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No need to talk about jdownloader in past tense. It is still actively developed and I prefer it over youtube-dl most of the time, because it is way faster due to use of multiple connections.

You're correct that this does not bring up the current path. Unfortunately it's too late for me to edit.

Cmd+Opt+C on the other hand does not copy the current path into my clipboard.

You can bring up the path and change it with Shift+Cmd+G when you need it.

I'm genuinely curious what you hate about Finder. What makes you think it tries to pretend that there is no file system?

I personally love Miller Columns and the lack of them in any other file browser is one of many things keeping me from switching to Linux. Navigating my entire file system just with arrow keys feels like a breeze.

If I remember correctly, Windows 95 opened a new window for every folder you clicked on. I recall very messy desktops on being five levels deep.

Wow. It really needed this response to the xkcd comic for the vision of Matrix to click with me. Matrix just went from "just another messenger who happens to have bridges to others" to "possibly the only communication software you’ll ever need" in my mind.

Although I was well aware of Matrix for years, that particular intention behind it somehow never got through to me.

I believe you are right. Shift+Ctrl+Power shuts off the display and it does so more reliably than Shift+Fn+Ctrl+Power. I guess I memorized it wrong.

To add some shortcuts that I use regularly but don't appear on the list:

- Ctrl+Cmd+Space brings up a Unicode-Char-Picker

- Shift+Alt+Cmd+V pastes from your clipboard without formatting from the source

- Shift+Fn+Ctrl+Power shuts off the display

The iOS version worked pretty well for a while, but some flaws kept me from using it regularly.

If you miss to tick your daily routines, the next day you have no clue to whether you're looking at the tasks of yesterday or now. There are no dates at all in the app and you have to explicitly pull down the list to update the view. I don't want to remind my habit tracker app to be ready to track my habits.

I'm actively looking for an alternative.

The one that made me smile the most is: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YkpxEezTu4s

The main melody and these cliché medieval chords are a fit made in heaven.

I find that most of the stuff on YouTube lacks this kind of cleverness though.

You're correct in the sense that this is what science is per Popperian definition. However, I would be careful to assume that many scientists are actually so busy refuting hypotheses. The Popperian ideal and the reality in science are two different things.

To cite a paper I currently read:

> "As Chalmers (1999) remarks, when we turn to history of science, the idea that falsificationism is actively undertaken borders on laughable (see especially Feyerabend, 1975). Not only do scientists exhibit extreme reluctance to falsify their work (Woodward and Goodstein, 1996), but if falsification had been followed as a scientific method, then many of the theories generated by some of the best minds in science would never have progressed beyond their earliest explications (see Chalmers, 1999: ch. 7; Feyerabend, 1975; Kuhn, 1970c: 234; 1970d: 13; Von Dietz, 2001: 22)." (https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/1350508409104504)

I haven't read all the sources. But it's worth mentioning that your point is controversial.

Well, we’re still neither arrested nor physically harmed, aren’t we? So our speech is still free. Ycombinator is not obliged to give our discussion a visible platform.

Here’s the obligatory xkcd: https://xkcd.com/1357/

If it comes to being confronted with the question whether legalizing genocide is tolerable, you claim moral beliefs are so relative that you would not rely on them too much.

If it comes to judging „what a truly tolerant person should do“ you make an absolute normative, hence moral claim.

This strikes me as rather inconsistent and therefore unconvincing.

Well, you found the flaw in their logic and by focussing on that, you kind of missed their point. Replace "legal" with "morally allowed“. Would you then tolerate the legalization of killing jews?

I 100% agree that we as a mature society, should be there and be prepared to tell them why they are wrong. But I think you are overlooking the possibility that they shrug and start killing. We should be prepared for that too.

Interesting. The whole thread proves to me the exact opposite. That free speech is very alive since nothing here has been censored yet. The only way I can explain our disparate perceptions is that we're talking about entirely different things.

By "free speech" I mean not being arrested or physically harmed for saying something.

Is it possible that by "free speech" you in contrast mean being entitled to be invited, keeping your job, and/or remaining uncontradicted?

Well then be tolerant towards those who open the doorway to a totalitarian society. Period.

See the paradox kicking in?

I don't think there is more danger to the existence of this command than to the existence of `rm -rf /` which I guess is more likely to be entered accidentally (though still very unlikely).

People who can use the command line are usually more aware of what they are doing than the typical end user.

This is hard to answer without any information on your motivation and prior knowledge.

You will sure have noticed that there are tons of free tutorials on the internet for all kinds of programming languages. If you're just curious about coding, pick one and go with it. If it doesn't suit your style of learning, pick another one.

This is the one that got me started: http://aelinik.free.fr/c/

The setup part is a bit dated. For programming basic little C programs just visit: https://www.tutorialspoint.com/compile_c99_online.php

I have a love/hate relationship with Mail. It has exactly the feature set and UI I would want from a mail application.

But god, these bugs. Somwhere down the line it became strangely slow. It's constantly displaying false values on how many emails it is about to fetch. And I accidentally deleted emails on more than one occasion without having a clue on how that happened.

In fact PlantUML uses graphviz under the hood.

I am a native German speaker and developer. Literally every resource I look up on the internet concerning my work I look up in English. I actually start thinking about my problems in English.

When MDN shows me content in German the first thing I do is switch to English to lower the cognitive load.

I can just speak for myself, but jumping back and forth between two languages is adding unnecessary cognitive load.

I also never ever heard someone talk about the "Meisterzweig" in a Git repository.

> Gemini is a new, collaboratively designed internet protocol, which explores the space inbetween gopher and the web, striving to address (perceived) limitations of one while avoiding the (undeniable) pitfalls of the other.

I had to look up what gopher is and still don't get the pitch. What are the perceived limitations of gopher? What are the undeniable pitfalls of the web?

If the author ever reads this: Why not write something along the lines of "Gemini is an internet protocol that avoids {{ insert pitfalls of the web here }} while being {{ insert opposite of perceived limitations of gopher here }}."?

> "As investment and development dollars continue flowing into the dominant mobile platforms — Android and iOS — it’s logical to expect that every useful desktop application that hasn’t yet been adapted to them already is on its way there."

I'm unsure whether some classes of desktop applications can ever be as useful on mobile platforms as they are on the desktop. I'm thinking of applications that legitimately need a lot of screen estate to stay useful like digital audio workstations or IDEs with extensive debugging support.

I contend that useful desktop applications are sometimes useful precisely because they run on a desktop.

I use a 2013 MacBook Air and while I really like Vscode for its features, UI responses are constantly lagging.

Native apps feel like they react an order of magnitude faster.

It's ok, but "snappy" really is the last description I would think of when using Vscode.

Otherwise you can visit: https://html5zombo.com/

If there is someone here who also played Donkey Kong Country 2 in his/her childhood: Some of its tunes make for a pretty decent hip hop beat.

https://rave.dj/sRxPBRstYvXeuw