I try to never be that guy who complains about the way a web page scrolls, but this page is completely unreadable.

Luckily, Tailwind is, and likely always will be, a block at the very top. Not a critical piece of infrastructure.

And even then, how would Tailwind "die"?

>I presume the lecturer read from a script.

You presume wrong. No college professor will waste the amount of time required to fully write out everything they will say in class in advance. Notes, yes. Detailed notes, not unlikely. Full script to be read verbatim, nope.

This is via Wine, so presumably it should also run on Macs now.

Paint.net is the only thing I miss from my days on Windows machines, so super excited about this!

I also miss paint.net on Mac. Pinta gets pretty close though: https://www.pinta-project.com/

Commit is failing in the US.

githubstatus.com is currently green.

This would be impressive work for a mid sized game studio. Free, real, and from a solo dev is incredible.

That's how language works. Eavesdropping once referred to water dropping off the eaves of a roof. There is mostly no "log" that "logging in" writes to. The menu itself has nothing to do with food or eating. Is the meaning clear to contemporary readers or listeners? Yes.

This use of "logging" comes from the "logbook", a book recording what happened on a ship, which was called that because a literal log (i.e. part of a tree) attached to a rope was used to measure the ship's speed.

See:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chip_log

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logbook_(nautical)

In the modern computing context, "logging in" does involve adding entries to a kind of (digital) record-keeping tool.

I once heard a non-english speaker say "logining", and that made so much more sense than "logging in".

Noun versus verb.

Did you log in (space: split verb)? What is your login (no space: noun)?

Do you have a backup (noun)? Did you back up (verb)?

Very succinct Calvin & Hobbes quote: "Verbing weirds language"

Did you do a backup :-)

Etymological fallacy: https://www.logicalfallacies.org/etymological-fallacy.html

I'm not applying this to your response but I immediately wondered if this exists on the site and it does:

https://www.logicalfallacies.org/fallacy-fallacy.html

An underrated fallacy in general. (Of course I'm just giving a common name to something that was identified, not accusing anyone of having the etymological fallacy in this conversation.)

> There is mostly no "log" that "logging in" writes to.

Um, there is, actually.

On the etymological front, "log" was originally an actual wooden log, dragged behind a ship. It then became the book in which measurements of the log's speed were entered.

The UCLA Computer Club had a log -- a book with dated entries. Someone augmented that with a wooden log ... an intricate culture developed around this pairing. Traces of this are preserved: https://americanhistory.si.edu/collections/object/nmah_69051...

(That drawing is a pretty good representation of the actual log. And there's another memorialized pun: MUS stood for machine unit second, which was the computing center measurement unit -- the Computer Club had a quota for submitted jobs [card decks].)

Older posts (more than a few days old?) only allow upvoting. Recent posts allow upvoting and downvoting. You're also not allowed to downvote replies to your comments.

>Reddit existed years prior to HN, and upvoting/downvoting started there, if not earlier.

Slashdot had upvoting and downvoting about a decade before Reddit launched.

Zero chance of vulns in flock, so we're good in the US /s