bemusedthrow75

My main challenge with my notes (that I've been collecting for about 15 years) is remembering to consult them before I google.

I suppose a unified interface to both my notes via LLM and internet search would help, but then I get that with my Apple Notes and the Mac's systemwide search, if I remember to use it.

I guess this consultancy-on-a-paid-version model doesn't bother me (and clearly didn't bother the developer of freenginx while they were paying him).

But a double fork can't be good.

It's more general -- no branch of government can bind its own successors. (With the exception of e.g. presidential pardons which cannot be undone)

Yes, and no.

Parliament is sovereign -- it is the supreme legal authority.

But it cannot bind its successors. So any law parliament creates, any decision can be overturned by a subsequent parliament.

Sorry.

But I mean... they also don't get trained to shoot guns, evidently?

I mean, OK, hitting the acorn would be a tall order ;-)

But these two gun nut lunatic nutbar "police officers" emptied their guns into the back of a police car thinking the suspect was firing at them, and not one bullet hit.

Compounding the surreal, unbelievable madness of the whole affair. It's like a blend of John C. Reilly in Magnolia and Jules and Vincent in Pulp Fiction.

The whole picture here isn't just "this officer shouldn't have guns". It is "this entire police department shouldn't have badges."

They will fire at the slightest provocation and not hit it.

Given the number of shots fired it actually seems like one might more readily have accidentally killed the other with a stray/ricochet.

The only reason this guy was shot at is that these people are incompetent and unqualified for the job they hold. It's also the only reason they didn't kill him.

There was absolutely no attempt to de-escalate things with the oak tree.

I mean it wasn't even a gun nut. It was just a nut.

Oh, outdoors etc. Hm, yes, I can see that, perhaps. Bit of a tradeoff, there.

I did say "additional", though.

I mean, yes, you'd want to be able to locally isolate the power as well, where possible.

But when the device is capable of running cordless, you're losing that scope.

Nothing has been taken away. The rug has not been pulled out from anyone; they just have one less guarantee about their future development. They still have the repo they cloned and the right to distribute it.

He's shot himself in the foot, guaranteeing a competitive fork, and guaranteeing code mirrors will spring up everywhere.

Given that he apparently never accepted PRs, I don't really see anything has changed; it might even be for the better if it essentially validates a fork.

There is one point on which I would reach some agreement: he should consider returning any large donations made in the last few months if he's done no further development on V4, mind you, or convert those donations into lifetime licences. Those people might otherwise feel a little tug of the rug under their feet. Nobody else really has a right to, and they might benefit from a community-maintained fork.

But it sounds like he might not have had any large donations anyway.

Nothing's been taken away, it's just been obfuscated. Foolishly. Definitely petty, as another commenter says.

It is a bit of an own goal from the perspective of trust, though; it's going to kill any hope he has of succeeding with the project.

Losing a mains "all stop" (and a mains breaker at that) seems to me to be an odd safety choice.

I think cordless tools make a lot of sense for anything you have to hold or direct with motion. I'm just not convinced by the need elsewhere, particularly on the most dangerous tools.

Isn't the additional ability to kill the power from the mains useful?

"Professors HATE HIM"

https://getpublii.com/

They do a lot of things right.

They didn’t use their own SoC for six years; it was a custom order Samsung before that.

And oddly enough the (pre Touch) iPod wasn’t their chip or even their embedded OS. It was a thir party OS called Pixo that they perpetually licensed (or bought, it’s not clear from the outside; it may have been merely developed under contract, but Pixo had specific visible credits in the original iPod UI)

I am not saying that Apple don’t make entirely different product and hardware bets (and I have to say I think it’s a shame there aren’t more battery-life-optimising competitors, but the bright screens and the flashy UIs always win; see Pebble).

I admire their hardware innovation and I think it’s sad we lost it.

My Nokia E61 is still one of my favourite past handsets (Sony’s second version of the Xperia Mini Pro, the iPhone X and the stunning Siemens S35 are the others). And now I probably gave away who I am to at least one person who knows me here.

This is an entrance to hell.

Black plastic (polyurethane, maybe?), metal top panel across the top the height of the camera bulge, and a padded red leather back.

I bought it used on eBay (because I needed a case with a 17mm accessory lens mount to quickly test a lens). It arrived with a scratch, and then over the course of my owning it began to resemble more and more a lovely beaten up leather sofa.

I have never owned a phone case even half as good, and were it not for MagSafe I'd be hunting one down for my current 12. It's superbly comfortable to hold, and the way it shows wear is unlike anything else I've seen. Super cool.

I guess it is a risk for longstanding hosted services.

Genius.

Apparently not even the coffee mug now, which is bitterly disappointing.

I am steering myself away from web dev tools (I'm a Laravel/PHP/Rails/Node.js/Vue/React/GraphQL/DB/server/Perl/HTML/CSS/front-end/back-end/every-bloody-end guy, jack-of-all-trades, master-of-some).

I've been doing it too long and I'm a solo/design agency worker now. I've built some big stuff (and some early semi-famous stuff) and I've also ended up doing the crappy-little-WP-site shuffle.

I am aiming specifically towards tools that reach out a little further.

Basically I am finally, after all these years, properly learning Python, which I have never once actually needed. Because it reaches further than the programming languages on that list. Into desktop app development. Into scientific computing. Into embedded. More towards 3D printing, GIS etc.

And it still works for all the web things, so I can bridge.

And perhaps most importantly, more towards teaching and education, so I can actually be some use before I die.

This is just how we look under artificial light in these circumstances.

(And (whisper it) unlike a good number of US male youtubers he's not wearing makeup.)

To me he looks well. Paleness doesn't kill, nor is it necessarily an indicator of illness.