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blueappconfigon South Korea to criminalize waching or possessing sexually explicit deepfakes

Wait until they find out about rule34-sites

blueappconfigon Ask HN: Did you personal website help you get hired? Tell about it

Absolutely not. Out of the 3 jobs i have had all of them claimed they didn't look at my portfolio page.

blueappconfigon Why is Microsofts chat widget over 6MB of JavaScript code?

Haha! Yeah it really is insane!

It will completely tank the performance of our webpage and turn into the largest client loaded script we have, just for a little chat widget in the bottom of the page

blueappconfigon Locked out of 14 year old YouTube channel because tied to Hotmail.com email

hotmail accounts are still accessable by logging in using Outlook, in case you didn't know

blueappconfigon Show HN: Free AI Joke Generator

The favorite jokes of ChatGPT

1. Why doesn't scientist trust atoms? They make up everything!

2. Why did the scarecrow win an award? Because he was outstanding in his field!

3. Warning from ChatGPT, this is a dark joke: Why don't skeletons fight each other? They don't have the guts.

blueappconfigon Ask HN: Why is Microsoft omnichannel (chat widget) over 6MB of JavaScript code?

We where going to add Microsoft omnichannel to our webpage but we discovered that running it, a small chat widget takes up a staggering 6MB of pure javascript code.

Anyone known what is going on?

See this example from their website: https://csimplreslivechatsamples.blob.core.windows.net/$web/...

And the results here: https://i.imgur.com/I77JvjO.png

blueappconfigon Don't Just Say "Hello" in Chat

Colleague: "Hello!"

Me: "Hello!"

Colleague: "Do you have time?"

Me: "Okay"

User is calling

sigh - Picks up

Me: "Hello?"

Colleague: "wait i need to get my headset"

Me: "Okay..."

Colleague: "Do you know about **"

Me: "Hmm, sort of but i need to look into it. i will get back to you"

spend 20 minutes figuring it out

Me writing in chat: "Okay think i know the answer now: **"

Colleague: "You dont need to look into it. Its working now."

blueappconfigon Ask HN: What software sparks joy when using?

Starting Blender and changing to Cycles render mode and seeing how the shadow falls over the items you place has always felt special to me.

blueappconfigon Trying to Understand Copilot's Type Spaghetti

No average person would be happy if they saw that mess

blueappconfigon Trying to Understand Copilot's Type Spaghetti

from the original tweet linked in the post "ceiling is being raised. cursor's copilot helped us write "superhuman code" for a critical feature. We can read this code, but VERY few engineers out there could write it from scratch."

I don't really agree that code is superhuman if VERY few is able to understand it haha..! Code should complex but easy to follow to make it brilliant in my opinion