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April fools is getting annoying...

In other new, the older Macromefia Flash format is now a W3C recommendation.
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We have CVSS scores for grading vulnerabilities. So that could be useful as a start.
Challenging times for Freexian (3/4)
Last time I check Outlook for Windows had 4% popularity among our customers and Word as render engine. Actually everything broke what other standard mail clients could handle. We had to make a lot of idiot changes because of Outlook in the content. We still have sometimes issues but if the rendering brakes we don't treat Outlook errors as blockers anymore.
When the lockdown was extended by another year... xD
Last I checked, there isn't clear evidence that Biomin F is superior to Novamin. Some studies show Biomin F is better, but some studies show they have the same effect.
It may be, but that is exactly why MAUI/Xamarin won't support Linux directly, it is up to the community to support it.
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Huh? The number of people who died of sars-ncov-2 compared to how many died of it...before it existed?
More of an indication that implications exist, e.g. ガンバる implies it’s supposed to be but not in kanji, ヒロシマ or フクシマ implies nuclear context.

They can be used to convey tones in text similarly to how italics, caps, symbols and other decorations work in general, I think that’s what they meant to say by emphasis.
As far as I know (or as I was taught at school in France) it is Charlemagne who introduced bicameral usage in the latin script with more easily legible "lower case" (which were not actually "lower case" back then of course) letters for most of the script while keeping upper case letters at the beginning of sentences or important words also to improve legibility (serving as cues that help keeping track of where you are in the text). This was basically modern script, only the lower case fonts have evolved somewhat.

Capital letters in modern script are therefore not a remnant of technical limitations, the mix of lowercase/uppercase was actually voluntarily introduced for legibility once these technical limitations were gone.
It bolsters other people with guns to shoot the first bunch down because they've clearly lost their bloody minds.

Goes both ways.
Indeed, this is why I say "no known original in Arabic."

But it is also possible that the Maronite storyteller was from a somewhat different storytelling tradition. Maronites are a Christian minority in the Levant which was traditionally involved in maritime trade, so they might have different sources for stories. In the end it is all guesswork since Gallard is the only known source of the story.

At one point a manuscript was found with Aladdin in Arabic, but it turned out to be an Arabic translation from Gallard!

Here is a great article about the question: https://ajammc.com/2017/09/14/who-wrote-aladdin/
But what if hacking computers is my hobby? What if I actually get lots of joy digging into an operating system and how it works? Then there are no other options than the free systems... And I have been this way for almost 30 years now...

And you can then find your niche from there. For me it's a nixos/sway/emacs/firefox that serves me well and gives me enormous power when I need it.

I'm a programmer anyway, so loving linux comes naturally.
A nonconstructive discovery is still a discovery.
well, a job board should be very cacheable. so most of the time the request doesn't need to go to the server.
> Cosmological horizon

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

Oh, that's the term that I was groping for. Thanks!
Can you elaborate on "America's founding principles"? I'm not following your link here.
Very confusing; A Saudi national was assassinated in the Saudi embassy by agents of the Saudi government. Linking this to Zerodium makes Zero sense. You don't need to do any digging to find out when someone is at your doorstep
Just curious, what did Apple do (or not do) in 10.10 to earn the “jumped the shark” description?
I don't know how much the seasons would matter to a Martian colonist, but if you're on a planet lit by a day/night cycle that's approximately 24 hours, then you're most likely going to synchronize your sleep schedule to that, not the day/night cycle of some other planet you're not actually living on. That would be your day. And then from there the days and months get out of phase with Earth so you'd end up using your own calendar as well, at least for accounting days of the month. Using Earth months and years might be fine, though, as long as one accepts that the months are a few days shorter and so on; that seems reasonable. And "years" being a very specific chronological length are so well ingrained that you'd almost need to invent a new word for Mars years.
I know it’s an april fools joke. But I’ve recently “discovered” why this is nevertheless very true. If you move slow, you have a higher chance of meeting the right customer, of actually allowing your idea to grow and improve over time. Without being locked into it in one form or another. Moving slow allows you to work on it as a side project first. Which means no financial stress.

And then making things. To me this means no paper prototyping. Not selling people on your idea without having anything tangible. Some may call it smart. To me it feels like gambling with your believability / integrity. There are only so many times you can do this before people get tired of you and your stories / dreams / business ideas. Just make something, show it to people when it’s actually useful. And feel good about actually having made something people liked. Instead of selling something people liked and then suffer the feeling of non-stop pressure, constantly _not_ being where you’ve told others you are.

Happy april fools :)
He is joking, right? OS X / macOS is abysmal in backwards compatibility. Where is 32-bit? Where is OpenGL? Linux is way better in backwards compatibility than macOS will ever be.

And it's not a new attitude for Apple. They simply think they know better than the user what the user needs and give no choice in the matter to anyone.
It's called statistics, to be fair.

In general, if your DS's can't explain the model then something has gone horribly wrong.
07:48 “Comic Sands; so called because the letters look like little droppings of sand, or something. And they are kind of aesthetic. We could consider this an improvement.”
I worked there for a while too! Zeus technology, the subsequent tenant. Very expensive. The ionica sign was still lying in the bushes behind the generator outbuilding.

An additional problem with opening the window was the smell from the nearby sewage farm on some days.
Hope they provide the keys to unlock bootloaders to all their devices on the way out. Otherwise we'll probably end up with a bunch more ewaste. Have a few LG devices I wish I could put a custom rom on but alas, locked bootloaders.
If you want to understand the tech more you should start with the E language it is based on at erights.org. In the case of distributed GC the system understands that the network can fail and plans for this: http://www.erights.org/history/original-e/dgc/index.html (caveat: I know original E and have no direct knowledge of whether or not this bit has been implemented in Goblins)
I've done something similar (not in German market) but instead decided to have a chat bot inform me whenever there was a new offer matching my criterias and it also helped me find a flat cheap and in the place I wanted. But your post inspires me to improve that further :)
How consistent is weakly-consistent iteration?
A former Democrat party operative is now working for Communications at Facebook, and this person buried a negative story for the Democrats and promised a fact-check on the story. [1]

6 months later, the fact-check never came. He lied. He simply buried a story for political reasons.

With the revolving door between Facebook and political operatives, this is an obvious result. Partisan censorship and "deboosting".

[1] https://twitter.com/andymstone/status/1316395902479872000
I haven't noticed that they destroyed anything, beyond those that bought into OS X for doing GNU/Linux work finally realising that they should get a GNU/Linux distribution for that.

Apple stuff is doing just fine, we just use GNU/Linux for server VMs on Java projects. .NET projects run on Windows, all desktops/laptops are a mix of Windows and macOS.
> Python's popularity is largely due to how much it dumbs down and being a first mover in the scientific world.

Python is obviously not "a first mover in the scientific world" as Matlab precedes Python for over a decade and is still the de facto tool of the trade pretty much everywhere except ML.

And please don't misrepresent UX as "dumbing down". If anything, Python does right far more things that other languages do blatantly wrong and even in a user-hostile way.

> Python has no built-in regex support

This argument reads like a blatantly desperate attempt to find any thing at all to try to get Perl's leg over Python.

Meanwhile, no one ever complained about Python's re module not doing its job, and Python is extensively used pretty much everywhere, involving regex or not.
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I see a video from Unbox Therapy for one video. The last times I saw that channel was when other channels pointed out how ... unreliable they are.

I’d recommend to check the quality of the testimonials (?) as well as the products themselves.
I want to downvote you because what you said sounds so absurd to me as an “old” (self identify at 40 thanks tech) person.

Thanks for saying this - it’s important to understand that the way things were are not alway the way things are :)
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Would be nice to understand what editing/typing is like from the page. Is this some html forms that fills out and renders latex templates? I can see how that could be useful.
Hmm... I wonder why stylelint wasn't mentioned? [1] I thought it was nowadays kinda the CSS equivalent to ESLint.

We added it (in tandem with Prettier) to a codebase that uses lots of old SCSS. So far it's been a good gatekeeper as the team has been growing, blocking the most questionable .scss edits in PRs. We had to disable and ignore many of the rules to fit it together with our legacy files though.

[1] https://stylelint.io/
I am programming since mid-80s, fail to see why I should naturally love Linux because of that.
I also use Windoze, that's why I prefer the Chrome way.
I think even when moving slow, you can still work with prototypes and get feedback as long as you're open about it and you're not taking people's money.

For example, I have https://www.invisible-computers.com up as a website. You can read about the product and you can sign up to be notified. But I won't take a cent until I have a product ready to ship.
Those who worry about CO2 should worry about methane, too
Unvaccinated deaths from COVID-19 vs deaths from post-vaccination patients.

No need to be snarky.
Ctrl+a ESC arrows to start Enter arrows to end Enter. Ctrl+a ; to paste? .. of the top of my head
Out of curiosity, why do you refer to them as the "Democrat" party? Do you refer to their opposition as the "Republic" party? Seems asymmetrical no? Is it just for the harsher/more awkward pronunciation? I've seen a trend of this lately and I've been wondering - has it always been this way and I haven't noticed?
I wonder how it compares to Elmex Gelee which is only sold in pharmacies and also recommended by dentists. It can also remove initial caries.
Also see the research of Felienne Hermans and her talk “Pure Functional Programming in Excel.”[1]

[1]https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=0yKf8TrLUOw
Cringe. The copy and paste buffer is inspired by vi btw. Do you have a problem with vi in addition to tmux?

That is to say, it's dead simple once it's explained to you. The issue is with documentation, not the keyboard shortcuts themselves.

Sublime Text and Jetbrains are also vi-inspired. For where Jetbrains doesn't go far enough there is a vim mode plugin. I would say these are strong indicators of vi's dominance among keyboard shortcut layouts.
There is also Nano-Hydroxyapatite toothpastes, from Japan. From my naive understanding, it is better than NovaMin and Flouride generally - there has been a lot of research on it.
I hate Apple and since 2010 I started using a macbook and I haven't looked back. I still hate Apple, but I'm far more frustrated with the fact that I don't feel I have a good alternative. It's very much like the post said, I got tired of spending my time fixing issues with the system instead of working on what I wanted to work. For those who want to spend time working on their system, great, but I'd dare say that most developers don't.
It’s like saying „the society won’t collapse if some people don’t pay taxes - so why do we force people to pay them”.
Yes, especially the part about backward compatibility on OSX have changed a lot.

Microsoft have always cared a lot about backward compatibility, going as far as emulating bugs from older versions of Windows to prevent breaking binary software that was relying on those bugs.

Apple on the other hand has been pretty shameless about breaking binary compatibility, the biggest breakage recently being about stopping to support 32bit apps in Catalina.

If anything, I don't think breaking binary compatibility is such a bad thing today compared to 10 years ago. When you were buying software license to use a version for life, binary compatibility was important. Now you're mostly buying services with software that comes for free, so sticking with an old version because you don't want to pay for the upgrade doesn't really happen any longer. Also when software is no longer supported by the publisher you're forced to switch to something else anyway.
Price you pay for being an early adopter. BTC is just not cut out for fast or even smooth money transactions. Though, Tesla should be able to sort this quickly once the funds crawl to their wallet, don't see any cause for alarm here.
The argument that the number of deaths in the US greater than the baseline from the previous year is roughly the same as the reported deaths where there was a covid infection, so our count seems accurate?
Sharing what's currently on screen (be it either a picture, a webpage or mean entire app) by touching two phones (Android Beam) was really convenient and ahead of its time. It is now being replaced by Nearby Share though, which works similar to AirDrop.
They're on a roll for April fool's, this other one is the geekiest one I've seen in a while! https://multithreaded.stitchfix.com/blog/2021/04/01/fault-in...
I lived in Cambridge, UK in the 1990s and after moving house in the second half of 1996 we had Ionica service installed.

I moved out of that property a year later, wonder what happened to the hardware...
This sluice is ornamental. Water levels aren't any higher or lower before or after. The 'automated solution' would just be to open it most of the time and perhaps lay down a small footbridge so pedestrians and cyclists can still cross it.
The press used it long before it became insulting, though asking when and why it changed evokes actual insults.
Pretty ridiculous to take the same name as another (more famous) product that does the same thing. Have you talked to a lawyer about changing the name?
'Why do I have a tab with a search about NovaMin open already?'

NovaMin was mentioned in a comment by @dannyw two days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26642987

The author of this Medium post mentioned this link in a comment ~10 months ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23345716

Some comments mentioning NovaMin over the years: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateEnd=1609372800&dateRange=custom&...
Xkcd: Checkbox
LMAO. You don't deal with anyone at Google.
Also, Turbo Pascal 3.x's editor took Wordstar shortcuts. Only years later high school me only learnt that those strange ctrl-k commands were archeological artifacts...
You see that bit at the start of the video where tom7 presses the capslock key, then types a letter, then presses the capslock key again? I worked with a designer (posessed of two hands and no visible impairments) who actually typed like that. Working alongside him was an excellent lesson in patience.
I know this is supposed to be a joke, but I feel like it's too close to reality to be funny.

I recently ordered a custom tailored set of shirt, trousers, and belt. Their site was bragging about their great AI technology, but sadly I didn't notice that red flag early enough.

The results were nothing short of disastrous. I sent in my measurements and they sent me a trouser with wrong measurements and a postcard that said that they adjusted my measurements with AI for a better fit. The belt they included was a completely different size than the trouser and I'm still waiting for the shirt to arrive. And now I'm fighting the usual uphill battle to talk to a human and get this mess fixed or get a refund.

The core of Stitchfix is personalization, as they say. But that means an individual solution for each individual customer, and not AI for memorizing generic trends in a huge dataset.
Relevant to your process of discovery

> There once was a Master Programmer who wrote unstructured programs. A novice programmer, seeking to imitate him, also began to write unstructured programs. When the novice asked the Master to evaluate his progress, the Master criticized him for writing unstructured programs, saying, "What is appropriate for the Master is not appropriate for the novice. You must understand Tao before transcending structure."

~~The Tao of Programming
I'm not entirely sure that is a fair comment, given his many FOSS contributions. I think Linux is a meeting point of many ideas, and Miguel (and Nat and many others) had their vision. Maybe they saw something like OSX. Others saw (and are seeing) something else. RMS had/has his vision. I think its perfectly fine to do your best to make your vision come to life and when that does not quite workout, do something else. Your contributions will remain, and can be used by others to build on. This is the true power of the FOSS philosophy, that it is the sum of disparate agendas, IMHO.
I am not using any html emails. People should send me text. If pics are important attach them.

External (embedded) pictures are deactivated per default, if you want to get at least a tiny chance I see your picture, attach it or gain my trust (and even then, attach it).

JS in mails is completely ignored, it has no business of being there.

It would be nice to live in a world where you could trust sizeable companies not to break the law (or my trust) with every other email they send. It would be nice to have html and css in a mail and not have people abuse it. But as things stand now, not using html is the way to go.
I don't think it was intended to be snarky, I had the same confusion
Sorry if it came across that way, that wasn't the intention; was just curious. Thanks.
return stuff.stream().anyMatch(this::checkForThing)
Unsolicited review of sync.sh ahoy!

The easy stuff:

- Non-exported variables are by convention lower_case, while exported variables are UPPER_CASE.

- Function names are by convention lower_case.

- There's a "quite" signature string and variable; should it be "quiet"?

- The lines like `local hosts=` can be simplified as `local hosts`. You can also join such lines, as with `export`, into `local foo bar baz …`.

- `[[` is generally considered more reliable than `[` (there are a bunch of posts about this on Stack Overflow and Unix Stack Exchange).

- Naming scripts .bash rather than .sh lets `shellcheck` inspect them without telling it which shell to verify against. You do check these files using `shellcheck`, right?

- Variable names like `list` and `tuple` are unhelpful; what do they actually contain? Also, they should probably be actual arrays rather than a space-separated string to avoid relying on word splitting, and to allow entries with whitespace in them.

The scary stuff:

- All the string packing and unpacking also makes me nervous. That's not simpler than using JSON/YAML, it's just a different kind of complexity.

- Reusing the same variable a bunch of times in the same function makes it really easy to end up with the wrong value at some point. Better to split stuff into more functions or rename the variables to make them single use.

- `set -o errexit -o pipefail` would be good to have for safety.

- `kill -9` anything[1]

- Why are some of the variables inside functions not local? They effectively end up being globals, which makes for really difficult debugging.

The good stuff:

- Using local variables everywhere.

- Descriptive error messages.

- Returning early in case of errors.

All in all, Bash is not a good language for any system of this size, no matter how diligently you program. The error handling isn't comparable to most mainstream languages, the data types are incredibly limited, and there's no native support of recursive languages like JSON. You've done a great job, but I'm afraid a system like this is doomed to failure from these facts alone.

[1] https://mywiki.wooledge.org/ProcessManagement#I.27m_trying_to_kill_-9_my_job_but_blah_blah_blah...
I am most excited about VR: https://gitlab.com/OpenMW/openmw/-/merge_requests/251

If that works on Oculus Quest 2 with multiplayer mod, that'd be awesome!
Those infections in China were a problem because there was no sufficient partial immunity in the world's population. New mutations will have to overcome that partial immunity (through vaccination or prior infection), or mutate very far, which is very rare.
Yes i'm author of iRedMail project. :)
People usually just call it AI then and pretend that it's not a problem.

For example, there's been plenty of issues like racial bias with the computer vision algorithms that police uses, which effectively is data science on pictures. But nobody knows why the issue occurs and nobody can specifically fix it without the risk of breaking a thousand unrelated other things.
Have a programmer friend who does the same. At first it really blew my mind and I couldn't tell if he was serious.

But he's a great coder and had loss of successful projects. It's just the way he learned and it doesn't seem limiting or annoying to him.
I read the documentation; and the shortcut is explained in the documentation. I've been using it for years already. I think that maybe the problem is partly that people just do not bother to read the documentation, and expect the tool to take them by their hand. Do we expect that from the tools we use? Is that good software?
Hi, just given this a try it’s great thanks! Was using Insomnia before this but always wanted a good client for code, this is it.