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midichloreans didn't exist in star wars cannon until 2007 in a 'making of' book - star wars was conceived without midichloreans and were retconned in later.

Lucas in 1981 said being a jedi was like doing yoga - anyone can do it, but only people who work at it get good. see the citation here:

https://starwars.fandom.com/wiki/Midi-chlorian#cite_note-The...

The story of star wars is a fantasy story complete with magic. You can shift the entire thing to ancient china and adjust all the set pieces for the time and it would still work.

Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep started as speculative fiction and is still speculative fiction after its transition to the screen.
That's a good point. When I used to wear an old Casio digital watch, I would often take it off my wrist if I was going to do any serious timing with the stopwatch.

Of course if you're going to take it off your wrist for any serious viewing, they could have just put a bigger LCD on the tuner device itself, since you have to carry that anyway.

But that wouldn't have the "wow" factor of a TV watch!
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pigeonhole_principle
> potentially to help one's parents after that

Tangential discussion: I have two teenaged kids, both my parents are still alive and healthy enough to look after themselves and go on overseas holidays every couple of years (pending COVID), and both of my grandmothers are still alive although neither able to look after themselves. We utilise both my parents and my wife's parents to help with school drop-offs / pickups and appointments every now and then, plus my parents have to also look after their respective mothers, including dealing with their financials and moving "homes" and what to do with their belongings etc.

My mother, bless, complains about having to look after their mother's. This is a little coarse, but also understandable in that they're in their mid-70's and struggle enough with their own health nevermind the power of attorney kinds of issues required of looking after their elderly parents. Both my parents are getting noticeably older, decreasingly able to deal with their own issues.

With an aging population, retirement isn't what it used to be. Retirement is ferrying grandkids and juggling not-yet-deceased estates, whilst having an increasingly full calendar of appointments with doctors and specialists to keep your own machine running.

There's a potential scenario that could play out in only a few years where I could be responsible for both my parents and my grandmothers' welfare at a time my children will be in late high-school.

I'm not being woe-is-me, I'm trying to explain what 'normal' may already look like for Gen X-ish, and how different it may be from expectations.
I do have public repos. Perhaps that setting there is about sending snippets from the editor? Unsure. But I definitely don’t see that.
Why not just use multi processing?
It's hard to compete when the major tech companies are more interested in partisan politics and social justice warfare than doing what they're in business to do.
And time. All those things take time.

Also, ppl tend to think about the cost of their home as the closing cost. That's false. It's the total cost of the mortgage. That's what you pay. That's what it costs.

Now, factor in opportunity cost and the delta widens even further.

That said, there's certainly something to be said for the stability and certainty of ownership*, but the idea that owning financial beats renting is a misrepresentation of owning.

* See Matt Desmond's "Evicted" for more insights (and empathy).

https://www.evictedbook.com/
There’s no reason the face has to be on the outside of the arm.

I remember when we had the databank watches (in the 80s), we’d wear them on the inside of our wrists since they were easier to use. The arm is in a position not much different from holding a smartphone with one hand.
Also, no memory safety...
Ah, now that makes sense! I was picturing actually watching a full TV show, but what you describe is very practical.
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I like this post. It rings a bell with me when you wrote: <<But it's just so much easier to fall into the couch and watch Netflix or grab the controller.>>

I cannot put a finger on it, but what is the difference between (a) reading a newspaper, magazine, book (fiction or non-fiction) and (b) playing video games or streaming films / TV shows? I cannot put a finger on it, but (a) reading activates some part of my brain that (b) streaming does not. Why? I'm not sure. I never read any research about it. One thing I can say: Watching documentaries is different than other stuff. Again: Not sure why. It might only be me and my brain that feels this way.

Also, this part: <<I suddenly felt more excitement about programming projects I had started but not finished, reading books, cello practice, little projects around my house and garden.>> Again, I cannot put a finger on it, but what really is the difference between these activities and playing video games or streaming films / TV shows? On the surface, not much, but the emotional satisfaction is so different when finishing a cello piece or novel versus a streamed season of a TV show.
I'd hate to be the one to have to tell the minority picked last that their civil rights isn't scheduled until 2050.
Reminds me slightly of this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JT_saXN3KrM
I wouldn't say National Socialism was purely left. It was economically extremely left-leaning and most of their social policies were extremely right-leaning. (Though, racism knows no political bounds... Stalin also practiced genocidal policies.)

It's true that Hitler thought the US's free market economy was a Jewish ideal, and he thought the economic free market incentives (in the form of huge government contracts) would only benefit Jews without efficiently producing war material. The Nazis did have a form of command economy as a result, which turned out to not be as efficient.
Yes, the Arabs keep some, Europeans keep others. That’s why I use the word “much” in the beginning of my statement.
The addition of a TOML parser to the standard library is really welcome. I've always wanted to use TOML in my Python scripts but having to import an external library made me use JSON instead, which was awkward due to the lack of comments.
It does. The author says "In fact, if the CPU is consistently busy for a normal user, it’s often a misconfiguration, bug, or malware." This is true for the personal computers he is discussing, but is not true for servers or mainframes. A lot of OS research back in the 70s was about how to maximize processor usage when handling many different jobs.
kinda feel like the title is earned. Linux (to my knowledge) is the most used operating system in the world and runs on all of the top 500 fastest super computers.
You can't assume that any code point is a character. This is because of combining marks.

If you have a string with an ASCII 'A' codepoint followed by U+0328 codepoint, then it's a two-codepoint 'Ą' character. The first code point wasn't a character itself, but a fragment of a different one.

Unicode is inherently a variable-width encoding, and later codepoints can change meaning of earlier ones.
What do you think is a larger software project? Could argue for SQLite being deployed more widely. But it's hardly even 1% of the overall code surface of the Linux kernel.
I keep hearing this on HN but it never seems to happen to me with Amazon, and a buy a lot from Amazon...
Someone is aiming to claim disability via carpel tunnel of every finger.
These frogs are too smol to even interest sneks. Another survival technique?
Ask HN: What are the possibilities if quantum computing delivers?
what, in your opinion, are some positive and negative things that might happen?
This isn't true.

Smartwatches have had full HD h.264 and 720p h.265 hardware decode since at least 2014.

https://www.slideshare.net/jjwu6266/qualcomm-snapdragon-400b...
For those who are interested in the story: Lewis Padgett was a pseudonym for Henry Kuttner [1] and his wife. The short story is available in an anthology under that name, "The Last Mimsy", and a 2007 film was made under that title [3].

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lewis_Padgett

[2] - https://www.amazon.com/Last-Mimzy-Stories-Henry-Kuttner/dp/0...

[3] - https://www.justwatch.com/us/movie/the-last-mimzy
I selected "Allow" on suggestions matching public code. I feel like I'm on the FBI watchlist now.
or just pay to avoid the ads?
Obviously not a mind blowing suggestion and cinemaphiles will recoil at the idea but have you tried watching it at 1.5 speed?

I watch some stuff like this because while the Directors vision might require 3 breaths to get the point across I am happy to accept the premise being suggested in 3 seconds. Cinema is a communication medium, not a recreation or simulation of events.
https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20101203-00/?p=12...
rather than arbitrary zoning rules and an implicit pass for such obvious and wanton pollution, those businesses should be regulated and heavily punished (too bad the supreme court made things like this harder not easier recently). that's a literal externality. it's the kind of thing where the corporate veil should be pierced mercilessly, and the executives and owners all held personally culpable.

then it wouldn't matter who lived next door.
All but one of my monitors are or were sold by Apple. So they were tested and are usb c and need no dongles. The other is a low dpi monitor with no special features besides hdr.

The three apple approved monitors generally work well, requiring a reboot sometimes only if I unplug them.

The other one I constantly have to fix the settings for.

It sucks. I wish apple employees had multiple displays.
I find your comment so funny, and it is right in a lot of regards.

A very long time ago I was an avid slashdot reader (I had a 5 digit account long lost). I briefly went to Digh fir bit, and remember very early on visiting this "reddit" thing that was the new nerd thing.

I remember loading the page, browsing a bit and moving on because of the ugly unusable UI that it had (not even sure if it has subs at that time).

Fast forward all these years later, and I'm active on reddit but exclusively use the old.reddit version. The new one feels overloaded with stuff and my brain cant handle it.

As you very well say, it's mostly a matter of our brains getting used to it. Now I go to slashdot And their comments system seems so broken. When at the time it was pretty good.

The one thing I miss is the ability to quickly post as AnonymousCoward, instead of the throwaway account bullshit
This is a misquotation. The entire quotation from Open Society is:

> But we should claim the right to suppress them if necessary even by force; for it may easily turn out that they are not prepared to meet us on the level of rational argument, but begin by denouncing all argument; they may forbid their followers to listen to rational argument, because it is deceptive, and teach them to answer arguments by the use of their fists or pistols. We should therefore claim, in the name of tolerance, the right not to tolerate the intolerant.

Note that Popper is not claiming that "fists or pistols" are a necessary condition for not tolerating intolerance: they're a final stage of said intolerance. Popper explicitly says that we might reserve the right to preempt intolerance before it reaches the point of its followers resorting to violence.
Mine finally died so I'm going to have to get a new one, but I've always felt like the 16in have never been nearly what I wanted compared to the 17in. From the discrete GPU to the ports offered to the weight it is all just not quite what I want compared to the 17in.
Oh, I was thinking of Chris Rock too, but his stand up album "Roll with the New", and his spiel about commitment vs "new women" (not the word he uses, obvs). https://youtu.be/VJpKAk4E5_k?t=130
> This isn’t usually true. The burden of proof is really high in a criminal case, so you can fail to get a conviction even when there is fairly good evidence of guilt.

Using just the example of rape, there is rarely "fairly good evidence" because it's an event that typically happens in private. If the victim is unwilling or afraid to immediately be examined by (potentially abusive) police, then there is no contemporaneous evidence of the event. It becomes "he-said, she-said" right away.

Other types of assault may happen with eye witnesses, but even then, if your eye witnesses can't get you convicted of a crime, then they're probably not going to help much in a civil suit.

> the person claiming defamation would have to prove the person was lying

This is true in the US and most countries, but the problem is that the suit itself can be expensive and painful enough that the victim just deletes the blog post (or disavows it) to make it the suit go away. They may do this even though they'd likely win the case eventually.

> but if I write up a blog post about my experience being assaulted, does that mean I can’t have my blog indexed by Google? I don’t have the right to promote my story and get as many people to read it as possible?

No, no one has "the right" to have their website indexed by Google. Google is a private, for-profit business, not a public utility. People should have the right to speak (and in the US they do), but they don't/shouldn't have the right to be published and promoted by private companies.

Taken to its logical extreme, if Google were allowed or forced to index everything on the web, they would also have to include (and promote) sites that they may find morally repugnant, which is a violation of their First Amendment rights.
I made one (running on catcher.mx.ax) available here https://github.com/jawr/catcher not much in the way of documentation I’m afraid :(
Working as a life guard taught you about skill building (life guards are usually well-trained / licensed) and responsibility (show up to work on-time and consistently; care for swimmers). Even if you found life guarding boring, you would still gain both of those experiences. If you stayed home and played video games instead, the result would be different. (I hesitate to use the term "less" here... else I would get a HN pile-on!)

What about people who read a lot in their childhood / teen years. Their minds seem to be wired differently than those who play video games. (Probably mistaken cause and effect on my part...)
Sidney Lumet's film "Network" (1976) explores the idea of "hyperreality" in an accessible way, where people model their lives in reaction to relationships shown on television.

>"I think this is odd, at least if over done, as if the constructed media representation is somehow evidence of anything true"

Constructed media representations, like clips of movies, can still be quite useful for introducing an idea where the evidence will be presented later on. For example, some research psychologists use clips from Ratatouille to introduce concepts about memory.

However, I agree that it's unfortunate that people sometimes do uncritically use fictional depictions as evidence of arguments for human nature. For example, Lord of the Flies depicted a highly pessimistic view of how shipwrecked boys would behave over time, and people have formed a cynical worldview from the story. A real-life case of shipwrecked boys in 1965, however, ended with cooperation: https://www.theguardian.com/books/2020/may/09/the-real-lord-...
I wonder if this trend will ever end. Governments don't seem to care, most gamers don't seem to care.
Dogs and cows cannot ask in their own words to be represented by a lawyer, to file a lawsuit.

Or claim to be one or another type of person that we must affirm.

I don't know how it might apply, but inanimate objects can be charged in the case of civil forfeiture, can't they?
Reminder that even absolute expert C programmers can get better performance from completely naive Rust than optimised C: [1].

[1]: http://dtrace.org/blogs/bmc/2018/09/28/the-relative-performa...
Did you miss the "every time" qualifier? Everyone will have some core libraries, but most work will be very limited in scope. Outside of large companies you can see this effect in nixpkgs for example. See how few entries have a rebuild count larger than 10 https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pulls?q=is%3Apr+is%3Aclosed
Nope, it actually challenges everything you thought you knew about everything.

Want to hang out with your friends? Good luck on agreeing on a place to rent that's in budget for all of you if you have £1m+ in the bank.

Want to treat your wife? Good luck she is already accustomed to nice meals. It's unlikely you'll surprise her with something special.

Kids birthday? Good fucking luck. He's got the latest of everything.

And so it goes...
Wikipedia page of him for the lazy: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_L._Brusatte

There are no questions yet. Do you have a few fake questions just in case? They may help to encourage people to ask.
Wait, what gave us Linux? An unwelcoming culture of mockery and derision?!

If so I'd argue Linux succeeded in spite of Linus's prickly personality. Certainly not because of it.
Github is Microsoft. Microsoft has called your work cancer and spent several decades trying to undermine and destroy it. Doesn't it bother you that days after they start directly profiting off your work through copilot that they attempt to buy some positive PR?

If Microsoft didn't fight FOSS so aggressively, perhaps the world would support it more. Instead, Microsoft alone will profit, and they tossed a couple people a one time tiny sum.

So yes, well done Github, you've further divided a community.
meh. I never put db commands in it. i just used it for testing out crystal code ideas. the rerun everything from the beginning wasn't really a problem.
I don't like them myself, but some people think it helps the edges of windows and buttons stand out better.
The "mirror test" isn't a bad place to start, and there are definitely animals that pass it that aren't human.
But trying convincing dog-lovers that their dogs aren't sentient...
(Personally, I'm not sure - but I do suspect they at least have some subjective experience of the world, they "feel" emotions, and are aware of the boundary between themselves and the rest of the world. Apparently they've even tried to measure sentience in dogs via MRI scans etc., and supposedly couldn't distinguish them from humans).
Yes, this issue with multi-item listings is so prominent and long-standing that I simply must assume it is a deliberate anti-user decision by ebay, though I can't think of a good reason why. I just know that if they wanted to fix it they could have by now.

All it would take is making "quantity" a core part of the data model for each listing, enabling search by quantity and sorting by price-per-unit.
Reminds me of milk bars in Poland. I imagine the Automat was similar:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bar_mleczny

Very delicious and cheap. Entire place is like a cafeteria.
The last two straws that sent me to Linux on the desktop were Windows Defender's CPU usage and random, long-lasting periods of unexplained 100% disk usage.

The transition required a number of compromises and personal workflow re-engineering, but once that hump is overcome it's been smooth sailing. Only ever have to re-visit my dual-boot setup in Windows for the occasional android unlock tool.
Oh come on. How serious was "the fight" to begin with. The West has been using smoke & mirrors for too long now. That's not Putin's fault.

Editoral: It's marginal (so called) journalism like this that caused me to lose faith in the NNYT.
In 2007 a conservative SCOTUS majority upheld a federal ban on partial-birth abortion [0]. Thomas wrote a concurring opinion where he explicitly glossed over whether congress actually had that authority under the commerce clause. Normally he jumps at any chance to say congress has exceeded their authority under that clause. I wouldn't find it hard to believe if this court upholds a more general federal abortion ban

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gonzales_v._Carhart#Concurrenc...
Obligatory “but can it run Linux” post
If you're an emacs user and you code in emacs, magit works really well with your workflow.
>Nope. If your relative needs a kidney you aren’t forced by law to donate it. Yet you require pregnant people to donate their bodies. Why

A kidney is not the basic needs that you are obligated to provide. The basic needs that one is obligated to provide are food, water, and shelter.

Donating a kidney goes above and beyond the basic needs. It may be a good thing to do though, but it is above and beyond your obligations.

The purpose of your kidney is to support your own body. The purpose of a uterus is to support the baby.

I would also say that parents have a stronger obligation to their children than strangers or relatives that are further than your children.

Another thing to keep in mind is donating a kidney is permanent. You don't get your kidney back.

>You cannot. There are no valid arguments against availability of abortion other than religious ones.

Fundamentally untrue. A good resource to learn about this is Secular Prolife. [1]

>The ones pretending to be are either based on logical fallacies, or are aimed at derailing the discussion - like your own attempt couple of comments above.

Your comment of comparing a kidney and a uterus is derailing the conversion.

Your comments about religion is derailing the topic. Prochoicers are always the first to being religion into the abortion conversation.

>Once again: supporting abortion ban is no different from antivax.

Funny how many of the people who accuse others of being antivax are pro vaccine mandate, which could easily be considered a violation of bodily autonomy.

Bringing antivax into the conversation is yet another derailing attempt by you.

> We just pretend it isn’t because of political correctness - because this particular fringe theory is supported by major religion.

Like I said above. You are just wrong. There are millions of nonreligious prolifers. Just because you are ignorant of that fact doesn't mean you are correct.

I assume you didn't mean to say just because this issue is "supported" by religions that makes it a religious issue. If so, then are you an advocate of removing murder, theft, rape, etc laws? Religions do support those after all.

[1] https://secularprolife.org/