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WA

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About WA

I run a bootstrapped B2C webapp/app. Mostly a lurker on HN.

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    Starbucks uses espresso machines that cost 4-5 figures. They have automatic thermal control. They never boil the water. While I agree with your overall sentiment, claiming that Sta…

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    Comment #49147148

    I beg to differ. Earthsea is a good example of "tell, don’t show". It goes on and on with explaining things that happen without the showing part. It’s outright boring. It might hav…

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    Comment #48958021

    If knowledge is a Swiss cheese, LLMs can help fill the holes, but not make the cheese bigger.

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    Comment #48892397

    Your post is the typical "it's not us, it's them". - Per capita: US has the highest emissions: https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/co-emissions-per-capita - Cumulative, US has the h…

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    Comment #48831606

    The law doesn’t mention Cookies even once. If your company is overcompliant, seems to be a company issue. This is a general trend I observed: way too many companies and even govern…

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    Comment #48752011

    Source? I don't think this is true. Doesn't seem to be the case for me. Maybe your email provider attaches your IP address?

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    Comment #48682647

    He seems to be a bullshitter and partially fake. Just take a look at his LinkedIn profile.

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    Comment #48670287

    Company names != brand names. Brand names != registered trademarks. They could probably call it "Plenty Apps GmbH" and that would be fine.

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    Comment #48665676

    Happened to me with GTA IV and I have been playing all games since GTA 1. Maybe I just grew too old for these story-driven games, but I never finished it and haven't touched GTA V …

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    Comment #48665588

    Single player = beating the "campaign" in Nightmare difficulty with Gauntlet only :) (but I don't remember how far I got)

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    Comment #48457789

    The better use case would be to make AI cancel that damn subscription that lets you jump through 20 dark pattern questions and then tells you to call customer support.

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    Comment #48394751

    - I recently read that most programmers SQL knowledge is outdated by 20 years and it’s true for me. There are quite a lot of features in most DBs that feel very "new" to me. - Comp…

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    Comment #48343767

    .well-known/security is listed as a prominent example, but is not in the well-known category.

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    Comment #48162487

    And yet, no native select + search combined, which is a very common kind of list. The datalist is basically unusable, because you don't know any of the options.

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    Comment #47907590

    The worst part is that it’s impossible to tell if the author has just "improved" a correct article to add hyperbole or if the whole thing is hallucinated and all explanations are k…

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    Comment #47874461

    The question who will benefit from wealth generated by AI is never clearly answered. Or it's hand-waved away with some productivity gains mumbo jumbo (that never result in less wor…

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    Comment #47846978

    When I started game programming, I thought that game programming means manipulating pixels on a screen. Took a while to understand that the stuff you see is just a representation o…

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    Comment #47813561

    Not a lawyer, but pretty sure shit like that doesn’t fly in the EU.

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    Comment #47779616

    Nice idea. Small thing: the categories are pretty much fixed. If you have to abbreviate a never-changing category like "Consumer Defen..." in a widget, your design doesn't work in …

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    Comment #47748928

    The 5% who use it love it 95%?

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    Comment #47715723

    > It's viewing the situation through the lens of Anglo capitalist opinions. Came here to say this. It's a very narrow perspective that shows in sub headlines like "Kinship societie…