matteason

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   by matteason 3y ago

   https://archive.ph/EXnsZ
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   by matteason 3y ago

   Yeah, ours was to an email account I'd registered for my son but wasn't checking regularly. Once we found out someone else had used it for Spotify I found loads of marketing spam from them in the inbox. I think it is fixed for new
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   by matteason 3y ago

   > I also contacted Spotify and they are absolutely sure that it's not possible to create accounts without confirming e-mails and can't do anything about it. Yeah that's not true. We discovered someone was using my son&#x27
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   Show HN: RAAC Map – A map of UK buildings built with dangerous concrete(google.com)

   1 points by matteason 3y ago|0 comments
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   Show HN: Gov.uk Vue, a Vue component library based on Gov.uk(github.com)

   3 points by matteason 3y ago|1 comments
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   by matteason 3y ago

   This project is co-led by Ben Goldacre, who the HN crowd may know as the author of Bad Science and Bad Pharma: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bad_Science_(Goldacre_book) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki&#x2
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   by matteason 3y ago

   I'm now also seeing (not sure if permanent or an experiment) related keywords being comingled with the result category buttons you're talking about, and it's absolutely infuriating. 90% of the time I'm using those button
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   by matteason 3y ago

   It means that you can keep your eyeline focussed on the middle of the viewport (or the top, or wherever's natural for you) as you scroll new content into view. On a regular page, once your scrollbar reaches the bottom you have to start
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   by matteason 3y ago

   > The bottom of every page is padded so readers can maintain a consistent eyeline. That's a nice little detail, I haven't seen that before
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    by matteason 3y ago

    Do you mind sharing an example? This sounds really interesting
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    by matteason 3y ago

    They do use nonessential cookies - Google Analytics, affiliate tracking cookies and more: https://1password.com/legal/cookies/#cookies-we-use-on-our-w...
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    by matteason 3y ago

    Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35813763 Official announcement: https://news.shopify.com/important-team-and-business-changes
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    by matteason 3y ago

    The BBC News report ( https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/formula1/65333115 ) says that it was character.ai. They don't say how they know that though (presumably it's disclosed in the magazine itself?)
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    by matteason 4y ago

    MyFonts' licensing system effectively took down our entire website recently. We have a font licenced for some number of pageviews (250,000 or whatever), and they track that via an @import in the CSS they give you which points to a URL
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    by matteason 4y ago

    Links I couldn't include in the post: Nothing, Forever: https://www.twitch.tv/watchmeforever UnlimitedSteam: https://www.twitch.tv/unlimitedsteam
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    Show HN: Infinite Porno – AI Episodes of Podcast My Dad Wrote a Porno(twitch.tv)

    2 points by matteason 4y ago|1 comments
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    by matteason 4y ago

    Simon also did some brilliant stuff with Datasette based on a 2-hour long mp3 of train announcements that ScotRail released as part of a Freedom of Information reponse. A journalist called Jon Brady found it initially on the ScotRail websit
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    by matteason 4y ago

    No, it's completely random! After each announcement ends there's a random delay of between 0 and n seconds, where n is 15 by default but adjustable with the 'frequency' slider. I think you just end up with bits that soun
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    by matteason 4y ago

    Please see this reply: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32538369 Sorry, I know it's annoying. It does work in the background on desktop.
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    by matteason 4y ago

    Yeah - unfortunately YouTube really, really want you to pay for YouTube Premium so they don't allow videos to continue playing in the background. Sorry about that, I know it's annoying. There's nothing I can do about it for Y
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    by matteason 4y ago

    Thank you!
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    by matteason 4y ago

    I made this! Thanks for posting it, I'll gladly answer any questions. The samples are available here on GitHub: https://github.com/matteason/scotrail-announcements-june-202... ...and here on Google Drive: https:&