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I agree, I think changing the title is a better solution than linking to the release notes, but I still think it makes sense to offer extra clarity.

The original title of the blog post is "Highlights from Git 2.33" which to me is a bit clearer that this is not release notes or any kind of "official" Git 2.33 announcement but rather someone's highlights about Git 2.33. I have no idea why the original submitter chose to edit the title like this.

I think this should link directly to Git's release notes (e.g. https://lore.kernel.org/git/xmqq1r6touqi.fsf@gitster.g/), or the title should be updated to somehow reflect that this is Github's blog post about the changes, not Git's official announcement.

Git is not owned or stewarded by Github, and posts like this reinforce the common and unfortunate image that it is.

The default, if I'm reading the article correctly, is to not disappear messages. What's new is the ability to disappear messages by default for all conversations, instead of having to remember to set it for each conversation.

For some people (e.g. journalists) this is exactly what they need, because forgetting to set disappearing before sending a message could be problematic, and I'm glad they added this feature for that use case.

It's a joke that probably made a lot more sense in the 90s. Back then people would use ™ everywhere, in logos, whenever certain brands were mentioned, etc.

In my opinion it fits the general humor of the game perfectly, but I can definitely see how it would could be annoying.

> This version of K-9 Mail only runs on Android 5.0 and newer.

That's an impressive "only"! Android 5.0 was released ín 2014.

Material UI isn't coming from a corporation in the same way as the others though. Material UI is an open source implementation of Google's Material Design system, but it's not in use by Google AFAIK.

The browser engine, being a Chromium variant, is open-sourced. The source code for the UI is not available under an open source license it seems: https://help.vivaldi.com/desktop/privacy/is-vivaldi-open-sou...

According to Wikipedia, Netcaptor was the very first browser to have tabs: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tab_(interface)#History

However, Opera supported an MDI interface before it supported tabs, and if you count that it may have supported multiple browser windows within one MDI window even earlier, which could be said to be a form of tabs.

Everything depends on how you define "tabs", as usual.

It's an Office Space reference: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8p8Ni1sXBLk

> Do you expect my wife to turn away from the TV when I am watching Netflix?

No, and I do not expect my friends to turn away when they are visiting my home. This is not at all what I said or meant, and I think you know that.

> Each tier has a number of simultaneous streams allowed. If you want multiple people to be able to stream at once you pay more, and if you are streaming one at a time on the same device, you really think each person should have their own account?

There are really two things here. Yes, I am aware Netflix has a model where you can pay to have multiple streams ongoing at the same time. That's the model I am questioning, because obviously one person can only watch one stream, so this can only be used by different people in a household.

As for the other part of your question, yes, that is exactly what I think. Each person should pay equally for their own account. Why am I allowed to share my 2 streams with a partner in the next room, but not with a partner in Australia? What is the difference between the two?

Not sure why you are using such a condescending tone, but I do understand how rent and the costs of living work.

The difference is that if I brought another person into my home then yes, we could split the rent, but it would also halve the amount of living space per person.

I wouldn't put it like that. I would say that each user using Netflix should pay the same amount. So you pay for yourself, your wife pays for herself, and your kid pays for themselves.

Sure, it's 3 times more than what you pay today. But you are 3 times as many people as I am, so why shouldn't you?

>If it really bothers you, get a few people to pay you a few bucks to be included in your "household" and use your netflix account with you the same way that apartment owner sublets the extra rooms.

But I can't do that - this is exactly what the article is saying Netflix is now starting to take action against, and it is already against their TOS.

As part of a single person household it feels weird that there is a norm that you are allowed to share logins "within your household". Effectively this means people in the same household are paying a lower price than others - so people living in single households are effectively subsidizing that usage by paying more per person.

This seems like a more general problem with the Internet or even of people (and in particular men of a more technical and nerdy persuasion, in my own experience).

The majority have nothing of value to say, so will post nothing. The only ones who can realistically offer comments on this article are experts and those who will offer "back of a cocktail napkin" comments (as you put it), and the latter group is so much larger than the former.

Black and Chrome is an "official" version made by director George Miller himself. It does feature the standard audio tracks. https://www.theguardian.com/film/2016/nov/12/mad-max-fury-ro...

I'm honestly not sure how this comment helps anyone. Have you tried contacting your employer's IT support or the antivirus vendor about this issue?

Unless you think it actually contains malware?

It's easy. You "gift" the badge to a user via the Signal homepage when making a connection. There's no required connection between the gift-giver and the receiver. Is the person who gifted the badge the same as the receiver? Could very well be, but there's no way to prove that.

All you need to store server-side is "this user has the badge until date X".

There's a survivorship bias here. Of course you are going to meet the people who left the country.

On the flip side, as a native Scandinavian I have many colleagues from outside of Scandinavia that moved here because of many of the things unions have accomplished - 25 days of paid vacation, a culture of working your 8 hours a day and not more than that, and a child care system that allows you to spend more time with your kids.

Pandora isn't available outside the US, so it doesn't really matter how good it is compared to Spotify I can't use it anyway.

It doesn't matter how good the tech is if business/legal can't keep up with the competition.

Whoever is running marketing at hey.com seems to be very inspired by the marketing that Cards Against Humanity has been doing.

> The second is the DOM. It is a horrible collection of hacks that make simple things hard and hard things impossible. I have thought many times “if only was I drawing this control/layout directly, I would’ve finished hours ago.”

I think this betrays a lack of understanding on the part of the author of how to write good web components. Yes, the DOM is tricky at first, but that's because it's trying to support things like resizing windows to arbitrary sizes.

I don't even understand what he tries to say with "draw the control directly". In component-based library, this is exactly how you would work. Put your component where it needs to be, and boom, you're finished (just like in all frameworks this is a lie, you probably still need to tweak).

I don't in general buy the argument that the DOM is low-performant and low-quality. Lots of great and performant UIs have been built on the web platform.

In several countries in Europe, McDonald's has served plant-based alternatives for years. In Sweden they serve the McVegan, for example: https://www.mcdonalds.com/se/sv-se/product/mcvegan.html

I don't think MS is porting Edge to Linux because they want to test the waters for running Windows on a Linux kernel as the author speculates. It seems much more likely that Microsoft recognizes the web is an important platform for them to be a player on in the future, and they want web developers to be able to test stuff on Edge regardless of which OS they use.

This is the reason why Edge is available on MacOS and Linux.

Yeah, this article oozes of "we need to create content that gets eyeballs and backlinks to market our website/product", which unfortunately is all too common these days.

Next time someone tries to find youtube channels for programming, they will end up on this list, rather than finding some real recommendations by real persons.

The "author" of this article is even "Team Codegiant", it's a red flag when no real person wants to put their name on content. Which is especially funny since throughout the article the author refers to themselves in first person.

Edit: and check out the submitter's post history. 15 submissions - all for codegiant.io: https://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=spiderjako22

> Masks are common in the supermarkets, etc.

Not sure where you got this information - masks are not commonly worn at all in Sweden. I see perhaps 1 mask per week, unless I go into the city center, then I might see 10 in a day.

The Swedish public health authorities are not currently recommending general usage of face masks, citing mainly the lack of evidence of the effectiveness of general mask usage (wearing a mask can cause you to get lulled into a false sense of security, for example).

See https://www.folkhalsomyndigheten.se/smittskydd-beredskap/utb...

(in Swedish, unfortunately)

> BankID used to be only a bank issued smart card and a special little card reader.

If you had the right bank. If you had the wrong bank it was a Windows-only application with the kind of yankiness that screams "I have more holes than a Swiss cheese".

I may not particularly like mobile bankid (mostly for the same reason I didn't like desktop bankid), but I have a lot more control over what permissions it has, at least.

There are two factors at play here I think. The first is that Github has become quite popular. The second is that Github has worked a lot on usability - it's now very easy for users who are not very technical to create an account and report issues.

At times I imagine there could be some kind of "I know how to report bugs"-certification that people could somehow earn. Projects could then use this as a barrier to prevent getting too many useless issue reports.

The problem really goes both ways - as a software dev I'm disincentivized to report detailed bugs to projects, because there's a high risk it will get drowned out in the noise.

Some projects have quite specific templates for reporting issues. This helps a bit, but you still need someone to go in and remove issues that don't match the template, and few people want to volunteer for that work.

Compared to Slack, which sells you basically the same thing but with a "business" tag for $8 per person and month it doesn't seem like that much.

On the other hand Slack's pricing is pretty crazy.

That's an unfair comparison though. Everyone used to play with high latency. There's a clear advantage to you if your ping is 20 ms and mine is 300 ms.

Whether there's a clear advantage to having 50 vs 20 ms ping I can't answer. I'm quite certain that's an advantage I personally can't make any use of, but a Quake pro might be able to.

Also, today's pro gamers are likely at a higher skill ceiling than the best players were 10 years ago.