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Well, it's not exactly the only blog post on this site about medieval pigs. At the bottom of the post there is a link to their other posts about those animals[0], of which there are 12 at this moment. It seems like some medievalists at Universiteit Leiden are interested in pigs, and that looking at medieval video game pigs is just one of the ways they talk about them.

[0] https://www.leidenmedievalistsblog.nl/tags/medieval%20pigs

> Are the people claiming that the farmers are being blamed for climate change saying that the farmers are the only or primary driver for climate change?

All the comments in this thread are replies to someone who seems to do exactly that by defending farmers "visiting politicians their homes with torches, threatening them and explicitly their kids, blockading highways with burning rubble, blocking highways with asbestos, using their tractors to rip out doors out of government buildings." by saying "I mean placing the blame for climate change on the backs of Dutch farmers was absurd."

Do you have a source of the government "placing the blame for climate change on the backs of Dutch farmers"? The Dutch government wanted[0] to curb emissions, and since (high intensity) farms are huge polluters, some of the measurements affected farmers.But I can't remember them placing the blame on the farmers.

[0] Well, they didn't really want it, but had to https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/apr/24/dutch-official...

Ah of course, I didn't think about that.

> Also considering they're asking for a permission for a protocol that was shut down 7 years ago, the framework must be quite old. Android permissions were less granular back then.

That’s not how PlayStore permissions work. You have to target a certain Android version to release update apps and that version dictates how permissions work. You can’t get around those requirements by using an old framework.

For a new personal best you can even skip going to the in-store computer. The IKEA website can tell you where your item is, if you select the store you’re going to.

Haven’t we more or less done that? There will of course always be Markdown projects that don’t use CommonMark and that won’t change. But every note taking app and website I’ve that supports Markdown uses CommonMark.

The only problem is that you can use extension in CommonMark. So although GitHub and my note taking app both use CommonMark, they might not support exactly the same features.

I think that option has been available since way before ios16. The situation for Colemak is still that it’s possible to use an external keyboard with that layout, but there’s no on screen keyboard (unless you use a third party keyboard)

You seem to assume that everybody on this website knows what Ring UI is. But I didn't know and judging from quite a few other comments here, I wasn't the only one. All we had to go by was the title "JetBrains Ring UI" and a comment stating that a date picker looks nice. Without any kind of description it's not that weird to assume a website with a datepicker works decently on mobile.

I don't but I do use, and am interested in, their software. So it's a bit disappointing to see a link to their site while using hn on mobile, only to get to a page that doesn't display anything useful.

> Under this theory of damage, there’s no such thing as theft until you die because there’s always a chance you’ll get your belongings back on your deathbed.

Only if you take really specific statements and turn them into a general theory. But this discussion isn't about theoretical thefts and deathbeds, it's one about the reality that Musk is buying Twitter[0]. There is no "army of lawyers that Twitter shareholders had to pay for", because the current shareholders won't have to pay anything. Twitter is paying for the lawyers and Musk will and up owning Twitter. That's not some moral judgement, it's a description of the facts. Nothing I've said so far is in defense of what Musk does.

To be clear: I behavior is justifiable. He created this mess by making really dumb decisions and then trying everything to get out of this situation by not caring about anything or anyone but himself. It has been a huge waste of time and money. But as it turns out, Musk will be the one owning a company he doesn't want, and as that owner he'll be the one paying for that wasted time and for the costs made by both parties of the lawsuit. It just seems that the person that's by far the most hurt by Musks actions is Musk himself.

[0]In this entire comment I'm assuming the deal actually goes through.

I think you meant to reply to my other comment[0], since that's where I did make that argument? But as to your questions:

> You don’t think anyone was hurt by the absolutely enormous amount of stress he chose to create?

Fair point, I imagine the last couple of months have not been great for many Twitter-employees.

> Or the army of lawyers that Twitter shareholders had to pay for?

As far as I know the shareholders don't directly pay for the lawyers, that money comes from some financial reserve Twitter has. In normal circumstances massive legal costs can reduce the value of a company, but in this case the shareholders will be able to sell each share for the same $54.20 as before the lawsuit. If the company becomes less valuable because of this, that's the problem of the next owner of the company. Since Musk will end up owning Twitter, he'll end up paying for the lawyers on both sides of this suit. Or am I missing something?

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33092570

Their point is that no one was financially hurt. Nobody in this thread mentioned anything about people getting physically hurt, unless I’m missing something.

But if that harm manifested itself in a lower value of Twitter it will be repaired, when Musk buys the company for the price they agreed on.

If that harm is reflected in something else (the reputation of Twitter maybe?) that is damage Musk did to his own company.

So maybe whoever co-invested with Musk got hurt a bit, but they’ll still get whatever part of Twitter they wanted, for the price they agreed on.

Are you suggesting that the men were known as Julius Caesar and Augustus Caesar? Because that's wrong[0]. Augustus used this name and it became a title for roman Emperors, in reference to Julius Caesar. If people are talking about Caesar, they mean Julius Caesar.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Augustus#Name

You don't need uMatrix to block all third party cookies, in both Firefox and Chromium that is a build in option.

And I don't think that option is as good as IDCAC (or Consent-O-Matic [0]) + CookieAutoDelete. With those two add-ons even first party cookies are deleted, while you don't need to close banners all the time.

[0] https://github.com/cavi-au/Consent-O-Matic

The original version of this add-on is available on Firefox and getting this fork on Firefox is on the to do list[0]

[0] https://github.com/OhMyGuus/I-Dont-Care-About-Cookies/issues...

Yeah, Consent-o-matic is what I've started to use after today's news. Didn't know it existed until a couple of hours ago. I'm just not convinced it'll be a huge improvement over using (pre Avast) I don't care about cookies. And I still think that saying "This was an extension for people who don’t care about privacy" is a pretty big overgeneralization.

I know that that's what GDPR is supposed to be about, but it's not what the fast majority of the pop-ups are about. Most pop-ups I've encountered are explicitly about cookies, not about any other kind of tracking.

And besides that, I think it's really naive to assume you've got any influence on tracking that sites do on their site. With cookies I know I can choose to save them on my machine or not. If a website uses the fingerprint of my computer to identify me, they'll almost certainly keep doing that after I've rejected their cookies.

I have (had, soon) this add-on and I very much care a out privacy. Blocking all cookies from non-whitelisted sites is more or less impossible with all the consent pop ups. Ant many of those pop ups make it really hard to reject cookies.

So I went for a solution that makes browsing less annoying, whithout storing many cookies:

- Have this add on accept all cookies - Block third party cookies - Delete cookies from websites as soon as I close a tab

I (and you) don't know if many users of this add on do something similar, but it is what's recommended on the website

> Please educate yourself about cookie related privacy issues and ways to protect yourself and your data. For example, you can block 3rd party cookies, install ad blocking extensions and then block tracking tools, delete browsing data regularly, enable Tracking Protection in your browser etc.

This extention clicks on accept on every cookie notice you encountered. I don't think you can just block all those notices and expect sites to keep working.

I've looked into this a couple of years ago and the problem was that you just couldn't assume people would be able to scan a qr code without downloading an extra app.

iPhones could scan them with the default camera app, but on Android it really depended on the manufacturer.

So you couldn't just say: "point your camera app at the code and open the url that appears.", which made using QR codes pretty much useless unless you had an app where you could build in an scanner for these codes.

You could add a button and only generate a QR code if someone presses that button.

That sounds like a fun way to discover new music. I'm definitely going to try that.

I use Spotify. Mainly Discover Weekly and playlists, both those that are created by Spotify as ones that are created by others.

I listen to Discover Weekly every week (I think I've missed 1 week in several years). Every time I like a song, want to hear the rest of the album it's on or want to hear more of that artist, I add that song to a big playlist (currently 906 songs) so I can open that artist's page later. On that artist page I often check out the 'appears on' section to check out albums or playlists with similar music. I treat that album/playlist the same as Discover weekly: If I like a song I add it to the big playlist.

I think this works great, I often discover new artists or songs, all more or less in the same (electronicy) genres though. I've also noticed that I can listen to some albums that are different, but it won't get added to my Discover Weekly, which is exactly how I like it. For example: sometimes I like to listen to the Red Hot Chili Peppers for an afternoon, but I don't feel the need to have similar artists added to my mix of songs.

I don't really use the Daily mixes. Every one of those seems to have the same couple of artist and the mix of artists doen't really changes over time.

And sometimes a friend of mine or some family members send me a link to an album or playlist they like.

It is according to the faq[0]

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

Their point was related to outside temperatures, which is what most people use temperatures for. And although I've never used Fahrenheit for anything, I don't think the 100c = boiling water is useful in day-to-day life.

I've used temperatures in the 60 something to 80 something range to measure the inside of food, my oven goes anywhere from 160 to 220 degrees, but water boils when it goes all bubbly. I know that that's at 100 degrees, but I don't do anything with that info.

I don't agree with bmitc's point that Fahrenheit feels more natural. But it seems like that anytime someone has something positive to say about Fahrenheit or imperial measurement, 10 different people need to tell them how wrong they are, and how there can't be anything positive about those systems of measurement. That doesn't seem necessary to me. Especially with temperatures where everyone just remembers a couple of numbers and associates them to a certain feeling or application, and whatever you've used your entire life will feel better or more natural.

> You are putting far too much weight in arbitrary numbers, probably due to personal familiarity

bmitc reacted to the comment that said "Temperature near 100°C is important when we cook (eggs, pasta, rice)." By asking when that info is important. They are not the one here that put weight in arbitrary numbers, at least in that last comment.

Oh, I didn't know about B5. I knew B size papers exist, but never looked into it. Will definitely look at B5 notepad next time I'll need to buy a new one, because like you I think A5 is a bit too small and A4 too big.

If that's the case, shouldn't we have seen this behavior on Android? The Play Store has all kind of restrictions and it has always been possible to create you own store and only offer your apps in that store. Yet you can download apps from every mega corp in the Play store.

> Today, consumers can choose trusted curation and full integration (iDevices), or non-curated and unbundled (countless brand + Android OS options).

Or option 3: curated and integrated by buying an Android phone that comes bundled with all kinds of Google applications.