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by agmater 2y ago
I take issue with a lot of this advice, actually. - The name of the site is not a necessity, the url makes it clear. Weird recommendation if you aim for a "pure reading experience". - Having a comment section doesn't detract
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by agmater 2y ago
Must be lonely, even making up fake code comments: > /* This makes the words flip over like in Wordle. Ask Gary if we can change it to letter by letter like wordle */
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by agmater 2y ago
> I wonder if some brands give out free stuff to "child influencers" so other kids would moan to their parents about buying the items... See Ryan's World on Youtube for example, it's a huge industry.
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by agmater 2y ago
Agreed, but it was even more disappointing to also see the "unsupported browser" when I tried it in Safari.
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by agmater 2y ago
Almost gave myself a seizure trying to scroll down.
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by agmater 2y ago
> The results are still not perfect in terms of alignment and space, but they're good enough. CSS frameworks come in very useful for this, ask it to generate Bulma or Bootstrap valid markup.
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by agmater 2y ago
The full title is: The Programmer’s Brain: What every programmer needs to know about cognition
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by agmater 2y ago
Sorry all, I have it set as my homepage. I'll stop refreshing now, should be good soon!
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by agmater 2y ago
Another good operator to know now is `before:2023`
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by agmater 3y ago
https://www.reddit.com/subreddits/ Not sure if this list all, but should be a good start.
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by agmater 3y ago
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/load-reddit-i... This solved that for me, but yeah it seems inevitable that all these user hostile decisions make the site unusable.
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by agmater 3y ago
What do you like about it? It seems incredibly creepy to me.
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by agmater 3y ago
Semantic Diffusion is what this author uses: https://martinfowler.com/bliki/SemanticDiffusion.html (2006) > Semantic diffusion occurs when you have a word that is coined by a person or group, often with a pretty goo
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by agmater 3y ago
United Airlines? But The Honest Company is the funniest one: > Jessica Alba's The Honest Co. has submitted a settlement offer in NY for a second false marketing lawsuit stemming from the brand having sold products labeled as all nat
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by agmater 3y ago
Why did they not just advertise on the site instead? This current approach seems like the worst possible decision. Fair enough that they want ROI, but abandoning it isn't going to get you there. At least put a writer on it? At the time
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by agmater 3y ago
Some more context from the author: https://crisp.home.xs4all.nl/lemmings/brein1.html This aged really well, I had no idea how impressive this was when I first played it either. The only thing is the cookies, which migh
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by agmater 3y ago
> Gizmodo was able to get Gemini and ChatGPT to write several political slogans, campaign speeches, and emails through simple prompts [...] For ChatGPT, no gaslighting was even necessary to evoke political campaign-related copy. We simpl
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by agmater 3y ago
I really like how Medium lets you know how "distraction free" their reading experience is (using huge popunders, privacy notices, sticky headers).
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by agmater 3y ago
Having a busy animated background is an awful idea if you want people to read your content.
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by agmater 3y ago
It can still be genocide without murder. Things like preventing childbirth or deporting/stealing children (like what Putin is wanted for) also fall under genocide. For the most part "mass murder" and "genocide" have
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by agmater 3y ago
Genocide != Civilian casualties. Genocide is about the extermination of a people. Anders Puck Nielsen just made a good video on this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L9n77DPJ7AE
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by agmater 3y ago
> and I'm guessing they decided zero-with-slash is more visually ugly/less intuitive for quickly reading numbers than zero-without-slash. Yes, it can be confused with 8.
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by agmater 3y ago
In high competitive keywords, yes. But these sites don't have backlinks ( https://i.imgur.com/9ka6yV1.png ). So if you wanted to beat them you either write new content that matches the search intent (like OP) or you find
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by agmater 3y ago
https://www.androidpolice.com/google-street-view-germany-aft... Actually, the people did adjust.
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by agmater 4y ago
If you don't believe the CEO you can always just IP block them. In my experience they respect "User-agent: * Disallow: /".
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by agmater 5y ago
AliExpress is for consumers, for bulk orders you can use Alibaba. You can also get in contact with the manufacturers to make things to your own liking, they'll quote you a price.
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by agmater 5y ago
Are you counting Google Analytics as tracking as well?
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by agmater 8y ago
Nice try, Google!