I found the touch bar a hindrance on my 2017 MBP. Then I read a HN comment [1] recommending Better Touch Tool [2] with GoldenChaos config [3]. I've found it quite useful since.
Do these fix the kernel panic "BAD MAGIC" error that causes the machine to crash and restart? These are kernel panics caused by the BridgeOS, a mini-operating system that drives the TouchBar.
My problem isn't with the usability or usefulness of the TouchBar. My problem is that the mere presence of the TouchBar has created a point of failure that crashes the machine... when I'm not even using that feature!
I think it's because chihuahuas and great danes have all the same bits, just with different scales/shapes. Where as entirely new muscles take a lot more work to evolve.
And bone structure, just forget it. Mammals have mostly the same sets of bones attached the same way--a bat's wings are just gigantic hands with webbed fingers in skeletal terms.
I'd be very surprised if Chihuahuas and Great Danes literally have all the same bits. Canines are the most morphologically diverse animal, surpassing even humans. If there aren’t dog breeds that all have or lack a particular muscle, type of hair or bone I’ll be very surprised. Poodles have webbed feet for one, or just consider how some breeds have floppy and others pointed ears.
It’s reasonably likely the muscles that are universal among dogs existed among wolves at very low frequency and just exploded in frequency once they started hanging around humans. These kinds of hard sweeps happen when there’s either a very useful de novo mutation or a new environment makes a previously irrelevant or disadvantageous allele or trait beneficial. In humans think lactase persistence which was pretty much nonexistent 5,000 years ago or the Tibetan altitude adaptations which derive from the Denisovans who were living on the Tibetan plateau over a million years ago.
Floppy ears are just pointed ears that failed to rise - perhaps because they became too big. A German Shepherd pup has floppy ears and they eventually start to stick up, after going through a phase where they can't decide.
There is something impressive that a Chihuahua can instantly somehow recognise the Great Dane or Pekingese as of type dog, even at great distance upwind. Yet can react differently to cat, sheep, fox or squirrel at similar range.
Did a cursory search and it seems to be common wisdom that all dog breeds have the same number of bones and muscles.
While there are many differences between breeds and individual dogs, there are also common factors that link them together. For example, all breeds have an excellent sense of smell and hearing and have the same number of bones which are tied together by the same number of muscles, tendons and ligaments.
I’m sure 99% or more of muscles and bones are shared across the various dog breeds but humans have about as much genetic diversity as the average chimpanzee troupe and we have differences in our musculature. For dogs to be more uniform than humans given the speed and vigour of selection seems unlikely. Some breeds should lack vestigial muscles and others have them by more or less random chance.
Think about this: all mammals have the same number of neck vertebrae, 7, from giraffes to humans to mice, with the exception of (some)sloths and manatees.
That being said, dogs will have between 6 and 23 bones in their tails depending on length.
The USA would benefit a lot if it moved to a more proportional voting system. It seem ridiculous to me that such a large country effectively only has 2 parties.
That’s totally besides the point. Let’s not ignore facts or downplay how destructive the Republican Party has been to environmental policy. Anti-environmentalism has been a major feature of the Republican Party’s agenda for decades now, and to this day they’re actively involved in rolling back environmental protections and literally denying climate change.
Environmentalism has been a major distinction between Democrats and Republicans for a loooong time, and here on HN Republican voters are still trying to whitewash it and are probably the ones downvoting me.
"Drill, baby, drill!” - Chairman of RNC Michael Steele
"The concept of global warming was created by and for the Chinese in order to make U.S. manufacturing non-competitive." Donald Trump
It's (in my view) actually part of a more fundamental cultural issue that glorifies ignorance and faith. Faith is not a bad thing, but you shouldn't base your decisions on it if it is not necessary. Until that issue gets fixed, everyone can start voting democrat (or that other third flavour nobody seems to like) but it won't actually do anything. All the insane people will flock to the democratic party (because that's where all the power is!) and you'll have a new giant problem, just with a different name.
I dunno about other people, but I almost completely ignore those big background posts. I think my brain sees them as adverts/spam and just filters them out.
Today I have published a post on my Facebook page. It was my two book recommendations of the books I've read in 2017. The covers were added as images to a post, and there were four paragraphs of text, first one explaining what I'm doing, second and third one a really short reviews of the books, and the fourth one asking my followers to recommend books in the comments. Knowing that it won't reach anyone, I have also purchased an ad (3 euros, one day), targeting fans of the page and their friends.
Organically, it reached 149 people (smaller posts reach 3-5x as much on average). It reached 1,471 by a paid promotion. Number of people who liked, commented, or even clicked to see all four paragraphs is 45.
My point is: you're a minority. And people who post like that get punished greatly by their algorithm. My ad was even postponed for like 30 minutes because images contained "too much text for an ad" until I clicked on "manual review" because I saw in their help pages that they let book covers slide.
Unicode is vast. There's absolutely no good reason we don't have Snowman Separated Values (or some other proper separator sign that isn't commonly used elsewhere) other than that people don't demand it.
Where can I find those on my keyboard? Entering escape sequences by hand isn't user friendly, if it works at all. One of the benefits of csv is that it's universal, I can open it in vim or write an awk script to extract values, someone else can open in notepad++, someone else should be able to open in excel.
Just thinking out loud here, but isn't part of the point is that they are not keyboard characters. If they're on the keyboard, then they will pop up in ordinary text, similar to the | (pipe) character and friends.
They are ^\ ^] ^^ and ^_, respectively. Of course, most text editors will interpret those keys as something else. In emacs you can enter them literally by using C-q (quote) first.
Since we're kind of talking about things from an I18N perspective, those characters are written like this on a bog standard Swedish keyboard:
\ is AltGr+?
] is AltGr+9
^ is Shift+^, then space
_ is Shift+-
AltGr is the right Alt key, to the right of the space bar.
So none of those are single keys, which means that combining them with Ctrl to write control characters becomes almost comically difficult. Not very accessible to typical users, I'd say.
Actually \ is AltGr++, i.e. "+" is the symbol you get from that key without any modifier. With shift you get ? and with AltGr you get \. My bad, and too late to edit.
While XLSX is proprietary by descent, it is standardized; thus, it's readable/writable by man and machine alike (essentially a zipped XML with some bells and whistles). I have not encountered a less broken format that is similarly widespread.
Well, some of the issues are shared between CSV and XLSX. However, it does have a clear distinction between structure (which also can be validated!) and content (which moots the issue with comma-semicolon-tab separation), a well-defined character set and somewhat-sane character escaping rules.
It does have similar "executability" issues as CSV (and more), but 1. the formula evaluation is documented and expected behavior, 1b. there is a documented way to suppress it, and 2. programs reading it are aware that security is a thing, and either a) constrain/sandbox it (in the case of table processors such as MSOffice or LibreOffice), or b) don't execute its macros and expansions at all (in the case of libraries such as PhpExcel). Not sure about the Google Docs issue.
(As far as "common knowledge" - knowledge for manual inspection of strings is IMNSHO not required, all that's needed is that it's program-readable; in this respect, most table processors are capable of this. The point "but you can inspect CSVs by hand" comes from experience: it is also possible to inspect binaries by hand, neither of these is intuitive, both are a learned skill)
I've stopped using PuTTY and now use MinTTY with the Ubuntu subsystem and the regular old Ubuntu SSH client. Specifically this thing: https://github.com/mintty/wsltty
It's real nice and even supports 24bit colour if you're into that.
I tried that briefly too, and I couldn't launch screen. It seems to trigger some old bug in screen. How far is the WSL terminal from the usual fanfare (screen, tmux, proper colors in the terminal and text editors, and other edge cases for scrollback etc.) ?
