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I totally get it.

I like the blog as a creative outlet, the audience was never the point. Some of my stuff had a good 10,000 visitors, most had, well, fewer than 10. I always made things for myself so I was fine with both since I was just doing this for fun.

But things have changed. The culture is nastier, the internet is nastier, professionally I probably shouldn't publish my "How to Escape the Kingdom of Google" draft even though it's hilarious.

I've been toying with the idea of tearing it all down and starting over in a sort of underground workshop format where I can just make stuff without wondering if who Googles my real name and all the different contexts the different things might come up.
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I don't want to implement P2P payments. I don't even know what this means. Does it just mean "sending someone money?" Why would I want that to be built into a browser? I'm a bit confused why this is being pushed.
US varies quite a bit.

In my culture, anyone above me gets e.g. Uncle Firstname, and is also referred to as sir, or ma'am depending.
It all depends on the role. My immediate manager is good ( and likely the best manager I had so far ).

But he actively cuts through red tape for us and deals with the usual corporate idiocy on our behalf. I actually declined a job offer partially because of him ( no friends at other place to vouch for the place ).

I don't know how much other managers do, but he does a lot. Not just for us, but for the company.
That's my mistake, I should have included a source. But the fact remains, it is blocked: http://www.chinafirewalltest.com/?siteurl=github.com.
I dunno, I'm forced to use Mac OS and I find it a pain in the ass. You might think it "just works" and you "don't have to configure it" but there's a ton of stuff I'd like to be able to configure, but can't.

Recently, I wanted to connect multiple VPNs (work, different data centers) and selectively resolve DNS queries / route traffic, but it doesn't seem possible without a lot of work.

I'm not crazy on the app-switcher's behaviour. I'd like to be able to cycle between all windows on all monitors, not "apps", or "windows from one app" or whatever. I need to install 3rd party software for window tiling. (In fairness, Rectangle is perfect). I hate the lack of decent Gnu binaries (but again, homebrew fixes that).

I hate finder. I want to browse to "/Users/raffraffraff/.config" and end up googling to find the arcane key combo to unhide them. Also, why the hell can't I just click on the path and type the path I want?

For years I've been using Xubuntu with plank (dock) at the bottom and an xfce panel at the top. Haven't had a crash in years. All hardware works. If something isn't too my liking I can change it if I wish. That's a feature, not a flaw.
> I think there is a knee-jerk reaction to "acquired homosexuality"

Acquired homosexuality is actually very common in some settings, such as prisons. The catch is that not all homosexuality is equal; the kind of homosexuality that's common in prisons is easily described as toxic, hypermasculine, domination-based sex. The common social aversion to acquired homosexuality is clearly based on the idea that it must necessarily, to a greater or lesser extent share these characteristics; that much is clear even from primary sources that reflect this same aversion. But we should be very clear that the modern LGBT movement is advocating for something remarkably different: equal relationships between people of the same sex based on express consent, perhaps best typified by the idea of legal gay marriage (where the 'marriage' descriptor should be read as neatly encompassing analogous traditional practices, such as sworn brotherhood). How far can that sort of culture spread and even perhaps be "acquired"? And can it socially outcompete the legacy model of homosexuality as masculine domination, even in places where that model still carries some influence? I think these are very interesting questions for those who want to take this topic seriously, and not be limited by historical or present-day ideological stances!
I am convinced that one day you visit an old ancient site. You put on the AR/VR headset and the real-life ruins change into fresh newly constructed buildings with NPCs from that time. The headset/lenses have a pair of 32k displays with a vof wider than your eyes. Graphics are rendered with 100 trillion rays per frame at 240fps. About 10.000 times faster than current hardware.
Right, I read your parent comment and think, "Well, we're 12 of 30 days in". Obviously people are going to fight back, they'd have nothing to lose but still enough energy left to act. The closer you get to 30 days, the dimmer the probability becomes.
I can't help but notice some contradictions in your statements on this post, for once you maintain that you had a decent blog and coding projects but nonchalant about readership and traction metrics, isn't this more like a case of "grading your own homework"?

I am not trying to be negative but I am just trying to make sense of the situation.

In another instance, you lamented the lack of public recognition for your work and yourself in particular and in the same sentence insinuated that other developers are maintaining their blogs entirely for the ego boost when it looks to me that taking your whole portfolio offline in a protest of not receiving the right amount of public validation of your talents has as much to do with ego as their perceived driving force behind their online presence.

Again, I am not trying to be negative on purpose here, I'm just trying to establish the facts.

In general, I think that you may benefit a lot more from more introspection and viewing the whole enterprise in retrospect, and perhaps writing a post mortem detailing what went wrong and what can instead be done in the future to increase your chances of success, and to use the whole thing as a learning opportunity for personal growth on all levels.

Cheers
> Since then, tdfx and others have been launching a barrage of red herrings to somehow undermine and misdirect away from this correct point

The original point is an interesting example of being correct, but also misleading in that it paints getting the vaccine after natural infection as the best course of action. It has benefits, but probably not as many immune benefits as having a second asymptomatic infection after the original one.

I'm not anti-vaccine at all, but the CDC presents the vaccine to everyone in every circumstance as the optimal course of action and it's very clear the science on that is not settled. Blanket statements and their inability to acknowledge edge cases are the reason their credibility has been so badly eroded in the past few years. In their quest not to give anti-vax people a thread to pull on, they've treated the public as too stupid to understand nuance and created an even larger distrust than they would've had to begin with.
Very, very unlikely. Technologies like that don't just show up in mass production vehicles like that. Tesla want to make 1 million of those a year.

Cybertruck is already quite full of new tech. The Cell-To-Pack structural pack will still be very new. Exo-skelleton and stainless steal is totally unique (Delorian was just stainless panels). Cybertruck will have the upgraded package for 'self driving' meaning new cameras, new chips and so on. It will also have the famous security windows.

What we are not yet sure about is if it will include a higher Voltage for the internal electronics putting power and data on the same cable across the car. Tesla has been wanting to do that for quite a while.
Thank you. Reading their original comment & looking at the site: I assumed it was a troll? Seems like they're deliberately doing the opposite of what makes for good UX / reader experience.

* Tiny non-standard font size.

* Their rationale for right text alignment is the exact inverse of why left-aligned text is widely regarded to increase readability. (Also they don't seem to understand what justification means in paragraph formatting).

* Navigation bar falls in the exact area (right edge) where most users' eye gaze rarely falls. (Top left, top right, mid left are the areas where eye-tracking studies show left-to-right language users fixate).

* Weird Geocities-style pinned background with distracting colours.

* Inconsistent use of capitalisation on headers / pages.
etc. etc.
We’ll eventually cure Parkinson’s, Alzheimer’s, cancer(s). Maybe in 20, maybe in 50,…

Like money compounding over time, more invested in research would likely compound over time. For example, all the science and technology we will have by the year 2100 could be had by 2050 if we invested $X more over the next 28 years?
Oh, around here (Spain) usually they don't put the address in the ad so you can't cross check the information with the national registry and find that the apartment is 20% smaller than claimed.
"Sausage Party", the 2016 movie, imagines supernatural spirits in a grocery store.

Aesthetic preferences are not universal, it's interesting how much discussion ends up being about how a given set should be preferred, rather than simply expressing that they happen to be preferred by a given individual.
My initial reaction was that it sounds as if they're not charging nearly enough. You may want to be picky but that's ridiculous. But you may be right.
Note: GMOs consensus is that it is safe, but big industry has been known to silence subjects who question them (scientists, journalists, whistleblowers, etc.) due to profit incentives.
Ex: Monsanto, fat vs. sugar, Theranos - watch Dopesick, The Dropout, Dark Waters, etc.

There is a slight chance this report was not formally published and peer-reviewed for these reasons. Need a critical eye from the HN community.

Here is a related published study: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4392553/
I totally disagree. I find more mystery in large, industrial spaces than the rustic kitchen in the painting. I can easily picture "spirits dancing" in supermarket aisles and warehouses. The popularity of Liminal spaces [1] suggests that many people agree. Different aesthetics for different times.

[1] https://twitter.com/SpaceLiminalBot
Almost every screen we use is wide-screen, yet almost every activity we use computers for involves scrolling through portrait documents. Putting the taskbar on the side reclaims some precious vertical space at the cost of fairly un-needed horizontal space. It's the logical choice - the only reason everyone doesn't do it is design inertia from when screens were 4:3. This is a shame.
oh haha, woops
Although, most companies can't or won't hire great engineers, because great engineers are hella expensive and hard to hire.
No I'm talking about things like Ford, GM, and Chrysler creating a group together to more effectively negotiate with the UAW. Together, they are strong!
Yet, if that cooperate real estate were converted into mixed use residential, the corporations might save themselves at the expense of every single family homeowner and investor. This is a likelihood because the single family real estate market would normalize to 1970 home prices with the amount of corporate real estate that could be converted. Don't underestimate corporations willingness to save themselves at the expense of everything else, including our planet.
Its interesting that the people who create and encourage this system so fervently push for major social reforms and claim their social theories will create better societies.
Well my anecdotal evidence from certain real estate agent says otherwise. She told me she would regularly show foreign buyers around new low/high rise developments only to have them buy entire floors in the Vancouver area. There was once where she had a foreign buyer who didn't know what he wanted. She showed him around at houses, condos, etc... and got no visual indicators he was happy with anything. When she was done and finally asked him if there was any he was happy with he said he would take them all. All foreign buyers she worked with were from China (as she spoke fluent mandarin).
Me too, I miss the days where software wasn’t constantly updated and networked for no good reason.

In fact I run a number of VMs with no internet access to keep my tools under my control.
You can't write comments like this on HN. Rebut an argument, contribute to the discussion, flag a comment, or report it to hn@ycombinator.com: all fine. Weird personal attacks: not fine.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
It’s a way of introducing them to you at a more intimate level. However depending on the situations it’s also common to keep saying girlfriend as a shield so that she remains pseudonymous.
It's creating 12 long sequences from 12 notes. That sounds far closer to a dictionary than anything else.
Because it is a really expensive device I own, it is not apple’s business to decide what I am allowed to do with it after purchase. As far as I know I don’t rent it — even though they would prefer such a business model.

Also, come on - this “you have a choice for another device” is just such a stupid “argument”. There are 2 tradeoffs to choose from, period. And there will likely not be another for a very long time, as the main reason Windows Phone couldn’t gain traction is that mobile app developers had more than enough work to support 2 markets.
I get VHCOL cities, I live in one and bought a home here in 2020. You may not be at the point where you don’t have to optimize for comp yet, and that’s okay. But when you are, I hope you take the opportunity to do so.

And I hope you consider doing it sooner rather than later, since you may find, as I have, that working on stuff you’re passionate about is one of the ways to do your best work, which often can result in comp increases faster than working on something you care less about. :)

Good luck out there!
It’s a good thing our benefactors at OpenAI are looking out for “AI safety” so we can’t do things like ask a computer to make a graphically violent image or verbally racist string of text.
They fixed it. Possibly indicative that someone from the USGS reads this website.
Yes, in many ways this is feeling like a re-run of the late 70s. Biden has done a competent job, especially given the hand he was dealt. But the electorate is blaming Biden for a lot of things that are outside of his control - this inflation, for example, it's mostly due to the pandemic, but the trade wars started by the previous president would have led to inflation even without the pandemic.

Russia invading Ukraine seems to rhyme with the Soviet Union invading Afghanistan in 1980. Carter was not to blame for the latter and neither is Biden to blame for the former, but there was and will be political fallout.
Yes, SARS #2 has significant differences, and at this point there’s no putting the genie back in the bottle.

I’m just answering:

> Has there ever been a recorded instance of eliminating a respiratory infection before?

That answer being a resounding “yes, and our best example of doing so is even a coronavirus”.
He was very negative on Tesla at first, then observed their improvements first hand and realized they were rapidly improving and were willing to throw old things out no matter the investment.

It was only at that point 1-2 years after he started making Tesla content that he bought shares.

He is not delusional enough to think that he himself moves the stock price. If he thought Tesla was falling behind or stopped improving he would simply sell the stock (at lots of profit) and tell people that Tesla is going in the wrong direction.
Oh no haha I haven't seen that episode (or forgot about it). That would have been a clever joke though.
I love these time-warp flashbacks.

Comdex, that hardware board based disk copier to win the escalating copy-protection war. I doubt anyone born after the 1990s can understand/appreciate it.

At the end of the TRS-80 lifespan one of the hardware mods they came out with was "high resolution" graphics ability to go from 128x48 to 640x240 res (still monochrome). How far we've come.
OK but the meaningless of a job is supposed to be compensated by a paycheck -- I don't mean that as some patronizing middle manager -- but rather I've done loads of jobs I thought were meaningless, but did them anyways, because I needed to pay my rent.
> The FSF does. The IndieWeb does.

What are their options for search? I know DDG is an option, but even it seems to rely on Big Tech.

> Trusting more power to Big Government to try to control Big Tech

But it's definitely worked in the past. Government successfully reigned in a ton of industry. Sure, it hasn't reigned in Big Tech, but so much other stuff.
It's not a "requirement" but monetizing content is a really hard problem that hasn't been solved real well. The most common strategy is ads, but everybody involved (by that I mean the producer and the consumer of the content, not an unnecessary third part like ad sellers) hate that solution. There are some attempts like Medium and their subscription model and Brave's BAT. These solve the problem of "micro payments" but they still require a third party and they have significant limitations (especially that content providers don't have any say on "price"). Direct payments so far suffer from the "micro payments" issue in that small payments aren't feasible since credit card companies and other third parties take a non-trivial portion.

So yeah, if a browser can fix this problem with P2P payments, that would be huge.
Can you elaborate on the advice of addiction specialist? What would they propose to do here instead?
When someone deletes an inflammatory comment before it generates replies, and you revive it to reply to it, you're now the one being inflammatory. If their comment was bad and they deleted it, they did the right thing; you did the wrong thing.
A single repeated movement is very tiring. You compare to games, but games have you press different buttons, and there is usually either some rythm and variety to it, or at least hold the button (e.g. in a racing game you usually hold the acceleration button)

In this website you need to keep scrolling, which is pretty monotonous, it would be equivalent of spamming "next" on an overly complicated late 2000s Windows software installer. Or watching a Youtube video by spamming the frame skip shortcut.

If you want to make a scroll interactive experience (please don't), then at least do the courtesy of having 1 scroll gesture = 1 piece of information, don't have users scroll their wheels like 6 times just to wade through a path slowly. Or at the very least support the page up/down buttons!

Look at this video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gQ52fo5g03Q. I even accidentally skipped over some text sections because I was scrolling furiously to be able to go anywhere. Finally, I accidentally used the tilt key of my scroll wheel and it went to the previous page, and I had to start all over.
Appsmith was recommended last year.

https://github.com/appsmithorg/appsmith

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26657803#26658546 Ask HN: Best low-/no-code solution for simple web-based database frontends
I believe the code that controls that is all in startup.el (or startup.el.gz) in the Emacs distribution. You can find the documentation here:

https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/emacs/Fi...

I do know that ~/.emacs takes precedence over ~/.emacs.d/init.el. I've taken advantage of that in the past to keep all the public configuration that I share between machines in ~/.emacs.d/init.el, and then on my work machine I had a ~/.emacs that wraps a (load "~/.emacs.d/init") with some company-specific configuration.
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English language evolved as an impure, populist language with lots of foreign words, phrases and popular expressions. It could be argued that American English is taking that further, using any convenient phrase or form that is trendy; simplification and over-simplification is common. It might be said that American English repeatedly evolves towards commercial uses and shopping situations, specifically to replace elite language, ways of speaking and specialized words. Words from popular songs and phrases from advertising often get formal status over time.

This informal and intimate language construct might be an example of trendy oversimplification in American English.
In highly competitive markets the good apartments don't even make it to the websites that aggregate listings before someone takes them.

The ones that do are either very expensive or will have 20+ people showing up the next day (sometimes the same day) for a visit. It's crazy and while this article is very neat I'm not sure a bot that scrapes listing in batch is the answer.
> are you telling me that cities that are completely unaffordable and overrun with crime, homelessness, and drug abuse - along with mass exodus - are signs of a healthy economy?

The parts of that that are real long term issues, particular unaffordability problems (of which homelessness is an effect) absolutely are an effect of a strong aggregate economy that the pro-labor and redistributive policies haven't been enough to keep with; so is the “mass exodus“ (that is, the domestic out-migration mostly in lower-income segments that has for a long time been slightly above domestic in-migration that has had substantially higher average income, that only became net overall outmigration with recent federal policy and COVID-related curbs on international immigration.)

Unaffordability is a result of the enormous wealth of capitalists and elite labor that aggregate economic strength has produced driving up costs.

> I live here.

So do I.

> I'm fighting the good fight

In what way?
I don't know if you've been in California recently, but in the East Bay at least a large number of small businesses have closed down and formerly vibrant places now look like homeless encampments. I used to feel comfortable taking out my phone even after dark on BART, now I don't. The economy might still be chugging along but it's not chugging along on the back of the big cities with ultra liberal takes on crime/homelessness/drugs, it's mostly chugging along due to the suburbs like Newport Beach, Pleasanton, etc. Those places have substantially more conservative views on crime/homelessness/drugs (Newport Beach is actually a Republican district) and don't really tolerate the sort of behavior we see in SF.

Seriously, just check out downtown SF if you don't believe me. It feels dead. There are more beggars than tourists. I recently went to a nice restaurant near the MacArthur BART station and not only was it dead, the area around it felt like I was visiting the hood near USC.

> why is demand so high that houses are unaffordable

It is not that demand is so high but that supply is so low. When you have SFH zoning with massive set back requirements you can't fit many people into the available space.