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throwaway167··on Thailand discovers nearly 15M tonnes of lithium
Increasing less fast is not the definition of slowing down, it's the definition of increase increasing less fast.
throwaway167··on Ask HN: What are you doing to stay employable in tech in the next 1-5 years?
Management's quite ambiguous.
throwaway167··on The quiet death of Ello's big dreams
Few web businesses have a truly huge minimum efficient scale.

For those that do, it's huge. For those that don't, it's quite small.

And for the small ones, Wordpress or similar powers their laundromat. A good small business. As you say, one that takes effort to run. Stripes the banks POS, perhaps someone has some mid scale in Tide sales in the middleware SaaS, there can be a franchise that doesn't fully adapt to how many socks Vs fur local customers have.

But think laundromat. Local restaurant. Which are fine businesses.

throwaway167··on Htmx and Web Components: A Perfect Match
'black' is a named web colour, no? In 1999. #000000 [1]

Or aside from re-writing standards, I don't get the point about translations. I go for classes on elements, like

    <h1>

    h1: var(--c0-b);
That means colours can be swapped around like an i18n language, by changing the palette that sits in the CSS file. Putting 'black' inline be it in actual inline css. or pseudo inline css that seems to be the case with the library here, is the exact opposite of an analogy to i18n in mind and seems a great step back, back to pre stylesheet days, in the power of abstraction.

[1] https://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/types.html#h-6.5

throwaway167··on A million ways to die on the web
+ Politically regulated out.

The political environment the site operates in turns hostile to website content or method of publishing. The operators face costs of compliance, loss of scope, or personal risk in continuing.

See: The UK Online Safety Bill [1] [2] and especially [3] "Ofcom's >1,500 page consultation on the Online Safety Act 2023, and why small companies don't have a chance"

[1] https://www.theverge.com/2023/10/26/23922397/uk-online-safet...

[2] https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2023/09/uk-government-knows-ho...

[3] https://decoded.legal/blog/2023/11/ofcoms-%3E1500-page-consu...

throwaway167··on Htmx and Web Components: A Perfect Match
> content:class="bg-amber-300 border-solid border-4 border-black rounded-md m-auto mt-32 px-8 pt-8 pb-32 w-3/5"

Is this inline CSS reimagined?

throwaway167··on Which word begins with "y" and looks like an axe in this picture? (2017)
> how much water is in that well?

Given the viscosity of air vs. water, one might assume there's no water in the well. Also, given some surface area of a bear, and air pressure from a cushion of air formed under the falling bear, the fall speed does seem a little high, at least for a calculation with that number of decimal places, but perhaps the well was located in the crust of the earth where gravity's a tad higher.

Living bears are also buoyant, and will be slowed down considerably on meeting the water, so the bear is unlikely to have reached the bottom of a water-filled well for a long period, if at all.

To answer OP, I'd say the bear is brown, because of the mud from the base of the (somewhat empty) well. However to an outside observer, given the lack of light in the well the shade of brown might not be discernable. A human in the well with the bear will see the colour of the bear as a low relative concern compared to A) being in a well and B) being in a well with a bear.

throwaway167··on Boeing 737 MAX 9 Part in Plane Blowout Was Made in Malaysia, Official Says
The bolt that wasn't put in the plane was made in Malaysia?

Will the shipping company next be blamed for not shipping it in time for the plane to be delivered?

Perhaps the shipping company can be Malaysian too. They lose planes. Or pick another developing country. Blame them. Must be their fault.

But it's not Boeing's fault. A faulty supplier. Not us. We'll change supplier. Not the management's fault. We'll keep going on. While more avoidable accidents happen. The number's small. Like the movie where an acceptable number of car accidents, of people dead, mean is re call's not necessary.

Boeing have decided there's an acceptable number of people that can die before fundamental changes happen in management. And that change in management will only happen after those people, those avoidable deaths, will be dead.

Is your next flight a Boeing?

throwaway167··on Which word begins with "y" and looks like an axe in this picture? (2017)
The widespread manufacture of low price goods in China had been at full steam for over a decade, closer to two, by 2005 the date of first manufacture of the ball.

And the manufacturer couldn't find the original designers' details. And laid no claim to copyright (which seems strange).

Perhaps it was the case of a knockoff of a knockoff of a knockoff. A CAD file from the 1990s bumping around commodity manufactures via QQ and USB sticks, the design adapted the next order of 10,000 items by any one of a multitude of small commodities producers. Having sourced during that time to now, I'd fully believe it.

throwaway167··on Post-mortem for last week's incident at Kagi
Your point highlights thinking about what's being designed.

everything is fine is different from nothing has been reported. A green is misleading, there should be no green as green is unknown, there should be nothing with a note that there's nothing, and that's not the same as a green light.

throwaway167··on Ask HN: Does airport fingerprinting compromise my biometric security?
If you're concerned about security, don't have all your sensitive information packed into a phone.

30 years ago much of the population was concerned about typing a credit card number into 'the internet'. Now we have a small, hackable, stealable, insecure by design device with bank, personal communications, business communications, social security, family photos and numerous more data depending on your choice of app. It's a great win of drip-drip very convenient life is faster now (it isn't, there's just more gap for not planning).

throwaway167··on Britain has seen an alarming rise in poetry sales
Austerity's cloud

Hope distant hung low for long

Rot ruin awake

throwaway167··on Slashing data transfer costs in AWS
> Running DB in "b" zone and your only server in "a"

There must be use cases for this, but I lack imagination. Cost? But not cost?

throwaway167··on Britain's 45 remaining cooling towers are architectural gems. Let's save them
APL was used extensively by the CEGB [1] not only in forecasting power/grid demand, but also for modelling the location and construction of many of the power stations themselves.

[1, as an example] https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145/22008.22027

throwaway167··on Would Luddites find the gig economy familiar?
David Ricardo covered this: Prices will adapt.
throwaway167··on British Post Office Scandal
> In fact, staff at Fujitsu, which made and operated the Horizon system, were capable of remotely accessing branch accounts, and had “unrestricted and unaudited” access to those systems

I worked in core banking systems for a bit. This is beyond basic, it demonstrates Fujitsu do not have controls in place to design compliant systems. Fujitsu should forever have their reputation tarnished and never let near financial systems. I don't often advocate selling a business to Tata, but this might be one of those times.

throwaway167··on Show HN: I made a HTMX Playground 100% in the browser
hx-target="closest <your element here>" hx-swap="outerHTML swap:1s" hx-push-url="false"

That'll return whatever partial thing you want to return and replace <your element here> (with 1sec effect).

throwaway167··on www.google.com – The page is blank when accessed
Track you in new and exciting ways.
throwaway167··on Polars
Amount of time to eat a pie while waiting for your numerical library of choice.

Conclusion: Polars gives you indigestion.

throwaway167··on Things engineers believe about Web development
2024 is the year of Rust and HTMX.
throwaway167··on Alaska Airlines grounds Boeing 737 Max 9 planes after mid-air window blowout
Australian Rules is played on a cricket pitch.
throwaway167··on Birb and Fossil: An RSS Revival?
I wasn't converted by algorthyms, but it's opening a new and exciting way to live my life.

For example, I've started ordering my calendar by algorithm. Whatever's at the top I'll go to, even if it was a week ago. Occasionally there'll still be some other people similarly sticking around in the concert hall or meeting room. Oh boy, do they have some stories!

I've also started paying bills by algorithm. If it's important enough, I'll pay it twice. Because algorithms at identifying the products I really need to pay for. If the algorithm doesn't prioritise it, I let it slide. I feel on the vanguard.

That's the only logical way. Give it a try.

throwaway167··on The One Billion Row Challenge
Sixteen thousand Excel 97 spreadsheets?
throwaway167··on "Anna's Archive" blocked following publishers' complaint
Content will still continue to be recorded * .

Econ 101: Content is now (has been for a while) non-rival - we can make identical copies, A's use of A's copy does not deny B use of their copy.

Content is also non-excludable - excluding access, there's no other description is what (some) publishers are trying to do.

* And it played out for music just fine, after a while. The RIAA fought tooth and nail. I don't think Elsivier et al can fight harder than they did. Perhaps they'll try dirtier.

Music is the harbinger of academic and book publishing. The faster this is realised, and they're really really show, the better off society will be. Do a spotify for books and papers, whatever. That much of the academic world lives in Zotero (or JabRef), LaTeX, (perhaps, I do) Zettlr and a motley crew of other grass-roots open source projects created for necessity, old-skool subscriptions and terrible terrible terrible library search engines suggests a field ripe for some picking. If content makes it onto a screen, it makes it into the wild.

throwaway167··on The year millennial internet ended
> Read more with unlimited access.

I don't think Wired got the memo that even the RIAA did.

throwaway167··on X Kicked Off 2024 by Screwing Up During Japan's Earthquake Emergency
Joking about Vice's finances in a story about X.
throwaway167··on Ask HN: What you paying for .com renewal and with whom
netim as I like independents and peace of mind. $15.
throwaway167··on Ask HN: Why are mathematical standards so low? (And what should they be?)
What do you define as graduate-level maths courses? The scope and depth vary considerably. What I did in the first year of a maths degree may be (is, have seen) considered graduate level in some (some) engineering courses. Could you be more specific?
throwaway167··on UK announces commercial operations of longest land/subsea interconnector
> very likely the UK already contributed to the EERP but *got nothing out of it*.

I for one am swimming in all the surplus cash not going to the EU any more, as well as all those upwards revisions to GDP and employment, and our pound soaring to new highs improving my purchasing power.

throwaway167··on Salt and salary: were Roman soldiers paid in salt? (2017)
Central bank digital currencies where the currency can be spent only on certain goods, and can be set to expire.
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