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Re:Show HN: GPT-4-powered web searches for developers on Wednesday April 12, 2023 @03:17PM (#35545215)
very constructive
If only the electorate knew that
Re:Show HN: DeskGap – Like Electron, but uses the system webview on Wednesday February 13, 2019 @11:04AM (#19154026)
random and probably irrelevant spotify tip:

I absolutely hated how slow and buggy the app was, until I realised it was down to it attempting to index music locally all the time

my app speed increased massively by going to settings > local files, and turning off all of the options of where to show songs from

Can you explain how Google pulling YouTube from the Firestick was good for consumers?
Re:Earthsea – A Rival to Tolkien and George RR Martin (2015) on Wednesday January 24, 2018 @09:36AM (#16222963)
Yes!

I recently picked up the Way of Kings but found the way he described the action/fantastical elements really jarring. It was like he felt he needed to spell it out rather than let the reader discover it organically. I've been told I need to struggle through though as it's supposedly a great story.

God forbid someone tells a joke.
Re:Dear MongoDB users, we welcome you in Azure DocumentDB on Friday February 17, 2017 @06:17AM (#13667446)
What a sweeping generalisation to make.
Re:Flex your computing power! on Thursday August 04, 2016 @06:40AM (#12224645)
Or if you're a university student living in halls!
Yes, but 10% of 100% is a lot more than 10% of 24%.
"Just as easily" is not the same as "surreptitiously".
Re:A gun is now more likely to kill you than a car is in the U.S on Thursday January 08, 2015 @12:01PM (#8857301)
Good, finally people can stop trotting out the inane adage "if you ban guns you have to ban cars" whenever the gun control debate comes up.