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Re:CLI user experience case study on Friday January 12, 2024 @07:46PM (#38976187)
This is correct.

The name option is misunderstood. You have options. Sometimes you just have to pick one.

Try going to the ice cream shop and ask for an ice cream but refuse to give them the size, flavour or the type of dip. Tell them it's optional and you shouldn't need to provide this information on order to get ice cream.

Chances are you're suddenly getting a new set of options. A. Kicked out. B. No ice cream. C. Gigantic truck size vanilla icecream with garlic dip and tuna flavour. That'll be $79.99.

You have options but sometimes you have to pick a few.

If you argue for positional arguments, try ordering ice cream: large chocolate strawberry.

Does that mean chocolate flavour or dip?

Re:GitHub Actions as a time-sharing supercomputer on Thursday January 11, 2024 @01:13PM (#38956185)
GitHub Actions computing time is crazy expensive. Especially the Mac prices.
It's OK, I'll name my project Popcar2-OS.
Re:Drawing.garden on Wednesday January 10, 2024 @07:38PM (#38945755)
A strange game. The only winning move is not to play.
Test written according to behaviour?
Antitrust is just money to pay for Google. Firefox is cancer to Google.
You should contact Boeing with that information, I'm sure they'll find it invaluable.
Re:How Meta Built the Infrastructure for Threads on Monday January 08, 2024 @05:17PM (#38919039)
> then you'll be able to use whatever client you want to follow Threads users.

I'm willing to gamble insane amounts on that's never ever going to happen.

Re:How Meta Built the Infrastructure for Threads on Monday January 08, 2024 @07:09AM (#38910846)
Worth mentioning it's also a data harvesting app-only offering.
Re:Looo.lol – a binary math site on Friday January 05, 2024 @08:09PM (#38887235)
80085 in hex is OxTITS
Back in they day sailors would stick a lit fag between their fingers when they were sailing home from day of fishing.
Re:An app can be a home-cooked meal on Friday January 05, 2024 @11:56AM (#38881307)
It's spectacular how awful Apple's signing/certs/profiles dev UX is.
Paper without date on it? Authors credentials not listed?
Re:RR – Railroad Diagram Generator on Friday January 05, 2024 @10:02AM (#38879769)
"Closed. This question is seeking recommendations for books, tools, software libraries, and more."

I have to say I really detest SO for making this a generic rule. These questions are often top Google results and perhaps all the answers were good 3 year ago but it's missing up to date info because it's locked.

Re:Everything will be alright in Iceland on Friday January 05, 2024 @09:54AM (#38879657)
I'm pretty sure I heard something like "nennessekki" a few times when things where getting tense.
Re:The drive stats of Backblaze storage pods on Wednesday January 03, 2024 @03:35PM (#38859486)
Yep, I never buy a drive for myself or recommend to other without having first looked the their stats.
Re:RawJS is a better way to call document.createElement() on Wednesday January 03, 2024 @11:15AM (#38855789)
These are also marketing texts. The crowd at HN is very tech savvy. You could at very minimum implement the classic TODO app to show it off.
Re:Not a single person living in the moment on Wednesday January 03, 2024 @08:23AM (#38853748)
Society is like that today. My way is the right way so shame on you for doing it differently.
Re:LLM spews nonsense in CVE report for curl on Tuesday January 02, 2024 @03:21PM (#38846631)
Welcome to the early days of the internet post AI.
I might be in the minority group. But any app that sends me a push notification that I haven't specifically opted in for is going to have all notification privilege removed right away. A lot of the time it's actually a reminder for me to uninstall the app.
Re:Don't Say Velcro (2017) on Friday December 29, 2023 @01:57PM (#38808827)
No, they're usually high.
Re:In 2024, please switch to Firefox on Friday December 29, 2023 @11:12AM (#38806490)
Your loyalty is commendable. But we all forgive you if you make the switch now.
Re:In 2024, please switch to Firefox on Friday December 29, 2023 @11:08AM (#38806422)
If you keep feeding the Google monster you soon won't be able to browse the internet without a 3rd party attesting that your computer is worth browsing that site.

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/07/googles-web-integrit...

Let's try the "reverse the gender" card.

Let's say OpenAI was trained on all the Windows source code (without approval from MS).

GPT could pretty much replicate the windows code with even not that clever prompt by any user. "Write an OS CreateProcess function like Windows 10 source code would have."

It would infuriate MS to put it mildly, enough to start a lawsuit.

I know the license to the MS source code and NYT articles aren't the same.

Yeah, the sad story of Slashdot. It was 'the' place to get hacker news back in the day.

It always had a crazy crowd but was well enough moderated that you kept coming back.

Then just one day shit hit the fan. To me the stories were no longer interesting or you felt they were sponsored. Didn't they get acquired?

That might be why the crowd moderation stopped working. It just turned into a cesspit.

Re:Resetting the Timer in My Toothbrush on Sunday December 24, 2023 @07:07PM (#38758298)
> Why would I ever want to reset this counter?

People's preferences, habits and uses vary a lot. Since you are asking for an advice, I think you fit the stereotypical user that would never want to reset the counter.

For my personally I feel like I should replace it based on my habits and needs, not when forced by some hardware.

Re:Resetting the Timer in My Toothbrush on Sunday December 24, 2023 @07:00PM (#38758253)
Related, has anyone gotten a solution to the Oral-B/Braun toothbrush bug where it refuses to start after being fully charged? You pop it back in the charger and immediately it'll have full charge and start again!

I've been caught out on this more than once and I'm not the only one. I make sure it's fully charged and pop it in my travel bag. Then when I'm 2000 miles from my charger I find out it refuses to start!

But how do you test for psychological fit with the team?

You can get a candidate that nails the tests and interviews. Meets the team and first impressions are good.

Then 2 months in everyone realises the guy has a tantrum issue and is just an awful person when you get to know him ...

Re:Beeper Mini removed from Google Play? on Sunday December 24, 2023 @05:32AM (#38752554)
> They were originally

But they were no longer doing that.

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