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> Some of them are just plain bizaree too eg swipe up, right, up to get your apps.

What on Earth are you referring to?


Pretty sure they're talking about popping into recent apps. But that isn't the gesture, you just do a short swipe up and hold for a fraction of a second until you feel the haptic buzz.

edit: actually just tried and you can also pull it to the side, but it doesn't feel quite as natural


見える only means “look” in the “to seem” or “to appear” sense.

Often in English, we have multiple words for sensory experiences to indicate how much focus is put into the action. “Seeing” a picture is less focused than “looking at” a picture. “Hearing” a song is less focused than “listening to” a song.


I wonder if that inspired the lyric in "Come Together"

Got to be good-lookin', 'cause he's so hard to see

According to Wikipedia, "The lyrics were inspired by his relationship with Ono,"


> “Seeing” a picture is less focused than “looking at” a picture.

Isn't that backwards? Like in the phrase "they look but do not see", which was what I had in mind in my first comment. Isn't that something like "見るけど見えない" ?


To look is to train one’s eyes on, or to scan for, something. To see is to perceive it.

So one can look without seeing, and one can also see something without intentionally looking.


But as you've implicitly noted, you cannot see something without looking. That would be physically impossible.

You can also use "look" to emphasize that focus does not exist; one of the sentences I've collected for interesting use is "He stared at the page, not seeing it."

In that case, there is no possibility of a page being overlooked or otherwise missed. What the sentence is telling us is that although "he" is directing his eyes at the page, his mind is on something else, so "seeing" never occurs.

The difference between "see" and "look" has nothing to do with focus. It is what I noted in the discussion of Mandarin - success. Seeing is the goal of looking.

Note that this phenomenon where native speakers have no trouble obeying a distinction that their language requires, but come out with total nonsense when asked why they choose one form or another, is completely characteristic of grammatical rules, and not characteristic of vocabulary selection.


> […] rather than collaborate with the creators.

How do you propose AWS “collaborate” with Elastic or Redis Labs under the terms of the SSPL? Also, who do you believe the creators of Redis are?


> How do you propose AWS “collaborate” with Elastic or Redis Labs under the terms of the SSPL?

This is quite simple, and should have happened before these companies decide to switch licenses because of Amazon. Each time Amazon decides to use an open source product, instead of doing it for free, they should contact the parent company and offer them a fee. There are many advantages of such an arrangement: a single version exists, the parent company has a stable source of income etc.

I might be mistaken, but this path was possibly chosen by Citus and Azure, and nobody seems to complain.


> Each time Amazon decides to use an open source prouct, instead of doing it for free, they should contact the parent company and offer them a fee.

What if, instead of doing that, they hired some of the people making significant contributions to the project? Would that count?


It depends. For example, when Ubuntu first appeared and Canonical hired some prominent Debian maintainers, they were criticized for that. But I believe the final net benefit was positive.

The problem here is what happens when Amazon stops to pay them. If the owner of the project is a foundation or a similar organization, it may have better chances of survival.


Someone once said here on Hacker News:

    Before you say anything, ask yourself
    1) Does this need to be said?
    2) Does this need to be said by me?
    3) Does this need to be said by me, now?
I hope you’ll take their sage advice in the future: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39859458


> If you set your hard limit to $20, then Amazon should refuse to create more than 50 secrets. That's a safe behavior which limits your spend to at most $20.

I have 100 secrets and no hard limit. Now I set the hard limit to $20. What does AWS do?


Refuses to set that hard limit until you delete some secrets first.


Are you under the mistaken impression that this feature is already implemented in mobile Safari on iOS 17.3? It isn’t.

On iOS 17.4, you’ll be able to see that the divider is thicker and obvious. Long-press on the Safari address bar for an illustrative example. See the gap between “Voice Search” and “Move to Tab Group”?


> Are you under the mistaken impression that this feature is already implemented in mobile Safari on iOS 17.3?

The blog post didn't mention iOS at all. I'm glad to hear that the feature is coming in the future, though it's strange that the blog post didn't mention it, and also strange that they didn't implement it in 17.0 at the same time as desktop.


> The blog post didn't mention iOS at all.

Probably because iOS 17.4 is in beta and just got released a few days ago.


The blog post was actually published on the same day and a little after the iOS 17.4 beta was released.

This is a very odd coincidence, since the Mac change was released way back in September with version 17.0, which the blog post does mention.


Christianity would be the largest if they themselves didn’t separate the branches into Catholics, Protestants, etc.


That's a grouping meaningful to Christians themselves, but meaningless to non-Christians, which means it's not a good way for this survey to be grouped.

To group things for statistics, pick the grouping level that is meaningful to all the entries in that same list.


That’s right, JSX is also not HTML.


> I haven't yet found any great way besides email-as-todo list to manage this.

Which is fine. Put them in a To-Do folder. The original formulation of Inbox Zero suggested three actions:

1. Take care of the e-mail right now. Then archive it.

2. If you can take an action, but not right now, move it to “Follow Up”.

3. If you need someone else to take an action, move it to “Hold”.

It’s _Inbox_ Zero, not e-mail zero. Get the inbox – the place for unprocessed things – empty. Get it empty by processing the things. Then go do something other than e-mail.


This reads a bit like a microcosm of David Allen's "Getting Things Done" system.

Unprocessed emails = "Collection Bucket"

Follow Up folder = "Projects" list

Hold folder = "Waiting For" list

Except with GTD you do this with not just emails but also text messages, DM's, snail mail, personal lists you've jotted down, etc. It's a life organization system.


> Amazing this same story keeps getting reposted every other day.

It keeps happening.


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