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> are taught (poorly)

Anecdotal. Here's another: my language teachers from year 3-12 were above average if anything—most of my peers were at least conversational in Spanish (or their selected language) by high school.

At the time, the school system offered Spanish, French, German and Latin. Those who took Latin almost always had medical school ambitions. I asked.

Firefox will always have a special place in my heart, because of Firebug, which I credit to helping me whilst I was learning webdev in the late aughts.

A colleague of mine at the time quipped that "Firefox is my workhorse; Chrome is my show pony"

Times have certainly changed.

The best CEOs avoid sitting in chairs such as those chairs specifically. If you're sat there on behalf of your company, suit and tie, starting every sentence with "Senator, I.."—you have somehow messed up, big time.

> You are not entitled to sex with anyone, but people can have preferences that are problematic.

I read the whole article, but at this sentence I reached for Cmd+W, which was done via muscle memory as my eyes were rolled so far back into my head.

This makes perfect sense now, thanks for explaining.

> Everyone in my department is making the same, my boss included

I'm curious—how does this work? More responsibility ought to mean more compensation—what incentive is there to be a boss if you'll make the same as your reports?

> they are simply detecting user agents with ad-blockers

The browser's user agent string doesn't change based on plugins installed, or at all--unless end user changes it purposefully.

The ad-block detection is likely and usually a separate script that runs an interval check on the existence/visibility of ad-related DOM elements (which would be false when hidden/removed by a plugin or even the developer tools)

I won 6 (3 human, 3 bot) in a row and thought "this is cake, everything is fine" — then got absolutely blindsided by a bot who I was most certain of all 7 was a human.

Gonna take a walk.

> In the old days of P2P MP3 sharing, there were just a few songs that were misidentified

I remember (a friend) downloading Box Car Racer's new album on p2p only to find an indie band had uploaded their own songs under the legitimate BCR track listing. While immediately clear they weren't BCR, friend was intrigued and continued to listen to them for years without having any idea who they really were.

It's his brand, though—of course he'd be that way for an interviewer.

Which leads to the next slightly annoying bit—author was reluctant to follow up because Jimmy Fallon is a celebrity, which isn't said explicitly but is essentially the crux of the whole article.

Apart from that, "Hey, ya never know" is not terrible advice, but it's also a lottery slogan.

I understand the sentiment, to an extent, but I find myself simultaneously wondering how our great/grandparents didn't become similarly disillusioned by World Wars, Great Depressions. To them, it could have very well been the end of the world more than once or twice. I'm sure there were certainly those who saw that and thought "nope, not bringing life into this mess" — but us being here proves at least some people thought otherwise.

Interesting, this test can be worked both ways then: ChatGPT will answer quickly and with different cadence than a human AND it will, at least for now, struggle with precision in timed events.

Genuinely curious—if the purpose is to hire/identify an AI, why the "Australia (preferred)"[0] under Qualifications?

[0] https://twitter.com/Schappi/status/1670612150182887424

If you're using ublock origin, I have these filters which I copied from another HN comment once upon a time.

news.ycombinator.com##html:style(filter:invert(100%) hue-rotate(180deg))

news.ycombinator.com##body:style(background: white)

news.ycombinator.com##div.toptext:style(color: black)

news.ycombinator.com###hnmain td[bgcolor="#000000"]

edit: "rules" -> "filters"

https://static01.nyt.com/images/2023/06/15/nytfrontpage/scan... [0]

https://static01.nyt.com/images/2013/06/15/nytfrontpage/scan... [1]

Should be helpful—the date syntax is straightforward.

NYT does this daily. The first one I can find is:

https://static01.nyt.com/images/2012/07/06/nytfrontpage/scan... [2]

[0] NYT front page scan from 15 June 2023

[1] from 15 June 2013

[2] from 06 July 2012, seemingly the first

I'm honestly surprised the public library is the only place to get free 24/7 wifi in San Francisco. Bizarre.

Agreed apart from:

> One advantage of a mobile app over a mobile web site is that you can use the accelerometer

Accelerometer API access has been available on mobile web for ~ a decade. I think it'd actually be more trouble than it's worth to listen for a "tilt" to shift the view and misdirect the user's tap. Most UI's just put the ad dangerously close to an element that's also interactive, or style the ad to look nearly identical to the other content in the feed, like reddit. It's to make you encounter ads and maybe tap on them purposefully or accidentally. They will happily take either.

On one hand, I agree—on the other, the US military has had [historically] a really hard time with farmers in flip-flops.

The only popular fashion (if you can even call it that) I've ever observed with any consistency is "hoodie" and "graphic tee". More rare, but worth noting, is shorts-when-its-pants-weather. The lack of dress-code just translated into whatever a person would be wearing if they had stayed at home.

I wouldn't notice a person's socks unless they asked me to.

IMO, including those generated .txt files is a small[ish] feat that's important to those that are looking for it, and benign to those that don't need it or know what it is.

I suspect most users who use a site generator would be happy with more "automagic"—especially if it were 1. easy to config or turn off and 2. addressing important things like security-related contact info, or how a web-scraping bot should respect your domain.

Also: "simple" generators often veer into "complicated" territory by adding crap features. Elegant appears to lack crap features; IMO, adding *.txt would not complicate or confuse.

I gravitate towards startups for this reason. In my experience with big orgs, everything takes forever and involves 20+ people. Often, still nothing really gets done. At startups, I or someone sitting virtually next to me is the one creating the initial integrations, accounts or credentials. Similarly, I am compelled by the MVP and the express lane it demands. I loathe red tape and process for the sake of process—and it's most evident as a new-hire, watching others scramble to onboard you, only to keep hitting corporate walls.

While I don't think as a blanket rule a new hire should push prod code on day or week one—they should be able to without being ham-stringed by needless bureaucracy that has nothing to do with security or engineering. (IMO)

Hovering the link to preview its location in the status bar reveals the trick because the browser doesn't see any real slashes. The anchor's href (when inspected) actually does have the full bogus URL, but when hovered we're shown the browser-evaluated URL—which is a TIL.

The official Watchy firmware is designed to put the esp32 into deep sleep and only wake to update the display, which being e-ink doesn't need any further power to hold its position until the next update. In deep sleep no radios are on and the esp32 uses very small amounts of power. In my experience, I usually have to plug it into charge every ~10 days.

As far as bluetooth on Watchy goes, it's more useful for OTA updates than anything else. When in this mode, Watchy's firmware can be sent as a .bin over bluetooth. This takes only a few minutes and then the ble radio is turned off. No real hit the battery.

The other [quicker] way to flash the firmware is via usb, during which time the battery is charging.

What I like about Watchy is that it requires no phone or apps, is running firmware I wrote and flashed, and occasionally calls my server for data if I need it.

A senator whose name isn't on this list—what's your point?

break through at several strategic points where the building meets the foundation and place hydraulic jacks in the voids. Once enough jacks are in place and lifted, _they_ now serve as the support; the remaining parts of the building can be removed/disconnected from the original foundation.

> _reasonably_ trust a power-only USB ... like the built in ports on aircraft.

I'm with you, this might fall under "safe". Then again, from threads posted here and elsewhere, and through personal investigation...the infotainment systems on airplanes are an absolute disaster with regards to security and software design. They're often part of the same system as the provided USB ports. While the risk is small, there's nothing stopping 1 person from running a script that exploits some flaw in the outdated Linux distro the airline is using to manage their in-flight entertainment.

There's also a chance I'm paranoid and spend too much time here, but I'm gonna stick with my Altoids.

> common knowledge to never use public chargers

Perhaps here on HN. Most people will plug their smartphone into any accepting receptacle. trains, airplanes, NYC SmartLink, or ask the bartender if they can plug it in behind the bar.

I still carry a DIY Altoids charger that takes a 9V battery (pulled down to proper volts for iPhone). In a battery emergency, my phone is simply on life support and I don't have to look for outlets that might also include a zero-day.

Source code reveals clicking all Kings adds Jokers to the deck, but also clicking all Aces will do the "Winning" sequence from Solitaire, aptly named "startWinning()"

Personally, I can't think of a more likely-to-tell-everyone-in-the-room profession than a journalist.

The content="text/html; charset=windows-1252" was interesting to me since I'm so used to seeing utf-8. Caring about charset seemingly makes little sense here, given everything is embedded into the image. I wonder if this page was created by a generator.