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Linux has all sorts of controls and review policies that NPM doesn't have. It's a false equivalence to say "we trust Linux, so therefore trusting NPM is OK".

If <random maintainer> commits code to their repo, pushes it to npm, and you pull that in to your project (possibly as an indirect dependency), what controls are in place to ensure that that code is not malicious? As far as I can tell, there are none. So how is this not trusting that <random maintainer> with commit-to-prod privileges?
Site looks cool. Good to see you've made it interactive.

Seems like you are supporting JS flavor, that should be mentioned prominently.

Suggestions for the cheatsheet:

1) Multiline example regex is missing the anchors

2) Negative lookbehind should be `(?<!)` not `(?!)`

3) `+` and `*` examples are using `()` around a character, which isn't needed (the `?` example doesn't use it)
Naw, they wouldn't want to pay for a credit check. They run boiler room style call centers where the folks hassling you work on commission. So they just push whatever leads they have to their staff and make it their problem to squeeze money out of it. The entire industry is really, really, scummy, and barely one step better than those fraudsters that pretend to be the IRS.
20+ episodes per year

Only the big 4 networks do this. And the people that watch them are usually too stupid/lazy to find better quality shows.
> All the health officials in the world will shout “horse dewormer!” at you and compare you to Josef Mengele.

Well, as a German I feel obligated to recommend those officials to read up on Josef Mengele and then reconsider throwing that name around so casually.
What would be compelling evidence?

Would excess deaths in summer in 0 - 45 age group, in Europe be compelling or is there some other explanation to those?

For preventing spread ineffectiveness, would Gibraltar being #2 in the World by infection rate while having 99% vaccination be compelling?

For waning hospital and death protection would Israel data be compelling?

What about countless anecdotal stories of similar persistent adverse effects and VAERS reports?

If none of that is evidence, then even if this vaccine was unsafe, it would be virtually impossible to prove that, no?
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started by adding "ok" in the first lesson... lock just shakes and when clicking the answer, it shows the exact same thing thats already in the box :/
As someone heavily invested in Firefox as a user and an extension developer, I think Mozilla deserves what they get. Their product managers have been taking the same anti-user route as a megacorp with a leading product, except Firefox has been bleeding users for years, and they have been alienating long-time users and developers on several fronts.

Take the state of Firefox extensions. Firefox is the only browser where you can't install an extension until you disclose the source code to Mozilla. Both Google and Apple allows users to install an extension from a local source in the release version of Chrome and Safari, without uploading the source code to their servers.

It's not just a privacy issue either. Mozilla employees can and will veto your unlisted extension that you were forced to upload for signing, so that it can be installed in your browser, and you wake up with your private and unlisted extensions having been remotely blocked by Mozilla.

It is reckless and arrogant to have this attitude, especially when you're a small player in such a competitive market.

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I'm going to side with Microsoft here. I don't want apps to be able to change file/protocol associations on their own. If I want to set a different application as a default browser, I will go to the settings panel and change it myself.
How many people who believe Ivermectin works are actually doing that? Are there differences besides dosage and is it possible to split that dosage for appropriate human levels?
There's also a "genuinely super easy way to unsubscribe, except it unfortunately is experiencing technical problems"
This was more along the lines of my thinking too. A more reasonable explanation here is that they this gives them control over UI and security which from MS's perspective may make sense if people are likely to attribute any UI / security issues to MS. It could also be something to do with the analytics they're able to collect.

Also when you have a company the size of MS talking about a small decision like this as if the whole company is onboard and actively engaged in the decision making process is naive. It was most likely a decision made by a few people at MS. Not saying that excuses it, but often individuals in companies have their own misaligned incentives and make certain decisions for their own benefits.
Microsoft still makes billions from selling WIndows OEM licenses. According to their financial report such sales increased 9% from 2019 to 2020. It appears you can absolutely make tons of money selling desktop operating systems in 2021. I'd be delighted to make even 1% of Microsoft's Windows desktop OS sales.

Personally, I think exactly what is ruining Windows as a desktop OS is trying to cloud-ify everything and render it more like a "future of computing" operating system packed with useless AI, Metro apps, cloud integration, app stores, and locking it down for normal consumers. I mean, look at Microsoft deprecating fantastic apps like Windows Backup or Windows Snipping Tool. They want to transform Windows into a "hip" and "cool" Nadella-vision OS and that vision sucks.
This is what happens when large portions of a demographic are terminally online and their only hobby is doomscrolling on Twitter looking for something to get outraged about.
Do you check everyone's card when you split the bill? What makes you think the others are debit rather than credit cards?

For info: the debit & credit cards from my bank look almost identical. The only difference is one says "credit" in small black text. My credit card handles exactly like my debit card in terms of tap-and-pay etc. I just wouldn't use it to take out cash from an ATM, but then I can't remember when I last needed to do that.
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Ok where are all those people who had convinced me Microsoft has changed their hostile behavior?

I'm big enough to admit that I was one of them. I genuinely felt that between VSCode, WSL, their involvement with improving Python, the improvements to Linux on Azure, Open Source .Net Core etc. etc. that Microsoft was changing and Windows was a genuine and valid OS option for developers. I was willing to give them the benefit of the doubt and a second chance, despite having been an actively anti-MS Linux user through the whole "Open Source is cancer", EEE and anti-trust years.

Turns out I'm the sucker.
in point of fact I watched it and I would never have wasted my time to go to a theater to see it - but I was tired and felt this will be a brainless thing with some funny Ryan Reynolds lines and buddy hijinks with the Rock competently executed, time to chill out and eat some snacks.
Credit card fees?
This article seems to be coming from 5 directions at once and I genuinely fail to bring it all together. I see a huge enumeration of various catholic laypeople. Do these people represent the supernatural Catholic Church, the Vatican or the magisterium? And who are these “right-wing bishops appointed by Popes John Paul II and Benedict”? Are there many of these or just a few? What is their exact relationship to the CIA, if any? And how does Trump (following a peculiar “prosperity gospel”) fit into all of this? What is the relation to the Second Vatican Council? What is the connection between a Church Council and the CIA? Does being conservative in liturgical and theological issues make you a political right winger? Is it related to being “impervious to facts”? Could we replace “Catholic Church” with “Hollywood” or “shoe industry” and get a similar article? Help me out here.
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It would be polite to come with sources or arguments for this, especially in this conversation. Occam says that taking an anti-parasitic drug will lead to less parasites. You can't just put second order effects on the table and claim it's a coin toss.
> can't be overcharged, can't go below zero

In the UK, it's really hard to get a bank account where they'll do that. Instead they'll pay it, call it an "unauthorised overdraft" and then charge you for that. This is their business model - it's how they make sufficient income to operate.

There are "basic bank accounts" which don't provide a credit facility, but these only exist because people with poor credit histories can't get bank accounts otherwise, and the regulator has threatened to enforce their availability otherwise. However since this means that there currently isn't any rule, the banks make it very difficult for an ordinary person (with good credit) to open a "basic bank account".
I'm conflicted about this.

For me, the best implementation of private alias is the Apple one: %randomwords%[at]icloud.com. It's way harder to wildcard block [at]icloud.com, as there are legit users of the icloud domain, than a wildcard block for: [at]mozmail.com.

Unfortunately, using the apple implementation is just one more stone into their walled garden. I really wish firefox could create a legit free [at]firefox (or something else) mail and then create this alias service as premium bundle. It would be way harder for services to start blocking it.

Furthermore, I'm not really excited to the overall direction that Mozilla is moving with its side projects:

1. They bought Pocket (which I loved) and now it's on life support.

2. They created an awesome private file sharing service (firefox send) and quickly butchered it.

3. They have a vpn that is simply mullvad with new clothes and fewer geographic availability. Why anyone would use it instead of mullvad is beyond me.

Mozilla needs some serious trust building before I trust it to manage several mail aliases for me.
The Morris worm spread through a bug in finger(d). Turned out doing one thing only could still be a vector for a system compromise.
Not only news sites , but all kinds of business should adhere to this. Good job!
> Would excess deaths in summer in 0 - 45 age group, in Europe be compelling or is there some other explanation to those?

I don't know, what figures are you referring to and what do you think those are evidence of?

> For preventing spread ineffectiveness, would Gibraltar being #2 in the World by infection rate while having 99% vaccination be compelling?

Taken in isolation, not particularly, no. What you appear to have there is some vaguely formed speculation.

> For waning hospital and death protection would Israel data be compelling?

Be specific, what claims are you making and what evidence do you think backs them up?

> What about countless anecdotal stories of similar persistent adverse effects and VAERS reports?

Perhaps you could count them, and investigate to understand if the anecdotes and VAERS reports are true or not, and at what rate they occur. VAERS is by design a catch-all and self-reported, so the data there is interesting but not necessarily trustworthy. Anecdotes are not data, after all.
I use Amazon as little as possible, I have always had good service and matched prices elsewhere. If they reject my Barclaycard it will reinforce my view.
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So basically an online event multiverse?
A quirk of human vision. Our "red" cone receptors in our retinas are mostly sensitive to redder hues, but also have a bit of a bump down in the violet part of the spectrum. This shows some graphs that sort of explain it: https://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/433119/why-does-...

However, such spectral sensitivity graphs vary a lot (perhaps because people's vision does, but also they'll be measuring things differently): https://duckduckgo.com/?q=retina+cone+frequency+response&atb...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TransMilenio

It's not a failure in terms of the number of people that use it, but when the seats are full and the standing passengers are jam-packed like sardines, it's definitely nothing to brag about, and you certainly won't find the rich using it.

Peñalosa also introduced Pico y Placa (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pico_y_placa), a system that does not negatively impact those who can afford to own two cars, and forces the remainder of car owners to use the atrocious public transport system every other day.
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> To put something on a credit report you need only match 2 out of Name, Address, DoB, and SSN.

So any third-party vendor on Amazon has enough? Fantastic.
Ah I’m happy there was never any anti-competitive ruling about bundling OS with browser, ever
I would completely understand if other types of debit card were accepted - but at least in the vast majority of my arguments with local shop owners, Visa Debit or Mastercard Debit are not accepted - cards which are otherwise accepted globally.

I understand if the the fees accepted need to be added on and covered by the consumer who wants to pay with the most convenient form of payment they have - but again in Germany that's not even a possibility. I find it quite strange that it's one of the only places (if not the only place) in Western Europe where you struggle to pay with either cash or a card type that is only available in the country.
I'm surprised my very cheap and crappy consumer router doesn't seem listed anywhere (Technicolor TG588 v2)
Interesting.

I had the impression it would also include imported files.

Thanks! :)
Is nytimes going to go out of business?
> See the latest video from Linus Tech Tips on Linux, for example.

lol. The OS told Linus exactly what it would do, warned him it might not be what he intended in ALL CAPS, and made him type a full sentence (with an exclamation point!) confirming that it was really what he wanted. And then it did exactly what it told him it would do.

That there was a dependency conflict for a short time there (less than an hour) is a legitimate annoyance. But developers should not be troubled by the fact that an operating system is actually obedient, or that its warnings actually mean something.
Yeah I totally agree. I think there are some small companies which intentionally set themselves up to forward a particular cause, like sustainability for example. Also privately held companies don't have the same accountability structures as public companies, so it can be the case that virtue is a motivator for that individual but for the most part we shouldn't expect virtue from profit-driven companies, and that would very much be the exception rather than the rule.
Absolutely. git at the command line works fine but I have always found it very dense, and prefer to use it only for very basic or very specific tasks. Magit makes all the usual things I do with git so easy.

I have been using Emacs on Windows for a couple of years, but I have been transitioning to using Linux full-time at work, and by the end of the year I won't have to deal with the slowness of Magit (and git in general) under Windows.
So Amazon should just buy visa and be done with it.
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The Economist I just didn't renew. Nothing beyond that.

What is true is that, with a lot of magazines, to get the best rate you have to select an autorenew option and then they make it difficult to cancel. (That may be the case with The Economist; don't know.) In general, you're better off just paying a bit more and passing on autorenew unless you're sure you want to keep on subscribing.
Yeah, I think you're being overly paranoid.
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> Also, I personally wouldn't want "better consumer protection" to be mediated by a private company. That should just be the default.

You’re confused - in the UK the better consumer protection with a credit card is the law. On debit cards it’s at their discretion.
Blame the Twitterati for the normalization of calling people "Nazis" over slight political disagreements.
You can use Apple’s solution even if on Linux and using any browser.
Fully agree. My local library system is badly funded (as in, they let a building full of books rot rather than simply move them, and the main library has been closed for several years due to roof and sewage leaks) and we have no easy option to pay for a good one.
There are a lot of conspiracy theories about this but I think it’s just a race to the bottom in search of the largest audience.

It seems to still be getting worse. I remember cable news being tolerable 10 years ago. Now when I see it at an airport or something I can almost feel the ice pick ramming up into my brain and swishing around.
You are paying for these "perks" and no I don't need insurance when I'm buying an electronic toothbrush from Amazon thank you very much.
Love it, joined with another capsule friend and had fun bouncing around.
Strange that this hit HN today. 2 days ago I wondered what the cancellation policy was for the WSJ and checked. At the time I did not plan on cancelling but after finding out that it was "call to cancel" I called at that moment. I cannot stand the policy where it takes 3 seconds to sign up online but you have to call in to cancel. If I can help it I wont give money to companies that do it. In WSJ defense (barely) it was a quick process, probably took 5 minutes.
Big corporations giving people free money sound kinda unbelievable, don't you think? They must actually make money on card holders for this to be profitable. The obvious way is that some people will overdraw sooner or later, the other is that people with credit cards simply tend to spend more (some say about 10-15%). The average credit card debt in the USA is more that 6000$.
If you have an example of how transparency makes the shadow more complex, please give it. I’m fairly confident there are no cases like that. Transparency in the background image or border doesn’t change the shape of the box the shadow applies to, and things like opacity affects the shadow too. The example you had in your first comment is also wrong, as shadows don’t apply to other shadows.

There might still be cases where a particular optimization doesn’t work and the browser falls back to a buffer.
Did you read the article? One of the main points was that it's not dumbassery. You have multiple studies saying a drug works, being contradicted by experts that have been wrong multiple time this year and have a vested interest in what they're claiming. This is the opposite of dumb.

It turned out not to be true, but such is life - not all the correct choices are also true in the end.

It's also counterproductive in so many ways to call this dumb. And it's making yourself a huge disfavor by believing that everything you see online but disagree with is automatically misinformation.
That's a myopic view to take, this hurts users way more than it hurts Mozilla
You're right, I updated my comment earlier to address this. Speaking is not the same as understanding.
Yes, this all rings true. I recently did a fresh install of Windows 10, the first fresh install I think I've done in about 13 years (XP at the time, later upgraded to 7 and eventually 10). I was struck by every step of the installation process:

Can we have your information?

Can we have your information please?

Will you allow us to collect and sell your information?

Please give Edge a try, it's great, really!

And yet I can see that VS Code is great, though I don't use it myself. I use lsp-mode every day, and I think that's even more important than VS Code itself. And the LSP is brought to us by Micro$oft as well. Definitely a dichotomy.

I will give credit where it may be due however - I did install WSL for the first time, and while not perfect, it's pretty good! Better than Cygwin for sure is my initial impression.
Yup. This kind of thinking is prevalent in politics where leftists disregard right-wind media and vice versa. Both sides have good points worth considering, but they are simply disregarded due to being "the viewpoint of the wrong/evil/whatever side". That's what the political divide is all about, as I see it.
His comment is accurate. The comment he was replying to was about nukes, not all of the state.

23 million is the loss of expect natality, not dead children. It's people that weren't born.

As with all famine as atrocities narratives, I wonder if you apply this standard fairly. Is every poor country that had a famine responsible or only those whose economic system you don't agree with? In that case isn't the West responsible for 2 million deaths every year by forcing Africa to adopt an economic system that leads to starvation? Of course you will say no but to me these are equivalent. It turns out there are no good guys

If you're really being hunted by the FSB then I am sorry that Russia is doing this to you. I suggest that you would not post about it here as this forum is monitored and this information would be identifying to the FSB. I truly wish you the best of luck.
> never had a credit card in the UK with any rewards whatsoever

I used to fly to New York in first for free once a year on my reward points before COVID.
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I don't know numbers, but there are credible reports of farming supply companies starting to restrict sales (so greater than zero, but I haven't a clue how many).

Differences can be that not all the preparations contain only the one active ingredient. Dosing appears to be whole other kettle of fish, because understandably people have no idea what a therapeutic or prophylactic dose actually might be - because as far as we know there isn't one for coronavirus.
I don't see a problem. Those who don't like Edge would be more pissed that their configured/chosen browser is being bypassed again and anything that comes out of (turning off the search on toolbar/ignoring it/taking it as the last straw and thinking of alternative OSs) is good for Firefox/Linux etc. Those who don't care about the browser, don't care anyway. And the three people who use Edge would be happier.