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Jap2-0on The Framework is the most exciting laptop I've used

I was reading some forums on their website a little while ago and they said that seemed unlikely with a decent amount of space being used by the mounting mechanism and whatnot. It would be nice, though.

Jap2-0on The Framework is the most exciting laptop I've used

I don't want all the different ports at once, but I definitely use more than 4 in total. My current laptop the following (and I'd love to have more):

- 2 USB-C (1 of which is used for charging, I'll probably have reason to use the other at some point with increasing USB-C adoption)

- 2 USB-A (1 for a wireless mouse, 1 frequently used for flash drives and whatnot)

- SD (used occasionally - cameras and with an adapter for micro SD in phones)

- RJ-45 (used occasionally, probably more often soon)

- HDMI (used somewhat regularly)

- Headphone jack (also built into the Framework)

So with the Framework I'd be missing out on 3 ports. I could survive with that, but it'd be pretty sub-optimal. Thankfully I shouldn't be in the market for a new laptop for 5+ years, so hopefully Framework will have more options by then.

Jap2-0on Want to save the earth then don’t buy that shiny new iPhone

I suppose this is all anecdotal, and probably depends on your circles as well. But personally:

I'm (very gradually) switching from a 2014 Android phone to a 2017 Android phone, both secondhand. I'd like something that can run Lineage OS (and wasn't entry-level several years ago), but both still manage most of what I need.

Most people I know with Android phones keep them at least 3-4 years. (Off the top of my head: one switched from his Windows phone a couple years ago, another has an old Samsung one with a physical home button.)

Similar with Apple: I know one person who will not give up his 6s until Apple stops supporting it (and only begrudgingly then); I know a number of other people with the 6s, and one with the new SE.

That said, I'm pretty sure all of that comes more from the perspective of money than saving the earth.

Edit: somewhat unrelated, but I hear a lot of people mention how Apple is much better with OS updates. That's true (although Lineage helps, and manufacturers are getting slightly better), but app support for old versions of iOS is horrendous. I almost never see support for more than 2 old versions of iOS, if that. Meanwhile, ~85% of apps run fine on Android 4.4 and half or so get updates, and just about all do on Android 6.

Jap2-0on Welcome to Nestflix

Apparently newer versions of Chrome are equally strict and would also produce an error. The issue is now fixed.[0]

[0] https://github.com/lynnandtonic/nestflix.fun/issues/65

Jap2-0on Welcome to Nestflix

This does appear to be a case of there being an actual spec issue with the image, and Firefox being more strict than Chrome. If anyone is curious I can post the exact errors (although they're rather verbose), otherwise I ran it through the AOM validator[0].

I'm finding two relevant Firefox bug about being more strict than Chrome[1][2], but neither of them seemed to cover this case specifically. I'm considering filing a bug about it, but doing so would link my bugzilla account (full name and whatnot) with my HN account.

[0] https://gpac.github.io/ComplianceWarden-wasm/avif.html [1] https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1689806 [2] https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=avif-compliance

Jap2-0on Welcome to Nestflix

With avif enabled in Firefox (latest nightly), the images do not show. Loading them directly shows "The image "https://nestflix.fun/img/_header/header-bg-1280w.avif" cannot be displayed because it has errors".

I'm not sure if this is an image error or a Firefox issue, I have heard about Chrome being more lenient than spec when loading avif images. I might look into that a little more and maybe file a Firefox bug to see what they think, I'll update here if so.

Jap2-0on Thunderbird 91.0

It looks like 78.13 is this month's security update for the 78 branch, the direct update from 78 to 91 just isn't allowed yet.

[0] https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2021-3...

Jap2-0on Typos, tricks and misprints

I also knew a Kock who pronounced it "Cuck", just to add to the list of pronunciations.

Jap2-0on How not to break a search engine

Yes, and it is; however, my (intended) point was that it is what almost no one is looking for when they type "Cicero", and if you simply search for Cicero by itself, you get nothing telling you that it's a typographic unit.

Jap2-0on EU antitrust: Apple shouldn't use privacy and security to stave off competition

Source article from Reuters: https://www.reuters.com/technology/exclusive-eus-vestager-wa...

Jap2-0on How not to break a search engine

For something a little more innocuous, type "Cicero" in the address bar in Chrome or Firefox and see what it autocompletes it to.

Jap2-0on Bflat: C# as you know it but with Go-like tooling

Oh no you don't

And now I'm down the rabbit hole of reading about tuning systems again.

Jap2-0on Blood test that finds 50 types of cancer is accurate enough to be rolled out

> you can always choose to ignore the extra information.

Can you?

That is to say: you can try, but I don't think most people are very good at consciously choosing not to think or worry about something that they know, if that's even possible.

Jap2-0on Bflat: C# as you know it but with Go-like tooling

B♭ isn't the relative minor of C♯? I think that'd be A♯ minor.

Edit: Actually B♭ minor is the enharmonic equivalent of A♯ minor. IE another case of things in music that are the same but aren't.

Jap2-0on TDD from the Factorio Team

I'm not a kernel developer, but I'm not sure if it's entirely accurate to call it an 80/20 split. Sure, Linus only merges new features during 20% of the release process, but as far as I can tell (again, not a kernel developer) most everyone else continues to work on new features outside of the merge window, and just submits them during that 20%, rather than spending that 80% only bugfixing.

Jap2-0on The mice that roared: how eight tiny countries took on foreign fishing fleets

For those who are unfamiliar: the title is a reference to the (satirical) novel The Mouse That Roared[0], about a small nation that declared war on the US and won.

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

Jap2-0on Shell ordered to cut CO2 emissions by 45% in landmark climate case

For those who were curious:

Article 6:162 Definition of a ‘tortious act’

- 1. A person who commits a tortious act (unlawful act) against another person that can be attributed to him, must repair the damage that this other person has suffered as a result thereof.

- 2. As a tortious act is regarded a violation of someone else’s right (entitlement) and an act or omission in violation of a duty imposed by law or of what according to unwritten law has to be regarded as proper social conduct, always as far as there was no justification for this behaviour.

- 3. A tortious act can be attributed to the tortfeasor [the person committing the tortious act] if it results from his fault or from a cause for which he is accountable by virtue of law or generally accepted principles (common opinion).

[0] http://www.dutchcivillaw.com/civilcodebook066.htm

Jap2-0on Ad block shouldn't break your checkout

uBlock Origin commit mentioning this:

https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/commit/8cd2a1d263a96421487...

Jap2-0on Overcoming Tab Overload

I saw mention of this on HN somewhere previously, but I've found that Tablist[0] is simple (a couple dozen lines of code) and works well.

[0] https://github.com/slymax/tablist (links to Chrome and Firefox extensions there)

Jap2-0on Vulnerability allows cross-browser tracking in Chrome, Firefox, Safari, and Tor

On Firefox on Windows (same results on Edge) it detected three programs I do have installed, and one I do not, and failed to detect one I do have installed. There was a moderately noticeable small window in the bottom right of the screen in both.

That said, at least for tracking consistency is more important than accuracy.

Jap2-0on ISO-8601 date format reference not publicly available

Putting aside that notes don't really have to be in tune to be notes, this is not where A=440hz originated.

Correction: upon further research, this is where 440hz originated. However, it was not the original standard (or where musical notes come from), and I find the history interesting, so I'm going to post it anyway.

Tuning used to be based off of whatever instrument was not easily tunable (the piano or organ), or some other instrument (oboe?) if there was none. For much of musical history tuning was significantly lower than A=440, albeit with a lot more variation; however, it tended to rise[0][1] in order to create a more brilliant-sounding timbre (particularly in larger venues), especially among instrumental pieces. This led to some contention, especially with vocalists who found the increasingly-high notes more and more difficult to sing. There were several efforts to readjust tuning to something more reasonable, but ultimately none of them worked for long. Frequency was actually orignically standardized in Article 282, section 22 of the Treaty of Versailles.[2] This may not make a lot of sense at initial glance, but when thinking about it as how good orchestras sound, it does make some sense as an economic policy

This is where I originally messed up, though. The Treaty of Versailles references something else (which I don't have a link for), but which, per [1], standardizes to... 435hz. But again this crept up, and apparently the US and UK did some shenanigans with interpreting it (the UK changed the temperature to get it to 439hz, I haven't found out precisely what the US did), and there was again some debate. Some people gave up and standardized with the UK to 440hz, some stayed at 435, and eventually the ISO did step in and standardized again on 440.

So we may all be breaking international law by tuning to 440hz.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concert_pitch#Pitch_inflation

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BzznBt8tVnI

[2] https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Treaty_of_Versailles/Part_X#A...

Jap2-0on Feeling Sheepish: Where did the phrase black sheep come from, anyway?

As a native non-English English speaker, I can see that. (Thinking it in an English accent helps.)

Jap2-0on Feeling Sheepish: Where did the phrase black sheep come from, anyway?

Looking at your link this may not be the original cause, but I always thought the purpose was to make it correctly fit the meter (sung to the tune of "Twinkle Twinkle Little Star" - or the tune of the alphabet song). "Do you have" or "Have you got" are both one syllable too long.

Jap2-0on Life Saving Therapy Inhibition by Phones Containing Magnets

My grandfather always does.

He doesn't have a pacemaker, but it may not be as unreasonable of a thing as you might assume.

Jap2-0on Advice from a 104-year-old PhD student [video]

High pressure would probably be a more likely explanation for a shower. As for the feasibility... we're talking about technicalities here.

I do think it would be interesting to see it, though.

Jap2-0on Advice from a 104-year-old PhD student [video]

> > minus temperatures

> Nitpick: it is difficult to take a shower with water in solid form (ice).

Nitpick: having a temperature below zero does not necessarily mean that it is in a solid form; for example, it could be at a high pressure or not have a nucleus to freeze around (supercooling).

Jap2-0on URL shorteners set ad tracking cookies

[0] is perhaps even more concerning - apparently it bears a striking resemblance to Steven Black's (slightly more reputable) list[1] [edit: plus a few hundred thousand other rules of questionable sourcing].

[0] https://gitlab.com/The_Quantum_Alpha/the-quantum-ad-list/-/i...

https://github.com/StevenBlack/hosts/issues/1487

[1] https://github.com/StevenBlack/hosts

Jap2-0on Pure Digital CSS, Swiss Made, Clock – No JavaScript, almost no HTML

I can still right click > view page source?

Jap2-0on Gmail having issues

> Is the plain HTML version under even the most basic maintenance?

I doubt much work is being done on it, but presumably they at least make sure it works; I mentioned it because a few posts up (edit: you) mention testing (rather than initial design) as the reason why having multiple designs is so difficult.

> The mobile vs desktop versions you posted are likely the same codebase with minimal (if any) differences....

It's entirely possible that they're derived from a similar codebase at some point, but what reaches the browser is significantly different - it's barely responsive, based on user-agent, and appears to be significantly different obfuscated blobs of HTML, CSS, and JS.

Jap2-0on Gmail having issues

Desktop: https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/

Desktop (plain HTML): https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/h/

Mobile: https://mail.google.com/mail/mu/mp/