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This is very cool history, and something I never would have stumbled upon myself. Thank you for sharing! :-)

I think it's really important to show how things were made with visuals like this. This is very cool, and will likely inspire others into using KiCad and then being able to show their family and less tech-savvy friends how they progressed. :-)

Does multiplexing over Ethernet exist?

Just FYI for others: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Structuring

I didn't know there was a formal term for this. Splitting up money transfers to avoid detection of large sums moving around.

We've always been able to edit a video frame-by-frame, but it takes quite a bit of time. Now you can deep-fake a video at real-time. Imagine the disinformation that can be produced so quickly in response to the news cycle.

We are in for a grave period in history indeed.

I like that each app has its own filesystem, but i do wish i could 'get at' anything from the Files app. I want to plug in my iPhone and see the filesystem for the Files app. I want to be able to "share" any file from any app into Files. This would either be "Save to Files" or simply exposing it to files.

I wish Apple made this easy, and just stopped doing whatever they're doing with iTunes. I hate needing it to upload photos.

Something like this:

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

I'm not saying the problems don't exist, but it feels like they have been amplified in a smear campaign. I think there's been a lot of propaganda to make SF and California look terrible in general, for political reasons.

Washington D.C. has a large percentage of homeless people than SF. It has been documented that other cities will buy bus passes for homeless persons to get them to California cities or other places like Portland, Oregon. It's a nationwide problem and it feels like the places trying to help the most are the ones getting flak for it.

You simply can't fix this problem from 1 or 2 states - or a few well known cities.

It is really hard to invest in this line of thinking, but to live 'intentionally' is something admirable.

I would like the [new] Dell XPS 2-in-1 with the 3840x2400 screen, as an OLED - using an AMD processor. There's been a lot of complaints about the keyboard but i find it strangely fantastic. Yes it takes getting used to, but I can type faster on _reliable_ low-profile keys. Wish the SSD weren't soldered in. Seriously, I've waited forever for 3840x2400. I like the Surface laptops but I need at least >= 2160 in the vertical so i can watch a 1080p movie at native resolution and have it take up a quarter of the screen while I websurf/program. :(

I think I would be equally upset about this feature in Firefox. I like services like HaveIBeenPwned, but I like manually choosing to use these services. This does not use HaveIBeenPwned, but it's being marketed as helpful when I would consider it risky exposure to perform this check every time you use a password. I'm sure this will help millions, even if I am paranoid and dislike things being done for me.

I'm weird. I like the data staying local, but the UI being something continually updated and improved on. You navigate to a website to enjoy a real-time updated UI, that pulls data from the local network. The local hardware just primitively collects footage and that small responsibility is something I can trust in a form of 'separation of concerns'. It would be neat to extend this further where the company behind the product distributes the codebase for this webapp that you can run locally if you choose.

So it is user-hostile because of data collection, and that the opt-out is not preserved :-)

This sounds exactly like what I was hoping to learn more about.

I wanted to create an IRC client where I would add/remove modules at runtime. These modules might respond to things said in-chat. As an example, you might have a greeter module that responds to common things like "hi" and "hello". The module would register expressions for things it triggers on. In parallel, all these modules would have registered expressions. Instead of testing all these expressions in series, I wanted to feed these to some code that would decompose and reduce them into a simplified expression. It'd be like if you arranged the regexps in a nested series of if-conditions.

Finding an appropriate middle ground for testing expensive regular expressions was the objective of all that, but I didn't get very far as I lost myself in Lua's LPeg project.

What a beautiful goddamn project. So unique and amazing.

For basic stuff, how about blackmailing those who gave up children for adoption?

Projects that give me hope are local governments taking up "open data" initiatives, and things like this:

https://designsystem.digital.gov/

Finding politicians who are willing to understand tech is hard, but enabling new services/businesses with open data seems to be helping. Politicians understand business I suppose.

I think the only thing to add to this is the GPU side of computing has accommodated for modifying/upgrading the stock coolers.

As an aside... I am still a huge fan of Coffeescript as my main driver. I'm learning more about TypeScript and Rust, but Coffeescript remains my language for concision/expression :)

All of the above need method chaining, though:

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

The only part I disliked was LinkedIn - #introvertsunite

I think the parent comment's logic is sound from a financial point of view, but you do a wonderful job of reframing it to bring it back to an equal rights point of view. Women and older workers have just as much right to the same advertised opportunities as others. Sticking a job ad in the mens restroom or within an age-restricted night club when you're looking for accountants seems misguided, but it's easy to see how that wasn't considered.

Game'ified performance appraisals or records/statistics that you can cite/link for getting work outside the app-job.

Unlocking raises with hours invested or good reviews earned or a combination of metrics.

Making in-app purchases to join a union or buy into additional benefits.

Integrating these gig economy apps with places like LinkedIn (shudder) to help you find temporary work quickly without ever talking to a human.

Or you can't find the most valuable copy of something: highest bitrate video, multiple languages for subtitles, multiple audio streams for different languages. I just want 1 supreme copy of something.

I do agree with you. There's an advantage to having an interface remain predictable. At the same time I wish you had the ability to dynamically re-arrange the UI with plugins. It'd be very cool to have a Sketch-emulating layout for Inkscape, as a plugin.

Anecdote: I have seen my shares of stock dip by up to 5% because of his tweets.

It's worrying that developing countries can buy off-the-shelf solutions to surveil its citizens without going through the decades of cultural and social change other countries have. We asked questions like "Is this ethical?" before the technology became possible. For them, the tech is here and the social discussions were never started.

Maybe this is the same thing. We haven't upheld our ideals on privacy anyway.

It is absolutely a combination of "the widest audience" and "engagement = money". The part that really jumps out at me is how often I'm trading a real-life grind for a grind in say... Overwatch for loot boxes. It used to be better.

It has been asserted that the best innovations come from baser instincts - the ability to go to war. Radar came from defense research. I hate this.

That does not sound very user-friendly... but well within the realm of a package manager installing a distro's custom policies.json

I don't know how I've improved the situation going from Chrome to Firefox and then to Firefox Nightly:

I wish Mozilla put efforts toward preserving settings and not reinstalling search providers one has purposefully removed. I understand that by using Nightly I cannot expect what a general user expects, but this problem exists in all browsers. I consider it user-hostile behavior that more emphasis isn't taken to preserve settings. Oh a new update? Clearly you want us to sync everything instead of just the few things you selected. Let's revert it all to defaults.

I also understand how settings are stored (the backend format) might change between minor or major versions. Sometimes factory defaults need to be reinstated - but it should be very fucking clear (with a notification) that the user should go review settings that have changed/reverted. And this cannot be a banner that shows every time an update applies. Give the user some transparency.

On Chrome when I ask it to preserve my previous session it preserves just that session's browsing history. This history is forgotten if I make a point to close all tabs and end the session. On Firefox I must save all history be to 'restore the current session'. Wish we had more control over this.

You can't disable Firefox from checking for updates (I wish this could be left to package managers on some systems). I understand but I don't want to be nagged. You can make Firefox ask you, but it will check nonetheless.

Why the fuck would I want "Recommmend features as I browse?" or "Recommend extensions as I browse?" I hate being advertised to.

"Warn you about unwanted and uncommon software" - who is making this determination? Who is Firefox talking to about what I download?

I wish I could sync settings, open tabs, addresses, history, etc - to an simple archive on close or periodically. No online service to sync against with another account I have to worry about.

Sucks that in hotels Firefox determines if there's a captive portal in effect by querying a Mozilla-hosted site (detectportal.firefox.com).

Blah.

Dude "earned" ~1.5 million exercising his stock options and acting on insider knowledge. He gained $500k and sold before the stock fell. He has to pay back about $175k and go to jail for 4 months.

Am I reading this right?

Keep doing what you're doing, Ying.