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Yeah, this is why I find using the HSL color representations[1] and adjusting the lightness values to be more pleasing when creating stepping tones

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

Fun fact, most people know can cook. They just don't want to cook every single meal. And for a variety of reasons, that no one should have to defend.

Especially from snobby "hackers" with who lack a sense of perspective and empathy to other people's situations.

This reads like a boring classist commentor. Reddit is always joking/lying about what they are really doing. So no, stimulus checks didn't cause retail investors to become less sane.

People stuck at home, with extra spending money, and a desire for internet points, caused your deviation from normality in investing.

> processor is fast enough that it will be good for 5+ years

This is how I feel, 3 years later, after getting the 11 Pro in 2019. If I do upgrade this year, I'll give it to my dad, and he'll probably use it till it breaks :)

It won't be very challenging to get folks to move to Signal

100% agree. Matrix is great and while it took a bit to setup everything I liked the direction it's going.

Started using Beeper which is built on top of the Matrix protocol. Even with this nice abstraction app, there were several steps to set up and then connect to the various bridges they have. They're still very much a beta product.

I have a group chat in Signal of 12 people. Only me, and another person, have a moderately technical understanding of what Signal provides. Besides the obvious "secure chat".

There is no path for non-tech users to start using Element/Matrix or some Fediverse thing. These are excellent concepts, but they will remain there, as nice ideas. Because they are not a quick three-step process of Download -> Setup -> Chat with Friend

For me, a large majority of my friend/family updates come through group chats.

I have 4 large (10+) groups that are friend groupings from different interest areas. Which use iMessage/WhatsApp/Signal

1 huge one for a group of concert/rave friends on Signal

3 overlapping groups of various family-relatives using iMessage/WhatsApp

I don't even need to open FB/IG anymore. Bye Felica

Language is hard! Even I, a seasoned native internet dork, have trouble knowing if someone's comment is sarcasm, irony, or something in between. Also, new phrases emerge all the time that turn a phrase on its head, and it has a different emotion.

How many feelings can you evoke with a simple, FUCK!

No idea how the Bar exam works. Sounds like no notes or anything?

Why they would need to have a CPU check? Does the software have some anti-cheating mechanism?

Exactly, there's a threshold at which they'll finally act. Even then, it's just a penalty fee. Which, if you're wealthy, it's basically legal.

I've been using KyBook 3 http://kybook-reader.com

Enable the Calibre web server, then use KyBook to connect to it and download the books you want while on the same network as the Calibre server. You can set up a public URL if you want to access them remotely

Agreed it's much better service, I've been really enjoying it.

One feature I recently learned was Highlights [1]

You can select a passage of text on the page, then when bookmarked, it'll save the selected text. Allows for multiple highlights. And then visiting the page in the future those texts clips will then be highlighted again.

[1] https://help.raindrop.io/highlights/

I honestly don't think it's the playground design, it's the parents.

There's a school near me with a nice large area great for skating around. Most of the equipment is the newer style plastic hunks with soft edges and a rubber mat surface on the ground.

Have seen kids there find all sorts of ways to nearly injury themselves. They're having fun like I used to as a kid. And we had the murder bars and fling-yourself-gorounds. Newer designs might only help prevent scraped knees and pinched fingers.

Now the kids with their helicopter parents look annoyed and miserable. The kid tries to run and gets yelled at to slow down. They get to excited and told to calm down. Parents will wait at the bottom of slides and catch kids before they have even reached the end.

You'll have nosy neighbors calling cops on kids because they're walking down street without parents.

We've created a fear bubble around kids and they don't know what danger is. Let them make mistakes! Let them explore their spacial surroundings and fall down!

> I don't want to be mean

> Use your brain, as I'm always telling my kids.

Proceeds to be mean.

Classic troll move op.

If they had used any other library there would have been a comment like this telling them they're doing it wrong.

Same thing any time WordPress does anything notable.

Teams make tech decisions based on multiple factors. Sometimes the ones like "bizarrely deep object tree that is impossible to reason about" are found to be less important. Because at the end of the day websites are for the wider public audience, who aren't affected by bike shedding

I would offer to compensate for the 4h assignment. That's a huge time commitment and basically means a 1/2 day on the weekend or evening to complete. They'll have lots of options if they're good and will drop annoying assessments like this if they don't feel it's worth the time.

What's wild is that the width of Switzerland is nearly the distance between SF and LA. We're still figuring out how to build one train line. On mostly flat ground. Maybe when I'm retired we'll have a better transit system

This is what Cmd + Shift + 3|4|5 is using under the hood. It's great to use for bash scripting if you need a precise type of screenshot

Cmd + Shift + 5 will also give you access to some of options (as noted in the article)

Then let you adjust the selection area in relaxed way

I always make sure to enable "Remember Last Selection", which is great when you're taking repeated screenshots of the same area. Once you've created the selection area you'll get exact sizes every time.

Christ on a skateboard!? All the temporarily displaced billionaires in this thread are something else.

If you require more than 100M in net worth to be "motivated" to work. There's a larger problem with you. Being a CEO/leader doesn't require some skill set that's given to you from some mythical watery being just because you're special.

I think the key part of that idea is learning from the failures. Analysis and objective opinions on what caused the failure

I feel like that article has just strung together every negative complaint you can find on Reddit. With a few "but it's not all bad" anecdotes for some sort of balance.

Personally I feel the larger problem is the mostly invisible city workers and non-profits that are constantly sidelined by the visible elected officials. There are a great many projects slowing making an impact. But they often lose funding or support once someone has finished using them for some Twitter/photo op.

Pet projects are the norm, feels like no one wants to do the hard work to reform processes in place that allow for deadlock :(

I guess it's more of a philosophical query. Who took the photo, the chicken or the human ;)

I'd guess they're purposely inflated to cut down on people asking to buy them

Whataboutism isn't going to excuse shitty behavior. Crypto will continue to get deserved criticism while scams and greedy people are allowed to exist. Same with the banking industry. Do folks (beside the wealthy, and financial media) love what banks are doing? No.

Yeah it freaks people out not used to the benefits of utility classes.

We're converting our app components to using Tailwind. But there was some initial resistance as the current setup of css-in-js was fine. Fine but not great, and we had ended up with a lot of weird custom css blobs over time.

One side benefit is you can just install Tailwind and use it in isolated way. Which is what I did. Converted a couple components to using Tailwind and demoed them. Got positive feedback. Most element only need a handful of classes. And the elements themselves are just normal HTML with a class.

Components feel quicker to scan now. Initially skeptical devs have noted the ease at which they can build out a new component. Without having to get bogged down in writing css.

Which to me is the real goal of Tailwind, improving DX by abstracting the boring and error prone way of writing CSS for applications.

I also recommend Ryan North's book, How to Invent Everything

https://www.howtoinventeverything.com/

Because you'll need a little humor if you're stuck in post-apocalyptic world

That because they're usually comparing it to a Electron app, at this point it's punching down ;)

I feel like it's a visa gift card.