drusepth

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721.
by drusepth 6y ago
As a consumer, I want targeting features default-on, but I also don't mind too much having to turn them on manually.
722.
by drusepth 6y ago
Why wouldn't sites that rely on FLoC block Safari if the browser doesn't implement it?
723.
by drusepth 6y ago
AFAIK, companies "having courage" has been a meme for a few years after Apple said it took great courage (or similar) to remove the headphone jack.
724.
by drusepth 6y ago
Maybe I'm missing the joke, but the free Redis instances are 25MB.
725.
by drusepth 6y ago
Yeah, moving to AWS would save me ~50% in monthly costs (around 5k/mo) and I have friends constantly offering to do the grunt work to move over for free, but when you factor in the price of a devops guy (IMO needed on AWS but not neede
726.
by drusepth 6y ago
To be fair, the same was said about touchscreens and VR.
727.
by drusepth 6y ago
In either case, it seems like they would have notified users (if at all) when they were alerted to the leak and fixed the vulnerability.. not 2-3 years later.
728.
by drusepth 6y ago
OT: Failed their hCaptcha probably 10-15 times before I gave up and just closed the tab. Hadn't seen it in the wild yet; I'm glad it's not pervasive (yet).
729.
by drusepth 6y ago
Is there a demo anywhere of how it looks/functions?
730.
by drusepth 6y ago
Two thoughts (I didn't vote because home == office for me): 1) The list of companies is pretty odd. It has Apple but no Facebook, Google, Netflix, etc. Is there actually a large population of HN that works at e.g. all these financial i
731.
by drusepth 6y ago
Why would this be a joke?
732.
by drusepth 6y ago
>the ultimate goal of the technology is not to make the world any better, but to get more eyeballs and exfiltrate more personal data so their advertising monopoly can continue to snowball I don't think these two things are mutually
733.
by drusepth 6y ago
Ironically, if there were a feature that only cut through small side streets and avoided larger streets, I'd use that all the time!
734.
by drusepth 6y ago
If you read the article, there's an option in the settings to not have this option "forced" on you. Even when it's "forced", it's only defaulting to more carbon-positive routes when the ETAs are comparable
735.
by drusepth 6y ago
It looks like part of the carbon footprint model is based on road inclines and traffic congestion. For example, a super-fast route that's up an extremely-steep incline on the way may technically be faster from point A to B, but would b
736.
by drusepth 6y ago
Honestly, having dislike buttons always seemed _extremely_ user-hostile to me. You can get a lot of the same signals a "dislike" gives by just looking at the likes-to-views ratio, without introducing a method of negative feedback
737.
by drusepth 6y ago
I guess it's an uncommon sentiment but I'm really happy that April Fool's jokes are coming back this year after almost all tech companies cancelled theirs last year (or at least went easy on them). Hopefully 2 years to think
738.
by drusepth 6y ago
Without a Facebook account, your Oculus headset has "limited" features. There's also been a bunch of stories on HN from people who've bricked their headset when their linked Facebook account got banned or deleted. [1] h
739.
by drusepth 6y ago
All of HN (except for you) was replaced with chatbots a few years ago. Don't you remember switching to single-player?
740.
by drusepth 6y ago
To be fair, my current ISP (xFinity) and my previous ISP (Google Fi) both technically support some kind of web interface, but both push hard to get you to download their app and use that instead. I had no problem (in either case) just downl
741.
by drusepth 6y ago
OP probably meant "cherry picked" in the sense of R&T picking a purposefully-nonrepresentative video of the "average FSD experience". The video is genuine and real but it shows a completely different experience from
742.
by drusepth 6y ago
>Remember Hyperloop? Interplanetary travel? Neuralink? All of these are still in progress/development in various ways. I don't remember him ever saying they were complete (or even over with).
743.
by drusepth 6y ago
I'd happily pay some money to help test something that I've hoped and dreamed would be possible in my lifetime. Driving sucks and is dangerous as hell. Anything that 1) makes me need to drive less often, or 2) makes driving safer
744.
by drusepth 6y ago
Ironically, we're all here complaining on HN while he's probably hard at work on a Friday night.
745.
by drusepth 6y ago
It's the only site I have problems with, tbh. Stylesheet says it's supposed to be 10pt (with comment text dropping down to 9pt), which is even smaller than the too-small 12pt font that gets recommended a lot.
746.
by drusepth 6y ago
HN is one of the few sites I always keep zoomed-in (around 200%), which led to me finding an interesting bug in Chrome while HN was down: Chrome's internal "This site can't be reached" page uses the zoom level of the sit
747.
by drusepth 6y ago
/r9k/ was actually modeled after Randall Munroe's open-source "Robot9000" automod bot for one of XKCD's IRC channels (where unoriginal users would be muted for N time, rather than banned). The original post exp
748.
by drusepth 6y ago
It'd be interesting to see Twitter adopt the old "Robot 9000" automod rules, where every tweet would have to be unique from all previous tweets system-wide or else you get a temporary ban that exponentially grows in length af
749.
by drusepth 6y ago
If I recall correctly, Google changed the Chromecast protocols repeatedly to disable the Fire stick's implementation because the Fire was wrapping direct video links (e.g. removing all the official YouTube UI/features) and strippi
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by drusepth 6y ago
>Space launched nukes don't give you any warning Unless you have your own space-launched nukes and satellites?

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