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Right, but there is no meaningful difference in terms of ad blocking ability. It's all theoretical. In practice, uBlock Origin Lite works amazingly on MV3. In my experience, it blo…

It's not. Apple regularly rejects apps when they appear to be functionally identical to 10+ existing apps. They don't want 100 apps that do the exact same thing.

Exactly this. It's all done ahead of time. The grill cook only has to throw it on the grill, sear it, warming it up enough to eat, but making sure the interior doesn't go above wha…

The sous vide is not the hard part here. It's the deep frying for the sear. Not many people are willing to deep fry in their kitchens. It's messy, potentially dangerous, and not on…

It's pretty critical to salt fully (not just a tiny bit) at the start rather than at the end. Meat where the salt is just on the surface, vs. meat where the salt has fully penetrat…

> But in practice every tech interviewee and every company doing interviews today (including Apple) can be charged with most of what Apple is alleging. No it can't. I've worked for…

It's a virtue when there is validity to both sides. But it's extremely harmful when there isn't . "Alice says murder is bad, while Bob says murder is a fun and healthy recreational…

Those numbers aren't right. I don't know what "TV vocabulary" is even supposed to mean... but even if you're talking about just sitcoms it's way more than 2,000 words. You cannot b…

Now I'm curious, is there a state-of-the-art demo of realistic cloth/fabric? This looks cool, but it seems "frictionless" or something, it keeps moving forever after I touch it. It…

I tried to organize vocab by difficulty level for an English language-learning app once. It shocked me how there is absolutely no "right" answer. If you are teaching English for tr…

> I had a friend who bought a new Mac every year, selling his old Mac. I considered that at one point, and it would have made sense based on prices alone, but it didn't work at all…

No, the message history wouldn't. Because the message history was for his actual account, not the criminal's account. The whole point is that they looked up the wrong username. And…

Yes, this is an atrocious article. It makes no sense as presented. The first thing the records should have shown was the full messaging history which would not have contained any o…

But if you're taking notes by typing then you have to be listening as well. You can't daydream and transcribe at the same time. At least I sure can't.

Math is different, because most people aren't quick/accurate enough with LaTeX to take notes with a keyboard. And taking notes in math is different from other subjects anyways, bec…

I'm very curious what that's like. Like, handwriting doesn't do a thing for me. It doesn't help me learn at all. I can't help but wonder if there's some advantage that I'm missing?…

When I hand write taking notes, I am indeed forced to slow down, and it's maddening. I'm busy trying to figure out how to condense the ideas into something I can quickly write, and…

As do I. The hero image clearly says "SORRY ROBOT" to me, which is the message supposedly intended for AI... kind of a fail. It's only when I squint hard that I can see "HAPPY HUMA…

> and the thing we’ll never get back was the cultural buy-in and network effects. You must not be using Spotify the way I do. I access my friends' playlists and they access mine. S…

No, this has nothing to do with which temperature scale is being used. This is measuring change in degrees from a baseline.

They often are not, because they highly distort shape and size. Values that are smaller than the mean occupy much less space (area-wise) and seem less significant than they really …

The climate spiral can be misleading though, because it's natural for a viewer to interpret the change in terms of area. Then, the increase from 1.5° to 2° looks much, much larger …

The actual page title is "The story of a beloved IKEA bag". Neither the title nor page says anything about a "free lifetime warranty", as the HN title currently claims. And as far …

> Specs are meta solutions. They describe the general shape of the solutions by refusing to make any technical decision that would leads to incidental problems and thus only needs …

> Writing and maintaining “specs” in plain english is painful. The subject of this entire post is development with agents. Writing specs in English is how you do that. If you don't…