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Does any country _not_ sound like that? I'd like to go there.

Nice, though throwing a little context along with the url wouldn't hurt. For those that haven't opened the url yet, it's a list of "trending" HN topics for the last 8, 16 or 24 hours.

Is it only using hacker news as a source, or other sites too? I only saw HN links, but I didn't look at them all.

> In Ballerina, every program is a sequence diagram that illustrates distributed and concurrent interactions automatically. The diagram is the code. The code is the diagram.

I'm not sure it's a feature I'm missing in current languages, but I sure am curious about this. Maybe "ballerina by example" should implement a toggle between diagram and code views?

I don't think so (well, not entirely so anyway).

I had switched to "50% less sugar & salt" [0] some months ago, and more recently discovered the "no added sugar & salt" [1] version and use this one since then. Sure it's not exactly the same taste as "regular" heinz ketchup but I'd say it's close enough.

[0]: https://www.heinz.co.uk/products/tomato_ketchup/products/hei... [1]: https://www.heinz.co.uk/products/tomato_ketchup/products/tom...

I like those, even when it's been down for one or two hours only, but the title should be edited so that we know the outage is over. I'd still prefer this thread to be replaced by a postmortem but I don't think there's one yet.

Agreed. "Aggressive" telemetry is still annoying, but google is on a whole other level.

What makes it better than chrome or other browsers? Does it have some key features that make it good appart from not being owned by google?

That or they only used `while` (and friends if available in the language) loops.

> Stop using pesticides.

That. Though I'm very skeptical about the rest of your message. Do you happen to have any source by chance?

And also try not to buy (or at least avoid it as often as possible) products that come from those that use pesticides to reduce the impact of farming.

Add pollination to the equation and we're even more fucked =/

Same, but I also noticed more 500 errors (and a few strange bugs, but that happens to any software).

I guess it's expected when a product moves faster that it breaks a little more often (and since I use it a lot, I have many occasions to be there at the wrong time), so I'm not worried [yet] and am just glad we get new features.

Just tried it with my toddler and she loved it :)

(I then opened her a tty with vim on an old laptop and she enjoyed it too.. until she managed to exit vim Oo)

Nat Friedman just replied to this tweet:

> Sincere apologies Jason. We will investigate what happened here and learn from it.

https://twitter.com/natfriedman/status/1136216389054881792

I'd say because we're in a fucked-up world of short-term profit. I just can't come up with any other reason for such madness.

Neko has been around for 10+ years and is being replaced progressively by HL (HashLink, [1]), from the same creator.

I mainly know Neko as one of many transpiling targets for Haxe programming language [2] (10+ targets including JS, PHP, C++), and have used it many years ago for all my backend stuff.

[1]: https://hashlink.haxe.org/ [2]: https://haxe.org/

That's not entirely true. `ExprOf<T>` itself is not checked in either the macro function argument or return type, but that's only meant for static extension (and maybe some other features?).

Expressions generated by your macros will be parsed by the type checked. You won't be able to do

    var s:Int = StringGetter.getString();

Because you'll get a compilation error there (http://try-haxe.mrcdk.com/#48EDb).

Yeah, seems like marketing bullshit (1) to me, even if the functionalities themselves seem pretty good (in theory, haven't tested yet).

(1) The term might be stronger than needed; I meant something a lot closer to "click-baity" than "garbage".

Considering the privacy issues (see bsdetector's comment [0]), I'm not sure they'd willingly add this. They may end up not having much choice because of the "positive" aspects of the feature being too much of an advantage in chrome, but this feature doesn't seem to fit their philosophy.

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19602877 > Under "privacy considerations": "so slightly more information about the user's scrolling position on the embedding page is exposed" and "a deferred cross-origin image gets an additional piece of information about the user's scrolling position".

Yeah.. which will be printed a couple dozen times (with I guess most of the copies ending up never being read?).

With a lot of proxies (in the linked document (french) [0]) I didn't know about; perfect!

[0]: https://torrentfreak.com/images/scihuborder.pdf

The linked document (in french) [0] says that there have been similar requests in the USA, Italy, Germany and UK.

[0]: https://torrentfreak.com/images/scihuborder.pdf

Yeah. I get that all the time with vivaldi address bar and it's driving me insane =/

Edit: and I have disabled both frequently visited pages and search there, but it still manages to reorder things after a couple seconds

Did you notice any improvement on this in the Key2?

I have the KeyOne and while I love the feature and it works somewhere between OK and excellent, I have trouble correctly using the typing-oriented gestures (auto complete, delete word). I end up avoiding them because I just can't make them work with near 100% accuracy (accuracy being one of the main points of a physical keyboard to me).

Not sure about this. We (my family and some friends) eat galettes and raclette on a regular basis. Maybe not weekly, but at least monthly (no raclette in summer though).

I found the list pretty accurate for France, actually. Admittedly, I didn't put too much thought on this but that list seemed legit to me.

I generally agree with that, but what about mobile? AFAIK android kernel updates are really slow to reach users; when they actually do (depending on support from vendors, which vary a lot).

I had issues loading my dashboard too for a couple minutes. But it seems to work fine now.

> Also, if you have an annual tradition of forecasting the upcoming year, please also make it a tradition of evaluating your previous year's prediction.

Good point, I was curious too, and I found exactly that for 2016:

https://avc.com/2016/12/what-did-and-did-not-happen-in-2016/

Edit: Same for other years: https://avc.com/2018/12/what-happened-in-2018/ https://avc.com/2017/12/what-happened-in-2017/ https://avc.com/2015/12/what-didnt-happen/ http://avc.com/2014/12/what-just-happened/

I'd say _add_ issue tracker reference, not replace the description with it

    43ec6aa Fix error when the URL is not reachable (#1001)
    4fe84ab Add error message if something went wrong (#1002)
    753aa05 Add server fingerprint check (#1003)
    df3a662 Fix shadow box closing problem (#1004)

I wish delivery services (mainly food delivery) would accept directions using this, like "Appartment block entry at XXXX+XX with entry code YYYY, building entry XXXX+XX with door code ZZZZ" (with code parsing somehow).

They keep getting things wrong for my location, but things like that (= simple and integrated with maps) would make it easy.

I like this point of view :) Sadly, I'm having trouble believing in it, but I would love being wrong on that.