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What does "async support for plugins" mean when hands are on the keyboard? Linters/etc that run without a need for :w?

This has not been my experience for years. The tech has matured greatly.

Why does the "author" love "quotes" so much? Makes me "discount" the "article" when every other phrase is "quoted".

No one seems to allow that anymore and that's a big problem.

For the yesgraph link I had to disable ad-blocking and uBlock Origin and still only got a static image with a Twitter advertisement pasted over the image. The graphistry link is si…

I still don't know what a Cayley Graph is.

This reminds me of a quote by Renier Knizia, the boardgame designer, about playing boardgames: "When playing a game, the goal is to win, but it is the goal that is important, not t…

There would not be a problem with a "White History Museum" if there was enough of an historical presence of white people in that place to support it. I don't know enough about the …

You don't see a White People Museum because, in the US and Europe anyway, that is the default: they are all white people museums unless otherwise stated.

Not really no. You increase the chance that you'll kill yourself and someone else. Ride in the lanes and with traffic. Everyone is safer when everyone can anticipate what's going t…

Some bike lanes in NYC have two lanes as well. I don't believe 1st Ave does though. edit: I misunderstood. Yes, if the bike lane is contraflow of course use it that way. Everyone e…

Biking against traffic (even in a bike lane) is a bad idea. It forces someone into traffic, either the guy going the wrong way or a bicyclist going the correct way. It surprises pe…

It minimizes left-hand turns across oncoming traffic that has a green light. i.e. it minimizes human judgement. If everyone stops at red lights (and people are very good at that), …

Linked In spammed me once when they reached some sort of milestone. The email had no remove-me-from-this-list link or way to tell Linked In that I didn't want to receive emails. I …

No it cannot[1]. [1] See Betteridge's Law.

The NYT title, "Chinese Hackers Circumvent Popular Web Privacy Tools", is more accurate than the HN title. China has not "compromised" TOR and VPNs, they've circumvented them. They…

Is there a place where we can actually read the article? That site is very broken in my browser. I cannot scroll past the first few lines - the articles don't scroll independently.…

Hello and welcome to AI research in 1960!

I suspect this idea has occurred to the people working on this and it is not as easy as you assume - that there are problems in execution (so to speak) of this shortcut. Once the l…

I have two BAHAs (bone-assisted hearing aids). Up until a few months ago, I had only one and yes - stereo hearing was not great, but hearing well in mono was better than not hearin…

I've had hearing aids for 20+ years. I occasionally try the tele-coil in locations that have them. I am always disappointed; the quality is just not there. It sounds (haha) like th…