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antifaon 96% of climate policy since 1998 failed

Also the main detractors have a reputation for not believing things that can be proven in general.

Now I'm curious, what template engines don't have dynamic slots? Is that actually a rare enough feature to declare webcomponents special for having it? Does webcomponents have an advanced version of it?

antifaon Notion's mid-life crisis

iCloud notes really needs a markdown mode or a non-WYSIWYG mode.

antifaon Should Sports Betting Be Banned?

> guns

Except for the 300 layers of asking nicely, , formally giving warnings, issuing fines and citations, etc., yeah it basically is just guns threats violence and totalitarianism.

antifaon Should Sports Betting Be Banned?

Yeah that's true, random unrelated things did happen in the past, but that's not a credible argument against having slap on the wrist fines for advertising gambling.

antifaon Rents fall and listings increase after rent control ends in Argentina

Hmmm I noticed you like good things and dislike bad things, hypocrite much?

antifaon It is hard to recommend Google Cloud

GCP charges you insane prices for egress bandwidth to China/Asia and offers no clear and simple way to say "I don't have any customers there."

antifaon It is hard to recommend Google Cloud

What is an expiration date if not a scheduled deletion date? Is it a soft-deletion? It's clearly ambiguous to me, who has no previous knowledge of this event before a minute ago. "Google auto deletes account at expiration date" seems to be a reasonable interpretation of what's been presented to me so far.

antifaon Forget ChatGPT: why researchers now run small AIs on their laptops

https://tabby.tabbyml.com/

https://sourcegraph.com/cody

antifaon Gaining access to anyones Arc browser without them even visiting a website

A while back they required login before download. That's when I noped out.

antifaon AI: Markets for Lemons, and the Great Logging Off (2022)

In the US, "going to church" is about the least counter cultural thing you can do.

antifaon D&D is Anti-Medieval

You don't know what they prayed for.

antifaon China Is Rapidly Becoming a Leading Innovator in Advanced Industries

There is history before 2014.

antifaon New York Times tech workers union votes to authorize a strike

The CIA prefers puppet states over independent states.

antifaon The "email is authentication" pattern

How many forms of backup survive "the government threw you in prison for years?" Even Gmail will refuse to authenticate a correct password with "we couldn't verify it was you" if you never binded your account to a phone and just got out of prison 3 years later.

antifaon NIH cancels ‘Havana syndrome’ research, citing unethical coercion

What's to be curious about? There's no evidence of cool sci-fi stuff, no evidence of spy intrigue, according to the symptoms half thr people over the age of 35 have Havana syndrome (but no free healthcare). The only thing I'm curious about is when any of this is going to have evidence or matter.

antifaon Greppability is an underrated code metric

> the advice to prefer the variable name 'ii' over 'i' because you can easily search for it

\bi\b is the easy way to search for i.

antifaon Set Up a $4/Mo Hetzner VM to Skip the Serverless Tax

$4/month for smallest VPS vs the burdensome $0 for first million requests? The author's framing is non-sense.

antifaon Set Up a $4/Mo Hetzner VM to Skip the Serverless Tax

Most people are scaling down to zero (which is cheaper than $4/month last time I checked).

antifaon Transformers in music recommendation

Spotify's Discover Weekly seems to be a healthy mix of close enough guesses and random but not too random suggestions. Song radio is okay. The pop up recommendation for specific new songs/ albums feels so unrelated to my likes that it must be a sponsored recommendation. """Smart""" shuffle exclusively sends me whatever was popular on the radio in the last 5-30 years despite my listening habits being the opposite.

Pandora was much smarter, but seemed to run out of songs instantly.

antifaon New Win11 insider build blocks install on older hardware, prevents TPM bypass

Users are probably so use to dismissing all these pop-ups of things like the ghost of clippy trying to trick you into using one drive that they don't even know what pop up #6446 says.

antifaon China's manufacturers are going broke

I think they just wanted to imply Xi was "like Hitler" and the rest is just filler ideology.

antifaon the US government has to start paying for things again

We all know he would have been better than Bush, the bar is low, but you don't have to make it look like we missed out on the least shitty president in all of US history.

antifaon Family poisoned after using AI-generated mushroom identification book

They could instead go with increased or specified special liabilities for content spammers.

antifaon Show HN: I made a free story&novel maker to help create novel faster

> *Title: Midnight Cravings*

> The clock struck midnight as Sarah pulled into the dimly lit Taco Bell drive-through, her stomach growling in protest. The usual brightness of the neon sign flickered ominously, casting eerie shadows on her car. She squinted at menu, but a chill down her spine as she the absence of the friendly jingle—only an unsettling silence perv the air.

>"Welcome to Taco Bell, a voice crackled through the, heavy and. It was low, groaning. “What would you like?”

>Confused but hungry, placed her order. Moments later, the window slid open, revealing a figure obscured by a dark, face hidden. A tray of steaming tacos, the aroma tantalizing yet strangely metallic was thrust towards. Without thinking, grabbed it, and as she bit into first taco, a scream echoed from the shadows of the parking.

>Her heart raced as the figure stepped closer, an unsettling grin split face too wide. “ aren’t just tacos…” it whispered.

>As she turned to flee, world around twisted, the drive-through morphing a snarl of hungry. “Stay for the afters…” it beckoned, as her worst cravings emerged.

I'll never reveal my genius prompt that led to this output, but generally the issue here is that chatgpt can't produce anything but short (sub 1000 word) stories, and novels are around 50k to 100k. This is pretty useless for actually writing novels.

antifaon Google pulls the plug on uBlock Origin

Brave seemed normal for days/weeks then one day randomly started giving me hourly crypto spam notifications. I had remove it's permission to send notifications.

antifaon Google Pixel 9 Pro

> The killer-app is going to be asking your phone to order food and it guesses correctly what you want while cross-checking availability, pricing, and discounts. Then a Waymo or Wing Drone delivers it.

What you're actually going to get is a None pizza with left beef from a ghost kitchen at the least competitive price you've ever seen with the branding of a YouTuber.

antifaon Google Pixel 9 Pro

My biggest worry is that everyone complaining about hamburger menus will soon be wishing they could use a hamburger menu instead of being forced into chatting with an AI for menu settings.

antifaon The Powers of Soviet Puppetry

Puppetry threads are the BEST threads for spreading fascist conspiracy theories about centuries old naturally recurring famine (that mysteriously stopped around the 50s) secretly being man made.

antifaon Security and privacy risks of public JavaScript CDNs

There were multiple free public CDNs, multiple versions of jQuery, cache evictions happen much faster than you're thinking, users had less RAM and disk in the past.

I can only imagine "naturally" producing this scenario by browsing HN in 2010 and clicking every link on the front-page and hoping at least 2 were indie blogs or startups that don't take security seriously, and even then if they're not consecutive, the website between them would have likely evicted the cache.