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> Why do you ride in ice and snow? Sincere question.

I'm a bit late to the party, and not the person you asked, but I have bicycled through a few winters in the past. The winter road conditions where I live can be anything from dry and clear to wet to slushy to snowy to icy, and various things in between.

I have to admit that part of the reason was "because I can". As a kid, I was given (or at least somehow got) the impression that bicycling in winter was dangerous, and that it was a summertime activity. Once I realized sometime in my early 20's that that's not how it has to be, I liked to show myself that it could be done. (I fully realize that it can, in fact, be dangerous especially if the infrastructure for cycling isn't supportive or if you don't realize that you have to approach things differently than in dry weather, but I found I was able to do it safely where I live. You just need to keep your wits with you. There's still something nice about knowing that (or if and when) it can be done; it gives a feeling of freedom, and you also become quite mindful of your physical environment while riding.)

A second reason would be that, living in a city with good public transport and decent walking/cycling infrastructure, I've never owned a car. I like it that way, largely due to the ecological costs of private driving. And while public transport is a fine option, there was something nice about riding in crisp air to start the day rather than being stuck in a packed bus or a train. Not being dependent on public transport schedules is a plus, as is the exercise.

Riding in some winter conditions (even snowy or icy) is a lot easier than in others. Plowed or packed snow is fine, as are slightly icy surfaces, as long as the ice is even; studded tires help a lot. Fresh snow that hasn't been plowed, even if it's just an inch or two thick, is a lot harder to ride in unless you have pretty wide tires with good tread, but it becomes possible if you do. Packed and frozen slush are the worst because they're both slippery and uneven. I'd generally not ride (at least with the bike and equipment I had back then) for significant distances if the conditions were like that.

In some sense you could say that grasping the nuances of the conditions could be a hobby in itself.

One of the obvious downsides is that appropriate clothing is more difficult when you have to account for the physical exertion and the cold weather.

Riding is almost inevitably slower than in dry conditions, both because of safety and because any snow makes the riding physically more strenuous. It might easily also became significantly slower than other modes of transportation, and the travel time on longer commutes might become less predictable due to variable conditions, so you might not want to commute by bike for longer distances in snowy/icy conditions unless you're pretty dedicated for some other reason.

I'm also not sure I'd do it in a location where the infrastructure is bad enough to make it seriously risky.
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Something kind of interesting, the architecture for the Sega 8-bit consoles (and the Sega 8-bit computer, the SC-3000) are extremely close to that of the Colecovision and the MSX 8-bit computers (which are in turn different, but very close to each other). Hobbyists regularly port games between the systems. There was definitely something in the air for Z80-based systems at the time. The Sega Game Gear is also almost identical to the Master System and can also play Master System games with an adapter.

Curiously, the Sinclair ZX systems also used a Z80 as the CPU and there are also a great many ports of ZX Spectrum games to the MSX computers, but those are a bit more complicated.

If you've never played SG-1000 games, they're worth it. The system had about the same power as the Colecovision, but the games are Japanese style games of the era vs Western games the Coleco mostly received. The ports are so stripped down that they're functionally demakes and it's often rewarding to see games just a bit too complex for the system stripped down to their core gameplay and graphics essentials. My favorite is the port of Elevator Action, which barely holds together, but somehow has all of the game there.

https://youtu.be/kUFgy6aVgbw
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That's lots of "yes, however, why, what about, etc", except the one true question which should be answered:

What value is Apache OpenOffice providing to anyone, anywhere right now?

Why should we have to expend mental effort to even acknowledge that it still exists, and still is where LibreOffice was 6 years ago, if even there?

I don't think anyone has been willing to answer that in a clear, understandable, objectively irrefutable way. There's been lots of posts like yours though.

Sometimes it's OK to called obsolete things by their true name. And Apache OpenOffice definitely deserves that name by now.
I've been using a anker stand for the past few years for wireless charging my iphone 8 and that works fine. Just plop the phone in place and it stands up and you can read it if it lights up.

The one thing that happened when I got that is that I never bought another lighting cable.
I had to read a couple of books about teen girl psychology to understand just how badly teen girls bully and mistreat each other. It was a real eye-opener.

But then the bullying never really goes away for either gender. It's disguised and legitimised as various commercial, professional, political, and social activities, but the motivations are similar - just more covert.
Babylon 5 is actually a great example of what happens when you mess with cancellations.

During the production of season 4, JMS (the creator) was given to understand that season 5 was unlikely to happen. So he had to cram most of the rest of his plot into that season.

Having such a powerful, story-packed season 4 meant it did really well. So they put season 5 back on.

But he'd already used up (most of) the story he wanted to tell, because they told him he wasn't getting a season 5. So the season 5 we got ended up being a bit weak and wandering, with only the last few episodes (which were part of what would have been the ending of season 4, if he hadn't found out in time that there would be a season 5) having the same strength and memorability as the season 4 episodes.

It also meant (IIRC) that they lost some important actors, like Claudia Christian, for season 5. If Ivanova had been able to stay on to be B5's captain after Sheridan became President, the final season would have been much stronger.
The article didn't say the shows got better.

It said that shows sometimes, do not get traction immediately.

I suspect that might been the case with "The OA" for example.

I watched first season only because my wife wanted it, and to me it was just some weird "mindbending newage" stuff.

But second season the show went into a mix of sci-fi and fantasy, and started to have interesting mysteries, characters, better plot, and give impression that something was going on after all.

SPOILER: first season the show implies the main character maybe, maybe not, is some kind of spiritual entity. second season is clearer in the fact that the main character actually is a person that can travel between dimensions, and the finale make clear the show will be about the protagonists and antagonists chasing each other across dimensions. A "dimension chase" plot sounds much more interesting than "maybe I am an angel" plot. So when the show finally had the chance to bring in a wider audience, it got killed.
I haven't studied the fine print on this service, but I wonder about the (high?) value of knowing a person's music tastes in this level of detail. I have hundreds of playlists on spotify, and I bet you can state a lot of things about me by knowing what music I like.
Essentially all of my comments get downvoted on HN these days. It is a form of incentivized censorship which actually illustrates my point very well since I'm probably upper-middle class and the current trend has mostly benefited me. Opportunities for free speech seem to be running out so I'm trying to make the most of it.

The scary thing is that diversification is done on auto-pilot these days. Superannuation funds, 401K funds and other pension funds take a share of each person's income and diversify it into a number of large corporate monopolies/stocks by default without their knowledge.

So the system is turning people's own money against them.
Maybe not a serial, but The Office took off around season 3.
You provided two small pieces of data that are each not even strong indicators of your claim let alone conclusive evidence and expect us to pat you on the head and pretend that you delivered some sort of courtroom fait accompli? I guess people are right, the standards here have dropped significantly over the past few years.

The evidence 'backed by US intelligence'? WTF are you talking about? Did you not even read the articles you provided as your 'evidence'? None of them reference US intelligence sources. One is a trade rag describing a single data point without context and the other is a mid-level conservative paper that used random twitter pull quotes to tart up a minor story being passed around the wire services.

Truly weak sauce.
Yes, the beginning of GoT is best, but still it took some time to become popular.
That's the point they are trying to make. Not that later seasons are better.
This is such a garbage fire. Louis Rossman also made a video about it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qYzK8Nny_Yo

The tl;dw is that Yelp refuses to take down _obiovusly_ fake reviews, so of course this racism branding is going to get abused by people with an axe to grind.
Judging by the pace of development, adoption among users and general attitude I think that sooner or later Krita will surpass GIMP and make it obsolete.
@ variants: there is also the Game Gear, a handheld by SEGA with similar specs to the Master System

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Game_Gear

> With a late start into the handheld gaming market, Sega rushed to get the Game Gear into stores quickly, having lagged behind Nintendo in sales without a handheld on the market. As one method of doing so, Sega based the hardware of the Game Gear on the Master System, albeit with a much larger color palette than its predecessor: the Game Gear supported 4096 colors, compared to the 64 colors supported by the Master System. Part of the intention of this move was to make Master System games easy to port to the Game Gear.
.. except there will probably be more pandemics within the next 50 years.

Given that we've had multiple localized epidemics or global pandemics in the last two decades alone (SARS, Ebola, Swine Flu/H1N1, etc), the likelihood of more seems increasingly high. Perhaps it doesn't even matter whether the next one will have a higher CFR; whether large cities prosper depends not only on whether people believe it will, but also on how well the cities do in many other respects, such as crime, taxes, pollution, trash, homelessness, etc. SF is not only suffering because of the pandemic: the pandemic just put an extra sense of urgency on the snowball effect that was already happening.

When cities are safe, healthy, clean and beautiful, they're great and everyone is happy to live there, but now? Not so much.
They bought it dirt cheap, not at Enterprise SaaS multiple. Companies with commodity pipes dream of owning the content running through them but it’s a very different business.
Anyone is perfectly able to start a competitor to Yelp. If Yelp feels this adds to their value they are more than welcome to do this. Clearly Yelp weighed the pros and cons and decided this would help their business.

What’s the issue here? Don’t see how comparing a business to the ccp government is comparable in the slightest.

On edit, its clear the author has an axe to grind.

Trash article by trash people.
Most cars have supported wireless charging of iphones for years already. I just keep a cable in the glovebox just in case.
> Netflix also removes movies, some of them classics, after some time. So when my wife says she would like to watch something she's been wanting to watch, and I look it up, I find that it used to be on Netflix but it's not there anymore

This is a different matter. Netflix has a finite budget to license content. It's not clear that it would be better for the consumer if they had a policy of never removing films from the library, as this would have to be counterbalanced by fewer new films being added. I suspect this approach would be much worse for the consumer overall.

Also, unlike when a series is cancelled, those films are still available to stream on an à la carte basis from Google/Amazon/iTunes/etc.
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idk, looking at local politics, there’s plenty of internecine fighting to keep things interesting for a while. But I do think America, from top to bottom and in its infinite wisdom, regularly designs governments to be in a constant state of deadlock. So you can “win” an election, but be blocked from doing anything of consequence. Either through minority powers to block and stymie efforts; or by making power hyperlocal so that any collective action problem is whiffed.
This is one reason I really like the "miniseries" format. It's a broad enough label that it can include something a few 1-hr episodes long or 8 of them. I guess at the longer end, they're closer to a "season" of a typical show, but the idea is that it's a complete story arc with a defined beginning and end.

I love how modern formats allow for stories to be told where they otherwise wouldn't fit into a single film or work as a weekly recurring series. I've always felt that a movie is like a short story: you're dropped into the plot and the background is exposed through the course of action. Longer formats like the miniseries can tell a story more on the scale of a full novel.

When you get into stuff like "The Walking Dead" where it theoretically starts off like a novel but keeps renewing and keeps rehashing the same basic plot points for years, it's like one of those novel series where they just keep cranking out new sequels as long as people are buying them, quality be damned.
for those interested this "hack" is in extensive use in Tailwind css to control opacity for a host of color utilities https://tailwindcss.com/docs/opacity
Not when it was first aired. It took some time to become popular.
If macros are used responsibly, they can make a program more readable.

I have to write lots of boilerplate code for certain things that in other languages would be much simpler; for example when I'm doing pattern matching in Python I have to use a sequence of if statements and complex expressions. I'd love a pattern matching macro because that would let me express my logic in a manner which more closely matches the semantics.

Macros can be abused just like decorators, classes, or functions to make complex code that's difficult to understand or modify. While macros give you a bit more rope, used properly they can be very handy.
Eesh.

Google advertised unlimited. By definition that means without limits. To then put limits is to make the plan limited. Instead of doing thesemental gymnastics to defend Google might I suggest that the people storing petabytes of data are taking advantage of Google's goodwill but not doing anything inherently wrong. That being said Google calling the people who use petabytes abusive is hypocritical, and wrong. Google wants a certain type of user that overpays for "unlimited" and uses a pittance. Instead Google found that they advertised themselves into a pickle and are trying to blame people using the service as advertised.

Google can either advertise unlimited and live with the costs or advertise what they're actually willing to provide. Users using a service within the advertised constraints is not abuse.
I don't fully understand this. Suppose that you remake say, Batman, with Batman as a black woman instead of a white man. Even assume that there's some nefarious political agenda forcing that decision. How does that make the show less entertaining? It seems like how good the show is would be orthogonal to that choice. And it doesn't take any more effort to have a black woman star than a white man, so it's not like that choice reduces the energy they can put into making the show good.

On the other hand, if quite a few people just prefer to watch the version with a white man, that seems like it would correlate to the shows being cancelled, independently of how entertaining they are..
Yes, using Affinity to produce a YT channel and used for publishing two books. Can recommend them too!
> Yes "data driven" does not always lead to what's best for the consumer.

who said they care about the consumer?

they'll burn down the planet to put a penny in their pocket
That’s just a streaming rights thing. I don’t think Netflix is taking away any movies just to take them away. It’s because agreements expire and on renegotiation the rights owners want a bigger slice. Netflix’s streaming used to be a free tack on to the disk shipping business because they got a bunch of cheap rights because no rights owners thought anyone wanted to stream.
Let's say the power company decides to stop providing electricity to people that disagrees with their political views. It's okay right, since anyone is free to start their own utility company?
The music in the Double Dragon port is also quite fantastic.

https://youtu.be/U5OZBgayEJE

The FM module version is even better: https://youtu.be/fWlnsW3ywsI

I always get the sense that whoever did it was having a blast.
Since you seem intent on being a reference usenet archive I think it's important to preserve the integrity of the original material. Moderating posts 20 or 30 years after the fact seems ill advised. If you modify the content in any way, at least put a prominent notice so that people don't get confused by the website name.

Also, it seems that your parsing process strips headers and that you don't keep the raw messages, however I remember that on some newsgroups people used to pass secret messages in headers that only those "in the know" would look for, it would be a shame to lose that. Access to posts in raw format would be nice in this scenario.
The Office UK vs the Office US is belies your point. Almost everyone agrees the US version was much better. The US 1st season tried to be like the UK original and was universally panned. That biting, British humour can only carry you so far. Also, the US version didn't carry on endlessly. Steve Carrell left after season 6 and the show lost it's momentum. But regained some of that magic before closing.
What's lackluster about Spotify on iOS? I use Spotify on my iPad, my Android phone, and my Windows desktop and they all work pretty well.

> especially in terms of their coverage?

If you are a typical user with typical tastes, they are all more or less the same. If there's something in particular you want - like lossless compression or being able to upload your own music or Grateful Dead concerts - mention it and people may be able to guide you better.

You've mentioned the big three services, but you might want to also consider Google/YouTube Music, Pandora, Deezer, and Tidal and I'm sure there are more.
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>Despite the near plutocratic state of the current US, they at least make an attempt at having core democratic values with checks and balances and a respect for rule of Law.

Why the hell would the rest of the world care about these things that only matter inside the United States? The US has never made it their goal to spread these "core democratic values," has no real checks or balances internationally, and shows a complete disregard for international law.
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a 0.001% uncertainty in speed is about 7km uncertainty in position after a day
That is from February 10th
> For example, until recently flow control within the try-finally and with statements was managed by complicated bytecodes with context dependent semantics. The control flow within those statements is now implemented in the compiler, making the interpreter simpler and faster.

Anyone know where I can read more about this specific change? Seems very interesting for compiler / interpreter engineers.
So the gist is: allow executing code at compile-time once, to not let it run a runtime again and again.
And as a side-effect, you can implement new syntax-features, without polluting the interpreter.

Actually a nice idea. Surely something most devs wish to have from time to time. Though, it's also dangerous and can lead to even more unreadable code. Linter will probably also have "fun" adapting to this. And debugging this..

Well, anyway, personally I don't like the syntax. Putting a sign at words end feels just not pythonic. The Idea itself I favor more than I dislike it, as the advantages seems to outweight the disadvantages. As this is a PEP, I assume this will come in any case?
Last time I researched it, it came to about 1->2 years to pay back manufacturing energy. That was for land based turbines. Bigger turbines payed back faster. So 1MW was closer to 2 years while 3MW was closer to 1.

The steel used was by and large the biggest energy cost.
> There was no empathy for this demographic, but lots of empathy for 70+ year olds.

There was lots of empathy for young people, including from those 70+ folks; it's just the narrative can not sustain on a diet of empathy.

In the places where lockdowns have been both draconian and ineffective, the priority is more to give the impression that the politicians are "doing something", not to seek a good outcome on a balance of opportunities taken and missed.
Being able to move the bulk of building an offshore turbine into a factory could lead to amazing economies of scale. It'll be an incredible assembly line to pull together 10,000 ton of materials but if we need to build hundreds of thousands it might well be worth doing. There should be a gentle stream of these things bobbing out into the sea, ready to be taken by tug to their resting place.
Some Netflix shows are over the top with political correctness.

Dragon Prince is one example. Cute show, but very in your face.

Old 80s sitcom Dinosaurs, ran into the same problem.
Later episodes often made you feel bad. Not the best for a comedy show.

You can agree with a stance, but you don’t always want it shoved down your throat.

Oh look every cast member is a different race/ gender/ orientation. Oh great, but is the show any good?
If I see you doing something private through your window you left open while I'm in a public place, then put it on the internet with search criteria pointing to you.

That's also sort of public. Actually, it 100% is.

It's still not ethical by normal HN standards.

Expectations, right or wrong, for privacy are normally respected on HN. That's all my point is.

Soon using infrared and other techniques we'll be able to get pretty good naked images of people in public too. Every part of your body on a search engine. It's all... like it or not, I guess. But we should at least think about privacy.
Because local politics are weird, and half the Democrats would want to build a wall around SF and make Midwestern transplants pay for it...