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by twhb 6y ago
> Didn't get the building permit for your kids horse barn? Sue the planning commission members individually. Animal control writes you a citation for Puddles not being on a leash? Unleash the lawyers. Health department gave your win
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by twhb 6y ago
The error usually arises from Google misinterpreting and decontextualizing the page’s content, for example reading a table incorrectly then giving one stat as another stat. The page is correct, it’s Google that’s wrong.
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by twhb 6y ago
Does anybody know the voltage, size, and weight? Without those numbers, “1,000 mAh” is meaningless. A single AAA battery is rated the same, and if you managed to find an even smaller battery, you could “invent” a 1,000 mAh battery out of it
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by twhb 6y ago
HN discussion of that post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13394900 I guess I'm coming down hard on one side of a controversial question, but in my mind, if it allows the server to intercept messages without user
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by twhb 6y ago
Iran blocks every major foreign messaging app, except WhatsApp. Signal escaped it until now only because they had so few users. Also keep in mind that while WhatsApp claims to use the Signal protocol, they installed a backdoor that allows
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by twhb 6y ago
I believe it’s a cornerstone of rational thinking to be able to accept that I don’t know something. To, when confronted with something like this, think only “I don’t understand that”, not “I don’t understand that, therefore I’m going to ass
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by twhb 6y ago
Related question: why do most websites give you a light/dark/system toggle instead of always going with system? I’m having trouble thinking of any time I’d want the system dark but GitHub light, or vice versa. Is it just for syste
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by twhb 6y ago
Why are you assuming you need to charge a 2-day device every other day? You charge it every night, and in exchange you make it through heavy use days, late nights, and the times you forget to charge it. I had a 2-day phone and downgraded to
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by twhb 6y ago
Strongly reminiscent of the motion of the planets under a geocentric view of the universe. https://commons.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Cassini_apparent.j...
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by twhb 6y ago
One point, Google regularly makes false announcements about unpopular changes. When they changed search results to better hide which ones are ads they announced they’d backtrack on it, then didn’t. When they started hiding parts of the URL
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by twhb 6y ago
I think the parent analogy is better. The land outside Apple and Google isn’t illegal to build on, just less desirable.
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by twhb 6y ago
This debate showed up in the original HN discussion too, which also used the term. I think it’s more appropriate to draw the line at “as useful as a brick without taking actions not exposed as part of the normal user interface”. Drawing the
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by twhb 6y ago
Here’s an instance of SIP preventing a Chrome update from bricking computers. https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2019/09/no-it...
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by twhb 6y ago
What’s the better alternative? What solves “let non-tech people build and administer flexible, dynamic websites” better?
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by twhb 6y ago
1Password team, if you’re reading, my macOS app wishlist has been piling up pretty high. - Please rethink sections. Most items are better off without them, so they should be revealed only when requested, not cluttering every create and edit
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by twhb 6y ago
A man has a hotdog stand that he never cleans. One day, a health inspector comes by and tells him that unless he cleans his grill every day, he can’t keep selling hotdogs. The man shouts “I’ve never cleaned the grill in my life! It’s imposs
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by twhb 6y ago
You can make a bad native app, but you can’t make a good Electron app. Edit to add: Lots of people are mentioning Visual Studio Code. I agree it’s a good app in many dimensions; I didn’t mean to say that an Electron app can’t be good in som
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by twhb 6y ago
I tested whether running a script you just wrote really contacts Apple to “notarize” it. It does. I first used the author’s timing method. First runs are consistently about 300 ms, subsequent runs consistently about 3 ms. Something is happe
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by twhb 6y ago
By asking! Every company under the sun stopped asking for feedback, stopped doing user testing, deleted their emails, put scripts on the phones, and redirected “Contact Us” to “Help Articles”, and you blame the users for not getting in to
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by twhb 6y ago
Are you ok with using CSS variables? Without them or some preprocessor, a dark theme would mean a lot of repeated selectors. https://caniuse.com/#feat=css-variables
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by twhb 6y ago
I ran three trials of each on a min spec 2019 MacBook Pro 16". All numbers are ms rounded to the nearest integer, all browsers are latest stable. I also loaded the page with dev tools closed since that affected times. Browser: (trial 1
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by twhb 6y ago
To make this website readable in Chrome, load the page, type “javascript:” into the URL bar (it can’t be copy-pasted there), paste the following paragraph after that text, hit enter. document.body.style.cssText = 'max-width: 35em; marg
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by twhb 7y ago
Note that the 0% for Android is because Google banned ad blockers on the Play Store.
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by twhb 7y ago
There are Windows machines for high end and low end, but macOS machines only for high end. Low end includes all your grandmas, unused workstations, and people apathetic about computers because they don't use them much. All your laptops
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by twhb 7y ago
Oh I think you misinterpreted, I was talking about a 7% price increase every 1.5 years, not a 12,500% increase today. It goes without saying, but such wildly different ideas would also have wildly different effects. In fact, I'd go so
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by twhb 7y ago
Yeah, that's my point exactly. It's not much if you only pay it a few times, but just imagine if domains were a significant portion of everything you pay for.
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by twhb 7y ago
These comments are either irrational or full of domain squatters and registrars. This price increase costs a person who own a single domain $3.22 per year. That's conservatively adjusted for inflation, in 2020 dollars, and after 10 yea
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by twhb 7y ago
You think that’s bad, you should’ve seen the work I had to do to plug my Model 3 into my Model S.
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by twhb 7y ago
facebook.com/.well-known/delete would be a better endpoint. .well-known is already standardized, facebook.com/.well-known/change-password is already implemented, and you have proof you’re dealing with the right party.
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by twhb 7y ago
That's correct, thanks for adding it.

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