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TAKEMYMONEY··on User In Yer Face, a worst-practise UI experiment (2018)
Needs a "sign up for our newsletter!" popover as well
TAKEMYMONEY··on Seven.zip
Sending a .biz link in an SMS will be blocked by Google, and the sender won't be informed the message was not sent. Cheap domains are cheap for spammers too.
TAKEMYMONEY··on The Real-World Costs of the Digital Race for Bitcoin
Your reference is generic enough to confuse someone who doesn't watch a lot of football podcasts, and your copy/pasted critique is not unique to the article. What a "dunk!" Notice the more interesting comments are critical of specific content if the article.
TAKEMYMONEY··on The Real-World Costs of the Digital Race for Bitcoin
People get that a podcaster who's partial twitter bio is "#Bitcoin + Football" (and linked to this article) say it too it's just that you made a comment so generic as to be confusing
TAKEMYMONEY··on Are We <Thing> Yet?
Wait "Is Debian reproducible yet?" breaks the are we part of the syntax!
TAKEMYMONEY··on The Real-World Costs of the Digital Race for Bitcoin
popular with conspiracy theorists

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reptilian_conspiracy_theory

TAKEMYMONEY··on How to be a -10x Engineer
Can we go back to calling it "changing" instead of "pivoting" again?
TAKEMYMONEY··on Ask HN: My full name and address are in a spam email, sent to my iFit mail alias
I've gotten a LOT of these, either your data was sold or compromised. Easy to spot where the data came from because they are sent to masked email addresses (notice they sent it to your `+ifit` address) which makes me think iFit was compromised (not Gmail).

Change your password and email for iFit, poison your data (put in fake names/info if you can). Search your email at the haveibeenpwned website and it will return any data leaks it was a part of.

If you're into scam-baiting, call the number (ideally with a fake/VOIP number) they provided and play along with the scam until they realize you're bullshitting. Do it enough times and your email is removed from their spam list. For extra fun, post the number to r/scambait and they will be inundated with calls for a while.

TAKEMYMONEY··on How to start a React Project in 2023
> [Vite is] almost drop-in replacement for create-react-app (CRA)

Can anyone with experience replacing CRA with Vite speak to how true this is?

TAKEMYMONEY··on The FTC wants to ban tough-to-cancel subscriptions
your credit (FICO) score might take a hit when you close a card, especially an old one
TAKEMYMONEY··on An end to typographic widows on the web
> non-breaking spaces, word joiners, and other similar HTML entities

Non-breaking spaces in some fonts are actually a different size than normal spaces, and most copy doesn't contain entities. Better for all if we can adjust the display of the text without programmers changing content.

TAKEMYMONEY··on An end to typographic widows on the web
There are JS plugins for it, example: https://opensource.adobe.com/balance-text/

There are also the CSS properties `widows` and `orphans`, they behave a bit differently than "the text is rendered so that the amount of text on each line is about the same."

TAKEMYMONEY··on Microsoft Teams is blocking Firefox Nightly
My guess is that they aren't using user agent detection, for reasons you mentioned.

It's unlikely they QA unstable browsers, but some in this thread are reporting the same on FF stable.

TAKEMYMONEY··on Amazon is closing its cashierless stores in NYC, San Francisco and Seattle
The actual title is "Amazon Go closing 8 of its c-stores," the HN post title is misleading
TAKEMYMONEY··on Amazon is closing its cashierless stores in NYC, San Francisco and Seattle
Amazon announced plans to begin accepting cash (and SNAP) at Go stores but I'm not sure how far it got

https://www.cnbc.com/2019/04/10/amazon-exec-tells-employees-...

TAKEMYMONEY··on Amazon is closing its cashierless stores in NYC, San Francisco and Seattle
Did you have the QR code they email you for dropoff returns? No app needed (besides email).
TAKEMYMONEY··on Ask HN: What are these strange random strings spamming my blog?
> Trying to explain to a business why their name is in the email address you just filled out on a form is fun

Hah yep, been using this strategy for years and a lot of times they ask if I'm an employee.

Once Verizon customer support asked me "you got a problem with Verizon?" My email address was VerizonSucks@mydomain.com.

TAKEMYMONEY··on Ask HN: What are these strange random strings spamming my blog?
My host banned catchall addresses, which host do you use that allows this? (great advice btw, this has saved me too)
TAKEMYMONEY··on Shimano’s three-pulley rear derailleur could revolutionise drivetrain design
There's at least one other person that agreed, Sheldon Brown (who else)

> I am on a one-man campaign to replace the foreign spelling "dérailleur" with the English spelling and pronunciation "derailer."

https://www.sheldonbrown.com/derailer.html

TAKEMYMONEY··on ‘Sam? Are you there? ’ The bizarre and brutal final hours of FTX
You said "see if I care" and it's obvious that you do. Sorry if it made you miserable.
TAKEMYMONEY··on New headless Chrome has been released and has a near-perfect browser fingerprint
headless browsers or are faster than the normal browsers (no GUI) so your tests run faster
TAKEMYMONEY··on Dancing is stupid
Lipsky: You dance?

David Foster Wallace : Uh huh. I’ve just discovered in the last few years that I really like it. Although I’m still not very good.

Lipsky: Where do you go, a club?

David: This Baptist church.

Lipsky: Why there?

David: Because Baptists can dance.

-- from the film The End of the Tour

TAKEMYMONEY··on New headless Chrome has been released and has a near-perfect browser fingerprint
> However, with recent progress in automatic and audio recognition, [detecting bots with captchas] has evolved

...and that's from 3 years ago

https://antoinevastel.com/javascript/2020/02/09/detecting-we...

TAKEMYMONEY··on New headless Chrome has been released and has a near-perfect browser fingerprint
> the new headless Chrome can still be detected using JS browser fingerprinting techniques [...] however, the task has become more challenging [...] I’m not going to share any new detection signals

Any guesses?

TAKEMYMONEY··on Why Most Gun Laws Aren’t Backed Up by Evidence
Homicides are a huge chunk of gun deaths in the US

> 54% of all gun-related deaths in the U.S. were suicides, while 43% were murders

https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2022/02/03/what-the-da...

TAKEMYMONEY··on WebKit Supports Nested CSS
This syntax matches the CSS Working Group's recommendations, is that correct?

> "starting the nested selector with an identifier is invalid"

https://www.w3.org/TR/css-nesting-1/#example-34e8e94f

TAKEMYMONEY··on ‘Sam? Are you there? ’ The bizarre and brutal final hours of FTX
We're trying to slow the reddit/diggification of HN. You don't need to keep proving that you care very much.
TAKEMYMONEY··on ‘Sam? Are you there? ’ The bizarre and brutal final hours of FTX
Is the above paragraph supposed to another example that you "don't" care?
TAKEMYMONEY··on ‘Sam? Are you there? ’ The bizarre and brutal final hours of FTX
Ok let's see...yes it appears you care. As you said, "You act like if you walked the streets of NY after 9/11, making jokes about it, people would be cheering you on... I have a feeling the situation would be quite different"

How "miserable and humorless" you must be, right?

TAKEMYMONEY··on ‘Sam? Are you there? ’ The bizarre and brutal final hours of FTX
They envisioned permissionless transactions on a decentralized blockchain, not a world free of corruption and bad actors.

Please post "this is good for Bitcoin" or another tired joke instead, much more concise.

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