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_AzMoo··on Hyundai promises to keep buttons in cars
Why wouldn't you want that? Do you not take calls in your car?
_AzMoo··on Bee and butterfly numbers are falling, even in undisturbed forests
Even if I wanted to do that I couldn't because everybody else's indiscriminate use of fossil fuels is destroying the environment I would need to sustain me. Literally the point of the article you've responded to.
_AzMoo··on AI is making it easier to create more noise, when all I want is good search
Ask ChatGPT for a comment, then tell it to "do it again but make it snarky".
_AzMoo··on Reducing technical debt by valuing comments as much as code
While code gives you a correct understanding of the state of the system, it doesn't give you any understanding of why the system is in that state. That's the point from the OP. Code tells you what a system is doing, not why it was designed to be that way. Comments that try and explain what a system is doing can absolutely be wrong and therefore problematic, but there's no way for code to convey the context in which it was implemented a particular way, which is what comments are for.

Code without comments only gives half the story. It gives you the what, not the why.

_AzMoo··on No safe efficient ways to do three-way string comparisons in Go
I think what they're saying is that you need more code in Go, which is inherently unfriendly to developers, to produce an equivalent output in other languages. And to a certain extent that is true, but it disregards the intangible benefits of Go, such as it's balance between simplicity and the ability to make it perform.
_AzMoo··on uBlock Origin works best on Firefox
Zoom recording playback doesn't work in FF for me either.
_AzMoo··on Coral makes comeback on Great Barrier Reef
Why don't you think humans will adapt as well?
_AzMoo··on How to have a billion dollar exit with zero capital gains tax
What proportion of wealth do they have access to?
_AzMoo··on I won free load testing
I assume you're keeping extensive notes as well, right?
_AzMoo··on Backyard approaching lighting at Adelaide Airport
Planes coming in above us were at about 1000ft, and there was definitely vibration, but not enough to damage windows. We did have some badly secured pictures fall off the walls, and items on shelves had a tendency to vibrate their way off the edges.

Not 140dB, but to give you an idea of how loud it was, we had to pause the TV or conversation when planes were coming over because we couldn't hear it.

We could absolutely recognize models by sound.

Very rarely did we have anything larger than an A320, Adelaide is not a big airport, but we did have some big military aircraft come through.

_AzMoo··on Backyard approaching lighting at Adelaide Airport
Having lived directly under that flight path, there are exceptions to the curfew, especially for international flights. Even then, the first flight comes in daily at around 6am (or did when I lived there) and worked as a fairly effective alarm for me.
_AzMoo··on Ask HN: If you used to be socially awkward and shy, how did you improve?
Napoleon was not actually short. He was around 169cm which was a little above the average French man of the period.
_AzMoo··on Windows Defender is enough, if you harden it
As an avid Apple user, I can't stand their naming conventions. I don't have any idea if High Sierra came before or after Mojave, or if Lion was before or after Mountain Lion. I would much prefer version numbers/years.
_AzMoo··on Strange plant-like formation captured by Curiosity rover on Mars
I know nothing about this but I too would like to speculate.

It looks like coral.

_AzMoo··on Living on 24 hours a day
This sounds more like you've just moved from a kid without responsibility to an adult with responsibility.
_AzMoo··on Faced with soaring Ds and Fs, schools are ditching the old way of grading
It's not just anecdotal.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S02765...

Just one example of many.

Everybody's talking about the problems with schools, but the issue is the enormous gap in economic inequality that is just growing larger and larger. Parents who have to work 2-3 jobs to support their families don't have the time or energy to devote to supporting their children in their academic lives.

_AzMoo··on Chromium: Permit blocking of view-source: with URLBlocklist
It also prevents kids from using their machine to learn how to write HTML. What an incredibly short-sighted change. If kids can see the answers to their quizzes in the source code, purchase better software that doesn't allow that.
_AzMoo··on Canada's 'gamble' on delaying, mixing and matching Covid-19 vaccines paid off
That's exactly what Australia did, except all of the FUD led to older Australians choosing to forgo AZ due to the perceived risk.
_AzMoo··on Firefox Browser: best for a free web
I use Picture in Picture all the time, it's one of the main things that keeps me on Firefox. Such a great feature.
_AzMoo··on Hong Kong: Police Raid Tiananmen Square Museum
You couldn't possibly give them enough to make it Assured Destruction.
_AzMoo··on Operations is not Developer IT
We have a fantastic QA team, and they test everything that goes to prod. Definitely slows things down (by about 1/3) but our user experience is significantly improved because of it. IMO a good QA/test team is critical to delivering an excellent user experience.
_AzMoo··on White House Launches US Digital Corps
> Are we saying that there have never been excellent, efficient, large organizations in the past? I feel like history tells us that, at the very least, large groups of people working in tandem have accomplished pretty amazing things.

The two aren't mutually exclusive, right? Large groups of people working in tandem are accomplishing pretty amazing things, but they're not doing them in an excellent an efficient manner.

_AzMoo··on Facebook’s claims about the Ad Observer are wrong
I think Mozilla should be more proactive about soliciting donations (esp. on a recurring basis). Put a "Donate" button into the new tab screen for example, or just prompt me every now and then like wikipedia does. Right now the "Donate" button is a tiny link in the footer of the Mozilla website.
_AzMoo··on NYC to mandate proof of vaccination for many indoor settings
> if you are fully vaccinated, you are at essentially no risk of serious illness from SARS-CoV2. And literally anyone who wants a vaccine can get one. Those who choose not to get vaccinated are making a risk calculation; they are making a choice.

There are immuno-compromised people who can't get the vaccine for health reasons. By accepting a lack of herd immunity you are throwing those people under the bus. If you are worried about impacts on minority populations then this is something you surely must be considering.

_AzMoo··on Building a DIY Smart Doorbell
PoE is desirable for sure, but you could always just power it with a battery.
_AzMoo··on What is ranked-choice voting and why is New York using it?
Because liberal (progressive) areas are full of people who are advocating for change. What that change should actually be varies greatly between individuals, so there is lots of fragmentation and in-fighting. The idea that you could vote for your specific niche but fall back to your preferred monolith is desirable because you don't feel like you're wasting your vote by voting for a minor party who will likely never win a seat. Conservative areas are full of people who want to maintain the status quo. They have varying ideas about how things should be but are unified by the fundamental idea that things shouldn't change. Since there is far less fragmentation, there is far less need to give your voice to a niche so they're happy to have their vote go directly to a monolith.
_AzMoo··on What is ranked-choice voting and why is New York using it?
Why is Instant Runoff Voting the worst possible voting method?
_AzMoo··on My Current HTML Boilerplate
'link' and 'meta' are void elements in HTML5 and are forbidden to have end tags.

https://www.w3.org/TR/2011/WD-html-markup-20110113/syntax.ht...

_AzMoo··on Pfizer is testing a pill that, if successful, could cure Covid-19
In 2019 my infant son had a 3-month period where he was sick at varying levels for 100% of the time. We kept thinking it was some kind of resurgence, until an epidemiologist at the hospital explained to us that he just kept getting different viruses from daycare over and over.
_AzMoo··on “When the entire household goes to bed, I do curl development for 2 more hours.”
Do you share a room/bed with a partner? I find if I wake up early it disturbs my wife's sleep.
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