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Is Elon Musk's Takeover of Twitter the News Event of the Year?

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Man with blank sheet of paper threatened with arrest if he wrote ‘not my King’

standard.co.uk

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Self-Contained Search for Archived Static Site?

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Russia Today – Surprisingly Honest Mikhail Gorbachev Obituary

gorbachev.rt.com

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Find Unused CSS Across Entire Web Project [Local]?

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ID This SciFi Short Story

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Ask HN: Shift+Click Broken For Anyone Else?

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Ask HN: Migadu? Postale? Mxroute? Or any other mail services using this model?

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YAGWAP* – Anyone Using Inbox.eu? Good, Bad or Indifferent?

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Alternative to uMatrix?

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Why Would Severe Chronic Pain Evolve?

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Pinboard Is Down

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Why Does VPN Not Work When Logged In as Root?

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Can Someone Help Me Understand How Lichess Ratings Work?

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Why Is This Person Not [Shadow] Banned?

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Thunderbird Users –Ever Have Emails Vanish?

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StartPage Started Blocking Access via VPN?

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4 年前議論

I can't seem to find any info on whether or not the risk disappears if/when you give up drinking. Or is the DNA roulette wheel already spinning, like it is for people who have been heavy smokers in the past?

I think it's going to be harder for people to take on board the idea that any amount of alcohol is bad for you as, intuitively, I still believe that, in moderation, it can have some positive affects such as de-stressing and aiding sleep. Mind you, I suppose you could say some of the same about smoking and I can intuitively accept that any amount of that is bad for you.

Well, I've never smoked [tobacco] and [apart from a bit of a 'sociable relapse' over Christmas] haven't drunk for over a year now. So I should live forever!

4 年前議論

  >You described Germany! Britain and France are quite independent...

Germany I'll give you. They've definitely been putting in a herculean effort on the American Poodle front of late. But they'll have to go some to beat the UK's decades' long subservience. When it comes to foreign policy, the UK is basically a US satellite state.

France, on the other hand, were historically probably the Western European nation most likely to tell the US 'Non!' --although, that seems to be increasingly a thing of the past now too.

4 年前議論

I am an artist and these kind of articles and numerous similar videos on YouTube: 'How to draw faces... How to draw a cat... How to draw a horse...' annoy the hell out of me. As if 'learning to draw' consisted of following some formulaic recipe, without even having the object in question in front of you, or even having seen it.

The number one skill in learning to draw is learning to see properly. The vast majority of non-artistic people look at things without ever really seeing them. A classic example can be found on Gianluca Gimini's Velocipedia project:

https://www.gianlucagimini.it/portfolio-item/velocipedia/

Here's a another example:

https://www.boredpanda.com/famous-brand-logos-drawn-from-mem...

Mechanically filling a page with shapes or following some idiotic 'how to draw a...' tutorial on YouTube will only teach you how to fill a page with shapes or make a bad copy of someone else's bad drawing. Learning to really look at things and attempting to put down what you see [as opposed to what you thought the item looked like before you actually studied it] is a far far more useful exercise.

I take your point that this article might provide some useful exercises for loosening up your doodling technique, to people who find it awkward to manipulate a pen or pencil freely. But calling it 'learning to draw' is as hyperbolic as calling some warm-up stretches 'learning to run a marathon'.

4 年前議論

The British can't take a dump without the US ordering them to. So it amounts to the same thing.

4 年前議論

You got me there! -- I did read, but only down as far as the download links. As they came after a substantial amount of blurb, I assumed they were the last item on the page and didn't scroll any further.

I humbly withdraw my snidey comment [although not the bit in regards to the Fediverse!]

4 年前議論

I note there's no mention of importing your existing passwords from other password managers, which pretty much all the other password managers I've tried do allow. So yet another 'alternative' that expects us to abandon all our existing content/data and start over again from scratch [cf. The Fediverse]

4 年前議論

I use Bitwarden myself and it gets some kudos for being free for personal use and open source. But the browser extension usability is badly flawed and the app suffers from an arrogant "You're holding it wrong!" dev team, who refuse to address these problems.

Also, its autofill functionality is completely broken on Android, and has been since forever. So, while it's preferable to LastPass, it's still pretty mediocre.

4 年前議論

Spoiler alert: The US did it.

4 年前議論

FFS! This is not any kind of 'guide to drawing'. It's some crappy doodling exercises.

4 年前議論

  >I read a hard copy that was passed around my high school in the early 90s...

Slightly veering away from the subject. But your comment reminded me of 'The Little Red Schoolbook' --which was the [supposedly banned] book that we all passed around in school. Although being sadly older than you, this would have been the early 80s. I wonder if anyone else remembers it?

As I recall it was pretty subversive in content, with sections on sex, drugs and anrachist politics.

EDIT: Seems it was quite well-known after all. Wikipaiedia has an article on it:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Little_Red_Schoolbook

4 年前議論

A pedant writes...

  DEFINITION: Hatchling -- a young animal that has recently emerged from its egg.

So, if it's still inside the egg, it ain't a hatchling.

4 年前議論

Ironic that the US is crying foul on China [allegedly] keeping tabs on its own citizens overseas --when the US has been treating the entire planet like it falls under their own legal jurisdiction.

4 年前議論

I don't know whether this is clever or not. But it ID'd me from my Github account public keys.

4 年前議論

Jeebus! --that is lame

4 年前議論

  >Name an era when "stuff from 20 years ago" was not a nostalgia trend.

I don't think this modern nostalgia is anywhere near as good as the nostalgia we had when I was a kid.

4 年前議論

I much prefer taking photos with my digital camera. The only thing where phone cameras have the edge is with the automatic GPS tagging. My inner nerd really likes to know the exact location where my photos were taken. The more so, the older they are.

Unfortunately, very few digital cameras have GPS tagging built itn. They nearly all require pairing with your smartphone to 'attach' GPS data via Bluetooth when you take a shot. But most of the time, I forget to activate this before going out with the camera.

4 年前議論

  >They were terrible....

If these kids want to really push the envelope of crappy digital imagery, they should get themselves an early Apple QuickTake. Now that was a dire camera. A mighty 640x480 resolution and colour rendering that made poeple look like they were made of clay.

I wonder whatever happened to the company that made them? Probably went bankrupt, soon after inflicting that monstrosity on an unsuspecting world.

4 年前議論

  >Oh my god this makes me feel ancient now.

Interesting to muse on people's various "Now I feel ancient" moments.

For me it occurred about 5 years ago when I used to teach at a university. The first time I picked up an application form from an 18 year old applicant, which had the year of birth filled in as '2000', I thought it was a typo. It barely seemed like a handful of years since I'd been seeing in the new millenium at some sleazy nightclub --and here I was interviewing 'adults', who weren't even born then.

4 年前議論

'non-binary' memory --sometimes it identifies as RAM. Sometimes it identifies as ROM.

4 年前議論

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