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by yen223 2y ago
The cost of using Windows over Linux per device is significantly less than one month's salary for an engineer. Even if you are cost sensitive, the OS is not at the top of expenses you need to worry about.
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Lots of people talking, but no one's having a good time. That's a strong sign of a flame war happening.
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The sun will disappear on August 12, 2026 over Western Europe, unless the locals agree to give me treasure
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The marketing and messaging for getting people to stop smoking is simple. "Stop smoking". You don't need to get nuanced, which is good because nuance kills marketing effectiveness. The marketing and messaging for getting peop
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I mean, no country had the guts to completely ban smoking...
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> Overweight, including obesity, overtook tobacco use as the leading risk factor in 2024, driven by a substantial fall (41%) in the burden attributable to tobacco use since 2003. According to the study, it's not so much that more pe
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User-preference cookies (e.g. light mode vs dark mode) are not "strictly necessary", and therefore probably still require consent under GDPR
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AirPower, Apple's failed attempt at making a wireless charging mat https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AirPower_(Apple)
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I host my blog on my own website on DigitalOcean fronted by Cloudflare, and it's been fine. LLMs make it easier than ever to self-host a blog, because I can outsource all the annoying boilerplate to them. Cloudflare allegedly has a fea
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Google DNS went down for a bit
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Java applets were a thing. Emphasis on "were" They were security nightmares.
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Even if you could pretend that everything is ASCII, text editing is still a very complex subject once you get into the weeds. You could probably write a book just on handling text overflow
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A 4-year lifespan for a marketing website doesn't seem so bad
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Yeah that migration came out from the left field. As someone who likes Remix, I would also be interested in learning why OpenAI made that switch
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When was the last time datocms changed?
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A few interesting Postgres features(weiyen.net)
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I had a bunch of Puppeteer scripts to pull my financial info into a spreadsheet. Figuring out how to enter my pin automatically in my banking website was a surprisingly fun challenge: https://www.ing.com.au/securebanking&#x2
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A few interesting Postgres features(weiyen.net)
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It would be nice if there was a psql option that would warn you if you're about to do any kind of update, delete or insert without doing a BEGIN; (You could always set autocommit=false, which forces you to explicitly commit or rollback
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A big asterisk that should be added to the article is that all that applies to Postgres. Other databases have their own deletion mechanisms (and deletion quirks) It's a very good article otherwise.
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Bluesky has an order of magnitude fewer users than X, at least on paper.
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A user clicking on a link takes the user away from the platform. If your goal is to maximise time spent on your platform, you'd be incentivised to suppress links as much as you can. That appears to be what's happening on X.
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There's nothing preventing Bluesky, or someone else, from building an "algorithmic" feed on top of the AT protocol. That's what the Discover feed is, for all intents and purposes. What is harder is Bluesky forcing user
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The app store currently does not support the Jetbrains subscription model, which is mildly annoying
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Yeah, it is very unfortunate that languages that have sum types each call them slightly different things: - sealed classes/interfaces - discriminated unions - enums - case classes It would be nice if we could agree on a single term to
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Tell HN: Good luck to those on call for Black Friday/Cyber Monday
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Wait til you learn about "brownfield" projects, which apparently is also a thing! (It's the opposite of greenfield)
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At my last company I helped build the experimentations platform that processes millions of requests per day. I have some thoughts: - The most useful resource we've found was from Spotify, of all places: https://engineering.
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But this gives us an excuse to moan about cookie banners, so up to the front page it goes
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Is this something that people are clamouring for? How many of y'all would be using this?

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