Cyberdog

What a bizarre comment. Do you really think Japanese people and anime fans find heavily-roboticized voices peasant to listen to for long periods of time?

I agree entirely here.

Projects like this miss the point. Don't bother with being what will be an always imperfect macOS clone; just bother with making a good, usable system, adopting things from macOS which are good (universal menu bar) and rejecting those that are bad (window close button next to the minimize and zoom buttons (MacOS 9 and before did things correctly with having them on different sides of the window)), not just adopting its affects wholesale. And stuff like using the (pirated?) AppleScript icon for a .sh file is just wrong…

And I'm pretty sure anyone interested in running FreeBSD is going to prefer the dark mode of macOS anyway…

Microsoft sold ARM-powered versions of the Surface for a while (not sure if it was ARM64 at that point) and releases a version of Windows which runs on the Pi, so it's something they've showed interest in for a while. I'm guessing that they also see the writing on the wall in terms of ascendancy of the ARM platform and want to make sure they have software to sell which runs on it as it happens, but hardware vendors haven't been falling over themselves to bring ARM Windows devices to market just yet.

A while back I hammered out an idea I call KyuWeb, which specifies a document-based web using existing standards like HTTP and reinvents as few wheels as possible. I haven't had time/skill to hammer out a complete client implementation yet, but I enjoy hearing feedback from people who have looked over the specification. Have a look and see if it's to your taste: https://github.com/GarrettAlbright/KyuWeb

I was going to post a message trying to shame anyone who works on a site with a URL in this file to fix their damn site…

…but now, thanks to this file, it may be difficult if not impossible to fix their damn site in a way that doesn't conflict with WebKit's own fixes. :/

Ever seen the movie Snowpiercer? It was based on a comic called Le Transperceneige and they also more recently made a TV series about it, but I've only seen the movie and highly recommend it. It takes place on an Earth stuck in a planet-wide heavy winter due to an anti-global-warming scheme gone wrong. It's the first thing I think of whenever I hear of space umbrellas or these sorts of anti-warming ideas.

EDIT: Ah, someone sniped me.

> Defamation/slander damages, past and future: $60 million

That's not much of a breakdown, and if anything it seems to go against the idea that these dollar amounts aren't punitive. Are we supposed to assume that that particular plaintiff would have been $60 million richer if Jones hadn't had said what he said? Ridiculous.

The emotional distress damages are more subjective, of course, but I still don't see the amounts as any less punitive at this point.

If that's true, I'd love to see how exactly they calculated that.

> If those were the reasonable standards, every media-company would be broke.

I think that's a very interesting aspect of this decision. Alex Jones is a very easy person for some people to hate, but will those same people cheer on Trump suing news outlets over the piss dossier and other fabrications, or Kyle Rittenhouse suing people who reported he shot three unarmed black people? And these were things said by actual purported news outlets, not just a guy whose entire schtick is clearly intended to be more entertainment than actual information.

This decision could usher in a new era of fact-based news reporting if it manages to set legal precedent for cases from both sides of the political aisle. But I'm not sure if I can trust either judges or the media to take the next steps required to make that happen.

I don't understand what you're saying. Are you saying that we shouldn't consider people as individuals when reading their CV because that's when unconscious bias may lead to their rejection? If the latter is true, then shouldn't we do the former all the more?

I notice that you only use the word “group” above and not “people” or some older word acknowledging that that’s what these groups are made of.

Why judge people by the groups that were born into when we could be judging them as individuals instead?

The point isn't to have the kid write the essay about acid rain. The point is to teach the kid about acid rain and have them demonstrate an understanding of it. If the kid just turns in an AI-written essay that they may not have even read, they have learned nothing.

But what about when the Wikipedia consensus is quite far from reality? If your only source for most or all of your information is Wikipedia, you will never know.

Yes, back before I lost faith in the project. I actually initiated some somewhat-notable articles such as those on Tank Man (the Tiananmen Square protester) and traditional ("hand-drawn") animation.

Most of my more recent contributions have been fixing typos/grammar or removing obvious spam, but I've given up on doing even that little as of late.

Is it just me or is the Ubuntu font really hard to read for long-form text? It doesn't help that it's larger than normal body text too. Sites like this remind me that custom fonts in CSS were a mistake.

On topic… calling switching to Linux an "upgrade" is pretty presumptuous. It's not an upgrade for someone whose business relies on programs or technologies which are still only available on Windows - for many of those people, that's probably why they're on Windows in the first place.

Just the normal Podcasts app on iOS. It was good and then they broke it and it sucked but they've made it usable again… though the UI is still a confusing mess. I don't think anyone who develops that app at Apple is dogfooding it, at least not anyone in charge of its UI.

I've considered trying others now and then, but since they usually came down to paying a fee to find and resubscribe to all of the podcasts I'm already subscribed to, I could never get over the hump and switch to one full time.

In plain words, what is it and how is it different from normal podcasting?

> go back to writing SSR with PHP.

Hello. I'm someone that never stopped.

Been paying my bills with PHP for fifteen years, and as PHP has gotten better and better I haven't regretted a minute of it.

Clickbait title. Page does not contain a guide on how I can destroy the solar system.

And the person who is denies being Asahi Lina. Meanwhile, Lina sometimes shows paths with "/home/marcan42" in shells during their streams. Martin's not admitting it but he's doing a poor job of hiding it too.

Should be gonutsshownuts.com, though that seems to be available too.

Not really sure what I'd do with that domain, though. A gallery of almonds and cashews would be good for a sensible chuckle, I suppose, but not really worth the effort.

"A huge number," maybe, in the sense that the majority of the world's gamers today only play games on their phone, but not the ones spending the most money. People who will pay extra for 144hz 4K monitors or multi-rollover keyboards with obnoxious lighting aren't going to throw the benefit of those things away for a platform that introduces 100-200ms of lag in the game and creates fuzzier graphics than the graphics card they already own is capable of.

The market for this tech is very downmarket. If you try to sell it to the hardcore gamer audience, as Google tried to do, they're going to see right through this.

10ms is an extremely generous estimation of the amount of lag you'd get playing with a device like Stadia at any rate.

I don't understand why someone would learn something like Esperanto when they can put that time and effort into learning a language that people actually use in the real world instead.

Now excuse me as I go back to making a Snake clone in Zig.

Wow, I don't think I've ever seen an HN post with text that light.

Of course there are many talented developers from India, but unfortunately they are overshadowed by the massive number of frauds to the extent that even people in an industry overflowing with performative leftists can't help but be a little prejudiced despite ourselves.

Good Indian devs, please run the frauds out of the industry one way or another. It'll be good for you as well as the industry as a whole.

Sure, but what we're talking about is working with consulting companies and agencies who are assumed to have done their own vetting of their employees, and are representing the skills of those employees accurately to the companies that contract with them.

It looks like a typical paid networking program. The price and application process to get in gives it an air of exclusivity (or, in economic terms, scarcity). You can find similar programs in various industries and even hobbies and political movements. In some senses it's a spin on the concept of college fraternities.

Whether it's a "scam" is a bit subjective. There's a decent chance that once you pay the fees, you really will be granted access to online forums and/or chat servers and/or IRL events with the people listed on the web site (there's a good chance the bigger names are getting a cut of the program's profits). However, it's also possible to meet and interact with these sorts of people without having to pay an entry fee and join a club; look for events on LinkedIn or MeetUp or the like.

Seeing all the JavaScript kiddies rediscover the speed and UX benefits of not using massive front-end JavaScript libraries to display simple web pages in the last few months has been alternatively hilarious and frustrating to me.

When government agencies behave within the law, it is by coincidence, if not an accident which will soon be rectified.

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