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scoot··on How London became the rest of the world’s startup capital
Most people of that era were "very well-dressed" relative to their wealth compared to today's "pyjamas and slippers to go to the local shop" level of couture, so I'm not to sure how much you can read into that.
scoot··on Amazon closing its Fresh and Go stores
Obligatory /disclaimer/disclosure/. (Don't worry, most HNrs get this wrong for some reason. I will be downvoted for pointing this out, but whatever. It's a meaningful difference to those that understand.)
scoot··on Amazon closing its Fresh and Go stores
That's a pretty low bar
scoot··on Heathrow scraps liquid container limit
> despite never having seriously attempted a heist or trying to get contraband on a plane

So you've tried casually? What does a casual heist look like exactly?

scoot··on PicoPCMCIA – a PCMCIA development board for retro-computing enthusiasts
"For those who have forgotten..."
scoot··on The Overcomplexity of the Shadcn Radio Button
Not true. Radix was built by a team on a Modulz paycheck, then acquired and (more or less) abandoned by WorkOS.

Your (implicit) point that Shadcn didn't develop the underlying component library still stands.

scoot··on The Overcomplexity of the Shadcn Radio Button
> everything lives in your own code base

A common misconception.

In reality Shadcn is a thin wrapper around libraries such as Radix, recharts, etc. The article says as much.

scoot··on iCloud Photos Downloader
Thanks. I'll give it a go
scoot··on High-speed train collision in Spain kills at least 39
What's the befit of speculating at this point? Let the investigators investigate, and hopefully some lessons will be learned.
scoot··on Cloudflare acquires Astro
"e.g." isn't used correctly here. It's intended use is as a connector linking a clause to examples supporting that clause. You can't simply substitute "for example" with "e.g." anywhere in a sentence and expect it to function correctly.

Regardless, these Latin abbreviations best avoided entirely due to the surprising number of readers who don't understand them.

scoot··on iCloud Photos Downloader
This looks interesting. Can I use it to back up photos from one (old) photo library, and restore them into another (newer) one?
scoot··on Creators of Tailwind laid off 75% of their engineering team
Six of eight
scoot··on Creators of Tailwind laid off 75% of their engineering team
> google helped kickstart the world wide web

Where on earth did you get that idea? The web existed long before Google - Google just found a unique way to monetise other people’s content

scoot··on Creators of Tailwind laid off 75% of their engineering team
Revenue is not profit
scoot··on CO2 batteries that store grid energy take off globally
Isn't this effectively neutral over time? Heat generated during compression, lost during decompression, so basically using the air as a heat storage medium?
scoot··on Show HN: Base UI v1.0 Unstyled UI Components from the Creators of Radix and MUI
> An unstyled text input doesn't look like a nearly invisible thin light gray rectangle.

Correct – it doesn't. It would bode you well to actually try the thing you're commenting on.

> Vague ad hominem attacks

Then let me be explicit – it's pretty clear that you only came here to troll, because nothing you've said has any basis in fact. Please don't do that here.

scoot··on Show HN: Base UI v1.0 Unstyled UI Components from the Creators of Radix and MUI
> Then you wouldn't have to remove default styling for it to "work out of the box"

I didn't. I removed the CSS styling provided in the example to test that it works perfectly without it.

As OP said in his post description "Base UI doesn’t bundle any styles"

> Barely visible thin light gray lines where the input is supposed to be are endemic

That's a very different complaint, and if as you say "endemic", contradicts your original one that in general they don't render at all.

I imagine that the CSS in the examples are intentionally lightweight exactly because they're unstyled components. It isn't a design system, so is being as unopinionated as possible while demonstrating how to style them.

I don't use the "T" word lightly, but it really does look like you're intentionally being one. (That or poorly informed – you chose which side of Hanlon's razor you sit.)

scoot··on Apple has locked my Apple ID, and I have no recourse. A plea for help
That doesn't explain why an entire account is shut down, rather than just use of gift cards. Hammer to crack an egg, and just plain lazy/incompetent
scoot··on Sick of smart TVs? Here are your best options
The first line of the homepage says "RootMyTV (v1/v2) has been patched for years, and your TV is almost certainly not vulnerable.", so that's hardly surprising
scoot··on Show HN: Base UI v1.0 Unstyled UI Components from the Creators of Radix and MUI
The point is that it works out of the box (i.e. with no additional styling). It isn't invisible.

And yes, obviously with default browser styling – what else would it use in the absence of any default styling or the example css?

I don't understand your argument.

scoot··on Show HN: Base UI v1.0 Unstyled UI Components from the Creators of Radix and MUI
FWIW, I tried the Input example from the docs in StackBlitz and removed the default styling, and it renders just fine...
scoot··on Show HN: Base UI v1.0 Unstyled UI Components from the Creators of Radix and MUI
Spotted this yesterday on X and already upgraded to v1 from beta.6 without issue (admittedly I'm only using a subset of the components, so YMMV).

Congrats to the team!

scoot··on Show HN: Fanfa – Interactive and animated Mermaid diagrams
Short videos have subtitles for engagement with those watching without sound (a significant proportion)
scoot··on John Giannandrea to retire from Apple
Why on earth would you want to accelerate, brake, and steer by voice?
scoot··on Airloom – 3D Flight Tracker
Very cool!

Buttery smooth on mobile (iPhone 14), but the slider thumbs have a vertical anlignment issue (consider using a component library that has solved all the niggles rather than rolling your own).

Also, you might consider setting the default airport according to time of day – Memphis is dead rn, whereas Heathrow is super busy and fun to watch…

Also, lots be the name!

scoot··on Airloom – 3D Flight Tracker
Very cool!

Buttery smooth on mobile (iPhone 14), but the slider thumbs have a vertical anlignment issue (consider using a component library that has solved all the niggles rather than rolling your own).

Also, you might consider setting the default airport according to time of day – Memphis is dead RN, whereas Heathrow is super busy and fun to watch…

scoot··on How to repurpose your old phone into a web server
What makes your UPS any less of a fire timebomb?
scoot··on Two billion email addresses were exposed
They've changed their cookie consent provider (or rolled their own) since my comment. Probably just a happy coincidence, but well done Coursera in any case for fixing a pretty egregious breach of regulations.

The other good news in the meantime is that the EU (who originally mandated cookie consent) has finally woken up to the ridiculousness of leaving it up to the site, and will require browsers to enforce it instead.

scoot··on Yann LeCun to depart Meta and launch AI startup focused on 'world models'
Thanks!
scoot··on Yann LeCun to depart Meta and launch AI startup focused on 'world models'
I developed it later in life. The tinnitus came earlier (and isn't as a result of excessive sound exposure as far as I know), but in my (unscientific) opinion they are different manifestations (symptoms) of the same underlying issue – a missing or faulty noise filter on sensory inputs to the brain.

Thankfully I don't get comorbid headaches – in fact I seldom get headaches at all. And even on the odd occasion that I do, they're mild and short-lived (like minutes). I don't recall ever having a headache that was severe, or that lasted any length of time.

Yours does sound much more extreme than mine, in that mine is in no way debilitating. It's more just frustrating that it exists at all, and that it isn't more widely recognised and researched. I have yet to meet an optician that seems entirely convinced that it's even a real phenomenon.

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