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Although I'm not in the target audience (because Google), I think some of my less nerdy friends would find this extremely useful. I've had quite a few ask me for an easy way to create a quick form to gather responses when organising an event or to run a little survey. Thanks for creating it, bookmarked. Will recommend.

This is delightful! As someone who really, really liked Win2000 before switching to Mac, getting to browse the web on an NT/IE6 is a wonderful nostalgia trip (especially when you know it's simulation of sorts).

Thanks for creating this, author!

Wow, thanks for this list of things to check out. This is exactly the sort of thing I was hoping we'd be talking about and share.

I downloaded and am playing with fraidyc.at and am so far really liking the idea -- the whole idea made more sense after watching your video and then actually testing it. Thanks for making it.

Brilliant. Love it. Of course we see this everything, in automation in aviation for example, or in cars, or even reliance on urban solutions like food delivery and such.

In each of these cases, things become more convenient/less complex, but a new set of problems crop up.

Thank you for your armchain philosophising.

Thank you, merged!

Indeed! This is a very pleasant site. And very happy to see no analytics/tracking. Excellent example, thanks.

There's https://wiby.me that's worked quite well for me so far, for finding very niche/specific things and when I wanted to be surprised.

Ha!

(offtopic 2) How's the beer?

Indeed, I enjoy that æsthetic in certain contexts, admittedly because it makes me nostalgic more than anything else. I had to exercise restraint! :) I wanted the site to remain readable and accessible in text mode/lynx/screen readers and respect basic typograhical conventions.

But I agree with you that the thing that I miss the most is the hobby-ist, non-commercial aspect. But I'm discovering a lot of great links on this HN thread!

Indeed, my first homepage was on Homestead IIRC, using the online WYSIWYG builder. It was terribly hard to get consistent results, but it worked. And got me into learning HTML4. I don't think they're too common now — it's usually things like Wix that have a more "pick a theme and enter content" + automagic website creation.

An opportunity, perhaps...

Beaker looks very interesting indeed! Download it as I write this. Reminds me a little of what I've read about HyperCard. Looking forward to testing it.

Thanks for the heads-up! There are so many links to follow up on here in this thread.

Yes, I'm discovering the newer pubnix now (only knew of sdf.org previously). Looks interesting, if a little overkill for what I'm looking for. Glad they exist though.

You can perhaps try a week of _mostly_ limiting yourself to those and see how it goes? I personally do a mix of the "normal" web and more niche stuff out there.

Excellent! Joined, thank you!

Oh I like the Hotline one especially! Easy to implement and some of the sites on there are very cool indeed. Thanks for these links.

I agree that webrings had a surprise factor, but like clicking on "surprise me" on https://wiby.me! (Or at least, that's the closest almost-analogous thing I use today).

Curlie (https://curlie.org/) is the closet I've found to a proper curated directory, and it's really quite good.

Indeed! It's so much more interesting to learn about what people are interested in, beyond just their professional competencies. I really like that you have your guiding philosophies, hobbies, languages and even Hogwarts house on your about me page.

Kinda makes me want to make a more detailed about me page. If I enjoy these kinds of details, surely some other people will too. Might do it this weekend.

Author here. That's an interesting analogy — especially given that small book stores and libraries (to a lesser extent) still do exist, albeit in much smaller numbers, attracting fewer patrons.

A lot of web traffic today transits through applications and platforms. This isn't necessarily a bad thing; although I'd hate to see even more walled gardens. My hope is only that the small and independent web not go forgotten/ignored.

Thank you for this complete version.

Random detail, but "Maximator" is a type of beer (a Starkbier/Doppelbock) brewed by the the very popular Augustiner brewery, not a brand in itself. In fact, it's a Bavarian tradition for the names of Doppelbocks to generally end in "-ator": Celebrator, Optimator, Animator...

Ah I'd heard about this earlier but the details are a lot of fun:

"He copied the height and thickness of existing interstate shields, copied their exact typeface, and even sprayed his sign with a thin glaze of overspray of gray house paint so that it wouldn’t look too new."

Of course, not everyone should be doing this, but what a brilliant story!

Excellent! Love the idea. Just joined and set up my twtxt.txt file on a public repo on GitHub (and using the raw as my twturl). I'm getting a cert trying to interact with the registry, but might be something on my end.

Great job! Hopefully I'll get this working. Curious to see how hackers use it.

Author here. Thank you. It's a bit of an experiment, glad you enjoy it.

Ah exactly what I was looking for — a quick summary of the specificities/main features of each distribution. Thank you! I'm considering running one of these in a VM to play with Linux again. The last time was elementary OS on a Chromebook and I really enjoyed that.

Then again, if your usual corner distributeur is asking you for this other PIN, authentication methods have certainly gotten a lot more creative!

Incognito is "private" in the sense that it doesn't leave a trace locally, on your computer.

From https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/95464?co=GENIE.Plat... :

> - Chrome won't save your browsing history, cookies and site data, or information entered in forms. > - Files you download and bookmarks you create will be kept. >- Your activity isn’t hidden from websites you visit, your employer or school, or your internet service provider.

Your IP, referrers etc are still visible. The only thing is you're perhaps not logged in. It doesn't do much to protect you at all.

It is indeed interesting. I'd say that it has to do with:

- complex structures (not necessarily always 4/4 or 3/4)

- variations in dynamic range (loud parts vs. quiet parts)

- storytelling / philosophical themes (the human condition, freedom, suffering, literature)

- intense "solos" (Mendelssohn insanely fast yet moving segments on the piano vs. Petrucci going crazy on the guitar)

- mastery of musical instruments (particularly true in progressive metal, but metal drummers, guitarists/bassists and keyboard players tend to play at a very high technical level)

- song length (like Seventh Wonder's "The Great Escape" at about 30 mins)

None of these individually are unique to either genre, but taken together, we can start seeing quite a bit of an overlap.

I missed it too. So I went ahead and got an old, refurbished harman/kardon cassette deck after months of research about different cassette and deck varieties. Learnt about type 1 (ferric), type 2 (chromium dioxide) and type 4 (metal) cassettes.

And now when I get back from work in the evening, I put on a cassette whilst making dinner. Or when I have friends over. And I let them pick the cassettes, which is always rather exciting.

I listen to a lot of metal and classical music, so finding original cassettes (even the really nice metal ones) isn't that hard at all. Plus they're cheap! (Waaay cheaper than vinyl).

And if all that weren't enough, there are bands still putting out cassettes: synthwave artists (Taurus 1984), indie bands (Tvivler), and even pop (Sigrid)! And if I don't find artists I like, I can always make my own ;)

tldr: If you miss it, you can still go out get yourself a cassette deck and enjoy it!

Oh, I don't think I alluded to linking the control sticks... perhaps you intended to respond to another comment?

As for the dual input thing, there are 6 instances of the the warning. We can't really know what the pilots were thinking, but I believe page 31, from when Bonin says, "je suis à fond à..."... and then Robert à "attends moi j’ai des j’ai des commandes moi hein" a little later, "alors donne moi les commandes à moi les commandes", and 4 warnings Dual Input between them (in the space of about a minute and a half)...

I think it's fair to say that it wasn't super clear who was in control.

I'll make no comments about which system is better since I have no direct experience of flying in such environments (have only piloted small aircraft with mirrored controls, but with clear "Commande à droite/gauche" to establish PF, with my instructor). But à priori, I would imagine both systems work fine if used well.

Here's the official report: https://www.bea.aero/uploads/tx_elyextendttnews/annexe.01_04...

Page 28: The right-seat co-pilot Bonin says "j’ai l’impression qu’on a une vitesse de fou non qu’est-ce que vous en pensez ? "(I feel like we're speeding like crazy, what do you think?")

Page 31: Same co-pilot "mais je suis à fond à cabrer depuis tout à l’heure " (But I've pulling back completely for a while), and this while the cockpit is screaming "Dual Input" (so this means that the other pilot was inputting as well, thus "unbeknownst" in my original comment).

Same page, right after, the captain says, "non non non ne remonte plus là" (No, no, no, don't pull back any further".

If you read the entire transcript, it's clear that there was persistent confusion as to who was in control, despite the dual-input warnings. AF447 is widely considered to be a failure in CRM, and a failure to recognize that they were in an aerodynamic stall (again, despite the warnings).

They didn't trust the plane with the information it was providing, which is probably why they ignored these warnings.

I answered further up but: yes, it did. The DUAL INPUT alarms were audible in the cockpit voice recording. However, unbeknowst to the captain, the co-pilot used priority takeover on his side. (This was always visible on the panel + there was an audible "Priority right" warning around the end)

Source: https://www.vanityfair.fr/actualites/articles/vol-af-447-rio...

There was both an audio and a visual indication of DUAL INPUT (light on the panel + "dual input" announced verbally). The co-pilot commanded priority take-over (from the pilot, who had just second previously done the same) without announcing it. This would have been clear if they looked at the panel that shows which side has priority, but in that confusion, their attention would've been elsewhere (airspeed and bank angle mostly).

Source (in French): https://www.vanityfair.fr/actualites/articles/vol-af-447-rio...