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Re:Why Should I Care What Color the Bikeshed Is? on Friday October 31, 2025 @11:37PM (#45779065)
Including this one, 34 times :')
Re:Paxlovid: You'd Have Expected More on Friday February 21, 2025 @09:53PM (#43135629)
To add to the anecdata here, I had covid for a week (bedridden but otherwise not that bad), then had a single day in which I tested negative, and then it rebounded for a week, due to Paxlovid. Sounded like it was pretty common. So that was a waste of 15 days. On the plus side, my second week was much the same as the first week as far as symptoms go.
Re:Ask HN: Who is hiring? (January 2025) on Thursday January 02, 2025 @10:40PM (#42582129)
I was amused they don't commit to either "full-stack" or "fullstack" spellings :)
Re:No Uptime Hosting – Guaranteed Server Downtime on Saturday July 20, 2024 @10:22AM (#41016702)
The HTML source is pretty good too. A doctype that's half HTML5, half XHTML. A pre-IE7 script tag thing. A meta-keywords tag. Lists that don't actually use any list tags. Raw PHP tags being dumped into the HTML output. No closing body or html tags. This joke has _layers_, man.
Re:Currying in Kotlin on Saturday September 02, 2023 @08:59PM (#37366803)
I _think_ what they're saying is a specialized/curried function that takes a single argument is better than the method it's replacing that takes three strings or whatever. That is, `foo.a("a").b("b").c("c")` is better than `foo.a("a", "b", "c")`. Which...sure, but 1. if you're really passing 2-3 parameters in with identical types, maybe use inline value classes instead? Or at least type aliases?, and 2. if you can't or don't want to do that, named arguments help.
Re:GoldWave Open Source Goal on Monday April 25, 2022 @07:07PM (#31162012)
Chrome desktop, too. Fun.
Re:Why is Excalidraw so good? on Friday November 05, 2021 @11:41AM (#29120872)
Isn't the first word of the article a link to the tool? Maybe it was added after your comment.
> If the value was in your L1 cache the difference in access time is 100 ns vs 1 ms which is an order of magnitude faster.

I see this mistake all the time, even in print! It's millis -> micros -> nanos, so...that's a lot more than a single order of magnitude.

Similarly I thought of Death Stranding :)

Though I guess exoskeletons are not uncommon in sci-fi.

Re:Duolingo S-1 IPO on Tuesday June 29, 2021 @12:23AM (#27671743)
> "pull this pin to drop lava on the knight" that you see advertised on Facebook

Not at all your point, of course, but someone got fed up with those ads and actually made the game depicted: https://www.theactualgame.com/

Re:HTML5 still doesn't replicate what mattered about Flash on Wednesday December 30, 2020 @10:36PM (#25589322)
IIRC one of Chrome's various selling points when it launched was that Flash was bundled in, so 1. you always had Flash and 2. the plugin was more likely to be properly compatible with the browser, and 3. because Chrome updated constantly, that means you got updated Flash, too. So they definitely were trying to address that glaring pain point you brought up.
Re:This electrical transmission tower has a problem on Wednesday September 16, 2020 @11:59PM (#24501057)
Hm...it's unclear whether you read the stream. They had reason to believe that the C-hook would fail after 97-100 years, yet weren't even checking the C-hooks on towers that were 100 years old. That seems willfully negligent.
I can't tell if this is a troll comment. The article makes no mention of hydroxychloroquine.
Re:You might literally be buying trash on Amazon on Tuesday December 17, 2019 @01:55PM (#21817206)
Pretty sure there are places online where you can sell/exchange gift cards.
You might also be interested in Buycott.
Yeah...maybe. It sounds like a huge very-custom engine. Easily could be faster to start over using Unreal or Unity.
> package signing and verification

You're the first person I've seen mention this, which seems like it should be the first and most obvious line of defense against bad stuff like this. +1

Re:Windows 10 1803 Update Failure on Sunday May 06, 2018 @05:38PM (#17008713)
Eh, I had a similar problem. I'm low on disk space on C:, but it was able to download the update to C: + E: (E: is a partition on the same drive). Partway through installing the update, it asks me to "insert" disk E, which obviously I can't. Had to roll back the whole update. Now I'm kinda glad I did.
Re:It's time to head back to RSS? on Saturday March 31, 2018 @01:01AM (#16721811)
The Old Reader[1] has been my go-to. Looks similar.

[1] https://theoldreader.com/

Re:Samsung Galaxy S9 and S9+ on Sunday February 25, 2018 @03:50PM (#16461089)
Well, that's just part of their YouTube Red service they're trying to sell.
Kinda...but you want 77 - 32 (which is 45).
Re:Comcast Tries to Derail Fort Collins Community Broadband on Friday October 27, 2017 @08:20PM (#15573309)
13th has a bit on ALEC, or here's a clip: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=buO1KubTfQo
Re:Increasing numbers of wingsuit jumpers are dying (2016) on Monday August 28, 2017 @12:13AM (#15114372)
"double overhead"?
Re:Kotlin/Native Tech Preview: Kotlin without a VM on Tuesday April 04, 2017 @12:46PM (#14034688)
Community version of IntelliJ works just fine for Kotlin development.
Re:How the Instant Pot cooker developed a cult following on Tuesday March 07, 2017 @11:01AM (#13811402)
$57.99. But they were also pretty cheap in December, I think -- see https://camelcamelcamel.com/Instant-Pot-IP-DUO60-Multi-Funct... .
Re:Docker 0-Day Stopped Cold by SELinux on Saturday January 14, 2017 @03:51PM (#13400477)
Guessing "hostile" was intended.

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