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Probably a silly question, but if you take this all the way and treat everything as a DB that is synchronized in the background, how do you manage access control where not every user/client is supposed to have access to every object represented in the DB? Where does that logic go? If you do it on the document level like figma or canvas, every document is a DB and you sync the changes that happen to the document but first you need access to the document/DB. But doesn't this whole idea break apart if you need to do access control on individual parts of what you treat as the DB because you would need to have that logic on the client which could never be secure...


The relative ease with which called-IDs can be spoofed seems to be one of the major "tools" with which scammers can gain the trust of their victims (or trick other systems into believing that they are the victim). Most of the non-technical folks I know will also more or less blindly trust a caller-ID. Fortunately, many scammers (at least here in Europe) are still calling you claiming they are interpol following up on your Paypal account being breached whilst a +233... number shows on your phone.


Absolutely but that tradeoff should be for the customer to make.


Reading speed at that age will vary greatly. Reading subtitles while also having to follow the picture takes away focus and that makes it hard much harder for an inexperienced reader. My daughter, who picked up reading very naturally would have been able to follow sub-titles at age 7 without much trouble. My younger, 7-yo son on the other hand, who is more average in reading ability wouldn't be able to keep up with subtitles yet. Average reading speeds at age 7 seem to be 60-100 words per minute where subtitles are more at the 100-150 words per minute range. So for above-average readers, it will be possible but for the average, they won't be able to keep up consistently.


I did experience the issue with an FIIO headphone DAC too. Basically, when connecting the device, the balance slider in audio settings would get initialized to what seemed to be a random value. I am using several other audio interfaces (both USB and Thunderbolt) as well for music production/recording and I have never seen that issue with any of those devices. I suppose it is an interoperability problem between the USB audio class driver and core audio that only manifests for certain types of devices. Still, if it is common enough for people publishing apps to fix it, Apple should get it sorted out.


This actually vaguely rings the bell. I think it happened just a few times and because I quickly heard it I corrected the slider and did not pay attention at the time I suppose.

Don’t think it ever happened in DAW though, only when playing audio from OS.


In order to get close to how these might have tasted in Locke's time, one shouldn't be using modern white flour which is a 19th century development. Using (stone-milled) whole wheat might come closer to how things were in the 17th century. (Also better for your glucose levels)


In Brittany they make pancakes with buckwheat flour, and they are absolutely delicious:

https://www.seriouseats.com/savory-buckwheat-crepes-galettes...


also popular in Quebec


> (stone-milled) whole wheat

If you want it on the cheap, go purchase Atta at your local Indian convinence store. Similar for stone milled cornflour (I've found Hispanic store prices have been going up lately compared to Asian stores)


Drowned in butter and real maple syrup there is little difference in taste. You just have to adjust the hydration in the recipe.


Texture-wise it should be very different due to how the gluten will develop. Taste-wise you are probably right. It’s mostly a substrate for the butter and syrup.


They removed the bran, just not the germ. An equivalent today might be white flour with a little added wheat germ.


The cover-band analogy isn't so great; the issue where a specific solution becomes a proxy for solving some problems that no one bothered to fully understand is real though. Describing problems and doing thorough discovery is hard and silver bullets are attractive. The cargo-cult analogy is quite fitting for a lot of hyped-up topics.

When you go to a car dealer and tell them your problem is getting from A to B, guess what their solution is going to be...


> When you go to a car dealer and tell them your problem is getting from A to B, guess what their solution is going to be...

This is more accurate, more succinct and easier to understand than the submission article. Good analogy work! :)


What I'm not getting: If Project Gutenberg is US based, how can they be dragged in front of a German court at all? How could a German court enforce anything on a US based entity? So couldn'd PG's response just have been to ignore the case? What would have happened then?


Presumably, nothing could "force" them, but without cooperation they would simply be blocked forever in Germany.


This is going to be a dumb question I fear... If, as the article says, photons can't travel through a vacuum how are we able t see the stars (let alone distant galaxies)? Is it just because space isn't enough of full vacuum, or what am I missing?


The article talks about "phonons", which are a different thing from photons.


Thanks. drinks-another-coffee


I know it's not exactly HNewsy, but I felt the need to upvote this because, frankly, this made me smile and also I am highly sympathetic to this sentiment right now.


If it's just about having a usable safe, it's an easy decision. They just need to decide whether the cost for the locksmith is worth it for them to have a usable safe...

If it's about what might be in there... shouldn't it be fairly easy to drill a small hole (given the right type of drill) and use a miniature/endoscopic camera to take a look?


High quality safes have glass drill plates that break when drilled and clamp the mechanism shut.


So? You still have the hole and can peek inside to see if is empty or not. And if it's not then get it out and sledgehammer it in your garden, just for fun, then sell it to your local junk yard.

On the other hand, that you want to use it, then design your own robot and try all combinations. There is no time constraint since you're the owner, no need to "finish in 3 days"


Whoops, I seemed to have misplaced my endoscopic camera. \s


They are dirt cheap on Amazon, around $40 for an inspection camera.


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