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Alone on the shore in the pause of the night-time, I stand and I hear the long wind blow light, I view the constellations quietly, quietly burning; I hear the wave fall in the hush of the night

Long after I am dead, ended this bitter journey, Many another whose heart holds no light, Shall your solemn sweetness, hush, awe, and comfort, O my companions, Wind, Waters, Stars, and Night.

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thsowers··on Is Rust Ready for the Web Yet? (2020)
Also see: https://www.arewewebyet.org/
thsowers··on Piano Practice Software Progress
Fellow pianist here who also feels like sometimes too much emphasis is placed on score reading!

One interesting counterpoint that was brought up to me by my teacher in uni was that for certain pieces, mainly old old ones (think way before recording), is that sometimes the score is the _only_ thing that we have left from the composer to base our interpretation on!

I hadn't really considered this before, and it did make me appreciate score reading more (altho I still mostly improvise these days :D)

thsowers··on Signal is having technical difficulties
This sounds good on first pass, but consider the implication of allowing donations (and thus, payment method information) to be tied to a Signal users account. I specifically _wouldn't_ want this.
thsowers··on Greenland Sharks
If I may ask, where did you get the chance to try this, and how was it prepared?

I just read this on wikipedia:

> If the meat is eaten without pretreatment, the ingested TMAO is metabolized into trimethylamine, which can produce effects similar to extreme drunkenness

Might be crazy to think, but the thought crossed my mind if the meat was ever ingested, untreated, for recreational purposes.

thsowers··on South Dakota nurse says many dying patients still insist Covid-19 'not real'
> but wow do we sure know that they're dumb hicks who deserve to die

I didn't see that sentiment expressed in the article, or by the majority of comments here.

thsowers··on South Dakota nurse says many dying patients still insist Covid-19 'not real'
Here is a similar story from a news source: https://www.npr.org/2020/11/12/934266487/icu-nurse-on-dealin...
thsowers··on Twitter has applied warning labels to 37% of Trump's tweets since polls closed
I can't find it anywhere. Can you provide a link to a source or not? Particularly the "all of one candidate" claim.

Also worth noting claims like this have already been debunked: https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2020/nov/04/viral-imag...

thsowers··on Twitter has applied warning labels to 37% of Trump's tweets since polls closed
> One of those mail-in ballot batches had 130,000+ votes, all of one candidate.

This is not true. Please provide a source, or stop spreading disinformation.

thsowers··on Twitter has applied warning labels to 37% of Trump's tweets since polls closed
Politics is generally considered off-topic on HN unless it's "evidence of some interesting new phenomenon"[0]

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

thsowers··on Twitter has applied warning labels to 37% of Trump's tweets since polls closed
I don't see a disclaimer?
thsowers··on Google disabled my husband's account
Then you are realistically fine

Even in a case similar to mine, visiting takeout.google.com before doing anything with billing is always a great idea :)

thsowers··on Google disabled my husband's account
Do you pay them or any of their subsidiaries for anything?

I have cell service on Google Fi. Long, painful (still-ongoing) story short, they shipped me a Pixel 4a that had no cell service. I went back and forth with support for ten days. Then they shipped me a replacement phone. I confirmed my current address. They sent me a shipping notification for my current address. FedEx ended up delivering the package, no signature required, to a town I used to live in five years ago. I double checked and my current address is the only one on the account.

Going back and forth with support has been useless. I paid for a phone that doesn't work, and I'm being charged for service that I can't use. My last recourse is to refute the payments with my CC company....but that also seems like the quickest way to get my entire Google/YT/Google Fi account locked up because it's all tied together.

thsowers··on Trump offered to pardon Assange if he provided source for DNC emails – lawyer
Politics is generally considered off-topic unless it's "evidence of some interesting new phenomenon"[0]

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

thsowers··on Microsoft submits Linux kernel patches to enable complete Hyper-V on Linux
I think it is uncharitable to assert that a company that is 45 years old has a strategy that is "never-changing". There is no denying that Microsoft has been hostile to Linux and open source efforts before, but it doesn't mean that this would never change. Last I checked, Microsoft was the largest contributor to open source projects, and Satya Nadella seems to embrace FOSS
thsowers··on Show HN: Hndex.org – a full-text search engine of articles submitted to HN
Looks like this search engine searches the _articles_ and links that have been shared, whereas hn.algolia.com only searches title, author, and the text of a post if it is a text post.
thsowers··on Coronavirus: Oxford vaccine triggers immune response
Is a million doses "major relief"?
thsowers··on Resignation Letter
> Bari is bad, only wants speech she likes to matter.

I am not at all familiar with the author of the letter, but could you elaborate on this? I didn't get that impression reading the letter, or what I assume is quotes from the author in your comment.

thsowers··on Tell HN: Interviewed with Triplebyte? Your profile is about to become public
When it comes to moderation of a YC startup on HN, "The first rule of HN moderation is to moderate less, not more" says dang on previous threads concerning YC startups and he has expressed the same sentiment here in this thread
thsowers··on Things I hate about Rust
You mention cognitive load, however this post[0] about Go made me think that the "simplicity" of Go might come with it's own issues that lead to more cognitive load in the long run

[0]: https://fasterthanli.me/blog/2020/i-want-off-mr-golangs-wild...

thsowers··on Redditor finds unsecured surveillance cameras seemingly placed by US government
Previous discussion on "The DEA and ICE are hiding surveillance cameras in streetlights"

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18427626

thsowers··on GitHub is degraded/down
If you view the historical uptime, it does seem like there have been more incidents in the past three months, but otherwise the waters look calm (as reported at least): https://www.githubstatus.com/uptime?page=1
thsowers··on [dead]
Can we change the link to: https://www.githubstatus.com/ ?
thsowers··on Maybe we shouldn’t use Zoom after all
I use meet for multiple hours a day, haven't ever had issues with the video dropping, but the tiling thing really does bother me for any meetings that aren't 1:1s. It's crazy when I am in a meeting with 50+ people and can only see the faces of a few. I don't know why they can't fix this.
thsowers··on Bill Gates calls for nationwide shutdown
It is the same here in many states, though I don't think a occupation limit has been imposed federally
thsowers··on Signal was experiencing technical difficulties
Just updated the title, thanks!
thsowers··on Covid-19 is now officially a pandemic, WHO says
OP is not from USA so this doesn't apply to them
thsowers··on Flutter and Dart, or how to quickly build a mobile app without losing your hair
FWIW, and this is just my personal experience, but I find Dart to be very similar to Typescript, and we have JS engineering teams building out new mobile apps in Dart ;)
thsowers··on Flutter and Dart, or how to quickly build a mobile app without losing your hair
Yes. More info about why is here: https://flutter.dev/docs/resources/faq#why-did-flutter-choos...
thsowers··on Students defeat new 'Barnacle' parking clamp, skip fines and get free internet
I went to a large university located in the middle of nowhere. On any given day, only half of the avaliable spots were filled. A parking pass was $300 a semester IIRC.

When parking isnt a limited resource and students are already paying large amounts of money to attend a rural campus that has poor public transit options what then? For me at the time it really just enforced the idea that college is more of a bussiness then it is actually concerned with education

thsowers··on Show HN: A better way to review pull requests
This is a very nice interface! I wonder how well it would scale for huge PRs (many thousands of line changes), which right now are both irritating to review on Github, and other tools like IntelliJ.

Somewhat related, but I wonder if some of the bottlenecks/constraints in this area are caused by the browser or electron (think GitKraken). I know that there are some new tools out there that differ, such as Sublime Merge which uses the same engine as Sublime Text, but I haven't had a chance to try that out yet.

It may be interesting to benchmark Gitlab, Github, prhero, Sublime Merge and other tools on PRs of various sizes..

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