RichardHesketh

Dunno where you live, but according to this (https://www.epilepsy.com/stories/shedding-light-photosensiti...) from a US charity: About 3 to 5 percent of the 2.7 million Americans with epilepsy (approximately 100,000 individuals) are photosensitive. That's a lot, but the chances of one walking in to that bowling alley are likely negligible. Photosensitive epileptics are highly likely to be aware of their condition and avoid risky environments in any case.

As long as this isn’t about all ‘non-warfighters’, this might be a good thing. My Dad served for over 30 years in the Royal Air Force, retiring as an Air Vice Marshal (USAF 2* General equivalent). His badge of rank was only ever about having sufficient clout to fight a service member’s corner whatever his assignment was (a conventional RAF station, Allied Forces HQ in Europe etc.). He knew that, and he said it out loud to remind each and every service member (and their family members) that he was there for them, and that he had the clout to influence where influence was required. The proposed change is either good or bad depending on context. It was never necessary in the RAF because of the Chaplains approach to working with their colleagues - ‘pulling rank’ is anathema to an RAF officer and I’m certain that’s equally true of the other services in the UK. I’ll watch this with interest to see how it plays out. Not obvious HN fodder, but a subject that for sure tickles my interest…

Marvellous. Puts one on mind of (https://www.hhgproject.org/entries/poetry.html) :) Next time I’m in London I must go and leave a biro on Douglas Adams grave…

This, I guess: https://github.com/kulikov0/whitelist-bypass

Sign o’ the times, but interesting…

Architecting, specifying, verifying and validating are still important disciplines - those /can/ be in scope for a traditional ’developer’. You’re not irrelevant, but your role may be shifting a bit. Embrace the learning opportunities if they suit you, and if they don’t - well there’s likely something else you love to do that you could monetise…

Please grow up. As of iOS 26.1, the transparency effects can be substantially turned down; 26.4 builds upon that, making the issue all but moot. If you choose to self-sabotage by moving to another OS, forcing you to repurchase apps on a competing platform all over again, and learn the quirks and flaws of that platform, I wish you all the disposable income (and time) you may need to do that.

The FlightRadar24 app has had this feature for quite some time. I like your implementation though - it’s very easy on the eye.

Hindsight’s 20:20. Why the snark? There’s a lot to like about the App Store experience from a user perspective (I am not a developer).

I think the clue’s in the username…

Links don’t work for me and nor does searching GH for DocuDeeper. I’d love to try this - if I can get to it!

So what? If it helps my son to be a good human in his early teens, I’m in favour…

Nice. Will it land on Apple Music at some point?

Gorgeous. Thank you, from an aging Brit who feels utterly at home looking at this. :)

Question: if dopamine is the answer, what’s the second-order solution the brain is after?

I have a new respect for Conan O’Brien seeing how he found humour in / dealt with his parents deaths so close together. Inspiring and deliciously, subversively funny! Thanks for sharing.

Should probably link here: https://0xmm.in/posts/ntfy/

Congratulations - that is both glib and facile. Bad shit like this happens even between citizens of the same nation. This is not a borders and migration issue. Characterising it as such has deeply harmful consequences which we’ve been seeing on a global scale in recent years, with alarming echoes of the run up to WW1 and WW2. If we fail to learn the lessons of history…

Yup. Search ‘case studies’ on that website. Donella Meadows was an environmental scientist and an eminent systems thinker long before the term became mainstream.

Awesome project, and a great idea to build a powerful capability using mostly off-the-shelf tools! Do you have a write-up somewhere, please? Even if only a few notes or code snippets, architecture outline, or what-have-you. My son is eight, but I’d love a way to keep him away from mobile devices but in touch with family members and friends.

Came here to say this. Raindrop is great, with all the features most will ever need, and really nice well thought-out browser extensions.

Not really relevant to HN, and in any case, what was true five years and 3-4 months ago need not be true now.

That last sentence is baseless, alarmist nonsense. The rest, makes some sense. We are definitely one of the most surveilled societies in the western hemisphere, but just look at the press here. If you think there’s a fear of criticising government in the UK, except in a (probably paranoid) minority, you’re deluded. Let’s also remember that an arrest is a very long way from a conviction, and others have pointed out.

Screenshots imply that this tool maybe useful only in the US. Do the price search and other features work in any other countries and/or currencies?

Good job 9front! Pity there isn’t an obvious date and time to pin this as an (obvious if you read it) poisson d’avril.

Agreed regarding roll out - in the UK the grid is struggling to cope with rollout of Tesla and similar charging networks - there’s no way it’s ready to cope with the demand from widespread adoption of what BYD proposes, nor will it be for many years! I think you pinpointed the ‘category of convenience’ phrase very well. What you say after that is highly subjective and there are no doubt many specifics that could be discussed at all sorts of levels!

Although even that is moving in the right direction via synthetic fuels to hydrogen and even some battery electric in public projects in the UK. Depends how ‘heavy’ we’re talking I guess. I wonder how long it’ll take the monster machines used in mining to make the shift…

One factor for me is the multitude of (sometimes semi-)isolated vendor ecosystems. The Thread and Matter technologies should eventually improve this, but right now vendor lock-in can be a problem and only the tech-savvy are going to actively seek out and deploy prior vendor-agnostic solutions like zigbee. Home Assistant is a great tool for geeks but a PITA for average Joe/Jolene, I think.

Hi there. Just signed with the display name GeekFriday. Is that the information you need?

You could interpret it that way. If your objective is to lose your best and/or most expensive talent. Probably a double-edged sword…