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> Theo, by occupation, was a devil.

Maybe not the greatest, but the whole paragraph’s pretty good:

> Theo, by occupation, was a devil. That is, he worked as apprentice and general servant to Anton, the printer. Before that, he was lucky enough to be an orphan, for the town fathers of Dorning prided themselves in looking after their needy. So, instead of sending him away to a King's Charity House, where he would be made miserable, they arranged the same for him locally. He was farmed out first to a cooper, then to a saddler, and in both cases did badly. Accidentally, he had learned to read, which in some opinion spoiled him for anything sensible. Anton finally agreed to take in the boy and teach him his trade.

And the rest of the page is great, and the rest of the chapter, and the whole book is a really great opening to a decent trilogy IMO (Westmark, by Lloyd Alexander).

> between macOS System Preferences, iOS Settings

Why don’t those both use the same UI toolkit, like the convergent GNU/Linux DEs? (macOS seems to be getting more touch-optimized with each update — eg. making sliders giant and iOS-style; why hasn’t Apple merged Cocoa and Cocoa Touch into one yet?)

Source-available variants of [GNU's Not] Unix have often been on the leading edge of user interfaces, from immitating the Xerox PARC desktop metaphor before Windows did (X11 initial release: June 1984, Windows: November 1985) to adding intrusive ads to the main system menu / search around the time Windows 8 was released. But it’s interesting to see macOS’s proprietary UI now apparently following GNOME’s example of powering “native” interfaces with JavaScript.

Edit: apparently this is actually more similar to Windows, which also uses React for system settings. All this DE stuff is too complicated for a simple person like me (I just use dwm on desktop and mobile).

Enabling Google as the default search engine, or the proprietary Pocket plugin, arguably isn’t innocent inaction. It’s actively anti-privacy action.

Also in food; ice cream (eg. Tillamook White Chocolate Raspberry) and cereals (eg. Trader Joe’s fruity “Joe’s O’s” IIRC).

Look at https://news.ycombinator.com/active. It’s been practically overflowing with Ukraine and Russia stories for days now, to the point it’s almost a bit of a chore to pick through them all and find discussion of anything else.

That’s what I (not OP) needed to hear! I’ve never used a physical iPod clickwheel and I tried dragging from the center and from the buttons (not between the buttons) dozens of times before coming back here and reading this. Hope jarrenae considers clarifying this on the site.

But the University of Minnesota experiments prove at least some malicious code is capable of passing at least standard Linux code review, right?

The Legotown “leaders”/“builders” that the teachers disempowered were authority figures because their knowledge of Legos was recognized and accepted by the other children. There wasn’t much conflict (just submissive acceptance of the builder’s governance by the non-builders, and animated discussions on what to build together between the builders) until the teachers intentionally synthesized some with their Lego “game” in order to engrain their own preconceived biases (“critical judgments about people who have wealth and financial ease”) into the kids.

Your comment doesn’t appear to answer any of the questions in the one it’s replying to.

> there are a few open source projects that are still in 0.xxx but for which each point release could be considered a an actual release.

This is called ZeroVer: https://0ver.org/ (most recent HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28154187).

Minetest has a mod Advanced Trains that allows (but doesn't force) fairly complex builds with automatable scheduling, etc. and works in multiplayer.

https://vid.puffyan.us/watch?v=ZK1PM8jFRFo&t=18m33s

> I simply couldn't justify buying a Mac or an iPad to support a small % of the overall web audience. Bring back Windows Safari please :-(

What about the other, cross-platform WebKit browsers?

Offtopic, but The Incredibles has one of my favorite movie quotes:

You always say “Be true to yourself”, but you never say which part of yourself to be true to!

… which stuck in my head because so many Disney (and other?) movies seem to be all about being “true to yourself,” and in my experience they conspicuously fail to address the fact (in my belief system) that all humans have both good and evil, selfish and selfless within (we’re born screaming, demanding others’ attention; but even in the womb we listen to and begin to love familiar people, and in many situations we sacrifice much for our loved ones and even strangers).

A Pinephone.

> The problem for phones without a “notch” like what the iPhone does is that the OEMs tried to put the proximity sensor below the screen.

Why not put it next to the camera? That’s what my $200 Pinephone CE does (and the $150 model with the same sensor), and it works well IME.

That’s incredibly pathetic. My phone’s UI (sxmo) is a bunch of desktop software and a handful of phone specific tools stuck together with shell scripts and it manages to turn the screen off while the proximity sensor detects my ear during a call.

If you’re willing to drop most native mobile apps and maybe spend some time tinkering, you could get the far niche-er alternative of a GNU/Linux phone for as little as $150 (plus ~15% more for shipping all the way from China).

> But Adobe? I’m sorry but any company forcing professionals to store client IP on their cloud offering by definition cannot be considered secure.

Not to mention that they stored and leaked the unhashed passwords of their entire userbase.

There’s no strong scientific evidence in favor of flossing.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12216127 6 years ago Federal health expert drop flossing from health guideline

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27524152 8 months ago The AP asked the government for proof that flossing works. The answer: ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Why would they do that when they could Rewrite it in Rust®? Given that it’s ~50× as complex as hello world¹, it should only take about 54,800 dependencies (including 30,000 C binding crates), 1.65 terabytes of disk space for the target folder or even just 190 GB after a clean build, and maybe raise a quad-core CPU to 1567.6°C or a 200 core one to 95.

¹ Written in Rust here: https://github.com/mTvare6/hello-world.rs

> not having RMB-select is some kind of sacrilige

Blender still does have it as an option, in fact one of the few that are displayed front and center before you start editing when it first starts up.

In fact, a study showed humans walk in circles as tight as 20 meters in diameter when they can’t see landmarks or the sun.

(https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/general-conference..., ^F scientists, click ⁴ for picture; https://www.mpg.de/788272/S003_Spectrum_038-043.pdf [PDF with brief summary]; probably https://www.mpg.de/788272/S003_Spectrum_038-043.pdf [should have full article but it seems to want broken JS to download multiple PDFs so I didn’t bother])

I mostly believe you because of another video I’ve seen but lost the link to (and the nonfree software the cars run makes them exceptionally deprecating assets as Tesla remotely decreases max acceleration when the cars are resold), I guess my point was that the video dividuum shared didn’t really show claims that hyperbolic, and if I didn’t already dislike Tesla neither of your comments would convince me.

> The article is paywalled

Only if you choose to load the JS.

I guess the convenience comparison depends on how the notification is received and how you browse HN. In my system the worst common scenario involves me viewing a different “workspace” than my browser with the page not open in it, requiring a 2 key chord (Super + 9) to go to the dwm tag where luakit lives and 3 more keypresses (g n t) to go in a new tab to my HN threads quickmark, [Edit:] and at my typing speed of 75 wpm | 6.25 characters per second, it takes about ⅘ of a second + page load time to check, and leaves me at a page full of links to the replies and their context.

> It find it would be impossible to maintain a useful discussion that lasts longer than just a few hours without it.

What’s wrong with https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=alkonaut? (Where the “threads” link in your top bar leads.) It doesn’t show discussions from weeks ago on the first page, but it does show a couple of days worth at the moment.

Second link minus JS: https://imgin.voidnet.tech/a/AfcEnRw

There seems to be a progression there from ‘I think it’ll be able to drive the easiest roads in a year or two’ to ‘It’ll be 2–4× safer than humans soon’. So in my opinion calling all of it ‘promising real FSD’ is at least half as misleading as the marketing.

No group of professionals meets except to conspire against the public at large.

— Mark Twain

Case in point: fully vaccinated boys without medical comorbidities in the US between ages 12 and 17 from January to June 2021 got myocarditis at 370–610% (ages 12–15) / 210–350% (12–17) higher rates than their risk of COVID-19 hospitalization.

(Edit: forgot the source :P) https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.08.30.21262866v...