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The owner of Twitter/X is about to be in the president’s cabinet. And the owner of Meta is clearly cozying up to the incoming administration with their new “anti-woke” policies.

I’d be interested to know how you ate glass without realizing it until it was too late.

If you like this sort of thing, I highly recommend checking out C. Allen’s work. The visuals and music are both really impressive, in my opinion the best out there: https://youtu.be/OP7sTQQ0Blw

I’ve had a lot of trouble with their support recently as well. A domain I was trying to renew just…wouldn’t. The ticket I opened went unanswered for nearly a month. What finally got them to look at it was posting on their forums with a ticket ID. Even still, they just quietly renewed the domain without a response or confirmation or anything so it’s technically still open…

I could be misremembering, but I think I remember Teslas having a feature that would apply slight torque to the motors when braking on hills to prevent the car from rolling backwards when switching from brakes to the accelerator.

I wonder if this was a malfunction of the system that detects the car being on a slope which caused it to accelerate forward despite the brake being pressed?

I think the snake oil claim is in regard to VPN companies marketing themselves as a security product. The security benefits that these companies claim in their ads are dubious but of course there’s other benefits to them, they just can’t advertise that they can be used for these things.

The problem is people who aren’t aware of this see these ads and think that they actually do prevent hackers from stealing their information.

I think they may be referring to if someone accidentally changes the ordering, either by inserting a new variant between two existing ones or by shuffling the order of the existing variants the value can change and cause problems.

1.1k isn't bad for a project with ~33 million weekly downloads[1], imo. Yes, I know that's not necessarily a good metric, but it's ~10 million more than React[2] which also has a similar number of open issues[3].

[1] https://www.npmjs.com/package/prettier

[2] https://www.npmjs.com/package/react

[3] https://github.com/facebook/react

If this feature were added, I’d see very little need to use CSS preprocessors - at least for me. We already have variables, nesting, and color functions. Throw in mixins and user defined functions and that pretty much covers 90% of what I’d usually do in Sass.

Maybe you still use PostCSS for some auto prefixing/ backwards compat stuff but the need for that should go away as the usage numbers for unsupported browsers go down.

I've been obsessed with the US Chemical Safety Board videos on YouTube that describe in great detail the events that lead up to industrial accidents. One of the common themes I've seen among them is that there's usually some sort of warning sign or near miss that goes ignored by the people responsible for them since they don't cause any major damage. Then a few days or months later that system fails in an entirely predictable way with catastrophic consequences. A good example of this is the fatal phosgene gas release at a DuPont chemical plant[1].

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ISNGimMXL7M

I agree with this. The only real advantage to Kagi over just using Google + Adblock for me is an easy way to just completely block certain sites from ever appearing in searches. It's probably not worth $10 a month but I pay for it because SEO spam sites bother me on a personal level.

You definitely can comment on lines that haven't been changed. I don't think there's a way to comment on files that haven't been changed, though.

It still seems odd to me that they'd just...not really do EVs while their competitors gain experience and trust shipping EVs years before them. They don't need to flip a switch and suddenly begin producing only EVs.

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I was always under the impression that the mandatory service fees (like for groups of x or more) was just a way to make sure that the wait staff don't get stiffed. If the service fee is 20%, I just tip 0% unless I feel inclined to tip more on top of that.

You'd be surprised how many games run perfectly well on Linux. Unless you're playing something with ridiculous anticheat like Valorant it will most likely run fine.

I've also found Apple Maps' instructions are easier to follow. Apple Maps gives instructions like a human would ("in two lights, make a left onto Main Street"), unlike Google which usually gives instructions in distances ("in a half mile, turn left onto Main Street").

I'm sure some prefer the latter, but I find that it makes it much more likely that I will miss a light or especially a side street with only the smaller street signs on the side of the road.

There’s only a handful of EVs that currently qualify for the $7500 federal tax credit now that the rules for it have changed - Tesla being one of them. In California you also get an extra $2000 credit for Teslas as well. So there’s some incentive there right now to buy one at nearly $10k off.

They could probably fix this by having the HTTP version be served on a different subdomain that only listens for HTTP.

WSL2 still runs in a VM so it has the performance implications of that, not that they usually end up being that significant (I have found that memory usage in WSL2 is usually ridiculously high, though).

I think the support for Linux GUI applications is achieved by running an X server on the Windows side of things.

If their priority is to make money, why wouldn’t they invest in the UX their official app. It’s probably their main revenue stream but it’s so bad that it drives users away to third party clients they can’t monetize. Now instead of actually investing in making their app better and giving users a reason to go back to it they’re blocking third party clients so they don’t need to actually improve their app. It’s a lose-lose for their users and it reflects very poorly on them.

Also it’s not like Reddit doesn’t have the resources to both improve their apps usability and focus on tracking, ad revenue, etc.

The problem I’ve always found with etiquette advice is that it can usually be summed up with “be kind to your fellow human” or it’s just “I have this pet peeve, stop doing this”.

It definitely depends on your definition of "ready". Wayland is completely usable for most hardware configurations I've thrown at it, but ymmv. It's pretty much been indistinguishable from X11 for me.

There's still a lack of certain protocols for things that were possible in X11. The one that's bugged me the most is one that would allow authorized applications to track which window is active so tools can swap around hotkeys and macros and stuff. That was super easy to do in X11 but Wayland doesn't yet have a way of doing this afaik.

If I remember correctly, they've stated they don't have plans to ever migrate from Java to Bedrock. They've been doing a lot of work to try to get parity between the two versions but they're architecturally very different.

I'd be surprised if they hung Java out to dry - it's definitely seen as the "definitive" version of Minecraft among most of the dedicated playerbase. Although, Bedrock definitely seems like it's their big money maker with how many microtransactions are in it.

It's also worth mentioning that Feinstein (D-California) is a cosponsor of this bill [1]. I'm sure a lot of Hacker News folks live in California and could spare some time to write to her if they desire.

[1] https://www.judiciary.senate.gov/press/rep/releases/graham-b...

At some point (maybe that point is now), I'm sure we'll see the right combination of hardware and software performance where it'll be trivial for anyone to run advanced AI models on their own devices so it's not controlled by a handful of companies. One thing I'm definitely interested in is when games begin to use these models to generate dialogue to make each player's experience unique.

I believe Gitlab has supported hardware keys for years now. At least Gitlab.com, not sure about the self hosted one.

GitHub Container Registry is a decent option for orgs, open source and private. I believe it's free to host public images and private images are just tied into your GitHub billing.

If Framework ended up making a main board with this I’d probably finally pull the trigger on one. It’s been in my cart for a while but I never really could justify buying one.

It seems odd to me that a rifle was deemed too dangerous to use in a populated area but a pound of C4 strapped to a robot was acceptable.