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by CM30 3y ago
Aka, one of the main reasons to choose 'boring' technology. Something new and experimental may have some interesting properties that make it fun to play around with, but chances are you'll have to fix everything yourself if a
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by CM30 3y ago
People have interests/things they like and want to show appreciation for. Hence fan fiction, fan videos, games, mods and hacks, reanimated videos, animations, etc. Also it's worth noting that despite the memes online, the vast, va
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by CM30 3y ago
Honestly, it's not surprising. I mean, what is the use case for 'linear television' anymore? Is it even something you could sell to someone in an age where streaming and video sharing sites and platforms are a dime a dozen an
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by CM30 3y ago
Yeah, the latter is an important point people tend to overlook. Originally the only way to get news about companies/product announcements, sports, art, music, media, etc was through third party middlemen in the way of news organisation
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by CM30 3y ago
Or perhaps there's just more competition in each of those areas, and you don't need to pay anymore? If hundreds or thousands of people and businesses are giving something away for free, and your company is charging money for the s
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by CM30 3y ago
If I had to hazard a guess, it'd be that HTML email is probably one of the lowest priority things on the roadmap over at Google or Microsoft. The vast majority of regular folks sending emails send mostly plain text, and even many compa
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by CM30 3y ago
Let's not forget frames, the original 'solution' to the problem of having to edit the navigation bar on every page. Unfortunately, you then had to figure out what to do if someone accessed the frame page directly, since searc
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by CM30 3y ago
I remember using FrontPage quite a bit too. It had some... interesting quirks when it came to outputting HTML, but it seemed fine enough for me at the time. Which also reminds me; did anyone actually use the FrontPage Server Extensions they
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by CM30 3y ago
The problem is that this verification/fact checking is often flimsy or nonexistent, even in places where it exists. You don't need a deepfake or AI or whatever to get a story about the US president into the media, you could basica
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by CM30 3y ago
To an extent, this is basically the norm for most software projects. Often you know there are bugs and issues in a piece of software, but don't consider them enough of a blocker to delay the release date for. That works okay for someth
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by CM30 3y ago
Sadly, this is not at all surprising. Making journalism sustainable is incredibly difficulty in the internet age, and it's even worse for subjects like this, where competition from social media is intense and the barrier to entry is ne
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by CM30 3y ago
> However, I do have a gripe. Many posts negatively impact upon my self-esteem. Reading HN I get the impression that there are lots and lots of folks earning huge salaries at very important companies. Lots of others have founded startups
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by CM30 3y ago
Uh probably not. In theory I might spend more time working on my side projects, but in all likeliness I'd just end up spending more time on social media sites with less interesting/intelligent conversations instead. It's defi
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by CM30 3y ago
From what I've experienced yes. The teams suffering from layoffs where I've worked haven't had any interns assigned to them, and it seems like the number of people taken on as interns in general has been significantly reduced
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by CM30 3y ago
Alternatively, there's a whole list of countries by monetisation status here: https://isthischannelmonetized.com/youtube-monetization-coun... So in theory accessing YouTube via a VPN server in one of those non monetise
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by CM30 3y ago
I suspect it'd help people vary up their diets more at least, since they can ask for something new rather than rehashing the same 5-10 meal types over and over again. Would that make for healthier food? Maybe, because at least part of
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by CM30 3y ago
That's another good point. Self checkout machines are likely designed with lower specs in mind due to shops needing to either needing to have more of them (since there are often only 1 or 2 regular checkouts compared to 10+ self checko
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by CM30 3y ago
Hmm, this doesn't feel like the clearest criteria: > If user u is a member of p1 before time t and is found on platforms p1 and p2 at a later time t′. That user is considered to have temporarily migrated from platform p1 to p2. Beca
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by CM30 3y ago
It feels like almost all the issues with self-checkout technology come from the attempts to minimise shoplifting, which don't even seem that effective at doing that. In theory, a system that let you scan products the same way checkout
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by CM30 3y ago
For me personally, I'd try and be more outgoing when in university. As the saying goes, it's who you know that matters in life, not what you know. And by focusing almost entirely on the academic side and solo hobbies and not getti
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by CM30 3y ago
Sadly you're probably not wrong here. But the consequences for that sort of attitude when it comes to this particular field are extremely high, and I dread to think of the outcomes in said cases.
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by CM30 3y ago
I'm not sure I agree that HTML is unpleasant to write. Honestly, even when I'm writing blog posts or articles, I often fall back to writing the HTML myself. It feels about as simple/complex as writing markdown, or using a WYS
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by CM30 3y ago
Technically, though that was Sticker Star, and modern Paper Mario from that game onwards is a very different beast. Those games lose the interesting stories and character design and mechanics that made the first two so beloved (Super Paper
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by CM30 3y ago
Well for vBulletin specifically it's that the software was bought out by a company called Internet Brands, who got rid of the original team and screwed up the last three versions of it. vBulletin 4 is okay, but 5 and 6 are poorly coded
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by CM30 3y ago
I hope it's a trend too, but for a different reason. All these services keep info locked away behind a login wall, and it's making it incredibly difficult for newcomers to find the info they need online due to its inaccessibility
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by CM30 3y ago
I agree that it's the ideal use case for the AI, it's just the issue there is that it's an area where you can't afford any false positives or negatives. All hell will break loose if sexual abuse content or footage of ter
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by CM30 3y ago
Hah love the domain hack here. But seriously, it's nice to see the number of decomps and disassemblies for old video games we're getting recently. First Super Mario 64 and The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time, now just about every
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by CM30 3y ago
Whether your customers understand it's an actual domain? Okay, it's way more likely to be understood properly than any of the newer generic domain extensions released recently, and it's probably not an issue at all if you&#x2
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by CM30 3y ago
But do people generally vote for parties based on their attitude towards the budget/austerity plans? Because my experience is that the big parties in most countries cover so many topics in their political agendas that people are voting

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