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So you can switch between different inputs such as multiple game consoles, DVD-player, Apple-tv/Roku/whatnot, computer/chromecast, etc.

You can get splitters but that's still not as convenient as just being able to switch with the tv's remote.

Actually, mine was a bit cheaper! It's 55" 4k but no HDR. It was ~$850 CAD. At the time, LG's equivalent (spec-wise, as far as I could tell) "consumer" smart-tv was ~$1000.

The model I linked here, is $1000 CAD on amazon.ca (through 3rd-party sellers), but I don't know how it compares.

Again that's a few years ago so the market may have changed. And annoyingly, LG seems to have different products for Canada vs the US.

LG sells them as some of their "Business" tvs, intended e.g. for hotels. In Canada some of them are branded as "Commercial Lite".

Here's an LG 65" 4k HDR dumb TV: https://www.lg.com/ca_en/business/commercial-tv/lg-65UV340H

I have a similar model from a few years ago (purchased from Canada Computers fwiw), and I love it. Because I don't notice it exists. It just does its job, like a TV should.

LG still makes them, if you carefully navigate to their Business "Commercial Lite" or digital-signage options. I love my 55" 4k dumb TV. But you might not get some high-end features like HDR.

I'd love to try a keyboard where the keys are a bit wider and with a bit more space between them than normal. Probably bad but still, I'd like to try.

I can agree that .com is cluttered (with non-companies, even), and that a wider and semantic namespace could be a good thing.

But in my example -- I can't imagine a site that belongs under exactly one of these TLDs. So any site that falls under one of them, conflicts mentally with a site of the same name under at least one of the others. So this hasn't expanded the namespace at all.

Instead, it has poisoned the namespace. Did you want joe.photo or joe.photos? I literally just made up that example, and oh look, it's the same site. Of course it is; the moneygrab was successful. Because otherwise, users will not remember which one was right, and the two sites are competing for the same name with the same meaning.

ICANN sold out the internet. The namespace is all but ruined.

.PHOTO, .PHOTOGRAPHY, .PHOTOS, .PICS, .PICTURES

This should offend everyone.

I think this is borrowing a convention from Perl, where the variable $_ is often given an implicit value of "the thing I'm talking about" when you didn't bother to give a real variable name for it.

http://www.tutorialspoint.com/perl/perl_special_variables.ht...

(The $ sigil denotes that the variable is a scalar; all Perl variables have a sigil like that.)

So this reads naturally to me: _ is the lg_buf, it doesn't need a real name like "buf", because it's just "the thing" or "it".

I played a bunch of Populous on Amiga as a young child, thinking a lot about ideas of God and civilization. It was a very unique experience for me to play that game; an awesome and terrifying feeling. It didn't explain anything. You push a button, sometimes it does nothing (not enough mana or whatever), sometimes the whole earth would shake and lives are destroyed. The feeling of satisfaction when castles are formed.

I remember the launcher desktop icon would be a hut. But when you double-click it turns into the castle. So friggin cool. Just the sense of mystery behind it all.

I think the argument is that mail is an essential service (e.g. for voting) that the government has a mandate to provide to communities that the private sector would not bother to service because it would not be profitable for them to do so.

> 1. Are you suggesting masks as a cultural norm for all eternity? I hope not.

Well in some Asian cultures it was already normalized to wear a mask when you have any kind of symptoms of anything contagious. I was hoping that convention would move west even before this pandemic happened -- so I hope it stays with us.

I suspect that Facebook is powerful enough to choose election winners whose policies will favour them. Much moreso, and with much less visibility, than regular media companies.

This will sound weird, but I have no idea why anyone cares about the abstract "survival of human species". I care very deeply about the lives of people actually living here right now. But if Earth is wiped out, what does it matter that some humans are alive somewhere? Except of course that I'm glad for them that they didn't get killed. But we're talking about generations from now anyway, and there are more direct ways to stop people from dying here today.

What were the problems with this transition?

Your comment isn't helpful unless you're willing to point out what isn't true and can only be observed from within America?

I don't like that they define microservices as components communicating via RPC, because this precludes other models like pub-sub.

It's done phenomenal good in all the countries that have done it properly, and have nearly gotten rid of this thing. I can't believe, after all the available data all over the world, that anyone still thinks "no lockdown" is reasonable.

? My problem is not with Unicode here. Unicode has angle-brackets. But SGML (which tbf predates Unicode by a lot) doesn't use them.... It uses less-than/greater-than signs and pretends that they're angle-brackets. They're not. Consequently, HTML <tags> are typographically incorrect and look horrible.

It's made even worse by "programmer fonts" that make the glyphs for less-than/greater-than look like angle-brackets, which is just wrong; now there's no way to write the comparators.

I guess we all just wish that ASCII (and/or keyboards) had one or two more pairs of brackets.

That's cool! But it's also somehow even worse, by being so complicated.

> — How about the left angle bracket "<"? Is that at least a "bracket"?

> No.

> — Why not?

> Because it's a LESS-THAN SIGN.

It's petty, and there are bigger problems, but this is one of my main gripes against SGML and its successors.

What advantages do people like from Gitlab as opposed to just using git? I'm not too familiar with gitlab/github, so I'm sure it's a naive question, but I'm wondering what the main value-add that's missing from the basic tools is?

oh, I didn't know that. thanks!!

> "Adding ISPs in the TRR program paves the way for providing customers with the security of trusted DNS resolution, while also offering the benefits of a resolver provided by their ISP such as parental control services and better optimized, localized results," the announcement said.

What? No! Why would DNS have "optimized, localized results"?

I....... have to disagree, though I'm not sure why, but that old one looks much better to me. Like it's simpler and more clear.

Big Cats was way better IMO. I was surprised they switched to landmarks, and I'm more surprised that they haven't changed to something else entirely yet.

I absolutely love the all-glass skyscraper aesthetic. I consider it breathtaking. Calming and magnificent. I never understand why so many people say they love the look of old buildings.

I know it's not "cool", but I'll take Toronto's glass over New York's filthy gargoyles, any day. I don't even understand how people can have such opposite taste.

> But without moderation, it trends towards mud-slinging, vitriol where arguments become so divided that it's no longer discourse.

I think of it as performance art of insane babble, satire, potty-humour. Should "proper discourse and exchange of ideas" be the only thing allowed to exist?

(I have no problem with advertisers pulling away from it, either.)

Yeah people get too caught up in the marketing-hype of AI as if it's a magical thinking lifeform. So far, it is not. It's a device, a tool. Devices don't own things.

I'm pretty hype to try the Keychron K1: https://www.keychron.com/

I think the "tenkeyless" layout is great: it's "full keyboard" size including the separated arrows block and correctly spaced F keys, it's just missing the numpad section that I rarely use.

It's also the "chiclet" style keys like a laptop keyboard, but with "low profile" switches that I'm hoping will feel good but be less painful than full-on cherry/gaming switches. I grew up on Model-M's, I used to love hammering away, but I guess I'm one of the weirdos that grew to love the feel of chiclet, where I can tell if I've pressed a key but don't need to press it so hard. But most chiclet keyboards are too low-quality with not quite enough travel. Balancing act.

> It's like calling a civilian contractor at US Army an army officer.

Is this difference really so significant?