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The entire site is very obviously AI generated. The fonts, layout, and even the logo are obviously AI. I'm not sure about the content. Maybe the "author" is actually someone really interested in history and just used Claude to generate a frontend for their blog, but I couldn't bring myself to read much of it. Maybe it's just me, but the "AI feel" makes me not want to read sites like this. Feels like a waste of time to read a bunch of (potentially) AI slop that might not even be accurate. I'd be better off just asking Claude why addresses have numbers

So Trump's master plan is to renegotiate the free trade agreement that he already renegotiated during his last term? He obviously has no idea what he's doing. Is there even a point in signing treaties with the United States when you guys will just keep electing madmen that want to tear everything up every 4 years?

Are you running a 15 year old netbook or something? I've never noticed any input lag in VSCode or Slack (or any other Electron apps I can think of)

Thanks for the suggestion! I'll add that

I like taking photos of the aurora, and I often use NOAA's forecasts to plan sightings.

I wanted the forecast in a simple non-video format, and was tired of doing the mental math converting from UTC, so I made my own tool to show Kp forecast values (from NOAA) in the user's local timezone. Here it is in case it can be useful to anyone else:

https://auroraoutlook.com

Obviously, it's pretty bare bones. You need to have an understanding of which Kp value is needed to see the lights at your latitude. I'm working on adding more features to make it more user friendly

The "dead internet" is here, and unfortunately there's no going back

Our work switched from Slack to Teams after an acquisition, and I can confidently say that Teams is just complete garbage compared to Slack.

- The interface is laggy

- Scrolling back in long messages is buggy, it often skips around and loses its place

- No built in "whiteboarding" tools in screen sharing

- Teams will often keep ringing on my phone for up to a minute after I picked up a call on my laptop

- Sometimes I can't click reactions on messages. I click the emoji and nothing happens

Overall, it's just poorly made software. It feels like something that was made by a couple of interns in their spare time, not a keystone product from a multi-billion dollar company

You can get a fever, aches, and headaches from the cold as well

I really like QOI (The Quite OK Image format). It achieves similar compression to PNG, but it's ridiculously easy to implement (the entire spec fits on a single page), and its encoding and decoding times are many times faster than PNG.

https://qoiformat.org

It's just a personal preference. I can't tell you why, but I just don't like how all of the programs start with K. I think it looks weird.

It also annoys me every time I try to search for the calculator by typing in "Calc", but nothing is found because I forgot I need to look for "KCalc"

I think at the very least, commonly used applications like "Calculator", "Console", "Mail" should just be called "Calculator", "Console", and "Mail". Not everything has to be branded. The mail application on Windows is called "Mail", the terminal is called "Terminal", etc. They don't call them "WinMail" or "WinTerminal" for a reason. They know most users would find that off putting

Are you certain you're getting the flu every year? Do you get tested for it?

A lot of people assume they have the flu when it's really a bad cold

All KDE tools have terrible names IMO

It's a bit different since Trump's kids were all political figures in his nepotistic administration

aspect-ratio is a new standard, so don't feel too bad about that

Windy.com has a neat feature that displays current drought conditions for the entire world:

https://www.windy.com/-Drought-intensity-awp_0_40

I got a Pixel6 in July. Aside from the camera, it is by far the worst phone I've ever owned. I probably experience at least 4 or 5 major crashes every day where the phone becomes unresponsive for a few seconds.

Up until now, I've been able to live with the bugs as a moderate inconvenience, but now that I know I could potentially die because of Google's complete lack of QA, I'm going to ditch the phone right away. I'll never buy a Google device again. What a waste of money

No need. Safari fills that role for us now

I'm hoping they destroy eachother

That's not how NATO works. This will not affect US taxpayers

It's absolutely torture. I don't live in Ottawa, but I was eating at a restaurant near the trucker protest that sprung up in my city two weeks ago, and I nearly lost my mind just hearing the horns blaring for an hour straight. I can't even imagine what the poor people in Ottawa are going through.

There actually is a standard. Lat, lon is the correct order

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_6709

That might depend where you live. 2x6 is standard here in my part of Canada, but that's just for added insulation, not for any structural reason. Older homes were built with 2x4 exteriors

> The disease has a 0.3 risk of fatality, still less for Omicron

I'm not sure what you mean by "0.3 risk". 0.3% case fatality rate? But where are you getting that number from? COVID19 had roughly a 2% CFR early on when testing was limited and treatments hadn't been developed. It was around 1% for most of the pandemic. It is *now* as low as 0.3% in highly vaccinated countries, but still about 0.5% in the US.

It has been one of the deadliest pandemics in history. A million Americans are dead. I'm not sure how people can think the risks were over exaggerated.

https://ourworldindata.org/explorers/coronavirus-data-explor...

Wobbly windows are still available in KDE Plasma Desktop Environments (I use Kubuntu, but there are many others).

Settings > Workspace Behavior > Desktop Effects > Enable Wobbly Windows

Enjoy :)

Opera Mini used to do this

Zerohedge? Seriously? We might as well read the Weekly World News to see what Batboy thinks about it

I've never understood why some programmers like to use ligatures, especially on a cheat sheet like this, which will be used primarily by people who aren't familiar with the syntax.

It's not 'a' ⇒ 1, it's 'a' => 1, just write it out the correct way. Why are you trying to be fancy?

No difference? Seriously? I have never heard of someone destroying their life over a coffee addiction

People don't click on the video because of the dumb face. They watch the video if they think they'll be interested in it. But the dumb face makes it more likely that you will initially notice the thumbnail

Someone should make a browser extension that uses face recognition to replace them with pictures of kittens or something