folknor

Could you please consider using something other than recaptcha?

There's been several alternatives mentioned on HN over the past year. A quick search through my browser history revealed https://altcha.org/open-source-captcha/ as the most recent link I'd been to.

Just to say I have no experience of any of the "alternative" captchas, I just hate the one you're using.

Also please get your app up and running fast so we can use it for our vacation in early September, haha :-) Thank you.

I upgraded my bed linens from standard cheapest cotton to satin.

It's such a huge difference I can't quite put it into words. It's completely different. I love it - some people might not though.

It feels cool and smooth. I sleep wearing only boxer briefs, and did previously as well.

One downside is you have to wash and dry them separately - but I already did that anyway because of the load.

How so? Just because a drug is illegal doesn't mean it can't improve your life. Conversely, just because a drug is legal doesn't mean it can't destroy your life.

Careful here - GP said Aarke Carbonator Pro, but luckymoose bottles do not fit the Pro. They fit the Carbonator 2 and 3.

EDIT: Actually they didn't say that, I presumed they did because the Pro model AFAIK is the only one that comes with glass bottles insted of PET. But still, make sure you check that these bottles work with your machine :-) They dont work with mine!

Man oh man, how come I didn't find this tool 6 months ago? I think you need more topics/tags on the github repo :-D

Extremely cool, I will definitely check out lnav when I get a chance. I've been battling with the big players for a few months now and their systems are just so overengineered and complex for my needs that it's silly.

I just need tail -f for 10-ish servers and desktops.

I haven't even read the project readme, but I presume lnav is exactly what I wanted. Excellent!

Interesting! I just wanted to let you know my perspective, which is probably quite unique.

I started using atom pre-1.0, a long, long time ago. I immediately jumped to vscode when I realised it existed.

The reason is a bit weird; it's the find-in-files/project (c-s-F/Ctrl+Shift+F) sidebar search/replace feature. Compared to the Atom (and from what I can see in the youtube talk, zed has the same "problem") which opens c-s-F results in the main window, vscode opens them in the sidebar and doesn't clutter the main view with it.

The reason this is powerful to me is that I code mostly in domain-specific, esoteric, private languages that have no API documentation, no stdlib or docs, and no online resources to learn from. So the only way to learn is by example, or talk to someone who knows. Learning by example is usually much faster than talking.

So what I do is any new project is just a subfolder in a workspace that contains all known code in the language and the way I find out how to do something is c-s-F.

When the results cover the main view, or even parts of it (which is also possible with atom), it's just way too intrusive. The sidebar file list is useless to me at this point - where the result comes from is irrelevant. So why not use that space?

Also of course the fact that vscodes cross-file search was blazingly fast was an upside as well (I believe they used ripgrep for that since the start?)

Another thing I want to mention is (and you highlight the keyword search in that youtube talk around 18:54) the power of the command palette search method that is available in vscode: first-letter-matching. I don't know what the proper name of it is, but essentially "ps" matches "pub struct" for example. Obviously it matches it with a lower score than something that starts with "ps", but it's very powerful for matching in the command palette.

Thanks for listening.

I have no questions either, I also just wanted to say thank you for the website. It's a bit weird, because I've never actually used it myself except to report my findings.

I've made 8-10 reports or something like that, because it feels like the right thing to do. Which is a compliment to your sites design.

I see you're planning to redo the front page. Why? I've never used the front page. I immediately search for the game or manually edit the URL from my browsers location bar (https://www.protondb.com/app/{id}) to insert the id of the game I want to report on.

After writing that, I do have a question; do you have objective, real data on what users want from the front page?

The only thing I want is a search box that responds to both game titles (with automagic for things like roman numerals and other game title oddities) and numeric IDs. The rest can be hidden.

That's not what conservative means in my country, and frankly without a prefix it's indecipherable. If someone at the pub here says "I'm a conservative", you can actually infer nothing from that statement.

In most cases, you'd probably be correct in thinking that the person would be more inclined to preserve the status quo than changing it too quickly, for fear of unforeseen consequences.

Also, a simple Google search and 30-second skim of Wikipedia throws a wrench in your assertion.

I think you mean "is certainly a slur." It's not "transphobic" - the word "tranny" is not irrationally afraid of transgendered people.

:-D

I just have to point out that your comment reads to me like you are crying wolf.

However, I'm not a US citizen so I don't follow the situation closely.

How is it relevant to CPAC that it was used in Charlottesville?

In my country, the party (and we have representatives from ~20 parties that are in nationally significant seats of power, 9 parties in the national assembly) that is considered the most "right-wing" actually supports _expanding_ the universal healthcare (EDIT: specifically, they want it to include dentistry, which we currently pay for except for in rare circumstances.)

It's not a centrist policy at all - the parties (I think there are two, one of which is probably the Libertarian party) that don't support it here don't hold _any_ elected seats on any level. Not even a single city council seat in a backwater town in the middle of nowhere.

So yeah, this is the norm. I'm not saying this to argue, I'm saying it to reinforce you (hopefully that's obvious) :-)

I've updated the gist so it now can be used without my luash fork, and can be used with ((luash+curl) || luasec || lua-curl). Just for fun :-)

https://imgur.com/a/S6XryYW screenshot of browser toolbox with the print preview DOM visible + site with @media print background color change. Note that you need to expand "More settings" in the print preview and enable "Print backgrounds" for that specific test to work.

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Tools/Browser_Toolb...

The Browser Toolbox is the normal DOM inspector, just extended to the whole user interface. If you open the print preview, then open the Browser Toolbox, you can inspect the preview and edit styles just like any other document.

Also, @media print {} works fine, I just tested it. But I'm not sure how that relates to the original question.

I forgot to mention: before running the script (as if anyone ever would), create a file called "notified" in the same folder with the content "85.0.0" without the quotes, or whatever recent firefox release version you want to build from. The script also needs to be able to write to this file.

Take a look at my reply to the OP

https://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-unified/tags https://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-unified/atom-tags https://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-unified/rss-tags

And here's my lua script that uses notify-send to notify me of new releases: https://gist.github.com/folknor/32f703b270c6ad72bc12d98feb2f... I modified it slightly before posting it here, but it's mostly useless unless you're me :-D Because when I write shell scripts (which I always do in lua), I always use my fork of luash (from my github), and I don't imagine anyone else has it. It's easy enough to rewrite the script to not require it, though. Also, the other obscure dependency it uses is lua2xml, which is notoriously unreliable, but I still use it in all my shell scripts that interact with XML.

The main problem in trying to help out is that your request is so broad.

- "HA" just means "high availability", which means whatever your marketing team wants it to mean. I don't use any provider of any external SaaS that doesn't guarantee 99% uptime - that's HA enough for me. But maybe you mean HA in the sense of "can handle a /. flood without interrupting service"? Or perhaps some other definition. Also, HA of what?

- Distributed databases. Distributed what? Distributed how? Distributed on what? Distributed through what? I mean, I'm not trying to be hostile here - it's a wide field, and there's probably dozens of resources available for each configuration of answers to my drill-down questions.

- VPC Peering, this is essentially a tunnel between subnets. But perhaps you're specifically asking about how to set up/use VPC peering in AWS or some other vendor-specific solution?

I don't even know where to begin with any of these questions.

I'm guessing that's why your question gets little traction and lacks replies.

But perhaps I'm wrong - perhaps all the things you listed have some sort of obvious industry standard that I'm not aware of, and anyone "in the know" reading your question will automatically fill in whatever context I'm missing. I'm not from the US, and don't work for any of the big tech companies, so it wouldn't surprise me.

Should be possible using the Browser Toolbox to inspect the entire interface? I just checked and the HTML is definitely in the inspector at least, but I'm not sure what your requirements are.

I didn't take it as disingenuous, I just found the sentence funny.

"Why FastMail also of ProtonMail?"

?! :-D

The way you phrased the myth isn't true for the entire population of England, for example. But it is somewhat true - depending on how one interprets what you wrote, and depending on geographical location and time period.

For example, it is true that everyone drank beer almost every day regardless of whether or not they had access to clean water - but not beer as we think of it today; it was probably less than 3% ABV, and had lots of varied additives that are now extremely rare in commercial beers (counting all breweries small and large.)

In places where clean water was easily available, beer was consumed for its calories (people worked all day) as well as quenching your thirst, and for its taste - but also because it wasn't cold. Your body spends lots of energy warming up cold water. Safe drinking water was often cold, because it came from underground wells or moving sources like what we'd call aqueducts.

Even infants were fed beer. You can look up the poem "Beer" by Charles Calverley, which contains the famous line "Guinness, Allsop, Bass! Names that should be on every infants tongue." He lived between 1800-1900.

Both, and more.

In my experience, the surface area where evaporation occurs has the most impact. If I know (and obviously I do every time, just measure it) the evaporation area size, that's what I use to dial in how much pre-boil wort I need the first few times I use a set of equipment.

But heat energy is the second most important factor. Sea level, salt/mineral levels, and other factors are - in my experience - not worth considering. But I've not tried to brew beer on the top of a mountain.

I've brewed over 300 batches of beer in vessels of various dimensions (including surface area and evaporation area), and with various amounts of heat energy, applied in various places in the vessel. Ranging from 2kW to 18kW, sometimes heat applied under the pot, sometimes distributed throughout for example 3 heating elements at various heights. 2kW for all from 15L to 60L vessels, 6-18kW from 25L to 120L, and 18kW (IIRC) for 500-800L.

When brewing beer, the boil usually lasts for 60-90 minutes, and the boil off rate is extremely important for hitting your target gravity and volume, and getting a consistent result if you're brewing the same recipe again.

What you do as a brewer is you test the equipment on the first 2-3 batches and then after that you can hit your target boil-off with 99% accuracy every time, or 100% in an enterprise-grade professional setup.

I've never been more than 5-10% off my estimated boil-off rate for the first batch, and I only account for surface area in that estimate. Even with 6kW for 25L.

He explicitly stated his point before the enumeration; your phrasing of the original comment is both technically inaccurate and reeks of your biases to such an extent as to sour further engagement with you.

You're technically inaccurate because 58-60% is not an "overwhelming majority".

I'm not a US citizen (or resident), and I find it almost unbelievable and absolutely unacceptable that you don't have some form of universal healthcare, for example. I probably agree with you politically way more than I disagree with you, but the other posters points against you still stand.

EDIT: I realise my first paragraph here might sound a bit harsh, that was not my intention - my intention was to make it explicitly known to you such that you might take it to heart and it might possibly be helpful to you to realise.

Essentially, it doesn't. Congress has no say in how States operate their policing - it only has a say in how the Federal policing operates. But this hasn't stopped congress from overstepping their constitutional powers for the past 6 decades at least. The same goes for the office of the President, where _at least_ the past 10 Presidents (just off the top of my head) have deliberately acted outside their given powers on several occasions. The Judiciary is no better, but their transgressions are more spread out among a much, much, much larger flock of people.

That said, whether individual States are allowed to use facial recognition is another question entirely. I don't think so, because it most likely violates constitutionally protected rights such as liberty. But IANAL.

Probably one justification congress gives for allowing themselves to pass legislation like this is that it attaches them as prerequisites for special funding mechanisms.

I don't think that makes it legal either, but - again - IANAL. I also haven't read the bill in question.

But who's going to stop them?

I believe the main problem in the US is the low voting turnout. You could say the low voting turnout is caused by centuries of bad politicians and lack of hope in the system, but then you're just arguing in circles (chicken/egg). The US elects people all the way down to the city level, and even Sheriffs, Judges, and AGs on the local/town/city level. There are elections each year in the US where turnout is below 1% of the eligible population, and it is never above 65% (even in Presidential elections, which is the one that affects you as an individual the least), if I remember correctly.

Also note the disrepancy between vote tallies and exit polling in many elections in the US is routinely above 8-16% (the margin of error is 4%), which likely means many elections in the US are rigged. And note the over 1000 _convictions_ of criminal election fraud in the US since just the 80s. Not alleged, but prosecuted and convicted.

Contrast this to elections in most European countries, where turnout is rarely below 60% at any level of government. At least in my country. I've not researched it thoroughly, but I have done a bit of reading on this some years ago.

In the end, voting is the only mechanism you have for keeping politicians honest. And elected representatives are supposed to keep the rest of the bureaucracy and government honest.

So if you don't vote, or keep voting for people who don't understand their own system of government - or worse, who don't care about the limitations put on them by the framework - then in the end, revolution is the only thing that can fix it. And you don't want revolution. You'll most likely be killed.

At the extreme, those are your options; vote cleverly and wisely, or die.

Many people choose a 3rd option; ignore politics and live their lives. What that does is it pushes death down the line to your children, or your childrens children, etc.

/rant :-D

While I agree that opensourcing would be unlikely to solve any big problems, you frankly can't know. Someone might come along, especially when we're talking in timespans of decades. Probably not. But maybe.

The argument you're using here about the game depending on MS APIs and such is simply not an argument against releasing, and you know that perfectly. It is in fact an argument for releasing it open source. There's no point at which it's ideal to release the code - it can always be cleaner, more optimized, saner, and so forth.

Here[1] is an example of someone using that argument and delaying the release by first a decade, and then saying it probably won't happen at all. It's just complete nonsense - if they were afraid to release their code because it was "ugly" or "not modern", again, that's not an argument.

But obviously I have little to say about your last paragraph, except to reiterate what someone else said and asking if the code could be released without those parts :-)

1: https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Lightwor...

This might sound a bit harsh and overly dramatic, but frankly you're better off not worrying about it and going the route that Super Mario speed running has taken.

They require, in the harshest of cases, (1) a full-length video of you actually playing the session, with input methods visible in frame, hosted on a publicly accessible site such as YT or Twitch, (2) game audio must be audible and undistorted, and (3) hardware input tracking software logs - I'm not sure what the application they use is called but you can easily find out. There might be other requirements I forget, you can probably google it easily.

With these things required, the community polices itself. Staying ahead of these things in code is completely wasted effort that could be spent on positive coding, which grows the community and therefore reinforces the self-policing.

These requirements might seem harsh and alienating, but I'd just say "get over it, if you want to compete, these are the rules."

Sure, you don't have to do any of those things, but you'll be seriously disadvantaged if you don't because the games are designed around these mechanics.

That's not the case, though. You might be somewhat disadvantaged, but not seriously.

On my first playthrough on normal difficulty I essentially only used the Super Shotgun. I can't remember using the Chainsaw for ammo, but I did use the BFG a handful of times.

The developers have even said that a goal of theirs was to make this "playstyle" (using only the SS) less viable in Doom Eternal, because it was too simple and powerful. It might have been on a NoClip podcast, I can't remember OTOH.

I've not played Eternal yet, I'm waiting for updated nvidia drivers to hit my distributions repositories.

Noone is mad that they're producing a mobile game. It's the way they presented it that was disappointing, and the way they handled feedback that makes people angry.

Can you imagine being at a Apple/Node/Linux/Microsoft conference and actually booing at one of their product announcements? What would it take for you to actually boo as opposed to just standing up and leaving that presentation, or simply start fiddling with your mobile/laptop and ignore the presentation?

I presented the same case to a friend of mine who has been driving a truck for 20 years, who each year pays to attend an international transport conference. He saw the severity of the situation instantly.

If you're unable to imagine yourself _ever_ booing literally at such a scenario, then remember that it was a minority of the audience at Blizzcon that booed. Probably not more than a handful of people. Out of hundreds, if not a thousand attendees.