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I assume they mean a similar experience to browsing /r/popular on Reddit. You're getting a feed that isn't tailored to your browsing history, likes or preferences. It's less addicting and the company doesn't need to know anything about you to provide the experience.
Re:Hosting a website on a disposable vape on Monday September 15, 2025 @12:27PM (#45251671)
Has anyone done the joke about "next big cloud platform" yet?
Re:Title drops in movies on Wednesday November 06, 2024 @04:26AM (#42058560)
Found it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5DMndH8QiI4

The closing music choices are excellent.

Re:Title drops in movies on Wednesday November 06, 2024 @04:16AM (#42058442)
There was an Instagram account or YouTube channel that used to make funny videos of the films ending with the credits rolling at the exact point the title of the film was said—anyone have any recollection of that?
Who does this appeal to and why? I use Rectangle on OSX to give me the layout options I need which basically amounts to switching between full screen and two apps split vertically, then I use the in-built OSX shortcuts for moving apps between screens.

What kind of workflows suit something as advanced as Window Maker? Where does the line sit between this and something like Gnome? I'm struggling to get my head around the nuances.

Re:The Super Nintendo Cartridges on Monday April 22, 2024 @11:53AM (#40115549)
Something I've never been able to wrap my head around is how ROMs are dumped for emulators from cartridges? Dumping instructions and assets makes total sense to me, and packaging that up in a data file that can be interpreted by an emulator too, but how does an emulator model the hardware of every 'expansion' chip in a cartridge? How is that dumped from an original cartridge?
Re:Building a USB SNES Controller on Friday January 19, 2024 @10:54AM (#39056892)
Are there any implications of the polling rate not quite aligning as the original controller would've?
Re:The Piccadilly line’s new air conditioned trains on Tuesday November 21, 2023 @12:17PM (#38366659)
No. And a quick search finds possibly one mention of it from 9 years ago on Reddit. It's not widely used.
Re:The Piccadilly line’s new air conditioned trains on Tuesday November 21, 2023 @08:53AM (#38363597)
I lived in Hounslow for thirty years and got the Piccadilly Line daily. I never once heard it referred to as The Tandoor.
Re:Moq: Warnings with Latest Version from SponsorLink on Thursday August 10, 2023 @05:31AM (#37073889)
Right, and that's expected of the model that the author originally bought into. The problem isn't with the users, the problem is with the author's false expectations of the model.
Re:Ask HN: Could you share your personal blog here? on Friday July 07, 2023 @05:03AM (#36629120)
My personal blog: https://robbell.io

I've had a few posts that have really taken off over the years, although I moved domain some time ago and lost a lot of traffic!

Re:Github.com Is Down on Thursday June 29, 2023 @02:30PM (#36524707)
Looks like it's back down.
I experienced this myself. I overwrote then deleted all of my Reddit comments during the blackout using PowerDeleteSuite. A week later they were all back. Some people have speculated that because of the large outage Reddit had during the blackout they may have performed a data restore.

I've since run PowerDeleteSuite again and most of my comments have remained deleted. A couple from several years ago have just popped back into existence in the last few days though.

Re:Biggest Y Combinator Failed Startups on Monday June 19, 2023 @09:47AM (#36391047)
What is P/M fit?
Re:Cities: Skylines II [video] on Monday June 12, 2023 @10:51AM (#36294591)
Bicycles exist in the current game—they were brought in as part of a free update. Roads with dedicated cycle lanes were introduced with an official add-on, but by default pedestrians and bikes will share sidewalks. I imagine the new game will roll a lot of their official add-ons into the base game. I also heard that they hired some of the community mod creators which is exciting news.
Re:Reddit.com appears to be having an outage on Monday June 12, 2023 @10:41AM (#36294318)
Lots of speculation on Twitter about this—a failed attempt to re-open all closed subreddits and instate their own moderators. I can't imagine it'd be that, although I do enjoy the conspiracy, and more likely they were using the window of reduced traffic to make some larger changes and they went awry
Re:Apollo Back end just made public on Friday June 09, 2023 @10:01AM (#36257925)
I've seen an increasing amount of support for 'nuking' your personal reddit history—posts and comments—in protest of the upcoming changes, taking back what Reddit are profiting from. I'm hugely in favour of it, anyone else considering it?
Re:Nintendo 64 Architecture – A Practical Analysis on Monday May 18, 2020 @01:25PM (#23225430)
For someone just starting to learn about computer architecture at a low level (rather embarrassing for someone who's been in the industry for over a decade), this is a really interesting read, and it's helping concepts like pipelining and caching to gel.
Re:Google Fonts Analytics on Wednesday February 19, 2020 @03:03PM (#22369463)
A lot of people using a lot of fonts from a lot of different browsers. I'm sure the caching techniques aren't perfect but they're probably quite good.
Re:Responsive Pixel Art on Monday January 27, 2020 @08:03AM (#22158861)
How does one even begin to manage a project this large and complex in assembly?
Re:We Don't Want to Run This Ad but Forced To on Monday October 21, 2019 @08:21AM (#21311386)
And companies respond to those letters? Is there any legal obligation there?
Looks like some autocorrect happened to your link: https://github.com/getify/You-Dont-Know-JS
Re:Name one thing in this photo on Friday April 26, 2019 @09:56AM (#19757482)
This is what Microsoft Cognitive Services saw:

Objects [ { "rectangle": { "x": 346, "y": 321, "w": 333, "h": 417 }, "object": "mammal", "parent": { "object": "animal", "confidence": 0.719 }, "confidence": 0.716 } ]

Tags [ { "name": "wall", "confidence": 0.9889654 }, { "name": "indoor", "confidence": 0.9775573 }, { "name": "doll", "confidence": 0.9775573 }, { "name": "person", "confidence": 0.966689169 }, { "name": "toy", "confidence": 0.5887871 }, { "name": "collection", "confidence": 0.535430968 }, { "name": "bear", "confidence": 0.432904869 }, { "name": "christmas", "confidence": 0.351226926 }, { "name": "animal", "confidence": 0.350886434 }, { "name": "family", "confidence": 0.3459218 } ]

Description { "tags": [ "indoor", "table", "sitting", "food", "dog", "woman", "black", "bear", "holding", "standing", "man", "room", "people", "bed", "group", "stuffed", "red", "kitchen" ], "captions": [ { "text": "a group of stuffed animals sitting on top of a table", "confidence": 0.764803648 } ] }

Re:339 Bytes of Responsive CSS on Wednesday April 10, 2019 @06:14AM (#19623265)
Times New Roman is fine - serif fonts are supposedly more readable - it's the line widths that kill me here - figuring out which line you're due to start on next really disrupts flow
Re:Git commit message styleguide on Monday June 19, 2017 @07:39AM (#14586129)
:checkered_flag: :globe_with_meridians: My subjec

Using emojis and limiting yourself to 50 chars is really difficult

Edit: Just seen that "Every Raw Emoji Text(:emoji:) is Counted as One Char!" - Great! But I'm not sure how Git CLI will like that.

Re:Our First Certificate Is Now Live on Tuesday September 15, 2015 @04:36AM (#10219564)
Can anyone explain to me what the difficulties of producing secure certs are? What steps do you need to go through to get root CA approval?

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