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> What about sports shooting? Collecting? Personal defence in dangerous areas? Hunting(which because we fucked up ecosystems in some areas, culling is necessary)?

I covered that in hunting rifles. Various types of rifles have legitimate uses. However, it's an argument not in good faith to say that anything with a possible sport should be legal.

I can't make a rocket launcher sport and demand that rocket launchers become ~freely~ fully legal because it has a sport. This is a bad argument.

> Gun violence is a symptom of a worse issue in the society, banning guns will just hiding the symptom of the issue.

I agree entirely. You can have both however, mental health and restrictions. See: most first world countries other than the US.

The funny thing in these discussion is we already do have tons of regulation. The line is already drawn, we're not discussing drawing it, we're discussing whether or not we should move it.

Your arguments could be made about various rocket launchers or, hell, missiles and bombs. The line is already drawn there however, and the same argument for and against various rocket launchers (some legal and some illegal I believe), missiles, bombs and etc could be used in both cases.

Neither argument for or against guns inherently wins the argument; there's subtly in both. However it is my belief that the same reason we don't let people own larger scale weapons of destruction is valid for the larger scale automatic / semiautomatic weapons.

I am in full support of hunting rifles. Less so AKs and the like. I don't care if you have a sport around AKs - in the same way that I wouldn't care if you had a missile "sport".

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This reminds me again of why I am obsessed with A Pattern Language[0]. Building close together, setting maximum building height, quiet backs, etc. This may be a naive opinion but I think if development regulators in cities followed many of the patterns in A Pattern Language those cities would be much more enjoyable to spend time in.

[0]http://caper.ws/patterns/
Did you post anything political?
I don't understand what side you're taking here.

Please can you rephrase your argument. 100% serious, I'd like to know what point you're making.

Pre-emptively: because whatever DNS server you are using already knows your IP address, regardless whether it's the first query for the site itself, or subsequent queries for site-related additional resources.
I'm curious how many could distinguish a $400 keyboard from a $1200 keyboard. Once you get into a certain price point, the returns diminish so quickly that I figure most would be unable to tell a difference.
The first useful programming language I created was a Forth-dialect in Common Lisp [0].

While understanding Forth was key to even getting me started, since I finally found a thread I could start pulling, something that looked doable from where I was standing; it's pretty obvious I never went all in with the Forth-way.

I've since created several languages [1..] exploring the border between Forth and Lisp, or between control and convenience. And I'm still undecided. Just reading this article about Forth set my mind going in that direction again.

The fact that it's possible to do so much using such simple tools is like a riddle that keeps tickling my brain. And from a theoretical standpoint I find the stack abstraction more beautiful than registers, the same way an ordered set outshines a hashed one; because they're analog, full spectrum, without gaps and extra complexity to cover them.

[0] https://github.com/ricelang/lifoo

[1] https://github.com/ricelang/snabl

https://github.com/ricelang/cixl

https://gitlab.com/sifoo/snigl

https://github.com/codr7/g-fu

https://github.com/codr7/cidk

https://github.com/codr7/lila
That may take some practice. I did it myself once, and was off by about 4 mm. The resulting glasses were incredibly painful. My eyes would try to look in two slightly different directions, and my brain would put the wrong 3D picture together. Whenever I moved my head my eyes would readjust, which took a noticeable period of time, and I could literally feel my non-dominant eye turning itself to find the focus. I chucked the glasses after a few days.

I'm sure it could be done better, but boy, that was an interesting experience I hope to never repeat.
This is the same thing as the gut microbiome.. You need healthy bacteria and now fungi in your digestive system.
That sounds really interesting. How do you manage the library, especially in regard to storage limits, expiring old content, etc?
A bit off-topic, but this used to be discussed often on the consumerist.com web site, which Consumer Reports bought, and then archived. I miss that blog.
Why, on a seller standpoint, would it be a bad thing to know the demand curve ?
For me it is actionnable marketing data, I cannot see a way in which it’s not good.

Even if you not use it directly, it is still data on your customer base that can help you understand them more...
There is a weird "Bay area" bubble entitlement on both sides of this story.

On one side the guy that wants to keep all the drinks for himself and thinks it's ok. On the other hand we got someone creating a blog post about "Microkitchen" which is something that 99.99% of the world's population has no idea about.
I would be interested in seeing an AB test of keyboard enthusiast between say a 200$ keyboard and one that is 5x as expensive. Audiophiles also claimed that they would definitely notice a difference.
You don't need a distributed database to have replication and a hot backup. Stackoverflow runs this kind of configuration -- if it works for them, it can work for you.
I don’t think it’s different actually. Sure, jumping from a 20$ keyboard to a 200$ one makes a massive difference, but from 200$ to 2000$, the benefits are marginal, (outside of aesthetics). Similar comparisons can be made to any category of audio equipment.
By this logic, I am “making” my own pizza every time I tell Dominos to make me a 20cm pizza with cheese and sauce. I am “making” an IKA sofa when I order it online, telling the manufacturer the model, the size (2 seat, 3, etc).

No, what the OP did was check/confirm his numbers and then bought a pair of glasses from a website. Many people buy them from websites, typing in the numbers they received from their doctor. None of these people are “making” anything.
Are you actually here or are you doing your own research based on Twitter? I agree with your point people should do their own research, but in the age of social media manipulation, I'm not sure social media will get you a clear picture.

If you are here, I recommend you go see them yourself. Wear not blue and not all black, and stay on the outskirts.

In my experience its very safe as an outsider, and I have seen no looting, which is nothing like American protests, where I am from.
One point that is not much discussed here is that software programmers earn generally quite a lot of money, and do tend to spend less on luxury items than bankers, which often means they have some cash on hands for this sort of things.

The custom keyboard kit is like the banker's rollex.
They can't kick it down and push me out of the way if I have built an underground bunker.

And surely we all deserve an underground bunker.
The title is silly, because no companies have unbounded resources. If they really did have unbounded resources, they probably would have better moderation. I have plenty of ideas that would work if I could only hire infinity software engineers to implement them.
> Yes, I am a doctor. As far as I remember, I studied medicine and graduated.

Well, that's settled, then. ;)

> I understand the process of accommodation. This poses the risk of e.g. over-correcting short-sightedness if you're not aware of it because, with each lens of increasing strength, you accommodate and think "geez, everything just got sharper.. again!". I was aware of this and, as you can find in my article, actually ended up using very similar values for dioptries (the spheres) as the opticians. So either all of us totally forgot about accommodation or all of us were aware of it :)

Well, minus does like more minus. (Ask your new optician friends).

> My values mainly differed regarding to astigmatism, and accommodation doesn't play a significant role there.

No, but squinting, even a small amount, does. If your axis favors it.

> I am also aware of the bone behind my ears, thanks for reminding me :)

You're welcome.

> While you do learn a lot of stuff in med school, learning how to bend those things of glasses which go behind your ears is not part of that. I suppose that's not a skill which can be taught well, anyway - it's more like craftsmanship, getting it right by having done it lots of times.

Indeed. That's why there are professionals who do it. If you are still going to do it at home and you have a plastic frame, heat the ends up slightly. You can microwave a damp rag and wrap it around the ends for a moment. Or use a hair dryer carefully. At the optician's office, they have a hot air blower that does it. Used to be they had glass beads, but those got in between lenses and caused no end to trouble. If you bend cold tips, they can more easily break.

I apologize for questioning your credentials. I guess I was a bit harsh. I just feel the article came off mostly of a slight arrogance with only a smattering of humility. You seemed to think that you could make up for years of working in the industry with only a few days of playing around. That being said, congratulations on being mostly successful. However, I am sure I don't have to tell you that an eye exam is only partially to refract you. There are other health issues that can be detected by having a routine eye exam.
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That is the one take away from this post. This is really a weird bubble of people with too much time and not enough issues.
there will probably be another edition eventually but as someone still somewhat noobish to this hobby i've heard lots of people are ok waiting a year or two for a new group buy to start for a specific set. If you want one now keep searching /r/mechmarket for "space cadet" and make sure you look into the different kinds of sets. Mine was $170 with shipping from europe, but there are less keys on my ergodox keyboard and the set was made specifically for them. A full set is probably somewhere between $200-300. I think I've seen them for the low end of that but I'm not sure. If you don't have to have something identical, there's an SA profile set for $100 that's just blue/gray without the special characters you see in the photos. You'd have to do some googling to make sure the sa profile fits on your keyboard though. Usually they will but sometimes people have issues so I'd research:

This is a chinese site, but very reputable. There are other places that stock the same set:

https://kbdfans.com/products/bfcmmaxkey-blue-gray-sa-keycaps...
Could they? Seems like everyone became a serf of the state. Plus, the millions sent to the gulags couldn't rise.
> $219/month

This is effectively a small second mortgage. That is absolutely bonkers.
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> Why can’t people be free to live in less crowded, less crime ridden, less dirty and noisy locations if they prefer that?

Who says they can't? The question being asked was "why are there no nooks and crannies". Those by definition only appear in dense places. You can't have a nook in a large empty field.
Almost all feedback I ever received was related to the technical problems when it came to FAANG. When I started out, I understood a bit. I wasn't the top 1% of whiteboarders but lately... That excuse seems weak when I get asked a leetcode hard problem and smash it.

I'm kind of convinced there is something else happening where the person writes down technical performance instead of, "didn't like his shoes" or whatever.

They keep pinging me every six months to re-interview too. They don't like to share why they declined though - so I don't get why they ask for me to reinterview like something magical will change without feedback.
Anyone from a poor background will tell you that this is true in a shockingly large number of cases. Crab bucket mentality is real, bread and circuses are real and most of all anti-intellectualism is definitely real and a core tenant of modern lower class society.
Maybe you missed the part where I discussed defense and hunting.
Isn't that mechanism broken lately with the vocal minorities playing that game?
Exactly this. HN is a cesspool of misinformation. Whether it comes from people pushing an agenda, or just plain ignorance. I take everything said here with a grain of salt, and fact check everything. Because I have seen some very creative and convincing misinformation here, that when researched doesn't hold up under scrutiny.

My point is that people casually browsing this place are going to be infected by the misinformation and spread it to others. All while the mods overfit on whether someone's response wasn't polite enough, which in a lot of cases is biased to begin with.

Stack Exchange is a much, MUCH more reliable source of information than the horse shit I see pranced around here on a daily basis. Their moderation system actually works because it empowers knowledgeable users.
> All of the venues used for the 2010 Vancouver Olympic games are used extensively

Vancouver seems like an exception though. Canada is a wealthy country where the average person is likely to participate in sports (skating, hockey, skiing) that facilities were built for.

Also they didn't have to build new ski resorts, since the area already had some of the best ski resorts in the world.

It's a very different scenario in a country where people have far less discretionary income to spend on sporting venues.
I mean technical = STEM. My background is mathematics and I've worked in economics consulting for a decade before veering into data science.

As for my writing, it's pretty bad -- but I blame that on writing a stream-of-consciousness fashion very quickly and never revising. Amateurish, as I said.
Keycult is so good!!
It's interesting, my complaint with Calibre was always performance rather than UI - it can be surprisingly slow for processing & converting mostly-text formats.

But the sheer number of features & formats makes it worth the downsides. Indeed it's probably a good reminder to me as a developer, I can get too focused on making things snappy, efficient and pretty where perhaps I could have delivered twice the features if I took a little more of an 80/20 approach.
> Have you heard of the Viet Cong?

The one that got basically wiped out despite foreign backing (though the regular army that was their most direct supporter—the North Vietnamese Army—intervened and ultimately won the war after they were crushed)? Yeah, heard of them.

They kind of prove (or at least demonstrate) the point the grandparent post was making, though.
What cleaning? You just buy the new one.
Instead of commenting please use your network to let this be voiced to the right person.

We already sinned Chernobyl.
Writing this up in a blog post would benefit many people thinking about a career change. What lead to it, how you went about it, etc.
I'm generally wary of anyone who says they're a perfectionist, because I usually find them to be absurdly picky about silly things for no real reason, but this guy has a point about not being able to tell if glasses are right for you based on staring at some letters.
You haven't seen how the bots have ruined similar subreddits. They either hijack old accounts with karma, or they create accounts and age them manually, farming karma by reposting content or hopping onto a repost and reposting the top comment from the original post.

Being able to sway opinion is big business for them and they are always coming up with new ways to do it while seeming as genuine.
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If studies with negative results are as valuable as studies with positive results, do the sales curves for reprints look similar for the 100 best-selling studies with positive results and the 100 best-selling studies for negative results?
Sure, if you’re actually visiting the site. But (at least in the US) didn’t the recent LinkedIn case find that if my scraper pulls public data off your site, the TOS doesn’t apply?

This court decision doesn’t mean “no rules for scrapers”, rather it means “different rules for scrapers, independent of any site-specific TOS”. Or did I misunderstand the decision?
Not only are you wrong on both counts, you're also breaking the site guidelines while doing it.

Paul Graham:

I think it's ok to use the up and down arrows to express agreement. Obviously the uparrows aren't only for applauding politeness, so it seems reasonable that the downarrows aren't only for booing rudeness.

It only becomes abuse when people resort to karma bombing: downvoting a lot of comments by one user without reading them in order to subtract maximum karma. Fortunately we now have several levels of software to protect against that.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=117171

News Guidelines:

Please don't comment about the voting on comments. It never does any good, and it makes boring reading.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
That's true, but it doesn't make sense for people like the parent I responded to to act as if people's own choices have no role in their condition.

If you want to spend all day, every day watching sports then it shouldn't be an issue if you don't get a head in life. It's a personal choice, but you can't have it both ways.
It does have a Minimum Viable Product feel.

https://alexschroeder.ch/software/Trunk

As far as custom issue trackers go, this one isn't too bad. You could suggest an improvement. If you know perl, you could even write your own extension to provide this functionality.
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Why does my point have to depend on immutables? I'm really pointing out Pareto, which is still going to exist if you add or remove crimes. The only way I can see your counterpoint being an actual rebuttal, and not just pedantic, is if you redefine crime to be something meaningless. But if we're allowed to change definitions then we can't really have any conversation about anything. But language is imprecise and we can quibble over things that are in that imprecision or we can argue over what was the clear intent of statements.
Lifting very heavy weights gets me out of a funk faster than anything. I'm talking intense exercise, not little rubber pink dumbbells or whatever.

Suffering brings clarity for me. Literally. I think humans need a certain amount of stress to be healthy - when you don't get it, it ends up leaking out as this constant anxiety that never seems to go away. Putting your body through physical stress melts that constant low-grade anxiety like butter.
How do you know communism was responsible, vs riding on the back of general industrial progress during that period? Plus, living standards in ex-Soviet countries do not seem very high, compared to non-communist countries.
America is a large country. Cities and towns are large and expensive to wire up. So in the early days a lot of cities granted exclusive contracts to the phone and cable utilities in return for making the effort of wiring everyone up, not just the neighborhoods that were more likely to afford it.

Those monopolies (cough cough, sorry, franchise agreements) are now coming back to bite the consumers because, lo and behold, you can't string up fiber in a town that has an exclusive cable television franchise granted to another company. You're letting people view TV over fiber internet? That's a TV service and you're violating the agreement.

So no competition means high prices. Hopefully the advanced wireless technologies will break some of that hold, but it's not quite there yet.
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Unfortunately, lots of places will refuse to fit/bend your glasses unless you got them from their stores. It’s just easier and less of a hassle for them to have a blanket ban vs worrying about breaking the person’s glasses and being charged/sued for it.
CGP Grey's "Should all locks have keys?" says it better than I ever could: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VPBH1eW28mo (4m)
One comparison I don't see yet, which is the easiest and most non-technical I know: E2EE communication is just a long-distance version of speech. The usual comparison for E2EE is physical mail, but the entire argument happens over the flaws of the metaphor. The lack of bulk mail analysis or systematic mail fraud means that the good and bad parts of encryption are both mostly hypothetical.

Talking make a much better comparison. When you say something, someone can listen or record you, just like E2EE doesn't protect against shoulder-surfing or a compromised device. But once you've said a thing, it's gone. It's not just inadmissable but inaccessible. No police tactic in the world can physically reconstruct it, and the Fifth Amendment says you can't be forced to confess anything incriminating that you've said. (The comparison for encrypting illegal media is messier, but a spoken threat is a crime composed only of words, so we could compare that to an encrypted picture.)

And vitally, all the things governments warn about E2EE apply to speech. People use speech to plot all sorts of heinous acts. Criminals gravitate towards in-person speech instead of using letters or phone calls. Whether it's clergy covering up child abuse or terrorists plotting bombings, talking is the standard method of coordinating crimes without leaving evidence. There's speech which is itself criminal, like threatening bodily injury, which leaves no evidence after it's said. When people resort to speech instead of calls or letters, the job of the police gets harder. If everyone had to carry a running voice recorder or make phone calls, it would be much easier to convict criminals, and bulk analysis could be used to be proactive about terrorism and abuse instead of investigating after the fact.

It's hopefully intuitive to most people why "all speech needs to be recorded for police use" is unacceptable. "Nothing to hide" doesn't justify letting the police in on your pillow talk. Bulk analysis of who's talking about what is abhorrent, but warrant-only access isn't tolerable either. The government would abuse the system, private people would try to break into the logs, and the breach of privacy is fundamentally out of bounds regardless. And policing still happens just fine without such a log. Officers listen as people speak, just like they can monitor a device before it sends a message. People who hear bad things said report them. When physical crimes are plotted, the crimes leave evidence. And for speech like threats, we can still collect witness accounts or convict over follow-through. The government doesn't need a log of everything we say.

In the same way that all the horrors of cryptocurrency are grandfathered into cash, the menace of encrypted texts is already present in everyday speech, but the world keeps turning.
I think we'll see it grow. I started collecting old and new fountain pens a long time ago before it started to become a thing again. I've slowly watched that turn into a decently sized niche hobby. There are thousands of quality modern options available immediately. Its in a far more advanced state than the keyboard community, but I'm sure we'll get there.