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A 10% conversion rate would be incredible. If that were the case, it would be hard to be angry at people for exploiting this factor. However, I would be very surprised if the conve…

You might enjoy this benchmark: https://www.reddit.com/r/browsers/comments/zebad6/a_few_andr... Some highlights: - Vivaldi is suprisingly fast and has good ad blocking - Kiwi plus …

If 30% of your users hate the interface so much that they immediately leave your service, then sure, you can say "70% of our users have no problem with our strobing call to action"…

I recommend reading longer histories and reading them on audiobook. Those tell history in a nonlinear way, going events over and over and over from different perspectives, until yo…

Another thought is that the friction should be inherently enjoyable. Another person gives the example of an extension that adds 10 seconds to the load time of Youtube videos. This …

Why does this feel like a union made in hell? Partnering with the incomprehensibly byzantine andcomplacent architect of the SEOpocalypse AND "late-to-the-ai-party" Google does not …

Ironically, there is a school of thought on meditation which says that it's perfectly valid to meditate by picking a task or chore, then performing that task so that it engrosses t…

Here's my basic position: 1. The risk and threats are published 2. The audits I've seen don't evaluate the threats 3. Link me to the audits if you want to convince me I. The risks …

I'm not trying to be flippant here, but how many of ghidra's 2 million lines of code have you audited?

I'm looking at it. It's very beautiful code. 2,049,616 lines of it. Okay. I have looked at the code. Now what? Has that made me more secure?

Is ghidra safe to use if you consider the NSA an adversary? Every person I've asked this question has had their noses so far up the NSA's pooper that they could not imagine conside…

This actually works! It works astoundingly well with poorly written technical manuals. Looking at you, CMake reference manual O_O. It also helps translate unix man pages from Neckb…

There's a difference between buzzwords and jargon. Buzzwords can start out as jargon, but have their technical meaning stripped by users who are just trying to sound persuasive. Ex…

Should jackasses on HN use plain language instead of jargon? Surely. But AI workers mainly develop and use jargon because it is an easy and natural way to consolidate concepts. Sur…

There's a neat trick when you encounter jargon. 1. Identify the jargon terms you don't understand 2. Lookup papers that introduce the jargon terms 3. Skim-read the paper to get the…

I feel like Lecun did a poor job of localizing the technique relative to any philosophy, or really explaining what it does for a nontechnical audience. Saying he gives talks to phi…

Basically the thesis is that we can make needy and hapless students less needy and more self reliant by publicly roasting the most needy and hapless students among them. So basical…

like I said it's better to not help people at all than to evolve the attitude that some people don't want to help themselves. people typically want to help themselves but don't kno…

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It would be better to help zero people than it would be to develop the bitter attitude you've developed - this is because your attitude could prevent people from helping! I feel yo…

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Tell the employer to close up shop, because they are too incompetent to design a business model that involves serving all customers, and doing any less is just fraud :shrug:

Often you can guilt trip sales into acting as your advocate to other departments of the org. "I know it's not your job, but can you please make sure the person you'll transfer me t…