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by theobeers 5y ago
Relevance to HN: this article is the product of an investigation into a network of organizations involved in Uyghur genocide denial, at the center of which sits Neville Roy Singham, founder of Thoughtworks. edit: I should note that I find s
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The Big Business of Uyghur Genocide Denial(newlinesmag.com)
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by theobeers 5y ago
Arabic-script typography on the web can also be complicated. I did a review/demonstration of some fonts and issues that they may need to handle: https://www.theobeers.com/arabic-font-tests/ The tl;dr for people wh
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by theobeers 5y ago
Support for macOS is not poor—though it could go that way eventually. It would be more accurate to say that Alacritty qua macOS software is now almost unmaintained. If you encounter a problem, don't hold your breath; deal with it in yo
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by theobeers 5y ago
You mean the original developer? When was he last involved? The problems I ran into, and saw other people experiencing, related to more recent maintainers. I'm not sure it's helpful to keep dredging up old issues like this.
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by theobeers 5y ago
I don't want to speak uncharitably of Alacritty, which was my daily driver for a couple years. It's FOSS, the developers don't owe me/us anything, etc. And I never contributed (though I tried once or twice and was summar
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by theobeers 5y ago
I switched from Alacritty to WezTerm a few months ago. I cannot overemphasize what a healthier project/community this is. The developer is surprisingly responsive and seems to be a good guy. Join the Matrix room (linked from the GitHub
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by theobeers 5y ago
What a cool story. As the author clarifies at the end, he means Berlin, CT. (It's pronounced with the emphasis on the first syllable.) My mother was raised there—I grew up not far away—and I still have family in the area. I don't
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by theobeers 5y ago
Kriss mentions Freddie deBoer’s review of Douthat’s book. Some of you might be interested in reading that. In fact, it’s probably more up HN’s alley, in terms of directly addressing the controversy surrounding chronic Lyme. https:/&#x
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by theobeers 5y ago
It's funny you mention YouTube: I think the Lisa may now be the only classic Apple model that has not been reviewed in detail by the 8-Bit Guy, since he can't get his hands on one. He doesn't have an actual Apple-1 either, of
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by theobeers 5y ago
That's amazing! It looks like only the two in front have the dual "Twiggy" drives that distinguish the original Lisa. Then sixteen later models?! This guy must be the top collector; he even named his daughter Lisa.
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by theobeers 5y ago
I wonder what a Lisa 1 in good condition would sell for in today’s overheated market. Obviously a different situation from the Apple-1, but the original Lisa seems also to be exceptionally rare. A well-preserved example went for $31k in 201
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by theobeers 5y ago
I’ve tried both; found that both definitely solve the performance issues that they’re intended to address; and decided that I just prefer using esbuild. As much as I appreciate Rust, the idea that Rust (swc) vs. Go (esbuild) would matter in
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by theobeers 5y ago
You could extend the distance, but it wouldn’t get you to another major city. I guess if you were touring Ivy League schools, you could see Yale, Columbia, Princeton, and Penn with only commuter rail networks (if you allowed yourself small
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by theobeers 5y ago
From the opening section of the blog post, I wondered why an incremental move to TypeScript wouldn’t have worked for them. The rest seems to be all about Elm (I haven’t read it thoroughly), but I feel there’s a disconnect between the proble
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by theobeers 5y ago
This story seems a little bit puffed up. There has been exciting recent progress in the decipherment of another early writing system, Linear Elamite.[0] In fact, French archæologist/philologist François Desset announced last year that
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by theobeers 5y ago
Re: macOS, I don't think the people currently maintaining Alacritty have the ability or the inclination to fix those issues, some of which have been widely reported. Users keep opening duplicate issues without realizing it. I was guilt
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by theobeers 5y ago
Yeah, there are still issues with Haskell and the new Mac architecture. Pandoc and ShellCheck are two of the essential tools affected. In the case of ShellCheck, I just downloaded an x86 binary from the GitHub Releases page and put it in &#
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by theobeers 5y ago
Here’s one of the Eich commits in the prehistory repo (which is fun to browse): https://github.com/graydon/rust-prehistory/commit/8952f420ae...
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by theobeers 6y ago
Of course they do. I have in mind the choice that we're often given these days, between a native (or pseudo-native) desktop app and an in-browser version with comparable functionality. Perhaps I should have been clearer about that in m
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by theobeers 6y ago
Yet another (relative) win for the browser environment: "We also know that the method works on the Windows and Mac version of the Zoom software, but does not affect the browser version."
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by theobeers 6y ago
Do be careful, though, when collating PDFs with Preview. I've had several experiences where the resulting file works fine in Preview, but can't be opened by other PDF readers, e.g. Acrobat Reader. Share the file with a non-Mac use
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by theobeers 6y ago
Yeah, part of the bargain of making English the international language is a shared understanding that bad English is good enough. It doesn’t fly in any other language that I’ve used. Sometimes I point this out to mollify friends who complai
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by theobeers 6y ago
Happy Nowruz to all. Here are the first few lines of a well-known spring poem by Fereydoon Moshiri (d. 2000): باز کن پنجره ها را که نسیم روز میلاد اقاقی ها را جشن می گیرد و بهار روی هر شاخه کنار هر برگ شمع روشن کرده است "Open the windo
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by theobeers 6y ago
> “All industrial fisheries, with very few exceptions, are ultimately drained of life after a certain time,” says Daniel Pauly, a University of British Columbia fisheries biologist. “They increase and push, push, until they collapse. Why
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by theobeers 6y ago
Yeah, here's the blog post you're thinking of, from August 2020: https://offensi.com/2020/08/18/how-to-contact-google-sre-dro... And the HN thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?
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by theobeers 6y ago
What a beautiful story. I’m a decade younger than the author, but still, I was flooded with nostalgia. Please do give this a read, if you’re unsure what to expect based on the title.
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by theobeers 6y ago
It’s interesting, though, that the NYT has been willing to respect the pseudonymity of other public figures in circumstances that I would consider comparable. One example is Virgil Texas, a cohost of the perennially controversial leftist po
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by theobeers 6y ago
It's always fun to read about things that have come to be believed about famous authors, without a basis in fact, whether through hoaxes or by more innocent means. The following line from the linked blog post stood out to me: "As
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by theobeers 6y ago
It seems to me that the licensing situation—you have to lease a whole machine for a minimum period of 24 hours—will make the Mac Pro a poor choice in most contexts. The Mac Mini at or near its base configuration may remain the most sensible

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