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It's genuinely hard to tell if this comment is satire or not.

HN is widely known for being the home of the technocrat corporate bootlicker. Very little of the hacker ethos ever gets espoused here.

Passing the security verification succeeded for me (firefox on a mac, with ublock origin).

>An alternate framing for these types of "the old web was better" articles is: "I really liked the web better when only privileged, highly educated people could put up content". The reality is that there was a lot of implicit gatekeeping going on in the early web because of the technical hurdles.

First of all, there wasn't much in the way of technical hurdles when it came to myspace or geocities, so I don't buy your premise at all. I was LARPing as a video game reviewer at 10 years old in 1995 with my awful <blink> tags/tiled backgrounds/table layouts. I was a dumb kid and still managed to figure it out. So did approximately one squillion of other people.

Secondly, the same tired, obnoxious comment about privilege and technology can be trotted out and applied to the early web, early facebook, early usenet, early IRC, early LLMs, early crypto. What does this comment do to advance the discussion in any meaningful way?

>The point is that if Emacs ships with an image viewer, it makes sense for that to be the default.

If, and only if, the user has emacs set in xdg as the preferred image viewer, then I agree.

Eh, I used to be in that camp.

I did it the right way. I set up SPF, DMARC and DKIM. I shopped around for a dedicated box with a v4 address that had a clean reputation. I ensured the provider's ASN was also clean. I used a well known TLD. I sent absolutely zero spam. No newsletters no nothing, just regular correspondence.

But I don't send enough emails to keep my IP reputation warm, I think, because deliverability into the big providers like Microslop and Google was very hit and miss. The end result is I would never know if someone just didn't want to reply, or if my message has been silently dropped. It stopped being fun and started becoming a chore and a headache.

Nowadays I pay fastmail to worry about that bullshit. I have more important things to do with my time.

>I believe opening within Emacs should be the default - as many Emacs users aim to do everything within Emacs.

I believe it's actually only a very vocal, very misguided minority that tries to do everything in emacs. Emacs is objectively inferior to existing alternatives for:

- IMAP

- viewing and especially annotating PDFs

- Browsing the web

- working with LLM agents

- multiplayer text editing (crdt.el is trash)

- working with rich text documents like .docx

- working with spreadsheets

- notebook rendering (org vs md and jupyter are definitely a "worse is better" situation)

etc.

It is not sane to assume the user wants to do everything in emacs. Emacs is bad at lots of things and that's okay.

Malleability is orthogonal to defaults. It's just grognards being change-averse.

I use emacs almost every day, and it's a continual source of frustration that the community seems allergic to sane defaults.

If the editor ships a built in file manager, that file manager should not require explicit configuration to open e.g. a jpeg in an image viewer by default. We've had `xdg-open` for years now, it's kind of absurd how far behind emacs is in so many ways.

"Common Lisp Emacs" has been attempted a few times. Lem seems like the best effort yet, and I was really excited about it until they decided to adopt a webview renderer.

I've got vscode for that.

Not sure why they wouldn't use log2 internally, but the mathematical reason is that e^x is the function whose derivative is itself, so it and the natural logarithm are fundamental to lots of other theories/operations like Euler's formula.

Indeed it's almost like open source projects can use their collective intelligence and decide for themselves what's acceptable and what's not acceptable when it comes to free git hosting, irrespective of "the norm".

>To me, this all sounds like the kind of fuzzy reasoning and nondescript language that turns communities into popularity contests and backstabbing competitions.

Welcome to society. There is no such thing as a meritocracy.

An airliner weighs a certain amount. In cruising flight, the lift on the aircraft is exactly equal to the weight (because it's neither climbing nor descending). Aerodynamic drag falls into 3 buckets: parasitic drag, wave drag, and lift-induced drag. Lift-induced drag is drag created by the wings producing lift.

Longer, thinner wings (higher aspect ratios) create less lift-induced drag for a given wing area, so ideally you want a super duper long and skinny wing, which will create less drag for a given amount of lift, and thus improve your fuel efficiency. Fuel is a massive portion of the total cost of operating an airliner, so there is a large financial incentive from the airlines to reduce fuel costs.

Unfortunately really long wings make airliners too wide to park at most airport gates, and in some cases too wide to taxi safely around obstacles, so they're experimenting with ways to make the wings fold and get a "best of both worlds" situation.

The term "powerpoint" has been genericized in the common vernacular to mean any electronic slide show, like kleenex for tissues and sellotape/scotch tape for transparent adhesive tape.

It might not have reached legal generic status but just about any working professional will understand what you mean if you refer to "making a powerpoint deck" even if you don't use the actual Microslop product.

>There's no install or cloud login, everything works offline. The default deck is around 560 KB and it doesn't need to fetch anything once you got it.

This is the best feature.

Rizon, hackint, and Libera, among others

>Unskippable? I turned the station at the first sign of commercial, and still do. If one of those "radio-wide commercial minutes" per hour, I'd try the public station, or made a selection from the ten-disc changer. ;-)

Yes, that's an accurate description of the hassle of trying to avoid unskippable ads.

Marketing and advertising are two related but distinct functions.

>US regulators don't order ISPs to block websites.

Of course they do, mostly for intellectual property reasons.

>Most "state-level" adversaries are just high school dropouts working border jobs told to "investigate suspicious things".

Even dumb cops know how to use a Cellebrite machine.

>I signed off the air for the last time in 1994 [...] radio has changed drastically, and it just wouldn’t be any fun for me today.

I don't agree with this premise. FM Radio is definitely more corporate today, but I grew up in the 90s and my memories of FM radio are not fond.

For my whole life it has always been materially the same, shitty, experience: occasional good songs interleaved with mediocre ones and a hefty dose of annoying unskippable ads.

The difference is that when I was a kid we didn't have streaming or even mp3 players so we just had to put up with the ads. Today I can just play songs locally off my phone via Bluetooth. No ads, no DJs, just the music I enjoy.

>I know perfectly well what I said in this thread and don't need to re-read it. It wasn't long.

Then you should realize your replies have been obnoxious, and that's why you're getting the responses you're getting. Have a fantastic day.

What if the surveillance state is also run by idiots?

Go back and reread yourself in this thread.

1. Someone says they don't like rationalism

2. You say there's no such thing

3. Someone else suggests your defense of rationalism is materially similar to how scientologists defend their cult

4. You say "nuh-uh because Bayes' theorem is true"???

That's such a weird non-sequitur. Nothing before had anything to do with Bayes. That is just a straw man you constructed to argue with.

>So you want the government to fail at the things you want it to fail at, yet you're trying to project that onto conservatives?

There's an important distinction between wanting the government to fail, and wanting the government to cease violating civil liberties en masse.

There is a false dichotomy being manufactured/astroturfed by Republicans that the only choice is between the current Star-spangled Gestapo and unrestricted, mass illegal immigration.

In actual fact there is a broad spectrum of approaches between those two.

Textbooks, especially in the early years, are a minor part of education.

I want them to have an actual human teacher.

>Trump is the result in that breakdown of trust, not the cause.

I agree, and my comment should not be construed to imply otherwise. It's Americans themselves that are the problem, which is why the decay of America will long outlive Trump.

In going to choose to take this as a compliment :)

Every school kid in the USA, you mean? Because I think other countries would rightly perceive the world you described as a dystopia.

I don't want my kids' education to be surrendered to the whims of Big Tech douchebags any more than I want AI decisions in legal cases or an AI replacement for a family doctor.

Some systems are better left mostly analog. Education is one of them.

If rights can be capriciously and arbitrarily curtailed by armed agents of the state while effete judges yeet sternly-worded letters into the void, then those "rights" are worth about as much as the USA's signature on an international treaty. Which is to say, nothing.