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Re:Mozilla names new CEO as it pivots to data privacy on Thursday February 08, 2024 @11:24AM (#39303879)
It is literally difficult for me to understand the problem through your condescension
Re:Shopify live dashboard on Friday November 24, 2023 @10:36AM (#38404991)
Is BFCM a well known acronym? I get that it’s about Black Friday but can’t figure out the CM and don’t see it written out anywhere
Re:Weird Debugging Tricks the Browser Doesn't Want You to Know on Saturday November 11, 2023 @04:12PM (#38234589)
I switched to c# dev from web a couple years ago and am baffled there’s no built in way to see the network requests my app is making when debugging
Re:Show HN: Practice Job Interview with ChatGPT API on Friday March 03, 2023 @01:13AM (#35006398)
To be fair, “definitely” would not be a good answer to that question in a real interview :)
Re:Better to micromanage than be disengaged on Saturday February 18, 2023 @02:06PM (#34849962)
As a manager you’ll waste your reports time and have them take the blame for missing dates. Where do you work?
Re:John Carmack on lead time to push fixes in startups on Friday February 17, 2023 @03:37PM (#34840206)
My “we’re like a startup” experience was all the uncertainty of a startup along with all the bureaucracy of big tech which resulted in pivoting to a new 12 month roadmap every 6 months…
Re:Only You Can Stop an AI Apocalypse on Tuesday February 14, 2023 @01:07AM (#34786027)
These just sound like opportunities to learn. If you’re on average outperforming betting odds then of course use your system. For the chess and driving examples you can analyze those recommendations to figure out the rationale and incorporate a new strategy or a new route in your knowledge (or learning the system is unreliable and avoid it).
Re:Hacker News or Satire? on Tuesday September 06, 2022 @09:05PM (#32745199)
It’s headlines posted to HN that follow HN rules that the HN user thought would be of interest to the HN community.
No need to reverse engineer, Teams has a public API https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/api/resources/teams-a...
20-30 minute charge time really shouldn’t be held up as a positive for EVs, it’s still dramatically worse than a stop for gas.
What are you warning about?
Re:Shopify pulls Donald Trump stores off its platform on Thursday January 07, 2021 @04:15PM (#25677575)
I see this as criticism of Shopify making this decision for their stated reasons, not as advocating for forcing companies to do business with parties they don’t want to.
Re:Ask HN: What Lived Up to the Hype? on Thursday December 24, 2020 @07:01PM (#25532838)
Moonlight will do this except for 144hz, trick is to 'stream' your entire desktop[1], allowing you to access any game/launcher regardless if nvidia detects a game or not.

[1] https://github.com/moonlight-stream/moonlight-docs/wiki/Setu...

Re:Adobe has released the last Flash update ever on Thursday December 10, 2020 @04:07AM (#25371493)
Downsides to the tech don’t negate the millions of great experiences flash enabled
How can they allow game streaming apps like Steam Link but not xCloud/Stadia