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byte1918

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About byte1918

Hello HN, this is a confirmation I would like to rename my account.

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    Comment #25485005

    I've had pretty much the same experience as you. Honestly, linux runs faster uses less resources and is infinitely customizable. If anyone's work allows them to make the switch (eg…

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    Comment #25384309

    You are correct and it's equally as awful.

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    Comment #25383916

    I wish browsers would stick to being browsers. 'Brave Today' could easily be a website, PWA or a plugin that I can happily ignore.

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    Comment #25142050

    Apologies if this seems snarky but it would be far more useful if you could explain your point rather than a generic condescending "[you] haven't delved into Tailwind on a non-triv…

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    Comment #25121717

    It's the case with most UNIX CLI tools and if the author's complaints are true, do we then have to change all UNIX CLI tools? Maybe? The reality is we can't and probably don't need…

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    Comment #25067188

    > Customers were offered unlimited backup and storage of the photos they took. Customers used said service with that expectation 'unlimited backup and storage of the photos' was th…

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    Comment #25063482

    > I think offering something for free and unlimited for 10 years and suddenly charging for it seems like bait and switch. Wouldn't it be 'bait and switch' if they did that after le…

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    Comment #24824457

    How would one view these routes (now)? Or would one have to sign-up and then wait to be contacted by SlowWays?

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    Comment #24776919

    "All problems in computer science can be solved by another level of indirection" - David Wheeler I agree with you for most part. Mixing unit tests with integration tests is a recip…

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    Comment #24717415

    PS5 drives must also be pre-approved by Sony, supposedly due to strict hardware requirements, like 5.5GB/s[1] sustained bandwidth. I personally think it's silly, sure, bigger numbe…

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    Comment #24707812

    I was making an analogy in my mind between API function names and song titles. IANAL but I thought at first that it doesn't make sense to copyright song titles, they are generic an…

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    Comment #24687120

    A clean history with proper commit names can work as a change log for you app. We actually did that and it worked quite well. In Azure DevOps the release pipelines have access to t…

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    Comment #23906758

    > useEffect(() => { > fetchData(); > updateBreadcrumbs(); > }, [location.pathname]); > There are two use cases, the "data-fetching" and "displaying breadcrumbs". Both are updated w…

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    Comment #23777738

    I'm sure it did not or maybe it was not enabled by default. I distinctly remember having to turn 'condensed view' back on because the thumbnails were taking so much vertical space.…

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    Comment #23758228

    > First of all have all these psychological studies been replicated? > Thousands of subsequent experiments have confirmed (and elaborated on) this finding.

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    Comment #23095292

    > This may have been true a decade ago, but editors like Visual studio code now have remote editing abilities over SSH. VS Code and vi have different use cases. Contrary to what yo…

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    Comment #22538522

    No. Everything is 0s and 1s after all. Take for eg. a byte. It has 8 bits and by permutating all the 0s and 1s you end up with all the possible values of a signed byte; all the num…

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    Comment #22475457

    I guess he means before you install the extension.

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    Comment #22347332

    I would have agreed with you but after checking wikipedia, decentralization is actually the first requirement for it to be called a cryptocurrency. > 1. The system does not require…

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    Comment #22321632

    there's a checkbox `Block only first accessed page of site when delaying page is used`. Uncheck it.

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    Comment #22320952

    You can configure Leechblock (1) to do this. You have to configure it to show the 'Delaying page'. (1) - https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/leechblock-ng...

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    Comment #22240852

    Windows of course.

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    Comment #21961313

    You are right. I need to read the rules again I guess I checked the rules on wikipedia. Edit: From wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Set_(card_game) > Three cards from a Set …