typicalbender

Just a heads up the "Discuss on HN" button links back to the blog post and not HN. Not sure if that was intentional or not.

Easier to multi-task maybe? Its really easy to do other things while listening to a video and then jumping into the parts that sound interesting as compared to reading where its necessarily a very active experience.

Early 30s here. Possibly to your point and completely anecdotally, I generally have a much harder time learning via text than I do from a more kinetic learning environment or watching a video... but I wish it was the other way around. All of the benefits described above for why text is better I totally agree and I get generally frustrated trying to find the relevant part of the video but for whatever reason seeing the thing I am trying to learn visually demonstrated is immensely more powerful that reading it.

I actually have a pet hypothesis that it has something to do with imagination. I'd be curious if anyone has studied the effects of visual media on imagination and how it impacts kids ability to take written content and understanding it versus the same with visual content. I have a suspicion that before the prevalence of visual media it was even more critical to have an active imagination to be able to synthesis written content and that we've lost a bit of that in younger generations as we've moved toward a reliance on visual learning. I have nothing to back any of this up of course just something i've thought about when reflecting on myself.

This is why commit messages are so important. Documentation that is external to the code its referencing will always drift but a commit message is a snapshot in time that is attached to the thing it is referring to. In my experience not enough people take commit messages seriously and just basically give a summary of what changed not why it was changed.

I haven't thought this through at all but are you aware of any package repositories that do something like levenshtein distance between package names maybe combined with a heuristic on common mistyped characters to not allow typosquatting?

Hard truth is you're not worth enough for a spammer to look for that pattern, it's a numbers game and you're just making it harder on yourself.

Also unless you're keeping a lookup table you're losing a great benefit of the wildcard. You can, and I have caught a few places, tell when a company sells your email. If I get an email from company XYZ to my email abc@example.com I know exactly who sold my email and to whom.

Here is what it looked like for me after I signed in to Medium[1]. As far as I can tell there is no way for me to read the article without subscribing to Medium. Incognito allowed me to bypass this requirement as suggested by another user.

[1] https://ibb.co/rQ0kVxq

I think you're right however the only action it gave me was an "Upgrade" button. As far as I could tell there was nothing I could do to continue to read the article without subscribing to Medium. Here's the only thing I saw[1].

[1] https://ibb.co/cLxMDMV

I usually do that but was presented with this text from medium after I signed in:

Not every story on Medium is free, like this one. Become a member to get unlimited access and support the voices you want to hear more from.

Which makes it sounds like this is a paid article regardless. Incognito worked though thank you.

It looks like I have to pay for Medium premium in order to read this story... can anyone give me a tl;dr? Or it looks like I can use Google cache text only to get around the paywall but that seems sub-par.

To me the biggest power of Vim is modal editing which you can now get emulated to varying degrees of completeness in your favorite editor. Whether or not a command line editor is your bag, learning modal editing and Vim keystrokes can be a huge productivity improvement and applicable to a large number of different editing environments.

They have a paid hosted option that I use they just also allow you to self host which is great.

Oh I see interesting. That's correct in Chrome you get an entirely separate instance of Chrome with the new profile. Thanks!

Is the Firefox implementation different from Chrome? I don't think Chrome allows you to default links to specific profiles but I have used this feature in Chrome for a while to separate work and personal profiles to sandbox Chrome instances.

wow that's really cool. I had only seen the "Iron Man" style jetpack demonstrations that hover a few feet or the jet suits that I thought usually jump from an airplane but I'd never one of these take off from the ground. Must be a really amazing feeling.

Apparently they do live in the upper atmosphere. [1].

Although many of the organisms borne aloft are likely occasional visitors to the upper troposphere, 17 types of bacteria turned up in every sample. Researchers like environmental microbiologist and co-author Kostas Konstantinidis suspect that these microbes may have evolved to survive for weeks in the sky, perhaps as a way to travel from place to place and spread their genes across the globe. "Not everybody makes it up there," he says. "It's only a few that have something unique about their cells" that allows them survive the trip.

[1] https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2013/01/microbes-survive-and...

Right, I wont even pretend to be an armchair expert on this just regurgitating what I've read. Long and short of it is we have no idea but from what I recall the original paper was very thorough in trying to explain the phenomenon and life was the most likely hypothesis given what we know. Regardless of the origin it sounds like there is some new science to be found which is exciting.

The other place where life could exist is in the upper atmosphere where apparently temperatures are much more hospitable. There's a really good write-up with more information here [1]. On earth there exists microorganisms that live in our atmosphere so one hypothesis to explain the phosphine is that there may be a similar situation on Venus. I believe its also been theorized that we could build floating cities on Venus [2] given the climate in the upper-middle atmosphere.

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/Andromeda321/comments/ismnrb/venus_...

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

They are both large problems which is my point but given the choice between two hard problems I can understand why they chose the one that has the potential to solve the entire surface instead of just part of it.

Sure but as I mentioned in my original comment you're assuming that Tweets are only created in a Twitter owned property and this just isn't the case at all. I have no insider knowledge here but my hunch is when they were talking about this problem the calculus was "Do we just make photos posted from the Twitter web or mobile client look good or maybe we can use some ML to attempt to make photos from anywhere look good". I am not at all advocating whether they are doing a good job at that or not but reducing the problem to "a simple UX to select a focal point" is ignoring the massive surface of the problem.

it's not hard to create a simple UX that would enable this.

This is a gross understatement. The number of different clients that Twitter supports (apis, third party clients/vendors, mobile, etc) means that it isn't a simple problem. Not only that but they have to support different screen sizes and likely have to crop the image differently depending on the device you're viewing the content on. I can without much mental effort understand how this feature comes to be. People spend more time looking at pictures that are interesting and in order to support all of the different screen sizes they decided it was easier for their users to attempt to automatically frame the image.

I'm guessing the tweets referenced in that article were based off of the original[1] (that I saw). The original tweet series did a bunch of testing with different variations of the same image to attempt to get to the bottom of why the algorithm is doing what its doing. There was also an official response from Twitter[2].

[1] https://twitter.com/bascule/status/1307440596668182528 [2]: https://twitter.com/twittercomms/status/1307739940424359936?...

It's worth reading the full dissent and majority opinion but its a textualist argument that the original legislation did not intend to include homosexuality and transgender in the Title VII law against sex discrimination and its not the courts job to legislate and that if these are to be included its congress' job to amend the laws to be more specific.

I'm not sure why they are trying to tie an experimental engine test so tightly with the crew launch. I know the two events are temporally close to each other but seems a bit alarmist to start the article attempting to connect the two. They do continue to say they are unrelated but why even bother bringing up the crew launch at all?

I'm sort of surprised they went ahead with the Starship test, assuming they knew it had a likelihood of failure, given the temporal proximity to demo-2 and the inevitable bad press if the Starship test ended in an explosion.

It's amazing how much a technique like rubber ducking[1] helps to work through issues. The number of times I've felt like I have no idea how to solve a problem until the moment after I ask someone else is incredible. I think the act of thinking how to explain the problem to someone else really helps trigger the problem solving side of the brain. That and the number of times taking a 10 minute walk has been more productive than hours of debugging time is frankly mind boggling.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rubber_duck_debugging

My understanding is that pay for parking (aside from large garages) is generally about space availability rather than making money. Public street parking in Boston is fairly cheap per unit time and my understanding is that the maximum time limits are meant to allow new people to come in and take the spot to do whatever business they need to do in the area. Otherwise people would just squat on spots all day and the businesses would be starved for customers.

Not disagreeing with all the other shenanigans you listed for Ma though.

Old opinions strongly held. I think Angular 1 left a bad taste in peoples mouths and that gets carried over in perpetuity. Take php for example, I'm sure you can find plenty of devs who haven't touched php in 10+ years but will still say they despise it.

This stack overflow[1] post goes into some more detail about why specifically that syntax.

tl;dr is that you can actually redefine the keyword `undefined` since its actually a global property and not reserved. void 0 will always return you the true value of undefined so it will work in all cases regardless of external shenanigans. Pretty neat.

[1] https://stackoverflow.com/questions/7452341/what-does-void-0...

"Facebook changed every post by those users during the affected time period to private, including posts that people may have meant to share publicly. The company told CNN it took five days to make those changes."

The headline and the article seem to be contradictory. Anyone know if the article is wrong or the headline is wrong? It looks like it just might be that paragraph that got it backwards since there is a direct quote later that talks about posts being automatically suggested as public.

That's incorrect.

"If the Data Subject, moves out of the EU border [...], or goes on holiday then their personal data processed under these circumstances is not covered by the GDPR and they are no longer a Data Subject in the context of the GDPR, unless the organisation is “established” in the EU"

Source: https://cybercounsel.co.uk/data-subjects/