nice behavior of tables, but a stiff layout that does not adapt to its content. Instead the content overflows the rows:

https://jsfiddle.net/3hfosn5k/

The nice thing about tables is that I know the table cells will always surround their content. Nothing will flow out of the cells.

When I try that, the rows do not expand if the content is larger than 33% of the screen height:

https://jsfiddle.net/3hfosn5k/

Scroll down and you will see that the blue color of the bottom row ends and the text overflows it.

But I want what table cells do: Expand if their content is too large to fi.

I think I don't need the 2022 version, but the 2021 version. Or even the 2012 version, lol!

I still prefer to use tables to layout my websites.

Question: Say I want a layout that has a top row, a middle row and a bottom row. Each row gets 33% of the screen space. Unless the content does not fit. Then the row should expand to the content.

Here is the table version:

https://jsfiddle.net/vg2ey8r9/

How do you do that without a table?

The problem with AirBnB is the rating system.

I have booked many dozens of apartments on AirBnB and my approach these days is:

1: Never book an apartment with less than 50 ratings

2: Never book an apartment with an average rating of less than 4.8 stars

The problem is that AirBnB has set up their system so that even complete garbage apartments have average ratings of over 4.5 stars.

Because of that, people still book those for normal prices.

If AirBnB would normalize the ratings (median rating = 2.5 stars), there would be an upward pressure on the hosts to improve the quality of their services.

But the way it is, there are only few good apartments on AirBnB.

Over the last years, I have only been to two apartments via AirBnB which I would consider "good". And both had over 50 ratings and the average rating was 5 stars.

This touches on the topic of who writes it. Yes, it is nicer to have it written by a big player like Brave than by some guy from the internet.

But why did Brave have to put it into their browser and did not publish it as a plugin?

Why does this need to be part of the browser itself and not a plugin?