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CookiesOnMyDesk··on The turbulent AI era is here
> Version 3.0.0 has been rewritten from scratch to keep old Reddit working while logged out

https://github.com/tom-james-watson/old-reddit-redirect

CookiesOnMyDesk··on The turbulent AI era is here
Sounds odd. Works just fine for me. I'm blocked if I disable it, but can access when I enable it.
CookiesOnMyDesk··on The turbulent AI era is here
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/old-reddit-re...
CookiesOnMyDesk··on There is no “done”: Reflections on a completed Appalachian Trail thru-hike (2022)
In my experience McCarthy can spend an entire book without getting to the subject.
CookiesOnMyDesk··on Huntington's disease treated for first time
It’s covered in the article

>It means the decline you would normally expect in one year would take four years after treatment, giving patients decades of "good quality life", Prof Sarah Tabrizi told BBC News.

>The first symptoms of Huntington's disease tend to appear in your 30s or 40s and is normally fatal within two decades – opening the possibility that earlier treatment could prevent symptoms from ever emerging.

CookiesOnMyDesk··on Tech terms I was pronouncing wrong
two-ple, tri-ple, quadru-ple
CookiesOnMyDesk··on Sonos CEO Patrick Spence steps down after disastrous app launch
>Why can't I just cast the music from my Youtube music app?

Because the YouTube app developers haven't implemented it? Casting via spotify works flawlessly in my experience, whether using airplay or letting spotify discover the speakers. No app hopping required.

CookiesOnMyDesk··on Async await: the worst thing to happen to programming?
Something like this, depending on how you want your input and output to be supplied.

    public async IAsyncEnumerable<HttpResponseMessage> SendTwelveRequestsAtATimeAsync(IAsyncEnumerable<HttpRequestMessage> requests)
    {
        HttpClient client = new();
        List<HttpRequestMessage> requestsBatch = [];

        await foreach (var req in requests)
        {
            if (requestsBatch.Count < 12)
            {
                requestsBatch.Add(req);
            }
            else
            {
                foreach (var res in await Task.WhenAll(requestsBatch.Select(client.SendAsync)))
                {
                    yield return res;
                }

                requestsBatch = [];
            }
        }
    }
CookiesOnMyDesk··on Denmark's Genius Housing Fix
He means that the price of the bonds backing the mortgage fall. Since the bonds are fixed interest, when interest rates rise, new bonds at a higher interest rate are more profitable than the old bonds at a lower interest rate. As such the free market price of the old bonds will drop to until the selling-at-a-loss reaches an equilibrium with the expected increased profit from higher interest rates of the new bonds over the lifetime of the bond.

This lets the loan taker buy back their own bonds for less than what they were paid (the loaned amount) when the bonds were issued.

CookiesOnMyDesk··on Coding and Keyboards (2023)
If you get a keyboard that is programmable with QMK [0] and/or VIA [1] you can just program any key, or mod+key, to be a macro - and you can even record them on the fly [2].

[0] https://docs.qmk.fm

[1] https://www.caniusevia.com/

[2] https://docs.qmk.fm/features/dynamic_macros , https://usevia.app/

CookiesOnMyDesk··on HexChat 2.16.2, the Final Release
The official client.
CookiesOnMyDesk··on HexChat 2.16.2, the Final Release
Discord uses 0% CPU (4770k) and 85mb ram on my pc currently, while being in an active call. What would it take for it to no longer be "too bloated" to have idling in the background?
CookiesOnMyDesk··on JavaScript: Double Bitwise Not (~~) (2010)
Do you use a well named function like and(), or do you use the double ampersand (&&) syntax trick? What about a not() function, or the exclamation mark syntax trick (!)? :)

Every use of operators can be considered a syntax trick until it becomes common, which is what the author hopes will happen to ~~

CookiesOnMyDesk··on Scrollbars are becoming a problem
>Every time I start “New Teams,” it asks me if I want to go back to Old Teams

Are you sure you’re not accidentally opening the old Teams application? When you update to new Teams it leaves the old version in place so you have both, and if you open Teams with the new shortcut/application you won’t get prompted to switch back.

CookiesOnMyDesk··on Kafka as an Antipattern
You probably want to be closer to 7,500 messages/second before Kafka becomes worthwhile.
CookiesOnMyDesk··on I fucking hate Jira
Backlog by Nulab is pretty much all the good features of Jira distilled down into a simple product. I've used it and been very happy with it. https://nulab.com/products/backlog/
CookiesOnMyDesk··on NASA plans to retire the ISS by 2031 by crashing it into the Pacific Ocean
That would also be the first time Elon is correct about his claims, then.
CookiesOnMyDesk··on Facebook Renames to Meta
I'm gonna miss FAGMAN.
CookiesOnMyDesk··on Finland joins Sweden and Denmark in limiting Moderna Covid-19 vaccine
Ask the Swedes, not me.
CookiesOnMyDesk··on Finland joins Sweden and Denmark in limiting Moderna Covid-19 vaccine
only numbers are from july, 19 cases of each *carditis after 20m doses.
CookiesOnMyDesk··on Show HN: Why share your email address when you can hide it?
Yes, they do employ a quite holistic view on online privacy; requiring you to put a lot of trust in them. I did not intend to diminish the value of your service.
CookiesOnMyDesk··on Show HN: Why share your email address when you can hide it?
Blur by Abine. Also masks your phone numbers, your credit cards and is a password manager on top of that.

https://www.abine.com/

CookiesOnMyDesk··on Norwegian experts say blood clots were caused by the AstraZeneca Covid vaccine
The risk from pregnancy is way higher than the risk from covid. You'd accept a 5% risk to avoid a 10% risk, but you wouldn't accept a .5% risk to avoid a .001% risk. From the vaccine blood clot data it looks like ~.07 thousands of a percent die from blood clots, while for young people the risk of death from covid is around ~.7 thousands of a percent. Thus if a) the blood clots are caused by the AZ vaccine, and b) the risk of getting covid as an individual is <10%, taking the AZ vaccine carries a higher risk of death than not taking it does.
CookiesOnMyDesk··on Boeing 747 loses parts after take-off from Maastricht – 2 injuries
Boeing doesn’t make engines.
CookiesOnMyDesk··on Computer Science 521 Advanced Algorithm Design
Definitely. I've had a fair few algorithms classes and recognize only the answer for problem 7. It's definitely not an easy exam, but it doesn't seem particularly difficult either.