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the article is anti-design. not anti-html.
When he says "plain text email", what he means is "HTML email with very little styling". Sending true plain text email without a multipart HTML section is much worse for deliverability, from my experience (assumedly because plaintext emails are almost always "automatic emails")
Here, FYI: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15513942
I love the Sansa Clips. Does Rockbox still produce noise when not playing music in the headphones?
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Have you looked at their financials? They are in the same bandwagon as their technology.
Did you not see what happened at USA gymnastics? Plenty of harrsssment has happened in the medical field, financial industry, etc. it’s quite pervasive in many areas even today sadly.
As a German living in Sweden, I've switched to EURkey[1]. That way I don't have to give up the Swedish å or the German ü and ß. And I have a US base layout, which makes coding easier.

[1] https://eurkey.steffen.bruentjen.eu/layout.html
>a lot of systems still have mediocre high-dpi support

As far as I can tell, the only desktop OS with good high-DPI support is macOS.
It's still HTML, just completely unstyled. So there's still support for including tracking images.
That's exactly right. The old newspaperman in me is terrified by folks coming out and posting really controversial stuff, the sort that destroys reputations, and probably without the protection of legal oversight.

In days of yore such stuff would appear in the media only after having been looked at by lawyers and multiple points checked and necessary evidence and statements were gathered. Now, I know the old media is not very popular any more, and that precisely this gatekeeping behaviour has also led to some of the problems we now have (it's clear that many in the media had a good idea what was happening in Hollywood) but all it takes is an otherwise credible person to have a bit of an 'episode' and somebody's life could be ruined forever -- either the accusee or the accuser, and possibly both.

The particular trap referred to in the parent is an easy one to fall into, and it may seem like a good way of avoiding a defamation suit ("I didn't name anyone so how could I have defamed them!) but in UK law it certainly is defamation if there are only a small number of obvious possibilities. If only one person is accused, but there are two identifiable possible offenders, you have defamed one of them for sure.

Its not a good look to rush in and presume guilt or innocence either. That's what the courts are for.
Well title should be "Websiter generator No. 3487", so we wouldn't need to write such comments.
And this is only the facet of the real story here.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JGwZcR0q6VE

Uber is an old scan. - By Richard D Wolff

We legislated and regulated the old Taxi Cab industry when there was no insurance, bad employees, criminal activities, badly maintained vehicles. And someone can move in and laugh at the laws, and offer it for cheaper (Uber). Its only time until they die, or are regulated themselves.
Some, probably, but the way to avoid that when stepping into grey areas is to be predictable and upfront and give her plenty of opportunity to feel safe and secure in rebuffing your advances before you make that step.

When I used to go clubbing years ago, if I was in doubt about whether my advances would be welcome, I'd slow down, lean back, smile, and then tell her exactly what my intent was. If her response was not very unambiguously positive, I'd add "but I don't think you're ready yet; let me get us some drinks", and I'd take my time. Sometimes they'd turn me down. Sometimes they'd have walked off by the time I was back, sometimes they'd smile and say "maybe later" or something of the sort, and sometime it was clear I was free to do what I wanted.

Maybe some of those who turned me down would have liked it if I just went for it. But it's not worth the risk of traumatizing someone.

The point being that while it may seem hot to just dive in and grab someone and start making out without warning, for example, misjudge and it's assault or worse, but you get 90% of the sexiness of it by doing the above and giving her every way out. So there's very little reason to risk stepping over those lines, and accordingly very little reason why it should be seen as acceptable even if some would welcome it in the right circumstances.

(you still need to be careful - e.g. I'm a big guy, and can look intimidating; I'm very aware that means I need to take extra care that she feels like she has a genuine choice of leaving the situation or telling me to fuck off without putting herself at risk - if I tower over her, what is meant in a friendly way can easily seem like a threat)
The article references a 3x click rate improvement, which is pretty good. Although this is just one data point (and there's a bias at play: All the people who tried plain text emails and didn't see a conversion increase won't have bothered writing a blog post about it).
The observation of several economists, at least under a Malthusian Trap scenario, is "vice is virtue, virtue is vice".

That is, bad news (famine, war, plauge, natural disaster) ultimately reduces populations and increases living standards. Good news (peace, prosperity, plenty) increases populations and pushes them up against carrying capacity.

Cf, Gregory Clark, A Farewell to Alms, though I believe it's pretty common.
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> I also have trouble thinking of examples of times I've ever seen where a drunk (or sober) woman went out of her way to aggressively pursue a male, drunk or not, consent or not, and anecdotally it's much much much rarer.

I've seen it happen, including to me, not often but I would not describe it as rare. It often takes more the form of being aggressively suggestive rather than physical violence but it can still be inappropriate: indecent exposure is a crime in many places.

When it’s physical violence, it’s a little confusing because the men were generally stronger and better coordinated (more sober) so it looked more like drunk-management than a threat.
The answer to this has some (however minimal) overlap to 'why do you believe object oriented programming is a good idea?'
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Or if not subsidized, then subject to enough import restrictions that domestic producers survive. I'm a pretty hard-core free trader, but in this case I think some restrictions to ensure a local industry make sense. You shouldn't have to starve or freeze just because other countries close the border. Security comes before prosperity or you're partying on the Titanic.
Not in many important environments, eg especially those without virtual memory where the zero page can be mapped invalid.

Talk to me about how good an idea it is not to check potentially-NULL pointers in embedded systems.
But isn't Dash just for Mac?
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I rounded up a few apps a while ago, Phonograph was the best for me (for Android).
I saw that comment and downvoted it, but I thought you were referring to the parent comments of this particular reply.

I do believe that the channel is relevant though, when I cant see the primary source. I consider your personal experience, even if necessarily anedoctal, a more respectable foundation to your argument (that's the part I considered fair).

I hope you see that as evidence that this group of men is not homogenous in its behavior and it is not completely dismissing your point.
No one is talking about keeping execution instead of crashing. C++ smart pointers do not do that, optional types do not do that, no programming language whose creators are in their right mind has ever pursued that. You have just produced a classic example of a straw man argument.
what is a redzone in your terminology ?
More work to remove it than leave it chained to a fence as a zombie?
> The problem is not "Effective X" books. The problems is people treating these rules in these books as dogma.

You put a bunch of stuff in a book and people are going to copy the stuff from the book into their programs. Bits of front-matter don't matter. Consider the GoF book and the havoc that mindless repetition of design patterns creates.
That's probably it, Windows 10 is incredibly aggressive in killing applications when rebooting for an update. In corporate settings it's even worse, we're currently having a glitch where, no matter what our administrators specify as policy, computers will just randomly reboot sometime after Patch Tuesday for a reboot. Without notification, without a chance to save your work. Just poof.
> Your characterization that the 737 is a 50-year old airframe and wouldn't compete with the CS300 is entirely inaccurate.

Of course the 737 has been updated over the years but it's still fundamentally the same frame and has numerous drawbacks over newer models:

- it's aluminium, not composite, so is much heavier than the C300, meaning worse fuel efficiency per pax, and will have smaller windows, less comfortable cabin air pressure, etc

- it sits too low to the ground to carry the most efficent high-bypass turbofans - again less fuel efficient

- again because it's so low to the ground, the MAX 10 is so tail-heavy some (most?) airlines have passed on it in fear of tailstrikes and load restrictions at the gate

- still not fully fly by wire AFAIK

and the list goes on. You're right that it's been refreshed over the years but even boeing wants to replace it with a clean sheet design, just as the composite 787 has replaced the 767. Advancements have been made and eventually you just need a new frame.

Another factor in favour of the C300 is that it's optimised for its load capacity. The 737-7 (and a318/9 for that matter) are shrinks of their design and thus carry too much wing & superstructure for comparable loads. This again increases weight and reduces cost effectiveness.

Even the mass media has been saying that if the C300 gets a foothold into the US market that Boeing may be forced to invest in a clean sheet new frame to effectively compete, and they're right.
A thing is made auditable and verifiable by auditing and verifying it.

Google are already under at least one privacy-related consent decree.

https://techliberation.com/2011/03/30/the-ftc’s-google-buzz-...

https://www.ftc.gov/enforcement/cases-proceedings/102-3136/g...
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It does, it mentions Tennessee is accounting for 19% of cell-phone deaths with only 2% of the country's population. Tennessee being the only state really collecting the data on the form, means it's the most reliable data we have to extrapolate to the whole country.

It seems there is a factor of 10 of underreporting, which would lead to the actual number of cell phone deaths being closer to 4000, making this one of the major causes of death on the road.
Not for me unless I put the volume all the way up. The Sansa Clips are a great device, they just don't seem to make them anymore :(
I've lived in two cities in the UK in my life, Nottingham and London. I have never once felt the desire to learn how to drive. I can get public transport anywhere I want, and most of the time I can walk.

It's crazy to me how spread out some US cities are, I don't see any benefit to it.
The C in the CAP theorem refers to strong consistency usually in the form of ACID transactions.

MongoDB gives up the C because not all applications need ACID transactions and only a weaker form of consistency called eventual consistency. In exchange it can do automatic failover without excessively slow distributed transactions, data corruption or data loss (at least in theory) and sharding.

On the other hand almost every RDBMS has ACID transactions.
You know what, I'm not actually sure. All I know is that it screws up your stack frames. I think I had to provide -mno-redzone on GCC command line.

It's something in the ABI (I was on x86_64, the ABI is rather complex) related to padding the stack frames when calling functions.

I don't remember if this applied to all functions or was it something special needed for interrupt handlers.
> and they track your location

Having just checked, Spotify has no location permissions on iOS.
The game engine people have the right idea with their entity-component-system [1] model. Essentially, it models the program as a big relational database instead of a graph of objects. It can work pretty well.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Entity%E2%80%93component%E2%80...
I often look at the mirror to see the driver behind me.

I recently see people looking down and up and down a lot.
click rate is mere a metric for engagement. it's worth more or less nothing from business perspectives. i'd love to see a similar test with b2c content and KPIs like conversion. etc.
Decades ago, I wrote a very simple operating system. It was an MSDOS EXE that when run, took over all available memory and rewrote all the interrupt vectors. You couldn't "exit" back to DOS because by then it had gone - you could only power-cycle the machine and let MSDOS boot up normally.

Because it launched from DOS, many insisted to me it wasn't really an operating system. What was it if it wasn't an operating system?
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>I never understood why the Zune never succeeded. It was a great little player.

I think it was primarily due to three things: (1) it didn't get released until 5 years after the iPod; (2) while many people loathe iTunes it was widely used and liked by everyday people, and it was introduced 8.5 months before the iPod released; (3) Microsoft wasn't viewed as a "cool" consumer brand.
How was it career suicide if it had been going on for so long and no one did anything?

To be clear, I can't blame the people who fired him. They probably felt relief that they could finally stop working with him.

As the article said, we shouldn't demonise these men. But that is hard. It's not in our nature as humans. It's hard for us to look with compassion at an aggressor.
In your company that may be the case. Some (many, especially public) companies use HR as the initial resume filter. They are supposed to make sure the resume is accurate, the applicant didn't lie about job titles, dates of employment, education, etc, and sometimes the dreaded keyword scanning. Some places they'll also do the initial phone screen to make sure the applicant can form more-or-less coherent sentences. Then they give the person hiring a stack of screened resumes, and that person then does the interviews for the actual position in question.

And I have worked at places where HR could unilaterally veto a given employee based on certain criteria (education, background check, etc).
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> they might consciously create low-energy-usage steady-state

dystopias is just as likely
It's a sad state of affairs if someone making a reasonable point which is something like this: "Accusations have such a chance of doing irreversible damage to a person's reputation and/or life that they (accused) should have a fair chance to explain their side of the story. And we have systems for this - the Judiciary"

has to pepper it with such a generous dose of disclaimers about not taking sides with the accused.

I do hope that over time people are able to have a rational discussion on such subjects without needing these disclaimers for fear of damage to their own reputations.
Sure, at the CS100 and CS300 sides Boeing doesn't have any competitive options. But if BBD succeeds into stretching the C-series into the CS500 that very directly competes with Boeing's bread and butter (the 737). The E2 can't be stretched that much. This is why they've gone after BBD and not Embraer.
Phone is heavier and bulkier, so I prefer to leave it at my desk when I'm not moving between places, and I might not always want to carry it if I'm just quickly going somewhere. In comparison a small MP3 player will clip somewhere (which also would make cabling more comfortable when I'm carrying the phone).

My phones never last 1.5 days of use if they have to play music all the time as well, at least not once the battery is a year old. With my current one, having to balance usage to make sure it'll be available when I need it is getting annoying and includes "no music now".

At least in the past storage in phones was needlessly expensive and scarce, this has gotten better, and you can still get enough phones with microSD slots, despite the best attempts of some manufacturers to get rid of them.

Bluetooth also has gotten more reliable, that helps, but at least among the devices I've tried that's really a recent development, and still not perfect.

I totally get that other people will evaluate this differently (and/or buy better phones than me), but I don't see it as an obvious answer.
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Doesn't Java being under an oss foundation make it safer?
Yeah, he's since deleted all the comments about the post on that thread. Wish I'd taken a screen shot now.
> I've noticed more web companies lately are opting for much more basic emails than before

Part of that is that it is easier to be misidentified (or, of course, correctly identified) as spam by automated checkers the more you do with a message. Logs of image and little text? Higher spam likelihood score, lots of CSS could be trying to disguise real links, higher score, ...

Even if not identified as spam there are less stringent automated classifications that can take your message out of the user's default view (the social and promotions sub-sections of gmail, for instance).
For all of us that are delighted by nixie tubes, here's another nice thing to like. Beautiful!

Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nimo_tube

This was the best video I found on youtube to show this tube off.
Tactile buttons. A touchscreen is impossible to operate without looking at it. I assume most of us MP3-stick users have listening habits which requires us to change the track or volume every few minutes, if not more often.
Most of the people quoted seem to be using a Zune because it is just an mp3 player and don't seem to be aware of the fact that there are tons of other mp3 players out there ranging from audiophile level to cheap ipod clones. I think this says a lot about apple's total dominance of the market (that they have now abandoned). The fact that they at least knew that there was a second option indicates that the Zune wasn't a total failure.

I had a brown zune and it was great at the time.
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Apple, apparently.
> we ought to ask why those actors are not being demonized

There's as yet no suggestion that those actors were aware of the context of their endorsements.
> Sending true plain text email without a multipart HTML section is much worse for deliverability, from my experience (assumedly because plaintext emails are almost always "automatic emails")

I find that statement very surprising.
I haven't sent a single HTML mail in... all the time since I started using email. I never had deliverability problems that I could trace down to the mails being text.

(I also have surprisingly few deliverability problems to begin with and my gut feeling is 90% of hostmaster complains can be described as "you've been blocked by the spam filter because you were sending spam".)
If you are attractive(1) and treat women badly vs. if you are not attractive and has "normal" personality - guess whom women will choose. :)

(1) meaning whole person - physical appearance, voice, gestures etc.
Similar to most of Microsoft hardware and service products it was 'Murica first.
>> Grandparent: "I think you should just let your code crash."

> Parent: "I think that is a bad idea."

It seems pretty clear that we're talking about crashing here.
I actually think I'm going to get one of these...seems like a 120GB one is actually pretty cheap, and I really like the idea of having a totally offline music player
The Purism 5 is going to be using a baseband processor that's similar to ones used in car infotainment systems. It won't share RAM with the CPU and will be isolated from the rest of the phone. It'll even have a hardware kill switch, where you can physically sever the circuit, if you're that paranoid!

The CEO of purism did an interview where he went to a moderate degree of depth on the technical side, you can watch it here if you're curious. He mentions all of the above features in it, and more!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4SwE9W8JasA
Click rate of plain text email: 1%

Click rate of html email: 0.3%

That's very low and yet the result was, loudly claimed in bold, that the plain text one had 3.3x more clicks than the designed email!! Also, the opened rate is within the margin of error and therefore insignificant. I may not be a data analyst, yet I look at the analysis and think to myself, "eh?"
I love the promotional filter. I can look through the 50-60 promos and newsletters I get every day at one shot, open the 0-5 that look interesting then wipe everything. Then something happened where Bryan Harris' VideoFruit emails started coming directly into my inbox rather than the promo folder where they had been.

Guess which is the only email list I've unsubscribed from in the last month?
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I share the sentiment and think there’s a balance.

The problem is a lot of marketers or designers go overboard with HTML emails and they’re overly designed with visuals and graphics in an attempt to look good or match their brand.

Using actual plain text is a bit of a pendulum swing in the other direction though and really restricts things, including the fact you can’t add tracking pixels to get the analytics you might need.

An HTML email that is “designed” to still look like plain text strikes a good balance I think. Allows for some visual type hierarchy improvements, allows for links with clear anchor text and utm tags and any tracking pixels you need. Easier for you the developer to maintain. While at the same time isn’t distracting to the user.
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The history channel did not do the study. I don't see how the channel is all that relevant, frankly.

Unfortunately, TV and other media often misportray scientific studies. I'm not saying that's what has happened here, just that I can sympathize the skepticism against the channel.

If I didn't already know you are a women, and that therefore you have personal experience, I'd be skeptical too.

Thanks for sharing it, by the way. HN is extremely biased on a male perspective, your voice here is important, even if often disregarded.
I am not going to re-watch the video. They said the study was done in the Netherlands. I suspect the video contains enough info to try to track down the source of that matters to you.

I spent a lot of time in therapy. I had a relationship to a man with a degree in psychology and another man who was involved in sex counseling. I have read a lot on the topic.

I don't generally try to claim those qualifications because the outcome is usually problematic. Men just read that as "slut!" for a woman to profess any particular interest in or knowledge of how sexuality works. Men don't generally have the same issue.
This link is a repost of the _Futurism_ article by Kyree Leary; probably worth linking to the original source: https://futurism.com/scientists-made-a-two-dimensional-mater...

:pedant:

Was anyone else off-put by the title and this introductory sentence? "The discovery? The creation of two-dimensional materials no thicker than a few atoms — something that's never been seen before in nature."

Two-dimensional space: Length * Width

Three-dimensional space: Length * Width * Height

If the material has thickness, as this material does (even if it is microscopic), it has a non-zero value for the height, ergo it's a three-dimensional object.

/pedant