MajorBee

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by MajorBee 1mo ago
> BYDGOSZCZ sofa This may not even be that far off from reality, looking at the sort of names rando brands on Amazon often have...
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by MajorBee 4mo ago
There's an excellent HN thread that talks about this very question (that comes up on HN every now and then - what _does_ company X do that needs so many engineering resources?): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2537
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by MajorBee 6mo ago
I, for one, found reading the text under the News section quite difficult to read. The combination of the font color and the spacing/kerning made it all appear like a character soup to me. It's possible this is something that has
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by MajorBee 7mo ago
While I quite liked Ghostty to being with, the lack of a scripting API quickly drove me to WezTerm before long. See: https://github.com/ghostty-org/ghostty/discussions/2353 I hope they prioritize scriptabilit
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by MajorBee 7mo ago
Only tangential, but I recently discovered that VS Code also picks up paths in `.ignore` to decided whether to include paths in search. I knew that `.gitignore` is automatically picked up, but was surprised when all of a sudden directories
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by MajorBee 7mo ago
It can be quite useful to check in project-wide shared editor settings so that everyone in the team is using the same linter/formatter editor settings. We do that in my team for VS Code settings and extensions, even tasks. I haven&#x27
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by MajorBee 7mo ago
You're crazy if you think the target demo of "business leaders" and "thought leaders" aren't going to dump it into their favorite LLM first thing and prompt their way into a summary.
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by MajorBee 7mo ago
I just noticed that the PDF cover simply says "© <Author>", not the traditional style of author attribution, which usually is just plain "<Author>". I don't know why, I found it interesting...
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by MajorBee 7mo ago
Why is so much of generated AI art so... literal? The cover art of this PDF literally spells out what the graphics are supposed to represent. The vast majority of AI visuals on LinkedIn are the same way. If this is what's in store as t
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by MajorBee 9mo ago
In this case, as a solo dev, it's probably quite justified to be honest. I doubt ConcernedApe would have really been able to continue solo-ing it with this level of success if he also had to maintain distribution channels, sales/r
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Pagebound is an independent Goodreads alternative(pagebound.co)
4 points by MajorBee 9mo ago|1 comments
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by MajorBee 11mo ago
I bought :( Loved the thing, but yeah batter life wasn't the best. Also noticed that app developers would sometimes not take into account the smaller viewport on the Mini, and so app views would sometimes look too squished or out of pl
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Oracle announces WebAssembly support in MySQL(blogs.oracle.com)
4 points by MajorBee 11mo ago|1 comments
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by MajorBee 4y ago
The more you put yourself in social settings (online, offline, whatever), the more you increase the surface area for finding someone through "pure random chance". Just adding a more optimistic bent to things.
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by MajorBee 4y ago
> Google will sell Google Cloud Services to Oracle to cut their losses Now that is a hot take! I’d like to see this happen just to experience the meltdown this would cause in this community. If you thought the Sun acquisition didn’t go d
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by MajorBee 4y ago
I have grown to dislike "jugaad" solutions to problems (unless it is forced onto the problem through sheer necessity), mainly because -- if left unchecked -- it fosters a culture of doing just barely enough to meet minimum require
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by MajorBee 4y ago
That's hardly a crazy stat, you're merely viewing it through a Western lens. In plenty of Asian cultures it is uncommon for people to have sexual experience before marriage.
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by MajorBee 4y ago
Plus you can land in a situation where a user might associate bad experiences with an unofficial client with the actual service and thus leave with a bad impression overall.
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by MajorBee 4y ago
Kinda going off on a tangent here, but it was a mild "ohhh" moment for me when I first realized that the company Cisco is actually named after San Francisco, followed by a second such moment when I realized that Cisco's logo
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by MajorBee 4y ago
The availability of cheap, unhealthy junk food is very high, and that combined with the force multiplier that is poverty is a core component in the obesity epidemic. If you are to draw a parellel to the topic at hand, availability of cheap,
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by MajorBee 4y ago
That's not always the right way to go either. A professional using a particular device on the daily will be proficient in its usage regardless of how terrible the user interface, simply on the basis of how often they use the thing. On
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by MajorBee 4y ago
It's not really cooking, but I find it useful to defrost frozen meat in the microwave if I have forgotten to leave it out of the freezer overnight. Defrosting in a microwave usually means letting it run at low power for a long time (&g
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by MajorBee 4y ago
Well, most of earth’s landmass lies in the northern hemisphere.
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by MajorBee 4y ago
> Google or Apple can get away with this kind of behavior, I doubt Atlassian can Atlassian absolutely can in enterprise settings. In my company (a large cloud company), if JIRA goes down, large swathes of the business will also stall, in
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by MajorBee 4y ago
You say you wouldn't want to use this simplified phone-based video editing tools for serious work, but there is an entire industry's worth of livelihoods being made on TikTok and Instagram using these very editing tools. Not sayin
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by MajorBee 4y ago
This is quite common for women in tech (particularly engineering), I've heard. If you look "too attractive" as a female engineer, you'd more likely not be taken seriously, not to mention attract unwanted attention by bei
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by MajorBee 4y ago
I have the very same thing you have, and I have started seeing banner ads from Roku on my Apple TV! It appears in the form of a banner overlaying on top of my Apple TV content saying something on the lines of “more ways to watch this conten
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by MajorBee 5y ago
Great article! I particularly appreciated the author's positive description of a good experience in a world where cynical takes are more dominant. Standout line for me from the article: > When my bouche was adequately amused,
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by MajorBee 5y ago
If you're spending a full third of your life (half, if you count only your waking hours) working, I would imagine "love" for your work and/or people should play a significant role in your choices.
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by MajorBee 5y ago
> only $25 billion in profit Surely there must be a typo in one of these words? I can’t imagine 25 humongous ones being loose change for any business.

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