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cantSpellSoberon As a Windows user, it's a surreal way to install a program

PKG if you need to install files aside from your application bundle.

cantSpellSoberon Sagrada Família Lego set

So no, they haven't completed it. They have completed some major construction milestones.

https://sagradafamilia.org/en/-/una-creu-que-arriba-al-cel-d...

cantSpellSoberon Industrial design files for Keychron keyboards and mice

Sounds like you need to attend the next NYC Mechanical Keyboard Meetup

cantSpellSoberon Start your meetings at 5 minutes past

This ensures meetings will begin at 10 minutes past

cantSpellSoberon It is ok to say "CSS variables" instead of "custom properties"

and the name of the function we use to access them is var()! Not customProperty().

cantSpellSoberon Psilocybin decreases depression and anxiety in cancer patients (2016)

> a high dose (22 or 30 mg/70 kg) of psilocybin

What is this compared to a recreational dose? Are these patients getting high as part of their treatment?

cantSpellSoberon The death of partying in the USA

The number of first-time home owners has plummeted though

https://www.nar.realtor/research-and-statistics/research-rep...

cantSpellSoberon Cursor hits $9B valuation

easier sell/setup

cantSpellSoberon The Death of Daydreaming

> moments used to be given over to silent reflection or conversation with whoever is around

Noticeable on pubic transit particularly

cantSpellSoberon Why can't HTML alone do includes?

That's why I joked about flamebait, it's hypertext though, aren't anchors essentially a goToURL() click handler in some ways? Template partials seem like a basic part of this system.

> considered to be server-side

Good point! Wouldn't fetching a template partial happen the same way (like fetching an image?)

cantSpellSoberon Why can't HTML alone do includes?

Well said this is many students' intro to PHP. Why not `<include src=header.html/>` though?

Some content is already loaded asynchronously such as images, content below the fold etc.

> HTML is really just a markup syntax, not a programming language

flamebait detected :) It's a declarative language, interpreted by each browser engine separately.

cantSpellSoberon Better typography with text-wrap pretty

`text-align: justify` solves a different problem, it justifies your text; both the left and right edges of each line are aligned with the margins.

> Should one use both together in the main text of your average blog

Optimize for legibility; the properties are compatible.

cantSpellSoberon Better typography with text-wrap pretty

Ironically the paragraph about orphans ("avoid leaving a single word by itself") puts "large" on a line by itself (at the largest viewport).

Applying `text-wrap:pretty` solves that!

cantSpellSoberon They Might Be Giants Flood EPK Promo (1990) [video]

The live experience is something to be seen, it's not just the two Jons playing Birdhouse in Your Soul.

They have a very large band including a lot of wind instruments, and they really have fun with it. (Spoiler alert) they've taken to playing Sapphire Bullets of Pure Love in reverse, filming it live, then playing that recording in reverse for the audience (post-intermission).

cantSpellSoberon Polypane, The browser for ambitious web developers

* What are a few features you offer over Browserstack? (re: x-browser testing).

* Do you offer GenAI integrations? (Copilot, Claude, etc)

(Help me sell this to my manager)

cantSpellSoberon Apple will soon support encrypted RCS messaging with Android users

The big difference:

> The GSM Association announced that the latest RCS standard includes E2EE

> While Apple’s proprietary iMessage system already supported E2EE, this wasn’t extended to RCS messaging because the previous RCS standard didn’t provide cross-platform support

cantSpellSoberon How Monero Fulfilled Satoshi's Promise

Yes

> cryptocurrencies have most of the characteristics of cash

cantSpellSoberon How Monero Fulfilled Satoshi's Promise

Satoshi claimed a lot. For the purpose of the title the Promise was peer-to-peer permissionless transactions, with a weakness:

> public ledger cryptocurrencies have most of the characteristics of cash except one thing: Untraceability

The author argues Monero fills a missing case:

> untraceable cryptocurrency while keeping all of cash’s characteristics

cantSpellSoberon Show HN: I got laid off from Meta and created a minor hit on Steam

> I even worked in AA(A?) back ca. ~2000

Cool, can you say what titles? Just curious. (congrats! they clearly laid off the wrong person :)

cantSpellSoberon Doge Teen with Cybercrime Connections Now Inside Cybersecurity Agency CISA

Sure, maybe the teenage hacker was acting in good faith.

> Based off of this reporting it's not conclusive.

The (linked in article) Krebs article is pretty damning, including screenshots of why he was fired.

https://krebsonsecurity.com/2025/02/teen-on-musks-doge-team-...

cantSpellSoberon Doge Teen with Cybercrime Connections Now Inside Cybersecurity Agency CISA

Yes unfortunately this is much more specific than "cyber researchers interacting with cybercriminals"

> Coristine was fired from a company after leaking internal firm secrets to a competitor

...and now has physical access to building facilities at CISA

cantSpellSoberon Court Documents Shed New Light on DOGE Activity at Treasury Department

It's more nuanced than "let DOGE in and review that"

> Gioeli [told the court], however, that Elez may have "occasionally" taken screen shots of payment system data or records to share with a second DOGE employee working with him at Treasury

cantSpellSoberon Ketamine for Depression: How It Works (2024) [video]

Were they the director of the Yale Depression Research Center?

cantSpellSoberon No Bitcoin ETFs at Vanguard (2024)

For discussion, what's wrong with the statement "if you hold a money market cash position [you hold] the same thing as Bitcoin [or a crypto ETF]"? Or, say, you hold one of Vanguard's Gold ETFs. (Good faith)

cantSpellSoberon Alcohol-free booze is becoming big business

N/A beer lists the calories on the can, as a bonus

I don't wanna guess how many calories are in the quadruple IPAs I've had

cantSpellSoberon Show HN: Struggle with CSS Flexbox? This Playground Is for You

For discussion I'd argue

• this name works with Grid and Flexbox

• this convention matches justify-items and justify-self, which makes sense

to your point I still confuse it with align-content sometimes.

cantSpellSoberon Phase behavior of Cacio and Pepe sauce

What about replacing other charts?

The equivalent in amateur aviation? "Instinct and years of experience replace..."

cantSpellSoberon Phase behavior of Cacio and Pepe sauce

The Recipe section is mostly to show the problem is solved

> small temperature variations can completely compromise the recipe’s outcome