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by thrdbndndn 1y ago
The page was "Last updated: 24 minutes ago". Someone at Mozilla saw this HN post and modified it (unsure if the export feature itself was changed or not). You can tell it's a rushed edit as "Your export file will include
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by thrdbndndn 1y ago
His point is about data portability, not service uptime. This export feature is outright bad, worse than the industry standard by a mile. Why wouldn't it include something as basic as tags? It just forces users to write their own scrip
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by thrdbndndn 1y ago
Ahh, I get the joke now. Good one :) As for the reason, if I have to guess, is because "decibel" looks better than "decibell". (Keep in mind decibel was actually renamed from the previous unit called "Transmission U
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by thrdbndndn 1y ago
> this is in the same tradition that prompted us to name the “wat” in honor of James Watt. The unit is Watt, not Wat.
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by thrdbndndn 1y ago
This is a common saying, and I’m sure there’s some truth to it. But IMHO, the main reason is that PIs just want to use the money. Because… why not? It's free money. Having the newest shiny equipment, at the very least, boosts your grou
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by thrdbndndn 1y ago
The legend on this site is a joke. It's almost impossible to see the colors under the numbers, as they're only a few pixels wide: https://i.imgur.com/k8k394D.png
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by thrdbndndn 1y ago
I understand lots of people would (rightfully) say "no shit", but I think it's good to actually describe how it is in details. So kudos to the author.
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by thrdbndndn 1y ago
Kinda off-topic, but about the cutting itself: I used to work in academia and was involved in NSF-funded programs, so I have mixed feelings about this. Waste and inefficiency are rampant. BTW I'm not talking about failed projects or re
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by thrdbndndn 1y ago
I honestly don't understand what you're trying to say, even from a semantic standpoint.
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by thrdbndndn 1y ago
Can't see anything other than a black screen. Using newest Chrome without extension (guest profile): https://i.imgur.com/DgLgUib.png
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by thrdbndndn 1y ago
Thanks for the clarification! I've mostly encountered these branches/repos when checking commits linked to Bugzilla tickets, and I don't recall seeing "autoland" show up too much in those cases.
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by thrdbndndn 1y ago
Correct me if I'm wrong, IIRC the previous "master" branch is `mozilla-central`. Now it has "main" and "autoland", what are they? Which one is the equivalent of mozilla-central before?
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by thrdbndndn 1y ago
Since I usually use ChatGPT for more objective tasks, I hadn’t paid much attention to the sycophancy. However, I did notice that the last version was quite poor at following simple instructions, e.g. formatting.
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by thrdbndndn 1y ago
I'm not sure how this contradicts what they said. AI would likely lower the number of paid opportunities. Additionally, art requires practice. Sure, some "lower-tier" artists may produce work that AI could replace without any
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by thrdbndndn 1y ago
Copilot agent mode?
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by thrdbndndn 2y ago
I mean.. you can just flip the phrase of one channel. Of course it can be fixed in software.
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by thrdbndndn 2y ago
> "Why Companies (Don't Fix Bugs)" I genuinely can't tell what this means. How is it different from "Why (Companies Don't Fix Bugs)"?
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by thrdbndndn 2y ago
As a relatively new Linux user, I often find the "versioning" of bundled system utilities also to be a bit of a mess, for lack of a better word. A classic example, at least from my experience, is `unzip`. On two of my servers (one
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by thrdbndndn 2y ago
?? he's saying "it's fine" if it's defined as "clockwise" arbitrarily.
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by thrdbndndn 2y ago
This article is really badly written IMHO. And I feel the content should just be merged back to the main article.
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by thrdbndndn 2y ago
It's less about how many Americans are on the ISS and more about not disturbing the mission schedule (too much), among cost considerations.
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by thrdbndndn 2y ago
No offence taken; there's always room to learn. Just curious, since I never use Vim, how exactly one navigates to (and/or selects) "aaa" part in the following string with just three keys in Vim? url = "https:&
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by thrdbndndn 2y ago
Doesn't seem to work for any emulators I have (cmd, Windows Terminal, Git Bash, etc.) :(
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by thrdbndndn 2y ago
I use the mouse a lot, even for (typing) coding. I'm pretty "fluent" with navigation shortcuts, things like Ctrl/Alt/Shift combined with arrow keys, PgUp/PgDn/Home/End etc. and I do use them extensive
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by thrdbndndn 2y ago
It's just a way to donate, similar to lots of "adopt a xxx" programs.
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by thrdbndndn 2y ago
There are lots of useful actions an installer does that (some, if not most) end users actually want, including but not limited to adding shortcuts to start menu so you can find it or search for it, associating file formats, registering to W
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by thrdbndndn 2y ago
Some (most?) of these aren't really AI-based at all. For example. traditional optical sorters typically rely on the reflectivity of materials at one or a few laser wavelengths directed onto the material. The mapping between sensor sign
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by thrdbndndn 2y ago
Great article! One detail caught my attention. In one of the referenced articles, https://simonwillison.net/2025/Feb/13/python-3140a5/ , the author wrote: "So 3.14.0a5 scored 1.12 times faster than 3
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by thrdbndndn 2y ago
He's saying you're posting the HN URL of this very discussion to.. this discussion.
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by thrdbndndn 2y ago
Uh, I think the article itself is fine. Not the most rigorous science, but not too bad for an amateur. But the comments on HN, on the other hand... Every single post about medicine or disease is full of anecdote upon anecdote and pseudoscie

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