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Private browsing tabs and windows are preserved across restarts. (This is optional and can be configured to forget them upon restart.)
I am totally stumped – how do you enable this on the Mac? I can’t find the option at all, and Google is no help.
I’ve used .ME in the past, but then I settled on just using a .COM. The cost difference was negligible and nobody ever queries a .COM – I had people thinking my .ME was a mistake.
Unless you desperately want COMMONNAME.TLD, I’d go with the .COM for the lack of headaches. They’re ~$20 a year, which doesn’t seem like much money for the simplicity.
That’s an interesting minor but significant difference. I’m from the UK, and both of my house keys (Yale, Abloy) have a distinct ‘right’ and ‘wrong’ orientation. Every house key I’ve ever had has been like this. The keys for my desk drawer and filing cabinets too.
Car keys don’t though, as far as I can remember.
Great choice. There’s so much to love in that book.
Is Pinboard actually closing? There’s nothing to indicate that on the site’s blog or its Twitter[2] (which had a post four days ago).
[1] https://blog.pinboard.in/blog/ [2]: https://x.com/Pinboard
It’s an interesting question. I don’t know if there’s any evidence of wolf domestication by Neanderthals. If they didn’t domesticate them, it would be interesting to try to work out why – maybe there’s a subtle difference in psychology between H. Sapiens and H. Neanderthalensis that enabled us to bridge that gap but not them?
Yes and no. Mostly no, I think.
In a lot of cases (most?) even plain-text email is rendered in proportional fonts which don’t work for ASCII art.
The default for all mobile email clients, Gmail, Outlook, and Apple Mail is now to render plain-text in proportional. Those who get it monospaced have chosen to do that. It’s also made worse by Outlook’s insistence on removing ‘extra’ linebreaks by default. AFAIK, there’s no way to switch off that behaviour except email-by-email, and you can’t know if your recipient has it or not.
I still dabble in ASCII art a bit, mostly in HTML comments and email headers. It’s kind of a difficult art-form to practice now, given that monospaced text is relatively rare.
Here’s are my pets in ASCII, who go out in the headers of my emails:
.-"-.
^...^ |\./| /|^ ^|\
(=^I^=) )) =(^,^)=)) {/(_O_)\}
/ " \ (( | | (( _/ ^ \_))
( |"| ))) (|||))) (/ /'\ \)
==m m== =m'm= ""' '""For anyone thinking that this is an insignificant saving of "only" 32kb, it's really important to remember that many of the site's users will be amongst the poorest in society. Many of them will be accessing it using the oldest, slowest devices; things far slower than the average HN reader's last few phones. Anything that can be done make the site work better for them is worth the effort.
Terence Eden has a really good blog post about just this topic: https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2021/01/the-unreasonable-effectiven...
That does say… something. I’m just not sure what.
That was my experience too, the few times I tried it. I haven't been back for just that reason. There's nothing that I can do on there that I can't do on the real internet and even the tiniest risk of CSAM material reaching my machine is not worth it.
It's sad but I think in most modern democracies that are relatively free, like the USA and EU, the primary use for these services is CSAM. There's no other reason to use it, except maybe paranoia or technical curiosity, and only the former will keep someone using it. The technically curious will move on quite quickly.
Interesting to see how stable the design of Hacker News has been. Here’s the earliest I c Ould find in the Wayback Machine – from 21st February, 2007: https://web.archive.org/web/20070221033032/http://news.ycomb...
Some changes – most notably the name – but you could easily mistake it for the current design at a glance.
In high school, my physics teacher told us about his time at Glasgow University where he’d worked on Scotland’s first laser. This would have been in the ’60s. He said it was fascinating, but they had no idea what to do with it then. He called it “a solution in search of a problem”.
You're not most people: most people will work in environments that use Windows PCs. I've worked a bunch of office jobs, and every one has used Windows.
cointrauma.com: Crowdsourced counselling for cryptocurrency-related upsets.
wettiness.com: Using machine learning to accurately rate the dampness of objects in photos.
I got chokeshottie.com immediately followed by fleshwrap.com...
And several reloads later hardpapercock.com.
Lots of them all over Scotland, too.
That's hyperbolic nonsense. There's a huge number of people, myself included, that continue to use an iPhone SE with a 4" screen without the issues you describe. A 4.7" screen is nearly 20% larger than that; it doesn't "destroy" gaming or internet browsing.
A lot of these same people Apple to release an updated version of the iPhone SE form-factor. Many of these people are on Hacker News; search for earlier threads about the iPhone SE being discontinued to see just how many.
* Sent from my iPhone SE
And best of all: if you don't mind a blank keycap, you can get a non-stepped keycap for the Ctrl key.[1]
While you're strictly and literally correct, I think you're missing the point. The vertical position of the Backspace/Delete key is still the same on US-ANSI and EU-ISO.
The advantage of the Unix layout is that it brings the Backspace/Delete key down a row, to be opposite the Tab key. That puts it within the main bank of keys, and within easier reach -- a definite benefit for such a frequently used key.
You're taking that a little too literally. I wish they published more human-focussed, long-form writing on a range of topics that is readable and relevant even years after it's first published. It seems to have veered quite heavily into fast-cycle political stuff in the last couple of years.
This is one of my favourite New Yorker articles. I wish they published more articles like this.
Suicidal thoughts are a really tough thing to deal with. I've struggled with them for my entire adult life -- more than 20 years now, and counting. They're also deeply personal, and it's hard to find a one-size-fits-all method of helping people through them.
In my case, I find them perversely soothing. Planning it out, and planning out the accompanying clean-up, is strangely calming for me; I suspect at least part of it is because it's applying a feeling of control and structure to otherwise chaotic, painful, or confusing situations. As I run through details in my head, the feelings that incited the thoughts begin to dimish.
I know, rationally, that it would be devastating for those left behind. I know, rationally, that no amount of preparation or planning will make it easier or less painful for them. I know, rationally, that suicide is not a solution for anything.
But it feels like all of the above. It feels like a release, like a perfect, lasting solution to pain and confusion and distress I've carried with me for so long.
I'm lucky that I've found some kind of equilibrium that's allowed me to work through them when they occur, relatively harmlessly. I know others who aren't so lucky, and who haven't found something that works for them. Some of thoem have died; others have survived, but aren't whole since.
It's something that's hard for us to talk about, and current society doesn't seem predisposed to talk about. Many of those suffering the most are faced by a media climate that's not helpful or supportive, and makes it hard for some of the most emotionally and psychologically vulnerable to seek help because of who they were born.
If you've ever had thoughts, please don't suffer in silence: try to find someone, anyone, to talk to. In the UK, we have the Samaritans[1] on 116123 (free to call). There's also Breathing Space Scotland[2] on 0800 83 85 87 (also free).
[1] https://www.samaritans.org/how-we-can-help/contact-samaritan...
In an ideal world, they would be allowed to do that. As it stands, that would potentially be a quick way for them to lose their job.
When I last worked in a supermarket (just over three years ago) taking home or giving away food that was destined for the bin was treated as theft. You could be fired for it if your manager felt that way inclined.
Several months before I started, several people at another store lost their jobs for just that. Instead of throwing out the bake-goods, they'd been giving them out in small amounts to people who were struggling.
Sometimes it was a handful of bread-rolls, other times it would be croissants or muffins. There was no loss to the company because the food had been written off anyway. Still -- it was treated as theft, and they were fired. The company would prefer the food was wasted than it feed people.
You're refuting his view as rosy, but positing that the real answer was horror. It's almost certainly something in between the two.
Personally, I think that the most likely explanation is that most mixing came through adoption of fertile women into the human tribes. Males of other tribes would probably not have been accepted so readily, and likely driven off or killed, but fertile females would have been more easily integrated. From there, you naturally get a mix of the two.
The relative percentages of Neanderthal and Sapien DNA in modern humans would indicate that Sapiens outcompeted the Neanderthals and relatively few interbred with us.
They're not uncontacted, but if you're interested in very different cultures, the Pirahã are absolutely fascinating. There's a brilliant article in the New Yorker about them: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2007/04/16/the-interprete...
Dan Everett, the subject of the New Yorker's article, wrote a book about his experiences with the Pirahã called Don't Sleep, There Are Snakes which is excellent. It's one of my absolute favourite books ever.
I read it recently and have mixed feelings about it. I'd recommend it to anyone, especially if you haven't read much on the topic and want an overview.
I think it does an excellent job of ancient, pre-historical humans -- the various branches of Homo and how they interrelate. He makes it clear that 'human' and 'Homo Sapien' and not absolute synonyms: Homo Sapiens are one kind of humans, the last surviving, but humans encompass all of the Homo genus that came before too. I liked that distinction and it changed the way I thought about humanity as a whole.
I think it gets significantly weaker once it moves past the pre-historical hunter-gatherer stage. Part of that is that the staggering complexity and variety of human civilisation post-agriculture means he has to condense, but I also feel like his real interest lies in pre-agricultural humans of all kinds.
Children of Time is excellent, and does a really good job of tracking the evolution and eventual ascension of the Portiid spiders. Tchaikovsky creates a really convincing civilisation based on the limits of the planet and the spiders: a technological civilisation without major metal use and with nearly perfect information transfer between generations.
The sequel Children of Ruin was a disappointment. It came out recently and I bought it straight away. I'm fascinated by octopuses, but I felt their civilisation was given short shrift to make way for the rest of the story he wanted to tell
I have several of them, and love each of them. My phone has far more capacity, and could stream effectively unlimited music from Spotify, but there's something unique and special about the Buddha Machine.
I still primarily use an iPhone SE, but every couple of months I'll "disconnect" by using a dumbphone for a week or two at a time. I use the Nokia 106: https://www.nokia.com/phones/en_int/nokia-106/
I like it a lot. It's cheap, simple, and has great battery life; I charge it perhaps once during the week or so I'm using it. I paid £18 for mine unlocked.
My favourite antifeature is that it has no camera. Most dumbphones have a camera in them that's so poor it's not worth having. This one doesn't bother with one at all, which means there's no camera option cluttering up the menus.
You're taking a bad-faith reading of OP's comments: they're not talking about the self-identified incels; they're talking about the majority of single men who are single involuntarily. The latter is the group of which the former are a part. They're not the same thing, and conflating them is disingenuous.
OP raises a valid point about the increasing numbers of single men and the possible long-term health and societal effects of having (say) 20% of men single for their entire 20s. A certain toxic percentage will become incels -- and probably always would have become something like that -- but the remaining 95% are a largely new phenomenon and one I don't think is being taken seriously. We're into new territory here and we'll only find out the results in 10 or 20 years time.
FWIW: I'm not an incel. I've been happily married for five years.