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There's also the petroyuan [1] [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petroyuan

Thanks for the tip. Didn't know this was added. I generally open the HN comment link, then click the article link, read it, then click back to read the comments. I'll see if this s…

Medical professionals can also use fentanyl among other drugs that aren't legal for recreational use.

Sure you can. Firefox will treat each open profile as it's own "app/window instance" in a way, so if I want to use my "A" profile, it's running everything under that in it's own wi…

GoPros (at least the early generations) required a special housing for use in water. My first GoPro was a 2 I believe and I bought it for scuba and it was terrible. Then the newer …

I fired up DK in mame after the King of Kong documentary came out and ended up playing quite a lot as I recalled as a kid having a very difficult time getting anywhere in the game.…

I have been using Firefox for years (decades) and I rarely encounter a page or site that doesn't work... a handful perhaps, but it's a complete non-issue for me. If anything, my ad…

If you spent decades doing selective breeding to obtain a more desirable product, you'd probably be a bit annoyed if others just stole the product from you and made money off of yo…

They're all looking the same now. The AI version of bootstrap.

Most gems in Ruby/Rails projects come from rubygems, so if they were published long ago, any exploits should have already been found hopefully. Any old gems that would attempt to r…

It's been behind a flag for ages. Maybe because of performance issues?

Where did they say they used AI for this?

I will not buy coffee at Costco. I've had Costco coffee beans and it's terrible. I only buy premium beans at specialty shops and always will. The masses can drink their subpar coff…

Canada reduced theirs to 6.1% from 100% about a month ago.

It's mentioned explicitly in the article: "Elections Alberta salts the electors’ lists with the names of fake voters, so if one copy of a list is leaked, the agency can trace its o…

You could have bought bored apes (and any of the other scammy NFTs) and ended up losing your shirt in the end. Overall, who cares if you miss the boat on something, it's not good f…

document.evaluate is also widespread client-side. https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Document/ev...

You simply can't get hung up on what could have been. Same applies to trying to time the stock market... should have bought, should have sold. Best thing is to know there's nothing…

Almost anybody who grew up with video games in the 80s played Sokoban and knows exactly what that refers to. It was THE puzzle game in the early days of video games... that and may…

I'm in Canada and have been a Deezer subscriber for almost 2 decades now. Their premium subscription is well worth the money - I pay less than $90 for the year. They also have one …

And sometimes the maintainer simply doesn't respond to a perfectly acceptable issue due to either the maintainer abandoning the project, not enough maintainers or simple neglect.

The use of epsilon is correct here. It's exactly what I was taught in comp sci over 20 years ago. You can call it's use here an "epsilon-delta".

insert "AI is just if statements" meme

I've been using gitosis to manage private repos for almost 2 decades now. It's extremely easy to host your own repositories. I just looked up gitosis on github though and it was la…

I'm a native English speaker who's very exposed to French, but doesn't speak it, I find the use of accents in French very welcome to getting the pronunciation right when exposed to…