alanh

Shocked? Really? Everyone seems to be choosing a Chromium base lately, including Opera and Brave.

There's a chance that some downvoters simply saw a third-world country being called "violent" and immediately mentally labeled the comment as being hateful or somehow Trumpian, despite this clearly not being the case.

Right - for quite some time, Edge didn’t even support BOOKMARKLETS, much less extensions! April 2017: https://alanhogan.com/ms-edge-is-a-bad-browser

You’re exactly right. I have heard typographers express the maximum readable width as "two and a half alphabets," which is roughly 40em. A max-width of 40em is extremely responsive, making the most of your screen (on mobile) without overextending and compromising reading comfort (on desktop).

A big reason everyone has the big, irrelevant image on top is that medium was designed to work best with that assumption. If you actually blog there, your index won't look good unless you have a header photo for each post.

Hmm, just on the home page, or on actual articles? I don’t know why it wouldn't work on articles. (Edit: Actual articles are compatible with Safari’s reader mode. I don’t think you will find index pages are generally compatible, on any site)

I actually agree and want to increase my main body font size. It’s also probably time to go serif, as sans-serifs are best suited for low resolutions (like for body text on all computers and mobile phones up to ~8 years ago) and serifs shine in high resolution (like on the printed page); today high-density screens are more common. Even “1x” monitors are wide enough that the increased font size they make possible increases the number of pixels available per rendered character. In the mean time, browser zoom will work well!

He took it way too far. Long lines are unreadable and 50 more bytes of CSS would fix it.

I humbly submit my own blog as being pretty darn readable without bloat. It’s responsive and simple. https://alanhogan.com

Edit: Here’s a relevant article: The problem with new blogging platforms https://alanhogan.com/the-problem-with-new-blog-platforms

For real? For me, the Medium domain signals a high likelihood that the piece is poorly written and entirely unedited.

If you’ve ever read PG’s classic essay "What You Can’t Say," Quillette may be recognizable as a publication unafraid to ask all of today’s unaskable questions.

http://www.paulgraham.com/say.html

https://quillette.com/

People, please stop downvoting this reasonable question

for ages, my former high school's website did not respond to requests that omitted the www. subdomain :/

Sarcasm? I just see trees.

I like you.

> this typeface

Which?

> Believe in something. Even if it means sacrificing everything.

I can't believe no one has caught on to the fact you are apparently making some sort of joke based on the just-now-launched Nike ad campaign with the same exact text.

Excellent movie. Not underrated, but under-watched.

oh stop it. disappointment is when reality does not meet expectations. that is exactly the case. stop criticizing perfectly valid, cogent thoughts.

IDK about Protomail, but Fastmail of course supports these protocols. Happy customer here, as are more than a handful of HNers.

Reply to sibling: Why would anyone call an email provider a walled garden, especially if using your own domain name?!

If you look into it a bit, he’s a bully — quote-tweeting people to insult them, lobbing f-bombs at people for what could be a civil disagreement, and so on, all while proclaiming a moral high ground.

But.

No matter how deserved the ejection was, I would not want to see an apology like this expand to include a list of complaints against a member. That would be stooping to their level. Keep it classy and avoid the details.

What’s really interesting is that James considers Vice to be evil misogynists but that he "collaborated" with them because it benefitted him. He sees no irony in this and feels no guilt of association. Really makes you think...

http://archive.li/jKTSU

I’m just here to point out that this boneheaded effort makes no effort to solve for the following cases:

- Companies becoming “collaborators” in the future

- Companies that are on the list ceasing “collaboration” with ICE

The latter is especially dumb when you figure it is the exact outcome this move is trying to inspire.

This leaves aside more fundamental questions of enforceability and so forth.

It’s "hear, hear."

Yes — a different and more elaborate scenario, really. I suppose I was just thinking of ways machines embedded in your brain can go wrong.

The nightmare scenario version of this is Michael Chrichton’s The Terminal Man (1972)

I’m not sure why you are being downvoted. your prediction is hardly guaranteed but not entirely absurd either. it’s nice to have a guaranteed market

(not downvoting you, but your comment makes no sense at all to me)

notes:

1) I didn’t mean to submit this URL, really; I thought I’d be redirected to the existing submission. That can be found here (2015): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10387071

2) Ironically, the lost-and-resurrected journalism series that this article opens with describing, "The Crossing," appears unavailable once again. http://thecrossingstory.com/chapters/index.html responds with a 503. It’s possible this is temporary due to increased interest in the topic due to today’s story about Joy Reid: https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2018/04/the-e...

3) Luckily, the Internet Archive does have a copy of The Crossing today: https://web.archive.org/web/20151127150800/http://thecrossin...

Major props to the folks at the Internet Archive <3

interesting. i hadn't seen this although I implemented something effectively the same, except that all keys (which could be any number ≥ 2) be combined to reveal the secret (or any information about it).

One in 10k? Nonsense.

> Your odds of dying in a car crash, over the span of your entire life, are somewhere in between 1 and 50 and 1 and 100. — http://www.asktheodds.com/death/car-crash-odds/

> Chance of dying in transportation accidents (mostly motor vehicles): 12 per 10k per year — https://www.livescience.com/

> Lifetime odds of death by motor vehicle crash, United States, 2016: 1 in 102 — http://injuryfacts.nsc.org/all-injuries/preventable-death-ov...

If you don’t know anyone killed in a car accident, you are very lucky.