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You're forgetting that the 20$ are not a sustainable price point. Would your backburner personal app thingy be worth 200$?

Brian Acton may regret it, but I sure don't, seeing that he went on to bankroll Signal, arguably with money from the sale. Thanks for that!

SAP runs its own cloud/IaaS in addition to running its workloads on the hyperscalers. It's been doing that for years internally, and that SAP cloud is now being extended to be open for direct consumption by other companies:

https://learning.sap.com/learning-journeys/exploring-sap-con...

As a kid I actually used the theme on my first hand-me-down. As the regular theme. And I remember chosing it because it was fun! It made my computer more fun.

At the end of the day, usability shouldn't trump fun. If I find it's less usable, I can switch back.

Also, I'm working on AVS still, from time to time: https://github.com/grandchild/vis_avs/tree/dev

Once you know that _usually_ people use white cotton gloves when handling museum artifacts, I find it a bit distressing that the person halfway down the article is not wearing any while holding the priceless 700-year-old pages.

Funky! Round trip through Signal worked. But you can tell, because a regular single emoji gets "jumbo sized", these ones don't.

There is also `ts` from moreutils[0]. One of a few gems there. And moreutils is (probably) already in "your" distro.

[0] https://joeyh.name/code/moreutils/

I think you're misunderstanding what SGX is used for in the Signal context: It's only used server-side. The clients have no real use for it, because they don't have to attest the software they're running, only the keys they possess.

The server however is inherently untrusted, and the users of the server can benefit from some form of attestation of the software it's running. SGX tries to provide this, as the siblings in this thread explain.

It's a bit like the radio version of http://astronaut.io :)

If nothing else, do adopt f-strings. It really makes the code cleaner!

I think it's not answered in the slides. Instead they offer two hypotheses for the _characteristic_ of the observation of the declining length-of-day in the last 20 years, with all known effects removed such as the Metonic Cycle: Random walk & Linear.

They present the consequences of adopting one or the other prediction model, but only because one has to be adopted for practical decisions. Not because we necessarily know what's going on.

We can't know now which is the correct model. As always, only time and observation will tell.

As of a few weeks ago, you can hide your phone number on Signal, and it's even the default, even for existing accounts. You can even opt in to disable discovery by someone who already knows your number.[0]

To me Telegram is going after WhatsApp, not Signal.

They mention Signal by name in the referenced post.

[0] https://signal.org/blog/phone-number-privacy-usernames/

the interesting thing is, the device may have to be built but possibly never operated. the existence of this device would make all nuclear-bomb-holders scramble to disarm them. OTOH we'd also have to know where the bombs are pretty precisely, if i understand correctly. i'd put the bombs on a nuclear airport luggage belt and have them go around in circles. makes a moving target out of them.

further down the article:

if each stage were scaled up to a square meter, it would produce up to 5 liters of drinking water per hour

so 1m², times the number of layers.

This stunned me a bit. Which iphone-specific "connections" can’t you replace?

If the answer is messages, I can’t imagine they wouldn’t have Whatsapp or some other messenger installed. If they don’t, may I ask which country you’re from?

Or is it facetime? Most other messengers have similar features. Or maybe I don’t really know what facetime is capable of beyond video chat.

Sleep: Jerusalem

Look for "Sleep - Dopesmoker". It’s the re-release of the same thing.

maybe add https://asciiflow.com ?

`lstopo` is cool too for bigger servers

While I love the project linked here, "voice" messages allow you to do more than talk. I've sent messages where I'm singing, or also where I'm reading a book chapter. It'd be sad if those things weren't possible anymore.

I recently discovered a slight mitigation on the iPad re Youtube ads:

If you open a Youtube URL and the preview image looks like it's not the actual video but an ad -- wait. Wait for approximately the length of the ad, and the preview will switch to the actual video's preview (or the next ad, in which case, wait again) and you can then play the video.

(I think this is probably not intended behavior and I hope I'm not getting this "fixed" by posting this here :/)

/edit: I do this is on "Firefox" for iOS, though it probably shouldn't matter.

It's an especially hard habit to break for people who are "Team Interrupt", because we learn to cling to the speaker position in normal group conversations this way. People from "Team Wait" are probably much more natural in staying silent for a second (I wouldn't know for sure, but I think I'm observing this in others).

[1] Team Interrupt/Team Wait: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/LuXb6CZG4x7pDRBP8/wait-vs-in...

Great article, I immediately started to think back to vvvv[1], a great tool I used to use when I was still on Windows. It had many moments of "oh there’s a node for just that!" which allowed me to just go on with my initial plan instead of having to yak-shave my way into details until I could do what I came to do. Not that there wasn't a learning curve. But I created so many small explorative one-off interfaces and tools.

I have found nothing like it on Linux so far, instead I use Python, which is cool, but so, so different.

[1] https://betadocs.vvvv.org/learning/tutorials/hello-world.htm...

First: in mice.

The next thought that immediately comes to mind is, if it's an edible animal that's been available possibly for centuries, then probably people would have noticed something before. If _any_ well-known ingredient _substantially_ increased lifespan [edit: or keep you younger] by just eating it, we'd know about it for a while now.

True, but this was only a question in the grammatical sense. A discussion with only "questions" like these would be very poor indeed.

I don't know if this is true or not, but I beg you, don't post comments like this. It's a question, and you could've spent the extra minute of research to _actually find out_ and post that.

This way we are left with negative value: We don't know any better, and instead are mentally burdened with speculation, that we have to actively work to not muddle up with what we know later on.

You can do better!

Oh hey, I didn't see your reply until just now, thanks for the explanation and trying to resolve it! I understand the technical issue now.

I still don't understand the UX. Am I assuming correctly that it's core to the concept of Notion to always be editable and not have an edit/view flip switch? Because I never used Notion to write anything, I just read things other people wrote. And so it's arguably weird to interact with a webpage that as it turns out is secretly an editor only masquerading as a webpage. Sly!

While I absolutely enjoyed the historical research on such a miniscule mystery, I also liked how it took me two clicks from the front page of HN into an occult eBook about "khaos magick".

The things people write about...

More interesting than the code itself is the history at the very bottom of the README.

I find it telling that notion managed to break the core web concept of the hyperlink by implementing their own version of the <a> tag.

If I middle-click on a link to open it in a new tab, I paste-insert my clipboard content _into the link text_ instead (I'm on Linux). That's just horrible.