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Fake-will fraudsters steal millions from the dead(bbc.co.uk)
9 points by sarreph 1y ago|1 comments
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by sarreph 1y ago
Perhaps contrarian (here anyway) but I think Liquid Glass looks neat, and represents the next evolution of the "backdrop-filter: blur;" effect that we've been seeing on the web a _lot_ as of late... Which, funnily enough also
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by sarreph 1y ago
Why didn’t they name it os.eu?
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by sarreph 1y ago
I find that an uncharitable take to assume lack of usefulness. It’s more likely literally what the author says - getting engineers onboard for something they themselves didn’t choose is difficult. I’ve been in the same position - lots of bu
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by sarreph 1y ago
> isn’t it pretty easy for things to go wrong if someone forgets? What do you imagine going wrong? In my mind, if I had a digital address code, one of the first things I would do after moving would be to update it. Plus, the article allu
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by sarreph 1y ago
On your second point - I don’t agree that humans in general will plateau. I think instead the _gap_ between humans who crave to create and learn, and those who are ostensibly potatoes, will be magnified. I see it a bit like the creator econ
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by sarreph 2y ago
I’m pretty sure by the time we decode what they’re saying it’ll be “so long, and thanks for all the fish”
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by sarreph 2y ago
> Probably people have felt this way throughout all of history but this time seems different. In my 30s and I make a habit of asking people in the generations above me if they felt the same when they were younger / my age. As in, di
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UK tyres meant for recycling sent to furnaces in India(bbc.co.uk)
9 points by sarreph 2y ago|0 comments
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by sarreph 2y ago
> Although a significant portion of packages still use CJS, the trend clearly shows a good shift towards ESM. Does it? The chart being used in the opening argument is far from compelling. When I hold my phone sideways, it looks as though
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by sarreph 2y ago
This kinda reminds me of Funklet[0] that Jack Stratton (Vulfpeck) + Rob Stenson made a long time ago... A true gem if you're into funk + like midi drums. [0] - https://goodhertz.com/funklet/
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by sarreph 2y ago
The UK train system is a dire, expensive mess. Attempting to avoid getting directly political here, but I strongly believe it’s one of the lowest hanging fruit a political party could act on to curry favour with the electorate. Would be ama
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by sarreph 2y ago
Nice initiative. Unfortunately, words alone don't carry much weight these days: > [...] hereby affirms our intent to [...] A pledge like that is like a promise — it can be broken with no consequence. To answer their question: >
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by sarreph 2y ago
That is not absolute pitch - it’s pitch memory, see: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tonal_memory I too have experienced the same phenomenon of being able to recall a particular note. Agree with you that relative pitch
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by sarreph 2y ago
If the later trials succeed and this gets turned into a commercially-viable product, the amount of money this will generate is going to be nuts.
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by sarreph 2y ago
I have had production differences show up that were not present or even reproducible in test mode on a major e-commerce platform payment system.
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12th monkey dies in Hong Kong zoo amid bacterial outbreak(bbc.com)
3 points by sarreph 2y ago|0 comments
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Verdn (YC W22) is hiring software engineers to build next-gen donation APIs(ycombinator.com)
1 points by sarreph 2y ago
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by sarreph 2y ago
Claude has no trouble with SQL queries, writing tests, utility functions, component sketches (React). But as soon as I start giving it reasonably complex stuff like interdependent generics (TypeScript) or intricate custom logic implementati
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by sarreph 2y ago
> Just looking at JavaScript, with its ugly flights of brackets and braces and unnecessary-seeming reams of semicolons, made me miserable. Who's going to tell them you don't need the semicolons?
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Vercel Is Down(vercel.com)
28 points by sarreph 2y ago|12 comments
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by sarreph 2y ago
I don’t have a problem with people knowing the timestamp - it’s only precise down to the second.
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by sarreph 2y ago
We chose ULID for our Postgres PK recently, and this article helped a lot in making that decision: https://brandur.org/nanoglyphs/026-ids I personally prefer ULID since it is compat with a UUID type and you also get a
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by sarreph 2y ago
All this negative sentiment around the App Router like in this post made me really scared to adopt it. I've just been working with it for the past 2 months and absolutely love it. The biggest reason being the ability call functions dir
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by sarreph 2y ago
I find it kind of ironic that an article about misperceiving expertise fails to mention the Dunning-Krueger effect[0], especially with passages like: > Imitators don’t know the limits of their expertise. Experts know what they know, and
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by sarreph 2y ago
The level that the hosts interrupted the voice assistant today worries me that we're about to instil that as normal behaviour for future generations.
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UK economy grew slightly in February(bbc.co.uk)
1 points by sarreph 3y ago|0 comments
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Vercel: Improved Infrastructure Pricing(vercel.com)
48 points by sarreph 3y ago|32 comments
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Questions raised over Temu cash 'giveaway' offer(bbc.co.uk)
1 points by sarreph 3y ago|0 comments
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by sarreph 3y ago
The original design (PDF) document is linked in the article.[0] [0] - https://www.goldennumber.net/wp-content/uploads/pepsi-arnell...

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