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> When I woke up one morning, everything seemed really blurred. I could not precisely get where I was in the room and, when I tried to talk to my parents, they seemed really far away. I was also deeply tired and just wanted to sleep.

Things seeming too far away is called Teleopsia.

I experience Alice In Wonderland Syndrome[1]. Last time I managed to get an audience with a neurologist - the top one in this hospital, because the others didn't have a clue what I was describing - he did the same to me: told me I must be taking lots of drugs. and that I was lying to him when I said I wasn't. Not useful.

I'm not bothered about my phone standing out. The 6 and later models are actually big enough for me to hold properly and read text on, without holding them up to my face. I first bought an iPhone when the 6(s) came out.

It's also childcare for working parents. I know it's not supposed to be but it's a side effect that's widely taken for granted.

I believe you're correct about young people being turned into debt slaves. The rich and rich-aspirational in the UK are encouraging/implementing this here as quickly as they are able.

I don't know if your heel touching the ground first is the same thing as what you're describing. I usually run as a 'midfoot' but I sometimes let my heel touch the ground first. I don't drop my weight onto it, though. I just roll the foot forwards. 'Heel striking' doesn't mean running on your heels.

As much as I dislike proprietary protocols, I'd be greatly in favour of Apple deciding to make a replacement for Bluetooth that works with all their products - and Just Works. It'd be no use to me, as my only Apple product currently is an iPhone, but if I saw that Appletooth Just Worked, I'd be looking at diving (back) into their ecosystem.

I know some people are saying Bluetooth works perfectly between their Apple products, but plenty of people are saying it doesn't, too.

I shifted to Twitter for a while and eventually kicked that too. I get the HN daily digest email and generally only visit the links from that, though there are exceptions when I'm looking for something interesting over morning coffee (hence replying to this post at this time). I stopped paying attention to the news media years ago.

I think I'm pretty much free of the 'need' to look at what's 'new' now. You might think this means I have loads more free time to do more important things. I'm still waiting for that to happen.

In a script:

Get-Process | Where-Object { $_.ProcessName -eq 'SomeDaemon' } | Stop-Process

Or at the command line:

ps | ? { $_.ProcessName -eq 'SomeDaemon' } | kill

Same answer as always: It just works.

While we're here and speaking of consumer offerings: Has anyone found a satisfactory solution to displaying photos from Dropbox on their TV? Everything I try is clunky.

  ≫ 1 mile / 2 km
    1 mi / 2 km
     = 0.804672

Great, but it would be nice to show the result's unit.

  ≫ 1/2km
    1 / 2 km
     = 0.5 km⁻¹

It's been a long while since I did any real maths, so I'm slightly stumped as to why the -1 exponent is there.

The username and password are saved in my password manager, so it's no hassle at all.

Lots of talk about performance, but no numbers cited. I did my own benchmarks before using sequential ("COMB") GUIDs as 'PRIMARY KEY' (yes, they're surrogate keys) and found no material performance difference. I didn't keep the results, but someone else has made their numbers public here: https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/sqlserverfaq/2010/05/27/gui...

Do you have any sources other than incredibly biased ones?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gatestone_Institute

Has anyone any code they can show which performs the same job on both and is close to comparing apples to apples? It'd be interesting to me, not for performance comparison, but as a real world application structure comparison, a kind of more advanced Rosetta Code[1] example.

[1] http://rosettacode.org/wiki/Rosetta_Code

I had high hopes there, but I don't see an app, I just see enough boilerplate to put a <span>Hello, world!</span> into the DOM, which could have been done by just writing that into HTML. I can understand what it's doing, but I don't think it's a good example of how you can write an actual app without the parts people are mentioning.

That's oboe. You might be thinking of brown?

Last time I mentioned having switched away from Vim due to its plugins not giving the functionality I get elsewhere, the reaction was not good. As with the parent comment, somehow it was my fault, as I'd failed to update to the latest vim, changed terminals, or '[understand] vim basics'.

I've been using various vi-alikes, including vim, since 1996, so, yes, I have used just about every vim plugin, used vi[m] on every terminal you can name, plus several you may have forgotten existed, and would guess I know the basics by now, considering 90% of what I've edited over the last 20 years has been through Vim and most of the other 10% has been through work-alikes.

Please don't insult people by making assumptions about their knowledge, experience and commitment. I - and the OP, I assume(!), have put the work in and have decided the grass might be greener elsewhere. Please respect that and be constructive. The OP seems to be trying to help others by pointing at what they did / are doing to try and live with another editor.

[s]he regrets the hiring of the developer. And if they're hired at all and then leave quickly, that's an awful lot of money (even it was all in people's time) wasted.

Then I will. Hi friends in the Netherlands!

Quick, produce more heat!

I've made clocks before, and tried to either have them woken up when it's (almost) time to update - or have them sleep long enough that it'll be (almost) time to update. Only seems polite.

We have 'native' text editors. Sublime Text is very similar to VS Code in many ways. But with Sublime I haven't got up and running writing, running, debugging code in various languages like I have in VS Code.

The whole experience is important. For many, it's more important than the individual 'feature' of being light on resources.

I currently ignore the fact that VS Code is 'heavy' as text editors go, because it's so much lighter than e.g. Visual Studio, leaving me much more RAM free for some of the code I'm running to gobble up and use for its own ends.

I'd prefer lighter 'weight' - in terms of RAM and CPU usage - but I'm not tempted back to Sublime yet.

BTW I'm a vi person, so I'm using vi keybindings in VS, VS Code, Sublime - and anywhere else I can do so. I love Vim's speed, but I can't Get Stuff Done in it like I can in more modern editors. I mastered the keys, not the inbuilt windowing system, scripting language, etc.

"All the benefits of Gopher [...] can also be achieved with stripped-down web pages"

Can be achieved, but aren't. I'd love a consistent, stripped-down interface. The web doesn't give me this (it doesn't matter if it _could_).

Or reflecting off the sail. Or diffracting around it.

When I'm working on performance, I measure twice and cut once. I know measuring is 'hard' as there's a lot of code optimised for x86 in VS, but saying 'It would be slower built for 64 bit' is cutting before measuring even once.

I have the greatest of respect for the author, but everyone needs to be exposed to 'trust, but verify' at least occasionally, just in case they happen to be wrong this once.

12 seconds to load fully here (that's 11.90 seconds too long - can't they store some stuff in local storage or...?) - and of course it's not really usable until it's fully loaded. You could start trying to type but it'll not do anything, or stuff will move.

Opening the 'Updates', er, 'section' with 2 emails in it took 2 seconds, which is silly.

I love the flow of Inbox but I'm seriously considering going back to a local client. Are there any good ones left these days? I liked mutt, but using it with an IMAP mailbox made it a bit clunky. I just need to work /fast/, without crashes, without spam, and preferably with vi keys and programmabil... never mind the last two, I can live with the speed, stability and spam-free parts.

This should be the highest voted comment on hackernews, or we're doing something wrong.

Digg Reader is ... okay

I've used a microwave which has one dial. You can turn it clockwise or anticlockwise to add/remove cooking time, which is fine.

The designers thought it'd be good to allow pressing the dial, as if it was a button. Pressing the dial set the cooking time to 30 seconds and immediately started cooking. A one-touch interface, how useful!

The only problem was that it was difficult to press the dial without accidentally nudging it clockwise or anticlockwise. Nine times out of ten I managed to turn it anticlockwise, which set a time of 95 hours or thereabouts - and began cooking.

I hate to think what may have happened in some people's houses where they've done this, not noticed that it said 95 hours and forgotten it was cooking.

While there aren't necessarily native packages pre-built and ready to pull down with the installers, you don't need to be a 'software packager' to install .NET Core and I don't know what the problem is with 'add[ing] a separate PPA'

Instructions for Debian[1], Fedora[2], Centos[3] and Ubuntu[4]. These all seem like pretty simple copy+paste instructions.

[1] https://www.microsoft.com/net/core#linuxdebian [2] https://www.microsoft.com/net/core#linuxfedora [3] https://www.microsoft.com/net/core#linuxcentos [4] https://www.microsoft.com/net/core#linuxubuntu

How is DAB easier to track?