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4rt··on Show HN: Over 2M cooking recipes ready for text generation
Spicy Tomato Sauce

Inputs tomato olive oil garlic salt sugar pepper

Ingredients 1 (10 ounce) can crushed tomato 1 tablespoon olive oil 2 garlic cloves 1/2 teaspoon salt (to taste) 1/4 teaspoon sugar (to taste) 1/4 teaspoon pepper (to taste)

Instructions Combine all ingredients and heat in saucepan.

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Not sure this is going to win any prizes.

Admittedly I put in some pretty tame ingredient choices but the recipe is essentially "eat ingredients".

4rt··on How Microsoft crushed Slack
have you used it in the last year?

it's perfectly functional now, but 2 years ago it was pretty bad for the reasons you say.

4rt··on NHS planning to start covid vaccination of under 50s by end of January
these flu related vaccines already go to high risk (e.g. elderly) first so a lot of the risk is already factored in to the benefit they can provide.

having said that, yes i'd have it if i could go eat in a restaurant again.

4rt··on .NET 5.0
they compile to classes in the background. the benefit is in the succinct syntax, value-type style equality checks and built in immutability (via the new init-only properties).
4rt··on Ask HN: What is your favorite ergonomic chair/desk
workplace provided me with an Autonomous ErgoChair2 and i love it. haven't touched the settings after a few days of initial config.

https://www.autonomous.ai/office-chairs/ergonomic-chair

4rt··on GardaWorld lost track of millions
it seems possible they have some software rounding problem.
4rt··on Assange Hearing Day 12
it's like holding a court case on a military base. everybody there works for the CIA or is a family member.
4rt··on Show HN: Primo – all-in-one IDE, CMS, component library, static site generator
In Firefox I just get a blank page where I assume there should be an editor. There's a toolbar at the top but none of the buttons do anything, and in the console there's the error:

Uncaught (in promise) TypeError: e is undefined Ng _User.svelte:34

4rt··on A UI editor for single-element CSS illustrations
it works fine in edge firefox and chrome. safari is terrible.
4rt··on How to avoid Amazon: guide to online shopping
i needed a 12mm masonry bit to floor-mount an amazon safe i ordered and was surprised to find that in a local diy store the drill bit was £1.99 and on amazon it was £12.99.
4rt··on Der Spiegel: Are we witnessing the implosion of a superpower?
Is there a link to the content please?

It seems to be heavily paywalled in a way I can usually get past.

4rt··on Lens: Desktop application for managing Kubernetes clusters
k9s is an excellent CLI alternative.

https://github.com/derailed/k9s

4rt··on Philips Hue Bridge v1 online services will be shut off after April 2020
my problem with being too critical of this is that hue is very open, very well documented and nothing else is.

declaring that you'll never buy another philips product ever again because they shut off hosted services support for a relatively flawed v1 device -- when a v2 device is available for £25 -- is pretty petulant imo. it will still work on your lan.

i've got 15 hue bulbs and a hue bridge but i don't use any of their cloud services. i control them via zigbee light switches on a raspi running homeassistant paired to the hue hub without any "hue cloud account" or any reliance on internet access or anything of the sort.

i don't know of another mainstream brand who will even begin to allow that without significant vendor lock-in.

4rt··on Philips Hue Bridge v1 online services will be shut off after April 2020
once the bulb's paired to a hub it's no longer in easy-bind mode.

you can do a re-pair by typing the bulb's serial number into the app and it will force the bulb to forget it's hub.

4rt··on Criminal Assets Bureau seizes 6k bitcoin, sale impossible without access codes
they've corroborated that he owned a fishing rod which was disposed of.

even assuming the codes were stored there he could have 10 other copies of the same in other places and how would anybody know. they could be encoded in a simple way to make them unrecognisable and unusable to anybody but him.

4rt··on Mysterious Laser Turret Appears on US Navy Destroyer USS Dewey
Title: Royal Navy deployed laser weapons during the Falklands War

https://newatlas.com/falklands-laser/28574/

4rt··on What Happened in the UK Blackouts?
I always upvote grady. It's great to see his subscriber count finally starting to match the quality of his videos.
4rt··on Seattle's 'microtransit' experiment drives people to light rail
I like the idea but so far it seems like it's $40 per customer per journey.
4rt··on Ask HN: What keyboard do you use?
Sculpt Comfort Desktop but I only use the keyboard from it, the mouse is pretty naff. I like the ergo aspect but I dont like a gap so this is a nice half-measure.

It has a decent wrist-rest but the best part is you can elevate the front so your wrists are perfectly straight when touch-typing.

https://www.microsoft.com/accessories/en-us/products/keyboar...

4rt··on Google Is Turning Off the Works-with-Nest API
headline should be "that $300 doorbell is now a paperweight".

in the future it will be "that $8000 trunk car driving computer is now a paperweight".

4rt··on Bill Gates promises to add his own billions if Congress does nuclear power push
land has never been even close to the shortage for any kind of electricity generation.
4rt··on TypeScript in 5 minutes
There's a couple of things going on that you might not be familiar with as it's a bit different to most languages:

The public modifier on these constructor parameters is actually introducing them as properties of the Student type:

constructor(public firstName: string, public middleInitial: string, public lastName: string) {}

Since the Student type has 'firstName' and 'lastName' properties, it meets the Person interface requirements. It doesn't need to declare that it is, but could and usually would just for readability and the additional assurance that you haven't forgotten something.

4rt··on An artwork by Banksy shredded itself after selling for $1.3M at Sotheby’s
"exit through the gift shop"

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1587707/

4rt··on HTTPS on Your Landing Page Is Important
About 8 years ago Natwest had a policy of having a "browser whitelist" which was rarely updated. Each time a security update for chrome or firefox came out it would be 2 weeks before online banking was accessible, and using any pre-release versions were out of the question.

I complained and a member of the dev team phoned me up and after a long discussion about why this was madness he told me that it was better to use older browsers for important things such as online banking (like IE6 which was in their whitelist) because they're tried and tested.

4rt··on Diplomats targeted in sonic weapon attacks in Cuba have suffered brain damage
https://www.justsecurity.org/44289/sonic-attacks-diplomats-c...

this suggests it might be more of an accident than an intentional attack (ie. weapon)

4rt··on Tesla Burns Through Record Cash to Bring the Model 3 to Market
the federal tax credits are structured to expire x months after shipping y units, tesla is working to those constraints.

https://cleantechnica.com/2017/01/20/predicting-us-federal-e...

4rt··on Another Price Slash Suggests the Oculus Rift Is Dead in the Water
i bought the DK2 dev kit but never bothered with the 'consumer' version.

i genuinely believe that oculus never expected rift to be 'big' in any way, i think it was about building up a VR game library ready for the next gen of phone holders a-la samsung gear.

once phones are powerful enough to match a current mid-range gaming GPU and can use cameras for low latency and high accuracy "inside-out tracking" (their definition) without all the wires/lasers/sensorcameras facebook will be right there with a store and a big library.

give it 5 years and VR might finally take off!

4rt··on 999: The world's oldest emergency services phone number
firefox reading mode (i believe it's the same devs as that chrome extension? icbw) is the first button i press on most sites. i couldn't do without it.
4rt··on John Carmack Archive – Interviews [pdf]
and one for every time you suspect johnc said "Ayum" while thinking
4rt··on One Day, a Machine Will Smell Whether You’re Sick
tangential, but in HK airport you're passively screened for a high temperature at all entrances to combat the spread of flu.

http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2009-04/28/content_1127068...

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