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Nextcloud also has a mobile app, with an feature for automatic upload of your pictures and quite a few settings (which folder to upload, etc.)

I really hope the software will be released as a package called Potty Training.

There are various Unicode blocks dedicated to symbols. There are cartography symbols, domino tiles, alchemical symbols... There is even a block for "legacy computing".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unicode_block#List_of_blocks

"When the package is a functional part of the tool it’s carrying"

Exactly like the iPouch for the new Apple headphones, right?

My thoughts exactly when I program Chrome, in headless mode and with no UI, to scroll and click on a button.

"Arranging Invisible Icons in Quadratic Time"

That title is pure poetry. The post could have ended with "Upon hearing this, the programmer was enlightened." :^)

(reference to https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hacker_koan)

It reminds me of this comment and its parent link from one month ago, wich already were heavily upvoted:

Apple seems to do all kinds of weird networking _stuff_ [...] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24838816

Sketch. At my company we use a mix of PC running Linux and Mac. Being able to run Sketch on Linux would open perspectives for designer types. Although the switch to Linux would meet opposition for other reasons. :)

The home page of Darling specifies "experimental support for running simple" GUI. Does anyone have any idea whether Metal support (which Sketch uses) is out of the question?

Come on people, what's the name of this site again? Granted, my first reaction was the same as many commenters here: "Responsive PDfs? Oh the irony!"

But as a reader of essays and textbooks on a small tablet, let me tell you it's can be useful. Yeah, it's not elegant. It a clever technical solution to a real-world problem made of decades of path dependency.

You might call it a hack.

If this had been from some kid in his basement and not from a corporate press release (admittedly pompous, overselling and worrying privacy-wise), you would have cheer.

About "responsive PDFs": there's already a "reflow" feature in Acrobat Reader. It's limited but kinda works on clean PDFs. I don't know to what extent it's a explicit possibility of the PDF standard.

https://helpx.adobe.com/acrobat/using/reading-pdfs-reflow-ac...

This article is specifically about the specific tactics BLM protest used in the suburbs and small towns. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2020-06-19/protests-...

Are there any attempts to have it both ways?

Like, the source code stays in English but my IDE translates keywords to and from my language.

Also:

“Cousteau was a showman, nothing more – a man prepared to do anything to sell his films and books, even if it meant martyring animals.”

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/france/117...

Is this a reference to Jung or to gnostic thinkers? :)

In Firefox it doesn't. When you click, a modal panel appears reminding you of the shortcuts.

Quoting from your link:

>>> IBM no longer offers general purpose IBM facial recognition or analysis software. IBM firmly opposes and will not condone uses of any technology, including facial recognition technology offered by other vendors, for mass surveillance, racial profiling, violations of basic human rights and freedoms, or any purpose which is not consistent with our values and Principles of Trust and Transparency. We believe now is the time to begin a national dialogue on whether and how facial recognition technology should be employed by domestic law enforcement agencies.

Even if the phrasing is limited to "general purpose" and "software", it still seems a pretty strong stance to me.

I learned a lot from this article (discovered on HN I think):

What's so hard about PDF text extraction? https://www.filingdb.com/pdf-text-extraction

In a nutshell, PDF is fundamentally different than MS Word: it's a standard for visual layout, without notions of paragraphs or even words.

As OP said, it doesn't mean the tool is useless. It could quite often come handy for myself.

I see people (legitimately) complaining about the longstanding lack of support for Mac OS native widgets but personnally I'm equally annoyed with the new behavior of menus.

The standard of basically every OS is that hovering the pointer over an item opens a submenu (if there's one). In Firefox, I have to click, for instance to open "Help" in the burger menu. The sub-menu then appears by replacing the parent, instead of forming a cascade near it. It's non-standard and it's slower.

The only rationale I can see for it is avoiding complex mouse paths and accidental closing of menus for absolute beginners, but still. It's not like it's not an old, solved HCI problem (see question 8). https://www.asktog.com/columns/022DesignedToGiveFitts.html

For me the question is not "do not-assholes 10x engineers exist", but "are 10x engineers the role model and the narrative this community need to highlight if it wants to move forward?"

Making a GUI around a CLI is like translating a russian, experimental,supposedly untranslatable novel. Sure, it's hard, but there's still people out there wanting to read the book and who could enjoy the result, no matter how imperfect.

Oh my, can someone ping Gwern to add Factorio to this list. https://www.gwern.net/Turing-complete

Ho nice, thank you. The option used to be in the creation dialog.

For me the reason would be first-class status in the taskbar/dock. I like having some apps only a click away and in its own window, not lost among many open tabs.

For some time you could do that with any web page in Chrome, with "the create a shortcut" option. But now Chrome opens them in a new tab, not in a dedicated window.

As as person of average linux savviness, I applaude Elementary OS ambition and really wanted to like it, but the UX is really weird to me. It's really not file-centered (no file on the desktop IIRC, weird file selection in the explorer...) and there are oddities like maximise and close buttons being at opposite sides in a windows.

Disclaimer: I only used it for a few hours.

Anecdota, plural of data and all that, I know, but Google is able to find 15 years old posts from rather obscure french blogs.

https://encrypted.google.com/search?hl=fr&q=%22Dans%20mon%20...

https://encrypted.google.com/search?hl=fr&q=%22Eh%20bien%2C%...

BUT, interestingly enough, it can find posts for the very first months of the blog existence, but stays clueless for several posts dated a few years later. For instance, several exact strings from this page are not found by Google :

http://blog.smwhr.net/2003/10/

Post-neo-brutalism.

One exemple of a possible answer:

"alexa, add a task saying blablabla" "Ok Bob, the task has beeen created in your favorite todo app. Would you like me to transfer it to another app?"

Adobe Reader has a little-known function similar to this. Go to Display > Zoom > distribute (the last entry). It works reasonably well with simple, clean documents. You can check wether the document is compatible in its property panel.

Areva, the french nuclear corporation, is in a state of constant near-bankruptcy [1] and under investigation for a massive coverup of safety and reliability issues [2]. Our nuclear infrastructure is, well, kind of a sorry mess [3] (in french, paywalled).

[1] https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-04-16/france-s-...

[2] http://www.wsj.com/articles/problems-at-nuclear-components-s...

[3] http://www.lemonde.fr/idees/article/2016/11/24/le-parc-nucle...

I thought it would be some kind of visualization of Franz Kafka's streams of consciousness. Oh well, another context collision.