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Do you also have something like <link rel=alternate href=/atom.xml type=application/atom+xml> in your <head> element?

Things like this let me just throw homepages (or blog pages) at feed readers and they can discover all the different feeds available and I can pick one (although you really don't need more than one, generally).

To be fair, there’s a programming language out there already with a cuddly-lobster mascot. A decidedly un-cuddly lobster just maximizes product differentiation.

To be fair to GvR, autoformatters weren’t commonplace in the late 80s and early 90s. Were there even any?

Ever since Go got big, though, everyone else is discovering how fantastically nice they are, and that’s a good thing.

> What happened to actually educating users instead?

I’m against passkeys for all the usual reasons, but people have been trying to educate end users for decades now. The lessons don’t always stick, and new users are being made every year.

I have one-click login with 2FA codes stored in 1Password.

And 1Password will still let me export my crazy-long password and TOTP code to a plain text file if I want to switch to a different password manager (of course, I’ll have to do some planning beforehand to make sure that the export destination doesn’t get picked up by my backup software).

> Is killing off password theft worth the tradeoff of restricting the legitimate user’s rights, or is this a step too far towards authoritarian overreach, no matter how significant the harm done to humanity by password theft?

If your government can order your password manager to lock you out of your passwords with no more trouble than locking you out of your bank account, then that lowers the cost of tyranny down to what the Chinese Communist Party enjoys.

https://www.newsweek.com/banks-have-begun-freezing-accounts-...

I’ve helped friends with their writing.

If _I_ got this bit of feedback I wouldn’t know what to make of it.

Gray backgrounds used to be the default.

Because it’s kind of hard to find the URL with the Google thing out there:

https://geminiprotocol.net

According to the linked article on <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44214230>, they’ve already been involved:

> The response to the protests drew a conflict between ICE and the Los Angeles Police Department. "Our brave officers were vastly outnumbered, as over 1000 rioters surrounded and attacked a federal building," said ICE in a statement. "It took over two hours for the Los Angeles Police Department to respond, despite being called multiple times."

> But the LAPD said that, "Contrary to the claim that LAPD delayed its response for over two hours, our personnel mobilised and acted as swiftly as conditions safely allowed."

I was under the impression that the National Guard could only be deployed like this if a local politician asked for it. Nobody asked for it for the protests in 2020, so none got deployed. Am I wrong, or did a Los Angeles politician ask for the National Guard’s help?

I use Obsidian as a distant secondary notetaking app.

I use one vault per video game. I don’t need to clutter up a vault just so I can link from a page on Art combos in Xenoblade games to a page detailing all the random things I need to pick up around Hyrule to upgrade this or that piece of armor.

> do you really want to put out a post that you yourself might find useful, but might be considered shallow, low effort, repetitive, non unique by your readers, and a waste of their time?

Yes. If some of my readers don’t like that I do that too often (or even once), they can unsubscribe.

Meanwhile, _as_ a reader, feeds like RSS and Atom are super useful. They let a computer check my favorite sites so I don’t have to.

The other option is people who never got into LaTeX get into Typst (usually by being too young to have gotten into LaTeX in college), and Typst takes over slowly that way.

I remember having to wait in a queue to download maps and mods and whatnot for Quake and similar games in the late 90s.

I use Alfred and I used to use Quicksilver.

Probably not.

If you’d rather not buy another gizmo for a function your phone has likely gobbled up already…

iOS, iPadOS, and macOS have a pretty great built-in background-noise generator these days. While lots of actual beaches can go dead silent and then have a loud wave crash in, the waves that

It’s available in Settings -> Accessibility -> Audio & Visual -> Background Sounds. You’ll have to download the sounds each once, but after that they stay on your device.

Digging this deeply in Settings isn’t pleasant if you just want some white noise, so you may want to add a control to Control Center like “Background Sounds” (way down in the Hearing Accessibility section) to turn the ocean noise on and off.

I turn this on my iPad when going to bed if I want to take extra steps to ensure that I don’t wake up in the middle of the night.

I think tracking vibe shifts is interesting and noteworthy.

One thing that I’ve noticed:

On UNIX, expanding globs (*.txt) is the shell’s job.

On Windows, expanding globs is the program’s job.

I used to have a bunch of four-line Python programs to, essentially, run `flac --best --replay-gain *.wav`.

> Gwern's probably not a "wordcel" either, he can program, right? I've never seen any of his publications though.

He does Haskell stuff (he mentions it on his website), but he’s even better at words than he is as a mid-tier (I guess) Haskell programmer.

Whether this counts as a “wordcel” is an exercise left to the reader.

bat is great. I end up doing

curl … | prettier --parser html | bat

to get not-ugly HTML output from curl.

I use both.

This phrase only made sense when it was explained to me that it’d be better phrased as “the exception that proves the existence of the rule”.

(if there were no rule, there wouldn’t be any exceptions to it, or nothing would seem exceptional with respect to the (previously unstated) rule)

> I have noticed some slight muscle loss in my non-dominant arm that is of mild concern but nothing that I am worried about at this time.

Muscle loss large enough to be noticeable is concerning, and muscle loss is one of the side effects of these medications that has me most concerned. How did you notice that your off-arm is weaker?

I second this, especially the part about adding headings.

Also, the line length (in characters) is crazy long. You ought to constrain the width of your text by putting it in columns or blocks, because you're trying to sell me something and I'm too lazy to resize my browser window just to get a not-unpleasant reading experience. I'd do this for https://danluu.com, but not yours yet.

You laugh, but my previous washer didn't rinse all the detergent out normally and I had to run every single batch a second time with no detergent added to keep my skin from getting puffy, usually in the most inconvenient places.

Only now, with my new washer that lets me do 2–3 "extra" rinse cycles, do I not have to age my clothes twice as fast with duplicated washing.

If the laws/regulations prohibit making washing machines that properly clean and rinse clothes, then the laws/regulations should be repealed.

No. You still need to create a login.

Everyone else at work likes it, so I signed up with my work e-mail address and use it for work. All of my complicated browsing needs are done for work, so there's a good fit there.

Obsidian vaults are just folders full of a bunch of Markdown files with a dotfolder that has some JSON configuration files in it. You can probably put images in them, too (I haven't needed to bother yet).

I'm not sure how you can get more plain-text than that.

Seamonkey and I think Firefox, as late as the early 2000s, would expose some of those like next (<https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Attributes...>), but roughly nobody used them (either writing or reading) and so they got dropped or shoved off into a plugin.