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aurora72··on Ask HN: Can you recommend me a fast, light text editor for Windows?
No one mentioned Light Table?
aurora72··on MacOS 10.15: Slow by Design (2020)
Anyone using macOS will surely guess the time period. No need to add it in the title.
aurora72··on Tell HN: Locked out of Gmail account even after right password, recovery email
This time is different. It's got something to do with G$$GLE's policy to charge the Gmail users who happen to use their E-Mails under the so-called "G$$GLE Workspace". I know this for sure because I use Gmail under "G$$GLE Workspace" and today I'm greeted with a message like this "Your 14 day trial period for G$$GLE Workspace has ended. If you want to use G$$GLE Workspace , start a (paid ;) subscription." All of this happened after I've been using it for more than 12 years!
aurora72··on Google loses challenge against EU antitrust decision, wins 5% fine cut
Better question: Is it paid at all?
aurora72··on Ask HN: Is there any beautiful Markdown editor?
Even if it was free and ad-free, doing Markdown editing on the cloud is inappropriate. Come on.
aurora72··on Americans underestime climate policy popularity by nearly half
The climate changes daily and yearly because the sun's got daily and yearly cycles. But the sun's got 100 or so years cycles, too. So the climate changes slightly over those periods, too. Period.
aurora72··on Americans underestime climate policy popularity by nearly half
You missed the whole point. The purpose of that scientific looking article was to convince you that climate change is caused by human activity, which in reality is not.
aurora72··on The audacious PR plot that seeded doubt about climate change
They'll of course add the "sources". They are not stupid.

Addendum: Yep I believe BBC exists.

aurora72··on The audacious PR plot that seeded doubt about climate change
So you believe whatever story appears on BBC?
aurora72··on Ask HN: Do You Use RSS?
I've just tried this app on my Mojave MacBook and it's amazing. So pleased with it. My biggest requirement was an app as simple as an RSS reader must be open source and that it's got a macOS binary. This one fulfills both and it 's got a quite nice UI too. So far I've been using NewsFire, not knowing the alternatives.
aurora72··on Ask HN: Do You Use RSS?
I use RSS daily. Yes I write code. Rule of thumb: Don't reinvent the wheel. If you see what I mean.
aurora72··on North Carolina wants to ban free EV charging
Hard to believe this communist mindset is in America.
aurora72··on Activists rally to save Internet Archive as lawsuit threatens site (2020)
No official knowledge but the whole thing looks like a premeditated plan to eventually shut down the Internet Archive.
aurora72··on The Go Programming Language and Environment
I was about to say the same thing. Go is popular because it's initiated and backed up by Google.
aurora72··on Vangelis has died
Vangelis' 1977 composition "To The Unknown Man" was interpreted by the Italian singer Milva as "Moi je n'ai pas peur" in 1981.
aurora72··on Japanese audio brand Onkyo files for bankruptcy
Even the USB powered Logitech z120 which costs a few dollars sounds good enough even for movies.
aurora72··on Twitter blocked my account for a tweet I did not make
Whether you have 11k or 11m followers, you are owned by the Twictatour. Those 11k followers are too.
aurora72··on Translate a message 10 times into different languages and back
Whether it's used commonly or not, it's one the latest versions which don't interfere with your privacy and it works with %99+ of the websites. The %1- sites which don't work, aren't essential or worth visiting, so I'm fine with it :)
aurora72··on Translate a message 10 times into different languages and back
It's one of the latest really private versions, it doesn't try to connect to tens of various websites under the shitto "your security & privacy is of paramount importance to us" and works with %99 of the websites. The %1 websites aren't essential or worth visiting anyway. So whether its code is Aramaic or Lateinic, it's good.
aurora72··on Translate a message 10 times into different languages and back
It works with %99 of the websites. Besides it's one of the latest versions that don't undermine your privacy.
aurora72··on Translate a message 10 times into different languages and back
Doesn't work on Firefox 68.
aurora72··on Four Eras of JavaScript Frameworks
gnoosic.com/faves is cool but the Allmusic.com's related artists section is the ultimate place to discover new bands.
aurora72··on Algorithms for Decision Making [pdf]
I think s/he meant the typography, the quality of the drawings and the big right margin allocated for the figure labels and the sidenotes.
aurora72··on Algorithms for Decision Making [pdf]
It's hard to go into detail in "all-in-one" books.
aurora72··on A YouTuber purposely crashed his plane in California, FAA says
There are hundreds if not thousands of big forest fires across the earth. How many of them started with a plane crash? None.
aurora72··on A YouTuber purposely crashed his plane in California, FAA says
He wears no skullcap. He wears nothing to protect his head from cold yet alone from crash. If he planned it, he'd wear something protective on his head.
aurora72··on I want to give Oracle money but I can't
For anyone interested in AWS's the so called free, the lowest tier: It's free for 12 months then it starts to cost 10 plus dollars a month.
aurora72··on Daytime napping and Alzheimer's dementia: A potential bidirectional relationship
A drug called Alprazolam or better known as Xanax drives the patient who takes it to sleep excessively during daytime. I've got two acquaintances, who take those pills and they sleep quite often during the day.
aurora72··on A new speed milestone for Chrome
High memory consumption eats battery life too
aurora72··on DocBook 5.1: The Definitive Guide (2020)
There are dozens of Markdowns flavors:

Github Flavored Markdown Stack Exchange Flavored Markdown Markdown Extra LiaScript MultiMarkdown LeanPub Flavored Markdown Markua Python-Markdown Kramdown

Even that is enough to show that Markdown is bad by design. But when you actually use it for any serious document, you face the bad design and struggle with the "easy" tool :)

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