parrot VM: initially a joke until someone twigged that a dynamic-lang runtime to compete with .Net & JRE wasn't so absurd.

Well at least it finally has a trackpad, after years of insisting that no one would ever want to manipulate the UI with a mouse pointer.

un-prevention, of sorts.

It's commonly used for malaria. A related '-quine' is the active ingredient of Gin and Tonic.

The active ingredient of gin & tonic is definitely alcohol :)

Tonic was invented to make quinine palatable to British soldiers in India. About three minutes into the scheme, someone added gin.

So quinine is indeed arguably the original “active” ingredient, sugar was second (to mask the flavor), and alcohol “let’s just pretend this isn’t happening” was third.

Is this the same malaria drug that can cause depression and lead to suicidal thoughts?

The (poorly worded) background suggests no previous research has been done concerning this compound w.r.t. corona.

UK (and Ireland) are outside Schengen.

Even if they don't restrict it to British passport holders travelling to the USA, it's still arguably easier to screen for the virus through one departure point than, say, 30.

> the/e/ name will be abandonned for something else quite soon.

Good to know; a word that's more easily duckduckgoable may help with branding.

It's a very funny and perhaps unfortunate from the perspective of 4chan users.

> duckduckgoable

Not a thing.

Duckable might be better?

Wanted to comment on the name too.. slash-e-slash???

Obviously a reference to 4chan's ecchi board

Indeed, there was a [0] story yesterday - an initiative Vodafone are supporting to compute a cure for cancer while your phone is charging.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22479644

The article mentions a mismatch of 4KB (Linux) vs 16KB (iOS) page sizes. Further reading:

https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/master/Documentation/...

https://developer.apple.com/library/archive/documentation/Pe...

At least here in Australia, corner shops doing repairs are a dying breed - there's no money in it once you factor in rent and electricity and wages. An online search replacing a popular Samsung was $AU99.

My current 3 year old phone is also a dying breed where when the time comes, I can buy a genuine Moto battery for $AU16 delivered and replace it myself in under 30 seconds.

What part of "it ain't finished yet" would most users not understand?

It's a Preview release for a reason. Mozilla aren't exactly pulling a KDE 4 here.

It was a preview release, but they've already started rolling it out to the regular Nightly channel and according to this very blog post we're discussing it's supposed to have a "public release later this spring".

Given that any changes have to work their way through the Beta channel, too, there's not much time left for landing changes in Nightly that will still make it into the first Release version... so the first official Release version that will be pushed out to everybody will indeed be in an unfinished state.