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by bArray 5y ago
In reply of a now flagged/dead comment: > jitl: I wonder how many fewer shitty HN comments the author would get with a website named kevinbythebay.com Gender/identity really plays very little into how I've perceived the co
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by bArray 5y ago
This rant was based on the OP's observation that very basic websites require JS to view plain text: > Lately, more and more simple and plain blogs require JS to show any text on website. HackerNews can definitely be partially cached
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by bArray 5y ago
I go further - if you want me to interact with your content regularly, add an RSS feed (or some other notifications system). I will _not_ remember to check your website on a regular basis, no matter how good the content is. Almost all of th
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by bArray 5y ago
> You are an extreme minority, and often any other visitor to a website who "looks like" you are malicious. Not really, a significant amount of the world browse the internet with a bandwidth marginally better than dial-up. A si
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by bArray 5y ago
Yeah, Snap is the reason I will be moving away from Ubuntu. Mint in my opinion can suffer some of the same issues and they will too have to address the Snap issue sooner or later (as they use Ubuntu packages). Something Debian or Arch based
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by bArray 5y ago
These requirements sound very similar to something like LoRa, would be worth checking out stuff in that space too. You could quite viably fetch the latest article from an RSS feed in this space, or reply to an email, even with minimal compr
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by bArray 5y ago
I know that Rust seems quite powerful, but after years spent invested into learning C-family languages (C, C++, Java, Javascript, etc) it's just a pain to learn. I've not personally spent much time in it, but I hear the biggest co
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by bArray 5y ago
> 2 performance cost of a managed language like Java It can be a lot worse too. Java lacks the ability to have really compact data structures and can not lean in too much into the hardware acceleration without becoming incompatible. You
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by bArray 5y ago
> I own a fairly big media in France and we have been covering the conflict [..] Very interesting to hear things from this perspective. I assume it is non-mainstream? (I would ask for a link, but I cannot read French.) > It also remin
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by bArray 5y ago
I mention privacy and speed as an alternative ideally also offers these things. I don't have a bone to pick with them, I have been a long-term user and promoter of their service. Perhaps the result of the suggestions here is that they
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by bArray 5y ago
> This isn't about silencing a political view, cancelling an unpopular opinion, or whatever. It's defending against a deliberate attack from an oppressive regime. This is your opinion (not one I disagree with in this case) - bu
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by bArray 5y ago
> Compare to spam-filtering in your email: when you remove the noise, you get a better signal/noise ratio. And lose important emails. I don't mind my emails being tagged as "probable spam", but I should be the one to
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Ask HN: Alternatives to DuckDuckGo?
42 points by bArray 5y ago|53 comments
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by bArray 5y ago
> When the second COVID vaccine doses opened up, all of the slots were full. It turned out that the website’s backend had an API, so I wrote a script to poll the API every 60 seconds or so and watch for cancellations and notify me so tha
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by bArray 5y ago
> [..] Britain was a generous country but it needed to maintain checks on who was arriving. This seems obvious. The EU may be willing to accept absolutely anybody who shows up, but this is just basic border control. Just ask Germany how
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by bArray 5y ago
I've worked mostly on back-end stuff and "works for me/this" is asking for trouble. Making sure it builds is literally the minimum review you can do. You learn whether it actually compiles and whether it requires changes
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by bArray 5y ago
Better yet, it should learn from your manual corrections and the patterns you commonly mistake. One thing I do that confuses them is putting in extra letters I think should probably be in there. Like 'pherosious' instead of '
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by bArray 5y ago
> The Times made a heat map that ignores the human cases and just plots the stall samples (I’m not totally sure why would you do that?), and then the finger points really squarely at a specific stall that sold live animals. This would ig
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by bArray 5y ago
I'm stilling waiting for proper stand-alone "smart watch phones". I don't think the form factor has been figured out yet, but I'm sure there is one. One way I imagine it being possible is with a detachable watch fro
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by bArray 5y ago
Exactly this, you get access to a dedicated target audience at a really competitive price point. I think a lot of small podcasts/newsletters will happily accept 100 euros for a small slice in their media. Add some artificial urgency, s
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by bArray 5y ago
> In five years, it will be metered by the nanosecond to end users. This is not only predictable, but inevitable. The only people working at nanosecond precision are likely to want a long-term project budget to allow for budget planning.
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by bArray 5y ago
This is clearly advice for civilian people who intend to fight in any case. There is obviously a threat to life here, so each person is empowered to make decisions based on this knowledge. I would add to defensive strategy: 1. Communication
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by bArray 5y ago
I think 128 bit computers will come around eventually, despite it having been declared that 64 bit is "enough". Some pressures may come from: * Memory addressing - As the article suggests, addressing large amount of address space.
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by bArray 5y ago
> Instead, she takes out her phone and texts a password and a request for money. How many times do people need to be told that their assumptions about mobile phones and security are completely wrong. Phone numbers can be reallocated (sim
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by bArray 5y ago
In 2021 Tescos employs 367,321 people [1] with a revenue of $75.022B (~£55B) [2]. Assuming employees are paid £8.91 an hour [3] for about 30 hours a week, for 52 weeks, is ~£5.1 in wages alone. ~10% of their revenue (at least) is spent on w
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by bArray 5y ago
> I get twitter feeds by RSS. I didn't realise it was capable of serving RSS! It still puts you at the mercy of Twitter's API support and a random host to not interfere with the original message... > For Youtube, reddit is a
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by bArray 5y ago
> My wife’s family is Irish and I spend a lot of time there. Their Dairy Milk is much creamier, much like their milk. I think their blue top “full” milk is much closer to the old “gold top” we used to have here in the UK. I wouldn't
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by bArray 5y ago
> For All Things, the big challenge is handling temperamental chocolate in India’s hot and humid climate. Besides the risk of the chocolate melting on delivery, moisture can also compromise its quality, meaning that the company has to ma
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by bArray 5y ago
The problem is, RSS is not compatible with a few popular models: 1. Closed platform - Places like Spotify, Twitter, Facebook, etc, are dis-incentivized to help you consume content unless they can get you trapped in their UI with your logged
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by bArray 5y ago
> His total remuneration package was worth $98.7m in 2021, compared with $14.8m a year earlier. Cook’s pay was 1,447 times that of the average Apple employee, according to a filing disclosed in January. So what's the argument here,

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