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Modern "Engineer": "What's prime, a new Javascript type?"

Interesting use of slashes

It's partly that we (the West, not just Americans) are so rich that we're out of touch with reality. Another way of looking at it is that hardship, which has not only been a part of life since the beginning of humanity but has arguably defined it, has been notably missing recently. So now we have young people complaining about things that would have very recently been appreciated and welcomed. At the same time they're bashing cultural values / norms that are in part responsible for this elimination of hardship.

Too little too late.

Would you feel the same if your child was killed at an intersection?

The biggest problem with driving in my opinion is that everyone is in a useless rush. Speeding, rolling through stop signs. Putting more wear on the vehicle, consuming more fuel, and adding more risk, all for the sake of getting home literally just a few minutes earlier. And once home what do most do? The same thing they were doing in the car: sitting on their ass.

Doctors hate him

Those of us who have lived through several administrations, and who aren't ultra-partisan, realize that this would play out much differently in the (traditional and social) media if it were to occur under a conservative administration.

I just ordered AT&T Internet a week ago. Because the building I'm living now has a deal with them and I get a cheap package. They demanded my SSN for a credit check, and they spent almost every call trying to upsell me. It felt very trashy and unprofessional. They also hijack DNS and point all unresolved domains to their own search page. Very scummy. I wouldn't use them again if I had a choice.

Completely unnecessary. TikTok maligns itself.

Posts like this keep showing up here. My own Twitter account was deleted a few days ago and I never really even posted. I just used it to follow some accounts talking about the war.

If someone wanted my advice I might say:

1 - Be the change. Don't find it acceptable that some corporation kicks someone off their service / cancels them just because they're a republican, or vocal, or otherwise believes something you disagree with. Speech is free or it isn't. Elon Musk had a great tweet on this a couple of weeks ago concerning people asking him to censor Russian sources of information.

2 - Don't patronize those that censor. And it's no coincidence that those that censor are so often those that don't charge for their services. If you're getting it for free (money) it's not free (freedom). Sometimes paying a few bucks a month is worth it.

Don't all or nearly all modern vehicles use OBD-3?

"You’re unable to view this Tweet because this account owner limits who can view their Tweets". Unfortunately my Twitter account was deleted for no stated reason a couple of days ago (maybe I expressed a thought crime, though I never discuss politics there...)

To be fair Facebook products ban and censor based on ideology, which is pretty extremist in the traditional (say, 10 years ago) point of view.

It's not bungled, it was an intentional, lightweight slur. Whoever downvoted you is ignorant. What were some slurs the Germans used for Americans in WW2?

It fails a lot more often now. They've caught on.

Careful. Every time I've mentioned Brave here I've been downvoted. Getting on point: I've used Brave for awhile now and it's been fine. Major issues for me are updates are frequent enough to be annoying, and I haven't been able to access sites with self-signed certificates.

There are different levels of suitability for everything, including scientific and technical innovation. Combine advantageous intellectual predisposition with a "privileged" education, and you may get a "genius". I appreciate these people, but I'm more impressed by those who excelled (even if to a lesser extent than their aristocratically educated contemporaries) against all odds. Especially when the underdog is working actively against their disadvantages instead of lurking on forums pasting about the unfairness of society and the plight of the proletariat.

The children can say whatever they want. Their ideas are hip. It's the more conservative leaning (older) folks who'll have their car tires slashed, or be hit in the face, or just be cancelled (deleted from social media) for supporting the wrong candidates and causes.

I'm trying to avoid airlines. There are too many risky variables that could leave me stuck on the ground without a home or ticket. This is based on what I've read on their websites about pet transport.

Same thing is happening in Turkey now. Everyone gets depressed when it's dark outside when they wake up, every day of the year.

Not only that, but it's becoming increasingly taboo to talk about threats originating from minority groups. Whether those groups are religious, ethnic, or "racial" minorities, pointing out issues tied to / originating among them could be political suicide. Such issues have to be approached carefully.

RIP "Do one thing and do it well".

"The Unix philosophy is documented by Doug McIlroy in the Bell System Technical Journal from 1978: Make each program do one thing well"

Name and shame. And please take the time to file a complaint.

What a wonderful place the world might be, if only journalists would stop assuming the duties of sociologists, anthropologists, and anything else that requires a calc-based stats course to begin to get the gist of.

I'm thankful that HN is (kind of) remaining an island of politics-light STEM discussion, differentiating itself from the angsty college protestor vibe of places like Reddit. The response is muted because 1) increased maturity, and 2) moderation.

Around 15 years ago I made Linux work well on various laptops. This included X and KDE. More recently I've tried the "great Linux laptops": Thinkpad and Dell. I had so many issues that I had to stop using these laptops altogether.

Some issues I remember off the top of my head are driver support (sometimes bluetooth, sometimes wifi, sometimes other), and video. Getting the video on high dpi displays to look reasonable with Linux on these laptops seemed impossible.

Whether or not Israel's actions need excused ("exempt") is a matter of opinion. And an unbiased opinion can't be developed when we're only willing to criticize, or even look at, one facet of the issue.

Or to put it another way, similar and "worse" things are happening elsewhere, but it's not PC to bring them up.

I'm guessing you're fine with the several de facto Arab Islamic states out there.

No proton though