It's pretty bad because you need to write for multilingual readers, who may not understand the colloquialism "were just that" & can have a difficult time parsing what the pronoun "that" refers to in such a nonstandard and nonlinear sentence.

If this sentence were part of a novel that already has elaborate prose, it would be fine, but in something designed to inform people on the internet you have to keep in mind how varied your audience is.

Oh wow, misread this as Stellaris including for the first couple sentences in the article and was so confused

You could make a new filetype, default new versions to it, & not break compatibility. Wouldn't do anything for existing workbooks, and keep xlsx an option, but "it would break compatibility" is not a be-all end-all argument against this.

I thought they disabled sending mobi files last August? As in, August 2022? Did they postpone it?

Huh? Didn't they start this like last month? Or is this not the "get money from your contributions" thing?

For anyone who was confused by what "vote to propose" means:

If the FCC issues the notice as expected on October 19th, the next steps would be a public comment phase followed by issuance of a final rule. This process could result in a final rule restoring net neutrality requirements around spring of 2024.

I'd do it if you could leave fully anonymous reviews. But I'm not about to review products with my real name attached to them, even if it's just first name.

yeah sounds like an a11y nightmare, now every thumbnail will look like a youtube thumbnail with block letter all-caps words over it

We used to rent movies every weekend when I was a kid, and we supported our local video rental store instead of Blockbuster. It was so much fun to decide what to rent! The staff there always knew so much about movies too, and we'd follow their recs often. We watched a bunch of classics and silent films that there's no way would get visibility on streaming libraries today. I wish I'd kept a journal of all the movies we watched, I remember almost no titles now.

huh, whatever that is, doesn't federate to kbin

I really enjoyed this show but I also was floored when no one spoke Russian. Every astronaut who works on the ISS today is required to speak both Russian and English. I guess I can see not requiring everyone to speak Russian if it's an adversarial relationship, but imagine not making sure at least one member of the crew spoke it!

do you use the swiping function of it? I've found that to be TERRIBLE at "prediction based on context" e.g. understanding if I want "if" or "of" it does the one that doesn't make sense in context. and it doesn't understand that if I type a word, and then delete it and retype it, maybe it should give me something different the 2nd time around (particularly irritating for if/of).

I once went into the Element support chat asking if it was possible to change my user name color, as I'm pretty closely identified to this username, and I despise the lime green it creates in that client. They said no, and typically I would expect to then be told, "but you can open a ticket in our tracker" or etc. Instead I was told, "use a different client if you want to change your username color (locally)."

Very weird experience.

People used to use this attack in League of Legends a decade ago. If they're losing, they guess someone might have Skype open; and moreover, that their Skype is the same as their summoner name. Then they get an ip address and ddos the entire lobby, causing the game to crash (I think it happened in one of my games maybe once, but I didn't really play ranked other than team ranked).

Also, since all pro & semipro players had each other added, this was possible to do at any time during online tournaments (which was most tournaments - TSM invitational etc). So there were always rules that ddossing was disallowed. But it did happen.

Known ddossers were more hated in the community than known flamers, but a few people who did it "reformed" and went on to be pro players anyway.

I mean, no evidence says he wasn't also poisoned yet

Also, the part no one ever brings up: No per-program volume control. Ugh. That was so actively irritating until they finally added it (was it in XP? or not until 7?)

I think what they let you do is write mini add-ons using the API and support JS in an in-browser editor. Then you have to enable the add-ons. I guess equivalently you can do the same things with an IDE and any language, but it felt like they "officially" supported JS.

GSheets lets you run python code? I thought they were all js-based

edit: I misread, you're saying LibreOffice has Python support, nvm

wait when did this get unbundled with netflix itself? totally would've picked up a few discs but not worth actually signing up for this to do that lol

paint opens a bit faster, and often I want to just draw some stupid rectangles with 5 words and 4 arrows real quick and screenshot it and say "look here's the mock-up"

Artemis has this, currently the overall app is in beta & you have to be using an account from artemis.camp (until the kbin api is fully rolled out to all instances)

I get where you're coming from, but I don't think that you're quite understanding the role of school? In school they teach you one programming language so you can learn many. You might be the most comfortable with Java, but you'll quickly see why you need to witch. And sure, we were taught how to use a bunch of Mac-only programs, but more than that we were taught how basic UX of programs works, how to use the internet, how to search with keywords, I think a bit later on Google existed and we were taught how to use the advanced search. All of this is very transferable knowledge, even if you feel most at home somewhere.

Also keep in mind most kids in school are not blindly doing what school says to do outside of school and building heavily into the ecosystem they were told to do. Certainly not those who are using APIs.

Anyway I guess my point is, it is much better to learn something than nothing, and foundational knowledge is the point. In this case, it does not matter so much what you learn, and you are best off deep diving into something kids already have a bit of familiarity with, so that they can build onto existing knowledge.

Edit: Although, I would agree with you if this is like, an advanced LLM programming class. In that case for sure an OSS version should be preferred. But this sounds like basic LLM literacy?

I mean, we were all taught to use Macs in the classroom. That didn't stop my parents from having a Windows machine, and from me preferring Windows my entire life (except for maybe the first 2 years of computer instruction at school or so). Sure it's not OSS, but the skills are vastly transferrable & will serve you for the next couple decades until we have a new paradigm shift.

ceased to exist as a result of a collision with the surface of the Moon

lol

I've never been on mastadon, is there actually a difference in functionality? or is it just that they call it "favorite" ? (presumably since Twitter's
"like" used to be called "favorite" and I'm still a bit mad they changed it to be more Facebook-sounding)

go to your profile and then click "boosts"

It was a way to view multiple lists at once, your home feed, various accounts, hashtags, your mentions, notifications, DMs, etc. Super useful. I stopped using Twitter altogether when they updated it earlier this year and made it significantly clunkier UX + promised to make it paid.

I just, can't imagine running out of tv shows????? I have probably 8 or so on my to-be-watched list, and the list only gets longer. I've watched 1 season each of 2 shows (Foundation S1 & Golden Compass S3) this YEAR. Oh and maybe Rings of Power was this year, too.

Am I dumb or is this not saying what anyone here thinks it's saying?

Basically, it's not just that 50% have no regret / good satisfaction, but in fact that for this 50% there is not even a hint of dissatisfaction or regret. That's the news. The median isn't 4 or 1, it's 5. So 50% of people are absolute ends of the scale.

But this abstract legit says NOTHING about the tail. So it could actually be that 20% of people have complete regret. Median without average is not that convincing in a case like this.

I tried to read the full article but I think it's too recent to be on scihub. And like hell I'm paying for this.

Absolutely

Sure thing!

so I totally get your point. For example, a therapy group that says, "this is a free speech area" and has 8 members who are all queer, would probably not mean it as a dogwhistle, and in that case, it also probably would not be one. But also, they wouldn't be saying it to anyone other than those 8 members.

The thing is, in this case it legit does not matter the intent, they are saying it on a public chat forum. That makes it a dogwhistle regardless of intentionality, and it will be recognized as such, because if you say that on a public platform on the internet, guess who will hear it.

And now no matter what their intention is, if they didn't want it to be a dogwhistle, it was one, and now their moderation is 10000x as difficult, because look who they've attracted the attention of now - and chased away.

I'd argue, it's always a dogwhistle. You might not realize you're using a dogwhistle, but you definitely are.

In other words, "free speech platform" is not actually "free speech platform," rather it is a dogwhistle.

sorry, I X'd out of twitter before X X'd twitter, so I can't actually X about Twitter or X on X,

I'll take this at face value and assume u are asking "why is the EPA involved in this and why did they need to do anything, why is the world stupid"

The answer is that corporations who sell vehicles want more profit (obviously) and so they decided to interpret a clause in the Clean Air Act, which says, "vehicles must be repaired to follow the Act" to mean that, "vehicles must be repaired [by the parent company] to follow the Act [because consumers cannot be trusted to do so themselves]"

So the EPA issued a letter saying "corporations you're totally fucking wrong and being assholes, this is NOT the intent of the law. it just says the Clean Air Act can't have a 'haha i repaired it lol' loophole"

yea ik but i meant this one when u can't get via \shrug like u can in dc

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I'm so confused, I thought Salesforce bought them, but I guess I'm confusing shitty companies. Anyway yeah I also thought the deal went through already, HN was really depressed for a day.

With the stupid prediction market existing, I'm having a hard time trusting even that. But IF that author is honest, it does look pretty unpromising

TL;DW:

• Why is the EPA of all government orgs involved in this? A: Because the claim by John Deere was that you can't repair your own shit due to "emissions concerns."
• Okay so what did the EPA do? A: Read this article which is what he reads out loud in the video
• Will this actually do anything? A: Shrug emoji