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> what do you use it for?

recreational shooting. Though that's not exactly high utility

> perpetual adaptation to technology musicians have met

Didn't it also went with an important reduction in the number of people who could make a living out of that?

Funnily enough, I think that's the first time I heard that Dutch oven has another meaning, beyond the cooking apparatus.

Maybe the author saw a bunch of hits coming from HN and edited his post to add the link to the discussion? It doesn't seem as if the author themselves posted their article.

> "I'm going to deep-dive this topic" to "... and now I need to go to the library, and possibly a specific library, maybe on another continent"

I remember an history professor saying that for a subject he was working on he had to borrow a book from the library of Congress (through the library of his university), where the only publicly available copy in the US was. Of course it was an academic book, so it's not exactly a common situation.

in France I got a bunch of equivalent take-home tests, between high school and graduate level, mostly in math and science. The teacher would give us exercice equivalent to what we'd get in our exams and we'd have one week to complete it (sometimes in pairs) and it'd be graded as part of that semester

that's why there's still two completly different UI for managing settings? With some settings available in an UI done in the new, flat style and the old control panel that's still there?

> Why is a bike going 20kph suddenly a problem?

because the bike can and will use the sidewalk if there's not bike lane.

Personnaly I didn't felt as if I was trying to recognize a place and period in history, but trying to guess what prompts were used to generate the pictures. Or at least for some of the pictures where I wasn't as sure of the event (like seeing the rose on a picture for the war of the roses).

Also I didn't listen to many of the sounds, but I got English voices for something happening in France (the Fauvisme guess).

But still I had some fun and it's nice to see a good use for AI

Maybe because Spain and Portugal lost their empires earlier than Great-Britain?

When Google nuked the (manifest V2) extensions I had on Chrome, without letting me export their settings (custom filters for ublock origin, RSS reader feeds), I bit the bullet and switched to Firefox.

> German conservatives [...] decided to break their main campaign promise and renege on doing what they said they would do.

what kind of promise was it?

> If you as an independent commentator are tied to a centralized platform, you are a feature to be sold, and will be muzzled or deprecated if needed.

Wasn't one selling point of Substack that you could easily leave with your subscribers, so substack writers aren't really for sale and can't be muzzled/deprecated? Or did it change since Substack was launed?

Also are you thinking about specific writer(s)/events when you wrote 'muzzled or deprecated if needed.'?

I agree that some of the outputs of the SAFe process aren't useless, like expressing dependencies between teams and discussing objectives, but the process is way too costly for what it achieves. Maybe if the name was changed to something like SCRUM and Waterfall evil child...

> SAFe was truly one of the worst things I encountered with consulting clients.

we've been using SAFe for a few years, I despise every minute of the planning process. Feel like a mix between using a crystal ball and forcing square pegs in round holes... Of course the additional disfunctionality at my company between sales, PO/PM/BO and engineering doesn't help, though it seems that I've avoided the worst SAFe train of the company.

but for computers, it's the same

> People don't know how to pop their hood now because they don't need to.

you don't need to figure how to create your own note taking/list making/accountancy software, you just open your favorite/default search engine, write the query and get a plethora of options, for nearly any platform under the sun, because of all the work has already been done, as you pointed out in your last paragraph.

> The difference is that there was a community around Reader’s social features.

Are social features the main selling point of RSS readers? I mean I just use mine to know when there's a new blog post/webcomic posted on a few sites I follow, without having to give my email or use another platform like social media to know about it. And I'd use the social features which are present on the blogs, under the control of the blog owner(s), if there's any. Or maybe my use case is not the most common one?

Though I agress about the signal Google sent by killing GR.

and before the Borderlands 4 ad, it was an ad for BL 3

> - Ten hours of programming saves one hour of planning...

If the planning is done with 5 or more people in a meeting, there still might be some time savings...

> But they also have 100% wood

Yeah, the bed I'm sleeping in is something like 20 years old, has gone through 3 moves (plus one where it wasn't dismantled) and is from Ikea. It's a full wood and is quite sturdy. I guess my parents paid what was needed for quality stuff.

> Having kids while living in the center of a large city is great

If you can afford a flat that's big enough for you and the kids

> smelting of silver and lead ores

The smelting of silver and lead is detectable via ice cores, I remember seeing a graph showing the height of Roman silver production was only matched in the 18th century https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_economy#/media/File:Worl...

> I didn’t feel that I belonged in [Croatian] society.

Why is he surprised? He doesn't speak their language, is just a privileged sportman running through their town/city/village.

I'd say the comment section of the website acoup.blog (which have been linked a few times on HN, that's how I discovered it), the commenters usually give the impression they've read the article. Of course it can also be due to the fact that it's a blog comment section, not those of a link-sharing site.

> You fight censorship with openness.

because TikTok is the epitome of openness? Has never censored any opinion?

While they might be using an email address from a public service doesn't mean they are browsing HN while on the job.

I haven't tested, but in addition to map sales there's a subscription option, for more features https://pastmaps.com/plus?src=header

that feels dystopian. And it's reflected by the title of the webpage: "The Brave New World of A.I.-Powered Self-Harm Alerts"

the last two payments I sent by cheque here in France got processed, one by the national electricity provider for about 50€ and the second by an association/company (I'm not sure) for 200€. The last cheque I received, in 2021 (my grandmother reimbursing me the gas refill I did on her car one week before she died), got processed for free by my bank.

But I don't think the chequebook I have can be used to sent money to someone outside of France. And I only have a chequebook because that's how I have to pay my electricity bill.

But I don't see anything in the document that shows that people are using personal vehicles for deplacements they could have easily been made with public transportation. Which was your original point that I disagreeing with: people aren't 'brainwashed by cars', but rather can't practically use another way.

Also, according to one of the linked pdf, cars in Paris are barely for Paris-Paris movement, but more for Paris-suburbs, which is still the biggest weakness of the public transportation network.