SilasX

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by SilasX 7mo ago
And somehow expecting everyone will get the reference.
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by SilasX 7mo ago
While I would generally sympathize on that front, it doesn't really apply here. None of the management-level desiderata he appealed to require that the user experience be broken this bad. There is very little bot deterrence from preven
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by SilasX 7mo ago
It has not been negligible for me, and, however you're doing this, there is significant room for improvement. There have been times when, across about ten minutes of usage, most of which is me typing on iOS Safari, it drained 15% of
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by SilasX 7mo ago
I don't see where that's contradicting my comment.
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by SilasX 7mo ago
Then why does pretty much every site seem to have a "memory leak" of this type (besides unicorns like HN that try to be minimal)?
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by SilasX 7mo ago
Really? Then why else do adblockers seem to take up so much memory, other than an arms race with countermeasures that sites take?
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by SilasX 7mo ago
Correct, but I agree with the parent that this is a dubious case to apply that reasoning. To make it clearer, imagine another context: "It's dangerous for a passenger to have a gun on board. Therefore, we're strictly limiting
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by SilasX 7mo ago
Funny/informative story about this: There was a project, OpenHatch.org c. 2011 that tried to get people to be comfortable enough with programming to contribute to open source projects. In one of the tutorials (I think introducing comma
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by SilasX 7mo ago
Your comment made it sound like any re-investment back into the business would count as a cost that then cancels the profits that would be taxed. Even with your clarification, it still sounds like that. This is orthogonal to taxes that woul
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by SilasX 7mo ago
Ugh. They horribly borked Notepad. The whole reason I use it is because it's dumb and simple. The moment you change it into a full-featured rich text editor with AI assistants and autocorrect ... you should just make it another app, be
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by SilasX 7mo ago
>As a business owner in the U.S. I can opt to reinvest all revenue back into the business, Not entirely, no. Any of those reinvestments that count as capital expenditures aren't immediately deductible, but only on a throttled schedu
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by SilasX 7mo ago
Sure, but that's a big if: "Oh, just this one small thing for interactivity would be nice ... and this other thing ..." just like with how the early web expanded functionality.
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by SilasX 7mo ago
This. It's fundamentally a social problem. The moment that reader mode becomes the default, they'll start gradually extending it with "useful" additions until it's just as bloated and painful again, and then we&#x27
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by SilasX 7mo ago
Well, that's a whole area of active research, referred to as "info hazards": https://www.lesswrong.com/w/information-hazards
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by SilasX 8mo ago
Wiktionary doesn't mention it for either word, but it looks to be cognate with German schweigen, "to be silent": https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/schweigen
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by SilasX 8mo ago
AIUI, that's a misleading figure, because the elderly self-correct, in awareness of the greater difficulty, by driving a lot less, so the greater danger is masked in the per-unit-time accident rate. So, in theory, policy could appropri
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by SilasX 9mo ago
Whoa, I had to do a double-take on the Dorsey mention -- like, didn't he take the money and run while laughing at the folks that overpaid? But it seems he's retained a 2.4% ownership stake in Twitter/X, according to Wikipedia
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by SilasX 9mo ago
Reminds me of how the Statue of Liberty went from being brownish gold to green: https://old.reddit.com/r/interestingasfuck/comments/u22v09/t...
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by SilasX 9mo ago
You can get prism glasses, which let you see at an angle (head forward = looking at your feet), which avoids neck strain in sitting or lying positions.
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by SilasX 9mo ago
This! I've run into very frustrating examples of legit sites doing that, for no defensible reason at all. For example, the healthcare.gov emails. For links to that domain, they would still transform them with lnks.gd, even though: 1) T
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by SilasX 9mo ago
I wrote an April Fool's parody in 2021 that Google is going to get rid of authentication because they're following you around enough to know who you are anyway (modeling it after their No Captcha announcement[1]): http:/&#x2
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by SilasX 9mo ago
Not that your exactly guilty, but that comes close to the cringeworthy attitude of "haha, what a great troll! Those poor fools can't tell when he's being serious, so brilliant! Wait, wait, you touched my sacred cow? Well, n
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by SilasX 9mo ago
>The reason for this is that it's hard to hire native UI developers, but easy to hire web devs. This ... has been very opposite of my experience: 1) I've seen websites turn into poor imitations of mobile apps that lose all th
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by SilasX 9mo ago
So, you're just screwed if you need a working editor in safe mode now?
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by SilasX 9mo ago
Thanks for the second confirmation.
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by SilasX 9mo ago
This. It was infuriating to find Notepad got updated to a bloated app with rich text and Copilot. It's so different, it just should have been another program. The whole reason I use Notepad is because it's a simple, dumb, fast, pr
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by SilasX 9mo ago
The whole point is that you don't need to get anyone to consciously follow any proposal, you just push common usage in the direction of saying "sen" to the point that it becomes correct, and you can take action now to assis
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by SilasX 10mo ago
That runs into the issue I was talking about in the proposal, where it's not backward-compatible and requires people to be informed of and sympathetic to the renaming. "Sen" will already be accepted as referring to 7, without
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by SilasX 10mo ago
Omg! I had just been thinking about this and had written up a proposal but hadn't published it. We could organically make common usage accept a single-syllable 7. Here's the writeup: MAKE 7 MONOSYLLABIC There is a lot of research
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by SilasX 10mo ago
Probably not, or they don't go by it, since there seems to be a massive problem with people being unable to hear dialogue well enough to not need subtitles. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37218711 It was a real e

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