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As an European, I don't see the problem with what's being argued here. The photo is art, as is, and it should be automatically covered by copyright. You can't download a photo and sell it.

This is a 1:1 replica of the original, "printed" by hand, presented as own, and sold.

Sorry I don’t think Firefox lost because of extensions. Nobody cared except us. They lost because on Google advertised the living * out of Chrome. Firefox couldn’t compete regardless, it offered an inferior product out of the box.

Again, HN users are not the majority of internet users, which are counted in the billions.

> These companies assume we are too lazy, misinformed, and stupid to do anything.

Correctly assume *

HN is not representative of the general population, a lot of people don’t bother to switch every provider every year, especially when they have obnoxious clauses like “this will renew in 12 months at 500% the price unless you send a signed letter at least 90 days in advance.“ Yes, probably illegal, still doesn’t stop them from trying.

Even I, attentive as I am, still get fleeced every once in a while.

Knowing the history of Firefox, XUL extensions and their demise, this feels more of a limitation.

For those who don't know, Firefox couldn't innovate because any change to the UI broke half the extension ecosystem. This is what happens when you give carte blanche to third party developers on your UI: It's great for the short them.

Ironic and fantastic. So many good ideas are born and die with short-lived projects because no one bothered to extract and polish them as standalone solutions while the project was still alive.

Atom will continue living through Electron (regardless of Pulsar)

You’re joking but adblocking has been available on Safari iOS for several years

I can’t get really past the guy’s attitude. From the get go he’s mocking the work from the marketing to materials, and he’s not doing it in a fun way. Just plain denigrating.

I thought you linked to B1M or something.

I’m surprised it’s still around. Since GitHub released Actions and Travis abandoned the freemium, there weren’t many reasons to stay

How do you link your hardware key to the website? You still have to plug it into a proprietary black box.

If you think your computer security is weak, it will continue to be the weak link even with with a hardware key.

“- due to poachers”

I’m having the same experience with it. They’re trying too hard to be politically correct and it’s annoying.

“Tusk-less elephants outbreed tusked ones”

But that wouldn’t be as catchy and as misleading/misunderstood as the original. Anyone reading that one will assume that elephants are purposefully being born without tusk, but it’s just a ratio consequence of tusked elephants dying early.

Maybe it's because I'm specifically trying to push its buttons, but every answer I get from ChatGPT is super boring, cookie cutter and "politically correct".

OP’s input no longer generate anything useful (it says "I don't have access to specific individuals") and obvious questions like "What can I do in Nana Plaza?" are met with the a generic description of a tourist area in Bangkok, including "shopping for souvenirs" at the street market.

You do not "shop for souvenirs" at Nana Plaza unless that's a euphemism.

No experience with the US market, but I thought that thanks to planes like A350 the opposite was happening: new routes between smaller cities thanks to fuel efficiency.

It's possible that in the US you're seeing that as a consequence of few available pilots and their resistance to change (hub and spoke has been around forever in the region)

Completely irrelevant and MDN is infuriatingly “wrong.”

1px is not 1 physical pixel anywhere anymore. It’s just a “base unit” that we all agreed on decades ago. It could be 4 display pixels, it could be 9, it could be fractional if your monitor is downsampling it. It could be thousands if you zoom in. Heck, with PentTile matrix the pixel is never even “1 rgb pixel”

Also 1px is a digital unit and as such it does not have an “inch” equivalent, as much as designers like to insist that it does. Maybe it comes into play when you print pages, but even then the browser and the user can change the scale, so 1/96th of 1 inch is basically trivia at this point and should never be talked about in the context of “browsing the web”, even if it’s part of the CSS spec.

Ironically this is the least accessible solution because it doesn’t let the user change the font size at all (not that it’s particularly common in this day and age, due to full-page zooming being the default since at least 2010)

If you’re talking about the zoom controls in Safari (and any other modern browser), units are completely irrelevant. For the last 15 years, browsers have been changing the size of 1px rather than changing the root font-size. The whole viewport becomes “smaller” so it appears zoomed in.

I'm looking at it on MacBook with 40% brightness and I can tell the difference, but yeah it's only slightly better. Reading the comment I was expecting some orange outline but there's only a very light "gamma" difference.

I thought variable width fonts were pretty heavy? I don’t think you actually save data over loading two separate weights. The savings come in later (3+ weights)

So I ask for a translation and it fails because it times out, giving me an error. And you call that good programming?

I get it that the server translations are better, but currently I’m not seeing any translation at all. You, Google Translate developer, should catch the error and show the offline translation instead.

I think you can find those answered spelled out online.

In short, it’s not JPEG 2000.

I don’t know what you’re using but most developers most likely don’t need “lots of -webkit- prefixes”.

In the link posted by the sibling commenter, I see 2-3 properties that could be useful to the general public. The rest is esoteric, never-ratified, or straight up user hostile (font-smooth)

Love it. But all the languages are pretty similar to each other, I’d argue. I want to see it working with some exotic language like Mandarin. Most translators deliver hilarious results when translating Japanese for example.

That’s just bad programming. Turn on Airplane Mode and it will work. A bunch of apps won’t even try to use offline data when they’re “online”, even if the connection is 1 byte/second.

Side note: I love websites that break the mold with alternative layouts like this one, even though it's still simple and beautiful.

From the footer:

> © Google 2019

Not exactly a new or fully supported project, but I do see recent commits on the repo.

If you’re merging (and not rebasing) it’s the same exact thing. You’re just switching the “incoming” version, but conflicts will be identical.

Why would anyone want to work in a dumpster fire?

> The problem is in people thinking it’s ok to predate on other people and doing so.

I'm sympathetic to the risks women run, but this isn't necessarily an issue with online dating, but just dating. "Online people" are just people.

The only real difference is that online dating allows you to have as many dates as you can handle, so if you do go on 7 days a week, you could very well have "a bunch of bad dates on Tinder" in just a month.

I think it's the approach people take that is problematic: meeting at a restaurant on a Friday evening and expecting everything (sex on one side and "payment" on the other). I have dates for lunch, coffee and for walks; zero expectations from either party, it works wonderfully and when it doesn't we just go our own merry ways.

Fall where? There’s always new faces on Tinder, even if the platform itself became hostile and essentially barely-freemium.

Every single issue described in the article has to do with how you use the app.

Talking to 10 guys? Don’t. Focus on one and unmatch if there’s no feeling.

Waiting 1-3 days before meeting? Why. I (male) was recently asked to meet at a nearby mall within 30 minutes of matching.

Dating for many people is more complicated than it needs to me, too many requirements and made-up rules.

The only rules are: be decent and say bye when it doesn’t work.