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Re:uBlock Origin Lite now available on Firefox on Monday August 21, 2023 @07:55PM (#37216869)
I think this is a key to the argument for ad-block. If it was literally just banner ads without tracking, sure, go right ahead. Modern web advertising is so much more than that (aggressive tracking, data collection without consent, or worse).

I miss getting those banner ads for decreasing my mortgage rates as a 14 year old who doesn't even pay rent yet

Re:uBlock Origin Lite now available on Firefox on Monday August 21, 2023 @07:53PM (#37216860)
This is an interesting argument. I own my computer and network, should I not be allowed to control what content is or is not allowed in my network? I guess the corollary that would follow from MY argument is that they should be permitted to block me from accessing their site if they see I'm not permitting ads
Re:My Favorite Vim Oneliners for Text Manipulation on Monday August 07, 2023 @12:48PM (#37037020)
surround and sneak are my desert island vim plugins
Re:Netscape Meteors on Thursday August 03, 2023 @04:25PM (#36991295)
wow I forgot about this. I used this to "break" the cyber-patrol filtering app on my pc so that I could get my parents to uninstall it lol.
Re:Cognitive AI for ADHD on Thursday August 03, 2023 @04:22PM (#36991267)
I will give this a shot. So far it seems like a planning app that includes tasks that i think of. I need something that alerts me of calendar events or upcoming things so that I don't forget about them. The app tells me it can set reminders and notify me but I don't think that is true from what i can see here.
Re:Apple Vision Pro: Apple’s first spatial computer on Wednesday June 07, 2023 @01:18PM (#36229920)
interesting!
This is probably a holdover from arcade games - many score boards would check for "no no" words like ASS, SEX, DIK, etc and would change it to the initials of a developer or acronym for the company
I get what you mean, but to me that's a bit like avoiding using a shovel because you can dig with your hands. IMO learning these tools, how to use them well, and properly is going to be really helpful. That said I do already feel that dependence creeping in
Thought that was great too - check out the questionnaire https://www.trippingly.net/lsd-studies/2018/5/22/the-mystica...
Love seeing more research done on LSD. Hopefully the more we can prove its positive effects will lead to broader acceptance and safer use by all who are interested. I feel that most "bad experiences" can be avoided by education and ensuring the proper "set and setting", and the more we know about the substance's effects the better.
There's increasing demand for less potent cannabis. Low THC CBD flower and high CBD percentage flower is kind of secondary but you're right that for the most part customer demand is for stronger flower.
I wonder if LLM with something like plantUML would generate anything useful
Re:Factory PoMo (90s tech boom aesthetic) on Thursday April 20, 2023 @04:01PM (#35645460)
Evan Collins and Froyo Tam's work in identifying and labeling modern aesthetic trends is one of the coolest areas of internet research I've come across. They have done loads of scanning of old catalogs and magazines, uploading work to internet archive, etc. and formed the 'consumer aesthetics research institute (CARI)' to catalog it all. Tons of modern internet aesthetic trends like "Fruitiger Aero", "Y2k aesthetic" etc have largely been the work of these two and the CARI community. Their work and research gets constantly copied or shared without source, so I always try to point people back to the community that has done the hard work finding these trends.

https://cari.institute/

Re:Will wealthier people access better AIs? on Tuesday March 28, 2023 @04:30PM (#35347376)
was said about computers only 50 years ago, it's worth thinking about (tho probably too speculative at this point)
Re:Ask HN: How are you using GPT to be productive? on Tuesday March 28, 2023 @04:03PM (#35347011)
yeah even asking for common node library/sdk implementations has been off for me, calling functions with options that are not accepted, or what it thinks they should be
lol yeah, there was a period of time where you could download the files directly from the official nintendo eShop CDN directly without paying
Re:Google Search Is Dying on Monday March 06, 2023 @04:50PM (#35048181)
triggering lol
Re:Is Google’s 20-year search dominance about to end? on Thursday February 09, 2023 @02:14PM (#34729567)
weird, i must be a/b'd out of that because i just get "more results" endless scrolling, and have for all of recent memory
Re:Is Google’s 20-year search dominance about to end? on Thursday February 09, 2023 @02:13PM (#34729556)
god, the quoted text suggestion thing is really the nail in the coffin. Used to feel like a wizard showing people how to get exact search results, now... well, that's why we're having this discussion
Re:Is Google’s 20-year search dominance about to end? on Wednesday February 08, 2023 @04:56PM (#34715916)
Things that i *know* were parts of the internet, that I could find via google 5-10 years ago are no longer possible to find. I get single page search results sometimes, with not even the capability to keep browsing 'more' pages to see things that may be tangentially related. Google has just decided to not show them at all. Remember when the bottom of the page was "Goooooooooooooooogle" and you could click each "o" to go to that page? Haven't seen that in a while, right?
Re:Ask HN: Programs that saved you 100 hours? (2022 edition) on Tuesday December 20, 2022 @01:56PM (#34070550)
Very interesting project, It's interesting to see trends coming back to bundled BE/FE. What would you say are the biggest issues you have with Redwood?
Re:Ask HN: How might HN build a social network together? on Thursday December 15, 2022 @03:38PM (#34005375)
right, google plus failed bc it was a platform problem. Who would prefer to use that product over facebook, twitter, etc that duplicate the functionality 90%. ello was another hilarious example (that somehow... still exists...)
Re:Windows 11 still not winning the OS popularity contest on Monday December 05, 2022 @05:28PM (#33872817)
The worst offense is that the taskbar, which now is forced into removing labels and forcing grouping of tasks. Gone are the days of clicking Firefox(Window 1) and Firefox(Window 2), they've just copied the mac dock.

Yes you can use registry hacks/tools from github to get the functionality back... but this is just unacceptable.

Re:Aleatoric Music on Wednesday November 30, 2022 @04:24PM (#33807928)
That's the first thing that comes to mind when i hear the word "aleatoric" and where i first learned about it
Re:Tales of the M1 GPU on Tuesday November 29, 2022 @12:47PM (#33790721)
pretty much the appeal(?) of asahi lina. it's been a weird ride to follow for sure.
Re:We Built Syntax Highlighting for the Terminal Input Editor on Tuesday November 22, 2022 @12:33PM (#33708409)
Please stop shilling your product on this website.
Re:Why is the terminal input so weird? on Wednesday November 16, 2022 @06:45PM (#33632702)
Seconded, this product is like an anti-tool.
Re:Why is the terminal input so weird? on Wednesday November 16, 2022 @06:44PM (#33632693)
How many times do you need to get dunked on before you stop promoting this waste of an app
Re:Why is the terminal input so weird? on Wednesday November 16, 2022 @06:43PM (#33632682)
Bro please stop shilling your stupid terminal replacement. Nobody here wants this. Almost everybody here believes you need to get comfortable working in the STANDARD TERMINAL

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