brenns10
Joined 11 years ago
Joined 11 years ago
There's always Linux! ;)
These people are NOT BUILDING A PRODUCT. There ARE NO USERS. No customers. No investors. No business considerations. There are just contributors, donating their time and money to a project they feel is worthwhile.
If they don't want to focus on "UX," they don't need to. If a person who believes in the project lends their time toward improving UX, they can. But it's not the job of ANYONE, contributor or maintainer, to do anything that doesn't serve the existing contributors.
And I know that sucks for welcoming new folks. I know it would be better for a project to do outreach. To try to position themselves to bring in new members. Many such projects do that. But it sure is galling to suggest that it's a project's JOB to do something more when they're providing tons of free content to you. If it mattered enough for you to comment, go work on it!
If it's full self driving, then I assume that Tesla is paying for your insurance and taking all responsibility for any crashes it causes in your car?
Did it also drive itself back to your home empty?
Ultimately it comes down to: you must trust your instance admin. (Just like you must trust Facebook and X and Tiktok and whomever else). As a result, maybe take private conversations somewhere safer, like Signal or a pgp conversation. If you don't trust your instance admin, why did you sign up with your instance?
It's like if you write a long jargon phrase and then define an abbreviation in parentheses. Next time you can use the abbreviation. If the abbreviation becomes well known enough (especially in certain groups) then you may be able to omit the definition altogether, especially if you already know your audience.
I'm not sure about schools "manufacturing their own gestures" but sign languages tend to have regional dialects and shared jargon, much spoken dialects and jargon. It could be that these signs are simply regional variations, or that a single sign hasn't become dominant.
If you enable frame pointers, you need to recompile every library your executable depends on. Otherwise, the unwind will fail at the first function that's not part of your executable. Usually library function calls (like glibc) are at the top of the stack, so for a large portion of the samples in a typical profile, you won't get any stack unwind at all.
In many (most?) cases recompiling all those libraries is just infeasible for the application developers, which is why the distro would need to do it. Developers can still choose whether to include frame pointers in their own applications (and so they can still pick up those 1-2% performance gains in their own code). But they're stuck with frame pointers enabled on all the distro provided code.
So the choice developers get to make is more along the lines of: should they use a distro with FP or without. Which is definitely not ideal, but that's life.
"et alia" is used to refer to "the others (people)" whereas "et cetera" is used to refer to "the others (things)". So you'd use "et cetera" to refer to the other posts. But if you were writing a list of authors you might end with "et al." to indicate that there are more.
I know correcting somebody's Latin usage is really pedantic even by HN's standards. I'm only saying it cause I find it interesting and want to share, not because I want to correct you :)
But none of the current options are risk free, and I doubt this one will be. They all have risks, side effects, and probably the chance of failure. And then the question is how low of a risk is acceptable to restore a child's hearing. These are people who would live an otherwise healthy and normal life, and they'd grow up in an accepting deaf family which is likely already plugged into a community. I can't imagine how it would feel to have a serious side effect (or worse) impact your child when you know they could have gone without that procedure and lived a happy, fulfilling life. But I also understand the desire to give your child every possible opportunity.
All of that is to say, I think it is reductive to compare this to child abuse or FGM. There's no right decision, and parents absolutely will need to make a difficult choice, hopefully prioritizing their child's safety and future above all else.