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Comment · 4 years ago
Comment · 4 years ago
Note that the wonderful Go type system interprets time.Second * time.Second as 277777h46m40s with the type time.Second (not sec^2)
Comment · 5 years ago
This is an unfair comparison because covid death reporting lags far behind other data
Comment · 5 years ago
> Hopefully they also improve the UX

They're making great progress! There's still more work to do, but I've been very impressed by the improvements made by the Element team over the past year, ranging from many small details to large usability features like the UI for spaces as an easier way to organize communities

Comment · 5 years ago
You're describing entrapment
Comment · 5 years ago
This issue is that HN didn't include the trailing exclamation mark as part of the link
Comment · 5 years ago
In that case, Safari should make it clear that its users should not expect web application to work well. OP proposes helping Safari do that by displaying informational banners when appropriate.
Comment · 5 years ago
Also try searching "journalist in blue" via the default (not image) article search on Bing. It lacks the relevant results found on Google or DuckDuckGo.
Comment · 5 years ago
> In this: "the host will open the door at random and in this example it happen to have a goat" vs "the host will never open a door with a car behind it".)

If the host opens a door with a goat, then it doesn't matter whether or not it was intentional.

Comment · 5 years ago
You can be partially in :-)

I highly recommend using the Nix package manager alongside whatever you're comfortable with. That way you can `nix shell -p foobar` when you need a package quickly or fallback to brew/apt/etc if you're not yet comfortable addressing the situation in Nix.

Comment · 5 years ago
> The people who do well on the test are given the job on a probationary basis.

This sounds terrible. Not everyone can take tests well (even if they strongly understand the content), and few people can afford to accept a job that's probationary.

Comment · 5 years ago
> No more cookie banners or ads.

I'm not sure how I feel about making money off ad-blocking.

Comment · 5 years ago
The Discord and Slack bridges use the respective platforms' official APIs, fwiw
Comment · 5 years ago
> Linux distributions don't depend on running random code from GitHub repositories like Homebrew does, it has package repositories.

Is the Homebrew github repo not a package repository?

Comment · 5 years ago
> The only meaningful act of protest in the 21st century is to permanently delete your digital accounts?

Surely this is an exaggeration?

I'd like to quote more (it feels gross to seemingly quote-snipe) but the site blocks copy-paste on mobile, making productive discussion of its contents needlessly difficult.

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