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Ryan, take your pills.

On imgcat, those extensions to the xterm protocol[0] seem really nice. I've long thought that there needs to be a simple escape sequence for a horizontal divider that doesn't break upon resizing, they should do that next!

Also check out tiv[1] which is an alternative that works with any unicode terminal.

[0] https://www.iterm2.com/documentation-images.html

[1] https://github.com/stefanhaustein/TerminalImageViewer

Why is Discord always ignored in discussions of slack alternatives? It's literally a slack clone. Are you all just put off by the marketing or the fact that it's not exclusively used by 'professionals'?

Wait, what was your point here? That women actually are wonderful?

I was just about to ask HN to come up with some communication devices using only ancient technology.

Although your rubber duck system would require less manpower than a system of signal fires, it would be MUCH slower, and probably even slower than the chains of horse riders that delivered messages Pony Express-style across the Roman Empire. In an emergency, a message could be transferred over 100 miles a day.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cursus_publicus

This isn't even a strange adapter, I'd be surprised if this didn't exist. Why not get excited about cassette tape to 3.5mm adapters (very real and also very useful)?

If I were feeling pedantic I'd mention the universities of Oxford, St Andrews, Edinburgh, Glasgow, and Aberdeen... As well as a handful in Spain and Portugal ;)

This was the last straw that made me delete the app and my account entirely a few years ago.

Why not just disable notifications, or just uninstall the app without deleting your account? Facebook can still be of use to you without you being of use to it.

I've long used Facebook only for messaging and managing events because it's an effective and ubiquitous platform for both of these things.

I wish to share the world's foremost authority on chairs, Bryan Ropar

https://youtube.com/channel/UCAajKTeS-mCS3PccJUrrIzw

Yeah, I'm sure that kind of thing could be shared privately by email between the relevant parties

It's worth mentioning that nearly every board on 8chan IS moderated, by the board owners. Its exactly the same as the Reddit model, paid admins only enforce the few site wide rules and board owners are left to moderate their boards however they see fit. That might be heavy or light moderation, but if people are upset with the moderation style they just make another board.

{} would at least be consistent with python string substitution, but [] doesn't make much sense to me

Have you ever tried to seek treatment for depression? I and others I know have found it incredibly hard to get any sort of treatment other than the SSRI at the top of their list.

An alternative would be to throttle your network speed to like 2g with your dev tools, although this will obviously effect, say, YouTube more than HN

4chan partially solved this problem by using inside knowledge to identify 'newf*gs' and push them out. Triforce, fingerboxes, etc. The weirdly complex boardculture was self sustaining because new people couldn't even keep up with the conversation without lurking for a year or so.

And then of course, the newcomers started taking the abrasive and politically incorrect culture at face value.

I recently split a restaurant bill with 7 other early-twenty-somethings. I think 5 of us had Monzo (making things much easier). They have been immensely successful among the younger demographic. Monzo have been doing a lot of advertising on public transport in my city (can't speak about online ads because I don't see them).

I know one person who uses N26 but he's from Germany, where I believe it's a lot more popular.

Starling, Monzo, Revolut and N26 seem to basically be at feature parity with each other and their apps are incredibly similar.

I recently saw this mock up of a DE done in Unity[0]. Maybe not the best use case but interesting nonetheless.

I've long dreamt of putting together an intuitive CAD tool equivalent to SketchUp in Unity.i think it's probably doable.

[0] https://old.reddit.com/r/Unity3D/comments/ey5eta/i_made_an_o...

I can assure you the YouTube rabbit hole is still there. I am constantly recommended right wing, feminist b& type vids

You make a good point, although I think it's pretty clear that ReactOS cheated.

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/07/03/reactos_windows_res...

What about open sourcing, say, windows 95? That seems more achievable, and probably more helpful.

Perhaps hubristic is an unfair description.

As far as I know Sacks was treating patients with L-DOPA on a hunch, based on the surface similarities if their symptoms with Parkinson's. Positive results for L-DOPA with Parkinson's had only been published the year previously.

Doctors like Sacks were happy to really explore with their patients. You can see from his books just how many things he tries to get through to them, and into their heads.

Nowadays it seems that psychiatry treats depression etc. like a solved problem, and continue to use tools and medications that work marginally better than placebo. Promising experimental therapies like ketamine and psilocybin have been stuck in the pipeline for decades.

I know Sacks is an exceptional doctor, and that there were downsides to this 'see what sticks' approach, but I highly recommend his books if you want to get depressed about the state of modern medicine.

It seems like most of his grievances are with macOS and not his monitor.

For a long time I've been using tiling WMs (currently awesomeWM) and I could never go back. Yes there is a bit of a learning curve while you settle on a good configuration for you, but the productivity gains are worth it since you spend so much time interacting with your WM.

Obviously your options are more limited outside of Linux, but there is a WM tool in Microsoft's Powertoys repo which looks intriguing.

https://github.com/microsoft/PowerToys/blob/master/README.md

Doesn't mention the mysterious sleeping sickness epidemic of the early 20th century [0]. I learned of it through Oliver Sacks' writings. Survivors were afflicted by a permanent neurological change:

They would be conscious and aware – yet not fully awake; they would sit motionless and speechless all day in their chairs, totally lacking energy, impetus, initiative, motive, appetite, affect or desire; they registered what went on about them without active attention, and with profound indifference.

I can't help but be reminded of the current wave of chronic fatigue. I feel that modern doctors are too... hubristic? to find novel treatments for this like L-dopa.

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Encephalitis_lethargica

I was actually chatting to some friends about this the other day.

I personally would love to go skydiving but I wouldn't get sponsored for it because it isn't actually hard. Unlike running a marathon for instance, it doesn't require any preparation on my part or any superhuman effort, just a lot of cash.

I think most people who do feats of endurance for charity (marathons, cycling, mountaineering, etc) would probably like to do it anyway but it's fair to ask for sponsorship money because of the effort involved.

Bear in mind that you wouldn't do a jump for charity if you wanted to it anyway. Their usual clientele would probably be very fit and young, whereas charity jumpers would be more likely to be old or unfit.

So I'm sure their overall injury rates are lower

I personally have paid money for no bullshit mobile games, and I know there are at least a few million people like me. Why is that hard to believe?

Or we could pass the bong around and say that Dust is responsible.

I think this is a situation where Newton's Flaming Laser Sword comes into play. The whole point of a p-zombie as a thought experiment is that they are outwardly indistinguishable from normal conscious humans.

Have you read/seen Trainspotting? That's essentially the message

The number is meaningless to the public anyway. I have absolutely no frame of reference for how many animals live in a certain area. For all I know, 500m ants get killed by a period of fairly heavy rainfall.

It's more annoying when numbers are misrepresented that we DO have real world experience of, for instance sea level rise. Many people are under the impression that global warming will cause skyscrapers to become submerged, or the majority of the Earth's land area to disappear. All within a few decades.

People may argue that it's useful for people to believe this, but I don't want a society of useful idiots. I want a society of skeptics.

I assume that people have debated this before, but... Why exactly did the industrial revolution happen when it did? And what factors could have caused it to happen much earlier?

To clear up what hetspookjee said: no one is suggesting that nordvpn is routing traffic through its own users, and this would be trivial to detect. They may be using botnets along the lines of Hola though.