Sometimes writing can both contain information and be beautiful? This article is charming and thoughtful. Its style may not be for everyone, but for me it really hit, I am thoroughly enjoying reading it. Its style gives me no problem calling it prose.

A person writing an essay on their own site doesn't need to have the information density of bus timetable.

The quality difference between Andor and The Mandalorian is so stark that I don't even think they are comparable. The Convert is a fine episode I guess, but next to Andor it's amateur.

Andor is prestige TV. The Mandolorian feels like a childrens show by comparison.

If you think The Convert was good, please, please watch Andor.

This is hilariously weak. "over a dozen have become active cases" is so low it made me laugh given how much insider trading happens on these platforms. This post is actually pathetic

Its not about the format its about the audience

I'll do this on my projects when US sites start doing this on theirs

I would love to know where you read this!

Oh gosh, I don't think I can recall a specific source. I've listened to many interviews with the TypeScript team and in Q&A they're often asked about their "biggest regrets". Early on TypeScript's adoption was far from a sure thing. After convincing Microsoft their biggest threat was Angular's own AtScript (and maybe even Flow). TypeScript was extremely beholden to whatever Microsoft or Angular devs wanted to be added to the language in order for them to agree to push TypeScript as the future

If English is your first language, this is the funniest comment I've seen today by a margin.

It’s my first language. Why is it funny to you? I’m dead serious when I say that “years” implies more than two in almost all contexts.

If someone said “that’s years ago” I’d assume 5+. If someone said “it’ll be years before that’s released” I would again assume 5+.

To be two I would expect “that’ll be out in a couple of years”, or “in a year or two”.

For this ring I would write “battery life is between 12-15 hours of use, which will typically last about two years under normal use”

You can still send files over bluetooth on devices that aren't iPhones. Even Macs support this

Saw cloudflare go down before my very eyes on colonist.io in Australia

There's an option

Which puts it one up over Hacker News!

Really. Where? Unhelpful answers of the form "Just install extension X for browser Y and use it to run script Z" are all anyone has ever been able to suggest when I've asked this question elsewhere.

If you click on Preferences, it's under Appearance which is the first section you see. You can change the site theme to a light option. At least on Mastodon.social.

There's no Preferences button. If there is, they've either hidden it well, or it's not visible without a login.

There should simply be a button -- a conspicuous one -- that toggles the color scheme. It's trivial to add such a button. It doesn't need to be tied to a user ID; it doesn't even need to set a cookie. The fact that no such button exists is a choice someone made, a poor choice that disregards decades of human-machine interface research.

Failure to go full Karen about goofy things like this has made the Web a little worse for almost everyone in one way or another. So... there ya go.

I'm on two instances and both have a Preferences button.

Is it possible that your instance moved it away from the default place? What instance are you on, I can help you find what you need to click.

It's the link in the article. But I'm diverting the thread at this point and arguably making this a worse place by doing so. The other replies indicate that the question has been raised and is under consideration, which is all I can ask given that I'm not prepared to jump on Github and send them a PR myself. Thanks for your reply and the rest of the input people have offered!

Preferences shows up in the sidebar (that has the login and signup buttons) if you have an account.

Otherwise it's up to the instance admin to choose the default.

And the admin should probably use the automatic setting. There is a feature request for a user preference when not logged in.[1]

[1]: https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/issues/30193