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Re:My Taipei Quarantine on Thursday April 28, 2022 @04:03AM (#31189906)
Definitely hit harder. However, whiöe there was no official lockdown people in Taiwan voluntarily "lockdowned" last summer when they had an outbreak. It hit many local businesses hard and there was no support from the government unlike many western countries that supported businesses that were affected. The duration wasn't super long so the damage was bearable. This is anec data from my friends car repair shop that was affected(no customers for weeks)
Re:Twitter set to accept Musk's $43B offer – sources on Monday April 25, 2022 @09:47AM (#31154628)
What a horrible take that censoring civil truthful factbased discussion is ok because some nutjob might draw wrong conclusions.
Re:Twitter set to accept Musk's $43B offer – sources on Monday April 25, 2022 @09:26AM (#31154260)
Very easy to solve the only problems I've had with twitter. Stop hiding content behind login prompts. Serverside render direct links to tweets (no infinite loaders/generic errors).
Re:Swedish slow TV: The great moose migration [video] on Monday April 25, 2022 @05:01AM (#31152051)
We have slow TV for hawk nesting and seal sunbathing in Finland. Unfortunately the seals sunbathing location was figured out one year and they had to stop broadcasting it.
Re:Oggify: Download Songs Directly from Spotify on Tuesday April 19, 2022 @05:35AM (#31081166)
Well it's been 30 years for some of my cds and new hardware with cd support is still being created today. But maybe in another 20 years I will be too busy enjoying my flying car to care about my cds.
Re:Oggify: Download Songs Directly from Spotify on Tuesday April 19, 2022 @04:28AM (#31080804)
It's easier until it isn't. That dvd will probably still be around 50 years later. Your spotify playlist? I highly doubt it.
Re:Deno Is Webby on Wednesday March 16, 2022 @07:55PM (#30705732)
Alert doesn't lock your browser. The developer can spend a lot of time and effort to make an even more intrusive and annoying custom alert.

Why should I as a user have to endure instagram and twitter blocking content with a delayed login prompt that cannot be canceled? Because they can. Browser APIs or not malicious developers will be malicious.

Didn't work for my android firefox. Would have appreciated some sample results, at least in github readme.
Re:Sunsetting the Bethesda.net launcher and migrating to Steam on Tuesday February 22, 2022 @06:56PM (#30435590)
It doesn't decouple them. The cdn still needs rights to share the content from the creator. Why would the creator give anyone else the right than say steam? So you would have a NFT of your game that only works in one platform since others cannot distribute it.
Sure you can, but it's not trivial to make the random seem like a human random at a large scale. What are the parameters of a human slide and what kind of distributions are they? And there might be things they do under the hood that affect those parameters like fingerprinting. You would need a lot of data to imitate a human, but the provider of the captcha has a lot more data than you to counter your effort.

Thats why it's usually just easier to pay some people pennies to solve them by hand.

Assuming the content is in Japanese this is probably the expected result though.

For international websites it would be good to follow the users chosen language. But if a website doesn't have a english version(or other alphabet based version), expecting alphabets in a captcha is not very reasonable.

Re:Dune: Spice Wars on Friday February 18, 2022 @09:33AM (#30386140)
It's scrolling too fast and very jittery on mobile as well. Very bad UX. But hey at least the title animation is smooth and cool, who cares about the actual content?
Valve with csgo and dota are like saints compared to something like EA or Riot when it comes to microtransactions.
Re:Reduced-hours software development engineer position at Amazon on Wednesday February 02, 2022 @05:33PM (#30185050)
Definitely an easier to apologize than to ask for permission kind of thing.
Of course nobody is immune to ads. We were talking about the ad being a net positive to ones life.

Yeah I might also buy a redbull but I don't think they need to or should track me online to increase that likelyhood. And I don't think that would be a netpositive to my life. They can do just fine by traditional advertisements(and they do afaik!).

I prefer random ads. If I plan to buy something I will never do it from an ad. At least with random ads there can be something I didn't even think about buying. Now you might try to argue that tracking can predict these awesome things I want but didn't know about, but in my experience it always leads to the most obvious predictable and boring ads.
Re:Rail Theft Soars in California on Sunday January 16, 2022 @04:31PM (#29960317)
To me the comparison is very accurate. On both occasions there were mostly peaceful protests and some opportunist. The fact that you call one a protest and another a riot is quite telling of your bias.
Re:Toxic culture is driving the great resignation on Thursday January 13, 2022 @06:56AM (#29919721)
Seems reasonable enough for a fresh grad. For example 50k->300k. I doubt every engineer could prove to be so valuable in the end spectrum but might work for some companies. Of course if the company fired people the model would lose it's appeal, since you are leaving money on the table on the early spectrum but have no security to reach the end.

Would you leave a company where you got a guaranteed 30% raise every year no questions asked(assuming work was interesting and you were happy with current comp)?

Re:You Feel Like Shit on Monday January 10, 2022 @05:44AM (#29872867)
I was annoyed by the limited answers. Why can I not skip the question with "No, and I don't need to eat right now".
Re:How to quit like a boss on Thursday January 06, 2022 @06:13PM (#29831975)
Agreed. Even if you have a contract with x weeks notice period, breaching the contract is a legal move(penalty may vary).

I had a non-standard 1 month notice period in my contract(normal is 2 weeks). I let them know I'm leaving in two weeks. They mentioned the notice period but I held my ground. They folded and 2 weeks was plenty to handover my work.

Re:Use spacer components instead of CSS margins (2020) on Tuesday January 04, 2022 @04:53AM (#29793117)
Exactly. Slapping some components together for a simple feature shouldn't require a designers input at all. Whether the defaults are margins or paddings I don't really care, but if the component looks bad without styling, it's a bad component.
> Did the people who made the content get paid too?

No, they chose to opt-out of this market.

Re:Ask HN: Working with large code base for the first time on Wednesday December 22, 2021 @07:55AM (#29648640)
That is such an annoying thing in codebases. It's the same issue the other way around, I want to see all places in frontend that calls /v1/resource but then some people go and abstract the url into multiple variables.

If it was up to me the constant part of the relative url would never be abstracted away in the codebase. Just a simple grep would instantly get you everything you are looking for.

Re:Lithuania evacuates its embassy in China on Sunday December 19, 2021 @10:48AM (#29614789)
Most western nations would probably accept a declaration of independence from Taiwan. The only issue western countries currently have with Taiwan is it's claim for mainland china.

Obviously they don't want to be careless, since China could try to invade them if they did that. So they would need quite some military backup from USA and Japan to make China accept their defeat.

Re:Two custom React hooks on Friday December 17, 2021 @10:05AM (#29593106)
I would imagine it would help more with nested objects.

({ contact: { address: "" } })

as opposed to

({ ...prev, contact: { ...prev.contact, address: "" } })