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There is a lot of hype on this thread about the Moonlander keyboard.

The hype is real.

The author has a neat hack, but seriously, just get yourself a split keyboard that supports the QMK firmware, customize the crap out of it, and your hands will thank you forever.
Once again politicians are going to drag tech CEOs and executives to Congress in order to look good. Most likely nothing will be done except for a few more lobbyists getting hired in the near future.
Half the web you don't really want to use... the majority of sites I come across in search results etc. are perfectly fine being static content, and if they somehow require JS to show that content, then I'm more likely to go find the same content somewhere else (i.e. the next search result.)
How’s this different than Opendoor?
I'd suspect that Teen Vogue is as culturally relevant to young people as Rolling Stone or Mad Magazine. They are relics of a long gone era. Instagram is actually in use, so it makes sense that it gets the heat.
What do you think a product/brand website is?
All points well taken but I would suggest there is one way to have high assurance in this regard ... and that is to buy a non-phone device and add a cellular USB dongle to it, after the fact.

Pretty unwieldy but given the economics of secretly throwing in a full-blown baseband processor with a SIM card that can function I think you can have high assurance that your carrier is fairly well segregated from your device ...

In fact, there used to be a particular Samsung galaxy "pad" or something that was identical to a phones form factor ... but wifi only. EDIT: Samsung galaxy "player" IIRC ?

As long as we're talking about it, I will mention one oft-overlooked downside to running a phone via external modem: in addition to cellular network functions your baseband processor is also responsible for a lot of real-time voice quality corrections and echo cancelling and related functions that are not handled by the application processor. You might, therefore, have voice quality issues with such a setup ...
Facebook paid billions to spare Zuckerberg in data suit, shareholders allege
Because software engineers are known for being people who are averse to learning and trying new things out.
The keys can be remapped, right? My keyboard even saves my configuration itself so it remains when swapped between computers.
I think this is actually going to be a game changer for me. I got a keychron k6 and it's almost perfect (I only don't like having to press a function key to type a backtick).

Plus it was CHEAP for a mechanical keyboard. I can easily purchase a second one. And it's clear from just spreading my shoulders that this will have a big impact on my shoulder pain.

Thanks for sharing!
eat your heart out pham nuwen
Not just that, but if one is researching for confirmation bias then said "research" is pointless.

If there's no willingness to accept that a belief is mistaken then there's no room for reason.
Adapting Divinity: Original Sin 2 Definitive Edition for iOS
I briefly tried to use that. The Lightning port is centered in the case, so it's impossible to use the device in landscape without your hand knocking the connector loose. No, it doesn't work.
When I first saw that a local tech school was emphasizing group projects, my thought was: "Great. Now they will have ten additional years to tire of corporate-style work, even before they start."
My understanding is that if you are a saver and own assets, hopefully assets that grow with inflation, you actually "benefit".

For example, the incredible rise in stock market prices isn't necessarily related to increased wealth generation but is instead a result of inflation.

So if you are a saver and have some tangible assets, such as stocks, real estate, or even crypto, then you're "safe". Those who really suffer are those who don't have assets since salaries and wages don't rise as quickly with inflation.
It’s really unfortunate how filthy many dog parks are. My dogs love hanging out there but they’ve come back with fleas a couple times, and after starting whole anti flea regiments and finally removing the pests I just can’t bring myself to take them back
As a mid-sized US manufacturer that recently went through a ransomware scare, we contracted with FireEye for remediation and cybersecurity consultation. I was shocked that they recommended we install ad-blockers as a corporate policy. I remarked ads are sometimes useful and that many local companies rely upon them (e.g., the local newspaper). I use an adblocker just to make the internet more useable, but I was reluctant to make that a corporate policy. I couldn't imagine there was any meaningful threat from malware in ads as every company from the Journal to the Times to Nordstrom would be screwed without ads. But FireEye insisted and we now have adblocking installed with the usual image. Wild times. I have to believe this is truly disruptive to the internet as we know it. It seems to me the ad providers would have a huge incentive to counter this narrative and to make damned sure ads are safe. I have no idea why that's not happening.
I agree. Unfortunately the politicians who make the laws are deeply in the pocket of business and too busy with the political circus to actually make laws.
CPU water coolers are cheap because the mounting is pretty much standardized. A GPU requires a unique mounting bracket for each model although you can buy GPUs that come with a AIO water loop installed for premium.

>90% of custom PC builds do not install a disk drive and there is a large preference for aesthetics over function plus 5.25" drive bays also block airflow anyway. It's also easier to work in a case that has fewer drive bays. It's a lot easier to just buy a external disk drive anyway.

Using optical disks as a backup medium is pretty much dead. Optical disks are more expensive per GB than hard drives. (Bluray seems to be about ~$38/TB while HDDs are ~$25/TB). I would not be surprised if the main use of Bluray drives was ripping/saving the disk contents to a hard drive.

Anything plugged into the front panel just looks bad so most cases just have a USB A and C + audio ports. TBH the front audio ports are often useless anyway because they pick up a lot of noise.

Not sure what you mean about fan placement since most cases are designed to operate with positive pressure which reduces the amount of dust collected.

Also the case in the OP article is not a big case, it is just shorter and wider than a normal mATX case so it looks big in pictures.
New buildings can be decaying liabilities just as much as old ones. More so if they have been constructed badly.
Anyone else not really suprised. It's like they were actively in search of sharks to jump over for years. The question we should be asking is, what's next or why? I think this is for Only Fans uber-for-porn competition.

If only a massive corporation could think beyond their wallet which may people put next to their second favourite organs!
Government bailouts are just government spending. It can be via printing money or raising revenue.

If you are saving in assets, not cash, inflation won't necessarily hurt you. See everyone's 401K during the pandemic, housing prices, etc.

If you have no assets (your cash income is your only asset) or your savings is in cash - the economy will leave you behind with inflation.
There are probably multiple different causes for RSI in programmers, but for me, a regular keyboard is fine. Even my slouch is fine. I type with my elbows on the table and it's fine.

It's the mouse that killed me. A handful of years after graduating from college, I thought my programming career was over because the pain in my neck and shoulders was so bad I couldn't type. I went to a bunch of doctors, neurologists, physiotherapy, etc but nothing helped, not even medication.

It turns out twisting my right hand outward in order to accommodate my mouse to the right of my keyboard was the culprit. I changed my entire set up so that my mouse is away from my keyboard when I type, and when I need to use the mouse, I push my keyboard away and have the mouse on the table in the center of my body, with my wrist slightly twisted so that it mimics writing with a pencil. That's also why Macbooks and similar laptops are fine with my because it's in the middle.

Once I switched to this technique, my carpal tunnel went away. It's been over 25 years now with no pain. Like I said, different people probably have different causes of carpal tunnel, but for me this was the precise reason.
Building an App with the StackOverflow API
I'm generally a China hawk. But Evergrande strikes me as a show of the Beijing system working.

China finds itself in a situation analogous to America pre-Lehman: comically over-indebted property speculators facing a cash crunch. In both cases, short-term financing is the straw breaking the camel's back. In America, banks refused to "extend and pretend," i.e. continue financing a bad debt. Ceteris paribus, this is good. But when banks realized everyone else would do this, they panicked (who, among their peers, was over-exposed to Lehman?), and refused to extend credit to each other or, for that matter, anyone else. This sparked a systemic credit crisis.

China, on the other hand, is a command economy. It owns the banks. If Evergrande collapses, it can order its banks to continue financing other competitors. Not only do the banks know this, everyone externally knows it. The end result will thus be the same: deleveraging in the property sector. But the violence of it is different.

Keep in mind, too, that the proximate cause of this crisis was Beijing putting leverage limits on developers like Evergrande. Evergrande didn't stop borrowing because nobody would lend to them. It stopped because Beijing said it couldn't.

It's best not to have a leverage problem. But once you have one, this seems like a decent way to exit. Property buyers and small-time depositors look likely to get their money back. Executives and foreign investors will get hosed; the former, perhaps worse.
If Apple had negotiated with Epic, we'd all be arguing about how unfair it is that Epic gets a better deal than everyone else.
Madeline Miller on the Aeneid (Octavian Report)
The best-selling author of Circe Madeline Miller on why Virgil's masterpiece remains a must-read today.
We will monitor pollution by (checks notes) dispersing a huge swarm of tiny robots, themselves made of heavy metals, that are infeasibly difficult to recover or recycle.
A lot of markdown note apps including FSNotes (https://fsnot.es) support the TextBundle (http://textbundle.org) format so you can embed images in the same document.

HTML is nice for more advanced documents, but I prefer note taking in markdown as it's a simpler syntax, even when viewed in raw text.

I think HTML is perfect for this app because it's more for academic use and less personal use like grocery/todo lists, reminders, etc.

Having a synced mobile version is crucial as you want to access your notes on the go right? (at the grocery store, etc.)
Please. The CCP runs all these companies already.
Cant wait for my Smart Pipe https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DJklHwoYgBQ

#itsmyanus
Are google workspace accounts treated the same? I have several fill me domains hosted with Google duo curious if this behavior tracks over to their paid products
COMPLETELY WRONG.

Vaccination does NOT prevent spread or infection - it only minimizes infection symptoms. Viral loads of vaccinated are at least as high as unvaccinated. So infectivity is minimally the same. Some studies say worse (probably thanks to ADE).

The article misinterprets what studies of Israel and Mass breakthrough studies actually say. Intentionally??
Cheap chiclet keyboard giving you RSI? I've got the solution: two cheap chiclet keyboards!
Lobste.rs isn't a general link aggregator, anything not related to computing gets booted quickly: https://lobste.rs/moderations
It is such a new industry that, if it grows, most of the people who get hired in it will have "no prior experience" so don't sweat it. If you have an advanced math background (grad school?) people should know you are able to learn hard things quickly.

Of course you can make the case that your experience with computer graphics, databases, VR, etc. are preparation for AR. Getting your own AR or VR headset to play with after hours would be good. It never hurts to do a "side project" and even if that doesn't involve AR handset hardware, you can do something metaversal with phones or that otherwise intersects with AR technology.
After some custom wooden cases for my ergodox, I'm really excited about the keyboardio model 100 https://keyboard.io/ basically an ergodox with style, and what seems a bit more ergonomy. I laughed a lot with the video for their last crowdfunding campaign, chicken jokes included :D
> The executives of Evergrande will also take the maximum haircut

Or in the case of the CEO, a head cut most likely.
Canaries volcano blasts lava into the air as ash blankets area
I mean, yes, I do think homeopathic medicine is a net negative on society, and I complain about it as/when necessary. And I don't see the word "large" in front of "pile of money" in my above comment...
Can a regular split ergonomic keyboard like the Dactyl Manuform not be separated arbitrarily?
"I'm opposed to slavery advertised on Facebook, but willing to tolerate it on decentralized platforms" is a fair and consistent statement, but doesn't sound like the kind of rallying cry that brings out pitchforks. It's not about human trafficking, it's about who should control the internet. Doesn't this seem a little disingenuous, or at least warrant dialing back the outrage knob a little?
Threat model: IHBBB -- Igor hit by big bus.
>And actually, more than that, lots of what goes wrong is not just that productivity geekery doesn't work, it’s that it makes things worse, right

A lot of good points here. I figured this out myself ages ago and have done well to actively halt the 'only do things that are maximally productive' behaviors that actually cripple any productivity at all.

As one example amongst many: I wasn't taking the garbage out until the mail arrived. Because that was optimal! Maximize efficiency! Except it doesn't really help. Taking out the garbage takes 20seconds. Going to the mailbox and bringing in mail? 20 seconds. Doing them together and juggling bins, mail and doors? Over a minute. Not to mention the many minutes of distraction from the mental weight of a chore needing to be done. It's only theoretically optimal and the theorizing part itself is crippling.

Likewise I'd let myself get crippled by 'there's a meeting in 20minutes'. I'm sure it's a huge problem for others in the wfh era. I wouldn't start washing the dishes because i might be in the middle of it when i need meet with others and then with the stop and start that'd be less than optimal. But doing the dishes, even if slow turns out to be a 10 minute chore. I should have just done it. But i procrastinated because theory crafting told me that it'd be slightly less than optimal to do it now. Meanwhile i just waste those 20minutes on Hackernews. Even being less optimal i'm always better of doing it now.

It's definitely helpful to be aware of these behaviors. I think the focus on maximizing productivity affects the geek types more but it's absolutely crippling to let yourself go down these paths. Don't do it and you'll be better off and more productive.
Thanks for sharing. Super cool and way cheaper than I expected.
I don’t think that is fair at all. It is architecturally appropriate for every site to run DNS resolvers and most of them do outside of the residential space. This isn’t a man in the middle attack and selectively blocking queries according to local preferences doesn’t make it one.
It's pretty tough to predict which way that's going to go. I'm positive I've been immediately rejected from jobs because I'm a white guy that went to BYU and that's pretty clear on my resume, but there are probably other jobs where that would help me out.
Time zones are a political compromise. They don’t make sense logically, but they make a lot of sense when you realize they are decided by politicians.

All of timekeeping is based on a long tradition of political compromise. Coordinated universal time is named UTC because british and french couldn’t agree on CUT vs TUC. We have a 7 day week instead of an 8 day week for political reasons in roman times, and for similar reasons the length of the month isn’t the 28.5 days that you would expect for the timekeeping unit based on the lunar cycle. September is the 9th month instead of the seventh (as its name would imply) because adding january and february to the calendar made roman conquest more convenient. A day is divided into two times twelve hours of each sixty minutes because this made sense for the way ancient egyptians and greeks transacted business (duodecimal system is easy to calculate on your hands). Even the fact that it is 2021 has to do with the previous year one falling out of favor for political reasons and getting moved to approximately (but due to poor calculations not quite) the year jesus was born.
"The arguments that actually matter are data."

Clearly an argument that purports to be based on data is fatally weakened if the data don't support it. But as Hume posited, "You can't derive an 'ought' from an 'is'".

Presumably the data showed that Zyklon-B and napalm were very effective at what they were trying to do. But the data is not the end of the story.
Except that I can't export that data from amazon easily if I, say, change or delete my account, or just want to run a program on my own data.

Whereas that is pretty easy with any sort of email client.
I work for another retail where we discussed this same topic, and during that discussion I talked to some of my friends at Amazon and I would bet a lot of money that your guarantee is wrong. From what they told me, the decision to remove info from the emails was a company-wide campaign that was specifically created as a result of this [0] NYTimes article, which specifically calls out Google snooping on Amazon shopper data.

I'm sure the advertising PMs were happy to support this decision because it got them more page clicks, but my understanding is that the underlying motive was privacy.

0: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/04/opinion/google-purchases....
Tesla are no angels, but it is nice to see an example where a large company has an inherent financial incentive to behave in an a broadly pro-society manner.

Would be nice to see more companies lobbying against pollution and other negative externalities.
I own a former racing Greyhound and it took forever to get rid of our boy's hookworms. Annoyingly, as soon as they were gone he got a new round of worms from the rather terrible grounds of the apartment complex we lived in at the time. The new worms were much easier to get rid of than the track worms.

Dog tracks are filthy, they should all be shut down.
I can search the million+ collection of messages on my mac in a second; with no paginated results page, no ads and no UI tricks designed to upsell me or get me to reorder things. And I'm not even using a fancy mail client, it's just Apple's humble Mail.app.
Semi related xkcd: https://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/packages.png
Presumably the OP is OK with tech-leaning suggestions, as they gave HN as an example.
> and limiting their fertility

I guess places that would implement these policies (taxing meat consuption for environmental reasons) are exactly regions that get older, are shrinking or are likely to shrink in the future (EU, USA). While in places like India, China, Africa, such a regulation is unlikely and increase of the living standard there will compensate (more likely overcompensate) for eliminated meat consumption in Europe and the US.

> because a portion of humanity doesn't care

People care. I doubt there is even one adult in this world who has never heard about vegetarianism, climate, emissions. They do care. But their values are complex and their influence on the climate is just part of the decision making process. It is not their fault they would decide differently from you.

> to eat food that's better for you and the environment

If they are adults, they can decide for themselves. How could you be so sure that switching over to vegetarianism would make their life longer, more satisfying and environment significantly better?
Yes, Theranos raised money. If Prometheus goes that way the failure mode may be different.

"Our process works, but it isn't profitable."

"It isn't profitable, but we deserve subsidies..."

"It isn't profitable now, but with carbon trading right around the corner we will be wildly profitable in the near future"
Jedberg, who I know for a fact ran Reddit's infra singlehandedly for a while, claimed he consumed ads as a matter of understanding the user while holding the job. Apparently he grew a brain and decided to block ads after that job, as smart and well informed users tend to do.

I suggest turning off JavaScript for most sites, which keeps the ad blocking tasks to a minimum. Blocking trolling users is another matter entirely.
I was generalizing, but your point backs mine up all the same. Thanks :)
As an aside, if you like graphic novels and philoshopy then I highly recommend Logicomix [1]. This work heavily features Ludwig Wittgenstein. I can't claim it is historically accurate but I do think it is quite an interesting read.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logicomix
Do you really find that people bond over differences in culture more than they bond over similarities? Devout Catholics and dedicated Protestants? Introverted nerds and extroverted jocks? Career felons and beat cops?

People inside the same culture don't bond over differences, so why would people from other cultures do so? I had a many differences with the recently-immigrated Mexican kitchen staff in the restaurant I worked in, many with the dirt-poor kids at my high school who fought each other daily, and many with the rich kids from the mansion district, and not one of those groups was friendly or desirous of "bonding" with me. Their contextual social power and sway was immense, and their loyalty to each other was far stronger than any voluntary community of differences I've ever belonged to.

> My experience is that one the easiest things to bond over is 'difference' between cultures.

Are you talking about "people who behave and think like Western progressives, but happen to speak different languages and hail from different locales"? That isn't real diversity. I get along very well with highly-educated immigrants from China, Singapore, India, Nigeria, etc. because we all had nearly exactly the same life: a lot of studying, reading, and close ties with our family. It's very fun to bond over differences then, but the only reason the differences arise is because we're already almost the same. When we laugh over how our holidays and food are different, we are constantly reinforcing our similarities; we speak at the same volume, we let one another talk at similar rates, we ask questions of a matching intimacy, and we have the same desires of each other, namely to allow the other peacefully prosper. I can bond easily with an engineering student from Thailand, but not so with a career thief from the same country.

> I find it fascinating that we both come at the same problem, with wildly different conclusions. Human brains, what weird things.

Beware of ignoring certain patterns in order to come to fashionable conclusions, although perhaps you really have never experienced anything like what I've experienced.