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Most likely they proxy traffic, act as a CA, and mandate devices used on ISPs have them as a trusted root authority.

Much of my graduate research followed closely to Haber’s work, too. His papers allowed me too finally grasp FVM with the “oh, that’s not so complicated” feeling you get from a great teacher. Really great stuff.

My point is that sawing off your hand is a false equivalency. tobacco ≠ meth ≠ alcohol ≠ weed ≠ sawing off hands. We are very derailed from the original conversation.

No, I don’t think tobacco and alcohol should be illegal. I do think addictively sawing off your hand should be illegal.

> Sawing off my own hand with a circular saw is legal. Why isn't poisoning my own brain?

If it was incredibly addictive and loved ones were dying (literally) to saw off their hands, then I'd want to make it illegal.

Why is cookie based auth a problem?

Does integer scaling matter for text or images? Or is it just for UI elements drawn on a pixel grid?

Is 5K standard on desktops? Where can I get a ~200 DPI 5K monitor for less than $1,299.95?

I use Windows at work for its killer feature I rarely see mentioned: text antialiasing and rendering.

I believe (?) Freetype came very close to Cleartype in Linux land, but MS holds patents on the extra bit that makes Cleartype just a bit better.

I assume text antialiasing will be unnecessary in 10 years due to the rising ubiquity of high resolution monitors, but that day is not here yet. I’ve noticed that macOS has just completely bailed on text antialiasing. Hooking up my MacBook Air M1 to my 109 DPI monitor is a truly awful experience. On the other hand, text on the Retina screen is holy grail. However, holy grail is unattainable for me at the moment. LG Ultrafine monitors are too expensive.

Due to DirectWrite, it’s very easy to get an end-to-end best-in-class GPU accelerated text rendering experience on Windows.

There's a great Planet Money episode I listened to recently about this.

https://www.npr.org/2020/01/24/799345159/episode-967-escheat...

Developers have been reimplementing W3C specs in Javascript. Forms don't work, password managers have no idea what's going on, back buttons are hijacked, and sometimes even scrolling is thought to be better handled by a 4MB JavaScript file than by the browser.

Replace phone number with encoded IPv6. Run mail server on your phone. Would solve a lot of issues.

Thanks for not using metaclasses for dataclasses. I’m looking forward to all libraries replacing metaclasses. For instance, in Django, I think all their metaclasses can be replaced by __init__subclass__. The main issue I have with them is how difficult it can be to compose a new abstract class using upstream classes with them.

I've been waiting for the headline that Microsoft is buying Docker. It's tightly integrated with WSL 2, VS Code, and Azure.

I spend a lot of time trying to find articles I once read on here via Google with...

  site:news.ycombinator.com some term

...but a many times "some term" is not in the title of the HN post, but in the body of the article. I didn't see any other tools that did this for HN.

My mechanic’s website is a work of old-school art.

http://www.waspauto.com/

Font rendering is a bit blurry.

I’d be curious to the answer to that too. I can think of quite a few reasons, but I’m sure there are nuances that are completely unknown to me.

I’m more interested in the parent question at the moment. I know almost nothing about the subject matter. What are the blockers for deploying a simple virus test at the scale we need?

Evolution mail and Geary, GNOME’s big and little email clients, respectively, are the best options right now. Both are great.

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