Pikamander2

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by Pikamander2 13d ago
That's how cutting edge tech has always worked. Imagine buying a shiny new PC in the 90s only to see it become practically obsolete within a year.
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Namecheap.com undergoing emergency maintenance due to a power outage in Phoenix(namecheap.com)
15 points by Pikamander2 1mo ago|1 comments
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by Pikamander2 1mo ago
Nearly every Namecheap site on the web is down right now, even ones that aren't hosted in Phoenix.
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by Pikamander2 2mo ago
Yeah, the way that this case is being reported on is really irritating. While he technically did use a special GrapheneOS feature to wipe his phone, the criminal charges would have been the same if he had used the default "reset phone&
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by Pikamander2 2mo ago
Similarly, "Orlando" returns a bunch of results but "Orlando FL" returns none. It would also be nice if it suggested results before you finished typing. For example, if I've typed out "orl", then Orlando s
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by Pikamander2 2mo ago
Feature suggestion: A filter to search for castles of a specific size (e.g. over 20 acres)
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by Pikamander2 3mo ago
The average age of Congressmen has increased, but much of that can be attributed to modern medicine and gerrymandering and the incumbent effect letting existing Congressmen stay in office for longer periods of time. As far as the presidency
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by Pikamander2 3mo ago
Synonym functionality is good as long as there's an easy way to disable it, either globally or by wrapping the term in quotes.
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by Pikamander2 3mo ago
One of HN's quirks, for better or worse, is that the lack of ability to downvote submissions encourages "controversial" content to rise to the top. On Reddit, if 500 people like a submission and 500 people dislike it, then it
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by Pikamander2 4mo ago
California has a similar issue where all beaches are legally supposed to be public, but owners of beachfront properties often have different ideas... https://nypost.com/2024/02/29/business/california-hoa-
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by Pikamander2 4mo ago
In my experience, liberal use of CDATA is often the only way to get third-party data-importing software to work correctly. Whether it's efficient is a far second to whether it successfully imports the data. Looking at you, WP All Impor
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by Pikamander2 4mo ago
I haven't tried using it with my phone, but this Arteck one has served me well on my desktop PC. https://www.amazon.com/dp/B09WDJNBT1
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by Pikamander2 4mo ago
Huh, the more you know. I've seen Richard Garfield's name mentioned a bunch over the years, but somehow I've never seen this fact brought up before. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Garfield
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by Pikamander2 4mo ago
> What is fun? > Here is a list of things that make a game of Magic The Gathering fun to us. > No Discard. It sucks to have no spells to play. > No Land destruction. It sucks to be unable to cast spells. I've always enjoyed
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by Pikamander2 4mo ago
But ChatGPT has been popular since early 2023, and even before it there was no shortage of low-quality content on the web. If anything, this model being trained up to 2025 is a positive sign that the "circular LLM training" proble
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by Pikamander2 4mo ago
While we're mildly on the topic, one of my favorite old Flash games was the Nick.com trading card game. It wasn't really a game in the TCG sense, but more of a collecting/bartering game similar to the Grand Exchange in Runesc
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by Pikamander2 5mo ago
Can confirm. The main reason why I don't sell stuff on eBay more is because of the high shipping costs and frequent scams. Facebook Markerplace has issues of its own, but if you agree to meet up at a safe public location to buy/se
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by Pikamander2 5mo ago
Personally I just increase the specificity as needed. .thing .thing-container .thing html body .thing-container .thing.thing.thing.thing
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by Pikamander2 5mo ago
The best analogy that I can think of is cruise control on a car. Do you need it? No. Is it nice to have? Yes. The strict "no tech" premise of these tractors feels comparable to someone disabling the cruise control feature on their
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by Pikamander2 5mo ago
The premium plugins are arguably even worse. Unlike the free plugins, they're not reviewed by the WordPress.org team, and if you stop paying for them then you'll lose access to their future plugin updates, including critical secur
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by Pikamander2 5mo ago
Gmail's spam detection has some real headscratcher moments every now and then. Some days it'll mark legitimate transaction emails from major companies as spam even if you've been receiving emails from them for years. And then
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by Pikamander2 5mo ago
The real embarrassment is how little effort there's been to limit/reform the pardon system since then. Pardons have valid uses, but it's wild that a single person can unilaterally pardon donators, family members, former presi
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by Pikamander2 5mo ago
Fast Food Tycoon 2 (AKA Pizza Connection 2) was absolutely amazing. I spent so many hours customizing my pizzas and filling up the competing pizzerias with cockroaches and woodworms (and occasionally kidnapping their employees). The English
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by Pikamander2 6mo ago
Oh no, here we go again https://youtube.com/watch?v=MShv_74FNWU
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by Pikamander2 7mo ago
If you want your brand new phone to be filled with adware apps and obnoxious default settings, sure.
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by Pikamander2 7mo ago
1994: Where do you want to go today? 2014: Where do we want to go today? 2024: Here's where we're going today.
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by Pikamander2 7mo ago
Selective reasoning is a hell of a drug.
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by Pikamander2 7mo ago
> 40 State Attorneys General Want To Tie Online Access to ID Here's the actual title of the article, which is much more concerning than the HN title.
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by Pikamander2 8mo ago
> 4,613 points > 96% upvoted > Removed by a single moderator for subjective reasons while the sub's front page is full of crap Ah, the quintessential Reddit experience.
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by Pikamander2 8mo ago
It seems to work fine on a scaled down desktop browser though, and the existing game UI should be suitable enough to fit on a standard phone screen, even if the text is a bit hard to read. I think OP just made a small mistake with some of t

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