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From the guidelines:

"Be kind. Don't be snarky. Converse curiously; don't cross-examine. Edit out swipes."

She's a woman, so it's correct to call her a "woman". No agenda here, necessarily.

I tried to guess "A Gnome called Gnorm" but it wasn't even an available option :(

Tactics Advance is a good time as well, if you enjoyed Tactics. Different in some ways, but similar mechanically

From the guidelines:

"Be kind. Don't be snarky. Converse curiously; don't cross-examine. Edit out swipes."

I've never met anyone who has interpreted either the novel or film to glorify violence.

From the article:

"Kubrick himself, in response to a series of murder trials where the defendants explicitly mentioned his work..."

Seriously. While I understand that there's a human side to this whole thing, I can't help but hope that whoever was in charge of the recent desktop UI mangling was part of this 2%

What is Geocities?

"I don't think it's healthy for a society to rely on large pharmaceutical companies."

Fixed it for you. There were so many kind ways that you could have phrased your statement; please avoid inflammatory comments.

The biggest obstacle stopping Neuromancer from being a viable TV show, IMO, is the lack of cohesion between chapters - readers are frequently dumped into the middle of entirely different circumstances than the previous chapter, just as they were maybe getting a grip on what was going on. And honestly, it kind of works! The pacing would be far too slow if characters stopped every five minutes to explain what was going on for the audience's sake. Hypothetically this could work in an episodic format, but will it be signed off on by conservative showrunners/execs? I'd guess no, but will remain cautiously optimistic.

Not to entirely disagree with you, but comparing football to Counter Strike is kind of an apples-to-oranges comparison - you're comparing an introduction to something new with something that most American viewers have probably known for their entire lives, so that factor of "explainability" doesn't exactly apply to it.

How else are you supposed to convince someone of a point, if not by mentioning the evidence?

Linux evangelists were far more obnoxious when Linux was first making the rounds.

Yes, absolutely.

This is just how tech works and how tech people tend to behave.

I really think that that this old guard mentality needs to die out. Rudeness is protected in the industry because we normalize that it's... what, intrinsic to programming? But that just isn't true, and it's harmful to everyone in the field.

For clarification, how did not wearing belt buckles translate to not buying Microsoft products?

Side note, does anyone know why the author has written "F*ctorio" instead of "Factorio"?

Agreed! My only complaint with this webapp is that the Googly eyes don't jiggle when you rotate the phone.

What's the best way to get around this article's paywall?

There's some context missing from this article that I wish was in here. Notably, I figured that analysis of Twitter's spam-account data would fall under "due diligence", a right which Musk himself waived for this deal?

I'm not sure I agree with this point. What if this news article is the spark that inspires someone to hack together a solution for awareness of the issue? Or maybe create an alternative for some of the imports that the Amazon is being cut down to create? This issue may be happening in Brazil, but it affects everyone (as the forest is a major carbon sink) and can definitely be affected by others, given time.

Alright, I'll bite - what's the first?

The HN article title "What Causes Depression" is at odds with the article's actual content, which is about an individual being burned out due to a poor work-life balance. I think this ought to be resubmitted with a title that reflects that.

Doesn't usage of mdfind still suffer from GP's problems 1, 3, 4, and 5?

I'm sure other people will suggest this, but does Cities: Skylines with mods kind of solve what you're looking for (admittedly missing the "runs in the cloud" aspect)? Some of the builds people make with mods in that game are incredible.

The blog post is a transcript of the video embedded near the top of the page, as it mentions, and the video itself has an open comments section.

Private companies of every size have major data leaks all the time. Why distrust only the government?

I suppose that's really all there is to see here; it'll be interesting to see how this develops.

Maybe I misinterpreted the cause and effect here, but is there a meaningful difference between a Snapchat video with a "speed filter" and a cellphone video of somebody driving fast that includes footage of their car's speedometer? Is any speed gauge likely to make people drive fast, and therefore open to litigation?

Edit:

Here's footage of the Speed Filter in action:

https://youtu.be/Bk45g_5l6m0?t=68

https://youtu.be/SUcvsHxaX_o?t=100

You'll note that neither of them have any special display for reaching fast speeds (IE "incentivizing" driving over the speed limit), and that the first one even says "Don't snap and drive".

There appears to be contrary data to that as well:

https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2021/04/pandemic-...

Apologies if you get paywalled.

As an avid reader who has been using Goodreads for years, my reason for not switching to an alternative has almost nothing to do with any of what the author mentions. That reason is purely the promise of stability provided by a site that's been around for longer (not to mention the big-name ownership) - the faith that Goodreads will stay running for years and years into the future.

When it comes to the list of books I've read, I want to set it and forget it - and with a small upstart, there's always the worry that the maintainer will run out of money (or interest) and shut the service down. Sure, most of these book sites have import/export functionality, but why bother with that when Goodreads will likely be around for a long time?

I'd be curious to know how you quantified this. I was curious myself, so I dug into where Smalltalk landed in Stack Overflow's developer survey (which, of course, is not a complete overview of the entire programming industry!) - it seems that Smalltalk was the second most Loved language in 2017 [0], but it completely disappears off the chart in 2018 [1]. I would imagine that we've lost quite a few Smalltalk programmers...

[0] https://insights.stackoverflow.com/survey/2017

[1] https://insights.stackoverflow.com/survey/2018