I put my phone’s brightness down to minimum at night. Nonetheless I use HN purposely as a dim light when the phone’s torch would be too bright and a beige glow does the job splendidly. (Typically, when I’m moving around the house late at night and everyone else is asleep - when pitch black the torch is too extreme.)
That said, given the amount of time I spend reading on the site I do wish there was a dark mode option.
Amen. This is an issue at the company I work at. Common typos when looking up has keys will return nil - this has a tendency to silently keep working and blow up with a runtime error further down the chain. I am trying to insist on using .fetch to force an exception.
When the company switches to 3.2 I will insist on everyone using the new Data class for value objects rather than hashes.
1. Dahl had already made changes to the Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. The early editions had African pygmies as his free labour. I don’t think the world was “woke” back then.
2. This is being done by a corporate publishing house in order to maximise the revenue of one of its key IP assets. It’s not mandated by government/regulation; there is no viral social media furore or press campaign. It’s not censorship nor anything like 1984 where works are being revised and all traces of the previous version cease to exist.
> like 1984 where works are being revised and all traces of the previous version cease to exist.
in our e-book future that's simply not the case; older editions or 'per-correction' editions are hard to find, and often-times impossible without resorting to pirate channels.
This type of thing is already happening, but it's not raising red-flags for people because it's not being done in an overtly malicious way as in '1984', it's being normalized via things like electronic-only distribution of media, and it's being explained and OK'd via 'corporate revenue' as an excuse -- but what's really happening is that older media is being thrown away at an alarming rate, and not only for the sake of correctness or moral balancing.
Regarding 2 - I think we need to regard these things with a holistic eye on centralization in general, rather than narrowly focusing on government / not government. True, government didn't order the change - however, government does forbid acquiring a copy from anyone except this single entity, through copyright law. The practical effect is the same - a small and unelected entity gets to unilaterally fiddle with shared culture, and I can't legally obtain or distribute an unmolested copy. That's censorship.
Really, the core issue is copyright law again. There comes a point where something is so enmeshed in our culture that it can't be said to be "owned" by anyone anymore.
1. The author changing his own work is in no way comparable to posthumously changing an author’s work.
2. How is this material?
You don’t know the motivations of the people making this change, and there’s no evidence that editing via “sensitivity readers” actually increases revenue.
There is, however, plenty of evidence of the ideological basis for these types of actions.
As for censorship ala 1984? The previous version will no longer be sold and will gradually disappear, and for new readers, the previous version will have effectively ceased to exist.
Never mind the potential automatic updating of ebooks.
I mean, not quite. My performance at the same level went from high performer to low performer. So I was doing the role very well for a while, even getting good reviews for filling the role above mine (intermediate dev filling tech lead role). Performance gradually atrophied following my disenchantment and mistreatment.
I’m on fibre. Last month I had a lot of video calls on zoom, Google Meet, MS Teams and even WebEx. Google was by far the most reliable and MS Teams was frequently a complete mess with participants unable to converse and merely an observer. And every person who set up a Teams meeting with me began with a preface about the miserable experiences they’ve been having with Teams of late.
I don’t use it myself so can’t really give a good review but my window into the world of long term users would suggest that saying you were cut off wouldn’t strike anyone else as unusual.
I immediately like this project for being “framework independent” rather than agnostic. It’s odd how computing has fashioned a completely different sense for “agnostic” despite perfectly adequate and well understood words already existing.
Is your objection to “agnostic” its religious implications in other contexts? It’s a perfectly cromulent synonym for independent in this context otherwise.
Manning also have a book on Lucene, the library that powers Solr and ElasticSearch. IIRC the book covered how Lucene actually works under-the-good and would therefore act as a good reference on the subject in general.
Cold storage/cold wallet, which stores your crypto offline. Through this way the digital wallet is stored on a platform not connected to the internet, thereby protecting the wallet from unauthorized access, cyber hacks, and other vulnerabilities that a system connected to the internet is susceptible to.
One way to do cold storage is through a hardware wallet like Ledger or TREZOR. This is probably the best option in terms of convenience and ease of use.
A hardware wallet uses an offline device or smartcard to generate private keys offline. The Ledger USB Wallet is an example of a hardware wallet that uses a smartcard to secure private keys. The device looks and functions like a USB drive; a computer and a Chrome-based app are required to store the private keys offline. You can use anything from a standard USB storage drive to an advanced device with a battery, Bluetooth, software, and other features.
Other methods are sound wallets, paper wallets, offline software wallets, or deep cold storage.
There's this trick that gives you guaranteed protection against institutional loss of up to USD 250,000. There are number of startups and also established orgs that provide this service. You'll probably find a brick & mortar storefront right in your neighbourhood where you can deposit your crypto in their wallet in-person! You'll find that they're sometimes called accounts instead wallets, and they may require you to first convert your coins to this funny system called fiat, but that's just a small technical hurdle.
Keeping the temperature of the bedroom cold made a big difference for me.
I’ve been listening to audiobooks and podcasts for years and that helped better than not, but turning the radiator off and ensuring the bedroom was cold meant the vast majority of nights meant I went from listening at least an hour a night to often falling asleep within 15mins or less.
I had read Why We Sleep by Matthew Walker and I highly recommend it. Changed my attitude completely - it’s now higher priority.
This is bring back a lot of memories - in a former life I took care of digital products for dictionaries at Pearson Longman, and one of my favourite projects was developing a generic dictionaries platform for iOS apps, that allowed me to produce about eight dictionary apps published on the app store. All long gone now - no trace of them which is a shame.
The Longman brand was associated with English as a second language, so all our digital products came with audio pronunciations, plus a lot of photos/illustrations. In some products we also had a simple quiz engine to test comprehension. So a lot of data to cram into each app.
Like now, it seems that SQLite does a lot of heavy lifting. A lot of time was spent making a pipeline that could get lexicographic material in to a searchable database, plus the associated sound and image assets. I recall that the SQLite lib built-in to iOS wasn't good enough, so I had to compile my own build and bundle within each app.
The Longman dictionary data was really good. At the time a lot of the free dictionary apps were using WordNet (which isn't even a typical dictionary) because wikitionary wasn't where is it now. I bet there are more avenues to acquire decent, free, lexical resources.
That said, given the amount of time I spend reading on the site I do wish there was a dark mode option.