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by powersnail 4mo ago
Interesting, I have the exact opposite experience with flipping vs linking when it comes to books like _Pale Fire_. It's a lot more difficult for me to read the end notes on kindle, especially when it cross references more than one oth
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by powersnail 5mo ago
Maybe the developer was using Headspace as part of the test data and it bled into production? It's hard to imagine what Headspace would like to achieve if this were an exploit executed by them. It's so salient, that it makes no se
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by powersnail 7mo ago
Whenever split keyboards come up, ulnar deviation is mentioned, and non-split keyboard users are depicted to be using the keyboard like this (image from the post): https://www.justinmklam.com/posts/2026/02/beg
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by powersnail 9mo ago
I was just on a short trip to Japan, and I find the replica food very intriguing. Take the experience with a large grain of salt of course, since it's just a few days worth of sightseeing. What's particularly interesting, is that
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by powersnail 9mo ago
Just curious, what algorithm is good for laying out images of arbitrary orientations, sizes, and aspect ratios? That seems like a pretty difficult problem. Some sort of variation of knapsack problem maybe?
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by powersnail 10mo ago
I could see a case where the core logic needs to be performant, but the UI does not. The front end could be some menus, displaying (not a giant amount of) data, and a progress bar, while the back end does heavy computing. And furthermore, i
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by powersnail 10mo ago
> in traditional rich desktop applications, I can't say I have ever missed the ability to select and copy text from the UI chrome I forgot what desktop application it was, but there was a time that I repeatedly needed to copy texts
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by powersnail 1y ago
I sincerely hope that apple will consider making a phone with a worse camera that is flatter. As someone who rarely takes photos, and never photos of importance, the bump is just a dead weight to me. My dream phone has a body like iPhone 12
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by powersnail 1y ago
That's a very surprising angle of questioning. Are you writing some sort of compile-time-only programs?
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by powersnail 1y ago
Talking on the phone is the most painful form of conversation for me. The sound quality is often awful, due to the ambient noises picked up by phone, which occurs particularly often for busy restaurants. You don't know if the other sid
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by powersnail 1y ago
To clarify: in that anecdote, I'm talking about washing hair in shower, with hot water, with no shampoo.
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by powersnail 1y ago
> No; you would need to touch people hair after a shampoo shower and after a non shampoo shower to see the difference. Yes, that's exactly what I mean. My girl friend has long hair, and doesn't wash with shampoo every day (whic
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by powersnail 1y ago
> shampoo did nothing to your hair I don't know the scope of "nothing" in your statement, but shampoo does help remove dirt and oil, in a way that washing with water only cannot achieve, which is the number one goal of usi
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by powersnail 1y ago
I can think of so many pieces of software that does that: having a local state, having a remote state, and keeping them synchronized whenever internet is available. It's how email apps work. That's how all cloud drives work, and D
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by powersnail 1y ago
I want to know whether this actually deters thieves. Anecdotally, from what I heard, it seems that phone stealing is very much still a thing in areas with active pickpocketing.
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by powersnail 1y ago
That matches my experience as well. Google something, find the documentation, go to the documentation, and "We have moved our documentation to a brand new experience", and the link is to the home page of their new website, so you
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by powersnail 2y ago
> It's scorched earth and is not limited to new buyers. This whole thing is about destroying already bought vehicles to intimidate potential new buyers, and thus lowering future sales. Not that I support the vandalism, but I think t
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by powersnail 2y ago
It seems like what is happening is not Firefox now making a pivot to the privacy unfriendly side, but Firefox has already been selling data, but in a manner that---for whatever strange reason---they didn't consider to qualify as "
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by powersnail 2y ago
I also don't experience any noticeable torsion at the elbow. Putting my hands in front of my chest is a perfectly relaxed posture for me. Typing is not that different from writing in terms of where my arms and hands are (other than the
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by powersnail 2y ago
Ergonomics is really personal. I’ve tried a few ergonomic chairs, and they are all too big for my body. At the end of the day, the trusty old ikea wooden chair works the best for me, despite the lack of any adjustability, because it is the
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by powersnail 2y ago
The "attach the entire file" part is very critical. I've had the experience of seeing some junior dev posting error messages into ChatGPT, applying the suggestions of ChatGPT, and posting the next error message into ChatGPT a
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by powersnail 2y ago
Different industries have different standard procedures. A huge portion of the world's internet relies on FOSS software, and none of those are insured. Community reputation is the current _de facto_ standard for consumer-facing softwar
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Ask HN: How are analytics API on public web pages secured?
3 points by powersnail 2y ago|3 comments
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by powersnail 2y ago
The worst offender I've seen in this regard was some GUI program on Windows, and it had this checkbox in its installation process with some wording like this: "Please do not uncheck if you do not wish to not install XXX (bundled b
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by powersnail 2y ago
I actually tried a it a lot when I was young, and it never worked even on a downward slope. Maybe I was too weak back then, but again, the point is that a full bicycle doesn't have the same behavior as a standalone wheel, which is very
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by powersnail 2y ago
A bicycle is not the same as a bicycle wheel though. I can't just roll down a bike down the street (at least not as easily as a single wheel); it almost always immediately falls over.
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by powersnail 2y ago
If the junk doesn't work right from the beginning, yes. The problem is that sometimes the junk might look like it works at first, and then later you find out that it doesn't, and you ended up having to make urgent fixes on a Frida
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by powersnail 2y ago
If I sit in front of a computer all the time I'm awake, I still wouldn't be able to be producing as much content as Simon Willison. My productivity would start to decline after 5~6 hours, and probably diminish after 8~9 hours. The
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by powersnail 2y ago
> Every time ChatGPT gives you a sketch recommendation, ask for downsides. It's sort of the right lesson (double-check) but also not (you are checking the same stochastic source). This is like asking an assistant to find out what AW
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by powersnail 2y ago
On work days, my routine is to get my coffee before anything else as much as possible, because I'm not good at falling asleep on time and often wake up groggy. I grind coffee and prepare the kettle the night before, so I have minimal w

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