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ecf··on BurgerKing gave candy to worker who never took sick day. The internet gave $400k
Fast food worker who never called in sick when they were sick and risked infecting others? Disgusting. You cannot possibly tell me that a human never once got sick
ecf··on Don’t build a general purpose API to power your own front end (2021)
It’s because you fossils keep thinking server-side rendering is the right call for everything and won’t consider other possibilities.
ecf··on Amsterdam to use “noise cameras” against too loud cars
100 yards is amateur hour when it comes to disrespectful motorcycle owners. Harleys where I live can be heard miles down the country roads.
ecf··on Throwing away 10 months of work after 2 months on the job
Main side project of mine is a Strava-like web app to upload bike rides. It’s intended for personal use, so I don’t care how long it takes to load for random visitors arriving for the first time. I don’t care if search engines can properly load the page for content previews. I don’t care if someone’s ten year old Android device chugs on the JavaScript. I don’t care about dealing with the headache of making whatever JS library I’m using work with hydration.
ecf··on YouTube Ads May Have Led to Online Tracking of Children, Research Says
Tech has solved more difficult problems. Maybe they should do that instead of relying on the same old “yes I was born in 1900” age verifications that are prevalent today.
ecf··on Too Many Vacant Lots, Not Enough Housing: The U.S. Real-Estate Puzzle
Oh my lord is this really so hard to figure out? An entire generation built their retirements off of home values and will do literally anything in their power to vote down literally anything that threatens that home value.

They’re going to drag down the next two or three generations with their idiocy.

ecf··on New York City bans TikTok for government employees
You can’t expect journalists to not make up clickbait headlines. This is 2023, and we’ve seen what they did with LK-99.

Perhaps a controversial opinion but I can’t wait for an LLM that directly feeds off of the source: like AP news, or Arvix, and automatically provides an RSS feed of non-clickbait headlines with substantive articles if I decide it’s worth reading. I cannot wait to get this profession out of my life, and I will happily pay to make it happen.

ecf··on LK-99 isn’t a superconductor
Loved the video. Also very annoyed with the general reception seen on HN like “well it was fun”. Unreal the authors had the audacity to add that last line proclaiming a new age for humankind. Even more unreal that news everywhere fell for it.
ecf··on GCP offering 200Gb free egress on their Standard Tier
Don’t fall for it.
ecf··on How the iMac Saved Apple
Our school didn’t have any in each classroom, but rather a dedicated computer lab with enough for the entire class. Surprisingly they were loaded with a few games and learning we could play Cro-Mag Rally multiplayer over LAN while the teacher wasn’t paying attention is a core memory of mine.
ecf··on Why I’m Sticking with Rails
> My intuition drew me back to Rails because the Hotwire design makes developments very quick and concise. There’s no noise, the kind you only notice when you bounce between technologies. Let’s say, with Hotwire, what would take you a day in React can be done in an hour.

With React, what would take me a day in Hotwire can be done in an hour.

ecf··on US Senator Lummis, Crypto Lobbyists Urge Court to Dismiss SEC's Coinbase Lawsuit
If slimy blockchain crypto lobbyists are against something then usually that means it’s beneficial for the rest of us.
ecf··on 'Data Have Spoken LK-99 Is Not a Superconductor,' Says US Research Center
News, and perhaps journalism as a whole, is in a race to the bottom and it’s simply impossible to ask them to hold off on running a story with the title “new material promises to change the world” until it’s proven.

I’ll gladly pay upwards of $50-100 per month for an AI that gives me non-clickbait headlines for all the substantial, verified news happening. Tired of having my time wasted by this profession and their obsession with getting clicks.

ecf··on Chinese Trust Companies on the Brink
You know it’s a good article about China when this starts appearing in the comment section.
ecf··on Larian's Unfair Advantage
Seeing the comments from developers at billion dollar AAA studios made me roll my eyes so hard I almost lodged them into the back of my skull.
ecf··on Z-Library Petitions U.S. and Argentina to Cease ‘Illegal’ Criminal Prosecution
> They do need to fund it somehow, don’t they?

Why doesn’t this statement also apply to the source of the materials this entity is stealing from?

ecf··on AI Causes Real Harm. Let’s Focus on That over the End-of-Humanity Hype
“The printing press causes real harm because Artisans are all of a sudden in fewer demand.”

That’s how I view all these people decrying AI in the face of all the genuine improvements it can bring about.

ecf··on Brain’s ‘appetite control centre’ different in people who are overweight
So the question becomes if overeating causes this lack of appetite control over time, or if the lack of control is what caused someone to become overweight.

As far as I can tell the study can’t determine this.

ecf··on US Supreme Court needs more scrutiny, not less
> When the rulings favored the liberal agenda there was no calls for scrutiny everything was just

I’m curious as to what you mean when you say liberal agenda.

ecf··on 'Unbelievable': Astronomer Claims 'Direct Evidence' of Gravity Breaking Down
After the superconductor flop I imagine we will see a lot more stories like this where journalists hype up anything they possibly can.
ecf··on Ask HN: How can Kagi be so fast and customizable?
Well this is easy. Kagi is fast because of how strictly they limit the number of searches one can perform.

Take the standard, $5 plan. It gives you 300 searches PER MONTH. That’s 10 per day. I’m sure most of us do 10 searches within minutes while working.

ecf··on Svelte 5 is going to be radical
Using “radical” to describe a tool just reeks of hype driven development.
ecf··on Uninstall the NightOwl app
And people wonder why software developers are starting to get bad reputations…
ecf··on Uninstall the NightOwl app
I’m sure an LLC named TPE.FYI is going to have good intentions with a closed sourced, free menu bar app that’s a gloried AppleScript any junior developer can build in a day.

Developer knew exactly what was going to happen.

ecf··on Smoothing out the scrolling experience in Chrome on Android
And scroll past all the ads Google wants you to see? Sorry, not allowed.
ecf··on Uninstall the NightOwl app
> I love to build digital products

Should update that to “I love to throw the people who love my digital products under the bus”

ecf··on Paychecks, Not Portfolios: Why Income Is the Key to Financial Success
Yeah one might as well just off themself now and not live a life because nobody is going to visit their grave. /s

This article is about financial success during the time someone is living I have no idea what your comment is supposed to mean.

ecf··on Uninstall the NightOwl app
Developers who sell out their app to entities like this deserve to be ostracized from the profession.
ecf··on Serial murders have dwindled, thanks to improved technology
The driver was most likely on their phone when it happened, so hopefully there will be some charges filed. I would love to see the precedent set where killing someone while distracted is treated as murder.

https://www.npr.org/2023/07/31/1191096086/cyclist-magnus-whi...

ecf··on Apple argues that removable batteries add a potential failure point to phones
I much prefer a world where you get Apple to replace your battery after 5-10 years for cheap than one where Joe Schmoe is using a $5 dollar battery from Alibaba which forces a plane emergency landing when it catches on fire.
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