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I really wish MS had worked on bringin their 2008, pages-inspired mac UI to windows rather than bringing the ribbon to the Mac.

https://appleinsider.com/articles/07/11/14/road_to_mac_offic...

Since then Apple switched from having a seperate inspector window for the controls to having a sidebar. I see this as a downgrade, but a minor one.

And MS kind of went for the same idea but laid out the blocks horizontally. Which… since text is wider than it is tall, makes labels hard to fit in.

And because people don’t scroll horizontally, they made the available options change based on the window width. So if you want to see everything, you’ll make the window fairly wide, at which point you’ve got the ribbon using up vertical real estate, and blank space on the sides where a side-bar or inspector could’ve been.

uBlock Origin isn’t on iOS, but as of IOS15 the Safari Extension API has everything uBlock would use.

AdGuard implements similar script-based blocking if you buy & turn on its ‘advanced protection’

Have they told the contagions that?

There are – coke even sells them:

https://www.woolworths.com.au/shop/productdetails/822719/coc...

This seems to be mostly talking about the 'new' mygov.

The new goal was to provide a unified front – users would navigate through MyGov based on their needs and goals and be sent directly to the relevant forms and info from all departments.

EG – instead of going to Centrelink and seeing only JobSeeker, or going to the ATO and seeing only JobKeeper; you’d go to 'COVID relief payments' and see a clear explanation of both, and you’d be able to apply for either one directly.

But in the beta… it’s basically just Centrelink. In the entire 'Health' section, the only medicare service mentioned is the proof of COVID-19 vaccination.

The end result is that https://beta.my.gov.au/en/myaccount/dashboard/ is basically the old mygov, and the rest of the site is a mirror of https://servicesaustralia.gov.au .

> Unless they literally translate all html features to native components but I seriously doubt it.

React Native doesn’t use HTML. It has its own set of base tags (eg 'Text', 'Image', 'ScrollView') that are then translated to native components.

(Though, to complicate matters further, 'React Native for Web' exists, and translates those into HTML tags https://necolas.github.io/react-native-web/docs/ )

> Should this source be trusted or not?

Seems legitimate, though that doesn’t mean it’s a particularly valuable analysis.

> If it’s trusted, does that mean that our efforts to mask were basically a waste of time, or not?

It doesn't say.

In a world where everyone wakes up each day, checks the daily cases nearby, and only puts on a mask if it’s over 1000… you'd get near perfect correlation between mask use & covid cases, even if the masks prevent every single transmission.

And that’s not all that out of line with reality.

High rates of Covid absolutely cause increased levels of mask compliance, so seeing a correlation between the two doesn't really tell us much about mask effectiveness.

You could maybe do some time-series analysis to try and get a better idea. The decision to mask today would be influenced by cases in the recent past, and any actual effect of mask wearing would only affect diagnoses 3-5 days later. But I’ve not done that math, and neither has this paper.

> you didn't magic those 3W out of thin air.

No magic, but you are pulling those 3W out of the outside air.

You can use the industry term 'Co-efficient of performance' to avoid any possible ambiguity, but it's just the same thing with a different name.

A backslash before the asterisk makes it appear as an asterisk

\*this\* becomes *this*.

And before you ask, to show the backslash, you add another backslash. \\*this\\* becomes \*this\*

It doesn’t have a keyboard shortcut by default, but you can bind 'Move Window to the Left Side of the Screen' and 'Move Window to the Right Side of the Screen' in Keyboard > Shortcuts > App Shortcuts.

Same way you conjugated it in the second-person singular.

He/she/it does

I/you/they do

Here’s a whitepaper on it https://uark.app.box.com/s/f7v6rk7xnwkjaetws7e1yaodomg883fi .

The merkle tree part of blockchains is absolutely valuable here… but that’s kind of where it ends. There’s no real consensus mechanism when there are 'merge conflicts', it needs manual overrides.

It’s more like git than bitcoin – and it helps them for similar reasons to why git helps us even when there’s a canonical source. People go offline and can’t sync immediately to the master store; people want to write events down now and deal with discrepancies later; disagreements are reified and can be formally reviewed, etc.

As best I can tell, it seems other aspects of blockchains just came along for the ride. The best open source code for their use case included it, and using it was better than building from scratch. The decentralisation is all but coded out – the central authority is the only one that can authorise transactions or resolve a 'merge conflict'.

> Are you suggesting that there is a default default font that is expected to be used across all browsers?

Yes – 16px times new roman.

Almost everything overrides the default font size because almost every browser has a default of 16px, while almost every desktop OS uses a UI font of <13px.

> I can get a lot more display for $1500 (MSI Prestige 5k2k)

I have that monitor… but it’s 3/4 of the studio display in terms of pixel count.

Yes.

That said, The change isn’t novel to humans. ~16% of Norwegians have it, though only 0.4% of Chinese people do.

I’d’ve gone the other way — the rounding makes clear that there is no direct link between b & c, where the orthogonal lines are suggestive of one.

The orthogonal straight line diagrams create a phantom b-c connection whenever you connect a-b and a-c.

Rounded diagrams can still have that b-c connection if it’s intended.

The privacy policy establishes that ycombinator can make our comments part of their site content.

The Terms of Use establish that readers can read the site and that's about it:

> [...] you agree not to modify, copy, frame, scrape, rent, lease, loan, sell, distribute or create derivative works based on the Site or the Site Content, in whole or in part, except that the foregoing does not apply to your own User content...

> You could be on MacOS where Cmd-Tab switches between apps not windows

Switching between recently used windows, regardless of app, is bound to control+f4 by default. [Cmd+tab/~ is clearly their preferred method.]

You can switch it to something more ergonomic in 'System Preferences > Keyboard > Shortcuts' – 'Move focus to the active or next window'.

The phones have speakers - alerts can sound like a rotary vibration motor if you want them to https://www.zedge.net/find/ringtones/vibration

The ability be silent is an upside.

On use, the font files are cached for a year. Until relatively recently, that cache would’ve been shared across all sites, so it almost worked the way you described.

Now, the cache is per-site.[1] The arguments for partitioning the cache apply to fonts just as much as to other resources.

There have been thoughts[2] and proposals[3] around ways to make shared libraries without running into those issues, but nothing has really materialised AFAIK.

The broad issue is that 'just lazy load on first use' creates privacy reasons, and the idea of picking a list of popular resources to cache on launch never really goes anywhere.

[1]: https://developers.google.cn/web/updates/2020/10/http-cache-...

[2]: https://hillbrad.github.io/sri-addressable-caching/sri-addre...

[3]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cBY3ZcHifXw

Methodology is at: https://discuss.httparchive.org/t/lighthouse-scores-as-predi...

All pages with two 'good' core-web-vital grade, and one 'poor' get exactly 200.

All pages with one 'good' and two 'poors' get exactly 100.

Getting 99/101/201/199 requires a much more specific set of performance characteristics.

> Without it you will try a search or two and depending on what you searched for disappear because it's just not convenient enough to have to load another page every time you want to search.

Nope, I’ll disappear immediately because it’s just not convenient enough to have to install an extension just to maybe try a search or two.

> Is Transit/someone else also looking at the other pain point of buses that is payment processing - trying to get a bus but needing exact change or a fare card is a pain, and I usually just take an Uber instead even if my trip is along a bus route.

In Sydney you can pay for busses with any debit card (or apple pay etc). These systems are available, it’s just a matter of adopting them.

You do see top-left lighting in 'neomorphic' designs nowadays.

The use of bevels has similar attributes to the edge-highlights of win 95, where putting the light from the top can make the left/right edges indistinct.

If you buy a block of land with 10 filled apartments on it, and then you demolish it and leave it vacant, the land still has value.

In theory, it still has whatever value the optimal use would provide.

In reality we don’t have an optimal land use oracle, and valuation techniques would take the vacant lot as a data point suggesting that the area is bad. The assessed land value might decrease a tiny bit – along with that of your entire suburb, and similar regions. But it’s not going to zero.

Similarly, if you take a block of land, put 10 apartments on there, and fill them with renters, you’ll create property value where there was none, but the land value isn’t going to go up 10x.

If you bring more families into an area, the land around them may become more valuable, but there’s no reason that effect would be localised to the apartment block.

This is the core distinction between LVT and property tax.

But all else isn’t equal – denser places have less land per house.

With a property tax, the total tax bill increases when you build upward and make the apartment block. If you take a lot with a single home on it, and then stack 9 identical homes on top, the resulting property might be worth 9x as much. That’d mean the renters of that bottom home still have to pay 90% of their old property tax.

With LVT, the tax bill is based on whether you could build up productively, whether or not you actually choose to do so. So if you stack 10 family homes on top of one another, the renters of those homes would pay 1/10th the land tax.

This shifts the relative tax burden toward lots which are less dense than their surroundings. Encouraging infill and discouraging sprawl. If it pushes some to build their single family home in the exurbs so that an apartment block can be built in the suburbs, that’s a net win.

The library uses the backdrop-filter property to blur the background – in firefox that’s currently under a feature flag.

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1578503

It’s more about the network than the phone.

My Pixel 3 can do simultaneous voice and data, because it’s in Australia connecting to GSM based networks.

If it were connecting through CDMA, it could not. CDMA has always been the minority worldwide[0], and is phasing out completely with 4G.

If you’re on a CDMA-using carrier (Eg Verizon) but usually have 4G coverage, you should be able to get simultaneous voice+data by enabling ‘advanced calling’ in the phone’s mobile network settings.

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_mobile_phone_s...

The only changes in the CSS this year are around word-wrapping. If it looks different, something’s changed on your machine