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by eitland 5y ago
The point is the WWII Nazis and Japanese are famous for killing / torturing people even after they surrendered. I'm not saying others didn't, but Nazis and Japanese took it to another level than the west. (Although to be fair
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My pet theory for why it worked back then has been that my brain is easily fooled, sensed a life and death scenario and released adrenaline which sharpened me, but I'm no specialist, I just know some tricks that sometimes work for me.)
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by eitland 5y ago
> While widespread strategies to recover from mental exhaustion (i.e., watching TV) are non-effective, I worked for a startup from 2015 to 2017. During that time I'd sometimes work 10-14 hours for 2-3 days in a row. When I was tire
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by eitland 5y ago
Someone will sooner or later mention the sybil attack. (At some points I feel it is thrown out as haphazardly as "correlation does not imply causation".) But I think you might be onto something. It won't necessarily be easy
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by eitland 5y ago
But seriously, who actually needs widgets and all the other distractions? I've used Kagi since December and I'm ready to pay $5, $10 or even $20 a month if they just continue to provide the same quality as they do today. I mostly
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by eitland 5y ago
This is one of several things that Google had sorted elegantly before shuttering Google+: It was trivial to create multiple pseudonyms and the only one who could unmask it was Google and whoever could force Google. This of course meant you
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by eitland 5y ago
I haven't used PHP in years.[1] That said PHP gets a lot of undeserved flak and also even if it is not the best tool for everything, - if you end up using it you definitely should know how to use it to your avantage. [1]: Java is so ni
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by eitland 5y ago
Well, adding 0.0.0.0 news.ycombinator.com lobste.rs dev.to to your hosts file would go a long way but I am not sure I would recommend it. I've decided to not do it.
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by eitland 5y ago
This is very interesting to me if true, both because - I thought the risk from getting an infection would be much higher than any vaccine combination (but here multiple Moderna doses seems to increase the risk even more) - again, if this is
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by eitland 5y ago
Agree. The Orion browser that I like very much takes a similar approach: they let you install both Firefox and Chrome extensions. Hopefully they and/or Librewolf will start providing APIs that will let us create even better "nativ
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by eitland 5y ago
If someone wonders why old Firefox users, while still preferring new Firefox to anything else, is still annoyed then this might be a perfect example to explain it: There used to be a number of extensions of this type on old Firefox. I canno
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by eitland 5y ago
I thought this too. Then I found Kagi last year who manages to exeed my expectations, proving that my original assumption is correct: It is still possible to provide good results today, Google just fails at it. I'm not saying it is eas
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by eitland 5y ago
> But the only thing worse than having to tweak a setting to get your functionality is not being able to get your functionality at all. Exactly. Don't think about settings as a failure. Use reasonable defaults and let users override
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by eitland 5y ago
My point was that as a newcomer in either operating systems (Linux late last century) or a new search engine (Marginalia, Kagi) you cannot always win by repeating the same stuff incumbents do. Especially not when the incumbents are busy dig
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by eitland 5y ago
> Google with all of their cash in the bank and talented engineers can't even crack the problem. Don't forget that Linux became only possible because 20 years of OS research was carefully studied, analyzed, discussed and thrown
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by eitland 5y ago
> Where is all the quality content about “chicken”? Where are the legions of chicken experts creating high quality content? Try something like this (just imagine a word or two that would appear in quality content about chicken and put it
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by eitland 5y ago
I thought about this too. After testing with marginalia I found that much of it is still there - it is just suppressed by Google and Bing.
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by eitland 5y ago
Good points. But a large part of the problem is that Google can't be bothered to follow their own rules: Again and again I catch them ignoring my doublequotes and verbatim options. There aren't any conflicting incentives around th
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by eitland 5y ago
I think what happens is - sometimes a brewery changes the taster/mixer master - other times I suspect they start cheaping on ingredients - in one particular case I almost expect the brewery did it on purpose: A particular brewery here
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by eitland 5y ago
I'm somewhat amused that pointing out that methanol is actually deadly even if this isn't a problem in diet soda has cost me two downvotes : ) (No, I'm not complaining. I can't cash out HN karma points in Norwegian banks
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by eitland 5y ago
I drank a lot of Pepsi Max since 2006 to sometime just before the pandemic when I started feeling the difference. Recently I have only tried the ones from Norway since the border has been closed for so long && local shops have reduc
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by eitland 5y ago
I'm well aware (I've been part of the milk industry where farmers initentionally give it to cows to extend their lifespan and increase the yield, anyone who is new to this, see http://dhmo.org/milk.html ) I also h
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by eitland 5y ago
I suspected this could be the case which is why I included my disclaimer at the end :-) Still I felt a warning was in order when someone calls methanol a harmless compound because that is absolutely not true.
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by eitland 5y ago
> If you unzip aspartame into the two amino acids and remove that methyl to become methanol, you have a tasteless mixture of pretty harmless compounds. I'm somewhat surprised nobody has commented on this yet, so let me point it out:
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by eitland 5y ago
Here in Norway I think "Pepsi Max" was the gold standard for years while diet Coca Cola mostly sold because of the brand name. Then something happened: Coca Cola launched Zero and after a few iterations it tasted good! Meanwhile P
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by eitland 5y ago
> [...]there are three realistic options. Is the Librewolf option included in those three? Because that (a patch on top of newest Firefox) is something I have been wanting for a long time and I just recently realized someone had done it.
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by eitland 5y ago
> The idea that you can create blocks that can easily be integrated into other applications presupposes that it's a desirable thing to have data that can be easily integrated into other applications. > Which, for us as developers
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by eitland 5y ago
Late but I have texted a number of times with the Kagi team and they do pay for API access.
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by eitland 5y ago
I'm at http://erik.itland.no and also my old blog is available online at https://techinorg.blogspot.com I also have a mastodon account. I'll happily make money from my efforts, but my thoughts goes in direc
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by eitland 5y ago
Agree. As far as I remember web 2.0 was all about user generated content spruced up with Ajax experiences: Blogs (chronological as opposed to more freeform web sites) were arguably the first. The comments, follows ("blog rolls"),

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