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I absolutely love this. I did not understand a single thing in your description of the font “proportional and uppercase letters have a 1/3 ….”, and clicked on your link to see it for myself.

In the example I initially assumed your font was the Jetbrains example and thought it was ugly and unreadable. Then when I saw the next example I read it with no effort and almost immediately internalized that the mini-space is not and the wide-space is.

Are there any default fonts that do this on most systems? Mac, Windows, iOS, etc. that I can use if I don’t have access to install a font. I am often on shared devices and this would be a game changer if my first experience is what I think it is - easier and more enjoyable reading.

(Going to install it now on my iPhone to experiment it as a default daily driver)

> Amazon’s operating income in 2024 improved 86% YoY, from $36.9B (an operating margin of 6.4%) to $68.6B (an operating margin of 10.8%). Free Cash Flow, adjusted for equipment finance leases improved from $35.5B in 2023 to $36.2B.

Can someone help me understand these numbers. Their operating income improved (increased?) by 86% but margin only ~4%?

Does that mean most of the improved (increased?) operating income was put towards capital outflow?

Yes I did; an in the second paragraph of my post I explain why I didn’t in this instance.

It is called languagetool

I use both quite often. The apostrophe from a young age and the em-dash from my locally hosted alternative to grammarly which auto-corrects for me - making it easy to use as it doesn’t exist on my keyboard as a built-in. If it existed on my keyboard, I would use it by default.

(Noticeably absent is the em-dash in this message because my grammarly alternative is a chrome extension and I’m currently responding from my mobile device that does not have it.)

No, because it is illegal.

> Should I be allowed to push for policy changes in a city I am not a resident of?

Yes. Because this country has the first amendment. It is a matter of law that you can and may (within the law).

If you (and I am not saying you do) not agree with people being able to push for such changes (via speech as it is defined and interpreted by our court via the first amendment), then please state your reasons for disagreeing rather than posing a loaded question.

There is also a whole country of places to live in for those who don’t want to embrace change when their neighborhoods feel a societal pressure to do so. They can live in whatever style of neighborhood they want to live in (or create) anywhere in the country. Change is a constant (whether it be good or bad; obviously subjective adjectives).

These folks who have uprooted themselves from their existing homes to make a better life have as much right to live wherever they want to (considering a country and or society with freedom of movement; e.g. USA) as those who currently occupy the space.

I’m not saying your position is incorrect. I’m saying your argument is flawed.

Hoping to start a thread talking about this. Anyone read Richter 10 by Arthur C Clarke. Where California broke away from the mainland.

Think anything in our lifetime will ever match the prediction tech from the book?

I know nothing about earthquakes. Hoping for a HN education!

Which county is that please? If you don’t mind sharing.

Gosh I forget the name of the airfield at the moment but by any chance was it near the Clearlake suburb of Houston (Hobby perhaps?)

I used that airfield to get to Bush international several times back in the day. It was strange flying from one airfield to another in the same city to connect to my regularly scheduled flight.

Thanks for the memories!

You have yet to explain why genetic extermination (whatever you mean by that) is undesirable.

Naming a natural evolutionary occurrence (and I mean genetic mixing, not colonization) a pejorative doesn’t make it so.

There is plenty of genetic mixing happening in the world in the last single generation without any colonization. Go back in time far enough and you can draw a line from any major event to a calamity that came after it. It’s quite easy to see through your veiled prejudice for inter-racial breeding.

Immigration != colonization

One is implemented with the will of the people (in a functioning democracy) and the other is not.

Equating the two and then correlating that to dog whistle terms like “genetic extermination” which has no scientific basis (except in terms of pest control) is disingeuous.

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Gah! I don't want to change my default search engine on all my machines temporarily and then have to change them back once the outage is resolved. Because I know that due to inertia, I won't do it until Google results start bothering me again (that won't be long - hah!).

I type searches in my URL bar across multiple machine and mobile devices dozens of times an hour during "heads down" times.

May I suggest (if browser extension apis allow this) for the extension to fall back to google (or whatever was configured before kagi) if a response from Kagi is not received in some timeout seconds.

Power generation technologies, not power itself.

The same argument can be made for any r&d, in lieu of spending on alternative technology that already exists. Should we have stopped spending on mRNA vaccines to pay for more socialized healthcare? Or more efficient batteries for better public transport?

No one knows the answer to any of these questions because the outcome of r&d is unknown. Some known unknowns but also unknown unknowns. So we do both/all the things to some degree and optimize the degree as we learn more. Alternatives are mostly not mutually exclusive.

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I had never heard of this before. It looks fascinating. Thank you for sharing!

You say it “looked” promising - past tense - did Google kill it?

Is anyone else working on anything similar (Apple, MS)?

On the topic of Microsoft having done this far in advance of Sony; I recall (perhaps incorrectly) that Satya has an autistic child.

I wonder if a leader that has to personally, in their daily lives, deal with an individual who requires assistive technologies imparts a level of empathy to their organization… which led to Microsoft taking a lead in this?

Just a random thought….

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If I checkout the merge commit and then do a ‘git log -n 5’, which parent pointer is followed to show the previous commit logs? A or B or Both / all if it is more than a 2-way merge?

They’re not defending the “known bad actor”. They’re criticizing the journalist for shoddy journalism.

> So why such a consistent obsession with making them stop or tolerating these acts done in private.

My point was that the underlying reason for not tolerating these acts is not because they are being done in public. Them being done in public does make them more obvious and a more pressing concern than if done in private.

There is a concerning obsession if they are done in private as well. And there are efforts to curtail use of drugs, mental health support, and so many such programs for people who partake or suffer in private as well. It doesn’t extend to curtailing their liberties - in that you are correct.

Once it starts spilling into the public, it has an effect on society to a greater degree that when in private. Public hygiene and quality of life standards for a majority are being inhibited because of a minority.

The “obsession” is warranted if the symptoms are getting worse. I want “obsession” to be proportional to the scale of the problem.

> If public health is the concern wouldn't needle exchanges, public toilets and street cleaning would be practical solutions?

Agreed, agreed and agreed :) solutions to symptoms and not the problem though.

>> We have a lot of rights stripped away from individuals (including you and me) to promote the public health at large.

> Which ones?

Many of the ones from the example ordinances I’ve listed. You cannot blare music any any time of the night. You cannot do home construction however you want to. You cannot chop down trees (within reason), pollute streams, burn trash on your private property. You cannot route your waste drain to the street…. And so many more.

> I don't think the status quo is good. I don't like avoiding shit on the sidewalk. I don't like explaining to my son why a man is stupified with a needle sticking out of his arm.

We are on the same page again.

> But I weigh those unpleasant events against throwing people against the system and taking their freedom and it's clear to me that their right to liberty outweighs my right to a pleasant Sunday stroll.

It’s not just a Sunday stroll. It’s also normalizing the behavior to a certain extent by leaving it unchecked.

Also, I do not see any “liberty” on the streets when the people on question barely have the mental wherewithal to think clearly. We don’t let people with mental defects from birth live on the streets no matter their age. Social services curtails their liberty quite severely when compared to you and me more often than not by keeping them in institutions that can care for them. The care is not great in any sense of the word but we also don’t let them live on the streets in the name of liberty. But if they become mentally deficient to the extent of a person who was born with such defects due to their independent actions then we somehow cannot take away some of their liberties. That’s hypocritical. We also take away liberty from people who commit crimes - there is precedent to do so. It needs to be weighed against societal good not “feel good” morality. One is measurable and feelings generally aren’t.

Liberty is a sliding scale not an absolute.

> I think there is a moral imperative to change but I think turning once again towards creating a heartless state bureaucracy and pitting it against people who have absolutely nothing is not the change we need.

Bureaucracy by definition is heartless. Paper pushing that is… the people who administer it are the ones with hearts. Don’t falter bureaucracy for the lack of trained people who can work with those who need the help. There are thousands of people who live in our system who honestly want to help. They are restricted by the resources available to them. The people who have absolutely nothing are better off in a heartless bureaucracy than on the streets dying by the droves with life expectancies approaching that of pre-historic human beings. That is more heartless.

> I know that these people have been kicked over and over and over again and that to keep kicking is not a thing that makes sense.

Leaving them be is just another version of kicking them. Doing nothing is just as extreme as jailing them. We need to do something that is in between those two extremes. In any solution though - any at all - liberties will be infringed upon. I suggest not using infringing on liberties as an argument against doing something in this situation. Because curtailing liberty will be part of any solution to combat a disease that takes over rational thought.

Meta point - I think we are mostly on the same page to be honest. Thank you for debating. I hope my arguments do not come off as haughty or attacking. I’ve had a couple of night caps when posting this so please excuse my ramblings if any.

Are you referring to public defection and/or drug use or screaming at the top of one’s lungs for hours at a time?

Those are primarily public health issues regardless of people’s puritanical views. Hygiene, noise, environmental ordinances and such!

We have a lot of rights stripped away from individuals (including you and me) to promote the public health at large.

Furthermore, the constitution doesn’t get everything right and isn’t a backstop for arguing against anything (except in a legal forum) as it is a living document (albeit with a high bar) and more recently demonstrated through overturning judicial rulings.

How much liquid cash does YC have? - to float to these founders until they know the extent of losses they will have to incur as part of the FDIC process?

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For those who did not immediately grasp the parents claim that DNS is federated and not decentralized; here [0] is a nice article I found that talks about network architecture terminology definitions used in various famous research papers. It is a very nice, terse, compare and contrast.

[0] https://networkcultures.org/unlikeus/resources/articles/what...

Thank you for sending me down the rabbit hole klabb3! :)

I feel like the author casually states that a video terminal is not a screen without stating why? They are synonyms to me.

Can someone enlighten me please?

Since 1password ubiquity on all my platforms of choice, I just mash the keyboard. I wish 1p had a username generator built in like what docker does when creating container names.

Snazzy-peacock sounds mighty fine for a username :)

What is SEM? What does doing SEM all day entail?

Why isn't it simply "asleep" when not questioned? In a "coma" perhaps. One made from our programming / "genetics"?!?!

I don't think it is sentient without more evidence. But just wondering if not "thinking" when not questioned is a good reason it isn't?!?!

What an immediately cynical, hilarious and eventually thought provoking response.

I suspect it violates HN guidelines (too snarky?!?!). However, I for one applaud it's pith!

Is this analogous to the modern concept of martial law, perhaps, in today's democracies? Including the restrictions placed on them legislatively (albeit few)!

At Google's scale, I'd expect it to be all of the above.

I hope they make their learnings, post-mortem, etc. public so that we can all learn from it.

My engineer hat is saying - "damn, I wish I was part of fixing this outage at their scale."

My product owner hat is saying - "Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaa......Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaa...."

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