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ZYbCRq22HbJ2y7on Ask HN: Does It Still Make Sense to Buy a New Car?

I wouldn't buy a used dildo.

Seriously though, there are strata, like with any product. You are asking a question without enough information.

You seem like a bot harvesting information or someone surveying the space in the wrong forum.

ZYbCRq22HbJ2y7on Disrupting the first reported AI-orchestrated cyber espionage campaign

to start a fight or violent activity, or to cause a fire or explosion [1]

1. https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/touch-of...

ZYbCRq22HbJ2y7on Disrupting the first reported AI-orchestrated cyber espionage campaign

I'd touch off my nuke to make the world a better place, and I bet you would too, right?

ZYbCRq22HbJ2y7on I took all my projects off the cloud, saving thousands of dollars

I run a tiny local dedicated server 24/7 that consumes around 10W on average, which is about $2/mo in electricity costs where I live.

ZYbCRq22HbJ2y7on US gives local police a face-scanning app similar to one used by ICE agents

I guess it depends what you consider a crime to be. Like suppression of human rights, corporal and capital punishment, and so on.

ZYbCRq22HbJ2y7on NASA chief suggests SpaceX may be booted from moon mission

> I can imagine

That probably does require some imagination. Starting with any incentive to do so.

ZYbCRq22HbJ2y7on Intercellular communication in the brain through a dendritic nanotubular network

that seems kind of pointless to speculate about? unless you were into reading this sort of thing a long time ago and it is interesting to you? aren't there more convincing modern models of consciousness that don't rely on spookiness?

ZYbCRq22HbJ2y7on Just let me select text

Yeah, in HN's case:

    <input value="reply" type="submit">

ZYbCRq22HbJ2y7on Just let me select text

Yeah, I just tried to select text in the button element and translate it specifically or copy it, and it doesn't work. You can highlight it, but you aren't selecting the text.

This is what is copied from the login page, you can see that the button text is missing:

username: password:

Forgot your password?

Create Account

username: password:

ZYbCRq22HbJ2y7on Just let me select text

I just tried this with every major OS and browser. I don't think it is possible.

You can highlight the buttons (most times) in Safari on MacOS, but you can't select the text and copy it or translate it.

ZYbCRq22HbJ2y7on Just let me select text

Yeah, I removed the "glyphs" thing from my comment, because I realized they were SVG backgrounds, not actually text, but that is a common place to use user-select: none, on elements with font faces that are symbols.

I am curious what operating system you can select text from the buttons on though. I might spin up browserstack to experiment.

ZYbCRq22HbJ2y7on Just let me select text

Inside the button? Not the link? What OS/Browser?

ZYbCRq22HbJ2y7on Just let me select text

Hacker news isn't "fully selectable". Just try to highlight the text in the reply/update/submit buttons.

ZYbCRq22HbJ2y7on Just let me select text

> But UX talks about how everyone interacts

It doesn't. It should, in an ideal world, but it definitely isn't the goal of people who design human-computer interfaces to allow everyone who interacts with a computer to be happy with the way it functions.

ZYbCRq22HbJ2y7on Just let me select text

I think a way to resolve things like this is to have media features.

For example:

  @media(prefers-user-select: all){ * {user-select: all;} }

But that wouldn't guarantee you could select text on an interactive element, plenty of other things could prevent it.

If it was an established known issue, then maybe people would do something like:

   :not(:lang('base-lang')) { * {user-select: all;}  }

It looks like there are plenty of extensions for this:

- https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/user-select-all/aoh...

- https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/enable-user-select/...

- https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/select-like-a...

- https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/user-select/

ZYbCRq22HbJ2y7on Just let me select text

That is a i18n issue with the website itself? Or are you saying you know a good portion of a language, but you aren't fluent, so you read it in whatever the default language is, by default, without translating the page or using it in your native language?

ZYbCRq22HbJ2y7on Just let me select text

While, IMO, it shouldn't be on the general outline of a document, user-select has good usability improvements when used correctly. It allows for pure CSS implementations of focus driven animations and many, many other things.

ZYbCRq22HbJ2y7on Baldur's Gate 3 Steam Deck – Native Version

IMO, there are better ergonomics on competitors. Over a thousand + of hours using one, a steam deck is death for your wrists in comparison. When I was playing Elden Ring on the SD for a few hundred hours, I almost thought I needed to have surgery. There are strategies to help with this, rest it on a pillow on your lap, or whatever, but you won't experience that with some of these.

- https://www.lenovo.com/us/en/p/handheld/legion-go/len106g000...

- https://rog.asus.com/gaming-handhelds-group/

Honestly, I think a gaming laptop and a controller makes more sense for most things, if you don't need that little bit of increased portability.

ZYbCRq22HbJ2y7on Baldur's Gate 3 Steam Deck – Native Version

> Tbh the vast majority of players never made it to act 3

You seem to comment with generalizations a lot.

Here is some data:

https://steamcommunity.com/stats/1086940/achievements

"The City Awaits (40.3%)"

So 59.7% of all players didn't make it to Act 3 on Steam, a bit under a "vast majority".

ZYbCRq22HbJ2y7on Baldur's Gate 3 Steam Deck – Native Version

Yeah, I have played through the game like three or four times on a steam deck.

There are some hiccups at times, but it is acceptable, IMO.

ZYbCRq22HbJ2y7on Baldur's Gate 3 Steam Deck – Native Version

It runs fine on a SD card on a steam deck for me. It is a good travel game.

ZYbCRq22HbJ2y7on MrBeast Failed to Disclose Ads and Improperly Collected Children's Data

> Lave of legal merit

Lack?

ZYbCRq22HbJ2y7on Why is Venus hell and Earth an Eden?

That is good to know. Also linked from that article:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_the_imperial_and...

ZYbCRq22HbJ2y7on Dear GitHub: no YAML anchors, please

I didn't say anything about YAML? Also, I think the term "declarative configuration" has drifted to mean different things over time depending on where it is used.

ZYbCRq22HbJ2y7on Dear GitHub: no YAML anchors, please

You could make a builder to do this for you. It could build your actions in a pre-commit hook or whatever.

Although, I think it is generally an accepted practice to use declarative configuration over imperative configuration? In part, maybe what the article is getting at, maybe?

ZYbCRq22HbJ2y7on Why is Venus hell and Earth an Eden?

> Room temperature is 21°C

Debated, was 23 or 25 in my college textbooks: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Room_temperature

> I have no idea how many freedom fries units that is.

Kind of a bad attempt at humor? Imperial units is fine.

ZYbCRq22HbJ2y7on A summer camp for grown-ups trying to escape the work force forever with FIRE

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mr._Money_Mustache

makes hundreds of thousands a year "self-helping" people to spend less

ZYbCRq22HbJ2y7on A summer camp for grown-ups trying to escape the work force forever with FIRE

https://archive.ph/H9riy

ZYbCRq22HbJ2y7on Study finds 10% of pediatric blood cancers stem from medical imaging radiation

Would love to see the methodology...

ZYbCRq22HbJ2y7on [dead]

I mean, it forced him into a more filtered channel (paid subscriptions, not basic cable, etc), and he probably would have never landed in today's media ecosystem.