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Re:Emacs Bedrock 2.0 Released on Wednesday September 09, 2026 @07:00AM (#49624451)
Emacs + evil is the best Vim.
What I don't like about congestion pricing is that the people asking for money are the ones who are responsible for the congestion. They are always making cities denser and denser, bigger and bigger, which no resident asks for.
This is awesome ! How hard would it be to get something similar in React Native ?
Re:Orion Browser by Kagi on Monday July 20, 2026 @07:55AM (#48977518)
> Transparency is a dependency of trust.

I'd recommend reading Byung-Chul Han. In his book The Transparency Society, he argues - quite convincingly IMHO - that transparency is asked when trust is missing.

Do you let anyone come into your home ? If you did, you'd no longer have a home, and therefore would not be able to offer hospitality anymore. Don't you expect people who come to your home to abide by at least a few rules ?

It's the same for a country. It's because it has borders, rules, and a strong culture that it has something to offer that immigrants might be interested in.

Re:The Forgotten Art of the LAN Party (2023) on Wednesday May 27, 2026 @03:58AM (#48291103)
I have fond memories of carrying my computer and CRT monitor to LAN parties in a homemade bicycle trailer !

It was at the time of 10BASE2 ethernet... I also had a huge coaxial cable I used to hang from my window to the neighbors window over the street :P

Re:I love Linux, but I can't quit Windows on Saturday May 16, 2026 @09:33AM (#48160146)
To fix my Thinkpad USB-C docking station on Arch, I asked Gemini and just followed what it said. It took a few minutes.
I've been pretty happy with ditching tabs altogether. I don't get the idea of tabs. Desktop manager already has workspaces and windows, do I really need yet another abstraction ?

I use split view all the time, but with two browser windows.

The idea that there's such a thing as neutral politics is highly problematic.

Evidence and science is one thing. What you should do with it is another entirely. Every decision is a tradeoff. Science can't tell you what to value.

I also had that idea before I tried to use Apple products to help friends... I really was amazed at the hoops you had to jump through for things which should have been really simple. That was a long time ago.
You make it sound like we are flesh robots : sensors and motors, with a central "CPU" that channels between the two. But a robot has no first-person experience, it's just smart electron flows.

That we have first-person experiences shows the soul is definitely not "a process your body runs" : it's where your whole experience "registers".

That we are not flesh robots is also why we have free will. You could coherently argue that free-will is an illusion, but you can't argue that first-person experience is an illusion, as you need something to perceive the illusion.

And basically everybody working to make such an advanced society possible.
Re:Covid-19 mRNA Vaccination and 4-Year All-Cause Mortality on Friday December 05, 2025 @10:47AM (#46162840)
This study demonstrates that it benefits the individual (and therefore the population).
Re:The Great Feminization on Friday October 17, 2025 @10:29AM (#45617213)
I did not say anything about logic or emotions. I'm also not sure I agree with your characterization of Donald Trump.

For the sake of argument, let's say I had mentioned logic and emotions and you were right about Trump. He would just be an example of an outlier (which by the way he obviously is, although not in the way you imply), not an argument against my point which is that male and female distributions are quite distinct for some traits, with little overlap.

Re:The Great Feminization on Friday October 17, 2025 @10:25AM (#45617167)
If by muscular and skinny you mean that one has more capacity for developping strength, then sure, why not ? Should our expectations not be based on ability ?
Re:The Great Feminization on Friday October 17, 2025 @09:06AM (#45616327)
If you look at things like physical strength for instance, the difference is quite marked. That some females can be stronger than some men does not change the fundamental distribution. This is not a construct of the mind.

If male and female abilities differ, it should follow that our social expectations differ.

Re:Linux Compose Key Sequences (2007) on Wednesday September 24, 2025 @06:11AM (#45358323)
I wish I could have a compose key on android
Re:Apple announces the ultra-slim iPhone Air on Wednesday September 10, 2025 @08:03AM (#45196447)
I thought wireless charging was inefficient because the coils were never properly aligned, but that magsafe fixed that.
Why use photovoltaic panels instead of direct solar thermal ?
Re:How to Build Conscious Machines on Tuesday June 17, 2025 @05:10AM (#44297126)
Sure, humans also use pattern recognition. That's part of intelligence. What makes humans different is subjective, first-person experience.

An LLM is just matrix multiplication. The computer running it is just a very complex electron "flipper". There's nothing in an electron flipper that can give first-person subjective experience.

Re:Mozilla shuts down even more Firefox services on Tuesday June 10, 2025 @08:07AM (#44235779)
Firefox has caught up or surpassed Chrome in most performance benchmarks.

Example : https://kahana.co/blog/fastest-web-browsers-2025

This is often cited in catholic and orthodox circles to bolster the marian doctrines, as it entails the virgin mary had cells from Jesus in her body for the rest of her life.
Re:You can't optimize your way to being a good person on Thursday January 09, 2025 @03:30AM (#42643102)
Which is just another way of saying, as is the judeo-christian doctrine, that the ultimate good is transcendent.
Re:The Problem with Sci-Fi Body Armor on Monday December 02, 2024 @05:37AM (#42294844)
This doesn't take into account newer materials that can become rigid when struck.
Re:Climate change makes hurricanes more destructive on Wednesday October 09, 2024 @03:37AM (#41785431)
Not a single study cited in there. My understanding is that damage from storms has been steadily decreasing with time despite there being more and more infrastructure to destroy.
Re:Ask HN: Who is hiring? (July 2024) on Tuesday July 02, 2024 @12:14PM (#40858038)
Hozana | Lyon, France or remote from France | https://www.hozana.org/

We're a Catholic tech non-profit committed to creating digital solutions for spiritual growth and community building.

We have about a million active users on our apps: https://hozana.org and https://rosario.app

We are hiring:

- a polyvalent Backend engineer

- a traffic manager

- a QA analyst (part-time)

Find out more and apply at https://www.welcometothejungle.com/fr/companies/hozana/jobs

Re:Ask HN: Who is hiring? (June 2024) on Tuesday June 04, 2024 @07:42AM (#40573362)
Hozana | Backend Engineer - Symfony | Full-time | Lyon, France or remote from France | https://www.hozana.org/

We're a Catholic tech non-profit committed to creating digital solutions for spiritual growth and community building.

We have about a million active users on our apps: https://hozana.org and https://rosario.app

We're hiring a polyvalent Backend engineer. You'll work with Symfony to build and maintain our core systems, and ideally help with our infrastructure as well. Enjoy the best of both worlds - a dynamic environment with a meaningful mission, offering opportunities for significant impact and personal growth.

Find out more and apply here: https://www.welcometothejungle.com/fr/companies/hozana/jobs/...

Re:Ask HN: Who is hiring? (January 2024) on Wednesday January 03, 2024 @03:32AM (#38851932)
Hozana | Full Stack Dev / Symfony Dev / Lead Front Dev | Lyon, France | ONSITE or REMOTE | FRENCH speakers with EU VISA

We are a non-profit with a mission to unite the world in prayer through technology. We currently edit two prayer apps (Hozana and Rosario), with already more that a million users.

We have a Symfony / React + React Native stack, and are looking for a backend or full stack engineer, ideally with a few years experience, as well as for a lead Frontend engineer.

https://hozana.org https://rosario.app

Apply at https://www.welcometothejungle.com/fr/companies/hozana

Re:Ask HN: Who is hiring? (December 2023) on Monday December 04, 2023 @04:13AM (#38515213)
Hozana | Full Stack Dev / Symfony Dev / React Dev / Lead Frontend Dev | Lyon, France | ONSITE or REMOTE | FRENCH speakers with EU VISA

We are a non-profit with a mission to unite the world in prayer through technology. We currently edit two prayer apps, with about a million active users.

We have a Symfony / React + React Native stack, and are looking for coders, ideally with at least a few years experience and a missionary bent.

https://hozana.org https://rosario.app

Read the full job descriptions and apply at https://www.welcometothejungle.com/fr/companies/hozana

Re:'Human Embryo Model' Without Sperm or Egg on Thursday September 07, 2023 @07:58AM (#37417655)
Physics is about matter. If you were only matter, you'd have no free will.

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