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Re:Why good content gets posted on the wrong platform? on Monday January 29, 2024 @10:02PM (#39185927)
Unfortunately, the Twitter algorithm heavily penalizes the visibility of posts containing a URL.
Re:Reddit: Killing a Giant on Saturday June 17, 2023 @01:10AM (#36367496)
The Lounge works pretty well in iOS Safari.
Re:Grid World by Alexander Miller on Thursday April 06, 2023 @04:21AM (#35465724)
Turn off Dark Reader; make sure WebGL is working (chrome://gpu/)
Re:How Duolingo reignited user growth on Monday March 06, 2023 @11:34AM (#35043013)
https://cijapanese.com/ Comprehensible Japanese
Re:Ask HN: Why is it so difficult to find quality Windows apps? on Tuesday February 07, 2023 @11:15AM (#34694639)
Emacs + org-mode + agenda view
Some vendors who sell expensive software arrive (perhaps unintentionally) at this solution: produce software with enough defects or missing features that it cannot be used without regular contact with support. An adjacent idea is to produce software with a large number of plugins that are separately purchased. That multiplies the effort needed to crack and distribute everything.
Re:Easy, alternative soft deletion: `deleted_record_insert` on Sunday January 01, 2023 @02:57AM (#34204537)
https://github.com/xocolatl/periods periods does this for PostgreSQL.
Gboard often does a much better job with autocorrect.
Re:Kanye West is buying Parler on Monday October 17, 2022 @06:46PM (#33240498)
http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache%3Ahttps... is somehow still working for me, but it may be region-specific
> XFS is a high-performance 64-bit journaling file system

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XFS

(and I don't use XFS any more.)

I've had memory errors make many directory entries disappear in one directory on XFS, noticed only months later. When you write out bad data and the computer says everything is fine, you won't necessarily be able to get your data back.
Re:The next generation of Materialize on Tuesday October 04, 2022 @02:41PM (#33084813)
You might be interested in https://github.com/sraoss/pg_ivm
Re:Fake Men on Hinge on Monday October 03, 2022 @12:15PM (#33069569)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n-EtdC4zQso ‘Forced to Scam: Cambodia’s Cyber Slaves’
Re:Software I’m thankful for (2021) on Friday September 23, 2022 @03:37PM (#32956160)
You can have the best of both worlds with `Visual Studio Code Remote - SSH` and a lot of mintty -> ssh user@host (to a VM, if needed).
Re:Ask HN: How to reset your online bubble of 'interests'? on Thursday September 15, 2022 @05:04AM (#32849117)
For Twitter: switch to 'Latest Tweets' or use the search "filter:follows include:nativeretweets"; unfollow everyone or make a new account, use Twitter search a lot to search for things you're interested in (I like to query for phrases that only domain experts would know about), follow intelligent-seeming people and check their following list; quickly unfollow or mute anyone who is bad at tweeting.
Re:Want quick answers? Ask questions well on Wednesday August 31, 2022 @06:38PM (#32669247)
Reducing the information content of a message, effectively concealing the information that you already plan to send after “Hi”, isn’t being polite to people with this personality, it’s frustrating.

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