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931.
by xp84 6mo ago
Comments like this are the absolute best part of HN. Thank you for sharing this.
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by xp84 6mo ago
My main takeaway is you guys have a database (even if imperfect) for this. Here in the US we only have GasBuddy which is purely a crowdsourced best-effort thing. Problem is it’s tough to tell at a glance if a bunch of prices are equally old
933.
by xp84 6mo ago
I’m more annoyed that these government healthcare marketplaces are asking people their race in the first place. Really don’t think anything should be, including job applications.
934.
by xp84 6mo ago
Nah, it’s still stupid and pointless
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by xp84 6mo ago
It’s not fashionable anymore, but I feel that Phabricator deserves an honorable mention as a self-hostable GH alternative too. Actually its “dated” UI is kind of a plus considering how bad everything is now.
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by xp84 6mo ago
1. Telling that you think the only possible motivations are financial (getting paid, stockholder, or foolish expectations of a gift from Satya). 2. Maybe you know a bunch of people who work there, could be ex-colleagues etc. and you think o
937.
by xp84 6mo ago
What money do GH make off open source projects on the free tier? I haven’t seen ads, micropayments to clone repos, etc?
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by xp84 6mo ago
This is 100% what I was thinking of, I considered using that name in my comment actually!!
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by xp84 6mo ago
I mean, it could be both good and bad depending on the person. My Dad worked physically demanding jobs, and would have been happy to retire and spend his time working on personal projects at age 60, and his health and well-being would have
940.
by xp84 6mo ago
If I write a program of 1000 lines of code, with AI features turned off, then I turned the AI features on and use a completion to edit one function, can my program not be copyrighted? (I expect/hope you’ll say: “Of course it’s still e
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by xp84 6mo ago
It’s not whataboutism, I’m simply challenging the notion that AI caused this. UI has been in the toilet and worsening for 15 years. A combination of trend (minimalism cult masquerading as sophistication), pragmatic trimming down of things t
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by xp84 6mo ago
Oh 100% a joke, that you were trying to get their prompt so you could get also get the same thing they had vibe-coded
943.
by xp84 6mo ago
You’re for sure right about the name thing. It’s so hard to resist commenting on names for a lot of people, I think, due to the extreme asymmetry of novelty. When you meet someone named Michael Jackson, that’s such novel information to you:
944.
by xp84 6mo ago
> “Ignored people I knew from class instead of saying hi because I didn’t know for sure if they remembered me even though the class had only 10 people in it” This amuses me because it’s the exact reverse of my anxiety. I’m pretty bad at
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by xp84 6mo ago
I don’t understand how this could be measured fairly though. What kind of cycles? What temperatures was it exposed to? Charged fast or slow? This is an incomplete set of criteria, which seems designed specifically to be meaningless / g
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by xp84 6mo ago
We have similar phones. I’m now at 82% at 714 cycles. In real life, our devices wouldn’t qualify but I’m sure Apple will be allowed to write the testing methodology in a way that’ll be nice and gentle.
947.
by xp84 6mo ago
You can bet it will be measured in such a way that the major companies’ devices will qualify. And that it will have little bearing on the retained charge amount you’ll have in real life use. I’m at 82% and 714 cycles. But it’s a joke to sug
948.
by xp84 6mo ago
Serious question: how are you worse off with a cover that breaks your nails vs. the status quo: a cover that’s glued on and a battery that’s glued in? If they did bring that back, couldn’t you just not open the cover and be just as happy?
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by xp84 6mo ago
Bingo. Exactly. In every one of these oligopolies, the most customer-hostile behaviors spread quickly and completely, and any customer-friendly ideas anyone sneaks in fizzle out quickly. Great example: 15 years ago, assuming you were out of
950.
by xp84 6mo ago
If you have a substack, I would subscribe to it
951.
by xp84 6mo ago
> the tip of the proverbial ice-berg of Neanderthal impact on herbivore populations, especially on slowly-reproducing taxa, could have been substantial during the Last Interglacial.’ translation: the Neanderthals probably completely wipe
952.
by xp84 6mo ago
Nice try, Claude Code
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by xp84 6mo ago
Agree that acceptance is irrelevant. No one has a choice, because all the “competitors” in any given niche (phone, cloud platform, PC operating system) are executing the same play. Enshittify, extract profit from ~suckers~ customers, ignore
954.
by xp84 6mo ago
It wasn’t AI that brought us Apple’s gray on slightly-lighter-gray UI standards, nor the 10,000,000 ••• menus that have infested every webapp in the past 10 years as an alternative to thoughtful UI design. We humans made everything shitty b
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by xp84 6mo ago
As someone who dislikes predator havens that are combined with addictive dark patterns honed to maximize children begging parents for Robux (or just stealing parents’ credit cards to get it) I couldn’t be happier to see Roblox collapse. I’m
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by xp84 6mo ago
I mean they start school in August in many places now, instead of the traditional September, the Tuesday following Labor Day, a change which I think is dumb.
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by xp84 6mo ago
You’re not entirely off-base. But I think that people do get that Memorial Day, in addition to being the most popular day to BBQ, is about appreciating those who gave their lives in service of their country (i.e. they died for us). Valentin
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by xp84 6mo ago
It’s frustrating that this isn’t completely typical. As the writeup pointed out, this “exploit” can only be performed by the device owner anyway, so nobody is harmed by the unlockability. But 95% of devices that are sold, besides non-Mac P
959.
by xp84 6mo ago
The resale value of books isn’t that great for most individuals since you have to do at minimum the work of listing it on eBay, and maybe even listing it on Amazon who has much more hoops to jump through, and then pay for shipping and platf
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by xp84 6mo ago
Preface: I am personally NOT into anti-growth ideas, and I also think it’s super alarming that the West especially seems to be intent on wiping itself out by lack of having kids. But that said, supposing we are looking at 60 years from now

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