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That's a rather aggressive way of answering my question. I meant "who decided to let chromium disable view-source, and if this decision is unpopular, can it be reconsidered?".

Your local policy is yours, but in much the same way that I don't think it's a good idea for an OS provider to provide a single, easy-to-use button saying "spy on this user who I pinky-swear is a member of my family under 18 and tell me everything they do and where their mobile is", an option to permit the disabling of view-source in a mainstream browser does not fit easily with me. I accept that there might be some situations in which you'd want to do it, but honestly it's the thin-edge of the wedge.

"Benign dictatorship" is a common form of open-source project governance; it's not unreasonable to expect that is the case here (with Google, or a part of it, as the dictator). That being said, many open-source projects are managed in a way other than "benign dictatorship". Debian, for example, famously uses the Condorcet method [1] if there are any significant ideological disputes; see this vote [2] about Richard Stallman for an example.

To my mind, a browser supporting -- in whatever form -- an option to disallow "view-source" could well be a controversial enough decision to necessitate a vote through this means. I don't know how Chromium is governed, and all I meant to do was ask how.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Condorcet_method
[2] https://www.debian.org/vote/2021/vote_002#outcome
Or just nobody did care. Contractor's main expense are kickbacks and actual product is made by cheapest subcontractor.
Here's the link to vote, no registration required: https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/new/
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> Rare, Hand-built Apple-1

So, every single Apple I still in existence? IIRC, only a few hundred were made, and Jobs and Woz hand soldered every single board.

As for "rare", that's very true. The Apple II had a trade in program where they'd take your Apple I and destroy(?) it? (reuse it for parts?)
I was a free speech absolutist like you are describing until I realized that my belief was based on the fear of a “slippery slope” developing from limiting any kind of “hate speech.” I’m older now and I’ve recognized that a slippery slope argument is a weak minds way of coping with difficult ideas. It takes an approach that only considers one way travel when it comes to the destination or rather conclusion. There are too many possibilities to allow the the possibility of a “slippery slope” to guide our decisions. I have always viewed the ACLUs defense of nazis as being this kind of behavior as well, to prevent further erosions down the road that are being viewed as an inevitable conclusion to limiting speech to any degree.

I would say the other reason my views on freee speech have evolved because I now see “hate” as a virus of the mind and it is easily spread through the internet in the most deceitful and cunning ways, leading to destruction and violence toward the person or people it is directed at.
> Just remember the infamous quote of Nixon's top advisor

Worth noting this is disputed.
> The OP thinks that humans read thinner columns faster.

Tbf, "reading faster" in the linear sense is probably not exactly the metric to use when writing text. When writing, I usually need to jump randomly a lot in the text to cross reference something (from the last paragraph, the last sentence, or the beginning of the current sentence). It's a kind of nonlinear scanning that I'm guessing could be more efficient in narrow column text, even if wider columns would be faster to read from beginning to end.
So what you’re saying is it would be best for base load and only good for about 75% of our electricity?

Imagine if we had said that 40 years ago. We’d be talking about getting to net zero by 2075 instead of 2050.

Now we’re still waiting for renewables
The browser landscape was very different when IE6 was new. In many cases the only way to write a performant, complex web app was to use ActiveX (or Flash). The problem is those apps were never updated as web technologies rapidly moved forward.
> What's the point of using a cross-platform UI framework if I need to duplicate the code for each platform?

You still use the same development tools, reuse your business logic, and reuse generic components/widgets.

You still need to account for the fact that users from different platforms expect different interfaces, but the common bits can be reused.
> For example, if I change some accessibility settings on the OS level, all UI elements in all apps implementing truly native UI components would inherit the OS-level settings. The toggle button on iOS could be set to have an I and an O for the ON and OFF state. A web-based app would not respect that setting.

There's no reason (in theory) that electron shouldn't support something like that, and it could (and should) be fixed at the electron layer, which would be ideal!
> to collectively bargain on behalf of users.

You wanted to say, "To bargain for themselves using their users as leverage".

Also, about 'two consenting parties'. Apple never tells their users that they will be unable to run the apps they NEED. They tell 'we remove malware and keep you safe'. When a user finds out that Apple removed an app run by opposition on request of the authoritarian government, it is too late to ask for a refund.

I do not consent for this keeping me 'safe', but the vast majority of users do not know that they aren't free to use their devices as they want, running any app they need.
I can't wrap my head around it if you see what Police Unions do on a daily bases for their members everyone working a normal job should see that they might benefit themselves.
I’m not that surprised tbh. A couple of years back the Chrome Dev Summit quiz did the same thing. I thought that was the joke (“haha, they’re requesting allanswers.json at startup”), and didn’t realize it was apparently unintentional until they revealed I was in first place at the end of the day.
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It's even more ridiculous for tweet. It's not even that after spending millions of dollar the buyer got any special right to that tweet. If I would buy a tweet, at minimum I would like an edit access over that tweet and contract that the "real" owner can't delete it.
Still cost you nothing at all since you can stay on win10 home for as long as you want or basically for as long as your hardware does work for you. If you buy new hardware with windows 11 on it you pay for it but that would be exactly the same if the new hardware would come with win10. And it perfectly reasonable since the license is for the hardware and new hardware needs a new license.
There is still no additional cost anywhere as upgrade is entirely free AND optional.

Beside that Windows 10 Home "requires" an account too since the May 2019 update but it can be bypassed and so can the account "requirement" to install windows 11 home, its all just one search away for the people who care. Most dont but that's another topic.
Wind, solar, rivers joining with salt water, river streams, tides, gas (from waste), geo thermals ...
> The OP thinks that humans read thinner columns faster. Generally, this seems not to be the case

Really? This is absolutely the case for me. I use "reader view" / "readability" in Firefox whenever possible and it's incredibly helpful.
Not really, if you consider that X is not 'ensure quizzes work', but rather 'how do we cover our asses'.
If you have unlimited resources, you can try to contact all business owners and ask them if they would like a presence on Apple Maps.

They didn't do that, so my conclusion is either they don't have unlimited resources or they simply didn't really try hard enough.
Not disagreeing with you. Just saying that this is the exact purpose of the NFT - to show that you are the owner of the digital piece, i.e having the receipt/bragging right of it. It has nothing to do with the distribution. Anyone can have a copy.
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It would be more important if Macron would announce a solution for the nuclear waste problem in France. But I guess it won‘t be stored in his garden.
Reminds me of the Dark Knight Rises opening scene
For example, many media around here (NL) are positively salivating over Facebook's Metaverse, uncritically chanting like it's the best thing since sliced bread.
I haven't read any classics from anarchism but the notion I got from Noam Chomsky is that anarchism isn't about a complete lack of power structures, it's about demanding that there are adequate reasons for them to exist. So government wouldn't necessarily be gone under an anarchist system, it would only disappear if the collective decides that it is unnecessary.
They're scary in the same way that plane crashes are scary. Make the news and get into dramatic TV shows and cause people to be irrationally afraid of a virtually non-existent threat.
Actually, there is renewable wnergy
I remember reading that nuclear costs about the same as fossil fuel + carbon capture, and, at current prices, much less than renewables + enough storage to make them continuous. This to me is the fair comparison. Further, I'd rather live near a nuclear plant than a coal plant sitting on tons of compressed CO2, ready to pop and asphyxiate everyone in the vicinity.

I agree storage is a problem, maybe not as big as it is generally made out, but even then, would I rather struggle with nuclear waste, or millions of tons of CO2 in the atmosphere? The latter will lead to a planetary-scale disaster, the former at worst to minor regional ones.
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I usually post gifs on Twitter (same username), but I've been doing more web dev recently. 2016-2018 are full of abandoned prototypes. Finished stuff and ludum dare entries get posted to my website at (username).com
You write components at the lowest levels with the if/then, or maybe at the page level if the pages are completely different, but many of your UIs are going to share the same code.
This chip shortage is really getting out of hand.
and make your own internet, right. Only when you do that MasterCard and Visa come and shut you down.
That looks like a really nice project idea, does anyone have something else they like giving the students/junior SWEs?
Not really relevant, but I wonder if the Panasonic monitor is also from the same era. Seems very miniaturized for 1976?
There are applications beyond art. Art NFTs are a toy. Think bigger.

https://www.citydao.io/

FYI I'm not a huge crypto person, I don't know if the above is trustworthy, but it's an example of what you could do. God's knows if it works or collapses in a fire, but it's fun to watch.
> Flutter is drawn like a game engine, as in everything is drawn on a canvas, so at the end of the day it's just drawings, not native widgets.

How well does that work with accessibility features from the different operating systems? I never used Flutter or an application written with it, I just remember the horrible experience of using Gimp and Inkscape on macOS, and the lack of support for native accessibility features can be a pain.
How many industries are throttled on energy cost/availability and nothing else? Crypto mining for sure. What else? Aluminium smelting perhaps?

For whatever reason, energy production seems to be about meeting demand, rather than finding use for surpluses.
My dream is to one day go to a garage sale and to find an original Apple Computer 1 for like $5. Not that that would ever happen ofc. But it’s fun to have unrealistic dreams too sometimes.
Or just give part of your income. If you make $300k, you can probably support at least 5 people by giving directly money. But often these people don't give money, they vote and speak a lot.
Why didn't in happen on Android? FB can even run their own app store, but they still stay on Google Play. I think this simple fact invalidates your argument.
> The NFT of a photo of the original Apple 1 computer will probably sell for $4million /face-palm

4 million Tether. Do these NFT valuations ever touch real dollars?
Agreed, but there has to be a better solution then just outright disabling the features.
Surely this is not the case anymore, nowadays Wolt drivers are either fresh arrived immigrants with no language or actual illegals - it's definitely not because Wolt cares about their wellbeing and wants to hire them as employees.
You Americans have no idea how you have it good, do you? If you think NYC is corrupt, let's trade passports, see how you like brasilia.
To be fair, an NFT is significantly more liquid.
Wind/solar has a variability problem and storage is expensive.

Hydro is bad for the local environment.

Nuclear has a minor waste problem which isn't really that bad.

None of these are perfect solutions. Nuclear shouldn't be ruled out of a green mix.
They do. I know many artists that are now materially rich.
But they provide security so your toaster doesn't burn down the house of your children, please think of them next time you have common sense.
As a non-user I only have negative feelings towards Wolt myself. They have their fleet of underpaid cyclists with gigantic boxes darting around the town at full speed without regard for traffic or anything else. The system where they get paid more the faster they go doesn't seem super healthy and one of them's gonna get killed by a car sooner or later.
> to show that you are the owner of the digital piece

Claim of ownership is overrated.

It's just a record on a blockchain.

It is trivial to fork said blockchain, and have a conflicting claim setup on the fork.
On HN, your line here is 200 characters in 9pth Verdana, so it's also pretty extreme (perhaps because I have a wider screen). Personally I find the max line length on HN really uncomfortable.

> nature of the longest line, i.e. 132 characters in 12 point Arial (rather than 10 point Arial used by Dyson and Kipping). The line length therefore not only has more characters but is also physically longer because of the larger type size.

I'd say anywhere from 50-100 characters is fine for line length, stray too far outside that and you're not allowing enough words to scan well, or have too many so that it's hard to jump to the next line.
Then don’t buy an iPhone. Problem solved. Clearly it’s not the product for you. Use your freedom to buy an Android phone. There are dozens of options.

> You wanted to say, "To bargain for themselves using their users as leverage

No, I wrote what I wanted to write.
Yeah. We know.
Probably a good portion of all Apple I ever made ended up in landfills.
But, a car that is being used for Uber/Taxi service loses way more value over time, as a normal private car (in Europe for example) will make 10k to 15k kilometers per year, while Uber/Taxi cars will make double of that easily.
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Solar is the economic equivalent of base load power in that it’s cheap, and doesn’t follow the demand curve. Batteries then fill the role of peaking power plants as long as they can be filled cheaply. How you get from there to a balanced grid isn’t to have exactly as much generation on average as you need. Instead you install about twice as much as you need on average because it’s just that cheap vs any other source that even half of all generated solar is wasted it’s still cheaper than any other alternative.

At that point you are still going to get multiple day stretches where wind and solar only cover ~1/2 of daily demand but hydro can make up the difference on such occasions even if it’s only supplying 6.6% of annual US demand. Basically you get 1-2% hydro on most days and on 5% of days you a lot of energy stored.

As to high costs, because of the excess solar you’re generally filling batteries with nearly free electricity. Average nighttime wholesale prices therefore end up at ~10c/kWh or whatever the battery storage costs settle on, but daytime rates when most demand actually takes place are going to tank. That’s a net reduction in average prices. Trying to make a grid from Nuclear + batteries on the other hand means your paying Nuclear prices at night, but nuclear + battery prices in the daytime which is the opposite of what you want. Nuclear + fossil fuels on the other hand simply doesn’t go far enough.

Now in a mostly solar world a very low percentage of electricity may end up generated by fossil fuels, but a 99.X% solution is success by any reasonable metric.

PS: As a sanity check you can look at what people are paying when their off grid and then realize that’s very much a worst case.
It doesn't have to be something digital... We could move owning real life objects to NFT contracts. Like owning a car would be tracked on the blockchain and there is no paperwork needed about it.
I have been working on a side project that allows saving and sharing bookmarks with a simple like / dislike / comment system. It looks very simple, and is essentially a CRUD app. It's rewriting a similar project that had.

That turned out to have taken over a hundred hours of my time, and still counting. I started in June, expecting to finish by August. It's November now and I'm still at only 80%. There are just too many details that can't be predicted before starting to work on the specific part.

This happens at work too - "can you finish that feature now and release that in the next 15 mins or so"? Sorry, but I've only been a maintainer of this massive codebase for a few months, and haven't even touched that part of the program...? And yeah, I have other pressing work that I'm focusing on, so which one should wait?
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Oh pray tell. What solutions will fix the following two problems:

1. What type of storage is able to provide for, say, Northern Europe, where there may be weeks without wind and months without any significant sunlight? Keep in mind that the answer must be realistic, and not, for example, require that we suddenly increase global battery production by several orders of magnitude.

2. Renewable energy is already vastly insufficient to meet demand, even at moments when it is producing at full capacity. When will you actually fill those batteries?

Oh, and while we are at it, which part of the already densely populated landscape of Northern Europe should be sacrificed to put all this equipment?
You misunderstand the fourth.

1. The data is not yours. It’s the company’s
2. The government is not “search or seizing” the data, they are purchasing it or a license to it. 3. The company is selling it voluntarily, the government is not compelling it.

The fourth does not apply.
There may be a steep privacy cost if you park at this Trader Joe’s
I came across them on TikTok. Seems like a pretty nice and actually well thought out idea. Will be interesting to see if they are able to make something successful out of it.

Also apparently they are going to run a fundraiser on Kickstarter in January 2022.
Yes, Sheets is amazing already. It is missing integrations out of the box though which is where Rows is trying to win.
I notice this problem a while back and built Wax (https://www.wax.run/). Wax adds the features you'd want from Rows to Sheets. We handle integrations and scheduling. Also, considering a lot of internal tools leverage SQL and Python, we make using those them from Sheets simple.
your central premise seems to be one of perfect agency - "if you don't like it then just quit". But this is empirically an invalid argument, because people /can/ just quit but they /don't/. You then retreat to the tautological argument of "if they're not quitting then they must not want to", completing the self-referential circle of reasoning to disregard any need for non-market intervention in working conditions. This is why I said there would probably be no getting through to you - defenses of laissez-faire capitalism typically rest on theory that is not borne out empirically.

Your process of reasoning is just finding excuses. People don't quit jobs that are objectively degrading, making them pee in bottles? They must secretly like it. My dad says the job is overly demanding, especially for a country with high levels of unemployment (Scotland) where you could realistically just hire more workers to make the job more reasonable? It's all good because the exercise of constantly running for your job is good for you!

This is rationalisation, not reasoning - so there's little point trying to argue further because it's possible to make an excuse for basically anything in this manner.

It's not like I can't sympathise - I went through a libertarian phase myself and trotted out similar arguments. It was only when I tried to address the counter-arguments on a consequentialist and empiricist level, and simultaneously had started studying some theories of causality that also had sociological implications (cybernetics and systems theory), that I realised that my arguments to agency didn't hold up, because we do not have perfect agency - our actions and choices are constrained by our circumstances and responsibilities, beliefs, values and whatnot, and that an ideal economic system would be able to allocate labour in such a way that maximum meaningful work is performed while retaining human dignity. Capitalism, especially unrestrained, fails miserably at both of these.
Annnd... it's been rejected
My bad for not being precise: I had to learn Python specifically for this project because the only memory I had about the course was: "Python bare basics were easy to learn". I had never even installed python locally or anything and saw those courses at the time as only games to get some minimum idea about the language, as I had no intended use for it.

Adding to this topic, now I can say it was easy enough, even for someone like me. A few times I needed help from actual people and got it from the kind and amazing folks that hang around StackOverflow Python chat, but mostly Python docs (or some simplified form of it provided by other website) and google queries would do the job when I had a code obstacle. Python was overall very intuitive for me, apart from a few surprises (mainly regarding scopes and names).
This is the best comment posted to HN in the last 36 hours.
Brutal. I don’t want to think about how much I’ve spent through Wolt (CPH) during the pandemic, but from a customer experience standpoint, they have been very fair. Quick response, predictable outcomes, no hoops. Congrats to wolt, thanks to all the delivery and service workers, and I’ll delete it at the first change in CS standards.
Looks like a broadcast monitor, the kind used by TV studios. And yes, by the 70's they were already all this size, intended to be mounted in racks.

More likely it is a repurposed CCTV monitor, that looked like this since very early too (In the 90's worked in place that had a very old CCTV system, from the 70's, with the giant cameras, and the displays were basically this size and format.

There were other very small TVs too. It's not like we still used vacuum tubes to build tvs in 76.
There's https://pub.dev/packages/gtk - has limited set of widgets ATM, but may be a good start.
Robert Bringhurst in "The Elements of Typographic Style" (a bible for this kind of thing, and one of the most beautiful books ever made), has this to say on the topic:

"Anything from 45 to 75 characters is widely regarded as a satisfactory length of line for a single-column page set in a serifed text face in a text size. The 66-character line (counting both letters and spaces) is widely regarded as ideal. For multiple-column work, a better average is 40 to 50 characters.

If the type is well set and printed, lines of 85 or 90 characters will pose no problem in discontinuous texts, such as bibliographies, or, with generous leading, in footnotes. But even with generous leading, a line that averages more than 75 or 80 characters is likely to be too long for continuous reading."
I've been working with this for a while and I find it frustrating slow and unreliable. Especially working with an HTTP listener. Does anyone have better experience/advice?