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I assumed it was just being used as additional evidence that you shouldn't tie any frustration with this post/its format to original original author.

I just assume I'm overly familiar with it as someone who was a natural test-taker. (Early 30s)

Heck it might've been just a part of development and not a part of the production/user-facing features. I know my former employer lists everything that was ever in our process "just in case".

Folks expecting a simple lifestyle tweak be warned, the original training is by Wim Hof and in addition to the (fairly intense) breathing exercises involves lying in snow for 30min and hiking a snowy mountain, both partially naked.

While participants replaced the cold exposure element with a cold shower after they went home from the training, the techniques still took 2-3 hours per day. Also on the day of the data collection, they performed the techniques right before being exposed to E coli, so they had "advance warning" as it were.

Still very cool to see the immune system changes observed, since that's rare, but definitely requires a commitment to produce it in its current format.

Yeah I try to avoid "midwest" at all, except when being vague is a goal. The distinction between "Great Lakes" & "Great Plains" seems quite useful both geographically and culturally and "midwest" seems to just splotch right over that boundary.

I agree with your western boundary, though I'd probably just call it "The Rockies" myself, and let Nevadans and Utahns get absorbed either into "West Coast" or "Southwest" as they personally desire.

This system does create some problems for e.g. Missouri & Arkansas, which are in the confluence of 3-4 other regions, and you have to accept that Pennsylvania and New York get cut in half, but it's what my brain has settled on.

Samsung calls it "Magnetic Secure Transmission" as I recall. I wish they would advertise it more because it was honestly the greatest feature on that phone in my eyes, but everyone assumes it's exactly the same as Apple Pay. Retailers were shocked every time I used it (though in some cases they refused to even let me try).

I'm personally glad to be off Samsung products again now, but I was really disappointed when my spouse switched to a model without MST.

Up next: DuPont acquires Discord, ExxonMobil acquires Bumble, McKesson acquires Niantic/Pokemon Go...

I don't understand the hate for TikTok I frequently see on HN. Is it just ordinary ageism/curmudgeonliness?

I'm not in its core audience myself, but it seems to me to be a very smartly put together app, both in its core features (practically the only video remixing/editing app for mobile that retains tolerable levels of both accessibility and expressiveness) and in its platform (particularly the recommendation engine which seems to drive pretty solid engagement).

Ironically, something has autosubstituted an em dash "—" for your original double hyphens...

There doesn't seem to be an equivalent phenomena with language.

No, there are a number of disorders & brain injuries that specifically affect language. The general term you're looking for is "aphasia".

They include a wide variety of symptoms across the language system, from phonology to word retrieval to sentence construction.

The camera is engineered so that it can’t activate without the camera indicator light also turning on. This is how you can tell if your camera is on.

Is this verifiably true? I trust Apple on security matters more than the average laptop maker, but the fact that so many of these indicator lights are software-controlled erodes my trust in basically all of them.

I think kingkawn is using a less technical meaning that I hear often... "having no self-awareness" ≅ not considering the effects of one's actions.

Certainly I think that's what my parents were implying when they accused me of it. At least I doubt they were worried I was a p-zombie.

Dev tools for Windows and iOS/ MacOs are fairly straight forward

Are they? It's probably been a decade since I touched a native GUI (and I was without a mentor and working on already-old software) so I legitimately don't know. Using something like Visual Studio's form builder was fine enough, but it was not a very expressive toolset as I recall.

Web you can get started "instantly". Your browser covers most of the tooling you need and you can tweak any live site.

I don't like that that's how it is. From an abstract perspective I'd rather not be working on web because it seems like we're trying to make a better car by building a bicycle inside of it. But the low bar for entry is hard to beat.

The conversion between RGB and CIELAB is almost meaningless (according to wikipedia) or perhaps there is a still a way to do that and helpful?

As I understand it, that line is really talking about coming up with formal conversions. That is, some color spaces are effectively not well-enough defined (neither in relation to reality nor to each other) to be scientifically useful.

It's like how you might say converting from length in pixels to centimeters is "meaningless" because there isn't truly a consistent physical relationship between them, but people still get plenty of use out of making such a conversion every day.

Interesting. Perhaps this information is not available with the images? or are they.

It's rare for images to use these colorspaces or gamuts. They are complex and cumbersome, and RGB makes for a damn good "pipe wrench" of bluntness and utility. Plus very few developers are aware of how deep color science is, and assume RGB is (pretty close to) the ground truth.

Yeah and debugging it usually requires me to examine my least favorite and most fragile parts of my build tools.

I think my employer's gulp config has had source maps broken for 2 years now, but I'm probably the only person who would do anything about it...

This does suggest to me that browser websocket requests against localhost should at least:

1) return the same error message for all failures (unless some opt-in / launch flag is set)

2) fiddle with the timing slightly to make timing attacks less useful? (how long is a localhost TLS connection? 100ms? I think devs can wait a handful of frames for their failure response.)

I have no idea how many legitimate apps are leveraging some kind of localhost connection -- it sounds like an unusual use case but I can certainly imagine some enterprise app that ties into desktop services or programs by that route.

EDIT: Of course banning them outright or requiring specific user whitelisting of domains would work as well. Just trying to get away with the smallest change.

Not that I know of, but I've always thought there was a cool project opportunity for a Mario Party-esque platform of minigames with room-code join-by-phone controllers.

Sony has the "PlayLink" platform on PS4 but it didn't seem to get much headway. The only game I saw any awareness of in my circles was "That's You". Looked neat enough but mostly drew Jackbox comparisons.

Nice demo. I was curious how you were going to avoid collision -- my assumption was since the pattern wasn't a "single cycle" loop (whose total length presumably depends on the LCM of the width and height) that the animation setting would either need to be very complicated or changed periodically, but you cleverly sidestepped the whole problem by applying X and Y translations to different wrappers so they can each have their own fixed period: smart!

Or alternatively, write it as a CSS animation and modify it on collision.

Or that they don't run real Android but some lagging downstream vendor-specific bloatware...

Does this mean I'll soon be setting up an dummy "cookie maker" endpoint on my server that turns XHR body data into HTTPS cookie data as a workaround? :/

I don't know what the situation is like in Norway, but I 100% don't blame MDs in the US for trying to find their own treatments, because they're generally being left high and dry by the extreme rationing of the PPE. Doctors themselves have taken to personally reaching out to the communities near me so that they can find masks.

Obviously I don't want anyone with lupus / malaria / etc to be adversely affected, but I think the people being forced to work the front lines do deserve to be somehow prioritized just from a "how do we keep the system operating efficiently" standpoint, and it doesn't really seem like the people who could manage supplies to make sure both parties needs are balanced, e.g. hospital administrations and regional governments, are going to take much responsibility for that.

The BookBaby links there were timing out for me, but I found it at https://store.bookbaby.com/book/apocalypse-the-memoir

To be clear, I didn't really mean "spam proper", moreso the flea market / carnival barker language, eg "REAL 100% HD VIDEO BRAND-NEW CANON REBEL 5T QUICK SHIP WITH ORIGINAL LENS KIT", that often obstruct the info I'm actually searching for.

I'm sure folks who use the platform consistently either know how to avoid that content or are much more efficient at sifting through it (or my anecdata of its frequency is way off!). I agree in my limited experience there isn't much in the way of "true spam" itself.

Being "born from spam" really explains a lot about how most eBay sellers communicate to this day.

That's my foil-free theory; those are two very large releases! Regardless of sales, not being able to fulfill all the customer preorders would probably tank their remaining brand confidence irrevocably.

Thanks -- I scanned the announcement hard for any hints. My first thought was comparing to the Magic Mouse and imagined the keys were all touch-sensitive or something insane like that...

Not sure the UI is working the same for me -- dragging anywhere along the time axis, including the first death and hospitalization peak waypoints, scales the amount of time shown on the graph. It doesn't appear to affect the model.

It's not conceptually that different from YUV[1], the color spaces used by PAL television and most JPEG images. I can't speak to the Jaguar, but both of those decisions were motivated by the desire to completely separate the luminance/brightness dimension from the 2 color dimensions. For PAL this was to maintain compatibility with black and white televisions during the slow adoption of color, for JPEG it's a compression trick since the chroma channels can be downscaled more than the grayscale without humans noticing as readily.

In any case I'd argue the ability to reason about this space is a bit more natural than RGB (and a bit less than HSV) too.

But I'm sure there were some other specific requirements they were trying to satisfy...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/YUV

It reminded me precisely of the situation in the US with the tax prep and filing process. A service the government could provide for free (which, by many estimates, would cost them less to do than maintaining the current system) but is instead propped up by an industry that has no reason to exist and makes life worse for most individuals.