When I was a kid and was taught using a mouse, the standard practice was to press these little tiny buttons on a calculator app to practice fine motor skills.
I don't want to get between a Frenchman and his butter, but I just use a potato peeler for cold butter. I find it works well enough. I've also used a cheese slicer, but I found it harder to control the thickness.
I'm reluctant to pimp my own product on HN, but one of the features of Spreadspeed [1] (my Excel add-in) is a Quick Protect tool which protects the sheet but will unlock individual cells based on styling (e.g., Input style).
Sweden stopped testing people who don't get hospitalized about 3 weeks ago. Before that their death rate was extremely low, on par with Germany.
> However, that strategy has now changed. Authorities have shifted their focus away from testing all possible cases, and instead on protecting the most vulnerable groups. People with severe respiratory symptoms or who belong to a risk group will still be tested.
Death rate is high in Sweden because the number of confirmed cases is wildly underreported.
Comparing the death rate between countries is pointless at this stage, given the inconsistencies in reporting and the fairly long period between symptoms onset and death.
The strategy would presumably be halve the minimum wage while simultaneously halving the cost of everything else.
Someone one 60% of the US minimum wage in China would theoretically [0][1] have a more comfortable lifestyle than a US minimum wage worker. In all likelihood this is because they can buy stuff extremely cheaply because their manufacturing costs are lower.
It definitely is. I know a relative who lost their sense of smell and they also report being unable to taste anything other than plain salt, sweet, pepper-heat, sour, and bitter. They have lost the ability to taste spices, recognize different types of sour, etc.
Not only that, but I find the taste different. I'm one of those people who thinks cilantro tastes like soap. For me, it overpowers all other flavors in a dish, but I find coriander seeds to be mild and pleasant tasting.
I also have the soap gene and avoid cilantro. A friend told me he heard that if you harvest the cilantro before it flowers, then whatever causes the soapiness is not there. He had some that he’d gotten from a co-op, I skeptically tried a bit, and I’ll be damned! It’s true!
This obviously won’t help you at the grocery store or at restaurants, but if you want to know why most people rave about it, track some down. It’s quite tasty.
I've always tasted the soapiness, but never minded it. As you say, it tastes right in certain dishes. I've always wondered if I'm just not getting as strong a soap flavor as others.
Same here. Can't eat anything with the smallest traces of the leafs. Seeds are ok though. Didn't find them tasting "soapy", but I must admit that I have never really tried actual soap, so it's hard to compare...
Did anyone here bother to check the bio's of the officials listed on the amicus brief? If so, you'd discover that the many (maybe most, I didn't count) were holdovers from previous administrations. But, conspiracy theories are fun, I guess.
Given the bipartisan history of the lawyers for the Copyright Office and the DOJ, one possibility is that they are basing the amicus on their interpretation of the Copyright Act and related legal precedents. My preference would be that public interface part of API's would be public domain. But that's a preference, not a legal opinion.
The problem with this case is that the legally correct thing is that Oracle wins. The most desirable practical outcome is that they lose.
Copyright protects creative works. It's not clear why an API wouldn't be a creative work. Oracle's lawyers argue that it is a creative work, because different people can come up with very different designs to solve the same problem, that API design is a skilled and creative process. They're right.
The tech industry has always been in an unstable situation with respect to this consensual interpretation that APIs are facts and not creative works. That's convenient for many people, but tricky to legally support. The correct solution to this problem is an exemption in copyright law for APIs. Given no such exemption exists, why should Oracle not win this case? The judges are meant to rule on law as it is, not what it should be.
Don't underestimate the number of people who like to lean back in their chair and do everything with a mouse.