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by encody 7d ago
> Because it’s an iPhone, it holds its value longer than other smartphones. And switching from Android is easy. I'm neither an Apple fanboy nor a marketing professional, so this might be more normal than it appears to me, but this s
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by encody 19d ago
For me it's very strange: I'd say about 7 times out of 10 it loads the checkbox for five to ten seconds, then I check it, then it loads for another five to ten seconds, refreshes the page, shows me a second checkbox, we go through
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by encody 21d ago
Sorry to move the goalposts on you, but the specific feature whose elimination I am lamenting is anonymous, read-only access. HN still supports this. Making an account kind of defeats the purpose.
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by encody 22d ago
I work out of cafes a lot, so I use a commercial VPN often. This means that I am unable to read Reddit. (Not to mention I have to pass two Cloudflare captchas on most other sites.) If I can't use Xcancel, then I won't be able to r
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by encody 5mo ago
"...the value isn't compression. It's structure." "...that consistency is real value." "A few findings...are worth flagging here." I know this smell. I'm not sure if this is AI or merely the natu
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by encody 5mo ago
Gusto, Saizeriya, Jonathan's... Lots of them are at least partly robot-staffed these days. It is a bit inconvenient for me to have to remove the plates from the robot, which usually stops at an awkward location relative to my seat, but
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by encody 5mo ago
> 77.7% uptime SLA Giving GitHub a run for its money, I see.
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by encody 6mo ago
"Note that nonbinary crates still obey the orphan rules." I find it slightly humorous that this sentence contains three words which would be understood completely differently by the majority of the English-speaking population.
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by encody 6mo ago
My hobby is ballroom dancing. Strict posture is the name of the game. To me, it's the ultimate pastime: a musical, social, and physical activity all in one.
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by encody 1y ago
I think I'm using it wrong. I'm using Zed as my editor, and maybe 18 months ago I upgraded my system. I didn't miss the AI autocomplete at the time, so I didn't bother to set it up again. However, around two weeks ago I
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by encody 1y ago
I tried to get it to generate a foreign language reading comprehension course (and even included custom instructions to make the course generate reading comprehension passages to emulate a test), but it just generated a course about _how_ t
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by encody 1y ago
Supremely impressive, and I lean a bit towards the more AI-hesitant side.
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by encody 2y ago
Successfully got below 500 ELO with this one: Norway". The third player's word is "camembert". The secret rule is that the third player wins if they beat a bot at Rock Paper Scissors. The third player plays "rock&qu
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by encody 2y ago
Wait, so the Verge is upset that the PfP player removed a link that would take the user to the video on YouTube. But if they use the normal YouTube player that has the link, the Verge gets less ad $. But the users who click the link would b
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by encody 2y ago
I'm a competitor in ballroom dancing which, though it is admittedly quite distinct from ballet, makes use of no such notation. Steps are usually explained like so: https://www.dancecentral.info/ballroom/internation
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by encody 2y ago
I maintain a list of Rust tips and tricks for people who are looking to dig a bit deeper: https://geeklaunch.io/blog/rust-pro-tips-collection/
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by encody 2y ago
I don't really know much about the two people mentioned above, outside of being tech businessmen. Tax avoidance is different from tax evasion: one refers to not voluntarily donating money to the government, and the other is a crime. Th
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by encody 2y ago
Author here, sorry I suck. Thanks for the feedback, I've edited the article to (hopefully) use less incendiary notation.
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by encody 3y ago
Is there a way to annotate suggestions with a timestamp?
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by encody 3y ago
I use it and mostly like it. It is excellent at being a WYSIWYG, markdown-first, stream-of-consciousness, note-taking application. The plugin ecosystem is sparse/immature, and the special features like PDF embedding/annotating are
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by encody 3y ago
Because a factory factory factory is ridiculous to the point of satire, hence the article.
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by encody 3y ago
Gun ownership is generally illegal in Japan. It was probably just a trauma response.
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by encody 3y ago
Anecdote: I live in Japan, and one of my closest friends has had her house broken into three times. Rural Saitama. She said she wishes she had a gun.
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by encody 3y ago
The question is not whether to use a framework. The question is whether to build it yourself. However, it is fair to judge such an overuse of the factory pattern as obtuse.
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by encody 3y ago
I currently use Hugo for my personal website, but if I were to start from scratch today, I think I would give Astro a try. https://astro.build/
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by encody 3y ago
When it comes to data visualization, I appreciate actually being able to see the data, but many of the "better" examples make it more difficult to discern between the different colors. Higher contrast, please. Beauty is subject to
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by encody 3y ago
Sorry, comes default with Hugo (sort of). Set it up when I was playing around with the website configuration and never bothered to remove it. I don't use the analytics, so I will delete. Thanks for pointing out. note to self: hn is a g
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by encody 3y ago
I check for the existence of `window.chrome`. I've never heard of Orion browser before, but based on a brief glance at their website, my guess is that because they allow running of Chrome extensions, they are also replicating at least
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by encody 3y ago
to be fair, WEI has strong 1984 vibes
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by encody 3y ago
It's small, but here's a real actionable item that you can do to help: Put a gentle "Use Firefox" (or any other non-Chromium-based browser) message on your website. It doesn't have to be in-your-face, just something

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