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Netflix's streaming UI keeps getting (substantially, for me) worse.

And a good part of this appears to be in the effort to hide and mask the increasingly crap quality of their catalog.

Bye bye, stars. Bye bye, user comments. Hello rotating tile images -- now more rapidly rotating tile images. Guess what? It's the same tired, B or C (or D) list title they've been pushing at you for weeks and months.

Oh yeah, and the fan on my laptop kicking in everytime I pull the site up, because now every tile has to have some irritating animation upon hover. Ooh, shiny! But a lot less useful for finding something I might actually enjoy watching, than stars and user comments.

(Think movie trailers, versus talking to a friend. Yeah, that clip may be "compelling". But your friend will tell you it's the best 5 seconds of the whole waste of time.)

10 bucks or so a month isn't that much. But you know what? I've had enough of the increasingly gamed UI and lamed catalog.

I have Prime, as well, and while it isn't the greatest -- all of streaming is becoming so balkanized -- I'm spending the vast majority of my fixed price streaming time in it, these days.

Recently, they've adopted the "big tiles" like Netflix. But so far, they aren't gaming the UI to nearly the extent that Netflix is.

And, starting a couple of months ago, I've gotten to revisit "Babylon 5".

Meanwhile, on Netflix, "Iron Fist" 'season' 2? Season 1 was bad enough...
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My mother who is a doctor had their business card in her office, you could you the info on it for any prescription. No need to go to a website or download an app.
Apple Pulls 25,000 Apps from China Amid a Barrage of State-Media Criticism
Apart from the long list of things that are great when you finally get them, here's an insight I keep seeing as valuable:

Nothing is made of magic. Everyone cooks with water. That doesn't mean everything has to be simple or easy, and understanding the theories behind things can be really challenging, but it shouldn't keep us from opening the lid of things once in a while.

While there's a lot of people in programming that are naturally inclined to do that anyway, there are also those who don't dare venture into how something works, which is one of the biggest reason for cargo-culting in my view.

Plus, if you're willing to look at how established things work at least at some level, you're pretty much guaranteed to find useful insights.
> Not if they were hired with that qualification in mind.

That's a big "if". That's why I said "typically". I think you'd find it difficult, if not impossible, to hire someone like that, even though they exist.

This is a conceit I often see in job postings, of listing skills that belong to two (or more!) different specialties. It seems more common in cases where the goal seems to be to have two specialists for the price of one [1].

> "I'd prefer someone familiar with academia and research rather than a general purpose group."

I'm pretty sure "prefer" rather than "urgently need" isn't compelling enough to give a startup a enough of a competitive advantage. There's also not much (if any) synergy with any of the rest of HappiLab's core competencies to make sense as an addon for them.

IT services could be just another vendor HappiLab handles.

[1] Uncharitably, two full-time experts for one salary, but, charitably, merely two half-time experts in one person, which seems likely for startups and other cash-strapped groups.
lack of evidence is not evidence

youre making up rationalizations for a infinite number of reasons why someone is not "openly" female, whatever that means and as if you browsed the history of all top posters

you dont know who is male or female with usernames and why would anyone really care to correct you on a claim like that for a site where the points are meaningless?
My experience is that whenever I have tried to increase Vit D level above 30+ng/ml I have got severe iron deficiency anemia. High dose vit D depletes Vit A, bio available copper, iron and potassium.
Some info on the dark side of Vit D.
https://mindbodynetwork.com/article/the-darker-side-of-suppl...
If people are doing good things, I don't much care whether it's originated from a _good heart_ or not. I'm totally satisfied with the idea that someone is motivated to do good by outside factors and is willing to take such an opportunity. It makes me much more optimistic about the course of humanity.
Is anyone else occasionally afraid to eat at restaurants if a) the tip is established before the food is made and b) you didn't tip well or at all?

I have a friend who tells me horror stories of foul behaviour performed with the food by the chef in these situations.
I suspect distributing the cost of the money a restaurant makes from tips across all the customers would lead to many restaurants closing.

A quick absurdist example - if a restaurant has 10 customers and 1 gives a $1000 tip, increasing all the bills by $100 instead would mean the 9 customers who didn't tip would likely stop eating there.
about:legacy-compat made its way into HTML5 as the system identifier/URL of a (fictive) external SGML declaration set to contain declarations for the elements and attributes of HTML. It's required to make an HTML5 document a valid SGML application; if it weren't there, the declaration set would be treated as containing no declarations at all, which doesn't work for eg. empty (HTML "void") elements such as img and br, and also for writing enumerated attributes in their short forms such as in <option selected> etc.
I suspect the practices you describe are politically motivated advertising of prices (and related to price discrimination).

To add on a living wage fee is to imply that a lower price available at other restaurants does not pay a living wage. This is a left of center virtue signal: "Eat here, where we make sure our staff earn a living wage."

To add on an ACA coverage fee is to imply that, without mandatory healthcare, the restaurant could afford to give you a better price. This is a right of center nudge toward action: "You're in favor of mandatory healthcare, and here is what it's costing you."

Both fees are crass, tone-deaf choices but, unless the receipt literally says, "we take this out of the tip," it isn't theft. You're irritated (reasonably) but are choosing to tip less, which seems like picking out the wrong party to punish for restaurant policy.

Tip well, and then tell the owner that you won't be eating there again because of the politically motivated fees.
My mother (a doctor) will only give eScripts because of the abuse, it sucks, but sometimes the bad actors ruin it for the rest of us.
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New Nikon mirrorless camera isn’t what recent rumors had you believing
You can see the exact 'program' here [1].

It's really just a series of mathematical steps with a store of values in between. Notions that would have clearly taken it from being a series of mathematical steps, to a program, such as branching, looping, or jumping are left completely unspecified. So her 'loop' was specified literally as "here follows a repetition of operations 13-23".

In other words, "should repeat" is left an as exercise to the reader.

[1] - https://i.imgur.com/HSWjbUl.jpg
The man who founded the seedbank was sent to the gulag and sentenced to death for calling out Lysenko as a fraud. The Soviets failed to evacuate the contents of the seedbank, leaving it to be destroyed or raided. I don't understand how allying with such a government can be deemed a natural consequence of seeking to preserve knowledge and culture. The heroes in this story are solely the individual scientists.
>>I suspect a lot of the people who seem so eager to discredit the study have a bit of an agenda, in that the find the implications of the study so uncomfortable. They want to believe they'd be a good person even if in a situation where badness is consistently rewarded over long time periods.

People who have a need to "credit" the study also have an agenda. Science, or truth, doesn't care about what you think "feels right."
Innovative urban agriculture could increase food security
Their fund is way down: https://www.forbes.com/sites/nathanvardi/2018/06/01/after-10...

Their model probably doesn’t make sense anymore given how the case law has developed. (Thankfully)
I've read that the main reason the 8087 was produced was to standardize the floating point algorithms. Software in those days had notorious FP algorithm problems. I'll try to find a reference for that.
How would you detect invalid usage? For example, targeting different text or pictures at different segments should be okay even for housing ads, as long as you don't exclude any segment.

Would you also require natural language processing to detect illegal text?
Yea same question. Op?
> the back of the house contributes a much larger portion of the value of the meal, so it feels like I'm stiffing _them_!

There's a weird economy to tips - in many (most?) US restaurants, the kitchen and non-wait staff (hosts, bussers, barbacks) are tipped out at the end of each night by those who receive the tips.

A busy night at a healthy place where everyone is hustling can send everyone home happy.
This is standard in the UK, it works fine.
> To add on a living wage fee is to imply that a lower price available at other restaurants does not pay a living wage. This is a left of center virtue signal: "Eat here, where we make sure our staff earn a living wage."

No, it isn't. It's a fee that started showing up in places like Seattle (and probably SF) after the minimum wage was raised, as a right-of-center jerk signal: "I would charge you less and screw my employees harder but the law won't allow me".
Time to dust off bittorrent.
35mm f/2 should be a very good lens.

In my experience the main limiting factors of smartphone are the tiny sensor size (noisy, low DR). Image processing keeps getting better but there are physical limits to what can be squeezed out of a given sensor.

If smartphones could trigger flashes at reasonable shutter speed (I guess 1/125 or 1/250) I could see myself using one to take real photos in an emergency.

There are also different definitions of what good gear is. I have several 40-60 year old lenses that are excellent for studio and street photography, but people who want edge to edge sharpness (blah blah blah) would probably laugh at them.
The threat of starving isn't holding anyone back, and I didn't say anything about the people working for me - however the decadence of having a safety net means fewer real risks are taken, and certainly less responsibility for the basics. It means the people who work for me don't have to work too hard to keep their jobs - after all, the government will take care of them if I have to fire them for under performance.

Which happens, quite a lot more in Europe than it ever did in the USA. Americans seem to like to keep their jobs - Europeans couldn't care less.
I'm still waiting for the nytimes article on why sitting may be bad for my butt.
Super AMOLEDディスプレイ搭載の10.5インチタブレットが219ドル　『indiegogo』のクラウドファンディング開始から24時間で900万円以上
Give Aurora Store a try as well, also in F-Droid. Nice UI on top of Yalp Store :)
This is beautifully presented.

Addressing the author(s): I don’t know much about the topic area but you made it interesting, and it is a trove of cool tricks and techniques (sure, bit manipulation is basic but it’s fun to see how you put it all together to solve the problems). And how you analyze the performance. Look forward to coming back to this after I get more up to speed on linear algebra.
Actually he saved over a billion lives. He won the Nobel Peace Prize, the Presidential Medal of Freedom and the Congressional Gold Medal. Not exactly a nobody.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norman_Borlaug
Caching strategies
Is it reasonable to think of this tip in terms of percentages?
So he is no longer seeding?
Negotiating hard or casually is a two way process - you can't "negotiate" alone. If the offer was made that means both sides were negotiating hard. So isn't is off why that offer wasn't made at an early stage when the company was ready to make that offer and they eventually did

This situation reeks of an endorsement of some sort which if I may crudely put as - "if a potentially employer is trying to screw you over financially, do not resist too much".

What do you check in an employee "for sure" when you hire that employee - their performance in the interview. And you do that "hard"! What does the employee know about you "for sure" before they join you (and in fact for a some time even after joining) - that is how much they are going to get paid. That's the only thing they are sure of and I'd sure want to negotiate for that hard.
The tip is often split between all the workers on duty, with different splits depending upon position.
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Well, then they're both right-of-center bird flips...

My point remains the same: anyone is right to get pissed of about these fees, but tipping less punishes the server and not the owner who instituted the fees. A better solution is to tip normally, ask to speak to the owner (or a manager), explain you will not be patronizing the business again (and why), and then leave.
I’ve seen these, but it seems like the battery life is rated to be pretty short - around 6 hours - and unlike USBC devices you can’t charge it from a car or a battery bank.
Yes, just like every other language.
The National Museum of Natural History is unlike any other I’ve been to. It is fairly worn out but is great. It is displayed in a very different t format to what I’m used to.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Museum_of_Natural_H...

Quiet and completely excellent, The Museum of Heritage and Architecture.
https://www.unjourdeplusaparis.com/en/paris-culture/musee-ci...

The Army Museum is worth a visit - it is interesting to see a less Anglo centric view of the wars, particularly WW1. The paintings are deeply grim - not ideal if you have young kids.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Musée_de_l%27Armée

The Museum of the Middle Ages is currently being renovated but is well regarded.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Musée_de_Cluny_–_Musée_natio...

Probably a candidate for best museum in the world, the Louvre is a great way to completely waste a day with massive crowds, sore feet, food and water shortages, closed exhibits, intense heat and even more crowds. Get a map ahead of time and check that the things you want to see aren’t closed before you go.
Where Have All the Criminals Gone?
Get rid of debt! Abolish banks! No more loans! No more debt! Everyone has to save up money before they can do anything! That will fix DRM somehow!
Sorry yes that's exactly what I meant.
The mindset isn't "The company is out to screw me." The mindset is closer to "Some companies are out to screw me. I don't know what kind this is." They aren't assuming the worst of you.

Hell, I don't think they're even necessarily assuming that the worst is common. They are assuming that it's common for employers to not pay them fairly if they don't take these tactics. They aren't assuming you will do that, but they are just worried you might might be.
My company provides a similar service, with both Chrome and FireFox headless support for Automated Testing/Screenshots: https://testingbot.com/support/getting-started/headless.html

We run each test in a new VM, running on our own private cloud (dedicated servers).

Note: we use the Selenium protocol for this, not yet Puppeteer.
From what I see, the problem isn't so much with the truth, but rather the narrative and interpretation of these facts.

For example, suppose a vaccine had a 90% success rate. This is the truth, however anti-vaxxers will focus on the 10% failure rate.

Both China and Taiwan agree there was a civil war and the losers retreated to Taiwan. However, the narrative of the event is where it differs.
It is strange. Tip them because they bothered .... I've not even seen my food yet...
People earning $700 a month aren't the people who are getting mugged on a regular basis. You can't even pull out your cell phone in many places.

Furthermore, I didn't even advocate for someone's mother to carry again. That's a weak strawman.

I'm advocating for responsible citizens to be allowed to purchase a gun for self defense. Not everyone needs one. The overwhelming majority don't need one and shouldn't be carrying one. Just a small minority of responsible gun owners that take time to train themselves in how to use their firearm would go a long way to acting as a deterrent. Register them. Require training. Whatever is necessary to ensure responsible people can carry them or at least keep them in their own home.

Many of my friends have been robbed at gunpoint in Brazil, including my girlfriend who was robbed about 1-2 years ago. The situation is completely out of control.

Here's another one from Brazil:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9S7SPrb6oj4

This kind of defensive gun use should be permitted.

Também, pare de tentar me educar sobre o meu próprio país.
I'd be one of minority, I guess, but I don't mind the new macbook at all. It's a bit lighter and thinner, which is already a nice improvement for those who have to carry it around every day.

While using the 2015 model, I couldn't even imagine a laptop that would make it look and feel old-fashioned, but the 2017 one did it. After using it for a couple of weeks the 2015 mac feels bulky and its keyboard – kind of tight. The 2017 keyboard is so light that it takes just a little push by a finger to press, and I really feel that it allows me typing even faster.

I do agree that the keyboard is very easy to contaminate and a little crumb can make a key hardly usable, but it's easily fixed with a bottle of compressed air. Hopefully the measures Apple took in the latest revisions, utilising a kind of a rubber cushion for the keys, will improve the situation.
While its great it works out for you, that doesn't solve the systemic issue at hand.
Is it possible to register alternative manpages in such a way that they serve as bullet-point cheatsheets?
Hence the "let's pretend they get their full tip" statement.

It's also taxed, what's your point? Mine still stands.
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If you go back through the webkit->KHTML lineage then chromium was mostly created by Europeans.
There is absolute no way this story can be true. My previous comment was flagged, but this story is so ridiculous i have to repost it(yes I don't care). Any farmer, like myself, would know, you can sprout seeds without light. Let's just say they were stuck somewhere without sunlight. These botanist would know which breeds were common -- like Russian Buckwheat. Because it was probably stored in at the minimum 50 pounds, they would have been able to sprout the common seeds, the ones they knew they could re-fulfill easily (it grows wild in Russia), and live off just the sprouts. If they had just a little bit of sunlight, they could go back to seed -- buckwheat goes to seed really quick and produces plentiful of seeds. They had access to a whole variety of seeds and the knowledge to know this. What probably happened was that the Bolsheviks, after torturing and imprisoning their leader the year before -- then starving him to death, did the same thing with his fellow scientist. Then they came up with this romantic story to hide it. Again, as a farmer, this story is absolutely impossible. You give me 5 seeds and I'll have 100 acres growing (via clones, forced flower, etc) by spring. In this era the soviets went after all intellectuals -- they were hunted down, and their families, tortured, starved and killed. The goal of the Bolsheviks was to kill as many people that could oppose their agenda. I'm just not going to take any narrative from them as true unless there is solid evidence.
> but if you choose to retire beside an AIRBASE!

The problem with that position, at least in the UK, is that the social contract between the airport operator and the local residents was never revisited.

Most of the UK's airports and airbases date from the 1920s and 30s and are named after the nearest postal village, which are centuries old.

But a Dragon Rapide or a Bristol Bulldog from that period had a very small noise profile. When the big-props and the jets arrived the noise levels increased hugely, but the residents weren't given any concession. Society was required to adapt to the new noise and pollution levels in the name of progress.

And now the operators have the audacity to complain about local residents complaining. If you really want to operate 24/7 in a drone-free environment, go and build an offshore island airport.
> That doesn't work, because functions called by functions called by functions called by set-up-request &c. won't see the values one wants them to see.

They will if they're all methods of the class (as I said: "along with their callees"). And arguably, all the functions that care about these variables should be methods of a single class.

> Can this lead to really strange bugs? I don't really think so, but maybe.

In 1983 I was hacking on Symbolics Lisp Machines at Atari Cambridge Research. For reasons that need not concern us here, I created a package that did not import from LISP:, and made it the current package by setting the relevant special variable (whose name I can't show exactly here because HN will interpret the asterisks as indicating italics, thus: package). My Lisp Machine was no longer able to access its file server using the NFILE protocol, because this Lisp-Machine-specific protocol sent pieces of list structure across the wire, and along with the expected strings and integers, that list structure also sometimes contained instances of the symbol NIL. With the current package set to my package, the string "NIL" was treated by READ as a different symbol from LISP:NIL, breaking the protocol implementation.

I think that qualifies as a really strange bug.

Yes, the "process" (thread, in modern terminology) that handled the protocol should have had protective bindings of all the special variables that could influence its behavior. But somebody overlooked the current package as being one of them. If the reader had been an object one had to instantiate before calling, the bug would probably never have arisen (I expect there would have been a function STANDARD-READER, or some such, that one could call to get a reader instance with standard options).
Heathcard insurance premiums are using community rates - priced on the overall risk / claim rate of the population of people covered under a certain policy.

My guess is that expats and visitors from other countries are a healthy and lower risk group (because they’re also wealthier) than the general population.
Apple joysticks were these terrible analog things that were completely useless for anything other than flight simulator. Anything that needed gamepad-like input just used the keyboard.
If I had to guess as to his reasoning, it's because Mech Turk is artificial AI.
You wouldn't survey an AI and expect to get anything meaningful.
Similar to ezines that would be downloaded from BBS' and read offline.

The airplane mode idea is nice. With PWA's emerging this could be nice.
Seems e.g. Flickr did roughly the same thing for its short URLs at around the same time.

https://www.flickr.com/groups/api/discuss/72157616713786392/
All the gas stations are in there (i.e. if you look for nearby gas stations it knows about all of them), but only one brand shows up in "in a break?"
I always thought they just forgot the comma. "All that she wants is another, baby."

I am an native english speaker that moved to Sweden. I am currently learning swedish and the swedish language doesn't use commas in the same way. I think a comma, even in just the lyrics (or a pause in the song), would have made things clearer.