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zahrevsky

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About zahrevsky

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    Comment #49238013

    I don't do animations, but I have an answer. You research a topic well enough to be able to understand if the result is OK or not. Usually it means figuring out some sort of testin…

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    Comment #49228070

    You can also run animations in QR codes: https://cgv.cs.nthu.edu.tw/Projects/Recreational_Graphics/Ha... So, technically, you can run Doom inside a QR code?

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    Comment #49202092

    Cool concept, if only it had better design.

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    Comment #49191111

    Basically, it's like sending a 200 OK with "Error" in the body?

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    Comment #49178031

    Yes, and the article makes the point that this might be changing.

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    Comment #49177142

    Haven't heard of ohmypi, thanks! I feel like this is a good starting point for someone like me who is not ready to configure a harness from zero right now.

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    Comment #49172686

    The problem with bookmarks is that they have their own place that is only for bookmarks. It would be better if bookmarks would live in the same place tabs live. It's like with pinn…

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    Comment #49172627

    I've stopped closing tabs at some point and use them as a history. Of course, I'm using the kind of browser that keeps your tabs as a horizontal list to the left, not as a ribbon a…

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    Comment #49163972

    Oh, you're right.

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    Comment #49163641

    I thought hotkeys were hard to do right in a web app too? Yet the article completely misses that.

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    Comment #49149216

    > read the website beginning to end before starting Huh. The “Start here” page says exactly the opposite. It's literally the first two sentences on the page: > You don’t need to re…

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    Comment #49105995

    > It is becoming increasingly difficult to determine if message are AI-generated or if a human actually took the time to write them and care. Could you share some examples? Based o…

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    Comment #49105957

    The craziest part is that this tailored approach is now a red flag, because HR just assumes your covering letter is LLM-generated. “Damn kids, they're all alike” vibes.

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    Comment #49075310

    Yeah, the title is really misleading. I thought the same at first, and then I also thought that this will be a review of the actual “Hey” email client.

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    Comment #49054306

    Someone should collect all the cases when header capitalization on HN affected meaning

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    Comment #49053213

    Previous design of editing mode was better :-( Current design shows them as a list, which requires you to scroll a lot to go through all the items.

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    Comment #49028534

    > why not do RL and make a penalty for bad design? But this is clearly explained in the article. We can tell whether the design was good or bad only weeks or even months later, whi…

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    Comment #48608571

    Usually the longest answer is the correct one. Also sometimes two options are the opposites of each others. In this case, one of them is correct. I feel like you can get close to 7…

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    Comment #48338714

    yeah it was down for a few minutes, but now it's fine

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    Comment #47674898

    In Idiocracy, they didn't ask if they're in Idiocracy or not, so no.

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    Comment #47524269

    Off topic, but it reminds me of another principle: every geographic heatmap is just a population map. https://xkcd.com/1138/

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