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Do you have kids yourself? How much control do you ultimately have over them? How long should this metric haunt you?

When hearing how US credit scoring works I do not think it is a system worth striving for.

This quickly becomes analogue to another HN discussion today about job opportunities for felons. That is hard threshold - it is easier just to skip them.

Should we let the market forces rule freely?

If not totally free then how big a pooled risk is acceptable to you? A pool for those with kids and another for those without?

I have no kids and personally I prefer one pool. Even with those unruly kids upstairs!

When I see a society with gated communities I feel sorry for them. I live a place where we do not have them and I am grateful for that. They might be happier than me - but I do still not envy them.

I often find people who argue fair pricing are the ones who think they are in the sweet spot.

The example seems a little contrived as well. If Evans kid stains the wall he would fix it. If not - then it is when you have the deposit to mitigate that risk.

I do however get the gist of it. And personally I like the pooled risk. I think that we do much better together than as individuals. The pricing might seem unfair but sometimes it in your direct favour. And the "insurance" feels nice too.

Naturally it comes down to your own philosophy.

So while I agree that it could give a variant of more accurately pricing I do not think that kind of "precision" is healthy.

I am afraid that the privacy ship has sailed but I still think it is worth fighting as the current course have a high risk of a truly dystopian future.

Agree. The importance of eye contact cannot be overstated.

I have a 43" screen. I bought a very small but generic UVC camera on AliExpress. With this I can lower the camera down on the screen without be too obtrusive while dangling on the wire. This gives a really great result even if the change is just on my end. People seems much more "present". I can only imagine how "real" it would feel if done on both ends.

Before this I was using an Elagato CamLink with a Canon EOS RP. While it gave a great quality image the offset position was not worth it. Furthermore it seems that most common video chat programs downsamples as noone saw a difference between this and a crappy 720 webcam even though it looked glorious on my end.

So have a go with a cheap small FHD UVC camera. It made wonders for me.

That would probably be due to the Nordic passport union[1].

Locals have been able to travel between the countries freely without a passport since 1954.

[1h] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nordic_Passport_Union

That is a very interesting interpretation of the law.

Another would be to regard such a construct as income. Report your income. Pay your taxes and be happy.

It only becomes "gray" areas when people think it is possible to have non-taxed revenue streams.

Are there any simple howtos anywhere which describes the process in as simple terms as possible? Without knowing the cool toolkits du jour.

Something like: - Download these texts - Record in WAV at least 48 kHz - Record each line in a separate file. - Do 3 takes of each line: flat, happy, despair

Maybe even a minimal set and a full set depending on how much effort you are willing to put in.

A plain description on how to capture a raw base which within reason and technology could be used as a baseline for the most common toolkits.

I have myself looked into this (for fun) but I felt I needed a very good understanding of the toolkits before even starting to feed in data. And for my admittedly unimportant use it seemed a huge investment to create a corpus I was not even confident would work. I ended up taking the low road and used an existing voice.

Radiodroid 2 is also available in the Play store.

Thank you for that. Finally time to say goodbye to TuneIn.

For those who got curious like me have a look at: http://300m.us/docs/computing/SA-3.0a/TOC.htm

I am not familiar with how libraries work in the US. Can anyone get a library card with Library of Congress? They have the floppy images:

https://www.worldcat.org/title/spontaneous-assembly-for-cc-a...

EDIT: http://300m.us/docs/computing/ Has a link for purchase which 404 but to an existing site. Maybe Kevin is the friendly type?

Really? Facebook Portal would be the poster example of this for me.

I am in the market for a video chat device usable for people in the age of 70+. This device is perfect.

There is no real reason to limit it to a region but they do. Plug adapters are easy to come by and one place I saw a spec which said 100-240V 50/60Hz for the power adapter. But marketing/shipping/support/multiple SKUs might want them to limit distribution. But they are not up-front about it.

And you do not figure out until you are ready to order.

It should be obvious to put a prominent note on the landing page that the product only is available in select locations. Especially for a global brand.

Aaaaand 1 minute later in the video you acknowledge the problem yourself.

Nothing to see here. Move along...

It is a very nice presentation! I did however see a lot of screen tearing. It looks like a partial flash of a terminal window.

I see[1]:

    Title: ben@bensystem76
    Dockerfile
    ngingx-help.txt
    test.pem
    Desktop
    part2
    drew.txt
    ....

I is only periodically but seems to be the same terminal tearing in[1]. I saw some in the beginning but now at 22:20 I am so annoyed that I come here to complain! ;-)

I checked both 720p60 and 1080p60 - I just pause at 22:20 - but plenty before that as well.

Maybe consider re-encode/re-upload if possible. If not: Epileptics beware!

[1] https://i.postimg.cc/6Q2RvbCn/AWK-screen-tearing-in-Youtube....

Whilst touching the CSS. Could it be considered to fix the code overflow on mobile?

    It is the effect of having a line which is longer than the viewport - so we end up having to scroll that specific line. Some might say it is better not to wrap code but I more often see this as part of a quote. I you really do not like to wrap the lines then I would prefer a scrollbar on the whole section. (I hope this line demos the issues).

I am not asking for mobile CSS. It is just on mobile it is most obvious.

My CSS knowledge is severely limited but I was thinking something along the lines of

    pre {
            overflow-x: auto;
            white-space: pre-wrap;
            white-space: -moz-pre-wrap;
            white-space: -pre-wrap;
            white-space: -o-pre-wrap;
            word-wrap: break-word;
     }

Others might have better ideas. Please chime in.

I salute the credo of moving slowly. And I hate to be a cry baby. I even hate the feature creep. But here I am :-}

Genuinely curious!

Are you talking about AFP fonts[1]? In that case Sonoran Sans Serif[2]? Then you should probably be happy with Arial[3]. Fun story[4].

Or are you talking about a 3270 font? Then you should have a look at 3270font[5]

[1] https://www-01.ibm.com/servers/resourcelink/svc00100.nsf/pag...

[2] https://www-01.ibm.com/common/ssi/cgi-bin/ssialias?subtype=c...

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arial

[4] http://idsgn.org/posts/sonoran-the-hidden-truths/

[5] https://github.com/rbanffy/3270font

...and then I saw the username i was responding to. I'll post anyway if you do not want to toot your own horn. Nice work!

pvg has in a comment linked to the optimized dosbox config. With that it runs smooth as butter!

I am always very impressed when I see these demos and how much can be done with so little. If you are like me you just jumped to Youtube[1] to see it in action.

When trying to make my significant other to understand what was happening I wanted to run it myself. I was amazed how simple that was!

- Install the assembler[2]

- Install dosbox[3]

- Get the source[4] and put it into c:\temp\demo\memories.asm

- Start nasm and enter:

    cd c:\temp\demo
    nasm.exe memories.asm -fbin -o memories.com

- Start dosbox and enter:

    mount d c:\temp\demo
    d:
    dir
    memories

- Press [ALT][ENTER] for fullscreen

The dosbox config is not optimized but it runs with sound with the default settings!

For me this is somehow much more impressive than simply watching the video.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Imquk_3oFf4

[2] https://nasm.us/

[3] https://www.dosbox.com/

[4] http://www.sizecoding.org/wiki/Memories#Original_release_cod...

I am still a very happy Squeezebox user. The product is officially dead from Logitech but the ecosystem is alive and well. This proves to me that it was the right choice to buy something backed by open source.

Around here you can still find used squeezebox hardware for a reasonable price. If you want fresh hardware then go for Raspberry Pi with a DAC hat.

If you want to get started easily today then look at https://www.picoreplayer.org/

If you run Windows then Squeezelite-X is a must-have: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/p/squeezelite-x/

And if you think the interface looks old - then get the material skin (it is just a checkbox on the add-ons page in LMS) https://github.com/CDrummond/lms-material

The "Squeezer" remote works very well for Android. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=uk.org.ngo.squ...

From the article:

Note: I was also trying to retrieve similar information for Lime scooters. However, the Lime API does not return a unique Scooter ID. For every request the returned scooter IDs are randomized (and internally they map them to their real IDs), which makes it impossible to track individual scooters.

Yes! It is called "pide". Wikipedia relates it to the pita - but I would describe it closer to as pizza as well.

I find them in Turkish restaurants around here as well. They often look like this: http://loveantalya.com/turkish-pide-with-meat-filling-cheese...

Pizza-like but not pizza. I love them for what they are. But again I love any kind of pizza (Naples, Chicago, thin, thick, doughy etc.)

The Internet was a great distributed system with reasonable separation of concerns.

Now we are content that applications do their own name resolution and said resolution is centralised on a very few (non-altruistic) hands (CloudFlare/Google).

Add amp to this. Sprinkle it with the views of people who run their own mail server and consider where this leaves us.

I am not that naive and think we can keep ourselves in 1995. But I do think we give up on too many of the good parts all to freely.

Some will stop the engine while idling and the brake pedal is pressed. When it is released it will start the engine again. This is to avoid idle consumption and emissions at intersections, open bridges etc. (The stop/start is performed without you turning the key for ignition).

Or the OP simply meant he didn't like the button with the label "start/stop" present on many "keyless" systems (wireless keys) :-)

I put my money on the first. If you're not used to it - it can be quite unnerving when the engine suddenly stops at an intersection.

Duplicate of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20210782

Not true. I can give the counter point. When you Google the name of my better half you get a "fact card" with reference to her website. The first "regular" search result is again her website. The second result is her Facebook page.

As the algorithm is hidden it is hard to say why. But should I guess then I think embedded microdata is an important weight (https://schema.org).

For the record: She has no Wikipedia page (as most notable people would have) which typically rank very high.

How so? It is actually one of the very first things mentioned:

> This is a major new release, with new or improved features, including namespaces. The relevant part of the NEWS file is appended below.

So you would be happier to have the item as number 1 rather than 11 in the list further down?

> 11. Namespaces have been implemented! See the manual. One consequence of this is that files included with -i, read with -f, and command line programsegments must all be self-contained syntactic units. E.g., you can no longer do something like this:

         gawk -e 'BEGIN {' -e 'print "hello" }'

I found the announcement rather concise and to the point.

Apart from that it would have been nice with a reference to what section of the manual to look at. Especially as https://www.gnu.org/software/gawk/manual/ still references 4.2 (will probably be updated soon).

It is quite hard to A/B test. And the sales people making the bonus is often part of setting the strategy.

Why not post a link to it? That would be a simple and welcome revival.

Pass it on to a friend who will now shop at CVS. Primitive (but I think effective) viral marketing.

Put Microsoft at the top. Office 365 has a maximum password length!!! No more than 16 characters, thank you very much.

If they cannot get it right, how does that leave the rest of us?

Around here we have a term for that which directly translates to "warchild" (or "child of war"). Mainly used for people who grew up in scarcity around WWII.

My girlfriends grandmother is often referred to as such. She has a high perceived value of things because the scarcity is ingrained in her.

I much prefer a mature cheddar. In particular an apple smoked cheddar.

A close second would be a blue cheese such as St. Agur.

Both with a lot of umami goodness on the burger.

I will happily eat a burger with American cheese. It is good - but not cheese to me. It is more an oily softness than the smooth fatty softness from (dare I say real) cheese.

Maybe this comes from growing up where a "cheese shop" actually is a thing :-)

But cheese fries with american cheese are truly sinful and a very guilty pleasure. They're not common around here for which my heart is eternally thankful!

Absolutely. But it might be a simple habit thing.

When going to the UK I find it easy to orient myself to look in both directions when I cross traffic as I usually do that. Even driving a car as I am highly aware that it is different but I am at least still in control.

But the first taxi ride from the airport when we hit the first roundabout freaks me out every single time!

That does depend on the firewall you use. Using the "pf" firewall you can have nice clean rules which covers both.

Simple example:

    tcp_inbound = "{ ssh, domain, http, https }"
    tcp_outbound = "{ domain, http, https, imaps, smtps }"

    udp_services = "{ domain, ntp }"

    block all
    pass proto udp to any port $udp_services keep state
    pass out proto tcp to any port $tcp_outbound keep state
    pass in proto tcp to any port $tcp_inbound keep state