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by shpx 3y ago
1042 days ought to be enough for anybody
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by shpx 3y ago
I love the design of this shutdown notice. No logo, it just starts with the text, it even doesn't have excessive padding. Makes me question why the first thing Hacker News (like all websites) has been telling me for years is that it&#x
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by shpx 3y ago
You might be interested in the Modern SSDs course from ETH Zürich https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PL5Q2soXY2Zi_8qOM5Icpp8hB2...
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by shpx 3y ago
Learning useful things is fun, learning useless things is unpleasant, so in some sense it's more effort.
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by shpx 3y ago
I care. I want to learn the entire thing I'm using, which means I appreciate things that are simpler and faster to learn. You can say I am a stupid or irrational person not worthy of consideration for wanting this but I am who I am and
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by shpx 3y ago
First tell me the minimum amount of time typing this would have to take for you to agree it's not worth it and I will try to keep adding things like the time it takes for someone to ask you to do this, for you to start VS Code, find th
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by shpx 3y ago
Scrolling down after the article could load articles in the same category as the current article. This would work well for geographical articles, if I get a page about a water canal in Germany and I decide I want to read about every single
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by shpx 3y ago
I should've said "preload images for the next article", I realize now (after using it on a spotty connection) that you do preload multiple articles (you made a good choice for the amount that I didn't notice my spotty co
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by shpx 3y ago
This is great. I had a similar idea recently as I was reading Python documentation: suggest to me random technical things I would like to read or would benefit from reading. We could even have this for all text on the internet (and books),
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by shpx 3y ago
It is supported and randomly enabled for ~50% of Safari 16 users, according to https://github.com/Fyrd/caniuse/pull/6664#issuecomment-14934...
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by shpx 3y ago
Phones take a long time to boot (12 seconds on an iPhone SE) even though their hardware stays the same.
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by shpx 3y ago
You lack the imagination to come up with a use for some improvement off the cuff, that doesn't mean everyone else (some of whom are more motivated) does as well. Why do we even need to waste any consciousness-seconds on watching electr
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by shpx 3y ago
The recommender is actually trying to get you to scroll the recommendations for as long as possible, not show you a useful/good video. On mobile they show you an ad every 5 recommendations, which is more ads per minute than if you watc
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by shpx 3y ago
Noticing that this is a real issue with your service, finding who to email, writing an email and waiting for the fix to be made/deployed can be a non-trivial amount of work that you seem to expect all of your users to be willing to don
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by shpx 3y ago
Next step is to remove users/groups/sudo from Linux/UNIX entirely. I'm one person using the computer, running software I trust. I don't need it.
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by shpx 3y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portal:Current_events , GitHub notifications, Stack Overflow and HN.
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by shpx 3y ago
But probably in the wrong direction, unless you've internalized that Arabic is written right to left.
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by shpx 4y ago
You would love pouring engine oil on a puddle. I recommend doing it when it's windy, it's more interesting when it's being pushed around.
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by shpx 4y ago
One big reason is that installing the software is one click (on the link) and it works every time. With native software, on phones you have to open the App Store, search for an app and usually wait to download hundreds of megabytes before a
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by shpx 4y ago
The other case I would worry about is over-compressing text changing the letters, but it's an old and known problem https://www.dkriesel.com/en/blog/2013/0802_xerox-workcentres...
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by shpx 4y ago
It's also used for pinging you when the light has turned green if you're texting while stopped at a red light.
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by shpx 4y ago
This is running on an AMD EPYC 7543 CPU, which has 32 cores that can each cycle 2,794,750,000 times per second. It's running with 3 threads (if I understand correctly), so as a rough estimate it's doing one insert every 500,000 CP
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by shpx 4y ago
Only bad or new software developers update software. Pin your dependencies, don't use new protocols, Snow Leopard was the last good macOS version. Library doesn't work on the newest Node or Python version? Who cares, it's onl
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by shpx 4y ago
Creating an account is not free. It costs 1-2 minutes of your time (assuming no errors, I just tried it and never got the phone number confirmation code, in this case I paid with my time and got nothing, this risk also has a price) and that
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by shpx 4y ago
> He was briefly startled but went back to fishing in under one second. This was laugh-out-loud funny to me, something a character on the Silicon Valley show would say.
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by shpx 4y ago
I've chosen to re-interpret "Open" as in "open the box to release the AI"/"open Pandora's box"/"unleash".
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by shpx 4y ago
$5 says this post was generated by ChatGPT.
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by shpx 4y ago
I don't think so.
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by shpx 4y ago
The user experience could be improved but this already exists: https://godbolt.org/#g:!((g:!((g:!((h:codeEditor,i:(filename...
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by shpx 4y ago
A 10 day trip to Tahiti from San Francisco in March costs $600-$700 for the flights https://www.google.com/flights hotels cost anywhere between $100-$500/night https://www.booking.com/searchresults.html

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