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> “I’m not trying to save Hong Kong, I’m not even Chinese. If anything, I’m a spambot.”

> because of Clojure's GPL-incompatible license

"GPL compatible: Optionally but not by default[3]"

- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eclipse_Public_License

> Photoshop 4.0 codename was Big Electric Cat

I didn't know that. That's also the name of an Australian band from about a decade earlier.

I do remember Photoshop 4 only had one level of undo. Just one. Make two mistakes and you're keeping one of them.

what a doofus.

> Me trying to extract video from this body cam like: OHHHH please work!

more like: "me putting my head in a lion's mouth"

Roald Dahl recounts this in his book 'Boy'

> I have only one unpleasant memory of the summer holidays in Norway. We were in the grandparents’ house in Oslo and my mother said to me, “We are going to the doctor this afternoon. He wants to look at your nose and mouth.”

> I think I was eight at the time. “What’s wrong with my nose and mouth?” I asked. “Nothing much,” my mother said. “But I think you’ve got adenoids.” “Don’t worry about it,” she said. “It’s nothing.” I held my mother’s hand as we walked to the doctor’s house. It took us about half an hour. There was a kind of dentist’s chair in the surgery and I was lifted into it. The doctor had a round mirror strapped to his forehead and he peered up my nose and into my mouth. He then took my mother aside and they held a whispered conversation. I saw my mother looking rather grim, but she nodded.

> The doctor now put some water to boil in an aluminum mug over a gas flame, and into the boiling water he placed a long thin shiny steel instrument. I sat there watching the steam coming off the boiling water. I was not in the least apprehensive. I was too young to realize that something out of the ordinary was going to happen. Then a nurse dressed in white came in. She was carrying a red rubber apron and a curved white enamel bowl. She put the apron over the front of my body and tied it around my neck. It was far too big. Then she held the enamel bowl under my chin. The curve of the bowl fitted perfectly against the curve of my chest. The doctor was bending over me. In his hand he held that long shiny steel instrument. He held it right in front of my face, and to this day I can still describe it perfectly. It was about the thickness and length of a pencil, and like most pencils it had a lot of sides to it. Towards the end, the metal became much thinner, and at the very end of the thin bit of metal there was a tiny blade set at an angle. The blade wasn’t more than a centimeter long, very small, very sharp and very shiny.

> “Open your mouth,” the doctor said, speaking Norwegian. I refused. I thought he was going to do something to my teeth, and everything anyone had ever done to my teeth had been painful. “It won’t take two seconds,” the doctor said. He spoke gently, and I was seduced by his voice. Like an ass, I opened my mouth. The tiny blade flashed in the bright light and disappeared into my mouth. It went high up into the roof of my mouth. It went high up into the roof of my mouth, and the hand that held the blade gave four or five very quick little twists and the next moment, out of my mouth into the basin came tumbling a whole mass of flesh and blood. I was too shocked and outraged to do anything but yelp. I was horrified by the huge red lumps that had fallen out of my mouth into the white basin and my first thought was that the doctor had cut out the whole of the middle of my head.

>“Those were your adenoids,” I heard the doctor saying.

> ...

> That was in 1924, and taking out a child’s adenoids, and often the tonsils as well, without any anesthetic was common practice in those days.

On the third page of search results for 'irish setter' I found this: http://blackpeopleloveus.com/

That search engine is like a gold mine! I searched for "black people love us" in DDG and it was the first result, followed by an article written this year explaining how it came about and .. the web felt like such a smaller place back in 2002 and I just don't remember this at all.

Which makes me wonder about how newspapers and free to air tv kept the culture pretty shallow before exploding with the internet and now, possibly contracting again as our filter bubbles shrink? Just an errant though.

But so much novelty and interesting stuff at wiby.me - search for 'trump' and the first result is just surreal.

I seem to recall that was something Windows 98 introduced. It was possible to hide extensions in '95, but it wasn't a default until '98.

Found here: https://old.reddit.com/r/movies/comments/g9by4a/i_made_a_dig...

No, but there is an effort to recreate it with the Otter Browser: https://otter-browser.org/

> I'm honestly puzzled as to why so many people seem to be actually offended by the very fact that I'm asking the question

Comment quality and civility has dropped in the last few months.

I don't use or even like Atom but if this natfriedman says it will be continue to be supported post-merger, then it isn't, then he needs to clear the air.

> so hard to find a good mechanical keyboard that is not meant for gamers with those RGB lights

Try looking for a motherboard these days! It's all so ridiculous.

If you're a fan of the Model M then you must know about Unicomp[1]

ergodox that usually put out a split ergonomic keyboard have recently released a cut down keyboard called the Planck that might interest you[2]. But to go from a gigantic beast of a keyboard to such a wee thing might be daunting.

The /r/mechanicalkeyboards dwellers might be able to help you out as well[3] as well as the mechanicalkeyboards website[4]

FWIW I happily used a Filco Majestouch for years before switching to an 'ergonomic' keyboard (ergodox). The Microsoft Ergo Sculpt is really good for me as well, I still use it on my secondary desktop.

1. https://www.pckeyboard.com/

2. https://ergodox-ez.com/pages/planck

3. https://www.reddit.com/r/MechanicalKeyboards/

4. https://mechanicalkeyboards.com/

Still got my HP TouchPad, still works, mail app is quite superior. Screen is starting to go and casing is getting a little cracked in places but I just love the UI

Click buttons? There are no buttons to click. And no indication clicks are being received or being used.

It looks like a fun thing to play while a build is running, I'll check back if it crosses my radar again.

got an initial black screen until I pressed 'r'

figured out what to do, then it froze. Pressing space bar did nothing.

I just realised last weekend was the fourth weekend without toilet paper on the shelves in my local supermarket. I'm sure they're getting it in, it's just never there when I go to (quickly, furtively) shop on weekends.

It was the Redmi Note 5 (Whyred). They're pretty popular in India and a low cost option in Australia.

Removed 16.0 devices:

Wilefox Storm (kipper)

Xiaomi Redmi Note 7 Pro (violet)

Yu Yuphoria (lettuce)

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I bought a device with the express purpose of installing Lineage OS and not having to worry about it for the next ~5 years. Less than four months later support was removed.

The author here doesn't Get It and prefers the original manga. He thinks the movie should have been a straight translation and is unhappy about it. He likes the idea the recent live-action movie may do to the anime what the anime did the manga. It's a pointless diatribe motivated by pettiness.

"We're sorry but buyforlifeproducts doesn't work properly without JavaScript enabled. Please enable it to continue."

website has no scrollbar??

I have noticed there has been a lot more downvoting here recently, really innocuous and innocent things as well. It might just be more traffic or a different type of traffic to the site while everybody is staying home.

And while I agree with your sentiment regarding the CCP, the comments you link lack the meat of the one you just posted. I'm not surprised they got a kicking.

> I am gonna fire off some anon emails to WSJ/NYTimes/WaPo/Guardian to create some awareness

Well done.

My favourite when working in teams is: "use the right tool for the right job", which presupposes you know many tools and have experience working with them ... and that the shared set of tool knowledge in the team is more than just a hammer and a nail.

> - Android shepherds you into installing shedloads of apps you hardly ever use.

I disagree with you on this one but I could be in the minority. I have about 8 apps that I trust and that rarely change. I don't go looking for new apps to install and I resist attempts to use the app version of a website.

> Lisp shepherds you into building your own language

I see the propensity of developers to build DSLs in all languages. I think the act of programming shepards us into creating elaborate abstractions.