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My 2018 RAV4 has physical buttons, and the touchscreen is only used for the backup camera, and the audio system and phone (their own UI for contacts, calls, etc. and not something like CarPlay).

I'm hoping whatever model I replace it with will have physical controls too.

I assume they meant 7-8/hour.

3-4 years ago I hope it was actual emojis, and not Wingdings.

I'm saying this after having seen the Rockies in both countries.

Museums and public art galleries are notably worse in Canada, honestly.

But, I think there some unique things worth seeing for an American: The old parts of Montreal/Quebec city, and the Alberta Rockies, especially the corridor between Banff and Jasper.

I think there are some parts of Canada worth visiting from the US:

* Montreal - it's a big-ish city, without piss in the subways. Also the restaurant scene is good, and the old town is worth seeing.

* Quebec City - again, the old town is worth seeing. There's not much else in the US/Canada like it.

* Alberta Rockies - The corridor between Banff and Jasper is beautiful. Also, Waterton is decent. It's right across the border from Glacier NP in Montana, but less crowded. And for skiers, the Alberta Rockies also probably had the best snow in North America this past year.

IIRC "smileys" were what you got from fonts like Wingdings, and I believe those were short-lived. You could type :) and MS Word or Outlook, for example, would "helpfully" give you the Wingdings happy face, which would show up as a J for anyone who didn't have that font.

:-) and friends were "emoticons" for decades.

I don't think it's been established that clean-room rewrites are no longer painful. We don't know if chardet could have been rewritten so easily if the original code wasn't in the training set.

There were two other posts about this today on the HN front page:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47257803

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47259177

Not true:

> The best way to answer that might be to imagine what someone from the golden age would notice if we brought him here in a time machine. [...] The first thing he'd notice, if he walked through a fancy shopping district, is that all the prominent watchmakers of the golden age seem to be doing better than ever.

In Canada they don't seem to be priced the same - Neo starts at $899, and 17e at $799.

Interesting. In Canada the 17e starts at $899, and the Neo starts at $799.

What are the weight measurements? kg?

I took one of my dual 24" office monitors during Covid WFH and ended up keeping it when I quit that job. I use it as a second display alongside the MacBook which is on a stand.

I think the largest I would want at my current desk is 27". 30 is way too big for me. But more importantly I want something that matches the crispness of the MBP display, and 1440p and 1600p are too low res.

I would love to see examples of this. I have a MBP and a 24" 4K Dell monitor connected via HDMI. I use all kinds of scaled resolutions and I've never noticed anything being jagged or blurry.

Meanwhile in Linux the scaling is generally good, but occasionally I'll run into some UI element that doesn't scale properly, or some application that has a tiny mouse cursor.

And then Windows has serious problems with old apps - blurry as hell with a high DPI display.

Subpixel antialiasing isn't something I miss on macOS because it seems pointless at these resolutions [0]. And I don't think it would work with OLED anyway because the subpixels are arranged differently than a typical conventional LCD.

[0] I remember being excited by ClearType on Windows back in the day, and I did notice a difference. But there's no way I'd be able to discern it on a high DPI display; the conventional antialiasing macOS does is enough.

I see, you can't find the way back so you quit the app in frustration. I get that

I don't see a contradiction. The old man yelling at clouds certainly could have given up on trying to enjoy the "right" things and having the "right" opinions.

I feel like this is something we shed bit by bit as we age. When people talk about becoming a more authentic version of themselves as they get older, I think this is part of it.

Winter is my guilty displeasure. I live in Alberta, where winters are relatively long/cold, and I'm near places where I can ski, so I should probably make the most of winter. But, I'm happy with indoor hobbies, and the occasional toboggan/skate/snowball fight with my kid.

I believe it, but it's not something I've ever see in the wild. I have seen people using a trackpad in a keyboard folio, though.

Swipe up from the bottom (which goes to the app switcher), and then swipe up any app you want to force-quit.

I liked the phrase "Aislop's fables".

Speaking for myself, I've been auto migrating since I got an iPhone 3GS in 2009. The only thing that needs serious cleanup is my music library.

This thing seems to be more about enforcing a political PoV than about avoiding logical fallacies.

All my attempts to comment on the UBI article (and not supporting UBI) said my comment was a dogwhistle, and/or had an overly negative tone. This topic, of all things, is absolutely worthy to challenge and debate.

Using this would have the effect of creating an echo chamber, where people who stay never benefit from having their ideas challenged.

But it's a hyphen, not a dash.

(Ducks)

At first, the purple links had me convinced that I'd already clicked on them.

What's funny is that wireshark/tshark were created (first as "Ethereal") as a "friendlier" tcpdump, with more protocol analyzers.

You can still buy portable DVD players with a laptop-sized screen, with composite in.

Other than that, you can buy relatively inexpensive converter boxes that take composite video and analog audio, and output HDMI.

In fact it was a miniaturized TI-990 minicomputer: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TI-990

And yet they had one of the first hybrids (although not a plug-in hybrid) in the Prius.

Factually correct, but you also missed the joke.