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EscargotCult

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    Comment #41451513

    I stand corrected! I do suppose I could also get a travel safety razor that comes apart into 3 parts (as opposed to a single piece with a butterfly opening) and pack them separatel…

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    Comment #41446861

    > I think that it's also important to consider that it's much easier to cut oneself when using a double edge razor. I've actually found it to be the opposite in my case, after havi…

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    Comment #40409766

    > Fingers crossed for remote work bringing some sort of equalizer effect here. I work at a fully-remote company, and my org had a meetup soon after I first started working here. I …

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    Comment #39607017

    Their outage heatmap is also basically a population density map too. https://xkcd.com/1138/

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    Comment #39414537

    > Copilot is bad at accessibility because web engineers are bad at accessibility. All of the bad habits in this post were learned from its training data. 100%, and this is why Copi…

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    Comment #39414500

    I'll just quote from Stevey's Google Platforms Rant > Like anything else big and important in life, Accessibility has an evil twin who, jilted by the unbalanced affection displayed…

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    Comment #36284025

    It uses the native iOS video player APIs, which (to my knowledge, it's been a while since I tried) the official app doesn't. Also overall, it follows a lot of the "recommended" iOS…

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    Comment #34254567

    I can't imagine it being anything else in that year. That must have been a struggle-bus of a UI to work with for something this laborious, though.

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    Comment #33850159

    This is already happening with stock "analysis" that you see on Yahoo Finance for any given symbol. For example, take a look at https://stocks.apple.com/AbKUdK1ZvSFK4NdaMwMd27w

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    Comment #32322846

    I think they've mentioned that they expect that their generics spec will evolve, plus they're waiting to see what idioms emerge before refactoring the standard library.

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    Comment #31694139

    Probably. Google and GitHub already support WebAuthn for 2FA so it's relatively trivial for them to ditch passwords altogether and use WebAuthn as the single credential.

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    Comment #31683108

    Reminds me of the Stack Overflow profile badges, which themselves were inspired by Xbox achievements.

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    Comment #31445889

    Apollo is a really good mobile app for Reddit, but I expect Reddit will eventually buy it. As for new users, it's likely a lot of people that reach Reddit from Google - their SEO s…

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    Comment #31018922

    This could be crowdsourced. Imagine some sort of reporting network of volunteers, running the simple program (memory allocation and periodic checks) on any hardware they're loaning…

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    Comment #30924087

    +1 the only thing that's "surprised" me between Go releases has been their changes to build flags in 1.18, and gofmt takes care of that anyway. Now that I think of it, gofmt change…

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    Comment #30785315

    For anyone looking, here's the comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30779291

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    Comment #30687034

    Sounds like Stack Overflow's early growth strategy, minus the wiki aspect

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    Comment #30351613

    re: the Dead Internet Theory, anyone who browses the "news" sections of any stock trading app, Yahoo Finance / iOS Stocks app can see that the likes of Barron's, Zacks Investment R…

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    Comment #29833782

    > Am I being paranoid? Is it reasonable to connect my images to a random third party service like this? Depends on your line of work I suppose

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    Comment #29833754

    > Confluence to an extent also without using a vendor-specific markup format, too!

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    Comment #29774909

    > I've thought about this a lot over the past few years, and I've come to the slightly sad conclusion that Google isn't to blame. I don't know about that, at least in the realm of …

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    Comment #29183059

    > But it will also let good programmers write very good programs and libraries, and that's going to be a huge benefit for everyone. I hope we can see some good examples of generics…

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    Comment #29097915

    I wouldn't be surprised if it takes years for the phase-out, if it ever gets phased out at all. There is a particular type of organizational culture that believes having the "big" …