Apfel

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by Apfel 3y ago
I competed against these guys in the hackathon, it was absurd how much more polished everything was compared to the rest of us!
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by Apfel 3y ago
https://rubberduckdebugging.com/
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by Apfel 3y ago
This makes a lot of sense. I think my own city (Glasgow) used to be considerably larger when it was an industrial powerhouse in shipbuilding and textiles and has fairly cheap housing nowadays as a result. It's been getting a bit more e
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by Apfel 3y ago
A question for everyone reading this comment thread (as I assume most will have some interest in accessibility). Have any of you had any successes in getting your colleagues or organisation to really care about accessibility and not see it
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by Apfel 3y ago
Or a government organisation. Or a charity.
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by Apfel 3y ago
How come the salary is undisclosed? Seems like a deliberate means to underpay folk?
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by Apfel 3y ago
Great comment, thanks. We've tried to help her break out of it when it starts to kick off. What you said about addressing it at the point the feedback loop kicks in is kind of what we've been trying. Sometimes it seems to actually
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by Apfel 3y ago
Mind if I ask you if you've got experience in this regard? It's a horrible situation to deal with for family members so I'd love to know how to escape the pain we all feel.
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by Apfel 3y ago
Usage query: It looks like this could get expensive quite quickly. The approach is great, but with GPT-4 especially, could be very difficult. Is it worth using with 3.5 as a first pass then switching prompts to GPT4 once you've got t
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by Apfel 3y ago
Have been using gpt4 and just copying all the relevant files in with something along the lines of ``` Given these X files, help me assess how best to implement feature Y. Ask any clarifying questions that may assist with writing a best prac
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by Apfel 3y ago
I'm guessing those sites probably ruined their reputation by selling out their users, refusing to listen to them and belittling their genuine concerns about UX and API access.
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by Apfel 3y ago
Yeah, the M1 MBA was really so out of the norm in terms of value that it's pretty much impossible to find anything like it at the price point. It literally turned me into an Apple person, essentially overnight. I no longer even switch
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by Apfel 3y ago
This is probably a very european viewpoint, but I find it amazing how shocked people are by children seeing porn, but don't bat an eyelid when kids are exposed to violence on television or in movies. The biggest example from my own chi
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by Apfel 3y ago
Neovim with the markdown preview plugin does a really really neat job if you haven't tried it.
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by Apfel 4y ago
Not particularly keen to get in an abortion debate on HN of all places. That being said, regardless of anyone's political stance, you saying 'because you made bad decisions' is inflammatory, and clearly based on the assumptio
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by Apfel 4y ago
Play store doesn't work in China, so it'll be in the Chinese equivalents, which will be run by the ultimate shady third party (CCP)
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by Apfel 4y ago
As a barely competent Dev who just became senior by actively helping out people who looked like they were struggling in the org slack, I firmly disagree. It's led to friendships with many many people (and their managers) and a broader
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by Apfel 4y ago
As someone who was only diagnosed with ADHD in the past year or so, I can verify that hyperfocus absolutely existed pre-medication. If I was interested in something, I could work on it for whole weekends without any sense of time passing. I
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by Apfel 4y ago
Can't believe how useful this is. I've been working my way back in to learning piano during the pandemic and have been learning songs I like mostly through guitar chords websites and playing the right hand by ear as my sight-readi
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by Apfel 4y ago
This was in a major city (Guangzhou). I think China has its own issues with food safety and additives. Very little regulatory action has led to some very nasty stories about adulteration and gastric problems. I think when I was in China I w
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by Apfel 4y ago
There's something to be said for using strange or even ridiculous mnemonics as a memory aid. I'd often come up with little stories to teach myself some of the more complex Chinese characters when I was learning quite intensively a
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by Apfel 4y ago
Can't speak much for Bosnia but in most of South East Asia it's nigh on impossible to find any body wash, sunscreen or moisturiser without whitening products added.
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by Apfel 4y ago
I was always struck when I lived in China how young, happy and active the elderly all seemed, even though they were much the same age as elderly folk where I grew up (the UK). I had a feeling it must be at least partly due to their increase
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by Apfel 4y ago
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hurting_the_feelings_of_the_...
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by Apfel 4y ago
There's an awful lot of cases of people being "disappeared" based on what they've said in WeChat group messages or friend feeds. Similarly, the PSBs in some cities have used social media contacts as a means of working ou
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by Apfel 4y ago
I do love Cliff Still, and it's great to see how spectacularly wrong he was on some of this (selling books on the internet turned out to not be quite as preposterous an idea as he thought!). He was definitely right about the isolation
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by Apfel 5y ago
This is definitely a Celtic Vs Rangers thing rather than an England/Scotland one. Unfortunately we in Glasgow are still dealing with this nonsense in 2022.
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by Apfel 5y ago
Realistically, it's just Jinja2 ported to js. If you've ever worked with Django or flask it's very quick to pick up.
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by Apfel 5y ago
Would be nice if they'd get around to developing a standardised calendar-based date picker component for, say, appointment booking at some point. Feels like a huge gap in their offerings.
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by Apfel 5y ago
I run a Mandarin Chinese meetup with a few hundred members every week in the UK. We've had several new contributing members post pandemic and everything is pretty rosy. Meetup.com still works as a means to get new users

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