CoryAlexMartin

I always appreciate when companies take the time to focus on performance. Performance optimizations aren't as flashy as new features and senseless UI refreshes, but they save users time and probably also increase the amount of time users can stomach using the software in any given day.

Free speech has never been perfect. Heterodox ideas are often wrong, and sometimes those ideas have a cost. But sometimes, heterodox ideas are right, and absolutely crucial to us making progress. The latter category of ideas is the main reason why we have free speech. But, it's not so easy to discern the heterodoxy we need from the heterodoxy we don't, and it is far too dangerous to entrust anyone with that responsibility. It is very easy to suppress important information by accident, and obviously very easy to do so on purpose.

Facebook has already demonstrated the danger of censorship, their own incompetence, and the flaws of relying on orthodox-aligned sources. Up until recently, they were suppressing the lab leak hypothesis. That hypothesis is now considered plausible.

If you know the reproduction steps and you can look at the code, you should be able to make an estimate of rarity.

Are we reading the same thing? In the very first sentence they claim that the DFEH's descriptions of the past are distorted and false.

I agree. I wasn't a fan of the extreme skeuomorphism that Scott Forstall introduced (iCal having stitched leather and ripped paper, for example), but overall the GUI was in a much better place then.

I bought a 2009 iMac with Snow Leopard on it and used it for the first time today, and found the process of finding, recognizing and clicking on buttons to be faster than in both Big Sur and even Catalina, despite me using Catalina daily. I don't have any data to substantiate this, but I think there's a good chance that interfaces with contrast, depth and well defined separation between elements are generally better suited to our eyes and brains.

Shane Bieber is now out with a shoulder strain, so that may explain most of his uncharacteristic performance. I still stand by my general observations though.

Yeah pitchers in general seem to have lost command of the ball, based on the Indians games I've been watching lately. Shane Bieber (AL 2020 Cy Young winner) gave up an uncharacteristically high number of hits today. I've seen pitchers on both teams throw balls several feet above the strike zone. Austin Hedges got hit in the head while at bat the other day.

I assume we'll see a big drop in performance for the time being and a gradual increase in performance as pitchers relearn muscle memory for throwing balls without sticky stuff.

> Penalizing accusers doesn’t produce fewer false accusations. It discourages true accusations.

Why would the rate of true accusations go down while the rate of false accusations remain the same? My intuition is that they'd both go down, with false accusations decreasing more than true accusations.

It never occurred to me that the immune system was involved in keeping cancer at bay, but that makes sense. Shows how lacking my biology knowledge is!

Are our telomeres long enough to allow for the development of cancer, or is it necessary for the system to be overridden, thus allowing cells to replicate indefinitely? My layman's understanding was that benign moles were benign, and not cancerous, because the telomere system was functioning normally and limiting growth. Am I wrong?

I really wish this weren't a clunky 200MB Electron app.

Knowing the environment in which the virus developed can help us better understand it, which will strengthen our ability to appropriately respond to it, now and in the future.

You should care about knowing where it came from if you want to save lives.

> You don't need to install a JVM to use them, you don't need to worry about keeping it updated... it just works. Whether you're on linux, mac or windows... again, it just works.

That's because the dependencies are included. You can bundle JRE with your Java app and it will "just work" too. You can also ship a native application that "just works" too. There's certainly nothing inherent about Electron apps that make them easier to use. In fact, I'd say many of them _aren't_ easy to use by nature of them not following OS standards; each one has a new interface you have to learn.

The iPhone 12 mini is larger in height and width, which is what matters most for one-handed use.

The lack of Safari extensions is precisely the reason I don't use it. It seems like a great browser for Mac users otherwise.

My solution to me getting tired of tracks in my work playlist was to keep adding more. It's currently at 2885 songs, or 5.2 days of music. It's mostly video game music, since a lot of video game music is written to not be too distracting.

Though maybe I should say the majority of the playlist consists of songs I've imported into iTunes. Apple does a decent job at letting you seamlessly integrate your personal library with stuff from their streaming catalog.

Ah that's good to know. Thanks for the correction.

This is true, but having a phone number requirement lowers accessibility to the server for users who either don't have a phone or aren't comfortable providing their number.

On the flip side, it makes it difficult to spot dupe accounts or ban evasion attempts. I run a moderate-sized server and I have a suspicion that one of our members has weird conversations with himself across multiple accounts, but I have absolutely no way to verify that since I can't see any IPs or hostnames.

One could argue that we need more insight for administrators because of how "toxic" gaming communities can be.

That's actually not a bad suggestion! I'd miss being able to snap the occasional photo, but I could always carry my old iPhone if I anticipate the need for that.

I'd pay decent money for a 4 inch phone as well. I've been in the Apple ecosystem for years but decided to search for a current Android phone that's around that size, but couldn't find anything decent.

This is pretty cool!

How does the legibility work? It seems to decrease variation the higher it is.

From my perspective, it offers an overall nicer user experience, and it's free.

I assume Discord's gamer branding (which they only dropped recently) might be the reason Slack is more widely used for teams.

Yes, the "hide everything" trend is really annoying. An egregious example of this is how iTunes hides the track number and/or duration when you hover over or have a track selected: https://i.imgur.com/IhwHnfO.png

Your framing of the situation is biased.

I could say: "One group is holding signs that say 'Let us reopen. I have 2 children to feed' and another group is calling for police abolition while smashing in the windows of small businesses and murdering people" and it would be just as valid of a description as yours. It's not a fair description though.

Maybe your framing is the result of not having a wide enough array of news sources.

I’ve had the same thoughts about societies like that forming. It seems inevitable once brain-machine interfaces become available to the general public.

How are owners of small businesses able to make money while their company fails? I would like to know because I plan on starting a business in the coming year.

Yeah. When supplies can't meet demand, raising prices serves to discourage people from buying more than they need or buying just to resell.

Certainly, very few people possess the brilliance of Jobs or Musk. But, I doubt Twitter and Square demand the same sort of brilliance from a leader as Tesla, Space X and Apple do/did. A quality that Musk and Jobs have that Dorsey might, is their work ethic, which is far more common than true brilliance, and probably more relevant to the challenge of being the CEO of multiple companies.

Although, maybe being in charge of multiple companies diluted the efforts of Jobs and Musk, but it was made up for by their brilliance and leadership skills. An hour of effort from Dorsey might be equal in gains to five minutes of effort by Musk. If that's the case, then maybe you're right.

I'm not familiar with the situation. Is it different from Elon Musk dividing his time between several companies (seemingly with success)?