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811.
by afavour 10mo ago
Because his enthusiasm for free speech is variable depending on whether he likes the speech or not.
812.
by afavour 10mo ago
The vast majority of pages from 1998 work fine today. VBscript was always a tiny minority of scripting. And link rot is an undeniable problem but that’s not an issue with the page itself.
813.
by afavour 10mo ago
> A p or li tag, at least when used and nested properly, logically ends where either the next one begins or the enclosing block ends While this is true I’ve never liked it. <p>blah<p>blah2</p> Implies a cl
814.
by afavour 10mo ago
> if starlink wants to focus itself as the uncensorable internet in places like protests etc I’m not sure Musk would actually want that though, especially these days.
815.
by afavour 10mo ago
Before anyone launches themselves into the sky: the title is clickbait. This is about phishing attempts that use ICE to persuade you to click. Sendgrid the company is not emailing about supporting ICE. But technically Sendgrid the infrast
816.
by afavour 10mo ago
> The problem is that American industrial policy is based on quarterly earnings and not long term health of the republic as a whole I think it's even worse than that, the country's industrial policy is based on emotional appeal
817.
by afavour 10mo ago
> The only way it really fell short is in the way that a lot of people were predicting that it would become a sort of total replacement for JS+HTML+CSS for building web apps. Agreed and I’m personally glad progress on that hasn’t moved q
818.
by afavour 10mo ago
> The stories about bankrupting the fast food industry were from journalists looking for sensational stories to write, not from the marketers. Those are not necessarily disconnected. Marketers pitch stories, they fund studies they know w
819.
by afavour 10mo ago
I think it’s an awareness problem as much as anything. Folks going on these medications aren’t aware it may well be a lifelong commitment. And particularly in the US any lifetime medication comes with financial implications.
820.
by afavour 10mo ago
Not to detract from the content here but I do find it very telling that posts about domestic US issues (including protests) repeatedly get flagged on HN, including just today[1], but there are currently two posts about Iranian protests on t
821.
by afavour 10mo ago
> On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes more than hacking and startups. If you had to reduce it to a sentence, the answer might be: anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity. Deepfakes
822.
by afavour 10mo ago
I have, and it is. In what world would it not be?
823.
by afavour 10mo ago
> There is no blanket ban on politics Nor did I claim there was. My point is simply that there is a very obvious pattern to what passes this subjective "gratifies intellectual curiosity" test among those with the ability to fla
824.
by afavour 10mo ago
I know a certain set of HN users doesn't like to discuss "politics" but if the government's site about "Eat Real Food" can sit on the front page for many hours (currently at spot 14 after being posted 23 hours
825.
by afavour 10mo ago
> The study, from UVA Health’s Andrew S. Parsons, MD, MPH and colleagues, enlisted 50 physicians in family medicine, internal medicine and emergency medicine to put Chat GPT Plus to the test. Half were randomly assigned to use Chat GPT P
826.
by afavour 10mo ago
Depends what flavor you get. Much like Android itself different manufacturers bundle different crap with their hardware. I used to have an Nvidia Shield and it was a wonderful vanilla implementation. But I've since switched to Apple TV
827.
by afavour 10mo ago
They are absolutely, 100% less bulky than CRTs. If you saw a box the size of a queen mattress it was presumable for a massive screen. A CRT that's 100" or whatever would be insanely large and weigh so, so much.
828.
by afavour 10mo ago
HDMI standards allow plugged in devices to control the power state of the TV. e.g. my Apple TV will turn the TV on when I press a button on the aTV remote and will turn the TV off when I turn the Apple TV off. Audio is a separate challenge,
829.
by afavour 10mo ago
But Google has your Gmail inbox, your photos, your maps location history…
830.
by afavour 10mo ago
I’m not wholly convinced, I think you’d have had US sources corroborating that by now.
831.
by afavour 10mo ago
I see using AI for coding as a little different. I'm producing something that is designed for a machine to consume and react to. Code is the means by which I express my aims to the machine. With AI there's an extra layer of machin
832.
by afavour 10mo ago
Particularly those of us who don't have computer science training kind of end up falling into this stuff. One of my first jobs was as an admin assistant at a utilities company. We logged data about pipe replacement, which was done in s
833.
by afavour 10mo ago
No matter how many of us on Hacker News are absolutely exhausted with social media… no, “we” as a society are as addicted as ever. It is interesting to note, though, that over the years the “social” in social media exists almost exclusively
834.
by afavour 10mo ago
Not in the EU...
835.
by afavour 10mo ago
There's a fallacy in here that is often repeated. We've made it from 0 to 5, so we'll be at 10 any day now! But in reality there are any number of roadblocks that might mean progress halts at 7 for years, if not forever.
836.
by afavour 10mo ago
Safari is just a wrapper around the system webview framework so it does make sense, although it makes the comparison very misleading.
837.
by afavour 10mo ago
My work uses GSuite so I’m using Meet every day. I find it mildly useful to have the functionality built into the Gmail app but at the same time I see zero loss in having it be a separate app.
838.
by afavour 10mo ago
There are off-brand budget Lego blocks available and they're (in my experience) all awful. Legos are very precisely manufactured to fit together smoothly, if the off-brand ones made in a factory can't replicate that then I don&#x2
839.
by afavour 10mo ago
This reads like an unbranded version of Lego Mario. Which is absolutely fine by me.
840.
by afavour 10mo ago
> In 2020, the company was found to be appending affiliate referral codes to the end of certain cryptocurrency exchange URLs typed into the browser's address bar. The practice applied to exchanges such as Binance and Coinbase, and w

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