JasonFruit

I immediately started thinking of Puppy Linux when I saw that. My first Linux, d'aww...

Sweet.

I've often wished that more vehicles were available in these highly visible colors. I really don't like driving a gray van on a gray road in the rain.

, burning your mouth on the first few in your haste.

Add Microsoft Access to that list — it was crazy, both good and bad, what semi-tech people did with it.

I looked at a couple comments. They are in fact copying Reddit comments to HN, and it seems to have been a mildly successful strategy for... what exactly I'm not sure.

The problem is evaluating quality before purchase. There's not a great way of expressing the sorts of factors that differentiate between good and bad LED bulbs that consumers can easily understand, let alone anything to encourage different manufacturers to use the same measurements. If the consumer can't tell what is quality, what's to get them to spend the money for it?

I guess the idea is, why would you long tail when you can Pareto Principle?

If what you're saying is true, then the argument that this is inappropriate to democratic societies is also undermined: what rights the people have are entirely determined by what their democratically-elected overlords grant them. The state has determined that this is appropriate; therefore, it is appropriate.

A minor-seeming terminology quibble that has far-reaching effects: the chat control proposal does not belong in human society. People in democratic societies don't have different rights than those under other political systems; everyone has a right to speak freely and expect privacy in their communications, absent very specific situations where there is evidence that what is being discussed is unallowably dangerous to others, i.e. criminal. To tie rights to democracy not only ignores the rights of people in other systems, it makes those rights sound like arbitrary gifts of the government rather than intrinsic features of humanity.

Absolutely great! It makes https://antiwar.com work better than the actual website.

That'll git ya a necktie party sure as shootin'.

This is a generic argument that could be used anytime a negative word is deployed. "That's just the world we live in, and they might not be able to help it, poor dears!" It's so soft it's difficult to find a hard point to attach an argument to, "nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so," rewritten in warm spit.

Exactly my reaction. Yes, it's important to exercise self-control with your phone. Yes, there's a time and a place. No, don't trust likely-looking strangers with something that gives access to so much of value.

That may not be what GP was talking about, but that should be a separate post. I've never seen those lithographs before, and it's like having Picasso explain his work personally, with demonstrations. Amazing. I've never felt like I quite got what Picasso was driving at in any of his work before.

This is really it for me. I don't mind having a touch screen; I just want to never have to use it while I'm driving.

All true, but the throwaway account indicates that they correctly predicted the reception.

I think we're in agreement on this. It's true that the best classical music has great depths to be plumbed, and some of it requires an understanding of the techniques and intentions of the composers, but there's still plenty that can be taken in by an uneducated listener. My point was that until that uneducated listener gets a bit hooked on it, telling them that they can't possibly appreciate it until they've engaged in serious study is going to sound like off-putting elitist claptrap, and put them off completely. (Which was probably not what you were saying, but it was about my turn to fail at nuance in online conversations.)

One place it doesn't work is razors. I've never been so happy with expensive razors and cartridges as I am with my simple, cheap handle and double-edged razors. But then, I do spend the few extra cents each for the good blades, so maybe it does work after all.

I think this is the last thing people need. Do you really expect me to listen to 36 hours of lectures before I am able to appreciate art music? Listen to the music! Then, if you hear something that clicks with you, and you want to learn more about it, do. You don't have to understand the history, theory, and technology of music to appreciate it.

An interest in learning about the music follows a love for the music.

I think you are probably correctly identifying their argument. I think there's no contradiction between recognizing that there's little you can do about national and international matters, and being concerned for the welfare of those you can actually help, among your friends, neighbors, and community. That's not "I've got mine," but as the prayer puts it, "the wisdom to know the difference."

This seems like the least sqlite-like possible thing. Immediately, it makes me ask if sqlite is the right tool for a job that involves Google Sheets. But I'm sure it fills a very particular need for some people.

I can't help but think you're making a lot of not particularly charitable assumptions about people who opt out of online culture in this comment.

You know what? I'm fine.

It's easy to think what you see on the Internet is real, but it's not; at most, it's only part of what's real. There's a huge segment of the population that doesn't reveal itself on the internet in a personal sense, and is not a part of "Internet drama". They, for the most part, shrug at politics and social fads and war and rumors of war, and are just fine.

Maybe those of us who believe we are not fine should try to learn what the ones who are fine are doing differently, and emulate them.

My bet is that OpenAI, for all its dominance right now, won't be a sole provider long into the future. Being banned by them early won't be a lifelong handicap.

As the rabbis say, "May this day come quickly and in our time!" Except maybe not the whole destroying the Earth with atomics part.

People want their eggs and milk privately, but when the shopkeeper steals their money and runs away, they want the police and the courts. That's not really inconsistent.

Is "I have a magnet in my finger!" the new "I'm vegan!"?

I remember when Puppy Linux's (on-disk) size limit was 50MB. There's a reason you don't use, "Is it tiny?" in twenty questions.

I mostly agree, but there are a few notifications I really want, most particularly battery and device status notifications. If you have a mechanism for that, you might as well have a mechanism for whatever other notifications might be offered, but also an easy way to eliminate the ones you don't want.