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  1. Did 28 upvoters really subscribe to this newsletter to read this?
  2. > https://www.socsci.uci.edu/newsevents/news/2024/2024-07-17-w...

    It’s clear you didn’t read your links because this one concludes with:

    > "Scholars in China and at the UN have analyzed these and other data. Not a single person has 'discovered' such a huge discrepancy." ... "China has had at least three censuses since the start of the millennium, and there has been no evidence that more than 100 million people are overreported in China," Wang said.

  3. Yes, and it boggles the mind as to why they did. Biden was quite the pro-worker president. Biden saved the Teamsters pension fund and then still the Teamsters officially wouldn't endorse him or Harris. To have your retirement rescued so spectacularly while the opposing party was throwing stones at it and then go on to vote for that opposing party who would have stopped that funding if they could... I just don't understand.
  4. What would be the alternative? Just get who was driving your car to pay you back for the fine. If they are not accountable/honorable enough to back you back, then why were you letting them drive your car in the first place?
  5. Seems like a minor thing to change IDEs over. Would a Zed task that runs the relevant git command work for you? e.g.

        // ${XDG_CONFIG_HOME}/zed/tasks.json
        [
          {
            "command": "git --paginate log --follow -p -m -1 ${ZED_FILE}",
            "label": "last-file-diff:${ZED_FILE}",
            "shell": { "program": "sh" }
          }
        ]
    
    
    You can even throw a keybind on it if you'd like:

        // ${XDG_CONFIG_HOME}/zed/keymap.json
        [
          {
            "context": "Editor && mode == full",
            "bindings": {
              "ctrl-shift-g d": [
                "task::Spawn",
                { "task_name": "last-file-diff:${ZED_FILE}" }
              ]
            }
          }
        ]
    
    
    I am not familiar with gitlens so not sure how close this gets you but you should be able to replicate the functionality you need from the git CLI and some light scripting. This can be a jumping off point maybe. If you want to view the diff using the zed diff viewer, you can do so using `zed --diff`, as demonstrated in this GitHub discussion: https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/discussions/33503#disc...
  6. Short sighted to prioritize career over life. Few people in the US have any self-worth or identity outside their career, at least IME working in tech. It saddens me greatly. “Productivity” is a disease. Some of my closest friends have no idea what to do with themselves outside of work. No one lays on their death bed wishing they worked more.
  7. It says “framer” is not in the word list, but it most certainly is a word, at least according to the New Oxford American Dictionary.
  8. I’m sorry, but you can’t find five minutes (if even) to read an email? No way your day-to-day life is so completely composed of things demanding your full attention that you don’t have a couple minutes to read an email. You typed out this comment, presumably after reading the thread. Surely you have time if someone you know sent you an email. You could read it in the time it takes to brush your teeth.
  9. As a counter point, I’ve read through more than one knowledge base systems I found perfectly sufficient for answering my questions
  10. > people who have intercourse while staring at their phones

    This can’t be real. Surely no one does this. Do people do this?

  11. Are you saying that people who use food stamps – because they cannot afford food – should instead buy food with the money they don’t have?
  12. No problem! You might also consider the iTunes Search API [1] to power your search functionality e.g.

        curl 'https://itunes.apple.com/search?term=jim-e%20stack&entity=song' | jq
    
    [1] https://developer.apple.com/library/archive/documentation/Au...
  13. Cool project! I have never been very satisfied with the existing services for collaborating on playlists.

    I think the experience could be improved if you branched beyond YouTube for the media. I search "jim-e stack" and see multiple non-song videos (in fact 3/4 are not songs). One idea might be to use a service like https://odesli.co (formerly song.link) to filter to real music tracks people are familiar with on their streaming platforms. Their API returns links to Apple Music, Spotify, YouTube, etc for a given music entity (e.g. song, album). Furthermore, integrating with Odesli would offer a path towards allowing users to drop Spotify / Apple Music URLs directly from their respective apps into the jukebox, which I think would be my ideal experience.

    My $0.02. Thanks for sharing!

  14. While I agree with the spirit of your message, you picked the wrong artist for this particular line:

    > every piece of song writing […] is micro-managed by an entire team of people

    No doubt this is true for many many pop artists, where there are literally teams of people with song writing credits, but for Taylor Swift, it is almost always just her and Jack Antonoff credited with songwriting and composition, and not uncommonly just her alone. Say what you will about her, but she writes her own songs.

  15. What, exactly, is so problematic about not telling your parents that you smoke weed with your friends before playing video games? What, exactly, is so problematic about not telling your parents who are dangerously religious, that you had sex with your high school girlfriend? These are all normal, innocuous activities of teenagers. A therapist would not think twice about hearing them.
  16. No it’s not. Everyone hid things from their parents. I hid soooo much from my parents. It’s fine. It’s normal. It’s far more important to have limited exposure to modern smart phones.
  17. It is this sort of fear that holds society back. Individualistic thinking and a belief that one cannot make a difference anyways allows so much bad behavior to take place. With everything in life, you should always try to leave a place better than how you found it.
  18. Ehh. I think much less of people who “sellout” for like $450k TC. It’s so unnecessary at that level yet thousands of people do it. $100M is far more interesting
  19. This doesn’t make sense to me. What does it matter if you have their attention first? It’s asynchronous communication. I find it so damn rude to demand my attention first before you begin typing out a long message. Like do you want me to watch the chat bubble animation while you type or something?
  20. Not that I’m dissatisfied by this being on the front page, but why is this article news right now? The bills were delivered to the governor in April and then signed in May. Regardless, this is great news!
  21. Nothing. My biggest spend recently has been paying off my sisters student debt. Funded a car purchase for my other sister. Beyond that just rent and groceries. I should probably reevaluate my current lease because I quit my job and haven’t had any income in six months or so.
  22. The searching for usage of fonts is a useful feature. But for identifying fonts on specific websites, I find the browser dev tools to be more than sufficient. There is a “fonts” tab that lists all the fonts in use and their attributes like weight, any variable axis, etc.
  23. Agreed the default experience is bad. You can however change the default app for each of the relevant file types. I’ve set my default to be iina
  24. My understanding is that the legal remedies/repercussions being considered involve divesting Android, Chrome. Splitting these off is not in any way killing Googles core business.
  25. Perhaps Mozilla will spend money more effectively now? I'm not sure and frankly I don't care. For sure, it will be a sad day if Firefox formally goes under[1]. Still, it wouldn't change the validity of the decision to forbid these payments, spin off Chrome, etc.

    [1] I think Firefox will survive. Orion browser, which has been my main browser for maybe a year now, was developed with far less money than the Firefox budget and something like only two people. Is this a fair comparison? I have no idea.

  26. "Cutting off the funding" is the most insane framing of the situation. It makes the DOJ sound like the wrongdoers or ones responsible here. This "funding" should never have happened in the first place. It totally distorts the economics of web browsers while also giving Google undue influence over the whole ecosystem. But sure, some browser developers will no longer be receiving some income, so let's allow it. Makes zero sense.

    I personally am excited to see what changes. Who cares if it costs more money for Apple, Mozilla, Microsoft. There are real costs to browser work that they should be feeling. Even if it slows down feature development, so what? I don't see how this can be worse than the status quo that got us here.

  27. This link is not working for me.
  28. Hola is mentioned in the authors prior post on this topic, linked to at the top of TFA: https://jan.wildeboer.net/2025/02/Blocking-Stealthy-Botnets/

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