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“It is impossible to devise a cyclically operating device, the sole effect of which is to absorb energy in the form of heat from a single thermal reservoir and to deliver an equivalent amount of work.”

layoutIfNeededon Cheap material converts heat to electricity

That’s thermodynamically impossible.

layoutIfNeededon Cheap material converts heat to electricity

Nitpick: you can’t convert heat to electricity. You need a heat differential.

layoutIfNeededon Launch HN: Heimdal (YC S21) – Carbon neutral cement

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

layoutIfNeededon Apple is now an antifragile company

Could you provide a few examples from your workflow that requires you to open Xcode?

layoutIfNeededon Apple is now an antifragile company

You only need clang and codesign to build an app.

layoutIfNeededon New in Git: switch and restore

Exactly. The way I see it is that “checkout” has two arguments:

- the commit you want to checkout, which defaults to HEAD

- the files you want to checkout, which defaults to everything

Simple as.

layoutIfNeededon New in Git: switch and restore

No thanks, I will keep using checkout.

layoutIfNeededon “Safari's buggy” is valid criticism, “Safari's behind Chrome in features” is not

>whose actually using this stuff?

Some Google engineer’s promotion case.

layoutIfNeededon “Safari's buggy” is valid criticism, “Safari's behind Chrome in features” is not

* and probably the most inefficient

layoutIfNeededon “Safari's buggy” is valid criticism, “Safari's behind Chrome in features” is not

Huh? There are tons of smartphone manufacturers other than Apple. You are free to choose from them.

layoutIfNeededon “Safari's buggy” is valid criticism, “Safari's behind Chrome in features” is not

>what is their rationale for blocking other browsers on iOS?

Same reason you can’t install custom system fonts on iOS. They want to keep the iOS experience coherent. If you don’t like it, buy Android.

Edit: a system font is a font that system dialogs use. Not just any random custom font installed in the font library.

layoutIfNeededon “Safari's buggy” is valid criticism, “Safari's behind Chrome in features” is not

If this is such an important issue for you, then you shouldn’t buy an iPhone. Simple as.

layoutIfNeededon Perceptual distortions in late-teens predict psychotic symptoms in mid-life

>I also sometimes get this weird perceptual thing where objects look huge, again, normally while in a dark room

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

layoutIfNeededon From stolen laptop to inside the company network

It depends. Can you turn off auto-sleep?

layoutIfNeededon No-code startup Bubble raises $100M

Lol, works as expected:

“Your browser was unable to load some necessary resources, contact your IT network administrator and ask them to allow access to

     dhtiece9044ep.cloudfront.net 
     dd7tel2830j4w.cloudfront.net/ 
     d1muf25xaso8hp.cloudfront.net”

layoutIfNeededon No-code startup Bubble raises $100M

>Do open source projects have an obvious "run this script to configure your complete dev environment in respect to this project" ?

./configure

layoutIfNeededon For developers, Safari is crap and outdated

Oh no! Safari refuses to support some "standards" that were unilaterally fast-tracked so that some PM at Google could put it in their promotion case. This is unacceptable!

layoutIfNeededon Jeanne Calment’s 122-year old longevity record may be fake (2018)

Strangely, I remember eating tons of dried apricot kernels as a kid with no ill effects. We were eating them like almonds…