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by prmph 2y ago
But if more companies can start up locally and succeed in the digital economy because of better and cheaper internet, is it not a net benefit to the country?
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by prmph 2y ago
A simple trick to doing this, in case it's not clear how to do it, is to try focusing on an imaginary point behind the screen as you look at the images. You will see a third image between the two start to come into focus. Now relax you
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by prmph 2y ago
I believe the one in Kirkland is not exactly 24 hrs, though close to it. Left the US in 2017, and as of that time, they'd close from 12am to 3am.
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by prmph 2y ago
So if A & B are have the same (low) price, and B is higher quality, you would still choose A?
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by prmph 2y ago
The fact that people choose the cheapest of something does not mean they don't care about quality. It just means that, in that specific market, the pain of a lower quality product is not enough to affect their purchasing decisions much
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by prmph 2y ago
I'm not sure how you are disagreeing with the comment you are replying to. > With the new competitors from China and the US, several people are perceiving that, in relative terms, those new competitors are bringing more perceived an
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by prmph 2y ago
People do care about quality; it's just that there is wide variation between people's ability to notice, and care about, quality. To put it simply, for a particular work, the amount of people who would notice it's quality and
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Scandinavians came to Britain long before Vikings and Anglo-Saxons, finds study(theguardian.com)
3 points by prmph 2y ago|0 comments
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King of the Fells: Joss Naylor, the shepherd with an unbeatable running record(theguardian.com)
2 points by prmph 2y ago|0 comments
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by prmph 2y ago
Kind of off-topic, but I always wonder why Chase bank's tech is so good. I seldom use the app, preferring instead to use the website, but no matter which way I interact with Chase, they seems to know what they are doing. This is all th
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After 48 Years, It's a Long Goodbye to the Diffie-Hellman Method(podcasts.apple.com)
1 points by prmph 2y ago|0 comments
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by prmph 2y ago
The more I learn about the computation of time, the more unbelievably complex getting it right seems. I thought I was pretty sophisticated in in my view of time handling, but just in the last couple of months there have been a series of pos
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by prmph 2y ago
Why is the jet even flying in an active war zone? This is the Russia war coming home to roost. They better admit that they are engaged in an actual war, and stop allowing civilian aircraft in areas that are attacked frequently.
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The rise and rise of Maye Musk: China's love affair with Elon Musk's mother(theguardian.com)
3 points by prmph 2y ago|0 comments
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by prmph 2y ago
> Engines can't do any of this. No one has found a generalised algorithm to do this sort of thing(it's something I spend a silly amount of time trying to think up, and I've gotten nowhere with it). This is exactly why curr
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China refused investigation into ship linked to severed Baltic cables(theguardian.com)
12 points by prmph 2y ago|2 comments
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by prmph 2y ago
I wasn't sure the Bun bundler was powerful enough to handle my needs. Bundling is a hard thing to get right, and I tried many, many tools and configurations over the years before settling on esbuild.
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by prmph 2y ago
They've been promising us this thing since the 60s: End-user development, 5GLs, etc. enabling the average Joe to develop sophisticated apps in minimal time. And it never arrives. I remember attending a tech fair decades ago, and at one
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by prmph 2y ago
I’ll believe the models can take the jobs of programmers when they can generate a sophisticated iOS app based on some simple prompts, ready for building and publication in the app store. That is nowhere near the horizon no matter how much t
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by prmph 2y ago
> not sure what TypeScript is unable to represent. I want a type that represents a string of negative prime numbers alternating with palindromes, separated by commas.
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F-Shaped Web Reading Pattern: Misunderstood, but Still Relevant (Even on Mobile)(nngroup.com)
1 points by prmph 2y ago|0 comments
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by prmph 2y ago
It's like UIs being single-threaded, because otherwise you would have chaos if several background threads are trying to update the UI at the same time.
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by prmph 2y ago
Also, for some of us, building your own company is much less risky than working for a company. No matter how comfortable or secure you feel in your job, sudden layoffs can and do happen. Also, what if you develop an illness that makes you u
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by prmph 2y ago
Exactly, couldn't agree more. See my comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42433881
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by prmph 2y ago
Then, while we are at it, why not put strawberries, mangoes, or bananas on pizza? Why stop at pineapples? I also take issue with the idea that there are just five cardinal flavors. There are many, many more, which cannot be expressed in ter
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by prmph 2y ago
> And if some legislature somewhere on earth makes a surprising change to their DST rules, we can identify all of the events that are affected by that change and update that denormalized UTC time accordingly. And how do we automate getti
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by prmph 2y ago
That's why DST is an abomination which must be abolished. Just say work/school starts at 7am instead of 8am during a part of the year. Simple.
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by prmph 2y ago
With runtimes like Bun and Deno (and lately Node itself), you can run Typescript directly with pretty much zero config. There is transpilation behind the scenes, but the time that takes is minimal. I personally switched to Bun, and could no
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by prmph 2y ago
Just tried ScreenshotToCode, Bolt.New, and v0. ScreenshotToCode wants me to pay for a subscription, even before I have any idea of its capabilities. V0 keeps throwing an error in the generated code, which the AI tries to remedy, without suc
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by prmph 2y ago
Thanks for the suggestion, but I'd really like to avoid triggers if at all possible. I dislike triggers a lot for various practical and philosophical reasons

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