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by jpl56 13d ago
Came to the comments for this
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by jpl56 21d ago
Removing thumbnails from Youtube looks very boring. Do you open Youtube on your subscribed channels page ? That way, you can trust your favorite Youtubers' thumbnails. And there's so much crap, shorts and minigames in the general
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by jpl56 28d ago
- Where do these vegetables come from ? - click...click...click... - Tchernobyl. Thank you.
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by jpl56 2mo ago
As a French reader, I read this as "ApéroCraft" ("apéro" means "Pre-dinner drink" here)
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by jpl56 2mo ago
It's a good thing to optimize workflows and sometimes it can help others. I miss the Firefox extension someone wrote a while ago (like ~2012), it was called HnMarkAllRead 1) it marked as read all topics on a page by clicking a button,
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by jpl56 2mo ago
Ghost cut looks like a good idea to deal with an issue OP has : - I located where I want my text to go - but when I select and cut, it reflows and I need to locate the place again Considering the millions of edge cases with Copy, Cut &
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by jpl56 2mo ago
The clipboard is very weak in Excel. If I copy something, update a cell somewhere and then paste elsewhere, the clipboard vanishes and I need to copy all over again.
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by jpl56 2mo ago
Paris (my city): you already noticed than bus and metros have different prices. You can transfer from metro to metro or metro to trains, it doesn't charge another trip if you have to pass barriers, unless there's a system failure
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by jpl56 5mo ago
Lovely! (I saw a few examples in "tests") Next step : insert the Applesoft Basic assembly code and allow programming in Basic through SQL
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by jpl56 6mo ago
We got an article today : "Apple App Store Is Flooded with AI Slop and Legitimate Developers Are Paying" (forbes) (557,000 new apps to Apple’s App Store; a 24% jump from 2024). Who is right?
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by jpl56 7mo ago
Do you win more if you bet for the train you're on
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by jpl56 7mo ago
Ad blockers will evolve, they will read LLM output and filter out ads and the reasoning leading to ads, unless the user's question was about asking for the best product to do something.
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by jpl56 8mo ago
Everytime I see such TVs, theres a "No signal" popup on it. Why?!
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by jpl56 11mo ago
First time I managed to one-life it after paying for 10 lives, I was happy and pissed at the same time!
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by jpl56 1y ago
looks cool! I often lookup something on the PC and then want to send part of the result to friends... saves shortcut
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by jpl56 1y ago
1 : open the Facebook app. Nope... I'm using a link to my Facebook homepage saved on the home screen.
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by jpl56 1y ago
(looking at the "RX-80" box sitting next to my desk that contains student memories) This is a cool website, thanks for making this!
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by jpl56 1y ago
Ideascope: An AI-powered platform that generates personalized, innovative startup ideas by analyzing real-time trends and data from Hacker News and other tech communities Yep, I think this may be possible :p
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by jpl56 1y ago
I have a mouse shortcut that answers "Hi" so that I dont need to reach to my keyboard to answer. But if they keep on with "How are you?", they can go to hell, I'm not answering.
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by jpl56 1y ago
New fear unlocked : account frozen due to sudden peak of activity (which happens logically if you _use_ it). Cloud as backup #2, a hard drive as backup #1 and another hard drive in another location as backup #3
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by jpl56 2y ago
Looking forward to the Louis Rossmann video. It may be as long as the fishy one, there is so much to tell about how we're getting effed...
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by jpl56 2y ago
Bought a Technics M12 at a garage sale. When I plugged it in, it had an horrible hiss when playing, even with no tape in it. Solution was simple : put a blank tape then record, play, record, play short chunks of tape in order to clean the r
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by jpl56 2y ago
Yep... https://xkcd.com/2169/
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by jpl56 2y ago
Is it only for public posts, or also private ones ? I wouldn't post private information in a public area, but I happen to exchange adresses or account numbers in private messages, as I would do in emails. Not on X since I'm not on
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by jpl56 2y ago
Yes I noticed. Thanks for the link, there's a great post from eitland (first answer : reporting a bug to get unassigned from A/B testing experiments), I will try today.
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by jpl56 2y ago
Good bye Ublock Origin... oh wait, pardon the typo. Good bye, Chrome.
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by jpl56 2y ago
Chrome? I switched to Firefox a few years ago, when Chrome would only play Youtube with 480p resolution. Too bad, the Youtube/tv interface was slick.
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by jpl56 2y ago
HN and Toot look robust, considering all the comments with separator examples. Perhaps some comments were detected and rejected.
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by jpl56 2y ago
The algorithm wouldn't push any blocks, but just walk along the way to your destination, way faster than doing it by hand
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by jpl56 2y ago
I was writing about subs to channels. I'm from France btw, but I made the math with dollars. Actually it's the exact same figure in Euros, yet $1 = 0,9€

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