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The WordPress version is much shorter. I wonder if this demonstrates it's good enough for most use cases, given WP is so widely used?

I'm curious to know if there are some important cases where someone would prefer to use the function OP shared instead.

https://core.trac.wordpress.org/browser/tags/6.1/src/wp-incl...

> The definition of success was "earned a living wage" but some were much more successful than that. I was thinking about this particular issue recently because a good friend, one who falls squarely into the "should have quit" category, has recently become homeless.

How do you account for artistic disciplines where virtually nobody makes any money? Most poets will never earn a living wage from their work, however beautiful and well made it is, because the market just isn’t there. Does that make them failures?

But those billions of people don’t have the instant and unlimited ability to churn out information (and write code) like these models can.

> It recommended a “rustic and charming” bar in Mexico City without noting that it’s one of the oldest gay bars in Mexico City.

I don't know the bar in question, but from my experience those two things aren't necessarily mutually exclusive...

Disagree, today I learned what Shōchū is

This is the kind of needless extravagance that makes people cynical about the tech industry

If you enjoy this, I highly recommend the podcast Craig Mazin (writer of Chernobyl and The Last of Us) made about structuring movies: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vSX-DROZuzY

Nathan Fielder would be proud. This policy will be easily avoided by any serious manufacturer of devices like these.

I reckon it’s the dire quality of our elected politicians. UK politicians don’t try to understand technology, and they feel entitled to dismiss expert opinion whenever it will win them public favour, hence the disaster with Covid lockdowns.

“ Sophisticated encrypted communication devices have been used extensively by criminals to facilitate organised crime. We’re targeting the modified and bespoke devices that enable access to platforms, similar to Encro Chat, where the software/ hardware has been developed to anonymise its users and their communications and its user base is assessed to be almost certainly criminal. Under Option 1 where articles will be specified, we will be targeting those that supply, modify, and possess these bespoke devices; the provisions will not apply to commercially available mobile phones nor the encrypted messaging apps available on them.”

Seems to suggest that handsets explicitly made for anonymous encryption could be banned, but not messaging apps on normal phones.

These are amazing Don, thank you for sharing

The news for me was that it's possible to run the game in WINE in the first place, it's been possible since 2019 I believe. Previously I thought I'd have to get an old Windows XP machine running to play this again!

This kind of custom content has always fascinated me.

Do you remember if there was a reason the Edith[0] tool didn’t ship with the original game? It seems like that would have encouraged some interesting mods and variations, by letting players change the interactions between objects in the game

[0]: http://simantics.wikidot.com/wiki:edith

After finding this guide I was able to play the game for the first time since my childhood. The nostalgia!

I know one of the key programmers behind The Sims 1, Don Hopkins, is a regular on HN. I hope he knows how much joy his work brought kids like me.

Here’s a video where Don demos an early build of the game: https://youtu.be/zC52jE60KjY

I'm sorry to hear that, if it's any consolation I've deal with loneliness a lot too. I've decided to throw myself into new hobbies this year to try to remedy that. I hope things get better for you

I wouldn't expect it would make a difference either, but the memo made this claim

Fascinating, thank you

Interesting that the memo claims that sans serif fonts are preferred to serif fonts for screen reader users and people with disabilities. I thought the exact opposite was true. Is there any definitive research on which type of font is more accessible?

This is why I believe we’ll soon see a huge increase in the popularity of ‘physical’ art. Theatre, sculpture, dance… in a world overflowing with computer made images and sounds, things which can only be human-made will be all the more special.

I love it. Well done, hope you make a mint

You might be right with some of these criticisms about the ideas and style of the sentence, although I think most of these come down to taste and context.

Grammatically, the sentence is easy to parse and a native English reader would understand how to say it out load.

Very nice. Tailwind’s flexibility is undeniable but I do miss the easy days of using Bootstrap’s built in components to whip up screens quickly.

A solid comprehensive library of readymade components like this could be very useful for less design-oriented developers like myself.

Great points.

I’m not sure about saying ‘that’s really funny’ when someone tells a crap joke though. At least where I live in the UK, that comment would come off as insincere and be quite distancing - better to just smile or tease them gently

Do it!! Happy new year, I believe in you x

It's funny seeing Hogmanay on HN. It's such a basic fact of life in Scotland, it's like seeing the wikipedia article for Christmas on the front page

I like this way of formatting ideas hierarchically.

Is there an Obsidian plugin for using this kind of structure? I know there’s the graph view for seeing how notes are linked together

Great idea for a website. I tried it with ‘jeopardy’, ie the concept of being in perilous trouble, but it only suggested things related to the TV show

Why do you say this?

Why do you think it’s hamfisted to use she? It doesn’t make their comment any less clear, and there are many female CEOs around the world

> How?

This question is the foundation of the marketing industry. There are so many ways to manipulate people into parting with their money, but one of the basic approaches is to introduce and build tension in the customer that your product claims to release. This tension always exists on a deeper level than the practical value of the product.

For example, if Apple want to sell a laptop, they don’t focus on selling the tech specs. Instead they promise the customer that if they buy a macbook, they’ll become a creative genius, a musician or a VFX artist - high status careers. So what they’re really selling is the promise of enhanced social standing, not technology. That’s as manipulative as it gets

See also : https://garrisonmarketinggroup.com/tension-point-can-you-fee...