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by lol768 3y ago
Has there been any research in the area of psychology exploring why these "clickbaity" thumbnails actually result in increased revenue/higher click-through rates? I find them (and the often incredibly exaggerated fake-emotion
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by lol768 3y ago
It's quite easy to plug into any results provider, in fact. I built a proof of concept using Lunr (dataset too small for anything heavier-weight).
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by lol768 3y ago
Thanks, dang!
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by lol768 3y ago
Didn't they stop updating that repo at some point? I'm not sure it was at the same time that they replaced the main site with a SPA - so it's probably not entirely accurate to say "Old Reddit" (which to me means old
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by lol768 3y ago
> I feel that's more on the UK/Irish medical system I've had no issues getting a referral in the UK system, though I appreciate some people do struggle. Hell, I've had to actively turn down the offer of a referral whe
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by lol768 3y ago
> The urgent care doctors always prescribe antibiotics, even though the most likely cause is viral This is irresponsible, tackling AMR is a WHO priority and local guidance (e.g. NICE, I don't know about the states - is it ICER? the
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by lol768 3y ago
Which is why in other countries, such as the UK, the NHS will look at the potential for preventing disease/extending QALY based on peer-reviewed evidence, the risks of harm and overall cost-effectiveness before then coming up with a mo
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by lol768 3y ago
In the nicest possible way, and from a position of ignorance of the "Semantic Web": is anyone actually doing anything with these technologies outside of academia?
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by lol768 3y ago
> there are multiple times when services are unavailable and they don't report it on the status page. There's no evidence that the exact same doesn't happen with GitLab. I've had it (consistently) 500 on me in the p
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by lol768 3y ago
It's definitely no less reliable than GitLab, where a good 300GB of database data got deleted in production by accident...
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by lol768 3y ago
Help site seems dead, request to https://help.minecraft.net/help_center/en-us/sections?page[s... and https://help.minecraft.net/help_center/en-us/articles/360050... just times out..
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by lol768 4y ago
> Telling example to me was no firearms policy on conferences What's supposed to be wrong with this? I sure as hell wouldn't attend a conference where firearms were permitted, and I'm fairly sure even the NRA have organi
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by lol768 4y ago
So any sufficiently motivated/funded malicious actor who can register a whole bundle of domains can use up 50% of the entire free space on my disk? Am I getting this right? Is the only defense against this the requirement for per-origi
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by lol768 4y ago
So similar to GSoC, but limited to some countries which I guess have been under-represented to date?
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by lol768 4y ago
> How about we get a single return fare (even restricting to realistic commutes, not whole country) down to €49 before we worry about multiple use! Nah, we're just getting rid of return fares instead :-)
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The Amazon Whisperer (2013)(fastcompany.com)
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by lol768 4y ago
This is the correct answer - and then scrolling will work properly! Not sure why this 'hack' is on the front-page.
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by lol768 4y ago
web.dev is a resource for learning how to write code for Chrome. There are entire articles about Chrome-only "standards" with barely a footnote about how controversial the standards are and that e.g. Mozilla considers them harmful
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by lol768 4y ago
> If my employer required me to use it, I would immediately find another job. It's that bad. Agree with this. I started adding clauses to my services contracts requiring that it not be used, to this end. One client moved over to Sla
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by lol768 4y ago
"The inspected URL is known to Bing, but has some issues with indexation" 1) Does "indexation" mean what whoever wrote this thinks it means? :P 2) Why not document what the issues actually are on that page, so that the w
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by lol768 4y ago
Seemingly purchased at a Paddington TVM? I'm surprised they allow purchasing that far in advance.
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by lol768 4y ago
It's unused in reality.
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by lol768 4y ago
> There's nothing actually substantive about it. It doesn't feel like it belongs on HN. Most of the comments on every new Firefox release post are just as bad and have nothing to do with the actual release (folks whining about
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by lol768 4y ago
If the browser enforced that the certificate had been issued in line with the domain's CAA record, such an attack might be less tractable without DNS control...
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by lol768 4y ago
This is hilarious, and quite impressive given the presumed age of the kids that'd be interested in doing this. I'm sure some K-12 tech staff are stressing over the exploit right now.
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by lol768 4y ago
The work was funded by the NIHR (i.e. the UK taxpayer); the primary purpose is patient benefit to users of the NHS, not profit. If they're making a disproportionate "lot of money", there should be a signed revenue-sharing agr
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by lol768 4y ago
> Every week, you are matched with another dev using an ML algorithm for a 1 on 1 call. I must admit I rolled my eyes when I read "ML algorithm" since it's usually marketing bullshit. Seemingly it's unsupervised knn w
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by lol768 4y ago
Am I alone in thinking it's ridiculous for an editor action to push/pop state in browser history to allow undo/redo? Surely this leads to substantial browser history pollution?
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by lol768 4y ago
Happy birthday!
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by lol768 4y ago
If you're good enough (and you are!), sometimes requirements like these aren't as set in stone as they may appear and rules can be bent/positions created. It'd be worth pinging over an email to someone senior there if yo

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