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It's pretty common though for people to let kids use the iPad and not their personal-work-everything-MacBook. iPads don't even have a guest mode, so you are essentially limited to deciding whether the whole device is personal or for sharing.

There are fashions which are current and involve a measure of adjustability. It isn't necessary to wear only robes and wrapped cloth to achieve this although I understand the occasional desire to throw in (on?) the towel and give up fitted primarily western style clothing altogether. However the idea that clothing today is "just" a fixed size is merely one way of looking at it which you can choose to do or not.

Formal/business attire: tailoring is nice but a military tuck lets a dress shirt conform to the belly you have, not the one (or several) it was patterned on.

Casual, work and streetwear: additional snaps, buttons, and ties are often used to allow the wearer to fit to their body and desired motion. Some brands have a show clear intention, such as having a small pleat or even slit in the pant waist with elastic so that it can be worn high or low at a range of sizes. More commonly, elastic pulls on jackets or athletic pants. Others have give less direction but more options by leaving button holes or grommets so the wearer can create their own shape and hold it.

On the consumer end it is difficult to tell when a garment is designed with any of this in mind or if it's just mindless copying or following trends. Having some minuscule knowledge into the design side I can say that it's a mix of both. Brands which care about it have designers who care and try to research these things to use them strategically; they tend to signal the versatility by readily showing models wearing them in different, sometimes unintended ways. Streetwear is ripe with this because brands often produce less meaning less sizes available and they (and their customers) value the suggested creativity. If you can only make S, M, L or M, L, XL but want 5ft women and 6.5ft men to enjoy them that is a challenge which some designers live for.

Love it! I am fond of taking video while sitting/standing still, usually in snippets of 15-30 seconds. Last year I started taking longer videos and after showing some to a friend, thought it would be amusing to do it again in one day and cut them all together[0]. Text was tongue in cheek "shot on iPhone" shite but anyway it's quite pleasant putting these things on in the background when working.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SvIHr8SA3Q4

Exasperated, or exasperation, is a feeling experienced by a person. Exacerbation describes a change in quality of something (usually inanimate).

Coming from floppy disks which were always a fridge (or file cabinet) magnet away from total destruction it made sense. I didn't know that anything after vinyl LPs were pressed so burned with a laser just sounded much more permanent than bit-flipped-by-magnet. Meaning, faster internet wouldn't have made me any more likely to question this stuff but made it easier if by chance I came across some advice to do so. Anyway it's 2024 and my dad still has floppies (working) and cable internet, but the world still turns 'round I guess.

At the time I (and my dad) were buying CD-R and DVD-R for storing/backing up home media, we still had dial-up internet. "Research" was precious time on the phone line and while I am one to indulge in an excursion down the presumably gratuitous information rabbit hole on many topics, the archival-ness of burned discs never occurred to me. It must have been a discussion on it here on HN, many years after the last time I used disc drive for burning, that I realized it was something worth thinking about.

The Guardian article from May 2020 which others have linked (https://www.theguardian.com/society/2020/may/26/last-iron-lu...) has more information on his life than this BBC one and his thoughts on the present pandemic. Given that his death was recent, I too am curious as to whether there are any further details on his acquiring the illness but suspect there may be little to report on. If you read the Guardian article he is not apathetic at all but expresses a sense that it will likely be what finally gets him.

In case you haven't already, try several different kinds of paper and see if there is any difference. Not necessarily "better" paper; the smoothest writing I felt recently was on the back of a receipt of all things.

The steeper your angle the more the nib rotation matters so you can try adjusting that while holding the position which is still comfortable. Someone recently tried mine and had a similar issue because they held it almost vertical; pressure on the page helps spread the tines and allow ink to flow but not if it's stabbing. Holding the pen at a different rotation to suit their writing motion worked and made it more comfortable to use less pressure but it did take some trial and error.

People wishing to try experiencing the pleasure of fountain pens but avoid it because they are afraid of going down a rabbit hole can use the following: get one Platinum Preppy pen with black ink and either Medium (if you like thick, felt pen like lines), Fine (comparable to a regular ballpoint), or Extra Fine (if you keep your pencils extra sharp or normally use .38 or smaller pens) for $10 or less, and any notepad made in Vietnam for less than $5 at Walmart/CVS/Michaels/Amazon/etc. You don’t need to read any product reviews to try this out for around $15.

Why I recommend it this way: I enjoy pens and have done illustration and calligraphy professionally but the Preppy has essentially replaced my other pens except when I specifically want something special. Writing with it still feels special, mind, but to enjoy things you also shouldn’t be afraid of damaging or losing something precious, nor should you miss a day of writing because you didn’t want to carry some fancy instrument in your hoodie pocket or whatever. As for the pads, fountain pens are wet compared to other types and some paper will make it impossible to use or enjoy. Vietnamese paper is cheap, available, and known to work well for this.

Sometimes. It's problematic if you're stuck in a loop of sending a message without actually making the hard or risky strategic decisions.

While many here won't disagree in general, be wary of holding this sentiment as dogma. There can be bad apples in engineering, and MBAs who can see that whether or not they have the knowledge or experience to make it better themselves. Whether or not they can (or want to) make the next step of hiring better or more honest engineers is what matters then.

(I'm not optimistic about Boeing here, but hey.)

Another upvote, another article I wish I had the knowledge and patience to understand better in context. Still, Alyssa's writeups are a fun read.

For those who want to read physical discs still for whatever reason I highly recommend the Pioneer BDR-XS07UHD. It does CD/DVD/Blu-Ray, can run off external power or over the USB-C connection at slightly slower speeds, is compact and lightweight. Yes, the reign of dongles is well upon us but the upside is that your best optical drive is no longer tied to one machine. I just keep the drive next to my movies and grab it whenever I want to watch something, ripping for future viewing.

I still have an older MacBook Pro with optical drive but: it doesn’t do Blu-Ray, it’s loud and thick, it’s a path for dust ingress, and another moving part that can fail in a laptop on the go.

If we ever get disc readers back, I hope it’s less spinning platter and more microscopic lidar where you just wave the disc in front of the holoscreen and it instantly reads whatever day it contains. Burning would be a different story I guess…

Yeah this shit happens all over the place. I’ve worked for/with numerous people whose method of testing almost always involves giving maximum latitude for idk… shotgun debugging? The bigger problem is that people just forget, they’ve made five test accounts with admin privileges and it isn’t known until (hopefully) someone does an audit of user privileges across the entire company.

I enjoyed Engineering and the Mind's Eye by Eugene Ferguson https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262560788/engineering-and-the-m...

Too much discussion about the Holy Roman Empire over dinner? People talk to get things of their mind sometimes, not the infinite pursuit of conversation.

On top of that, something I still haven't looked into the details on: when you import RAW+JPG photos, the "original" can be set to either one. You can import and make some edits without realizing which is being used unless you go through the menus. So my freshly imported pic could be 5MB or 50MB despite just being a single thumbnail in the library.

"Is that the same probe that Hans was... oh, nevermind." Actually the full article title that I see is descriptive enough that I wouldn't have thought of it but that wouldn't fit in the HN form limits I don't think.

"Probe says Hans Niemann didn’t cheat against Magnus Carlsen in over-the-board match, but did cheat in up to 55 online games"

To clarify what I think you're suggesting for non-Mullvad users:

- Payment can be made in multiple forms which are not tied to a customer identity (you can even mail them cash) - Accounts are not username/password, no personal info is requested. When you pay you're given a randomly generated account number (currently 16 digits) which is valid for the time paid and each connected device, up to 5 simultaneously, will receive a random name.

More info here: https://mullvad.net/en/blog/mullvads-account-numbers-get-lon...

This is a great suggestion for opening up as a more general purpose search engine. The history on/off option is nice but not an adequate guarantee for many situations. Searching for regionally banned or "unfavorable" topics while traveling or living under a regime, consulting legal information, or just plain old porn searches are all situations where one might consider having their name, email, and credit card stored with the potential to be linked a bit too risky.

This is my only “complaint”, having used it as a paid service and now just on the free trial after cutting subscriptions en masse. I was doing some research and had maybe five tabs open to different searches, had a browser update, then after the reload I had five less searches available. In your example they are actually running a new query, mine I wish the result could simply be cached since I’m a logged in user etc. I was disappointed but not sure what they should really do– flash a warning to all new users? Perhaps just when they bring a similar query, “hey we noticed you’re making another search, this time it slides but normally it costs another search”? Like others in this thread I’m hoping they can drive down the cost of unlimited searches rather than spend time creating special cases for us plebs.

Apple Intelligence (AI) would suffice.

Jet Set Radio does seem to be having a renaissance lately. Hi-Fi RUSH is another inspired take fashioned as a rhythm hack and slash.

I was going to ask if all Blender developers were in Europe but was able to answer my own question from https://www.blender.org/development/top-27-committers-2022/

It does appear that the majority of top contributors are from European countries but overall pretty diverse: China, Australia, New Zealand, Russia, Brazil, Egypt are represented as well.

That said, if I revised my comment to say two developer salaries per month, or 3, 4, etc. it is still impressive in my view.

Is the €134k/mo figure including all corporate sponsors? Approximating that as one developer salary per month then what they've continued to accomplish is still very impressive.

Thanks. She's doing much better since the surgery thankfully. Getting through the roughest parts (after the surreal part) help to make us stronger and all that.

Agreed, I have two MacBook Pros from 2010 and 2011 which have been chugging along great since then; daily drivers up until 2020, then stuck on a shelf without any power conditioning for two years. Dusted them both off and put back in service. They're easy to clean, look basically brand new, and work just fine now as home servers after purchasing a USB-C to Magsafe adapter so I could recycle those old bricks. Now those I definitely went through a few of over the years.

My three-year-old had a 4-inch teratoma removed from (well, with) one ovary earlier this year. Without having any idea about the prevalence of teratomas in humans historically, I wonder: is it scarier to have symptoms and not know what it is, or to know what it is and not have the means to treat it. The fact that it's real and not just a tearout from a Junji Ito story is frightening enough in modern times.

They're so simple that it's hard to believe they just work. I'm almost surprised that browser vendors haven't pushed the functionality out of existence just because, in favor of ever more complicated solutions.

Similarly, while prototyping an internal company wiki I made bookmarklets to fix some Sharepoint shenanigans and add features that otherwise would've required mucking about with extensions (tough when half the company was forced to use IE) or even worse, Sharepoint apps. The entire IT staff had a major WTF moment after explaining just how simple the whole thing was.

I've walked past these buildings and they look nice, but I was/am not so optimistic about the maintenance required when the buildings are 20, 30+ years old. From the article:

> Periodically, a group of mountaineering arborists lowers themselves from the roofs of the two towers to tend to the plants, checking their health, and pruning or replacing them as needed.

Are these mountaineering arborists volunteering for the fun of it? Paid by the building management? Residents? If volunteers, it sounds like a fun activity but quite unsustainable for more than a handful of buildings. If paid (now or in the future), I'm quite curious what the average cost is and what the contingencies are for a lapse in maintenance due to change of ownership, rising cost leading to longer maintenance interval, etc. Maintaining the greenery is one aspect, but so is maintaining the concrete holding it up.

Despite my lack of optimism I do find it interesting to explore. Sometimes a few... mildly bourgeois... early demonstrations do provide the inspiration and requisite practical experience to get things rolling.

> Nobody has ever struggled to understand files or folders.

It sounds more like your family members have an aptitude for pragmatic organizational habits. This works for my parents but a common enough question from others is along the lines of "what do you mean where did I put it, I thought the computer was supposed to remember it?!" No amount of encouragement around the fact that they must have saved, likely named, and at least reopened a particular document dozens of times makes the concept stick in a satisfying way.