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Who the hell thought this was a good idea? This is so out of touch with the Firefox userbase I almost want to believe they’re intentionally killing it off.

For application level firewalling like you describe I use:

https://github.com/tnodir/fort

In the Culture novels, Iain Banks imagines that we would become uncomfortable with the uncanny realism of transmitted voices / holograms, and intentionally include some level of distortion to indicate you're speaking to an image

Also worth noting, as someone who worked with appliances in the past, I have heard nothing but praise for speed queen products. Sentiment is that they are extremely reliable, if expensive.

Atom, sublime, visual studio, eclipse, probably every single jetbrains editor…..

Learning the app is not the difficult part. It is honing your style within the toolset you're comfortable with. Every DAW has its pain points and learning curve. Spend a few hours a week with each and see which one works for you, is my advice. Same as any other tool, you can't create effectively until you've become comfortable with it.

Taking this opportunity to evangelize for Seveneves, which is much more relevant to the article.

I think with enough exposure to the overdone contrast ratios, you start to get tired of it. It sacrifices a lot of clarity. I agree it does look good in some cases, for example I enjoy the look of Battlefield 1 a lot, but when playing it I often noticed I had issues seeing detail in darker areas.

Overuse of reflective surfaces are the same kind of fad we saw with bloom in the mid 2000s and early 2010s. Now that SSR everywhere is technicaly feasible gamedevs want to use them everywhere. I think this started 5-10 years ago and RTX has renewed the meme, unfortunately.

Yeah it's definitely a new font. But harkens back to fixed, I think.

I've never seen somebody get downvoted so hard on HN I can barely read their text. Congrats.

Fortunately most of the top level teams stick to the same dimensions:

https://soccerfeed.net/premier-league-pitch-sizes/

https://worldsoccertalk.com/news/pitch-sizes-of-stadiums-in-...

Consider the recent Club World Cup final and semi-finals, hosted on an American football field with shitty SIS pitch. I saw more slips from players in the semi-final than I've ever seen in a single game.

I am entirely serious as well . I have always wondered what the propo font evangelizers really saw, so I gave it a go after trying (and finding problems with) 6 different fonts in this thread. It’s a game changer for readability. My only gripe is the parentheses, they are a bit hard to see without mono spacing.

I also have to switch between different font rendering scenarios daily, it’s such a pain. If I could use vscode exclusively all would be well, but I’m stuck with windows font rendering in Rider usually. Segoe is one of the few fonts that looks great.

Thanks to this thread I am now using Segoe UI for my IDE.

You might enjoy terminus:

https://terminus-font.sourceforge.net/

https://files.ax86.net/terminus-ttf/

I think the typical perfume user does not wear it every day, or at least the same scent every day. I certainly don't.

I found very quickly when I started associating with philosophy majors, reading the material usually does not correlate to understanding it, and many people simply don't want to put in the effort to understand something that isn't clear at first glance.

I do think your point that some people wouldn't read regardless is bad. People will waste time doing things that are available to them. If less forms of entertainment are available, picking up a book becomes more commonplace. I often wonder how much humanity's rate of progress will slow (or regress) in the coming decades.

While the premise of 'draws are boring' is debatable, I do think the discussion on unequal finances in prem clubs needs to continue. For some years parachute payments have helped with the relegation issues, but there seems to be a recurring issue of the top 4 clubs ignoring their spending limits and overall compounding their power transferring top players.

Also, nice article. I enjoyed the interactive graphs.

I like this a lot. A suggestion, I think it would be good to have a 'latest update' date on the articles, indicating the latest update of any source used. I understand this could be difficult but it would be nice.

Yep. I had similar issues asking Gemini for help with F#, I assume lack of training data is the cause.

Someone commented in this thread a few days ago (deleted now) that DNS blocklists do not work on Spotify anymore for whatever reason. I would guess your best option might be spotify on web with ublock origin (but I haven't tried it).

Absolutely no need to do kernel level packet filtering for this. You can use the absurdly easy hostfile approach, or a simple self-hosted DNS server. This looks entirely LLM generated as well.

Also... who the hell tries to make changes to a user's sudoers file from their install script? This is an awful project.

Sounds like it was bound to happen. If she hadn’t hyper focused on your book, she’d likely have found something else.

I have this problem when using the JShelter addon if I enable the privacy switches. Your browser is probably resisting fingerprinting.

This is the way I feel as well. I think there is an ethical way of using AI as an assistant: have it either generate a high level plan for what the architecture of your solution should look like (and decide whether the choice looks correct for the domain and actionable), or let it generate the code and then walk yourself through each line, documenting the solution as you go. I will go as far as to do the latter and then delete the code, re-implementing it to make certain I understand the relevant concepts.

As much as I’d like to get resizable bar on my Turing GPU, the amount of homegrown “this might work” patching necessary is really off putting.

> These findings highlight the importance of careful experimental design when evaluating AI reasoning capabilities.

I would like to carefully design my response to this article with a downvote

I think it’s important to take into account these low demand is likely due to the low popularity of soccer in the US. US national games don’t even draw a full stadium.

The latest episode is extraordinary!