microcolonel

That's enough of what, Dan? This comment was substantive, responsive to the parent comment, and cordial; it didn't provoke a flame war nor could it be expected to, it didn't include any quips or sick burns.

If you don't like moderating after all this time, and I wouldn't blame you, at least understand I can't help other people spamming the flag button because they disagree with people's good-faith interpretation of facts. If there's a technical solution to that I'd be glad to help.

If you're referring to the sentence containing “several members have been affiliated with white supremacy”, it kinda doesn't jive with the fact that their highest leadership position is filled by an afro-cuban man, and the fact that there is no official or de-facto-official Proud Boys public communication of anything regarding white supremacy other than condemnation of it, nor any official or sanctioned actions taken against visibly non-white groups or people.

I mean, if there were white supremacists in the Proud Boys, something that isn't even alleged in that article, surely they would not continue once the group was being led by a man who is like 25-75% black.

The only reason they are being framed so aggressively as white supremacists now, is that Joe Biden mentioned them on the debate stage. Rather than accounting for Joe Biden's ignorance or malice, the media preferred to alter public perception to justify his comments; and it looks like it sorta worked!

The Trump Administration seems to have significantly loosened ITAR for almost everyone (IIRC primarily intended to make it less onerous for small arms researchers and manufacturers), including individuals, and specifically addresses removing some forms of software and designs from the USML. If it's firmware or designs as far as I'm aware there may be no problem with that now, even if it's rocketry or guidance software.

Yeah, I think there are a lot of distro bugs, and a lot of old or mismatched packages, outside of the Arch/Manjaro ecosystem. This hurts the impression of Mesa, the Kernel, and basically anything else like this where there's no good reason conventional distros shouldn't ship new feature releases at least a bit more frequently than they do.

One of the neat things about PalmOS is that it ran apps directly from where they were stored. No need to load them into "memory".

In practice this is not the way it worked on PalmOS on actual hardware past a certain point, and the way it actually worked is not that different from how code is loaded in a conventional desktop operating system.

Or the fire will cause them to spread out.

I think you need a couple more things than that, like marking excessive cross-slopes, and having a better way to mark mid-way issues. The fields definitely exist, but there's not really a focused method of entering data like this, and it's not clear to me how to do this without messing up the presentation.

Is there any plan to integrate with or produce your own wheelchair routing, and help with accessibility information for ways as well as points of interest (what WheelMap does right now).

I've moved to a smaller city; and while things are clean and generally well maintained, there are many neglected sections of sidewalks here which would not be accessible to some forms of wheelchair. I do a lot of walking so I am in a good position to gather data like this, but it seems that the effort for this is not as organized.

There are also some non-wheelchair accessibility issues in mapping between new construction and old; for example, textured pavement placed according to new standards, further back from the roadway, but the zebra crossing marks and stop lines were painted according to older standards, closer to the roadway.

I think it would be nice not only to treat this as a repository of useful information for people looking to access these ways, but as a tool to identify, triage, and resolve accessibility issues.

There is nothing racist about economic sanctions against a country which is in active conflict with our armed forces outside of their borders, which is actively engaged in psy-ops to destabilize American society.

Economic sanctions against America would not be racism against scots/germans/west africans or whatever.

You can argue against sanctions on all sorts of grounds, but the flimsiest is claiming that they're racist.

Characterizing this as “discrimination against Persian people” is extremely dishonest. There are like half a million Persian people in America alone, as many as there are Wyomingites, who have the same access to GitLab as anyone else; this is a question of commerce between the U.S. and Iran, not a question of discrimination against Persians.

We should be wary of it, but we should be more wary of the true alternatives to it.

Not having cheap electricity in America is an existential threat to humanity, not having clean energy is as well.

Can we pool funds to turn this into a lawsuit?

I'm glad you have not seen the joys of the male experience with HR.

...good credit, that's how lending works.

Thank you for the clarification. I'm sure you're looking forward to WebTransport+QUIC as well, I know I am. I'm already doing some little tweaks to our WebSocket RPC and bulk transfer layers to resemble WebTransport so it's an easy drop-in when the QUIC transport becomes available, or when there's a reasonable implementation of WebTransport+HTTP/3 (the other middle ground).

Maybe I can publish the virtual “WebSocketTransport” thing once I'm satisfied with it.

I think they're talking about Google QUIC, which formed the basis for both IETF QUIC and HTTP/3; Facebook has been deploying Google QUIC for a long while now maybe, AFAIK. The people at fault here are probably the IETF lol.

It's Apple's problem to solve though, I mean, outside of developers writing code that's more efficient to begin with so it doesn't really matter when it's 10x slower, but they should probably be doing that anyway.

I feel like this would be a dramatically better device if they worked with the Raspberry Pi Foundation instead of heaping it into a board with a PowerVR GPU, one of the few remaining major mobile/embedded GPU lineups with no meaningful upstream support, nor any acceleration through Mesa.

Much as I think its loose interpretation has a lot to do with the success of major internet hubs, it has become clear that unlimited liability for selective publishers is not a sustainable model for American public life.

We can not sustain a system where a major paper and the U.S. Press Secretary is censored by corporations entrusted with a significant portion of the public square, but that corporation simultaneously has no liability for the things which they, by their non-interference, must be endorsing.

Kana are (mostly) syllabaries, which should make them a lot easier for dyslexics.

I think it could be done with a constraint solver, with a lot fewer cycles.

Aside from the relatively difficult problem of creating scores from MIDI; when practicing piano as a beginner it'd be interesting to have help in positioning/finger selection. I wonder how hard it would be to compute fingering plans (maybe even with a wingspan parameter).

As somebody who generally disables JavaScript, I don't really understand why some people here find the little corner chat buttons that obnoxious; I actually use them to get things done on a fairly regular basis and some of them at least tend to work very well (Crisp being among the best).

Probably the worst I could say about them is that when people don't design their websites properly, and the button is overtop of something important, there's often nothing you can do.

For various business reasons we'll probably end up implementing our own, and I don't see why the loader can't be a couple hundred bytes in one script tag, including its icon, but Crisp at least appears to be the least bad “modern webapp”-style implementation of this.

P.S. you can cut down the size of some of your inline SVGs by urlencoding them instead of using base64. So in the CSS for the button, in addition to getting rid of the redundant "result" and "in" parameters (i.e. the default "in" of filter elements is the previous "result", even if it has no name), and just doing your compositing in the filter rather than with use elements, you can use

    data:image/svg+xml,<svg xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2000/svg' height='30' width='35'><defs><filter id='a' height='140%' width='140%' x='-15%' y='-15%'><feMorphology in='SourceAlpha' operator='dilate' radius='1'/><feOffset dy='1'/><feGaussianBlur stdDeviation='1'/><feColorMatrix values='0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.07 0'/><feComposite in2='SourceGraphic'/></filter></defs><path fill='white' filter='url(%23a)' d='M14.23 20.46l-9.65 1.1L3 5.12 30.07 2l1.58 16.46-9.37 1.07-3.5 5.72-4.55-4.8z'/></svg>

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Being proud of your work isn't Shamwow, it comes naturally when you actually like the thing you made.

I wonder how difficult it would be to synthesize the sound instead of loading it from a file. :+ )

Hacker culture is dead, and someone somewhere is saying good riddance with a smug look on their face.

There was no empathy for this demographic, but lots of empathy for 70+ year olds.

There was lots of empathy for young people, including from those 70+ folks; it's just the narrative can not sustain on a diet of empathy.

In the places where lockdowns have been both draconian and ineffective, the priority is more to give the impression that the politicians are "doing something", not to seek a good outcome on a balance of opportunities taken and missed.

Sure, I'm not saying everything has to make sense, but buddy here was claiming that 国 had cleaner etymology than 國, and to me it seems like one of these is indirect, and the other is very direct.

Then why not just put 王 in the box rather than 玉? As far as I can tell the 王 glyph predates the invention of 玉, and the purpose of this new glyph was to distinguish 玉 from 王.

Also isn't a land within borders still a better analogy for a country than a king within walls? Walls bounding a king seems more like a palace.

I don't see how 玉 has more etymological significance to 國 than 域/或. What analogy are you drawing on where the previous most common character for land/country is a worse etymological root than a character that apparently has meant only jade (or direct analogies to the material preciousness of jade) for longer than 國 has existed.

As for 黨, it is a direct analogy to 當 as in 當天. There is a little bit lost in the conversion of 田 to 黑 but at least they are related.