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This looks amazing and some of you really need to stop yelling at clouds. Not everything needs to be “boring and functional”, it’s ok for things to be just fun.


Maybe, but a circuit designer is pretty high up the list of things that need to be boring and functional.


One might argue this should be a fork of Chromium, not Electron. Chromium comes with native tabs and a bunch of other useful parts, without the security issues that Electron exposes.


> One might argue this should be a fork of Chromium, not Electron.

Fair enough point. One reason it's Electron, I assume, is that it's much easier for typical developers to build than forking Chromium. I've been there. I've hacked at building a touchless-controlled browser that uses hand gesture and speech recognition to interact with the web. I can cobble something basic together in Electron, but it's much more intensive to get off the ground forking Chromium (though you're right the native tabs and useful parts would be helpful).

> without the security issues that Electron exposes.

Another reasonable point. For reference, here's an overview of security from Electron itself.[1] Security issues are one reason I haven't pursued the touchless browser more actively. I don't know if it's a dealbreaker, but it's not my area of expertise and I'd need to get seriously up to speed before releasing anything.

From a glance, it does look like Min is trying to follow good security practices, such as having BrowserView webPreferences default to "nodeIntegration: false", "contextIsolation: true", etc.[2] And in the issues the maintainers seem aware of security issues, eg:

> Making internal pages have the same privileges as the browser UI would be nice, although it's kind of difficult to implement. You could add nodeintegration to the webview tag, but I think there's a pretty big risk of accidentaly loading a regular webpage with nodeintegration enabled if we do that, which would be bad.[3]

Ideally there wouldn't be such a large Chromium (and Chromium-based) monopoly on browsers, but overall I'm still glad to see projects like this trying to create different UI options.

[1] https://www.electronjs.org/docs/latest/tutorial/security

[2] https://github.com/minbrowser/min/blob/7aba03fb645334366f9ec...

[3] https://github.com/minbrowser/min/issues/554#issuecomment-38...


This isn't a fork of Electron. It is an Electron-based app, and as such the Electron project maintains the core functionality of the browser and Min just presents a unified interface and feature set.


They didn't say "fork of Electron", rather Electron is essentially "Chromium - browser UI" so they are saying there is a simplification to be made in an app that is "Chromium - browser UI + browser UI"


> They didn't say "fork of Electron"

Flagging that the phrase "this should be a fork of Chromium, not Electron" is ambiguous between "this shouldn't be a fork of Electron" and "this shouldn't be Electron".


The phrasing is ambiguous, I agree. However, as forking Electron to make Min wouldn't make any sense, and the replier knew this, reading it to mean that seems like a mistake to me. The fact is that it can be very difficult to write things that aren't ambiguous at some level (albeit that isn't the case here), so the reader has to make a good-faith effort to understand.


Fwiw, I read it the same way as nateb2022 at first. It took a second read to realize there was another interpretation. This is why writing is hard!


How Dotty of you


Often fruits that are identical vary by taste a lot while fruits of alternative color don't taste different "at all", especially if blind-tested. I don't expect this to be any different from other local olives.


From the article:

> The oil from white olives is transparent and, according to Rotella, was generally considered too spicy and unusual for the Calabrian palate.


But that does not hold for black and green olives, which taste very different. Not to mention, TFA has

> The oil from white olives […] was generally considered too spicy and unusual for the Calabrian palate.


Because although different varieties are probably used (to optimise yield or taste or whatever for that stage) it's 'just' different levels of ripeness that makes them green or black (or purple).


I guess I was imprecise because I almost never see "black" black olives that haven’t been colored. What I meant by black olives were Kalamata olives [0] which are a different variety with a very distinct taste. While I guess they technically exist in other colors like green, they aren’t edible in green ;)

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kalamata_olive


Indeed wasn’t there a rule made specifically after the Germanwings suicide crash? I see it all the time: crew walks in, pilot goes to the toilet.


It seems that it was made into a rule but dropped a year later [0] (by the EASA, so in Europe at least). According to the Wikipedia article on Germanwings 9525, even Germanwings dropped that two-person rule a couple of years later [1]. I don’t know what the FAA rule regarding this is.

[0] https://www.easa.europa.eu/en/newsroom-and-events/news/minim... [1] https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-39749803


Thank you for this.. I thought I was being careful but evidently it's not enough. It found 13 of my previous accounts with the topmost being 0.4937 and lowest one being 0.3616 bold. All the bold ones were right, some correct matches weren’t bold.


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