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by pxtail 6y ago
> by definition it will be very promotional in order to convey a vision I think that this is where Musk's endeavors are different and why Tesla stock prices are constant source of disbelief. He is able to successfully sell grand vis
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by pxtail 6y ago
It may be annoying if one is not used to take care about own transactions safety and is willing to shift this responsibility to some other entity - of course this convenience has a cost.
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by pxtail 6y ago
> When I think about attitudes towards food, I find it weirder that when we eat pork but are happy to throw away all the offal, cheeks, neck, knuckle, ears, ribs Recently on a different discussion board some guy mentioned that he wanted
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by pxtail 6y ago
> isn't this just a re-invention of a site-wide cache? > It feels like we've gone full circle. You are not wrong, it is the same thing. Now we are waiting for another revolutionary invention when it comes to caching - partia
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by pxtail 6y ago
> disservice by infantilizing people. People around the world are more educated than ever in humankind history [0][1] , including ability to code Possibilities are still out there, it's not like people are forbidden from building th
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by pxtail 6y ago
Thing is that situation is much worse because there are no official APIs for most of the networks (most popular ones) this project aims to support - and it means constant uphill battle eventually doomed to fail. In addition to that if the p
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by pxtail 6y ago
There is another angle when it comes to this "remote work revolution" - does it really matter for employer if remotely working employee lives 200 miles away or 10000? Not necessarily. And oh yes, there are plenty of solid and skil
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by pxtail 6y ago
I love all recent moves done by social media giants and I hope that they will continue along this path - it's just boring when only selected type of content and opinion is allowed. Some people will be able to perceive that published co
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by pxtail 6y ago
Would be pretty interesting if some moderators (who are probably residents of low wage countries) not just simply "guess wrong" but are part of the scheme and mark some videos on purpose.
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by pxtail 6y ago
Probably they are unable to afford infrastructure required for hosting blog site and/or don't have experienced employees needed for building and maintaining such software - thus they are forced to use blogger alternative.
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by pxtail 6y ago
> just use git? Sounds good in theory - now imagine explaining to a group of regular office workers concept of commits, merges, pull requests, whole workflow and additional software for doing all of this. It's just not possible.
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by pxtail 6y ago
They already have Access so no need to buy another copy, they just need to add more modern, streamlined UI and a bit of Excel functionality.
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by pxtail 6y ago
The message which is coming from FANG giants is pretty clear: when you are in troubles then you need to be big enough to make some fuss in social media to get attention and support , if you are not big enough then we don't care and you
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by pxtail 6y ago
If you want to watch something one-off, some interesting tidbit outside of your curated feed then doing it in incognito mode is required, otherwise, as you noted you are doomed.
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by pxtail 6y ago
> In the not-too-distant future an EV may cost way less, require far less maintenance, be cheaper (and greener!) per mile, be faster and safer, and have a longer usable lifespan, than a gas car. While this sounds great I seriously doubt
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by pxtail 6y ago
As addition to this advice one can use history autocomplete tool like for example this one: https://github.com/dvorka/hstr - very useful!
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by pxtail 6y ago
Are you using https://www.sitespeed.io/ under the hood or is your tool custom-built around lighthouse reports?
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by pxtail 6y ago
Especially, five year olds love to break rules and mostly are not aware and/or do not care about social norms and other people.
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by pxtail 6y ago
> Instagram is now a Reddit and YouTube replacement Nice joke, for me Instagram is a barren, walled wasteland when it comes to valuable content, indexing and search seems to be non-existent from user perspective and human is reduced to m
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by pxtail 6y ago
I'm slightly surprised as well and I'm wondering where is the innovation. There is a multitude of channels like this one, some even with slightly more sharp jokes. Maybe this could be sensation for someone who watches something on
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by pxtail 6y ago
Really awesome, thank you - recently I was tinkering with ideas for some projects and I was slightly annoyed that I had to manually crate schemas for some common and battle tested scenarios like blog, registration, etc.
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by pxtail 6y ago
> loses scrolling position all the time I managed to convince myself that I'm not using twitter website correctly because it happens to me all the time - after digging into some comment/thread I want to return to 'main&#x2
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by pxtail 7y ago
>with the expectations users have of how installers work Tbh I think that most people here on hn are experiencing cognitive bias because of additional knowledge - reality is that most of regular users do not give a damn about what instal
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by pxtail 7y ago
Damn, end of the year already? huh, time flies...
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by pxtail 7y ago
Where this 'best practice is “don’t”' idea comes from? I saw it couple of times when scraping topic surfaces. I think that it is kind of hypocrisy and actually acting against own good and even good of the internet as whole becau
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by pxtail 7y ago
Absolutely, if I want to watch something unusual/new or out of my interests then I'm opening it in incognito tab. Few tiny mistakes and my feed could look like "Trending" tab shudders
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by pxtail 7y ago
Which is quite funny as it serves as very good demonstration why one should use jQuery: most of presented examples are 10 times more longer when it comes to code amount or alternatively there is some weird oneliner. All of that for saving
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by pxtail 7y ago
> What is even the hypothesis here? Websites are slow because Android devices are slow? Hypothesis is: websites are slow because developers are testing them using their high end devices where bad code performance is compensated by highe
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by pxtail 7y ago
> "I'm using x technology because I'm familiar with it" is exactly what most people should be doing. Not necessarily, there are multiple tools in the world and not without reason - almost all of them were created with
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by pxtail 7y ago
My Steelcase Gesture has uneven armrests, after I noticed it I also checked other chairs in the office and almost every one of them has this flaw. It's not much - maybe 0.5cm but it is impossible to adjust it to same level. It's n

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