skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think you misunderstood my point. I wasn't trying to say R-rated/sexual fan projects are a 'real problem' in some social/moral sense, I personally hate the 'somebody think of the children' argument more than most. I was making the point that Nintendo can come up with whatever reason they damn well please to shut down projects that use their IP. If they're confortable with some fan mod with some Mario/Luigi sex scenes, great. If they aren't, you have absolutely no leg to stand on when they send you a cease and desist.

So given that Nintendo has some quality standards on their trademarks and IP, be that whether it's suitable for children or whatever other reason they come up with, expecting Nintendo to check every popular fan project is unrealistic.

edit: Just to add:-

> In the end, I consider brands less important than people, freedom and creativity. Perhaps it's worthwhile trying to rethink the world in this manner?

My world view is totally irrelevant to this discussion. I was arguing from the perspective of Nintendo that it makes absolutely no sense for them to leave fan projects to do whatever they want. I could not care less about protecting Nintendo's IP or any other corporation's IP, but they clearly do.
Use of checks is rapidly dying in the US. My credit card gives 1-3% cashback for purchases, I use it for everything possible and pay the bill in full each month, so no interest.

As late as 2015
some common entities would not reliably accept credit cards (government, very small shops), but that’s almost completely gone now and COVID has pushed most of the remaining holdouts to accept digital payments.

Any situation or credit card doesn’t work such as my mortgage, I use a bank transfer or plain old cash.
iTunes/Apple Music. I use it to manage a huge collection, and the Ui is terrible. Examples: some file I can’t find has a bogus header or something, so every time the program opens or if I add something it spends 10 minutes doing some gapless playback analysis. None of the fixes suggested online address it. When it’s doing something like that or ripping/converting music, you can’t scroll around your collection since every time it moves to the next song it snaps the UI back to whatever you had selected before: this can be infuriating. Editing large amounts of metadata is awkward: way more clicking than should be necessary. The metadata editing is song focused, and which makes it awkward when editing albums/multi-disc shows.

I admit: my complaints are likely a side effect of being a niche user. I don’t think people curating their own collection of 60,000+ tracks is a use case they worry about.

The only reason I use it is I depend on iTunes Match to make my music available on all of my devices. That’s the one thing it does do seamlessly. The collection is too big to copy to all devices, and some devices require streaming anyways. I have searched everywhere and have never found a viable alternative. I can find alternatives for parts of my use case, but not everything. So I’m stuck with this software..

I have this dream that one day I’ll have the patience to figure out how to write my own GUI for it, but I’ve given up every time I wade into the apple developer docs. I’d pay good money to someone to stub out an app for me so I don’t have to figure it out from scratch, and go from there.
You discount the damage trolls like Rogan et al did to the tolerance needed to make free speech a possibility.

We have these media trolls just spewing provocative nonsense, finding any open wound in our discourse and throw salt on it so they can have their lols, dollars, and influence. How can you be surprise when free speech is finding it's boundaries.

This is not even a partisan thing, I do believe exploitative media that feeds on strife is very good business and thus it finds its audience, whether it's left or right. Catering to the different psychologies and fears while maximizing profits.
The actual fools that you reference call themselves "degenerate". They consciously degrade their pride by choosing a less noble title.

Anyways, this is new technology being developped. Anyone interested or looking for solutions will adopt it. Personally, I've been living in a land where people obviously hate me as foreigner. I am an undocumented human. When I see Bitcoin, my heart races super fast. It is the only technical solution to my problem of being outcasted by financial institutions. Therefore, as a sort of struggle for financial rights, I allocate at least one hour per day to learning what it is about.

We're not equal on this Earth. My life choices will not be similar to yours because we're neighbours but don't face the same issues. Talking about the effects of the 2008 financial collapse without having lived in a third-world country destroyed by debts in foreign currencies is purely self-centered. Get out of your comfort pad and see that you've suffered a 10 degree financial burn while other had to bear a 100 degrees one. It's matter of perspectives.
Using a political office to effect political change is against the law.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hatch_Act
If you put in big letters "Contribute to <this>" and then, somewhere totally else, in tiny letters amid 15,000 other tiny letters, put "but we may take your money and contribute it to anything we like"... then you are NOT the good guy. You are swindling the user and a lot of people are of the opinion that this is exactly the kind of situation the government should step in on.

Alternatively, make the 15,000 tiny letters illegal, and require products to specify in clear, easily understandable language what the user is agreeing to; with the ability to return whatever it is if they do not agree with it.
The enterprise bank I work for needs a business justification to spend resources to figure out if there's a business justification for allowing the installation of WSL. I asked in 2019.

Bouncing between my personal computers and my Windows work computer, what they've done to make git so slow... it makes me sad. On a brand new developer workstation, the git-prompt invocation in PS1 takes over a second to complete.

Developers who never used git before don't like it and I understand why. It's like a scene from Harrison Bergeron, like Git Bash has heavy objects strapped to it to make it at least as slow as everything else.
People confuse what a corporate entity decides to do, with what they are forced to do

Pressured by small mobs, billionaire's funded groups, political actors...

This is just people reacting and saying what they're doing is probably wrong and goes against their customers interests
If that's the case, I think you hit it spot on.

Their actions speak for themselves.

For myself, they don't need to say anything else.
This may be too broad, but instant messaging. I only ever use it as a clipboard to share snippets or screenshots with people, but email is so much better to communicate. In person meetings can't be replaced by text, sorry.

I use a shared album for pics and video.
As alternative I would suggest Office365, but If you used Google workspace for so long, why not just pay Google? Why you have to change. Just pay and do nothing... They invested billions for you to use it for free so long. Its a good service.
You could try Rust or (I think) Zig.
> One issue is that the domain needs to be with Go Daddy

Absolute dealbreaker.

There's no real reason why I can't just point my MX at them, do the additional configuration[*] and have them host my mail.

Any explaination would be pure (and utter) BS.

[*] being setting spf, dkim records and stuff
I have to get an MRI roughly once a year to monitor a benign cyst and ensure it doesn't start to grow. My first experiences with MRI were okay. Certainly not pleasant but not an issue. I can't even imagine actually falling asleep inside an MRI though.

Last year I actually went the other direction. I was switched to a somewhat older MRI machine in a different building, apparently somehow "due to COVID." I thought the tunnel in the usual MRI machine was tight but this older model was even smaller. Also, due to COVID they insisted that I have on an N95 mask inside the machine, underneath the 'Magneto-like' helmet used to hold head position. I was able to complete the lengthy session but these changes were enough to trigger what I assume was some claustrophobia and it was not fun. It required maximum mental effort just to make it to the end.

I just got the call from my doc to schedule this year's scan and apparently the same requirements are still in place although they are "hoping things get back to normal soon." I mentioned how challenging last year's scan was and he suggested we just defer it until Summer. I felt conflicted about this as I really don't want to be postponing diagnostics but damn, last year was pretty awful, so I went for the reschedule.
> They model out your lifetime value and know that every $1 they chisel out of you is worth $1.40 in 5 years.

Even more. Every $1 in MRR is worth around $216 in company market cap. (assuming their current multiple)
Matt has some good courses:

* https://frontendmasters.com/courses/canvas-webgl/

* https://frontendmasters.com/courses/webgl-shaders/
> Agree with this - and at your usage levels plus $1 per 80 searches plus the $10 fee for 30 / day, you will be talking about $40+ per month, or $480 per year - enough to buy a new Macbook every 2.5 years :)

The proposed pay per use is an independent tier, not on top of any other.
> I suppose he has never been to the UK?

I was never surprised, I am just giving context about Japanese tea culture. I have a condo in central London, thanks. I've had over a hundred Michelin star restaurants in the UK, I am very well of elitism. Have you never attended Central Saint Martins? Don't be a snob.

Google Doodle promoted an obscure female scientist because she discovered the health benefits of green tea.

I argued Japanese people care about the culture, not the health benefits.

If this is not for Japanese people, who is the Doodle for? Westerners? This is the first point about the Western bias. Beyond this, was it intended to educate the Western audience about the health benefits of green tea?
What about gitlab ? Why wouldn't that be an alternative ?
Less than a flash in the physical history of this world. Crazy!
> Using a political office to effect political change is against the law.

From your linked article:

>using this language to specify those who are exempt:[10]

> (i) an employee paid from an appropriation for the Executive Office of the President; or

> (ii) an employee appointed by the President, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, whose position is located within the United States, who determines policies to be pursued by the United States in the nationwide administration of Federal laws.

I'm sure that "the administration" that evv555 was talking about involves either of those people, instead of some random civil servant.
Seeing this thread, I just realized how easy the hidden scrollbars in macOS can screw you over. Would the terms and condition page by worded slightly different, the Cancellation Condition heading would not even be visible and you won't even notice that there is still content you are agreeing to.

This feels bad, like really bad!
I mean unless it had a backend server no one would ever see the "hell no css styling" (and even then only others who also had the extension) so it doesn't really make much sense.
If you send money to fascists be prepared for the money to be intercepted. Simple as that
My Windows Vista VM that runs on my homelab, for the sole purpose of keeping my HP LaserJet 3390’s scanner working with modern software.

I got this thing for free on Freecycle and it works amazingly well mechanically, and the printer worked out of the box. No matter what I tried though, getting the scanner to show up as a device and be interfaced with any modern hardware required me to set up this virtual machine to be shared with the local network.

(Yes I tried CUPS which worked great for the printer but not the scanner.)
Vaccines didn't used to be political.
Nah, evil is fine. It's a low grade evil, sure, but it's still evil. To cite a lovely paragraph from Carpe Jugulum that feels appropriate -

“There’s no greys, only white that’s got grubby. I’m surprised you don’t know that. And sin, young man, is when you treat people as things. Including yourself. That’s what sin is.’
‘It’s a lot more complicated than that -’
‘No. It ain’t. When people say things are a lot more complicated than that, they means they’re getting worried that they won’t like the truth. People as things, that’s where it starts.”

― Terry Pratchett, Carpe Jugulum
>You seem very defeatist in all of your comments on this thread.

Because you are posting ridiculous comments implying that people have a bunch of rights to do things on a airplane that will end up landing them in jail or with big fines.

Step back and remember that you’re still on private property and the government has taken obscene steps in the industry to protect safety at all costs. There are very narrow rights you have with regard to monetary renumeration which you should leverage whenever you get the chance.

However, refusing to leave a plane when being asked to by the staff is always a losing move. There are no clear punishments for the airline and there are significant outs (“passenger was being unruly”).

> remove you for that reason and put some other crew member they need to move on instead, that seems like it would be pretty easy to show is bullshit.

Not if they bring the crew on, get them seated in jump seats, and then state that some people need to be removed.

This can happen even without manifest changes. If a significant storm pushes into the arrival airport when getting ready to depart it may delay the flight and alter fuel requirements for alternate airports. I’ve been on flights where they had to ask people to deplane in exchange for vouchers just to fly with the seats empty to offset weather range requirements.
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Thank you.

I wasn't really involved in the client, so I probably don't have much insight to share in that regard.

It was really special to what I had been working on in a keynote or read articles/comments specifically addressing a feature, but it isn't always gravy. So many news reports/articles/comments are just so far off from what is really happening going on. And many comments are tough to hear, but true as well. Still overall it was a positive and threads like this are really something special. It means a lot to have our work appreciated and think that can be missing from the modern software development experience.
Zoho and OwnCloud.
Alex Jones actually said they would likely use crisis actors before the shooting happened where he said it actually happened. That doesn’t make him correct or more credible. It just means he didn’t have any evidence either before or after.

At some point presumably you have to provide evidence. If you never can, that’s when you sound like Alex Jones.
Yes it happens but you get the refund easily. You also get an e-mail before that happens.
Why does anyone care what Elon Musk says about this situation? It has nothing to do with his businesses.
It needs a 2-piece triangle to make a lot more empty spaces viable, or even an occasional 1-piece to allow for fixing mistakes
As much as you may dislike "fascists", you don't get to tell other people who they can or cannot send money to.
It does this? So you're saying if I shut off my 16" MacBook Pro close the lid, and open it, it'll boot?
It’s a private company, it absolutely does not need to be neutral. They can choose any side they want. If you don’t like it, don’t use their platform. Gosh, when did the notion of private firms got so mixed up with so-called political neutrality? Are people this naïve?
The switch got a refresh in 2019 (two years before the OLED model was released) that almost doubled battery life [0].

[0] https://www.techradar.com/news/the-updated-nintendo-switch-b...
>At Google scale this becomes very costly

They made $24 billion in profit in Q4 alone.[0]

[0]https://www.nytimes.com/2022/02/01/technology/google-alphabe...
One thing I like about Fastmail is the ability to serve static web content directly from the “Files” section of their apps/website.

Since they already manage the domain for email, spinning up static sites at subdomains is really easy and really nice.
I'm not in the US and sciences also don't pay much, especially compared to software.
Would love to hear feedback on my product.
>Gnome isn’t trying to impose a vision.

Didn't GNOME removed the System Tray ? If they offered a choice they could force their GNOME apps not to use the System Tray but support third party apps like say Slack,Skype ,Thunderbird. They decided System Tray is not cool anymore, same for Server Side decorations, they are against supporting legacy GTK applications or cross platform ones - they are not presenting their vision they are forcing it.

But I know fans will excuse with "GNOME team is too busy with removing features to support the System Tray API or keep an SSD compatibility mode but there are some hacky extension or patches on gitHub that worked but probably will stop when you update and let you stuck on a TTY screen"
This article does not support your claim. It talks about things being liberal, which is a right-wing, pro-market ideology and fundamentally incompatible with leftism.
Not true. You can host through any provider and link it to Office365.
I do the same, although I got it on sale for about $300. The specific features that are missing which I really wanted to be able to use are multi-axis tool paths. Autodesk seems to think that only "professional" users will have a 4th axis, which really isn't the case any more.

Likewise on the more advanced high speed tool paths, although I could mostly live without those.

The biggest problem for me with both of these features is that to get them you need to pay yet another subscription fee for an extension and also pay for "cloud credits" to use it which are yet more money and which also expire after a year whether you use them or not.

You can't just buy what you need and do without upgrades and patches and run it standalone like you can with Siemens NX (for example). You have to pay and keep paying or otherwise go through the effort to download everything stored in their cloud and move to another package.

I like how the software functions in general although it's less "pro grade" than NX or Solidworks. If they offered a stand alone version that stored data and processed things locally and had basic multi-axis support, I'd be quite happy with paying up to about $1000 for it as a one time cost and more to get support.

I hate getting locked into recurring costs that may change at the whim or need of the company supplying the product, especially if that company is as untrustworthy as Autodesk.
Also keep in mind that in the backdrop of all this is the fact that our Prime Minister has called the protesters racists and misogynists. Probably inspiring someone who ran over some protesters in Winnipeg.

Canadian news and politicians are desperately trying to denounce the protesters while ignoring the fact that Canada has some of the harshest Covid restrictions in the world at the moment, while the US has hardly any and European nations are mostly moving to remove all restrictions.
The people opposed to government-enforced medical mandates are fascists?

The wordhas truly lost all meaning. Though according to Orwell, it already had even before the end of WW2
Another German here. I'm legitimately surprised by this article saying that the entirety of Sunday is considered Ruhezeit. It's true that most stores are closed on Sunday, but I've done plenty of vacuuming and laundry on Sundays and never had anyone complain.

Just to be sure, I just checked the house rules attached to my lease contract, and they define Ruhezeiten as Mon-Fri 13-15, 22-6 and Sat-Sun 13-15, 22-8. This is in East Germany, maybe the entire Sunday thing is a West German thing?
No, they say that I am right. “Generally, no” is not “no”. You’ll notice that statement has no teeth or specifics. That entire guideline was added in reaction to this particular event and the general populist stupidity that resulted.
All search engines. They are all horrible and getting worse by the day. All the results are spam, they ignore words and can't do basic things they used to be able to it.
My kids have been trying to use Teams this last week while isolating at home with covid. It's easily the worst software I've ever had the misfortune to use. The UI is an absolute mess and none of it makes any sense, there's multiple locations where we have to try to find files. I have twins, so they're in the same year but in different classes - only one of them has a working login so both had to log in as her on different laptops and then they weren't able to join different meetings. It has no redeeming features whatsoever.
Arq uses strong encryption; Amazon doesn't have the keys.
They "changed their stance" after DeSantis initiated a fraud investigation against them for their original "stance".
I'm dealing with this right now.

Both my personal domain and rsync.net are on a distinct subnet, but that subnet is smaller than a /24 and someone on a different subnet has, apparently, behaved badly.

Enter "abusix" ...

One of my engineers had an enlightening webchat with one of their engineers where we were shown the "offending" IP and it was explained that they have no ability to distinguish subnets (and no interest in doing so). So if you're not wasting an entire /24 (we only need ~10 IPs at this location) you're in danger of this misclassification.

We were also informed that our normal, business communications with paying customers should have unsubscribe notices appended to them. Which is to say, you're a paying customer of a service and we send you some kind of alert or critical announcement ... and it should have an unsubscribe link.

Unbelievable.
I'm studying guitar remotely and my teacher recorded a small bit of the call so that I can review later. He was playing and talking, I was completely quiet and not moving. Zoom decided to record my camera with his sound. He said that it was like that for all his students that day and couldn't figure out why.
PowerPoint. Yes, really. It's amazing for prototyping stuff up and is horrid M$ trash at the same time.
Really, how did the media convinced masses that people fighting for all's freedom are fascists?
That's your cognitive dissonance speaking; it's a demonstrable fact that Trump took a large part of the blue collar/union electorate in 2016.
This is not accurate. I host through Site ground and have absolutely no issues setting O365 as my mail provider.
And some in the poltical class think the answer to this is less education and more populism.
Agree on Google Chat, which we use at work because it's free with our GSuite (workspaces now?), is HIPAA compliant, it keeps all chats forever without extra cost, and... That's it. Slack is better in basically every way, but we can't justify the expense of paying to reach feature parity, especially the HIPAA part.

Disagree heavily on docs, sheets, and meet. Meet is a bit wonky in Firefox but I wouldn't trade it for any of the other options we've tried. I consider docs, sheets, and drive to be best-in-class for what we use them for, which is pretty much always collaborative.
it wouldn't have ended up with XMPP>*
Studies may have suggested something, does not mean they have proven that same thing. Also, "toxic memory impairing proteins" is some kind of hand-wavy journalistic clickbait and not actual science.
Go fund me deserves all the flak they receive.

Redirecting donations intended for one cause to causes of their choosing is fraudulent.

If they have an issue with a cause, which should be stipulated in their ToCs up front and not subject to inflight changes, then refund all donors to the best of their ability.
Ha, you posted this while I typing the exact same complaint.