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by merek 8mo ago
Vibes
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by merek 9mo ago
Between 2017 and 2022 (pre-LLM), it appears to show a clear downward trend, ignoring the covid surge. Any ideas why this might be? The query also filters to PostTypeId = 1, what does this refer to?
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by merek 9mo ago
Thanks for the video link, it's way more informative than the original article.
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by merek 9mo ago
If you've ever built a website for mobile but never heard of PWAs (Progressive Web Apps), I recommend checking them out. In essence, adding 2 files can make the site installable from a mobile browser and define caching behavior for off
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by merek 9mo ago
I recently came across Open Web Advocacy (OWA) who summarize my mobile-platform concerns well. They "advocate for the future of the open web by providing regulators, legislators and policy makers the intricate technical details that th
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by merek 9mo ago
Very cool, well worth watching
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by merek 11mo ago
https://web.archive.org/web/20251030232647/https://shaun.nz/...
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by merek 1y ago
And the Martian beers can drunk in Mars' bars
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by merek 1y ago
I figured if a single AZ has an outage, let alone the entire region, I can rest easy knowing much bigger companies will have bigger problems. It will probably be newsworthy, and when customers email in, my excuse will be defensible, since I
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by merek 1y ago
Well worth the read. Absolutely fascinating.
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by merek 1y ago
Precisely my response to many articles, which is why I have many 10s of browser tabs open at any given time.
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by merek 1y ago
Now I understand how AI causes people to lose their jobs.
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by merek 1y ago
Will enabling "HTTPS-Only Mode" block http://localhost? If so, it would interfere with web development.
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by merek 1y ago
> I never told them what my business does or what I'd use the money for. This stuck out to me. I'm in the process of opening a bank account in Singapore for a newly registered company, and boy is it difficult. Hour-long KYC int
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Highly sensitive people more likely to experience mental health problems(medicalxpress.com)
2 points by merek 1y ago|1 comments
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by merek 1y ago
> The meta-analysis of 33 studies, the first of its kind, looked at the relationship between sensitivity and common mental health problems such as depression and anxiety. Researchers found there was a significant, positive relationship b
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by merek 1y ago
I recently deployed a few static websites on Cloudflare. I use AWS as a registrar, and I had to use Pages since Workers don't support "Custom domains outside Cloudflare zones" [1]. There's no way I can transfer the domai
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by merek 1y ago
It's not bankruptcy if the company has no liabilities. You're allowed to wind down a profitable company because you can't be bothered running it any more. A question of legality might come from German authorities determining
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by merek 1y ago
There's a note at the end > You could, of course, sell or wind down your company, which would solve all problems outlined here. But this is not an option for most entrepreneurs. For a software business, you could presumably: - Incor
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by merek 1y ago
> The FDA approval comes based on trial data submitted by the pharmaceutical company, so it's worth noting that published peer-reviewed reports are yet to be published. Peer-reviewed publications often follow regulatory approvals, n
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by merek 1y ago
Our chats might soon look something like this Human: Provide some weight loss tips AI: I'll get right on it! But before I do, have you had dinner yet? KFC's new finger-licking MEGA feast will bust your hunger for only $19.95. Clic
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by merek 1y ago
Interactive images can be found here https://cosmos2025.iap.fr/fitsmap/
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by merek 1y ago
They only observed an area of sky approximately the size of "three full moons" > By using the data from the James Webb Space Telescope’s 6.5‑meter (21-ft) mirror, scientists at UC Santa Barbara have surveyed 0.54 square degrees
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by merek 1y ago
This is the overall process used by Meta as I understand it, taken from https://localmess.github.io/ : 1. User logged into FB or IG app. The app runs in background, and listens for incoming traffic on specific ports. 2. User
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by merek 1y ago
Where? I see the following > I was excited about this vision. Too often, an engineer tries to write one huge TLA+ spec for the whole system. It's too complex and detailed, so it's not much easier to understand ...
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by merek 1y ago
Does he manage his own automated browsers? I suppose this could simply be a wrapper for something like Scrapfly (or Scraping Bee or Zen Rows or many others), with some custom JS injected to remove banners.
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by merek 1y ago
I'm a big fan of YouTube anti-scammer vigilantes. They bait scammers, expose their tactics, humorously waste their time, or even manage a counter attack. I believe these guys can be a big part of the solution. YouTube creates a financi
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by merek 1y ago
> It turns out that BEVs (battery electric vehicles) reduce the amount of brake dust by 83%, according to a new analysis by EIT Urban Mobility (a body of the European Union) and Transport for London. The study looked primarily at London,
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by merek 1y ago
I believe a lot of Mongo's criticisms come from people modelling highly relational data on a non-relational DB.
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by merek 1y ago
Same here with the hand grinder and French press. There are many factors I'm experimenting with. This is what I've found so far: - Finer grind is better. I know they say use coarse for the French press, but I find this gives too w

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