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by hrbf 4y ago
I noticed this too and couldn’t believe it at first. It makes no sense at all. This renders the entry-level iPad essentially dead in the European market. It’s a pointless product for now, especially at 64 GB of storage.
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by hrbf 4y ago
98% of spam I receive originates from Google Mail. Trying to forward such an email through many other providers instantly generates a SMTP reject message, so there’s really no way Google couldn’t do it as well. Reporting spam has also becom
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by hrbf 4y ago
Good example and exactly what I meant. Having each call on its own line doesn’t solve anything if you also nest the calls.
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by hrbf 4y ago
Indeed. Comments should document intent and – wherever applicable – approaches taken that did NOT work and why. Even awkward code is sometimes okay, if there’s a comment with a clear justification. Saves hours of pointless busywork followin
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by hrbf 4y ago
This is an argument I’ve heard over and over again throughout my coding career, especially from JavaScript and PHP developers. Interestingly enough there was a noticable overlap between this mindset and “clever” code, comprised of endless c
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by hrbf 4y ago
Wow. So apparently it makes more sense for a church to create tons of plastic waste (not to mention cost) instead of scaling down or simply foregoing the mass ritual, letting the priest do it for the flock. I’d like to understand how this c
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by hrbf 4y ago
I believe there is (or very much should be) something like a “principle of least surprise” in product design. Delight is great but this is unexpected, annoying behavior. I took from all the comments to experiment with turning off auto-compl
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by hrbf 4y ago
> The only somewhat free place I've seen is 4Chan but it contains so much toxicity, that's its barely bearable. I’d argue that every place that allows every kind of speech without restriction will eventually degenerate into a c
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by hrbf 4y ago
That doesn’t change the fact that it has no application in the real world beyond being meaningless garbage pushed for a grift.
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by hrbf 4y ago
> when you remove the human greed part So they are theoretically a good idea with no practical application in the real world.
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by hrbf 4y ago
What a depressing outlook on future work. Is it really impossible for you to see the dehumanizing aspects of this?
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by hrbf 4y ago
If you’re sitting anyway, what’s even the point of a VR meeting?
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by hrbf 4y ago
> Meaning this generation will never fall in love with the possibilities and potential of VR. I see that as a good thing.
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by hrbf 4y ago
> a solution in search of a problem Exactly like cryptocurrencies. Technically impressive but entirely useless, even dangerous.
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by hrbf 4y ago
I’m currently looking into working with disadvantaged children at a local school, teaching computer skills. I may also move towards psychology and coaching (the kind that takes proper training). There’s more on the table: professional garde
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by hrbf 4y ago
> Neuralink-style HMIs Cyperpunk is interesting as an aesthetic and all that but I’d never in a million years would want to actually live in that dystopian nightmare.
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by hrbf 4y ago
It’s not surprising that people who care about the tech would care about its execution. At the same time, if you‘re looking to create a solution to anything beyond scratching your own itch, users are key. The job essentially becomes dealing
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by hrbf 4y ago
I’m going to go out on a limb here and wish the project the best, on grounds of the hacker mentality that doing something just for the sake of it is the entire point. Which is great. At the same time, in the real world, I expect it to go no
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by hrbf 4y ago
After trying this on my iPhone via Blink, it suddenly struck me that we indeed live in the future. Given the hardware to play with and its age, almost absurdly so.
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by hrbf 4y ago
It’s unconscionably incompetent how a financially-stressed federal government appears to be unable to immediately seize an opportunity like this, along with doling out harsh repercussions for the executives who have decided (and still do) t
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by hrbf 4y ago
The part about the grocery stores reminded me of why I love shopping at Aldi. Not only are the products great and affordable, the layout almost never changes in one store. Get in, get the goods, get out. They optimize for overall throughput
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by hrbf 4y ago
Upon reading news like that, I’m convinced I have made the right choice following my gut feeling and intuition to move away from the tech world. It’s absurd. This is adding yet another layer of needless complexity, just for the sake of earn
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by hrbf 4y ago
I’d argue that naive tech-positivity has run its course and more initial believers are sobering up to the reality of what kind of monsters this debonair optimism helped create.
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by hrbf 4y ago
If recent history is taken into account, the goal of anything in this space is, or will ultimately turn out to be, engagement. “Social” platforms today are unhealthy places as is. Do you really think another layer of abstraction away from a
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by hrbf 4y ago
I believe the visceral pushback is happening because this is a perfect example of a technology and platform that should not be. And most people instinctively sense that. We need more humanity, care for ourselves and others, more love and co
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by hrbf 4y ago
I’d like to throw in lz4 compression as a ridiculously fast, low CPU alternative while still providing acceptable ratios for the presented use-case. Maybe obvious for many but still worth mentioning is that on Unix-like systems any external
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by hrbf 4y ago
Trivial as compared to taking away the freedom of being able to purchase stuff like that at all via mail order – which I do not necessarily consider to be a reasonable request, nor do I agree with the lawsuit as is. There are already establ
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by hrbf 4y ago
So providing an effective means of protecting depressed non-adults from the frictionless purchase of above-laboratory strength chemicals to potentially kill themselves by as trivial a measure as verifying age on delivery is somehow infringi
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by hrbf 4y ago
I had been using Stripe for a short time a couple of years back. I looked into collecting sponsorships and donations for OSS development via BuyMeACoffee (I strongly advise against them). As expected, just a couple of bucks accumulated. The
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by hrbf 4y ago
Those are very good questions I don’t have an immediate answer for. As with many things regarding human beings, it’s complicated. I don’t believe the best place to discuss them is a flagged submission on HN. If you feel like talking (well,

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