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enw··on On Aging Alone (2021)
Also Christianity, where self-seeking is one of the worst things you can strive for.
enw··on 460M Indian Internet Users Are Now on IPv6
With IPv6 we can host from home without NAT or DDNS.
enw··on Passenger with “no idea how to fly” lands plane after pilot incapacitated
> Air traffic controllers are not necessarily pilots, but luckily, this one was a pilot and certified instructor.

Source? The article itself is quite short.

enw··on The day I discovered that Apple Maps is Kind of Good now
My girlfriend and I have long switched between Apple Maps and Google Maps.

Google Maps' terrible UX has become a joke now. It mentions irrelevant details (e.g. emphasis on compass directions, which no modern person relies on) and uses esoteric language when plain English works (can't remember well, but things like "stay on right of the fork"). It just felt... badly designed, if not amateurish.

Apple Maps is far from perfect, but the cradle feels warmer.

enw··on The Making Of Grand Theft Auto (1996) [video]
This is very soothing. I feel like I'm being cradled by calm, intuitive, thoughtful UX.
enw··on The Agony of Eros: Dating
Hot take: men don’t want promiscuous women as long-term partners, fundamentally people desire long-term partners, and the commoditization of sex contributes to weak relationships and broken families.
enw··on Ask HN: What's on your learning list?
It’s a mishmash of things and I’m only scratching the surface, sorry can’t give a coherent answer.

But some books (Mere Christianity, The Case for Christ, The Believing Scientist, stuff by Garry Habermas, etc.), Wikipedia, the Bible (especially letters of Paul and historical analysis of them), Reddit, going to Church, taking Alpha course provided by it, talking with pastors, with Christians, random articles (e.g. https://faculty.som.yale.edu/jameschoi/whychrist/), thinking about things myself, etc.

enw··on Ask HN: What's on your learning list?
As a former vehement atheist, learning more about Christianity. It’s a daily process.
enw··on twitter/the-algorithm
Nope. People are just excited that the Twitter cesspool might finally improve.
enw··on As creation stories go, the big bang is a good one
Why did Big Bang happen?
enw··on Google Docs will “warn you away from inappropriate words”
I feel it's retarded.
enw··on Why I quit this battle
I'm so confused, what is he on about?
enw··on Incident with GitHub Actions and Codespaces
What is the typical relative balance on your account? Does $7m mean 7 million USD? Over what period of time?
enw··on When to use generics
Last sentence covers it well:

> Another way to say this is that you should avoid type parameters until you notice that you are about the write the exact same code multiple times.

(The above will make design pattern astronauts shudder)

enw··on Van life (cancer edition) finale
But they might lie on the deathbed wishing "oh, I wish I'd made more money so I could've bought a house by the beach, that convertible Mercedes 190 SL, travelled more, eat more fine food, and been less afraid of splurging on expensive marvels of art and engineering".
enw··on Static Site Generator in 86 Lines
I'm not entirely sure if this is meant sarcastically.
enw··on Young women earn more than young men in several U.S. cities
Equal opportunity (not equal outcome) is good. What I'm worried about is that this correlates with the wider societal trend of positive discrimination in favor of women (hence discrimination against men) and dismissal of men and their issues.
enw··on Young women earn more than young men in several U.S. cities
Society should stop shunning masculinity and dismissing men’s problems. Teach young boys they can be strong, respectable men and they will prosper.
enw··on Sumerian dog jokes, or the difficulty of translating dead languages
Can someone share the tweet here?

Unable to see it.

enw··on Google Analytics 4
Why does Google keep breaking backward compatibility?
enw··on Google mandates workers back to Silicon Valley, other offices from April 4
Feels embarrassing to always go in the stall when I obviously only need to pee.
enw··on Google mandates workers back to Silicon Valley, other offices from April 4
I hate on-site because I'm unable to pee next to others. It's embarrassing, so I avoid office bathrooms.

Surely I'm not the only one? Guys don't talk about this.

enw··on MDN Redesign
I really dislike this (and I tend to love great design and obsess over UX and small details): reduced legibility (small and thin fonts, lower contrast in e.g. inline code, alert boxes all blend in), and reduced information (compatibility table is near useless, missing details in specifications).

Overall this seems like straight out of 2003. The inconsistent border contrasts and weird burgundy red accent only strengthens the feeling of student side project and lack of taste (red does not convey trust).

Also that logo is ugly. It looks frail and awkwardly narrow without being harmonious (see e.g. the tiny gap between /|).

Edit: I just realized every category has a different accent color (compare e.g. HTML and CSS sections). What an absurd joke from Mozilla.

enw··on Ask HN: What is the oldest, still supported OS?
It doesn't make me feel powerful, I feel bewildered that you waste other people's time by having to parse an uncommon 5-digit format, rather than using the near-universal convention of only displaying the minimum digits needed.

It's superior in every way: minimal, unconstrained, universal.

enw··on The Effects of Finland's Possible NATO Membership (2016) [pdf]
Meanwhile Russia is threatening military action if Finland joins NATO: https://ria.ru/20220225/nato-1775114040.html
enw··on The Effects of Finland's Possible NATO Membership (2016) [pdf]
For those unaware, the attempted Soviet invasion of Finland in 1939 was an embarrassing failure for the USSR. They managed to take only a small part of the country while suffering tremendous loss, despite a much larger army.
enw··on Ask HN: What do I need to learn to be useful as a hacker to defend my country?
Work for the government or a military contractor.
enw··on Why I will never buy another Samsung device
An acquaintance who worked as a security consultant for Samsung can corroborate. They said Samsung's security practices were terrible to say the least.
enw··on Show HN: Newser, utility written in go to generate a pdf with news content
Cool idea! With the user-hostile modern web, there's something appealing to having a visibly finite, static, and focused piece of content.
enw··on Logging at Twitter
I can see people are downvoting, but the whole article reeks of lack of attention to detail. It ends abruptly: "[...] including among core application teams and operations and"
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