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I have celiac. This is my experience. I am grateful for how common eating gluten free is, no matter the cause. But a lot of restaurants have started saying “gluten free friendly” instead of “gluten free”. The communities online are great and finding the best places to eat.

Grocery food is way better than it was even just 10-20 year ago. It’s great.

I don't have a Dyson vacuum. But when I got new carpet the company I bought it from gave us a "How to care for your new carpet" brochure. And one of the first things was "do not use a Dyson".

I asked about it and they said that they can ruin your carpet. Too much suction, I think is what they said. It's been a few years.

Firefox isn't perfect. I'm sure if you go back to the last major browser war, you'll see that Firefox didn't "win" that war. But they did win the fight they were fighting. They proved that you don't have to put up with the monopolistic behavior of Microsoft to browse the internet.

Today, Google and Microsoft and Apple are fighting Browser War 2, and it looks as though Google is winning. However, Firefox is still fighting, but not to win. But to prove that we don't have to put up with the monopolistic behavior of Google to browse the internet.

Firefox has had it's ups and downs. But "winning the war", in my mind, isn't the point of Firefox.

“Minecraft Java Edition” springs to mind :P

Otherwise I mostly only see this when it’s “for developers by developers”

I agree, as an employee. I mentioned this to my director and he also agreed with me but brought up some logistics I hadn't thought about because it wasn't my job to care.

What do you do about office space? The company is paying a ton of money to give everyone their desks. How do you handle the logistics of having people coming in on random days? Share desks? What if you both come in on the same day? Have unassigned desks? So you're sitting by random people? But the point of coming in is being with your team. But how do you coordinate that? What if half your team chooses monday/tuesday for their office days and the other half chooses something else? None of these are show stoppers, but I also can list a bunch more little "paper-cut" problems with the hybrid approach at scale.

At some point it's just fully-remote with an expensive office. I think those things will naturally work themselves out. But it makes sense why someone who's job it is to care will not know up front to solve it. I think the solution is to not try and solve it ahead of time.

At some point it seems we'll naturally converge on smaller office spaces with more OFFICES and less "open". Some people will always want to come into the office. Those people will be supported. Some people will never want to come into the office. Those people will also be supported. Teams will figure out what works best for them.

For me, I plan to work fully remote the rest of my career. And right now that's a sword I'm willing to die on. Do I miss some things about in-office attendance? Yes! So I plan to go in occasionally. I'll plan that around the schedules of people I want/need to see. Also, sometimes I just need a freaking shared whiteboard. And no, Draw.Io and digital whiteboards somehow just don't work the way I want.

I find this to be more true in "gift-priced" sets. ~$25 and less.

But once you hit the ~$30+ sets, you see more and more creativity with the generic pieces. I would assume that the cheaper sets need to look good but have fewer pieces, so they reach for bigger pieces to fill in the gaps.

$100+ sets are mind-blowing in how fun they are to assemble and to see the level of creativity the designer(s) used to create the set. I got the recently released Mario question block cube. And I can't get over how fun it was to assemble.

I think the summary is: to really get to the "reusablility" there's a tipping point in those price ranges I listed above. If you buy a bunch of little sets or one big set, you'll hit that point.

I bring it up here because they’re reversing the LG firmware and modifying it. I would love a fork of this work that does nothing.

While a developer, this kind of work is outside my current wheelhouse and I just don’t have the time to learn and fork it myself. So throwing out my desire. Half hoping someone out there wants it more than I do.. and half just expressing my frustration with modern TVs.

Here's what I want for custom firmware: nothing. I don't mean "I don't want custom firmware". I want custom firmware THAT DOES NOTHING. Turn the TV into a dumb monitor. Do nothing else. Don't make me wait X seconds long for the TV Software to boot. Because I don't want it. I don't need it. I have external devices that do everything I want.

I actually disagree with your novel example. When I read a novel, the first half of the book is building up to the second half. There's so much uncompressed information that I take in. Learning the characters, learning the environment, etc. While I read the same WPM, the second half FEELS faster to me because now I'm on to the good stuff and the details are behind me. I'm over the hump.

I've always assumed part of it is more relative. Meaning: When I'm 5, 10 years old seems like a lifetime away... because it is. Going from 5 to 6 is, relatively speaking, the same as going from 50 to 60. I assume my brain has so much to look back on as I'm older to compare against that 1 year just "feels" like less now.

With that said, I'm sure there's a million explanations. And all of them are probably, at least somewhat, true.

IMO, The difference being overlooked here is that the reason windows is so smooth is because it’s cost effective to target it when you’re making hardware.

If MS pivoted to a Linux Kernel, then all that hardware will quickly get better support for it. Hardly anyone does this today because the juice isn’t worth the squeeze (yet).

This reminds me of “Temperature Blankets”. They seem pretty well known in knitting/crocheting world. Typically they’ll do a row or two of a color representing the weather for each day of the year.

My wife made one for the year 2020. It’s really neat looking at it and seeing how the weather fluctuated in and out the days and weeks. I think it would be so cool to have several for different important/notable years… but they can be so much work!

Oh I like it. Thanks!

Thanks. I’ll be messing with this for sure!

Is there a tool/platform/etc like pico that would allow you to make SNES era quality/style games?

I love love pico! But also SNES is my childhood console. I would love something as simple/fun as Pico.

it's actually C++. And it's the same codebase for all the consoles/mobile devices

https://minecraftbedrock-archive.fandom.com/wiki/Minecraft

> This version is programmed in C++ and is available for a multitude of platforms including iOS, Android, VR, Xbox One, and Nintendo Switch. Since the Bedrock engine is a full rebuild different from the Java Edition, there is a noticeable difference between Bedrock and Java edition.

According to Minecraft YouTuber/commentator Xisumavoid[1], it was removed for GDPR or a related law. And now they're adding it back in a compliant manner.

1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4WEX_ICnZHE or the snapshot video just before it?

> Even with all the profiling the ads still suck.

It seems silly to me as well. But when it comes down to it, they serve the ads that pay the most, right? So perhaps all the fancy machine learning and all the other garbage is just a way to say to their customers, "Hey, advertise with us, look at all this fancy stuff!"

and then someone comes along and says, "hey, we'll pay more than any other relevant ad..." and POOF. All of it doesn't matter anymore. At the end of the day, it's about getting the dimes in the right pockets.

Fwiw: I just installed RA2:YR via origin on windows 10 and it took zero tweaking. I haven’t tried multiplayer yet though…

[edit] I think this is what I bought:

https://www.origin.com/usa/en-us/store/command-and-conquer/c...

Reminds me of this kind of thing:

https://usa.streetsblog.org/2017/09/13/wide-residential-stre...

I was first introduced to "wide streets in neighborhoods are more dangerous than narrow" on HN years ago. (I don't think it was the linked article, but that was the first one that came up just now after a search :P )

Since having read that, I've actually noticed how true this is, at least to me anecdotally. When I'm driving in a neighborhood with crowded streets, I can't bring myself to go over 15MPH, much less over the speed limit (typically 25 in neighborhoods in the US).

Wide streets give a sense of security. So I feel like people are less likely to pay attention going around bends, parked cars, etc, than if they didn't have that sense of security.

Gas stations around me (Utah) have all replaced their magstripe with a dual magstripe/chip reader. It drives me nuts though, because you still have to insert your card ALL THE WAY IN as if you're using the mag stripe, and then it decides which one to use.

Are gas stations not a big target for skimmers? Why didn't they design it to avoid the magstripe-skimmers? have two inserts or something, I don't care. But now we're a FULL generation of gas station pumps away from being free'd from skimmers. I just don't understand.

Also, don't get me started on the audio/video ads at the pump these days. They're the worst. I'd rather have to pay inside than have "while you're pumping" ads.

I don’t disagree. I’m simply pointing out it’s still used. That severing links and arguing in favor of that by saying “no one uses it” is inaccurate.

I work in the healthcare sector. I tend to come across FTP urls related to my industry often. Usually from .gov sites.

I think the commenter is saying that the Gov is afraid so they spy. And that MS’s comment helps us see that. (Rather than the Gov is afraid because MS is speaking out. )

Milkshape! I loved that software. It was so intuitive for me. I was hoping clicking this link it’d look more like MS3D and less like blender… and I think it does. I’ll have to download and give it a try

I think your parent is saying that the quote was given ASSUMING insurance. So when the bill was formally given, it didn't match the quote because the quote was given under false-assumptions (about insurance).

Comcast in the US has injected content into non-secured pages to notify customers of things. That is a horrible business practice that should not be allowed.

What can I, an individual with nearly zero political clout (I can vote... but I live in a gerrymandered district... another layer to the problem!) do to get this problem fixed? Best case scenario, I say something, it goes viral, people march in protest against bad ISPs, the monopolies get broken up, etc. But how long does that all take?

Meanwhile, I'll only use HTTPS websites as a first-line of defense. The "much bigger problem" can be solved in parallel.

My favorite variation included these rules:

1 - Double 1s or double 6s: steal any property from any player. 2 - you can build on any property you own. You’re not forced to build evenly and you’re not forced to own a monopoly on that color.

A 2 player game would last an hour, maybe 2 tops. 4 player still took some time but was still fun and exciting :P

Also, with these rules the balance of the game shifted. BW/PP are good, but not the best. Utilities and railroads are pretty lame. The winning properties seemed to me to be, from best to less best: Orange, Red, Pink, Yellow, Green. Orange and red because they’re properties most likely to be landed on after leaving jail. :)

If you press the ‘/‘ key you can search the menus. Very useful. I use it all the time now :)

I guess you’re responding to something I didn’t intend to convey because I’m a little confused to find this comment.

To be clear: what I was responding to the comment that said only “contact law enforcement”. I was merely pointing out that “contact[ing] law encoforcement” is not a silver bullet.

But I was also mourning that the alternative (the court of public opinions? Is that the right phrase?) also has its problems. Sometimes it feels like we have no options.

I was not commenting on the OP’s experience.