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To me, the thing that brings me back to Krita over and over is that fact that it's intuitive to use. I've been trying to use GIMP for the past 10 years and still have no idea how to resize an image/canvas or where the heck the crop tool is. In Krita those things are exactly where I end up looking for them.

There's a pretty good Numberphile Podcast episode[0] about this. It doesn't go deep into mathematical details of the topic, it's more of an overview of the current state of things and an explanation of ways in which ML can help coming up with new theories/conjectures.

[0] https://www.numberphile.com/podcast/deep-mind

If you don't mind me asking: how does the visa work for the UK from EU? For a long time now I've had your same idea to move to London (or close by) for a stint, from a different EU country, but then Brexit happened and I had basically given up hope.

Can you install and play video games on LTSC? Is there any multimedia limitation in that regard?

> three-dimensionally

I had actually never put it into words before now, but that makes a lot of sense, and it actually accurately describes how I see my screen.

To me, the OS taskbar is "higher" (as in, closer to me) than the application window title bar, which in turn is higher than whatever controls are in the application itself (think Firefox back and forward buttons, URL bar, setting menu etc), which is itself higher than whatever website it is currently loaded. And even more than this, my brain perceives the website to be "deeper" inside the screen than anything else.

Even right now typing this, the text area to me is "dug" inside the HN, making HN feel closer to my eyes than the texarea for the reply.

I wonder if that's experienced by others as well.

The comment you are replying to is referencing the language used in the statement made by Mozilla.

I hope it is not coming to you as news the fact that those corporate statements are scripted, likely much more heavily than a TV show.

Wait, how do you go from "is sleeping in the conference room without taking anything" to "is on drugs and got nothing to lose"? Like, WTF? Life happens to be hard at times for some people. For certain people, many people, it is very hard very often. That doesn't mean they got nothing to lose.

What does CBT stand for in this context?

What's the difference with being a contractor? You still have to pay taxes, right?

Would you be willing to share your cookbook? It sounds like an absolutely interesting idea, and I'm really curious to see what it looks like.

What did you do to get rid of your accent?

Seems to have a max take off weight of 19 tons by the look of it. The heli itself weights about 9 of those tons already, which leaves 10 tons of leeway. Those containers, from what I've read around here, can be well above 30 tons each. So that sounds like a no go. Also, they built only 31 of those helis in total according to wikipedia.

Is there a chance the ship could tip over in some type of manouver, considering it's stuck both at the front and the back?

What was your reaction to that? I'm genuinely curious, as I've never been in the situation and wouldn't know what to do.

Not to mention that to all of those things you can swap "cheaper" with faster and less painful, and it still holds true.

What's the alternative to vanguard for someone living in the EU? I looked into it, and in my country it doesn't seem possible to do anything with vanguard itself.

It says it's 10 to 20 km below the ocean floor. Are we as humans been digging in the ocean floor that deep, or even at all? That sounds like sci-fi to me, I'd love to learn more if that's actually feasible.

How do you wash electronic components without causing damage?

What are you using to do time tracking, if I may ask?

I'm sure there's a perfectly good reason behind that. But I must say, I already forgot two pins and there's now a pop up for the third one asking me to insert it every time I open the app, and I have absolutely no idea what this pin is either. Not entering it though doesn't seem to be preventing me from using the app though, so that's also weird. Meh, still not too much of a deal breaker to stop using Signal.

Do you mind if I ask you what those podcasts are?

Is that a common thing to do? sounds extremely bad mannered and unprofessional to me.

You take an offer, start working at a place, then two months later you go: "Welp, sorry guys, grass is greener on the other side, I'll be going now. It's not you, it's that you use Angular and they have React over there. Screw you and the effort you put into training and onboarding me for the past 8 weeks."

Am I out of touch or something?

Darknet Diaries - Episode 65: PSYOP - https://darknetdiaries.com/episode/65/

I find the whole Darknet Diaries podcast really fascinating. It covers topics like hacking (black hat, white hat), activism, hacktivism, cyber security and so forth, with a narrative approach that's very pleasant to listen to. This episode in particular talks about what PSYOP (Psychological Operations) is (basically how to use techniques to manipulate people to reach an outcome both in a war scenario and not) by talking to experts in the field and telling their stories. The episodes are all very good and high quality in my opinion, in fact I'm still working my way through the whole backlog, but I don't have much left already. I picked this one because it left me particularly uncomfortable at the end, while at the same time having taught me something.

Each episode also lists its sources (of the information, ndr) on the episode page of their website, which I find amazing.

Bonus episode: The Athens Shadow Games - https://darknetdiaries.com/episode/64/

Does this conference have a companion app like the FOSDEM Companion to check schedule and so forth?

> If Constantinople gets the works

Relevant song: https://youtube.com/watch?v=Z0JhC3LO0-8

Do you happen to have any resources for learning more about API design in the way you described it? I'm really interested to learn more.

Your comment was very insightful. I used to think somewhat along those lines when it came to designing an API. My thought was that and endpoint was to represent an action the user could perform, and it was none of their business how that was implemented. But I've recently been enlisted in a project to rewrite a whole API (admittedly not a good one at all) where it was decided to use GraphQL. The rationale was "some of our endpoints return enormous objects. Not all of the data is needed every time the client calls that endpoint. Let's implement a way to let the client only ask for the data it needs". It sounded great, but I'm thinking now it might not be all gold as it was presented to me.

This is one of the best comments I've ever read on HN, bar none. Thank you for that.

I wonder if those type of fears are something we grow out of with age, or if something else is going on there.

I really don't understand what's behind those types of irrational fears. Some nights I can't even walk from the kitchen to the bathroom without turning the light on in the corridor. I know there's nothing behind the corner, just like I'm sure you knew there were no "terrible things in the night coming to get you", yet I must turn on the light

When I was a kid, I used to think that adults are not afraid of the dark because they are adults. I'm almost 30 now, and I often wonder if I never really became an adult that's never afraid of the dark.

Yes, I know what's the point. But how do you avoid putting all your eggs in one basket? You can't host your email on more than one "provider" (including self host), and the vast majority of important services that you link your email to (bank, digital identity, taxes and other government services) does not allow you to have more than one linked to it; which means, that one goes down, you don't have one. Sure, I can give my accountant and my lawyer a second email address, hosted on a different provider, but that poses two problems: 1. how are they gonna know when one is working and one isn't? It's not like you get a notification if your email didn't reach most of the time, it just drops; 2. if you always send all emails to both addresses, now two providers have my data instead of one (of course excluding if one is self hosted). And you also need to always keep in mind that for all things important: one is none, two is one; so you should really have 3 addresses on 3 different providers according to that, which brings us back to the problems above. (and I'm not even mentioning the confusion that it would generate if you don't manage to get the same name with every provider "Wait, was it beshrkayali@gmail.com, or was it alibeshrkay@gmail.com? Or was that fastmail?")

As I said (literally in the second sentence), I don't rely on Google for everything, as you mention. I don't actually rely on Google for anything other than gmail, and of that I am also unhappy. The point I was trying to make is that there aren't really alternatives, and I was hoping someone might come out with a suggestion about how to overcome that problem.

What worries me the most is email. I basically don't use any other Google services other than Gmail and YouTube, but for email I really don't know of an alternative.

Sure you can argue "move to Fastmail/Protonmail/Hey/whatever", but those can also go down on you just like Google is down now. And self hosting email is apparently not a thing due to complexity and having to forever fight with being marked as spam (ndr.: not my personal experience, I never tried self hosting, just relying what I read here on HN when the topic comes up).

So, yeah, what do we do about email? I feel like we should have a solution to this by now, but somehow we don't.