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Re:Drupal is now light-years ahead of its reputation on Wednesday October 21, 2026 @06:43PM (#50188731)
My gosh, Drupal, what a blast from the past! That, and Joomla. Haven't thought about those in years. Glad to see they're still going.
Fun little nugget, Australian Sulphur Crested Cockatoos almost universally favour their left feet as a holdfast. They're also left eye dominant.
Re:PYREX vs. Pyrex: What's the Difference? on Saturday September 20, 2025 @04:07AM (#45311424)
Relevant video from Ann Reardon's How To Cook That about exploding Pyrex (and the difference between all capitals and all lowercase): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YVbkDAw4aJs

Turned out that distinction isn't too reliable when it comes to determining whether a product used soda lime glass or borosilicate glass instead.

Re:Apple Violated Antitrust Ruling, Judge Finds on Thursday May 01, 2025 @02:59AM (#43854489)
Odd. That is not there for me and I cannot add it :( I have the same problem as OP. I wish it were simple.
Re:I Use Kate Editor on Monday April 28, 2025 @08:06PM (#43827436)
FWIW, in the future, the recommended way to build KDE applications (including Dolphin) on macOS is by using Craft[1]

Much easier and quicker than going the kde-builder route, and it should package applications properly :)

[1] https://community.kde.org/Get_Involved/development/Mac

Re:Ask HN: Is anyone still using Dreamweaver? on Saturday February 22, 2025 @07:23PM (#43144842)
> I think it was Microsoft FrontPage that had the most undigestible output at the time.

Nah, I would argue that was Microsoft Word's (Office?) Save as Web Page feature. Which is what I built my first few websites in as a kid haha before learning about FrontPage and pirating that (back in 2003). FrontPage was a dream in comparison. Then I learned that FrontPage was also not as good, and learnt Dreamweaver is the better option so pirated and tried to use that shortly after, but the WYSIWYG of FrontPage was leagues better to my little child brain. Ah, nostalgia :')

I had a go, but there were a few I wasn't really sure by. To the creator, can you add a "Not sure" option?
> The reason this causes so much suspicion is because we westerners are terrified of what that would mean for the rest of the world.

It would mean having to eschew the neoliberal ideals that impede research and development in favour of the old that made America and to some extent the rest of the West the dominant superpower in R&D for many decades. We should be familiar with it, even if we have lived all or most of ours lives in the former.

Or it would be hard to convert back and we'd have a war first.

It's been a decade at this point since the last big distro (and surrounding drama), Debian and Ubuntu following shortly after, moved to systemd.
Re:Moving to a World Beyond "p < 0.05" (2019) on Thursday October 31, 2024 @09:49AM (#42006905)
And where will the money come from for this second study? What about a third? Fourth?

We live in a money-dependent world. We cannot go without it.

Re:Ask HN: What should I buy in Japan? on Sunday October 06, 2024 @04:24AM (#41755668)
Haircare as well :)
Re:Why are my ZFS disks so noisy? on Friday September 27, 2024 @02:50AM (#41667103)
> I don't know if this exists or not, but I'd like to try something like a fuse filesystem which can transparently copy a file to a fast scratch SSD when it is first accessed.

You may be interested in checking out bcache[1] or bcachefs[2].

[1] https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/admin-guide/bcache.ht...

[2] https://bcachefs.org/

Re:MPPP – The first 'designer drug' disaster (2023) on Wednesday July 24, 2024 @12:04AM (#41053511)
Relevant /r/todayilearned thread from a few hours ago about this: https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/1eanz3p/til_...
Re:Tell HN: your next idea should focus on aged care on Friday July 12, 2024 @11:54PM (#40951653)
There have been and are attempts at addressing the usability gap of tech by the more tech illiterate over the years. Particularly, Linux projects such as Ordissimo[1], Eldy[2], and Endless OS[3]. I am sure there are plenty of other projects, as well (including Apple's new iPhone Assistive Access mode[4]. As sad as it may be, the market would probably be non-existent in a decade or two as newer generations enter aged care having already been somewhat familiar with computers and phone technology.

[1] https://www.ordissimo.com/en/why-ordissimo

[2] http://www.eldy.eu/

[3] https://www.endlessos.org/

[4] https://support.apple.com/en-au/guide/assistive-access-iphon...

> The main problem with canaries is that it's dead easy for a government to remove them from existence, simply issue subpoenas to every website that has one.

Why can't social media platforms implement warrant canaries per user profile?

Oh my gosh, TortoiseSVN and TortoiseCVS. Now that's a blast from the past. Wow.
Re:AutoDev: Automated AI-driven development by Microsoft on Saturday March 16, 2024 @08:15AM (#39725235)
Are we at a fifth-generation programming language yet?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fifth-generation_programming_l...

This is also a cultural thing. Compare the US to Australia for example, Australia is often remarked as very clean in comparison and the culture in Australia is to hold onto trash until it can be placed in the nearest trash bin and everything remains relatively clean in comparison (whether in urban areas or campgrounds).
Re:Indexing a Billion Pages on Sunday December 24, 2023 @09:56AM (#38753820)
What you’re likely referring to is Common Crawl: https://commoncrawl.org
You can’t survive or support a family with a single income these days.. It’s required for both partners to work.
It's in the first paragraph of the article: https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2309.07928
Really only needs to be done once daily. Twice daily is recommended because people tend to not brush their teeth properly and miss things. Doing it twice tends to hit the areas missed in the first pass.
Re:StarCitizen Server Meshing Architecture on Tuesday August 29, 2023 @10:23AM (#37308396)
I backed this game on Kickstarter back in 2012. I don’t care for all this focus on multiplayer, I was just in it for the singleplayer aspect. I wish they would just deliver that.
Yes, you’re exactly right. Humanity tinkered with it by deliberately not wearing masks and vaccinating, which caused it to mutate and spread. If only everybody just wore masks and isolated for a couple of weeks, there’d be no COVID at all
Re:GIL removal and the Faster CPython project on Friday August 18, 2023 @01:54AM (#37171777)
I understand the desire for multi-threaded CPython scripts, but why not do a PHP5 -> PHP7 and focus on single-thread performance more, particularly around implementing a JIT? We know from PyPy (and other JIT-enabled languages like NodeJS) that performance improvements can be significant. I feel like that should be the primary focus for speedups, and have always wondered why the idea has never been more popular. Has a CPython JIT been ruled out for some reason I'm not familiar with?
Re:Show HN: A website chatbot that also uses APIs on Monday August 14, 2023 @07:35PM (#37128222)
Is Tailwind the new Bootstrap?
Re:You Might Not Own the Data of Your Air Quality Monitor on Saturday July 01, 2023 @03:14AM (#36547574)
I'd love to be able to purchase something like this and a weather station that will submit data to a free public service so people can receive better and more accurate / timely weather data. I can't tell if that is possible out of the box via AirGradient from this website (or if such a service even exists, as they only mention "24 months AirGradient data platform / map" which implies proprietary)? Do people know of a similar solution for a weather station?

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