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Now that you say it, I also feel that VSCode defaults are wrong. It’s a bunch of small things that feel off.

I’ve never tried those round shavers, but I found that my regular 5-blades are faster and shave closer than my old electric razor, which often felt like it was pulling my hair. The crazy thing is that I last one blade for 4/5 months (although probably I could replace it a little earlier sometimes). Compared to the 3-blades I almost never cut myself.

$30 for the cold brew machine seem reasonable, but I’ve been pouring coffee in plastic bottles to make my cold brew. $0, I don’t even filter it as it just deposits at the bottom, but I don’t know whether the machine is somehow better.

No. Wipr is a clean content blocker. I don’t know how it handles auto-updates of the blocklist, but I definitely don’t need to keep the app open nor does it add buttons to the interface like AdGuard does.

I’ve been trying Brave this week and unfortunately it performed absolutely uselessly on some busy websites, locking up for *several seconds* every time I open a new tab. It might be a temporary bug, but I moved to DDG as my secondary browser anyway. Safari and DDG handle those same pages effortlessly.

That’s pretty strange for a video platform that is completely free to both users and creators. I wonder why they need to put ads on it.

You said that because you’re poor too. Rich people travel right into resorts, not specific places, because resorts sell you the dream directly.

I definitely saw the videos of those dreamy Greek hotels with in-room balcony pools and if I were rich I would know their names too. I’m sure that if you contact them you’ll just have to drive to SFO and the rest will be taken care of by them.

I hope newspapers actually look at the alternative though. Some websites are so poor that I preferred sharing the AMP page instead of the original page since the article was not readable on the latter. That’s right. It was so ad- and popup-infested that it was literally useless.

AMP wasn’t cancer; The web itself is. Visit some non-major or local website and you’ll see they’re absolute rubbish, especially those that work on the web, like news agencies.

My point is that there’s a limit to it. Teslas still don’t have the same range as a gas car in the same category/price. They could increase it but then I don’t think they can sell a lot of $150k Model Ss.

At some point you’ll have more drawbacks than it’s worth it (size, price, weight, efficiency, safety).

As a business, you just have to use it. Whether it sucks is irrelevant as that does not affect the reason why you're there. I've given up on thinking GMaps is in any way accurate anyway, since even if the business owner somewhat cares, they won't remember to update it immediately.

Outside of some core products, Google software simply accumulates cruft and bugs and, I think, is rarely updated at all. They'd rather release a new product than make an existing one better.

This sounds painfully familiar.

> anyone could trivially break the record

"Make it bigger" doesn't really work in cars, otherwise range anxiety wouldn't exist as a concept.

The record still makes sense because the Hyundai Nexo is commercially available and it's not a prototype with a comically-large just for the record tank.

Can this really be solved? If "China" decides to take action, it can do so without opposition, with billions of dollars, with megaprojects that span thousands of kilometers, even. Their huge high-speed rail is another example.

Can the US do that? Or even the EU? It will cost more, it will take longer, and it will be smaller. This is, IMHO, why China tops all of the charts lately. The democratic, federal west simply cannot compete on scale.

Seriously who cares? This should not be on HN

I think such a grave accusation will bring you to write a story into your permanent memory due to how many times you have to repeat it and go over it. If you go to prison, it’s also the last story of your free life. Once inside, your brain will probably be stuck in a loop over what you could have done differently that could have avoided your current situation.

Confirmed. Every time I convert an old Node project to promises I constantly find bugs and situation that were just lost in the hell. The result is also so much cleaner that sometimes you realize you were doing something wrong entirely and you scrap the whole thing. No other JavaScript improvement comes close. Everything else is nice but only saves a few chars at most.

Many array looping functions have been around since ES5 and I've been personally replacing them to for-of loops with very few exceptions (.map() and .filter() remain handy)

Useful fresh additions are .find() and .includes()

I hate that. I noticed I developed this pattern over years of consuming short content online. Why start a big task (or even watch a movie) when there’s this 5 minute video (repeated over 20 videos). TikTok takes this to the extreme with 5-second videos that keep your mind busy without ever having to make a choice. This is addiction and I had to delete TikTok like I deleted YouTube and Facebook. Now Instagram got reels too and I’m stuck in it.

I keep skipping and rejecting male model videos and I keep seeing them. Are you saying TikTok is reading my mind deeper than I can access it?

It’s great to occasionally see success stories from companies that break the mold and can be used as examples a-la-Craigslist. Without them we’re forever stuck with “I know that a signup lightbox on first visit is ugly, but it converts!”

I don’t do it as neatly, but I something similar when upgrading to a new macOS version every couple of years: I install it on a new volume and then move everything over gradually. The previous, still bootable volume will exist until I need space.

I don’t disagree, they should definitely just use WSL anyway for their own peace of mind. Most node tools nowadays seem to be written for macOS first, something I would have never thought would happen 10 years ago, given how popular Windows computers were “for real work”

zx is related, but has completely different use cases.

ShellJS is meant to be used from CLI, as native shell commands; zx is meant to run shell commands from JavaScript. There might be some overlap in usage, but IMHO ShellJS is useless unless you use Windows, while zx is useless if you know how to write bash code.

Yes, 5 years ago.

Nowadays, if you use ShellJS to replicate Unix commands, it means your team is mostly *nix users and you should probably just ask the rest of them to just use WSL and avoid a huge amount of problems that _not_ using it brings.

Contributors might span across OS's, so this tool might still make sense