ChrisRR

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by ChrisRR 1y ago
> all of the information ever published in the history of the world Why read that when you could watch 10 solid hours of clickbait?
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by ChrisRR 1y ago
I haven't read the article, but my presumption is that because china hold all the cards
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by ChrisRR 1y ago
Unfortunately brexit meant that a hell of a lot of people behind the scenes scrambled to keep life running as usual, so that brexiteers could just say "See? Everything's fine"
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Customers: We will happily have a slightly thicker phone if it means getting another half a day of battery Apple: The thinnest iphone yet!
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Because people buy them as a status symbol. Middle aged mum dropping her kids off at school definitely needs a range rover, otherwise what will the other mummies think?
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I really hope it doesn't become the norm. Check r/technology on reddit and it's 90% US politics posts
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by ChrisRR 1y ago
That's fair. I've never actually managed to get through the entire advent any year anyway
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> It runs against the same test suite with no issues That doesn't guarantee no bugs. It just means that the existing behaviour covered by the tests is still the same. It may introduce new issues in untested edge cases or performanc
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by ChrisRR 1y ago
I can't figure out how you've come to that equivalence
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This is the argument against re-writing the linux base utils in rust. When they've had such widespread use for decades, a hell of a lot of bugs have been ironed out
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by ChrisRR 1y ago
Don't worry. If the web browser ever becomes fast enough to be usable, even more javascript crap will be dumped on every website to slow it back down again
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by ChrisRR 1y ago
There are way too many companies where higher ups and marketing will refuse to listen to the engineers about what people actually like about their products. See every company currently shoehorning AI chatbots into software that doesn't
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by ChrisRR 1y ago
Hyperspectral imaging see things the human eye can't: Sure Custom processors to accelerate generation of AI text: Go ahead Slightly thicker to fit a bigger battery in: How dare you
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by ChrisRR 1y ago
I still don't understand why massive cooling efforts are needed when most people are just sending messages and watching videos anyway. Your phone from 10 years ago could do that
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I don't see why notepad should've changed in the last 20 years
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Financial stability wasn't so important when you could easily get a mortgage with no deposit
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Clothes, accommodation, gifts, alcohol, stag dos
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by ChrisRR 1y ago
It's definitely a very apple move to go "fuck you, this is what we've decided you want"
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I feel like you're the kind of person who can't recognise a joke
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The huge amount of padding is one of the reasons I hate the official reddit app compared to redreader. There's just such a huge amount of padding between every UI element that it means half the screen is just empty space
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by ChrisRR 1y ago
Isn't this what KDE 4 did like 15 years ago?
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Dell and HP about to have a lot of backorders
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by ChrisRR 1y ago
I feel like this is a URL that I don't want in my history
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by ChrisRR 1y ago
When is there not a school shooting?
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by ChrisRR 1y ago
Maybe the news reporters don't actually know whether they were there illegally
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That's me. I had to stop because of the anxiety. I just have to get back to life as I always used to and measure the distractions via behavioural changes And yet here I am, commenting on HN...
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The first line of therapy is not stimulants though, this is a massive falsehood that gets spread by those seeking ADHD treatment. The first way to tackle ADHD is to manage your behaviour and manage the way you deal with ADHD. If you can&
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I think you massively overestimate how much the average user knows about computers
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Arguably most sites don't need javascript or CSS trickery anyway just to show text and images
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Both. I don't want any random pictures of young girls popping up while I'm browsing the web, and why would adults insert pictures of young girls into their project in the first place?

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