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>, then you wouldn't put an ad on your site that wasn't valid XHTML, You're overlooking how incentives and motivations work. The gp (and their employer) wants to integrate the advertisement snippet -- even with broken
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>- XHTML. [...] Would it kill people to have to close their tags properly? XHTML appeals to the intuition that there should be a Strict Right Way To Do Things ... but you can't use that unforgiving framework for web documents that
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>I've always wondered what would happen with a shop that never has sales. A shop where the prices are always the same, [...] Does a shop like this exist, or existed? An ex-Apple executive who ran the Apple retail stores tried that
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I also use that 3 humps website regularly but they actually don't closely track fast changing prices day-by-day for all items. Therefore, I also track price changes manually myself. E.g. this ant insecticide was recently on sale for $
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> - Part of the problem is just that a normal workflow is: receive email --> click on URL --> enter credentials into 3rd party website. ie, this is intentional and valid behavior for most white collar workers on a daily basis.
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>... but I still worry about backups. For me, it's not just off-site backups, it's also the operational risks if I'm not around which I wrote about previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=395
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Somewhat related is 3D / LIDAR scanning tech of overlapping photo captures using Matterport: https://matterport.com/ It's popular with real estate agents. Not quite "virtual reality" but it also doesn&
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It's just because vibe coding is still "new" and various people have mixed results with it. This means that anecdotes today of either success or failure still carry some "signal". It will take some time (maybe more
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>I doubt it’s going to happen, but a part of me prays that people will eventually get sick Microsoft’s increasing bullshit and it really can become the Year of the Linux Desktop. [...] I suspect, though, people will realistically just m
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>I heard this a lot from candidates who had only worked on software that could be described as an app. Similar to that thinking, I made a previous comment how many developers in the "L.O.B. Line-Of-Business / CRUD" grou
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>but for sure setting up a local network with top-level open source self-hosted alternatives is the easiest it has ever been ever. Understand your enthusiasm but to relate the discussion back to Tim Berners-Lee idea for SOLID data stor
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>My colleagues and friends know that I prefer to communicate with them via email rather than chat messaging. For some co-workers and especially for friends & family, the chat UI is much more ergonomic than email. Email usage has
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>I hate the fact that your comment got flagged / greyed out / whatever even though it's perfectly correct. [...] I don't know why our experiences are considered "anecdotes", and not the other way round. I
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>I get 99% deliverability with 0 repuation since i do dkim and spf correct. Your anecdote of success doesn't matter to the others that correctly configured DKIM/SPF and still don't get their emails delivered to Gmail&#x2
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>You prefer to let other people determine what you read? There are multiple levels of delegation to the "wisdom of the crowd": - visiting this HN website by itself is already letting people determine what you read. The stori
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>, but I don't see why AaaS or server-side anything would be required to have non-chronological feed algorithms. You assume gp's idea of "non-chronological" feed means taking the already-small-subset-downloaed-by-R
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>RSS is just a protocol. You could make a reader now with any algorithm you want that displays feeds. Your proposal to filter on the client side where the RSS reader runs can't do what the gp wants: algorithmic suggestions on th
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>, it's people who just can't because of the Windows 11 hardware requirements. I can't update my desktop without replacing the motherboard and CPU As workarounds for TPM requirement, one can either: - open a Command Prom
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>, but I wouldn't call this name conflict, this sounds more like incompatible code behaviour. It literally is a name conflict. It's not a DEBUGGER SYMBOL type of name conflict but it's still a name collision. A famous
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Fyi... the preferred new syntax since 2022 is: --embed-resources --standalone. https://github.com/rstudio/rmarkdown/issues/2382 https://pandoc.org/MANUAL.html#:~:text=Deprecated%20synon
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>Using your IC example: they became cheap because of massive government investment in the space program and military procurement, not natural law. There is an underlying natural law to IC's being cheap without any government invo
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>Wasn't Microsoft Access basically that? No because the datagrid in MS Access is too rigid and doesn't have the extensive slice-&-dice features of MS Excel. My first consulting gig was creating customized MS Access appli
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>, it's that we'll never get rich quick as over logical people. Of course Dropbox is dumb when rsync exists. It's neither over-logical nor "smartest guy in the room" to equate Dropbox with rysnc. Instead, it&
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>If you ever wondered why the likes of Google and Cloudflare want to restrict the web I disagree with the framing of "us vs them". It's actually "us vs us". It's not just us plebians vs FAANG giants. Th
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>Remember when Microsoft invested in Apple when Apple was down in the dumps? This is giving similar vibes. Doesn't feel the same because the 1997 investment was arranged by Apple co-founder Steve Jobs. He had a long personal rela
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>I’ve personally never had that happen. It should go on a name and shame list The key situation for giving out an SMS code that the gp is pointing out is the customer initiates the call to the support center . For example, suppose som
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>People very rarely switch phone operating systems. This is true and I'm not claiming that switching is a common occurrence. That said, the more likely os migration is from iOS-to-Android rather than Android-to-iOS. I know more t
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>Why can't Apple produce a watch that you don't have to use with an iPhone? >There's not a shot in hell I'm ever switching from Android to iOS. People rarely do this. Because the reverse situation helps Apple. A
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> In hindsight, the fact that his browser did not auto-complete the login should have been a red flag. >A huge red flag. It won't be a red flag for people who often see auto-complete not working for legitimate websites. The u
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>Autofill is your primary defense against phishing, The autofill feature is not 100% reliable for various reasons: (1) some companies use different domains that are legitimate but don't exactly match the url in the password manage

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