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Larry David was right: https://youtu.be/Ut3m9OK1c7Y?t=46

Some context: https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2010/03/crack...

> Unbeknownst to most users, Google's Chrome Web browser is powered by a distributed array of goats. In order to prevent the creatures from clogging the tubes, Google uses teleportation to move them between endpoints on the network. A hidden feature in Chrome's task manager allows users to see the total number of goats that are actively being teleported for each running browser tab. In Chrome's task manager, right-click the task table—check the "Goats Teleported" item in the context menu.

I think it's interesting to compare Pullman to another company town just 15 miles to the east: Gary, Indiana. It makes me wonder how different Gary would be today if it had been annexed by Chicago like Pullman was.

It depends on what your career goals are. In most cases (for example, if you want to work as a software engineer or want to start a company), it’s probably not worth the opportunity cost (i.e. having a year of actual work experience would be more valuable). However if your career goals involve research or academia, then it may be worth it.

It's desktop only (no Android or iOS support) which makes me wonder: what percentage of overall podcast listening occurs on a desktop computer? Polls on this are all over the place, but I would guess maybe 10-15%? For me, podcast listening has always been an inherently mobile activity, and it would drive me nuts if I had podcatchers on multiple devices that were out of sync with each other.

You're welcome! And I think you're right, the privacy issues probably aren't a concern for the average user.

I absolutely hate the unwanted recommendations and Reels, but I currently still find FB useful for staying in contact with extended family and friends, so I use this "Facebook Hide Recommendations and Reels" browser extension to keep FB useable:

https://github.com/mrinc/Facebook-Hide-Recommendations-and-R...

Even with recommendations and Reels disabled, other aspects of FB have also degraded significantly:

- Friends don't share original content there as much as they used to, a sign that FB's relevance is dwindling. I suspect people have also grown wary of Facebook's privacy practices like I have.

- FB's features lack taste. For example, its knock-off of Bitmoji looks terrible.

- Increasing prevalence of scammers. I tried to sell some things on FB Marketplace last week and was contacted by a dozen fake profiles trying to scam me with fake emails from Zelle. I also frequently get friend requests from profiles where scammers created a duplicate of a friend's profile, copying their exact name and pictures.

Taken together, my feeling is that facebook.com is (and has been) on a downward spiral toward irrelevance.

You're welcome, and thanks for your kind words!

For quickly loading bookmarks, I made an extension that lets you open or add a bookmark by typing a keyword for it into the address bar:

https://github.com/binarynate/omnibookmarks

I use it constantly (probably hundreds of times per day) to load common pages I use for running by business and living my life.

For context, I turned a side project into a business (https://vuplex.com) that I've been working on full time for over 3 years. Here's my advice:

- Listen to the Indie Hackers Podcast. I learned an enormous amount from it, and it gave me a crash course in business. The podcast shifted to a new format a few months ago, so I recommend starting with the first episode and working your way forward:

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/indie-hackers/id120616...

- After you've listened to the Indie Hackers podcast a bit, learn by doing! If you're a software engineer, you can use the principles discussed in the Indie Hackers podcast to create products and sell them on the internet.

When I got into C++ several years ago, I read "A Tour of C++" by the creator of C++, Bjarne Stroustrup, and thought it was quite good:

https://www.stroustrup.com/tour2.html

The second edition is from 2018 and uses modern C++ (C++17). So, I would say read that and then write a bunch of C++ code to learn by doing.

Yes, their original vision was b2c, but they pivoted to b2b. The reason is that AR is currently too expensive (and frankly not polished enough) for consumers, but it is good enough for industrial applications where it’s worth the cost.

Hololens 2 uses hand tracking for interaction (which works really well!), so it's surprising to see a controller device being used with the Magic Leap 2. Apparently ML's hand tracking tech isn't ready yet? If you're a company planning to deploy AR for the enterprise (for example, for aerospace manufacturing), is there a compelling reason to choose Magic Leap 2 over Hololens 2? I heard that with Magic Leap 2, they switched from their own custom Lumin OS to Android, so I could possibly see some companies preferring Android development over Universal Windows Platform. However, it seems like Magic Leap has a massive hurdle to overcome to take market share from Microsoft in the enterprise AR space.

People are overreacting to Unity's acquisition (technically a merger) of ironSource and Riccitiello's comments on monetization. Many developers want to make money from their games, so I think it's positive and worthwhile for Unity to give them tools to do that. As for Unity's market cap, the market as a whole has taken a beating over the past few months. As someone who works with Unity and sees the enormous value it provides, it just strikes me as a great time to buy their stock while it's low.

I went to the Art Institute of Chicago and was blown away by the collections there. I didn’t have nearly enough time to see everything, but I particularly enjoyed the Architecture and Design gallery. I would have had less time there if HN was up because I tried to check it before leaving.

That's fair—driving to Indiana from the north side of Chicago can be surprisingly grueling. And taking the train there isn't ideal if you want to take a cooler and beach gear.

I've been to Mount Bonnell—does that count, are you thinking further west? The view from Mount Bonnell is definitely beautiful, especially at sunset:

https://www.instagram.com/p/CZYPh_5Mkuz

And don't get me wrong, I also think the views just from Congress Ave bridge are gorgeous. But to me, (and this is completely subjective) I found I was much more captivated by Chicago's views of Lake Michigan, its skyline, and its architecture. I think part of it is that I love beaches, and Chicago has some really great beaches.

> 1. There's virtually no nature within a 2 hour drive

Indiana Dunes National Park is less than an hour away! Don't get me wrong, I wish the region had mountains, but Indiana Dunes has both great forest trails and giant sand dunes you can climb to get a great view of Lake Michigan.

Chicago is incredibly underrated, especially compared to the amount of hype that Austin and Miami receive. Don't get me wrong, Austin is cool, but Chicago beats it in so many dimensions (art & culture, events, scenic views, architecture, even music). No city is perfect, though, and I think the best option is to live in multiple throughout the year to experience the best of each. For example, living in Chicago for most of the year but then flying to Miami or SoCal for the winter would be a good combo.

Nobody said you have to choose big tech. It's 2022, there are thousands of smartphone options to choose from. You can buy a variety of Linux based phones if that's something you'd prefer.

> Having no phone is fine because you don't expect to have it be your way to call 911, iphone owners often think they planned correctly but can't make any calls once their battery dies.

People know they can't make calls if their phone battery dies.

Re: you not liking Apple—ok, don't buy their products. The nice thing about the free market is that there are alternatives to choose from. I don't feel strongly about the lightning port, but it's worth pointing out that it exists because it predates USB-C by multiple years.

> In the case of a phone, their product is actually dangerous without a standard connector in a way the US focuses on more than any other nation AFAIK. A 911-call ability risk.

This is a real stretch. In that case, should the federal government also make it illegal to not carry a phone?

USB-C is already becoming the norm, though. The market is working, and it's not necessary to make it illegal to invent an alternative that may be better. What makes this regulation extra baffling, though, is that everyone already has the ability to vote directly on whether they want devices to use USB-C. They vote with their dollars when they buy a device.

The far left wing of the Democratic party is out of touch with the values and priorities of most Americans. This will go nowhere, which is good, because we don't need the federal government dictating product design to companies.

indyhackers.org has a calendar with most of the tech meetups in Indy. The tech meetup scene hasn't yet fully recovered to it's pre-pandemic levels, but it's improving. I've been thinking about starting a general Indy Tech meetup for people in the tech community to socialize and meet. Today, most of the meetups I go to are non-technical, like those organized by the Indy Social discord:

https://www.indianapolissocial.com

Are you based in the midwest, too?

In the case of my city (Indianapolis), I have found that many meetups are now coordinated on specific Discord servers instead of meetup.com. There are probably other places I'm not aware of where others have moved to. The result is that in 2022, it's probably best to search for meetups via Google rather than relying solely on meetup.com.

The plug itself its fine, it's the government mandating that it's illegal to use alternatives that's overreaching. I believe people should have the choice to decide and try better alternatives. That's how innovations are made.

> Want to roll back the styrofoam ban too?

That's different because it bans one thing rather than declaring a single material as the only legal one. A better analogy would be if a state passed a law declaring cardboard as the only legal packing material and outlawing everything else. Also, the styrofoam ban is a state law, not a federal law. I don't personally feel strongly about a styrofoam ban, but if your state wants to try that, that's fine with me.

> (you could have just edited your first reply to include the appeal to authority)

Who cares?

Also reminds me of this Paul Graham tweet:

https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1231699385525903360

As an American, it's strange to see people applaud such overreaching regulation that will stifle innovation. This really underscores and makes me appreciate the differing regulatory philosophies between the EU and the US.

The new midnight color is a dark blue rather than black. It's still cool, though.

Almost all of the major WebView implementations I can think of are open source:

• WKWebView (iOS, macOS): https://github.com/WebKit/webkit/blob/main/Source/WebKit/UIP...

• Android WebView: https://android.googlesource.com/platform/frameworks/base/+/...

• Mozilla GeckoView: https://github.com/mozilla/gecko-dev/tree/master/mobile/andr...

• Chromium Embedded Framework (CEF): https://bitbucket.org/chromiumembedded/cef/src/master/

The main ones that aren't open source are the Windows WebView and WebView2 components.