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aliveupstairs··on Start all of your commands with a comma (2009)
If you are using absolute paths, I found this easier to get used to:

    hash -d b=/home/me/bin
Then you call foo as:

    ~b/foo
I have an array of these defined to my most used directories.
aliveupstairs··on Open UI
if you open iOS settings, you'll see them all over the place. They are not a usability disaster and any shortcoming in articulating intent should be attributed to the designer themselves. Switches can also be used when the binary state is not on/off and you don't want to imply a default state necessarily such as dark/light theme switches.
aliveupstairs··on RFC: Adopt a modern JavaScript framework for use with MediaWiki
I believe the templating is what's declarative, here. For instance, in Vue you can insert logic such as for loops, conditionals, event listeners, two-way data binding and so on right in the template with directives (HTML attributes).

    <Todo v-for="(todo, index) in Todos" :key="index"/>
Instead of an imperative JavaScript for loop.
aliveupstairs··on RFC: Adopt a modern JavaScript framework for use with MediaWiki
Needless to say that this is subjective, but I think Single Page Applications and components-based UI in webdev is fairly modern as opposed to imperative, jQuery-esque Front-end development.
aliveupstairs··on Smart homes will turn dumb overnight as Charter kills security service
What lots of assumptions? that's a single inevitability that a self-driving car manufacturer, Tesla or otherwise, will go out of business, rendering the car offline only (the point made in the article) or worse, like the case with Android phones, you'll have plenty of vulnerable cars on the street and some community updates (like the work of LineageOS for instance).

It's the same point made in this computerphile video[1].

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PLiE0Nr8VOE

aliveupstairs··on Smart homes will turn dumb overnight as Charter kills security service
Not only should it be offline-first, but it also should have fallbacks options like self-hosting.
aliveupstairs··on Smart homes will turn dumb overnight as Charter kills security service
It is not a lie. The idea is that Tesla would go out of business and a vulnerability in the car would be found and exploited to kill you in the absence of security updates. Similar to how the article says:

> We're guessing a Charter alarm would still be able to make loud noises when someone breaks into a house, but that doesn't mean it'll work with an alarm-monitoring service.

aliveupstairs··on Black boys don’t need more discipline, they need mentors (2018)
> Number of studies.

Source your claims (at least one.)

I very much doubt this because only recently has it been possible for parents of the same sex to adopt, let alone evaluate their performance as parents and generalise it. I would very much love to be proven wrong, however.

That being said, the issue here is not the gender of the parent, but rather single parenthood. A working single parent interacts very much little with their kid(s) in comparison with an atomic family.

aliveupstairs··on Terrain rendering algorithm in less than 20 lines of code
I oftentimes don't know if asking for screenshots is appropriate as I have no idea what's the software is about; so, whenever there are screenshots, I get a sense of relief.
aliveupstairs··on Ask HN: Full-on machine learning for 2020, what are the best resources?
https://www.fast.ai/

https://fast.ai is unsafe.

aliveupstairs··on What: A terminal tool to check what is taking up your bandwidth
You can do this with browser search engines, but as a DuckDuckGo user, I can !bang search_term (`!gh`, `!github` to search in github.) Now, I think DuckDuckGo is very lacking in terms of Zero-click searching, but if I know where to get information I can !bang to it (e.g., `!hn what`) or if you're feeling luck `\hn what` will open the first search result. Much better than spending an afternoon setting up search engines.
aliveupstairs··on Video: A Language for Making Movies
Id' say use real screenshots on your home page.
aliveupstairs··on What: A terminal tool to check what is taking up your bandwidth
What's that have to do with anything (it being top front page)? are there guidelines for naming posts so that the language a software is written in is preferably in the title?
aliveupstairs··on What: A terminal tool to check what is taking up your bandwidth
This effectively made github my second search engine. We should have an AskHN on how to find software in general.
aliveupstairs··on Stuff I Learnt in 2019
post the `https://` part too. I don't have https everywhere everywhere.
aliveupstairs··on Show HN: I built a podcast app that skips over the ads
I think you can do that with Pocketcast (free on android, paid on the web) and set a unique time for each podcast.
aliveupstairs··on Intel desktop board BIOS update end-of-life
8* year. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sandy_Bridge
aliveupstairs··on CSS Utility Classes and “Separation of Concerns” (2017)
the docs:

https://vuejs.org/v2/guide/class-and-style.html#Binding-HTML...

https://vuejs.org/v2/guide/class-and-style.html#Array-Syntax

In your template:

a) <div :class={active: isActive} />

b) <div :class="{isActive? 'active' : 'inactive' }"/>

aliveupstairs··on CSS Utility Classes and “Separation of Concerns” (2017)
> (That's why every CSS question on Stack Overflow has an answer that says "use this HTML: ... and this CSS: ...". It's rarely possible to use some random HTML and style it in an arbitrary way.)

I think that's a different issue that has to do with the web not having proper layout tools. Where in order to position a group of elements, you had to div them. Nowadays, we have `align-self` and `display: contents`.

aliveupstairs··on Gaggle monitors the work and communications of almost 5M students in the US
From anecdote as someone who was brought up in a very religious household and went to an Islamic school for boys over the summer for multiple years, I can't disagree enough. Young religious people tend to be cynical about everything from morality and values to will and work ethics. If you have a son on which you impose a religious lifestyle, you have a good chance that they put an act in front of you.

I eventually became a moral nihilist in theory, but someone that recognizes the importance of values in practice. (like a classical liberal against gambling.) And to tell you the truth, I don't know the proper, working way to instill values and work ethics (especially the latter) in people or kids. I, for once, suspect that I came to appreciate a respectful manner through seeing others shoot themselves in the foot by maintaining a rebellious attitude and feeling disgusted with poor manners at times.

Right-wing Millenials who aspire to be good parents often came to appreciate family values/religious values through the same way I did. by rejecting "degeneracy".

Note: I am not saying that right-wingers are morally superior.

aliveupstairs··on Gridsome – A Vue.js static site generator
maybe your testing on your dev environment, because I just scored a solid 98 using nuxt.
aliveupstairs··on New Features in Vue 3
because these are the things everyone comes in contact with and uses. there are indeed new features (in Vue 2 even) that have to do with dynamic Vue directives in the template and other three or fours features that unless you are writing an insanely reusable component or a Vue plugin, you would settle for a more orthodox and long way of doing things approach.
aliveupstairs··on New Features in Vue 3
you can do exactly that, they just wanted to showcase the methods option. often you would switch true to false doing:

`@click="isSomething = !isSomething"`

aliveupstairs··on New Features in Vue 3
throw an error saying "incremt is referenced during render..."

I personally think this is a non-argument to begin with, but the new API coupled with the fact that Vue supports the render function and JSX would give you what you want.

aliveupstairs··on Fallout from Blizzard Hong Kong Incident
>The optimistic belief that economic growth and market integration would liberalize authoritarian or totalitarian countries should by now be wholly debunked.

Yes, but the belief that the market/capitalism can enforce a set of values, good and bad, lives on.

aliveupstairs··on Silicon Valley is terrified of California’s privacy law
The internet is not the same as a food place. People expect and have gotten used to services for free. If you put a price tag on a software library, you obviously discriminate against students and poor people.
aliveupstairs··on Firefox has lots of room to improve if it wants to beat Chrome
If you are the author, increase your line height, I have to track the its start to read the next.
aliveupstairs··on Apple expands parts access to more independent repair businesses
I know this will sound like it's coming straight from 1600, but could you refer to an authority of some sorts that explains this. an expert or independent body or NPO. this could very well be similar to the net neutrality debate.
aliveupstairs··on The Baseline Interpreter: A Faster JavaScript Interpreter in Firefox 70
Well, if you're willing to investigate, using ungoogled chromium resulted in tremendous gains while using youtube to the point where I can speed up a video to 2x without the fan ever running amok against my ears.
aliveupstairs··on Apple expands parts access to more independent repair businesses
Recently, your iPhone would tell you that your perfect battery that was repaired independently has "bad health."
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