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Re:Aldous Huxley Predicts Adderall on Tuesday November 18, 2025 @07:24AM (#45964645)
Rejection sensitivity may be the reason I detest to-do lists. The lists inevitably languish and slowly turn into a perpetual reminder of who I haven't become, i.e. a rejection from past-me.
Very pertinent, good eye.

If they are suitably random then this scheme seems to check out, but you're going to need some barbed wire and some inspiration from these https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long-term_nuclear_waste_warnin... on anything that can generate v7 IDs.

Apparently ad blockers can interfere with key view metrics.

Unclear what premium uses to disburse the 55% share that goes to creators; hopefully it's not those ones.

Re:Wanted to spy on my dog, ended up spying on TP-Link on Monday September 15, 2025 @05:37PM (#45255229)
They usually don't let you deposit checks via web app.
Re:Recreating the US/* time zone situation on Sunday September 14, 2025 @07:47PM (#45244514)
Are you saying they should always be present? Or only when the condition takes multiple lines; i.e. do you take issue with the ifs in zone_name_pref too?

Personally I think the indentation does a good enough job here.

Re:Recreating the US/* time zone situation on Sunday September 14, 2025 @06:28PM (#45243917)
What issue are you taking with the code? Line breaks in the condition?

Presumably the last if statement in the diff.

Re:Show HN: Hacker News em dash user leaderboard pre-ChatGPT on Saturday August 30, 2025 @01:50AM (#45072185)
Right, you sniped my edit. I don't know why I gave up my hn delay setting...
Re:Show HN: Hacker News em dash user leaderboard pre-ChatGPT on Saturday August 30, 2025 @01:30AM (#45072109)
Easy is almost an understatement; it's Alt+Hyphen. [Edit: My bad that's en-dash, can't tell the difference in this monospaced text field. Em-dash you have to hold shift.]

I guess on Windows it's Alt+0,1,5,1 on a numpad. Or you copy+paste from Character Map.

Re:Streaming HTML out of order without JavaScript on Monday June 02, 2025 @08:04PM (#44164751)
I was convinced Firefox didn't support rendering partial HTML at all, but it turns out it just waits for two separate chunks to arrive before rendering. Queer.

Can't find any documentation on this online.

Re:Autopsy of an LHC Beam Dump on Saturday May 24, 2025 @08:35PM (#44084668)
In Steins;Gate (VN/anime) a fictional CERN is the main antagonist https://steins-gate.fandom.com/wiki/SERN

Just a shot of the LHC though, no other scenes with their facilities.

Apparently CERN also appears its sister series Robotics;Notes, but I might play it someday so I won't spoil myself on how.