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Great. I’ve just returned a WD drive to Amazon after it arrived crushed in a torn-open paper bag.

The replacement arrived also in a paper bag and went straight back, this time for a refund.

I guess I should have kept that one and hoped for the best.

Good alternatives? I’ve only recently been enlightened on how profoundly sh__ty SSD is for long-term storage and I have a whole lot of images my parents took traveling the last few years of their lives.


I'm sure Amazon isn't the only shop that delivers to your area


The premise of this news is that prices are going to climb and availability is going to drop.

And I’m not keen on having anyone ship me one of these anymore.

Walmart sells what appears to be an older version of the drive and I might have to cross my fingers and just get one of those.


> And I’m not keen on having anyone ship me one of these anymore.

Isn't that what you're doing ordering off amazon with their comingled inventory?

Besides, there's a spectrum of sellers between "Amazon" and "anybody", you can even, perhaps, purchase directly from the manufacturer.


I meant that after the Amazon experience, I don't want to buy a HDD online. Would much prefer to get it locally in person.


Bestbuy with local pickup. They price match Amazon. B&H Photo is another option.


Don’t understand != don’t care.


> and more recently “So!” by Seamus Heaney in 2000. This is despite the research suggesting that the Anglo Saxons made little use of the exclamation mark

Seamus Heaney does not use an exclamation.

His version begins:

“So.”


> And you create music without ever having heard music before? Or are you also extracting other artist’s work and using it as inspiration for what you do?

This is an argument that the AI should be allowed to benefit, not the person prompting it.


I’ve tried in the past to explain/promote/defend my syntax-coloring-free serenity, but I wish I’d thought of this:

> Syntax is not the most challenging part of programming.

It seems like unless you’re learning the language it’s mainly a distraction.


Idk - I really think this is a different brain thing.

I have synesthesia and so get syntax highlighting for free.

I like my highlighting to give me "synesthesia bootstrap speedup"; on the contrary it annoys me when it clashes.

It's an extreme case, but I presume as with most things there's a spectrum


If people like Rob Pike and Linus Torvalds are on the opposite end of that spectrum, you might be interested in why that is.

I strongly suspect the older and more experienced a developer is, the more likely they are to code without syntax coloring, including large numbers who previously didn’t.


From the first paragraph:

Earlier reports suggested it could have been something from space but that seems unlikely since the velocity of anything that survived reentry would likely have caused substantial damage beyond a cracked windshield. The theory was likely amplified by the captain of the flight who reportedly described the object that hit the plane as “space debris.”

Maybe the submitted headline isn’t justified?


The claim that the captain said it was "space debris" was from a reddit comment from the allegedly neighbor of a flight attendant that was on the flight. Not the most credible of sources.


Article's original title ("Airliner hit by possible space debris") has been updated so we've made the same update above. Thanks!


The article says it's been updated. Possibly the submitted headline reflects the original version?


Was wondering the same the moment I posted.

Here’s what appears to be the prior version from archive.ph, which does align more with the submitted hed:

Authorities are now considering whether a falling object, possibly from space, caused damage to the windshield and frame on a United 737 MAX over Colorado on Thursday. Various reports that include watermarked photos of the damage suggest the plane was struck by a falling object not long after taking off from Denver for Los Angeles. One of the photos shows a pilot’s arm peppered with small cuts and scratches. In his remarks after the incident, the captain reportedly described the object that hit the plane as “space debris,” which would suggest it was from a rocket or satellite or some other human-made object. Some reports say it was possibly a meteorite.

Whatever hit the plane, it was an enormously rare event and likely the first time it’s ever happened. The plane diverted without incident to Salt Lake City where the approximately 130 passengers were put on another plane to finish the last half of the 90-minute flight. Apparently only one layer of the windshield was damaged, and there was no depressurization. The crew descended from 36,000 feet to 26,000 feet for the diversion, likely to ease the pressure differential on the remaining layers of windshield. Neither the airline nor FAA have commented.

Would be nice to update the HN hed though.


> Only folders inside the Documents folder are affected.

That's quite a caveat. The reason for it is:

> size and position are stored in a hidden .framedata.json file in that folder. When a folder is opened, this file is used to restore its state.

Couldn't this information be stored centrally in the user's home for any folders opened/moved/sized, avoiding this limitation?


I don’t like littering the filesystem with these crumbs, especially when the folders are synced with iCloud so you have two machines with possibly different screen sizes arguing about the saved location. I’d much rather store everything in a single SQLite file.


There's already a ds_store file littered around, and presumably these must be backwards compatible. So if the format were reverse engineered (maybe it already is) you could probably stuff in some data in there.


Oh that’s not a limitation, it was a choice. You can remove that restriction by changing the appropriate line to scan ~ instead of ~/Documents.


> You can tell Youtube to prefer AV1 only for low-quality videos (https://www.youtube.com/account_playback)

What option are you referring to here? I don’t see anything that seems related to that.


What it looks like if it's available (AV1 settings section): https://i.imgur.com/rp6Cvkd.png


The wording is gold dark pattern.


"auto"

"prefer AV1"

"always prefer AV1"

so... which one turns av1 off?


None, but "prefer AV1 for SD" will prevent the stuttering due to the changes mentioned above.

If you don't ever want AV1 then it probably makes more sense to not have the browser advertise it as an option to sites. One can configure Firefox as such, I'm not sure about Chrome.


There is an "AV1 settings" below "Subtitles and Closed Captions" for me. If you don't see it perhaps it's not available for you yet.


Why is this issue not caught by regulators? There must be something I don’t know about how that kind of regulatory approval happens.


Regulation in Europe mandate that doors have to unlock when airbags are triggered. If the model involved was legal in the EU, it was either a mechanical issue or an electronic one, and maybe not exclusively Tesla's fault, but it was caused by their poor engineering/assembly practices.

If it's in the US and they have no regulations on this, I don't want to be cavalier but they should reflect on their anti-regulation culture, and Tesla does not deserve to be scapegoated (not a fan of the brand, but I try to be consistent).


> Tesla was able to fix this with a software update over the air, something no one else could do for a braking system. That was impressive, but the example presented a worrying question: Did engineers not do stopping-distance testing before they shipped the car to customers?

I wonder if anyone here can think of an example (or six) of other more worrying questions about this. Before cradling your head in your hands and asking where you can get a decent new car that's just a goddamn car.


Electric cars can’t even.


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