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I was very surprised to learn just how new this symbol is. I'm a bit too young for it but apparently there were times in my parents' lifetimes when few Americans would have understood it.

Mind sharing what that RPG was?

Who’s using terminal emulators and text editors in their browser?

Actually, don’t answer that. I’m afraid of the answer.

I think me trying to understand AI terms that others seem to take for granted is giving me a good idea of what it feels like to my family when I try to talk to them about web development.

"Gradient boosting on decision trees?" Man, that's crazy. Hey, did you catch the game last night?

The street lights use some sort of timer that's tracking dates? Don't they typically just use light sensors to know when to turn on? It seems to me that'd be a simpler solution and also provide light during solar eclipses, thick storms, etc.

Cynical answer: These things are expensive enough without adding another two dozen switches, and besides, Kids These Days grew up using laptops and don't get the point of having numpads when the numbers are all already there above the letters.

Indeed. In addition to the UI issues, there's no way this product can be "the fastest spreadsheet" when it's browser-based. By definition it runs at least ten times slower than native apps will.

I wonder why Apple seems to be having far better luck with consistent quality than Netflix, who just laid another egg with their Avatar: The Last Airbender adaptation. You'd think Netflix would have better connections and much more experience given their longer history and dominant status in the field. What is Apple doing that Netflix isn't?

You're right of course, but if you pick up a 2040 and you're a newbie to microcontrollers (as I am), all of the documentation and first-party tools push you towards using Python, which I've never been too fond of and I started looking for alternatives as soon as I finished the last chapter of the manual. The alternatives are always there but they presume a level of experience (and C skills) that I just don't have. Having experimented with Zig I was glad to eventually find MicroZig. I remember that using it wasn't quite as easy as "push button, watch LED blink" as it was when I was using Python and Thonny but if a n00b like me could figure it out, anyone can.

I got this working on a RPi 2040 during my most recent microcontroller phase several months back. I know Zig can be oddly divisive here on HN but can we at least agree that it's a good thing to have alternatives to Python in this space?

And '90s. And '80s.

Sure. But I can easily see this becoming the default way to write shell scripts in the near future in the same way Electron is becoming the default way to write desktop applications.

Please don’t make me install Node.js to run your shell script.

Isn't this a lot more work both for the user and the RDBMS than just using a relatively simple left join?

The article says it can just use the Pi’s HDMI output as a screen, so you could presumably drive that at 60FPS if you want. I imagine the HDMI output is useful for debugging even if you ultimately intend to use an e-ink display.

A dog what web site?

I wonder how many of the people complaining about the Apple ecosystem are doing so using a Google browser on a Google operating system running on a Google hardware device and found this site using the Google search engine and signed up using a Google Mail mail address and do work using Google's office suite and are listening to a video or music on Google's video sharing platform in the background as they type.

As with many other things, I'd advise against picking a VPS plan based on price alone.

I've found Vultr to be both affordable and of consistent quality for my modest needs (personal and business web hosting plus IRC bouncing). I pay about $5/mo or $60/year.

Ah, maybe I got my wires crossed. Was the app really never called iMessage or iMessages? My bad.

I'm not familiar with the volcano incident you referred to, but a bit of searching seems to indicate it was British Airways Flight 009 in 1982, where a 747-200 had all four engines fail due to volcanic ash… then glided safely out of the ash cloud and was able to restart three of the engines and land safely at a major airport. From a complete loss of power to all engines to on the ground with zero deaths, zero injuries. That's exactly the kind of story I'm talking about that gives me such faith in flying!

Reading articles and seeing videos about airline disasters tends to increase my faith in flying rather than making me more afraid of it. Terrorism or sabotage aside, so many failures have to compound to put a modern airliner in a truly irrecoverable state that it's effectively impossible to happen and not worth my time to even worry about. What times we live in that we can hurtle ourselves across oceans at hundreds of miles per hour and be in substantially no more danger than we would be walking down a sidewalk in our home town (in before HN commenters reply with information about all the dangers associated with sidewalks).

iMessage is the former name for Apple's Messages app on macOS and iOS. Some people still use the former name as it's a bit more distinct than the current name and/or it's what they're used to. See also iTunes/Music and iCalendar/Calendar, or people who still call macOS "Mac OSX/MacOS X/MACOS X" and so on.

> Or...hear me out: Firefox gets into the adblocker business and lets the big boys paya fortune to be exempted by default.

That will make Firefox a very attractive browser to people who want to block as many ads as possible, and they will then install an add-on which also blocks the ads that Firefox whitelists, perhaps using Firefox's own whitelist as a source if it's easily available. Then if Firefox tries to pull a Google and be evil and lock down their add-on API so that ad blocker add-ons can no longer be made, these people will just switch to a fork with no such limitations. And in the first place I don't think Firefox has enough usage for them to be able to charge a "fortune" for such an ad blocking exemption in the first place.

By "EU and US govs mandating it as the only default browser" I assume you mean for government employees and not for the entire populace (which would be straight up despotic), but either way it would probably be unenforceable.

Interestingly, Gmail seems to be the easiest major Google product to replace with an alternative, particularly if you’re willing to drop a few bucks a year.

Why not just use the Mail app to access your Gmail account and bypass the inferior web interface altogether?

Even on mobile? I sincerely hope when I play a YouTube video on my iPhone it's using the built-in decoder hardware rather than churning through what may as well be Google's proprietary codec on the CPU but I guess I have no way of knowing.

Why would this work with Android and various Pi-targeted Linux strains but not macOS or Windows?

How did you know the cover letters were AI-generated?

> Huh. Everything at my grocery store either has a barcode or is produce that needs to be weighed, so there's no speed advantage for a cashier.

An experienced cashier knows what side and corner of the box of Wheaties the bar code is on without having to look, and has the produce code for the bananas memorized. If I have a lot of things, I always go to the cashier rather than the self-checkout. They can always do it faster than I can myself.

If the language has clear and consistent ways to convert types when needed, the "slow down" from types is trivial.