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The 360 remains my favorite M$ console to date. The indie game store was a wild place with some real hidden gems, the controller is still good, and it had the last good iteration of Geometry Wars

You can use spider egg sacs but it seems directly from the spider is more efficient since you don't have to wait for them to make the sac

As someone who spent a lot of time answering and moderating (not full-on moderating, but editing, voting, reviewing first questions, etc) in the WordPress SE, it was jarring sometimes to see the attitudes that the real mods brought in.

However, when you spend an hour looking at low-quality answers, questions that have he's been asked like ten times already, etc, I get the sense that the people doing the moderating were trying their best - some of them, at least. No doubt there are mods there who just enjoy the miniature lower trip a la overzealous reddit mods, and I can't imagine the stress of trying to handle the amount of traffic some of the exchanges got.

How does increasing the retirement age help? Genuinely curious

Do you have that posted anywhere? I'd love to peek at it

I haven't been around HN toooo long, this is the first time anything posted here has brought a tear to my eye. That's very sweet, and I'll be throwing a little rebeccapurple in to projects from here on out.

I can take a brief look at the social damage meta has done and say that, to me, none of those contributions are worth the pain that they have caused.

From the messed up self-image issues they instill on children to the hand they played - either intentionally or through pure ignorance - in ethnic cleansing, I couldn't care less about what they've done in the tech space when those commits are signed in blood.

I can't reply to your original comment about how heads bounce, I will say that I had a friend on a bike late at night who got t-boned by a sedan. Her face went right into the hood of the car and the aluminum gave way and dented.

Her injuries were bad but not nearly as bad as they'd have been if the surface had just remained completely flat.

How do you know that it's hollow?

Beyond that, the second half of my first paragraph was about how some of those people probably become more than just acquaintances.

I think the cool thing about this, especially as an older person (40's), is that it creates a low-stress, high-interactivity scenario. So while some of the people may just be acquaintances that come to one or two potlucks, some will inevitably click and become more than just once a month dinner guests.

Forming friendships after schooling isn't hard, but it takes work. That said, I've had a good number of small social interactions that usually don't even lead to an acquaintance over the last decade, and even those feel good just to get out of my shell. Then there's the people I'd recognize if I saw them again and maybe remember their names. And a small but close group of about 12 and counting have become incredibly close friends that have recently begun mingling with my prior set of really close friends (different states, so we have a couple yearly gatherings).

I forget what this is called in medicine but someone linked about this on HN before. What I remember is this idea that there are so many things _that are wrong with all of us_, at any given time, that calling attention to and treating all of them would be more harmful than helpful. I think bodies being perfectly healthy is probably not how it works, it's more so that all the "bad" happening never rises to an emergent level.

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I dunno, we've been using pnpm for years now without issue, and it's been faster and a little more secure to boot!

I don't know enough about Angular 2 to know exactly how much of a bad choice that was, but my experience in React has always been "they should have used something else". I vaguely recall our lead backend being unhappy with his decision to do the original admin panel in Angular, but I chalked that up to him not being a frontender.

For context: I begrudgingly adopted Vue a while ago after finding React to be too unwieldy, and part of that opinion is definitely related to a poorly written Redux implementation.

I don't care much on the politics of it all because I do think a lot of it is silly, especially with how profit-motivated companies will still find a way to profit.

I will say I've had a number of Hue bulbs starting back in about 2018 and have yet to lose one except for a surge that got an unprotected strip. Otherwise, plenty of white and color bulbs have worked steadfast for nearly a decade while costing a fraction in energy. That said, I do miss the warmth of incandescent lighting, but I don't miss replacing bulbs multiple times a year

Overhead lights may generally suck, and I can say that I've been grateful to have one every time I've needed it.

> The outcome is that very little serious technology or influential companies come out of Europe. And salaries for things like engineer are about a third of that in the US.

Sure, but plenty of companies want to operate within the EU. While I feel any legislation will only affect their operations within the EU, having the infrastructure to operate under privacy laws there means it'll be easier if/when other jurisdictions follow suit

I really appreciated a friend reaching out to me with some PHP questions today. It was, to me, fairly basic but he was having a hard time grokking the documentation vs reading what his coworker wrote (some code using output buffering).

I brushed up on the docs since I haven't touched it in a couple years, explained my understanding of the ob_* functions, and gave him a very brief demo on a PHP playground.

He could have asked any LLM to tell him what that chunk of code did, and to explain the three functions, and instead he reached out to me. That felt _good_. Talking shop has always been a good way for me to form connections, because the pressure to socialize becomes task-oriented and you start to learn about how people think and feel, and that opens up easier paths for actual connection. It was nice.

Just like the Old Internet still exists - niche websites, mailing lists, probably a BBS or two (likely more right?), the pre-LLM world will trudge on, for a time. I hope LLMs actually lead to good things for people in the long run, and for now I personally will remain sparse in my usage of them.

You're looking for `@vue/reactivity`[1] - looks like it provides ref, computed, watch, and some internals.

Honestly, this seems pretty nifty. Most projects I'd do today would likely have more value in Vue as a whole, and it's nice to see these kinds of things exposed and standalone bits

[1] https://github.com/vuejs/core/tree/main/packages/reactivity/...

Facebook and Google are probably two of the biggest players when it comes to how online advertising has been shaped.

I have a handful of mugs that I've had for decades at this point, a couple even from my parents kitchen that they used some 30 years and probably before then.

And then there's thrift store mugs - sure they were almost certainly trucked to _somewhere_ a long time ago.

> a chat window is actually HORRIBLE for many tasks. i really strongly hope this isn't what the future of software looks like

I strongly concur - I don't want to "tell" the app to level the audio between several clips only to have it level everything to 0 and then take five minutes to undo etc

I dropped Reddit after the Apollo/API fiasco and came here, and it's been a good change. I still skim Facebook occasionally for niche group stuff, by and large I just don't consider Reddit save for searches that take me there but the constant flood of interstitials has me avoiding it more and more even then

I 100% agree. I've been working on a component library rebuild at work and accessibility is a key focus, granted I don't think that would be the case if some of our contracts didn't mandate it but it's fiiiiiine

I'm someone who enjoys this kind of work, especially when the target is a stylized drop down - I got to spend a week with the MDN page for the ARIA combobox open, trudging through all of the ins and outs of keyboard accessibility and I know I'm still missing a couple things (typing when the control is focused but not open, for example), and having clearly defined specs is something we don't seem to get a lot in webdev

I'm too lazy to look it up, but someone on HN linked a drone test done with an AI pilot that was tasked with destroying surface-to-air missile targets (in a simulation). At one point, the human operator instructed it not to hit certain SAMs, and since the goal was to destroy SAMs, the AI took out the base with the human operator.

On the next run, they instructed it not to take out the human operator in pursuit of its goal, so instead it targeted the radio towers the human used to instruct it.

Thanks! Sorry about 1, I was worried I had missed it in the readme, I was hopping all over the docs pages before coming back to the post lol

Very cool stuff, will be trying it out

jj is a pretty nifty VCS - certainly worth looking in to. A lot of the concepts run parallel to Maiao I _think_, I'm still learning jujitsu myself.

A couple questions:

1) what's the name about? 2) does this get wicked messy if I'm the only one on my team using Maiao?

I'm much more attentive in some meetings when my hands aren't on the keyboard. For particularly important meetings I'll get out my knitting so that I can be close by while having something that's not failing unit tests occupying my hands

I don't do enough with finder to mind it's existence, but there's always Midnight Commander

I will echo the flagged comment in spirit:

Those are wild headings that read like an op-ed on a site covered in ads. I've said some of those things irl, and "relief pitcher" is a thing, and in solution those phrases are fine. As section headings it's wild imo