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Insecurity, that's why.

I too have this feeling sometimes. It's a coping mechanism. I don't know why we have this but I guess we have to see past it and adapt to reality.


In the age of AI, apple should just open source these basic apps. They really don’t have anything to lose if they this.


The price of living in society is that we must also be considerate of those around us…


If we’re all smelly, then none of us are smelly!

Only half-joking: I really do think people habituate quickly to fragrances and scent norms.

I’m hygenic but I (and the people around me) really do avoid scented personal care products. I really notice when I’m in regions or settings where kids schlump around in clouds of Axe Body Spray or Summer Strawberry Juicy Whatever Mist.

Or when an older person has become so habituated to their own perfume that they’ll tell you with a straight face they’re barely wearing any. Ma’am, I literally followed your scent trail to find you.


Some people are very sensitive to body odors, don’t generalize please


For sure. I’m among them—very sensitive both to human (and animal) odors and to fragrances. For me at least it tends to be fragrances—usually synthetic ones associated with body or room products—that people are able and willing to concentrate to an overwhelming intensity.

I certainly recognize that others’ sensitivities can go the other way, and I apologize for sounding dismissive toward the distress that can cause.

And perhaps we can share a sigh over people we’ve met who like to combine a pungent personal odor along with a pungent concentration of perfume or cologne…


Oh no apologies needed, but I appreciate it. Yes we can definitely share a sigh over that, followed by as much time as I can, holding my breath haha

Take care


I genuinely havent washed properly in over a decade. I wash my armpits, genitals and asscrack usually daily with some all natural "soap" and thats it. No baths or showers. I get compliments on my skin daily and when I tell people my "skincare routine", followed by that I'm eating healthy, sweating daily through exercise, sleeping good and getting sunlight, they assume the not washing part is a joke because I "would stink if that was true" and I would have dreadlocks in my hair.


Unrelated: This is why reading comments is becoming useless. People react to the news without opening the article. Its so annoying.

Related: This article shows an interesting study but it’s hard for me to interpret what does this translate to? I think we should minimize very complex and synthetic products to our bodies. Although sometimes it’s necessary when we harm our body (e.g. long sun bathing sessions)


> Although sometimes it’s necessary when we harm our body (e.g. long sun bathing sessions)

Zinc oxide and titanium dioxide are basically crushed rocks that absorb UV and are used in sunscreens.


Cloudflare products disrupt the human ability to read science.org articles. The article text available to me:

>Enable JavaScript and cookies to continue

Turning on JS and doing the captchas just results in more captchas, forever, with no end. I have emailed science.org about this in the past but they only fixed it on the blogs, not the main site.


Hint: TLS fingerprinting.

(No problems with accessing this site without JS. You just need to make your client look like one of the officially-sanctioned browsers.)


I have this problem when using the JShelter addon if I enable the privacy switches. Your browser is probably resisting fingerprinting.


That is very curious, because I have both JS and all manners of clientside storage disabled, yet can access the site fine.

I guess maybe my CGNAT IP is reasonably well trusted and that's the difference?


the internet is being ruined everywhere.

This week I wanted to download some old HN front pages on the command lines and only got "403 sorry"

although I do not get that now


You get what you pay for


Yeah we only have telecoms and unreliable at times. If power doesnt comeback soon that too will fail.


Why is this propaganda account making front page?


It's such nonsense lmao.

I usualy don't like to hate on people's work, but damn I hate this thing.

I prefer trustless rather than believing in other entities good will.

I rather use a pen and paper.

Also, when people already know it's a bot, there is no illusion.


Very small bounty, but I honestly believe this arc thing won’t last long…

Browsers are hard and my only choice has been chrome and will remain so for the long foreseeable future.

When I was younger I would enjoy switching to firefox, opera, etc..

But I always came back to chrome because it just worked and always performed when I needed.

Chrome/chromium is the safest browser.

People tend to fall for the shiny new thing and then realize it was just hype.

Please be very careful about what software you choose to perform most of your activities.

The same applies to these “new ai IDEs” that keep popping up every other say.


…Firefox as an alternative to Chrome!? Am I really that old!?

I used Chrome for years and years, right from when it first came out. Since then, I switched back to Firefox, and have used it for years. It works perfectly fine.


Browser is an user agent. Chrome is an advertisement company agent running on your PC, collecting data for that advertising company.

People often confuse these two, but they’re the polar opposites.


> Chrome/chromium is the safest browser.

Why do you say that?


1. Chrome's security team has a very good reputation.

2. I don't know how accurate it is in 2024, but there are comparisons like https://madaidans-insecurities.github.io/firefox-chromium.ht... out there.


Every framework, requires a learning curve.

You need to spend time learning how it works, what are it's limitations and what not.

The newer it is, the fewer components, help and support you have at your dispose.

I don't like these frameworks because it tempts people to learn something that isn't going to get mainstream adoption.

We already have to be careful when choosing a framework like React, vue, svelte etc...

Are you building a side project? You probably should just do it with what you already know, it's gonna be faster and probably better.

Not saying we shouldn't try new things or build new ways of doing stuff, but in this case you are not really running your python code on the web, your running compiled js,html and css...

I much rather choose something that allows me to write vanilla js with some extra features like signals.


What would solve these issues is backwards compatibility. I want to be able to write a full JS/HTML app, a full "framework specific" solution, and anything in between.

Let me migrate my current project into the new framework and see what the experience is like. Let me hack some stuff together for fun, only then I'll consider the framework.


Zed is very fast but has a long way to go still.

ssh server is still in early stages, not even p2p yet.

The requirement for extensions to be built in rust only makes it harder to adopt.

When they these 2 things get solved and the editor remains fast, it might actually be very tempting to replace vscode with zed.

Vscode is fantastic but tends to become bloated quickly....


The tradeoffs are certainly there. I'm expecting it to be a viable switch in a year or two.


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