phil_s_stein

What does "async support for plugins" mean when hands are on the keyboard? Linters/etc that run without a need for :w?

This has not been my experience for years. The tech has matured greatly.

Why does the "author" love "quotes" so much? Makes me "discount" the "article" when every other phrase is "quoted".

No one seems to allow that anymore and that's a big problem.

For the yesgraph link I had to disable ad-blocking and uBlock Origin and still only got a static image with a Twitter advertisement pasted over the image.

The graphistry link is similarly useless just showing a few sentences on a few pages ending in a "request demo" button.

I still don't know what a Cayley Graph is.

This reminds me of a quote by Renier Knizia, the boardgame designer, about playing boardgames: "When playing a game, the goal is to win, but it is the goal that is important, not the winning".

There would not be a problem with a "White History Museum" if there was enough of an historical presence of white people in that place to support it. I don't know enough about the history of African countries to know if there is one that meets this criteria. The same could be said for any "non-default" minority "type" anywhere.

You don't see a White People Museum because, in the US and Europe anyway, that is the default: they are all white people museums unless otherwise stated.

Not really no. You increase the chance that you'll kill yourself and someone else. Ride in the lanes and with traffic. Everyone is safer when everyone can anticipate what's going to happen. This is especially true in the chaos of NYC traffic.

If there is no bike lane. Take the whole lane.

Some bike lanes in NYC have two lanes as well. I don't believe 1st Ave does though.

edit: I misunderstood. Yes, if the bike lane is contraflow of course use it that way. Everyone expects bikes from the "wrong way" in that situation. It's all about minimizing surprises to anyone in or near the street.

Biking against traffic (even in a bike lane) is a bad idea. It forces someone into traffic, either the guy going the wrong way or a bicyclist going the correct way. It surprises pedestrians jaywalking and it surprises cars pulling out of parking spots both of whom assume they only need to look one way. It's just a bad idea all around.

It minimizes left-hand turns across oncoming traffic that has a green light. i.e. it minimizes human judgement. If everyone stops at red lights (and people are very good at that), then there are fewer or no places where traffic crosses paths at the same time.

Linked In spammed me once when they reached some sort of milestone. The email had no remove-me-from-this-list link or way to tell Linked In that I didn't want to receive emails. I found the CEO's email address and forwarded it to him, asking him to remove me from the mailing list. He sent back a nasty email and deleted my account.

I've not looked back and my life is exactly as it was, minus a few unwanted emails.

No it cannot[1].

[1] See Betteridge's Law.

The NYT title, "Chinese Hackers Circumvent Popular Web Privacy Tools", is more accurate than the HN title. China has not "compromised" TOR and VPNs, they've circumvented them. They remain intact and working as designed. "Compromosed" is the wrong word here. "Circumvent" is the correct word.

Is there a place where we can actually read the article? That site is very broken in my browser. I cannot scroll past the first few lines - the articles don't scroll independently.

Edit: seems to be fixed now.

Hello and welcome to AI research in 1960!

I suspect this idea has occurred to the people working on this and it is not as easy as you assume - that there are problems in execution (so to speak) of this shortcut. Once the lab-in-a-test-tube thing is solved, it is a much cleaner and more elegant solution.

I have two BAHAs (bone-assisted hearing aids). Up until a few months ago, I had only one and yes - stereo hearing was not great, but hearing well in mono was better than not hearing well in stereo. I now have one on each side and do have some stereo hearing now.

As far as "bigness" I guess you just have to weigh the ability to hear verses vanity and getting a few stares now and then.

I've had hearing aids for 20+ years. I occasionally try the tele-coil in locations that have them. I am always disappointed; the quality is just not there. It sounds (haha) like the OP didn't have a very good audiologist, one that did not go through the full range of options with him.

It's also possible that my loss is not severe enough to be satisfied with the tinny tele-coil quality.

I believe the tele-coil technology was developed to enable the use of phones with hearing aids. The aid, when used with an old-style phone held in a normal position, is close enough to pick up the magnetic field directly from the handset speaker. Not very useful for today's phones though.