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The culture war in the US has pretty much devolved into generic sports-teamism at this point, calling for blood and demanding cancellation of anyone who doesn't agree with a narrow set of viewpoints.

This may seem like I'm pointing a finger in a particular direction with use of the term "cancellation", but it really applies to almost everyone civically involved in the US presently. It's become really boring and difficult to discuss any nuance in the situations.

I wrote about it last month:

https://sneak.berlin/20200808/partisan-politics-are-boring/

I like to focus on the fact that the vast majority of people, everywhere in the world, regardless of "sports team" are decent and nonviolent. It's easy to get caught up in these things, war-of-the-worlds-style, when the media is both spewing fuel onto the culture war fire, and also increasingly custom-tailoring all of their output to one of two such teams.

Already, pretty obvious plain facts are being disregarded by a lot of prominent people simply because they don't fit the expected and normal us/them narrative that so many are now invested into.
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A lot of the questions in this thread are answered here: https://fennel-lang.org/rationale
Any bigger reaction than that is too hawkish for my tastes. Not sure what you're looking for.
Web standards are bloated because that's what users want: features. That's like saying "Firefox would be fine if there wasn't any well funded competition driving up the feature count of browsers to meet consumer demand."
Don't forget streaming now, too.

I was a big fan of Pluto TV until it got purchased by Viacom or whomever. Now, just like cable TV, there are 800 channels going at any given moment, and all of them show their commercials at exactly the same time.

I joke, but only partly, that there's not a jury in the country that would convict me if I murdered whoever instituted that change.
I am not an SME; looking at the photo on BBC these look like lemon stones (seeds).
Could you identify them? Did you ask anyone/did anyone gave you a hint on what could they be for/from?
Interesting, I had heard about the cosmoline issues, but wasn't familiar with the issue with the hammer catch. I guess that is to be expected from combloc surplus. Thanks for the information.
There are better tools than a hex editor or system monitor (why do you want to constantly be bothered how well your hardware is performing?).

Unclutter - This gives you a nice non intrusive "memo zone" as well as manage your clipboard, so that copying password won't lose your user name into limbo.

BetterTouchTools - Who'll live without this one? Just give "three fingers swipe down" mapped to cmd-w and your life will be quite that much better. No more click at the upper corner tiny button to close a window which is an insanely dumb usability. Add several more to your likings and your life is even rosier.

And use a password manager, so that a new login made from your phone will be on your mac without effort and nothing gets lost on clean install even if you forget to export them if they're saved in the cloud, not to mention you can have randomized password for every site, but make sure to secure the master password with 2fa.
Those annexations were "easy". Take Guam, for instance, I'd love to see someone try to annex it by force.
Not all of the developers: https://twitter.com/FirefoxDevTools/status/12936787391175761...
Plenty of us that experienced the original SARS knew about the threat of pandemic from China. That's the reason why places like SK and TW were on high alert from the beginning. It's only the rest of us further afield that didn't heed the warning and continued BAU.

I was on a flight back from Japan to Heathrow in early March and the only thing they did to contain it was announce that if you feel sick, please report it to the crew. Needless to say, nobody self-reported and they didn't do anything at all in immigration after we landed.
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A Chromium based Firefox would further kill it off. It would only give Google full control of the web and is a very poorly thought out idea. It would cost more money to rebuild in Chromium than continue investing in Firefox. It would offer no better ability to bring in revenue either.
I don't think so? I'm not very well up on my OOP patterns, but in my mind the builder pattern in OOP corresponds to the initial algebra pattern in FP, and initial algebras can model domains with or without that kind of restriction. I think they're basically orthogonal.
Pocket was a too strong integration probably. Offline browsing on mobile phones is still a missing feature, and pocket doesn't solve it well. Firefox could have added the necessary features for a great pocket plugin (and its competitors) instead of just integrating with it (and buying it).

Blender is a much more successful example (and there was another open source project here on HN with $300k income where companies could pay for features to be implemented, but still not company specific).
> The green ⬤ is…can you even call it a green ⬤?

Nadieh’s questioned green is much closer to “unique green” (a typical observer wouldn’t think it looked partly blue or yellow)† than the CSS color “green” (based on the display’s “G” primary), which is shifted way toward yellow and should properly be called “yellowish green” or the like. It’s also much less colorful (the hues would be easier to compare if both had the same colorfulness).

Likewise Nadieh’s red closer to unique red (and much less colorful) than the RGB “R” primary, which should really be called “orangish red”.

> Avoid pure colors

All three of the colors in the “better” picture are close to unique hues (yellow, blue, green). All three of the colors in the “not ideal” category are based on the display’s primaries (“orangish red” R, “purplish blue” B, “yellowish green” G), not at all close to “pure”.

†: Unique hues vary from person to person, and unique green in particular has wide inter-observer variability.

* * *

The extremely poor naming of CSS/HTML colors and the rather arbitrary constraints imposed by 3-primary RGB emissive displays and inadequate/misleading graphical tools for picking colors have seriously skewed many people’s color concepts.

To restate the main idea from this article: don’t use overly intense colors. Stay away from CSS named colors, because they are based on the furthest extremes of the display’s gamut, and are overly colorful.
Yes, but my point is that most of the world, including the US, has agreed to acknowledge the One China policy as correct in order to access China on a diplomatic and trade basis. Hence why it's not so easy to resolve.
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> I fail to understand why we cant directly donate to Firefox and only Firefox.

Because the amount of money donations bring in pales in comparison that the search engine deal does, but since that's something they actually sell, it (and therefore Firefox) is managed by the Corporation. At least, that's how I understand it.
will be happy to change ... there doesn't a way to edit the post ... any suggestions ?
I guess the withdrawal of Doniger's book had nothing to do with violent threats and protests against the publisher? Dark western forces at work in false flag attacks, I presume.
> Otherwise, systemd-resolved is not as unpredictable and frustrating as resolvconf or networkmanager.

NetworkManager uses dnsmasq or systemd-resolved as it's backend...
> One thing I do is put sites I want to spend less time on into my hosts file. That way I have to edit a file, which means leaving the context of my web browser, before I can access the site.

I use the LeeckBlock extension in Firefox. I have it set to block a bunch of sites 24/7. It has an override option; I have it set to override the block for 2 minutes when I activate it. As I'm typing these words, I have ~20 seconds left before HN is blocked again, so I'll probably have to override again before I submit this comment.

It adds enough friction that I don't spend as much time as I otherwise might on the blocked sites. I think the fact that it auto-blocks again helps over having to manually re-enable the block in a hosts file. Of course that could be automated.

It also has a bunch of related features that I don't use much, in case anyone is interested.

(Override, OK, reply)
The third-party cookie will be blocked, but when both sites are served via the same proxy server, over the same TLS/QUIC connection, the third-party can get similar tracking information they would have had with a cookie, without needing a cookie. It's not exact, but it's good enough for inference.
Oracle is all the hate, but when it comes to java, Oracle really got the show rolling again. Prior to Oracle, little happened. After Oracle, a lot is happening.
Tesla doesn’t change hardware by build year. They make hardware changes every day/week/month.
Sounds like Google
Nice, good luck! My advice would be to offer something very opinionated to limit the chance that something is rolled out incorrectly. That and preventing lock-in are two big requirements IMO.

I’m doing something somewhat similar, happy to exchange notes.
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I know for a fact that the police in Chicago used plainclothes officers to drag into the street many of their old/junked/rusted/decommissioned police cars; I'd be surprised if many of the vehicles so moved even functioned.

I presume they either set them alight themselves, or made them extremely easy targets for the protests, specifically to bolster their "but they're burning police vehicles!" narrative. The reporting on the matter won't point out that it's a 30 year old police car with a blown engine that was rusting in the ass end of a police storage lot for 10 years prior to being burned.

There are also lots of reports of police dressed in all black and not identified as cops (but wearing earpieces and cop-standard footwear) smashing things, and lots of pallets of bricks suddenly appearing in protest zones.

The whole story is not being, and likely won't ever be, told.
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I think the most salient point of this blog is pretty much buried as the closing thought. It’s pretty hard to be a good engineering manager when you also have programming responsibilities (IC work). Sure, you can debate about what the different hacks are to try and work around this and do a good job in spite of the difficulty, but it’s a lot easier to just go full-time managing.

In my experience it takes six or more people to fully occupy a manager. Ten seems to be about perfect. You can go higher than that (and many do) but at a certain point you’re not evenly investing in all your people anymore, you’re mostly focusing on a few at a time.

Obviously the hardest part of this is if you don’t have 6+ people to manage. My answer to very small teams is not to have a manager at all, just have a technical lead and trust that a group of 1-5 people can work out their own crap.
shame... Firefox dev tools are superior to Chrome’s, in my experience
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>Hong Kong is a difficult situation because the entire world agrees that Hong Kong belongs to China.

It's more nuanced than that. The reason for the one country two systems policy was that the rest of the world doesn't agree that the CCP should hold sovereignty over Hong Kong.

China is seen as only temporality under the control of the CCP and that it will transition away from authoritarianism given the chance. The idea is that Mainland China will become more like HK. That didn't happen at all. With the passage of the security law, HK looks more like China.
Yes, let's return to tribal states. Let the strongest be our chieftain. /sarcasm off

It is always easy to dismiss something, which is not perfect --- and what is perfect? But nothing is just removed from society. Something else always takes its place. So usually it is naive and bad idea to concentrate on what is going wrong. If you want to improve the world you have to concentrate on what should be done better and how should it be done better? In this case, what is the alternative to nation states that you envision? Kingdoms? Anarchism? A Star-Trek like utopia? A global communist state? Or simply a failed state, like Afganistan or Somali? If I look at this list, I see nothing that is even remotely as good as western nation states. Although, they have obvious flaws.
I would say I fall into this camp of using is wrong. I'm only inviting a few candidates to a job post and the majority of applications are people manually or auto responding. I experiment with a private post and only inviting candidates.

Searching seems to be off at Upwork, for example, I'm look for someone add faceID support to a RN app and the results aren't too helpful. Looking at searches like "react native faceID" on upwork you would hope the top of the list would be the most relevant profiles containing all three terms or simply a search of "faceID" would return profiles containing this or biometric or react-native-touch-id, but searching the profile contents of the top five search results for this for me yield none of them having the search term. Testing google index against upwork is more effective for me 'site:upwork.com faceID'
I use NextDNS on my iPhone to block distracting sites (and privacy stuff etc). It's quick enough to disable briefly for a false-positive but annoying enough to stop me mindlessly browsing Hacker News on the toilet all day...
Walmart build, vetted, distributed and provided support to Procter & Gamble products over many decades. But saying that Walmart is paying to Procter & Gamble would be also gross mischaracterization.

Appstore model is as old as civilization - middle man reselling stuff. Some middle mans are more effective than others, and true, Apple is one of them. But that doesn't change characterization of the relationship. They don't pay developers for their service, they resell their stuff, while keeping hefty profit margins.
Try the LeeckBlock browser extension (Firefox and Chrome). It might work better for you than the hosts file. I just commented about it in a sibling to your comment.
As long as devs keep drinking the Chrome kool-aid it won’t. Developers actually have a lot of pull but do not exercise it. As the job market shifts to more blue collar workers. There is less expertise required and those workers are responsible for running tools they don’t understand rather than coding and making ideas. Google’s best interest is to keep development behind closed doors until they’re ready for the public to use their tech, rather than having new tech developed by other companies or via open source.
The hospital was built to save lives. Now that the initial wave of the pandemic is over the hospital sits empty.

Private enterprise would never spend resources to build hospitals to save lives simply because it isn't "profitable." Only a centrally planned government will pull off such a feat purely in the name of saving lives without regard to profit. I mean literally no non-profit in the united states is capable of building a hospital just to handle a temporary spike in demand.
The American navy has been going around there for a long time; that's hardly non-militarized.

I'm not sure there's a big difference between claiming they're territorial US waters vs claiming that the US gets to decide who's waters they are. In both cases the US has sovereignty over those waters
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Israel is not colonising "Palestinian land", they occupy a land which was part of the Ottoman empire and was promised to them in the San Remo convention by the League of Nations, Jordan was part of it too. If anything it is the opposite, Britain did as much as they could not to adhere to this legally binding decision.

In addition the Arabs in this area never agreed to recognise the non disputed part Of Israel and launched wars against it continuously, still do. Comparing it to HK or the invasion of Turkey to Syria which never threatened Turkey, is not honest and not relevant to the discussion, it is a completely different issue.
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> Encoding your business logic in the database schema is rarely a good idea.

If by this you mean not defining tables with explicit columns in general I would disagree. It's one of the most effective ways to get speed in analytic applications because it optimizes compression. And in OLTP applications it's the best way to ensure consistency of data.

But perhaps you were referring to a narrower scope like just JSON & upstream changes?
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A free alternative to BTT trackpad gestures is jitouch2 (https://www.jitouch.com). It's not as versatile and no longer maintained, but works well for most use cases even in the latest version of MacOS.
Protect the country's ecosystem by a species that may 'invade' and take our existing flora [0],[1].
If 5% of the recipients want to do something "green" and plant these in a park/forest near them, without knowing the impact.. well 10-20 years from now you may have wiped out other more useful and necessary species.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Invasive_species
[1]: https://www.fs.fed.us/wildflowers/invasives/index.shtml
People in Iowa don’t really care about the cosmopolitan elite in DC or New York. But they’re forced to care when the media is entirely run by people in New York, and cosmopolitan bureaucrats living in DC are trying to nationalize the education system, etc.

Were this true, there should be very strong support for local media among conservatives, but in reality local journalists are attacked with the same fervor as national ones, and conservatives cheer when newsrooms shut down and the journalists are thrown out of work, eg the recent restructuring at Gannett newspapers. As for nationalizing the education system, that was a complaint I heard a lot about common core, but that was a state-led iaitive that the federal government agreed to back. And it's odd that you would put the blame on DC and NY for centralization of education policy when Texas, being the largest single market for school textbooks, has set the agenda for the rest of the country for many years.

Also, if we’re evolving toward a borderless “multicultural knowledge economy” why do the cosmopolitan elites care so much about enabling immigration?

This is (no doubt unintentionally) tilting toward the 'great replacement' theory put about about by certain fringe political actors. While they may be very happy to have you articulate it on their behalf, behind your back I'm pretty sure they regard you as part of the problem.
Didn't America annex it by force?
The TOR browser is based on Firefox, so this also affects them, right? A chrome-based TOR browser would be the biggest joke in the history of online rights. I have the impression that Mozilla, and all of us, are at a crossroads here. I really hope they find a way to continue the development of Firefox and their other products without having to resort to prostituting people's identities.
The current conflict locations aren't near the headwaters of the Ganges, which are mostly on India's side of the Himalayas. They are near the headwaters for the Indus, but most of that flows to Pakistan.
>If you own a ReMarkable, it's not.

No, it is. I decide what's affordable or acceptable for me. In any case, are you really implying that one's economic situation is invariable? That owning a certain piece of hardware automatically makes you economically buoyant? Too many wrong presuppositions. On top of that, I find it expensive based on other factors, especially it being "something that you can do by yourself with just a bit more effort."
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I think you misunderstand how much of the world's electronics are manufactured in China and how difficult it would be to relocate all that. Like I'm invested in a rare earth element company in Canada, and I still expect to see the world rely on Chinese rare earth elements for a few years yet, let alone manufacturing know-how. It'll take a few years, maybe a decade, to set all that up in other countries, including in the US. Obama once asked Steve Jobs why the iPhone can't be manufactured in the US, Jobs said the skills weren't there. https://www.heraldtribune.com/article/LK/20120123/News/60519... And it's not like the American education system is the greatest. Great universities, but what of the high schools?
> I don't believe I really ever saw anything that was different than reality

> I remember going to a racquetball court and it seems like they were many balls in the court when there actually there was only one
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> the distinction between authentication and authorization

Distinction which is totally useless in practice as you certainly won’t have authorization without authentication.
Or at least the weight/dimensions of the package. At least in Canada, anything tracked has this all keyed in and shows on the receipt, dunno why they can’t have it pullable electronically too for verification.
Actually no, Web was perfectly fine with HTML 4.01/XHTML, but then some people at browser teams decided to declare war on native apps, HTML 5 was born and we are a couple of years before ChromeOS takes it all.
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I imagine the problem is not all apps support older iOS versions... at least, I had this issue when I was trying to use an older iPhone as a backup day to day and found that half the apps I liked weren’t available at the time. Usually you’ll be lucky to support n-2 releases of iOS. For example: https://help.duo.com/s/article/1871?language=en_US
What do you think of an open core security product like https://fusionauth.io/ that supports those protocols ?
More it depends on who the person knows. What makes a portfolio valuable is getting it in front of someone inclined to look at it. Strangers are less likely. Those in a person's network are more likely.

Particularly when starting out and even more so for remote work because there are many many applicants for any job.
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An ironic post indeed. There's a valuable message here: Give me your attention for a moment so I can teach you to protect your attention.

Like a move baddie saying, "Trust me when I tell you: Don't trust anyone" <- this the bad guy right here. You don't need to watch the rest of the movie.

TLDR: If you value your attention and want to respect the intention of the article, don't read it ;)
Here is the note on the investment cut in MDN: https://hacks.mozilla.org/2020/08/an-update-on-mdn-web-docs/