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by agos 1y ago
this works quite well even at small scale. In my country you can just go to any tobacconist, buy 1000 € worth of scratch cards with cash, and happily keep whatever comes out. And since they're heavily regulated, you can check winning p
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by agos 1y ago
this is why I avoid ripe fruit, it only harms my body!
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by agos 1y ago
any thread on HN about AI (there's constantly at least one in homepage nowadays) goes like this: "in my experience [x model] one shots everything and [y model] stumbles and fumbles like a drunkard", for _any_ combination of X
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by agos 1y ago
why is it a train? If it's so transformative surely I can join in in a year or so?
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by agos 1y ago
the difference is subtle, and comes mainly from the fact that at the time the concept of Major Release still existed. You got everything in the current Major Release and every minor and patch update to it. If it took more than three years t
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by agos 1y ago
which is ironic because historically the slowness of GitHub's UI was due to them not using much JS and requiring round trips for stuff like flagging a checkbox.
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by agos 1y ago
Another big point was they implemented their own parsers for everything which allowed them to make nifty things - the refactor features way back in the early 10s was miles ahead of everyone else - but then LSP happened and that advantage is
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by agos 1y ago
not OP but I am not thrilled by "x months/years of updates" because you pay upfront for updates that you're not really sure that will happen. Will I get bug fixes? Will I get new features or at least significant improvem
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by agos 1y ago
I think it stopped taking off when they stopped developing on it for something like four years
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by agos 1y ago
even before VSCode Atom had started to eat their lunch
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by agos 1y ago
"where it works, it works" by that metric we already have agents which don't need any guidance to program
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by agos 1y ago
I read about it in studies! see, for example: Hohenschurz-Schmidt D, Phalip J, Chan J, et al. 2024 Placebo analgesia in physical and psychological interventions: Systematic review and meta-analysis of three-armed trials. “The average short-
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by agos 1y ago
how many of those 1.5K you think are using a web browser to read that feed?
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by agos 1y ago
if you referring to Kaptchuk TJ, Friedlander E, Kelley JM, et al. 2010, that study still involved some deception[1]. See also Locher C, Frey Nascimento A, Kirsch I, et al. 2017 [1]: https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/placebo-e
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by agos 1y ago
as much as it pains me to say it, that is also a sailed ship
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by agos 1y ago
it's a lot of things, none of them in the browser anymore
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by agos 1y ago
that comment is a classic and certainly entertaining, but there are multiple levels of safety to prevent something like this from happening, the first of which is the wall of tombstones that greets you when you arrive at that specific dive
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by agos 1y ago
placebo is not that effective
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by agos 1y ago
I went to see ControlD's website to see if it was any good but the chat thingy was trying to convince me by saying "protect your connection like the Coliseum protected Rome, try ControlD's free DNS", which I guess is a w
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by agos 1y ago
> I don’t remember the last time I ran into something in Safari and Chrome but not FF. IIRC Firefox lagged quite a lot on Color Profiles and :has
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by agos 1y ago
we don't know how the mass inside a black hole is doing, but we have a pretty solid understanding of the volume and the total mass of black holes
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by agos 1y ago
that surely might be a... diversion from boring work, but fun? fun is something else
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by agos 1y ago
the book Golem XIV comes to mind (highly recommended!)
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by agos 1y ago
and if you didn't like or cared to learn CoreData? just jam a sqlite db in your application and read from it, it's just C. This was already working before Angular or even Backbone
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by agos 1y ago
the second is also really good. the second couple is... different. Good but not in the same league
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by agos 1y ago
that says more about 1Password than about passkeys. With 1Password I often get "does nothing" when trying to autofill good old regular passwords
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by agos 1y ago
I see a worrying trend of CEOs using openly hostile language towards employees, even in those companies who should be a bit better. I wonder if they have an endgame and what it is. Voluntary resignation?
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by agos 1y ago
I don't think inspecting this is easier than adding |> IO.inspect() to a pipe chain
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by agos 1y ago
I am personally thinking creating an alternative to the ubiquitous todo app to highlight how different frontend libraries/frameworks/state solutions tackle common problems. One example could be a form where the validation rules of
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by agos 1y ago
y might be "changing" but being effectively the same function or the same array. There are legitimate cases when you want to just read the latest value of something inside an effect without it being a dependency, and after years o

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