below43
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Comment · 22 days ago
Comment · 25 days ago
I did a similar thing to share files via a URL :)
Comment · 6 months ago
Circus, in this case being the collective noun for the kea (New Zealand alpine parrots).
Comment · 8 months ago
Sure, but my main intent was to raise the question as to why it was singled out in the article/blog post as something that needs to be in the dictionary.
As you've pointed out, the word "bills" clarifies what it is. I don't see why every combination needs to be in a dictionary. The list would be incredibly long, eg. "phone bills" or "power bills", etc.
Comment · 8 months ago
In most English speaking countries it's a far from common phrase (ie. it's very USA-centric).
Comment · 8 months ago
“Hospital bills”. That’s very country specific. Also, that’s two words.
Comment · 8 months ago
Good point. TIL :)
git config --global alias.uncommit 'reset --soft HEAD~1'
Comment · 9 months ago
They used to do this with maps - eg. fake islands - to pick up when they were copied.
Comment · 9 months ago
This is ridiculous. High end second hand Thinkpads are much better and robust in my experience than new Lenovo laptops. Much better build quality.
Comment · 9 months ago
We hold the edges of things to pull to expand them. Sliding doors, table cloths etc.
Comment · 10 months ago
Thanks. It's interesting to compare the original HN article with the browser-translated story (from https://news.qq.com/rain/a/20240110A03FKJ00).
I definitely appreciate the style of the HN English article, but I think the browser-translated version possibly gives a bit more context to some of the story.
e.g. This is the English version "We would clutch candy wrappers in our hands, giggling endlessly. The teacher would scold us for disturbing the nap, but we Hid behind our parents, still laughing."
This is the browser-translated version: "I kept giggling when I saw her, and she giggled too, and we kept laughing with small sugar paper during our lunch break. When my parents came to pick us up, the teacher criticized us for being undisciplined, and we still hid behind our parents and giggled."
Comment · 10 months ago
Like many others in the replies, I too built something similar. I built a PWA that lets you share files via a URL. https://urlfile.app
It also has a note/plain text sharing option.
Comment · 10 months ago
Seriously?
Comment · 10 months ago
This is very cool thanks. It would be awesome as a PWA so I can have it installed on my home screen/use it offline (edit: it looks like I misunderstood what the website meant by "runs on the browser" - I didn't it has a server dependency. Even so, it's easy to get Claude to generate a manifest and service worker to make it a PWA).
Also, minor UX feedback. Make the barcode type the first form field.
Main issue I encountered was pasting a big payload URL. I had to make a fallback to allow pasting in a dialog if it failed to load from the browser URL bar.