rodric
rodric on Hacker News
While I can appreciate this, it was not the historical point of view of the people calling themselves Americans.
“What then is the American, this new man? He is either an European, or the descendant of an European, hence that strange mixture of blood, which you will find in no other country. I could point out to you a family whose grandfather was an Englishman, whose wife was Dutch, whose son married a French woman, and whose present four sons have now four wives of different nations. He is an American, who, leaving behind him all his ancient prejudices and manners, receives new ones from the new mode of life he has embraced, the new government he obeys, and the new rank he holds. He becomes an American by being received in the broad lap of our great Alma Mater. Here individuals of all nations are melted into a new race of men, whose labours and posterity will one day cause great changes in the world.”
~J. Hector St. John de Crevecoeur, 1782
https://avalon.law.yale.edu/18th_century/letter_03.asp
> You can't have separate scroll directions for your trackpad and your external mouse.
The worst. There are even separate toggles in Settings for mouse and trackpad scrolling direction, but changing one changes the other. It is truly amazing that this has persisted for 15 years.
> Maybe the sync is fast now, but my usage would put my in a higher iCloud tier than I'd like
You can use Messages on the Mac without storing messages in iCloud. iPhone, iPad and Mac can all send and receive the same account’s messages, effectively staying in sync without actually syncing them to iCloud’s servers.
If Q is not a written source, the Q hypothesis falls apart. The point is to explain what Matthew and Luke (but not Mark) have in common, much of which is word-for-word the same. Whole sentences between them that are verbatim in the Greek point to literary dependence, not oral tradition.
On the Farrer hypothesis, Luke used Matthew as a source, accounting for their shared material. Mark Goodacre may be the current leading academic proponent of the Farrer hypothesis. His article ‘Fatigue in the Synoptics’ (
https://www.markgoodacre.org/Q/fatigue.htm) is a short read that makes part of the case.
Setting aside the truth value of any religious claim — I find ‘Jesus **** Christ’ to be in gratingly poor taste. Imagine going around saying ‘Prophet **** Muhammed’ or even ‘Martin **** Luther King.’ It’s gauche.
> Eu, definitely a good name
I see what you did there.
You are right, of course. Clearly, I have been away from mathematics too long.
> the set of such roots is actually closed under multiplication, addition, and subtraction, and there is even an analogue of prime factorization if you squint
I did a maths undergrad, but I don’t think I ever studied algebraic integers. That’s something I shall have to remedy now, thanks!
VLC is up to date on F-Droid, for what it’s worth
> The V is gradually being dropped in Spain and in the last few decades the process seems to have accelerated
I own a Spanish textbook printed (in English) in 1958 that says about «usted»: ‘It is the universal respectful address of society, and the only one the foreigner is ever likely to employ or hear addressed to him, unless he marries a native or forms intimate friendships.’ How times have changed!
> "total deathtrap" is a wild exaggeration.
Sarcasm ;-)
The web is, in theory, an open venue, and somebody publishing on the web is not unlike somebody performing in the street. It is not your duty, as the consumer, to ensure the producer’s income—particularly not at the expense of your privacy. The producer has something to say, and you the consumer are willing to hear it: that may just as well be the extent of your relationship. How, or even whether, the producer monetizes this state of affairs is not the consumer’s responsibility, though some consumers (who can) may choose to patronize the producer.
> Require anyone who sells a new physical product have to accept returns of that physical product at the end of its lifetime
This is the correct solution
The day you turn 30 you begin your 31st year of life.
How great is your wish? If you host your own instance of Whoogle, which gives Google search results, you can set one of the environment variables to block particular websites from search results.
Modern French has had little influence on English. As I understand it, the -our forms are evolutions from the Norman French spellings that introduced these Latinate words into English after the Conquest. In the Renaissance, as many words made their way into English directly from Latin, there was something of a desire to Latinize the spellings of these words to their original -or forms. This had some traction in Britain (eg, horror, tremor, governor) but really took root in America.
I note that Google Toolbar had a big RSS ‘Subscribe’ button…
It looks like you’re writing a complaint. Would you like help?
I am reminded of a line from G.K. Chesterton: ‘Thieves respect property; they merely wish the property to become their property that they may more perfectly respect it.’
My default browser is Librewolf with JavaScript turned off. If a page fails to load correctly, I reopen it in Firefox private browsing mode (or, if it still fails, Chrome incognito mode). If it’s a site I expect to come back to in future, I bookmark it in Firefox and assign it its own container using the Multi-Account Containers extension.
Is your Mac mini serving and playing your music, or serving only? The server wouldn’t stream directly to a HomePod speaker, and your player (perhaps on an iPhone or iPad?) would stream to your speaker equally whether the server runs on macOS or Linux.
Shame if that is (or was?) the case, but it hasn’t been my experience at least.
You should probably use an app like Aegis (Android) or Raivo (iOS) for two-factor authentication rather than your personal phone number.
In case you haven’t already, you may want to create a .zshrc file in your home directory with the line
alias ls='ls -la'
Like you, I always want a vertical list.