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> Rides are often too short to context switch into doing anything useful.

People on public transit usually use their newspaper / book / phone. Sometimes they miss their stop because they are too involved doing that.
Have you used SF<->Bay transit on Google buses or something like that? From my experience it's pretty comfortable and productive to use laptops during ride to check tons of morning emails and it saves a lot of on-campus time.

> where people are being transported in a car not requiring focus -- but aren't effectively recovering this time:

Your examples require some kind of attention to driver or focus on road situation:

> Riding in a Lyft: I suppose in practice someone could whip out a laptop, but you rarely see it happen.

Riding alone vs riding with human driver differs a lot, especially for introvert people (e.g. talking in company of friends is much more comfortable then talking in company of strangers). It's hard to ignore presence of other human during ride.

> Riding in a vehicle that is L2 autonomous. While not legal or particularly safe, in practice, someone driving an Autopiloting Tesla can read and respond to emails. (i.e. similar situation as being in a Lyft)

You have to use your peripheral vision to control situation on the road. You can't fully concentrate on your work and be productive.
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With Forth there are a handful of core words you really need to get things going, some ubiquitous but not mandatory convenience ones, and then it's up to what best fits the platform. There is no such thing as "the" Forth.

Isn't Lisp just the same?

The TI-84+ series is such a specific technological niche that it makes sense to write a Forth customized for it platform, which the author of this OS did earlier[0]. This repo is an OS though, so "Forth-based" means the OS is built on a Forth platform but with enough extra features that it is more than just a Forth language at this point.

Also, arguably, the part where it is compiled through Scheme might make the purists say it's not a true Forth (which tend to be self-hosting).

[0] https://github.com/siraben/ti84-forth
I think this is a thing in China, where you can turn off all data access to apps?
I struggle with Buddhism, only because while it is the only major religion that actually makes sense to me, I can't overcome the cultural disconnect as a white westerner, attempting to adopt ways of thinking which are so culturally different & abstract. Science at this juncture is the only method of looking at the world which appears rational to me, however unfortunately science doesn't have answers to the poetry of existence which religion attempts to mitigate.
I've been using Borg (and it's predecessor, Attic), for a while now and I'm very happy with it. Perhaps my only complaint would be that at one time they changed the hashing function which exploded the size of the repo for a while (since content was getting stored twice until all the old chunks were rotated out). Duplicity managed to lose my data several times, but so far I didn't have any such bad experiences with Borg.
Well, that’s also the nickname of Kimi Räikkönen, F1 driver, and probably a dozen other famous sportsmen known for their cold calculation under pressure. It’s just a common nick for calm people.
> hopefully to something productive than passive consumption

Thanks for the moralising but I’m very safe for saying you have absolutely no insight into whether or not I’m watching a suitable amount of Netflix, how much it helps me unwind, and how I’m spending my non-Netflix time.
Your ISP would disagree about streaming for the entire month, they bear that cost.
Huh? I think if you want a legacy the reason you do it is exactly because you do not want it to disappear when you die.

So asking if you’d still do it kind of defeats the point.
I don’t think so, no. But I believe that they are moving towards the goal of keeping data in an encrypted format that they cannot read themselves, or not collecting it all.
So I googled why no flights go across Antarctica, and all reasons sound like bullshit...
This is almost certainly gits auto-merge files when there are no conflicts...

Developer A develops the 'protect your tweets' feature on master.

Simultaneously developer B implements the 'change email address' feature which involves creating a new user account and copying over all settings.

The two commits get merged, with no merge conflict (and therefore no manual review), but the 'copy over all settings' step now misses a setting and uses the default instead.
One out of a few billion. Who is to say you cannot be that one?
I love this article: https://deansforimpact.org/why-mythbusting-fails-a-guide-to-... (“Why mythbusting fails: A guide to influencing education with science”) Narrowly, it's about “learning styles”, the idea that certain students are e.g. “visual learners” and would benefit from education geared towards visual learners. But more broadly, it's about science in general, about persuasion. In its second half (starting at “Is there any hope for change?”), it outlines an excellent approach for dealing with such cases — or really, any disagreements between people. Failure to follow a similar approach may feel good in the short term, but usually has tragic consequences.

And if it can happen with educated teachers, it can of course happen with flat-earth believers.
To start with I've been writing software for 32 years now. I went through what this guy did, at around the same age as him, give or take. And I got past it, as I imagine he will.

Today I work with people half my age who, and this is so obviously apparent it's actually funny, are convinced they have a better grasp of the problem and solution domain than I do. To be fair there was a young lady once who did, and it was amazing to be humbled like that, but it's hardly the norm.

Anyhow, when I hit my mid-40's my ego (which was substantial) just kind of... left. I still love tech, programming, solving problems. But this has taken second place now to enjoying myself, my son, life. I now live for moments - snowboarding, scuba diving, restoring an old BMW R80.

My biggest lesson to my 20-something self would be to get the hell over myself. Life isn't a competition.
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One Night: Ultimate Werewolf is always popular with bigger crowds. It's streamlined version of Mafia game, with convenient phone app that acts as moderator.

One match lasts no more than 10 minutes, but no one ever wanted to stop after just one game. The game never gets old. There are different roles and variants to mix things up, but even with same setup the player strategies will evolve and develop.
I have never used a surge protector, and I don't think I've ever seen one in a home or office.

Much of Europe uses buried cables, so there's less risk from lightning strikes, and I think the higher line voltage (230V) reduces the effect of something like a dodgy elevator motor in the same billing.

I have visited the US a few times, where I remember the lights would dim momentarily if the garbage compactor or the dryer were used.
> many NPM packages do include unnecessary files in the published artifacts

This is the main reason node_modules grow so quickly. Many authors are careless on what files they include in their published packages.

The npm cli now makes the package files and size visible during publishing, but I guess we need some way to shame authors publishing big packages, maybe by including size info on the npm website and downranking them in searches.
Some people are very offended to be told they have small hands. Don’t miss the bit where a photo of his hands is posted out yearly. https://money.cnn.com/2016/03/04/media/donald-trump-fingers-...
It's not the government, it's a court.
> Do any of these frameworks actually solve problems that weren't being solved before?

Yes. React solved two big problems in the front-end space: building re-usable components as a first order concern and moving away from the imperative DOM. As mentioned, Vue is arguably pretty similar except with some concretely different goals.

Angular 1 -> 2 was not about just Typescript, it was a large-scale refactoring to move away from some of the more imperative aspects towards a more component-based architecture which incorporates some of the advances made since Angular 1 was introduced.

Vulcan's a framework which uses React and Meteor is it's own separate thing so I'm not sure what you're trying to identify here.
Thanks for your feedback! I’ll look more into what we can do. We tried purchasing the .com for around 6 figures, but the buyer wouldn’t sell. I’ll try sending him an email again.
Here's an interesting observation from recent HN reactions to JS:

+ The hardcore server folks are hating JS these days, because it requires more than dropping a single script tag.

+ The full-stack people / JS beginners are hating JS with a passion, because they think it's unneeded complexity for
their deadline.

+ Advanced JS veterans totally like how the JS ecosystem is rapidly maturing & solving its problems in interesting ways.

And there's people like you (the latter), constantly explaining the former groups that JS isn't so bad.

I'll see if I can write a blog (or a book if it has to be) on each part of JS ecosystem that has changed with detailed explanations on why it is better.

I already wrote a piece along those lines - https://writer.zoho.com/writer/open/0y4wx08838bdbcf954b1398c... but I guess I (or someone else) can do better.
Do you really think that’s not on purpose or surprising? If you show them recommendations instead of an empty search result they might want to watch something else or get inspired to use other search terms to find some other result.

That may sound like a bad search for engineers but for the user it’s probably what they want and what Netflix measured.
Apple gives iCloud data to the US government too, and, as a sibling comment has mentioned, only gives data to the Chinese government if you are a Chinese citizen. The correct response to this is not “Apple is selling us out to China”, it’s “Apple should encrypt iCloud data at rest and end-to-end, without storing the keys, so nobody can have it”.
Which roughly translates to: "competing devices are too cheap".
Is "content" "data"? (Assume "content" is something the user generates and intentionally shares with one or more other users via a computer network. It could be a text message, a web page, a PDF, a photo, a video, whatever.)

For example, when he says companies should avoid collecting identifiable data is he arguing against companies that collect user "content" (e.g., a cache of googleusercontent webpages, or a backup of photos stored in an Apple iCloud datacenter)?

Or is he arguing against promoting user "accounts" where users identify themselves to companies to receieve the "benefits of signing in" or perhaps as a absolute requirement for access to "content" created by someone else via the company middleman?

Much of the "data" that concerns privacy activists is what they might call "metadata". It is not the collection of "content" that alarms them, and no doubt the companies collecting it would remind us this content has been voluntarily shared.

However... without the collection of "content" first by a middleman, there is no metadata for these companies to collect.

We could have a debate about regulating the middlemen. We could try to define what their obligations should be toward users. A more interesting conversation IMO would be about how we can use technology to eliminate the middleman.
Obligatory xckd: https://xkcd.com/2078/
My dad has been a lifelong atheist and a generally rational person but recently, thanks to YouTube, he's discovered conspiracies and gone all in on just about all of them. 9/11, moon landings, crop circles are all definitely conspiracies. I'm not sure what he thinks about flat earth yet but he'll probably get there.

So it's not just pre-trained religious people who are susceptible. They're probably much more susceptible, though.
Imagine if it had been Ive. For one thing, I bet we wouldn’t have camera bulges.
> however when it works

The social difference between men at the top 10% of the income vs bottom 10% has always been very significant. Women are not forced with the same negative consequences if they end up with lower income, so it would be surprising if those far smarter would willingly expose themselves to unnecessary risk during negotiation, just so they can match the same income.
> Chrome is provably more secure than Safari

You’re going to have to back this up with evidence. Both browsers are similarly secure, which is to say, they are probably good enough that you probably have other things to worry about than how secure your browser is.
yeah, years ago I went for a long bike ride (800km in two weeks) with about 2.5k other people. we all stopped at a town for a two day break called Manjimup and we all had to wash our clothes so you can imagine the line up to the public laundry... it went for blocks.

anyway, a nice old bloke walked up and offered his washing machines at his house for use. We didnt much like the idea of hanging around all day just to get into the laundry so we said yes.

He was a lovely old fella, and had a library room in his run down old place that was floor to ceiling, wall to wall filled with books, while our clothes washed he talked to us about god (our first warning sign) then about how the CIA was involved in all sorts of nasties (second warning sign) then I started to notice the titles on the books...

LOTS of JW stuff, Lots of conspiracy theory stuff, lots of antisemitic themed books.

the guy was completely bonkers, utterly up to his eyeballs in conspiracy stuff and somehow always linked it back to how the JW was there to protect themselves from them.

he was a very pleasant enough guy and old and alone but the JW sect seems to have fed him all sorts of bullshit.
I used to spend a lot of time on an alternative medicine forum whose primary goal was to provide support for parents of children with ASD and similar conditions. They primarily were focused on metal poisoning, but some kids were being treated for infection, such as PANDAS.

Perhaps some cases of ASD involve infection and fever helps suppress it a bit.
Well, Italian and ME populations were basically the same thing for more than a thousand years (basically until the Islamic Conquest promoted piracy on the Mediterranean, making it fundamentally unsafe). So it might well be that you are carrying genes that most of the Italian population also carries, and viceversa.
Those awkward things attached to the back? I guess she doesn’t have pockets since it makes them a really awkward shape - such a weird usability trade off yet many people seem to have them.

I hope this is a test of demand - I ordered one since my existing one is falling apart after some big drops but I didn’t want something bigger.

I tried an LG v30 and it always felt like I was about to drop it (though the audio sounds really nice!) I can’t find any phone besides the SE that I’d rather buy even without price as a factor.
We are in Perth, the car told us it was 41.5 degc on the way to the beach today, but it is very dry with low humidity so not as bad as it sounds. One place was 43.8 at midday, which is over 110F.

We left the house open today and ran the misters, spent some time in the pool, because we are elevated and catch the breeze it was fine, might run the AC tonight for sleeping.

Perth people are used to it, the real problem is the temp of the minimum, for sleeping.
I'm pretty low on IP in general but trademarks do serve a useful purpose: namespaces are rivalrous so it makes sense that the government be able to say, hey, you can't start selling low grade big Macs in your town and potentially give McDonald's a bad name.
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Wouldn't it be easier to just get a HP calculator to begin with ?
>Fortnite's popularity is only an incremental step up from the games whose models they imitate.

For the context of those viewing on Twitch, yes. But Netflix loses a viewer if they decide to play Fortnite rather than continue subscribing to Netflix.

Fortnite is ridiculously popular, especially in the 14-24 demographic. I haven't seen (or looked for) good unbiased numbers, but I'd wager Fortnite is multiple times more popular than the next game in terms of daily active users.

Of course, gamers are fickle and friends who play Fortnite have been complaining about recent updates so this could change in months.
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I agree, but it would increase the prices, right? Would you buy a phone that doesn't include "we'll sell the user's data" in the financial planning at twice the price? And pay another premium for a mobile provider that doesn't actively track you & sells profile data?

I'm not so sure about it being added just because they can make a few extra bucks. I believe it becomes part of the revenue system and drives down the margin they make on the actual product. Once somebody starts, everybody has to follow or they can't compete because their product is expensive.

With privacy minded people being a small minority, it probably doesn't make sense financially to cater to them in many markets. Emails is relatively simple, building a cell phone, or running a cell network, is not, so you don't do it for a handful of users.
You’re going to have to provide more context here, since otherwise your comment doesn’t seem very substantial.
I read quite a bit of the discussion here, and I’m struck:

People railing against anti-scientific attitudes by spouting the first shit they made up that makes some intuitive sense to them about psychology and/or group dynamics.

I wonder if anyone else sees the irony?
Look, I am not saying these things to satisfy my personal needs, and I am not demanding Apple anything, that's only a piece of advice. A reminder that there is a bigger elephant in the room. I have been using Android since my iphone6 retired, and everything is great.
Flat earthers are just rebels that don't want to listen to modern science for various other reasons, business backing, lack of trust etc
The earth isn't a planet.
If only... there were some sort of live streaming website, when thousands of people could get together and watch content at the same time, maybe even with a chat system.

Since the topic is fortnite, perhaps such a streaming website could even include gaming content!
All things being equal thought, it’s always better to have access to source code rather than none at all.
The individual game is (very probably) a fad, but if/when it wanes in popularity, do those users resubscribe to Netflix or continue watching/playing games for their entertainment?
Will webasm change this all again?
They bear no more cost for that than Netflix. A connection has two ends.
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The customers are paying for the service. They bear the cost.

The idea that ISPs bear the cost of Internet traffic which benefits tech companies is at the centre of their agreement against net neutrality, and it's a fallacious argument.

The ISP is free to decide the price and the quality of the service offered. That's how they recoup their costs, by charging their customers the correct price for the service.
Fair point and agree. It's not really comparing apples to apples. Netflix would want many binge viewers in order to retain their membership and get their friends to sign up to watch the same shows they're watching, while gym members don't necessarily convince their friends to sign up to their gym the same way they would if it were Netflix since it's more personal than social. There's a sweet spot between consumption and retention, just like how gym's don't like that one guy who's there for 12 hours a day taking up resources but would prefer someone who barely goes once a week which is enough for the customer to keep paying for the monthly membership.
McDonalds failed to provide sufficient data. They only provided tiny table of numbers for the UK, France and Germany. E.g. <quote>...the total number of products sold under the Mark between 2011 and 2016 was in excess of (units in millions):

2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016
Big Mac 75 75 75 75 75 75

</quote>

The numbers fail to cover the entirety of the relevant time period (2012-2017 inclusive), region (all member states of the EU!) and goods (e.g. sandwiches). They are also just self-proclaimed numbers with zero independent evidence to back them up. The EUIPO notification spells this out clearly on page 4.

Sure, McDonalds should appeal and will probably overturn this, but not because the EUIPO made a mistake, but because McDonalds's lazy tactic to appeal to its marketing material. (After starting all this to bully a tiny competitor to keep them from expanding in the EU.)
They’ve done this forever with their computers. Happy with the CPU but don’t want a horrible 5400rpm hard drive (Yes iMacs still ship with those)? Well you’re going to need to bump up to the higher CPU model.
There's actually two facts you have to consider side by side

1. Front-end dev changes often

2. Websites have become worse at being websites

Like AMP, single-page apps being mostly broken if not viewed in a pristine no-addon Chrome, loading megabytes of scripts to display a bit of text, overlays blocking the screen, sluggish scrolling, broken dynamic loading, misused and misunderstood statistical testing suites, fragile "graceful" third party content everywhere, less accessability, pop-ups, now scripted, again! ... the list goes on and on.

Being good at displaying text is now a killer feature of only few elite websites... Imagine that.

I believe front-end devs are much less sophisticated programmers than the frameworks they use. Those frameworks are usually years of work from big corps geared at a specific use-case. Back in the day, before so many new technologies, people were hesitant to write websites with tools they would not be able to write themselves.

Today, I do not think more than a fraction of front-end devs actually understand what all these new technologies are doing under the hood, nor could write them themselves.

And if you are already playing with Legos, it of course leads to putting in too much stuff without sense and too much stuff where it doesn't belong.

Finally, I think everyone (subconciously?) realized that the web has become bad. But if the only option you see is a new framework, then people chase after new tech instead of writing better websites with simple technologies.
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Both pro- and anti- flat earth content attracts views, which translate into ad hits and money. Some outlets will push anything for money.
It's shocking to me how many people don't realize that a great deal of flat eartherism is pure trolling.
This varies by technology, but often you can get productive within a day or two with these technologies. I mean, the core Vue docs (entire essentials section, from Introduction through Components), is 12k words, including code. At 50 wpm (1/6th of college reading speed on non-technical material), that's four hours of reading. If you wanna skim the thing, you could easily see the gist of what it's about in less than an hour.
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I've got no skin in the game, I don't buy iphones.
> RaspberryPis can emulate Mario Kart on an N64

Yes they can, and Golden Eye. I have just played Mario Kart with the kid before bedtime. It stutters a little if you have too many karts on screen, but that’s not a problem when you’re winning.
> Chrome is provably more secure than Safari

What's the point of a "more secure" web browser that encourages you to sign in to the entire browser application with your Google account and leak huge amounts of your browsing habits to a company that derives incredible profits from your tracking your activities?
How big is the stack on your machine?
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The Synology unit isn’t cheap and it’s for backups - surely it warrants a surge protector. Easy to say after the event however.