slazaro

"Sorry, I understood the words but not the sentence"

What do you mean by "free country" as opposed to Canada?

It matters because most people believe the opposite, because it's a misconception. A lot of people also think that it was believed the world was flat for centuries, but it was known to be spherical or spheroid since greek times.

Maybe because you're looking from the outside in, into regular people's lives?

Or maybe because an astronaut explores the space between the stars, and watching unwatched videos is exploring the space between YouTube "stars".

But if you're playing a board game, don't you already have dice at hand?

Is that really a problem when you have a mobile app and a desktop app?

IMO, yes, it shouldn't be there. I've been following the guy for some years and was really surprised to see him called "infamous", so I went and googled for a while to see if he ever did anything "wrong".

If you like this kind of meta-talking, there a whole scene in the movie Schizopolis that's basically like this.

Have you tried asking in the subreddit "tip of my tongue" [0]? I have been amazed at what they can figure out about obscure stuff with very abstract clues.

[0] https://www.reddit.com/r/tipofmytongue/

I recently saw this [0] Numberphile video that touches some of the similar stuff at the end of this article, with the spirals being animated.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sj8Sg8qnjOg

Also, technologies that were first described in sci-fi books and then were developed (or had their feasibility studied) in the real world.

Being an asshole to assholes... makes you an asshole regardless.

You might find that people are more receptive to your statements if you didn't use insults along with them.

Wait, that doesn't make any sense. If the see-through bins solved a problem, why would they be removed when a different problem appears? They're independent problems, removing the bins when they're not involved in the new kind of attacks seems just random.

I'd go against the grain and recommend reading a modern book that's more guided and more of an overview, before reading the classics (which are great and very approachable!). A Guide to the Good Life, for instance, or Stoicism and the Art of Happiness.

Topics here don't have to be technical in nature. From the guidelines [0]:

On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting. [...] anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

I wonder when will they start getting legal trouble from the Lego Company. Using this kind of name seems like it just has potential downsides with no upside.

When I go for a run I usually bring my phone with me and use it as a gps recorder, but I also use the watch as a backup. I haven't checked how accurate it is. It usually takes a minute to get a good gps signal, and sometimes there's a lot of noise at the beginning of the route. It vibrates at each km mark, which is nice.

I believe there are some online reviews with better info about the physical activity recording.

I settled for an Amazfit Bip, which is not a Pebble but in some respects it's the closest thing there is right now AFAIK.

Battery lasts a month, screen is not e-ink but it's always on (I believe LCD), watchfaces are customizable but there's not a lot of good ones since the resolution of the screen and the colors aren't great. Functionality is pretty limited, but good enough for time, gps and notifications.

I have one and I'm satisfied with it, and I'm looking forward to what they do with v2.

And it was flagged, because why should we have a reasonable discussion about something that's controversial, right?

Agreed. Maybe a free or very cheap ($5 or $10 a year, something like that) for the very basic stuff: pageviews and referral urls maybe.

Have you tried 3rd party apps? On Android I use Relay and it works great, I assume on iOS there are similarly good apps.

I use !gvb on duckduckgo to search on google with verbatim turned on. It's the only way to make it work more-or-less properly for me.

The sentence structure for this is also gray. Sentences are all of similar length with little variation. After a few paragraphs you start to feel the monotony. There is no shorter or longer sentence to break the tension. I don't know if this was intentional or not. But I think it fits the tone of the article well. I'm writing in that way right now and it's rather uncomfortable.

Edit: Made me think of this: https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/373814-this-sentence-has-fi...

It seems that it's impossible for people to show charts without making mistakes in data presentation. This website is literally for showing data, and I'm not an expert and I still see errors all over.

For instance: Secondhand smoke deaths by age [0]

They show absolute numbers. You can see that for 70+ year olds, the quantity is increasing at 2016 compared to 2010 and 2005. But, how do we know that it is because the rate is increasing, or just because there are more 70+ year olds? If they had shown each age range divided by the total amount of people in the age range, it would have prevented this.

Every time I see absolute numbers in any kind of data visualization, immediately an alarm goes off I start to analyze whether that makes sense or they needed percentages, and many many times they messed up.

[0] https://ourworldindata.org/smoking#secondhand-smoke-deaths-b...

But those are not the ones that will be around you when you're in a class learning. You can learn in a class with people you've never seen before and you'll never see again, and when it's over, the problem is solved. Nobody needs to know that you went to classes, you don't have to tell anybody.

The only "difficulty" is that you have to not care what complete strangers think about you trying to learn. Your actual friends and acquaintances won't know anything.

And for anybody interested, next one is this weekend!

I won't complain about it being a spoiler since the sentence begins by saying that it's from a movie so anybody could stop reading before reaching the description, but it is a spoiler, it's a twist that happens that is spoiled by knowing what happens.

Most people see that Google does other things besides Chrome (the search engine, youtube, android, etc.), and that Microsoft does other things besides Edge/IE (Windows, come on). Ask anybody what Mozilla does besides Firefox. Most people have no idea.

Re: perspective-dependence: I'm assuming they meant that in actually hand-drawn anime, things like hairstyles or eyes are not realistic because they switch shapes and locations depending on the perspective (like, both eyes always visible even when almost-sideways, or hair spikes switching from left to right when the character turns, etc).