Summershard

> there are no health benefits to learn a new topic after having already exhausted your brain sitting +7 hours at work

There are. Unless your work requires almost constant creative reiteration over your mistakes on new topics, learning new things even when exhausted is still healthy for your brain.

You actually don’t need any data plan to call emergency services, 112 is literally baked into the GSM standard. As long as the phone (or car) can connect to a network, it can call 112. It doesn’t even need a SIM card.

A side note, though. This SIM-less emergency calls are blocked in some countries because there were a lot of fake calls. Some other countries put such calls on a less important list of calls. Many countries in EU do allow them, though.

So, car manufacturers could just put in the cellular capabilities without connecting to any network. They just don’t want to.

What? It saved the brand. It's their best selling model ever.

As a side note, is there any online community where you find people willing to do this? I’ve always struggled most with finding people eager to play and create music, especially as I get older. What you describe sounds like fun.

We definitely must come from different cultures because I raised my eyebrow quite high reading your comment.

My family, close friends, and my partner will definitely tell me when I neglect or abuse my mental and physical health. This includes bad decisions about the way I look.

And every time they do this I am thankful to them, because they usually notice these things way sooner than I would have.

Sources needed.

The amount of negativity your positive comment has received looks almost overwhelming. I remember HN being a much happier place a few years ago. Perhaps I should take a break from it.

People working in one of the coolest industries on Earth really do not appreciate their lives nowadays.

> .NET

I think you haven't used .NET in a while. Nowadays, logging is absurdly easy to configure. Heck, you usually don't even need to configure it, because the basics are already included in most templates. You just use the Logger class and it works.

The only time you have to spend more than 30 minutes on it is when you use some external logging libraries. And most of them are quite sane and simple to use, because it's so easy to create a custom logging provider.

This is much, much less than I would've guessed. I thought the new UI is universally hated.

I should leave my bubble more often.

Where did you get those numbers from? 10k words is generally considered a CEFR B2/C1 level which already is a fluent level.

Semi-fluent, depending on how you describe it, is anywhere between 1k and 5k words. To comfortably communicate with native speakers about simple topics you need 1000-2000 words.

I guess you are right. It's trust-based. For an actual obfuscation Signal would need to implement something like onion routing, right? I think Session does it.

Well, TIL. That does not refute my comment, though. Signal still does not know who you chat with. It's the cloud provider who might log the IP address of the sender. Identifying the person based on that information alone would be non-trivial if not simply impossible.

Signal does not know who you correspond with. The only information they keep is the account creation timestamp, and the date that the account last connected to the Signal service.

You may have confused this information with WhatsApp which indeed keeps a lot of metadata on each user.

May I suggest creating an option to add waypoints which should help recreate bus routes?

It actually is. The design is just a small part of the control's cost. Then it has to go through a lot of compliance tests (the controls can't be flammable, can't break easily into shards, and so on). You have to do those tests for every car's interior part. When you squeeze everything into a touchscreen, you have to make the whole screen compliant only once.

Telegram's encryption is opt-in which means most people don't use the encrypted chats at all.

Signal is private, but not anonymous. Related, but two different things.

I think the related term, the escalation of commitment, is more appropriate here.

You've said it yourself why they wouldn't want to say those things, and yet you expected them to say them. Forcing your opponent to say things that will be cherry picked by the media is a common tactic, and one very hard to defend yourself against.

Yes, I agree it would have been best if they had just agreed on some compromise to the matter. I don't believe they ever would, though.

A few years ago, when I was studying, my friend and I did a project on that in Xamarin. It took us two evenings, and the accuracy was 300 meters at worst, and 30 meters at best. It's worth noting that this was in a larger city.

So, if two students can achieve even 30 meters accuracy in two days, big telecom corporations will certainly do better in a few decades.

EDIT: By the way, it wasn't only triangulation but also signal strength change analysis. It wasn't as serious as it sounds, there are formulas already made for calculating that.

Come on, Facebook is not doing this out of goodness of their hearts. They have some hidden motive (e.g. EEE, data scraping), as always, and it's good people finally don't trust them from the start.

Well, not really. Tainted coins is a real, growing problem that BTC hasn't solved yet.

In short, BTC is not fungible.

There was a P2P Reddit alternative some time ago. The problem with it was that you had to install a program on your computer, so it can sync with the network. I doubt it still exists, but the idea was intriguing. Anyone remember the name?

Why is a simple typing tutorial webpage forcing me to sign in with Google? This is ridiculous.

I'm out of the loop: what's wrong with Daily Stormer?

Another open-source tool for that is Master Password:

https://masterpassword.app/

Microsoft gives virtual images of their OS for free for development. You can work on any platform and test on VMs.

C is a FP language. So are C++, C#, Java and JavaScript.

They're not functional first like F# or Scala.

A programming language can embrace multiple paradigms.

How would websites create revenue then? People are very unwilling to pay for online articles.