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I like this a lot.

I assume you are using machine translation on the backend?

Re:Energy Efficiency across Programming Languages [pdf] on Wednesday September 30, 2020 @04:09PM (#24643209)
I wouldn't consider compile time to be a useful metric here, as you will generally compile once (for the final release candidate(s)) and execute many times.
Re:The Russian vaccine for Covid-19 on Friday September 18, 2020 @05:27AM (#24514703)
For those who didn't read the article yet, the vaccine is called 'Sputnik V'.
Re:Tell HN: Never search for domains on Godaddy.com on Thursday September 17, 2020 @07:34PM (#24511240)
I have used namecheap as my first and only registrar since I made my first website in 2013. Those free .me domains in the GitHub student pack paid off for you guys in my case.

Always had great service, including quick resolution when I tried to register .id shortly after they allowed international registration (and encountered a few speedbumps).

Thanks for the good work!

Re:Signs of Life discovered on Venus and atmosphere on Sunday September 13, 2020 @06:36PM (#24464516)
Agreed.

I think an unknown route to phosphine generation seems simpler and more likely than a biological explanation. YMMV.

Occam's razor would therefore imply that this is not life.

Re:Signs of Life discovered on Venus and atmosphere on Sunday September 13, 2020 @06:21PM (#24464411)
That's still a confirmation of the Great Filter; just that life on Earth has already passed through it.
Re:What if carbon removal becomes the new Big Oil? on Sunday July 26, 2020 @08:14AM (#23956520)
Gasoline is now 40 dollars a barrel.
Re:Show HN: Fallout Terminal Themed Blog on Thursday July 23, 2020 @11:05AM (#23928081)
Both of these projects are pure HTML, CSS, and JS without any frameworks or external code. :)
Re:Show HN: Fallout Terminal Themed Blog on Wednesday July 22, 2020 @07:06PM (#23922531)
This is cool!

I created another page that is more UNIX terminal-like over at https://jetholt.com/terminal/ that you might like too. It's a lot more like the framework that you created.

There's a preponderance of Tech people who create terminal-like projects, so I think that we replicate it purely because we see it so much every day, and to relive the feelings that we had when we first started seeing the power and beauty in these things.

Maybe, but the question is: who are they going to share it to?
From my personal experience, people are more likely to read and share threads for a number of reasons:

* They don't have to go off platform.

* the base tweet can be much more eye catching that a link, even with social cards set up

* People may be desensitised to links that lead off-platform, because that's how Ads generally appear on Twitter

Then there are other advantages, like the fact that it tends to encourage you to write in a concise and direct way, with each tweet in the thread being like a bullet point. I often see people retweeting and engaging with a specific tweet from the thread; it's harder (relative term) to do that with a section from a blog post.

Presumably because with the current Pandemic, a lot of people don't know when they will travel next, so can't really pick a date to book.

The intent here seems to be to ensure that your favourite family-owned chalet can weather the pandemic without you necessariliy going there any time soon.

Re:Huawei 5G kit must be removed from UK by 2027 on Tuesday July 14, 2020 @08:32AM (#23831069)
Discussion already in progress at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23830867
Why is the date set to 2077 in your video? Fallout fan?
I don't think it's an original idea. I use Screely [1] for these purposes.

The Web Archive seems to imply that BrowserFrame is about a year older than Screely, though.

[1] https://www.screely.com/

Re:Beware the Google Password Manager on Friday July 03, 2020 @08:44PM (#23729006)
A very interesting article, and it highlights an attack vector that I wasn't aware of. So, thanks for publishing!

One thing the article lacks - it talks about (and even recommends) being able to pick a different passphrase, but offers no guidance for how someone might go about doing that.

I looked, but couldn't see anything. Not in Chrome, not in passwords.google.com, not in Android.

Re:The next Olympics should include Fortnite on Friday July 03, 2020 @04:14PM (#23727098)
Have you tried Gamequitters [1] for helping you with your addiction?

I met the guy who runs that site a few years ago, and he's been able to help a lot of people with that. He was an ex-gaming addict himself and seemed really passionate about the subject.

[1] https://gamequitters.com/

Re:Show HN: The Book of Minecraft Modding on Friday July 03, 2020 @11:00AM (#23724585)
Seconded. I felt baited when I clicked the link; I am in no way interested in Minecraft.
Would be nice to be able to loop some of these, because the full effect can be hard to see in just one go-round.

Like this one: https://framd.cc/watch?v=5efe03cdafd1f90008369688

Re:The Whimsical Website Club on Wednesday July 01, 2020 @06:56PM (#23707817)
You just reminded me of https://poolside.fm/
Re:The Whimsical Website Club on Wednesday July 01, 2020 @04:07PM (#23705913)
Whilst the work you're doing is commendable, it feels like the complete opposite of the whimsical website.

The whimsical website club aims to "showcase how a more personal web could look", and highlights the weird, unique, and non-traditional things about these creative's websites. The whole idea is about moving away from corporate boringness.

Waveguide, meanwhile, seems to be covering very 'corporate' UX patterns that could (and should?) be used in the business world.

Those things seem completely different and at odds with each other, so I'm not really sure why you think waveguide is related (other than wanting to self-promote for it's own sake?).

Re:The Whimsical Website Club on Wednesday July 01, 2020 @03:26PM (#23705422)
Max's previous post [1] touches on the some of the ideas from the early 90s internet that we're starting to see return today.

I'm personally most excited to to watch the return and rise of niche self-run communities that were greatly supressed during the early days of social media.

[1] https://mxb.dev/blog/the-return-of-the-90s-web/

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