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I'd rephrase that as moving back toward search.

Google wasn't always there, and even after it became popular, some time passed before the name was used as a verb.

Personally, I Ask Jeeves to Lycos it.

Cheers for this. I'm old and that's why I thought it was BBCode. Markup is such a loose term that I couldn't figure out what the problem was. You've put it to rest now though, I get it, whew.

Learned something new, pedantry FTW!

Thanks. Have to admit, I'm still confused, especially after reading the first sentence on that page...

Markdown is a lightweight markup language

Clearly in over my head on this, I'm just going to stop using the term altogether.

Please explain why it's markdown. Is Reddit's link format not just BBCode [0]? Honest question, no snark.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BBCode

He already told you, left is up.

The side of your case that has the motherboard's backplate (where you plug everything in) is the bottom. On the vast majority of towers, the plate is on the right side, meaning left is up.

EDIT: right/left when looking at the front of the case.

Reddit markup doesn't work on ycombinator. Use square brackets and a number to designate the link [0] then put the URL at the bottom of your comment.

[0] https://www.reddit.com/r/StallmanWasRight/

Stop with the red herrings and address the actual argument.

Semantics? Don't be daft...

Speaking out against something is battling it, battle is a verb in this context. Both Oxford and Webster agree [0,1].

Forceful suppression of pseudoscience can be achieved through law and education, see the Scopes Trial [2]. This is another with thousands of examples, from women's right to vote, to smoking cigarettes.

[0] https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/battle

[1] https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/battle

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scopes_Trial

I have to disagree. Many people are trying to suppress pseudoscience; not because we fear it is true, but because disinformation is harmful to society as a whole. For example, anti-vaxers degrading herd immunity, or astrologists conning vulnerable people out of their savings, or a climate change denier dismantling the EPA... there are far too many examples to list!

Each facet of nonsense you've mentioned is being battled by one group of skeptics or another. Off the top of my head, there's the work of James Randi, Richard Dawkins, Brian Dunning, and Steven Novella. Those people aren't fighting ideas they're afraid are true, they fear the harmful outcome of misplaced beliefs.

If people weren't battling pseudoscience, you'd see a lot more of it in your day-to-day life, and society as a whole would be much worse off. That's not speculation, it's a solid fact.

Just a guess, but it's probably because PS and GIMP are huge projects with years of work put into them -by teams of people. This is one guy. Not saying I don't welcome some competition in this area, but there are already tons of PS clones, all with their own niche.

Put it in the context of operating systems, and the guy was saying "This is the next Windows." That would be laughable.

Again though, good for him, fight the giants. But, he's got to expect some eye-rolls and giggles when making such lofty claims.

It's not a straight face, it's a smirk, and they'll keep saying it so long as it bothers you. They'll happily eat dog shit if the opposition has to smell their breath.

This is how populism works, and it's only going to get worse.

"its" is not the problem, the word "worse" is incorrect.

EDIT: The original misguided pedant has now changed "worse" to "worst" in both instances; after downvoting me, of course.

Arriving on the page, I'm prompted to run 11, no... 13 scripts. After allowing everything from BBC and reloading, the page is still borked and I'm prompted to run 34 scripts.

All of these third-parties surely have nothing but the best of intentions when executing code in my browser, but I'd still appreciate a simplified alternative for viewing the content.

viewing the output is hard

video viewing isn't supported directly in the browser

Reading your comment caused me to log in to my security server and make sure I'm not nuts about the ease of viewing Motion feeds. Viewing its feeds in a browser is simple, from anywhere on the network. I'm curious what problems you had.

On a similar note, I stuck with plain-old Motion because of its super-low overhead. GUI aside, is Motioneye much of an upgrade? How does its resource footprint compare to Motion's?

And this comment is so rude that your point is lost entirely.

Just add /rss to the URL [0]

Easiest way to find the RSS feed on most sites is to search for "RSS" in the page source; there's usually just one instance, and it's a direct link.

These days, many sites don't advertise their feeds, but it's still in the source (and is often broken in one way or another). If it is botched, a friendly email to their web admin with a link to the W3C Feed Validator [1] can go a long way; most times it's an easy fix for them.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/rss

[1] https://validator.w3.org/feed/

Thanks. You're correct and I overplayed it. It's clear that he's quoting the author, but racial tensions and identity politics have me running in paranoid mode these days.

Forgot that this is Hacker News and not Tumblr; I don't even know where they keep the pitchforks and torches around here.

My VPS, in Iceland, had a racist hostname on one of their servers; they had no idea and were quite embarrassed. Just wanted to be sure you weren't in the same boat, because the slur isn't exactly obvious.

Apologies for wrongfully flagging your comment. I wanted to hide it, in case you didn't know the context and were signed out for the day. I'm with you 100% on whitewashing and censorship, even though that seems to be exactly what I was doing.

Cheers for the friendly response. I'm going to have to check out that book.

No cars, in the real world, are driving around with significant coolant leaks. End of story. Talk to any repair shop.

That's the crux of my argument. There is no scenario where one can continue to drive a car with a coolant leak. This kills the engine.

Our discussion feels like a mechanic arguing with an engineer. Probably because that's exactly what's happening.

Every modern IC engine (and the majority of old ones) operates with a pressurized cooling system; they absolutely will not function properly with a leak.

The average operating temperature of engine coolant is around 200F, the only reason it doesn't boil over is because of the aforementioned pressure, which is usually around 15PSI (bringing the boiling point to just above 250F).

The rating on 50/50 antifreeze relies on coolant system pressure, it (ethylene glycol) will boil like water if put on a stove. The key to antifreeze is in its name: anti-freeze. It does raise the boiling point of water a little, but that's just a side benefit and is of no real significance (plain water transfers heat better).

These readily available facts contradict the comment above. The person is certainly trying to make a point, but they seem to have the fundamentals completely wrong.

I've found companion planting beneficial, but have had terrible luck with the corn aspect of 3-sisters. It seems best suited for warmer US zones (6+), where corn can go in the ground well before beans. Otherwise, the beans will quickly overtake the corn.

I always have some tomato cages ready as backup, because even if the corn is big enough to support the beans, a gust of wind can blow it all over.

Also, deer eat corn shoots. Damn you, deer. Damn you.

How do telcos justify this to you? What's the reasoning behind it?

They spend big on politicians, for even bigger profits. Just look at the mess our Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is creating with Net Neutrality at the moment (and for the last few years, over-and-over).

Nearly all of the crap that consumers have to put up with in the states is due to lobbyists, and the telecom industry doesn't cut corners in that department.

Thanks for clearing it up. It looks like certain groups are using terms in ways that I'm not accustomed to.

Now I need new words. Damned kids and your identity politics!

hijacked by anti-regressives

Would someone please explain what this means, wouldn't an anti-regressive be a progressive? If so, why not state it that way?

Also, I thought the term "skeptic" had been hijacked by conspiracy wackos. When I think of a classic skeptic, I look to James Randi and the like; critical thinkers who expose quackery. But, for the last 15-20 years, conspiracy theorists have taken the term over (e.g. vaccine/climate/GMO skeptics). I fall into the Randi group of skeptics, but I sure as hell don't describe myself using that word, for fear of being lumped in with the second lot.

Real skeptics tend to be progressive, conspiracy skeptics tend to be regressive.

Based on the spelling, I'll assume emsy is a Brit... maybe things are different over there, but Randi was always more popular in England than in the US. I'm missing something.

Why the snark? No need for that. There are many studies that show a link between meals, especially breakfast, and our circadian clocks.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4078443/

http://yaledailynews.com/blog/2013/03/05/eating-times-affect...

Here's a HN discussion regarding a Harvard study on the subject, from 7 years ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=199394

Please provide some evidence that these studies are insignificant and incorrect.

There's f.lux for Linux as well, but you'll probably want to add a GUI [1]. f.lux runs on most desktops and phones.

Redshift seems to be the top choice for Linux users though, because f.lux lacks some basic features (like being able to turn it on during daylight hours). The trade-off is that f.lux is easier to install and has a smaller footprint.

Also worth noting is that Redshift is FOSS, and f.lux is not (though there are forks on githib, so I must be missing something).

[1] https://github.com/xflux-gui/xflux-gui

Some of us just don't want to live under Google's umbrella.

Personally, I have no interest in sacrificing my privacy for "free" services. I'm not important, nothing I do is controversial or of any significance, but having my activities logged and monitored by a giant all-seeing eye is still uncomfortable. It's disturbing, to me, how accepting of these things people have become.

Isn't the point of this to get the existing hardware to work?

Also, how is a Raspberry Pi (hardware) going to be reproduced in a shell (software)?

I must be misunderstanding something here.

Being in the market for a tablet (to use as a document viewer when backpacking), I just looked it up on Newegg.

$400-$600, for a device from 2013. Wow.

Imagine the political/public outrage around building an alternative energy source in Yellowstone National Park. People on both sides of the aisle would be losing their minds.

That said, geothermal activity isn't confined to the park borders, and there may be a suitable spot outside of the park. But again, politics. Building a geothermal plant in the middle of natural gas country would be a challenge.

Small note about Iceland- My web host (1984) is located there, and the servers run on 100% geothermal. That, in combination with the stellar privacy laws, make Iceland a nice fit for me.