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exac··on Ask HN: Just received spam to an address only used at Amazon?
I think this is the answer.
exac··on Lua, a Misunderstood Language (2021)
FYI These operators are being removed from modern languages now, via style guides, linters, or the language itself (eg: Swift). Personally I actually like the increment and decrement operators, but I understand how they can be confusing (especially ++x vs x++).
exac··on What to read to become a better writer
The point is that re-reading catches errors, like the spelling of "important".
exac··on Living closer together
How do you think the carbon footprint per capita compares between urban and suburban areas?

Take a look at this study by UC Berkeley [1]. It is quite clear that we need to be reducing our carbon footprint, and living in cities is the responsible choice unless the global population begins to plummet.

[1] https://pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10.1021/es4034364

exac··on No evidence for nudging after adjusting for publication bias
Anyone who has ever run an installer, that has an annoying setting hidden in the default-toggled-off-advanced section, knows that nudges do work. Perhaps nudges do not work on you, but when you see your parent's computer with all the desktop icons and browser toolbars in days gone bye, you will see the evidence of them working.
exac··on Ask HN: What tone to use in code review suggestions?
I prefix my nitpicks with the same, but with the 3rd style.
exac··on What should you do with stock options during a recession?
In my humble opinion, this is a sunken cost. Diversify at the very least.
exac··on Ask HN: Burnt-out, directionless but want to turn it around
No one is going to feel great after working 70-90 hours a week. If you want to grind LC, start going to sleep earlier and spend the first hour of each day doing so (when you're most rested). I promise you will feel better.
exac··on Imagen, a text-to-image diffusion model
You can sort of do that with https://fairuseify.ml
exac··on Ask HN: Internet magically gets faster when opening speedtest?
This functionality is built into Cisco IOS. Can you tell me what exactly is expensive about implementing it alongside the other configuration?
exac··on As climate fears mount, some are relocating within the US
> Or maybe new ice age is coming.

The science does not support that. Your particular corner of the planet is not indicative of the world's changing climate:

https://www.climate.gov/news-features/climate-qa/does-global...

exac··on Test Microwave for Radiation Leakage
Because Bluetooth uses 2.4 GHz, and your wifi is on 5GHz.
exac··on Applebee’s exec urges using high gas prices to push lower wages, sparks walkout
Correct me if I'm wrong, but wouldn't it be better for the environment if all the produce is delivered in one trip, verse the environmental cost of 50 employees driving 100 miles / day? I'm assuming the LCOL employees live close to the factory.
exac··on Google Is Holding All Your Old Free G Suite Accounts Hostage
There is a hidden cost to this though. Running your own email server, or even having a lesser-known company manage your email server, can cause your emails to be sent to spam without any action on your part. You aren't notified when your email goes to a spam folder, so you always have to worry that the recipient of your emails didn't receive the email, even if you only ever send legitimate emails. If you stay on top of all the best-practices for running your own mail server, your hidden cost is the mind-share that that takes.
exac··on Finding an authorization bypass on my own website
And has since June 2004 in MySQL.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MySQL#Milestones

exac··on What to do if you get a question you've already seen in a coding interview
Some people love asking interview questions where they don't state all the requirements, so I suppose the idea is to see if the candidate can discover the "hidden criteria".

This also makes more sense in a language where number types need manual casting.

exac··on CBT Harmed Me: The Interview That the New York Times Erased
It is because CBT is often used by insurance companies to administer "return to work" programs for injured employees.

The insurance companies choose which therapists administer the CBT program.

The therapists that are more likely to drive their patient through to the end of the return to work program, and have their patient answer "I feel more ready to return to work" during sessions, is more likely to keep their job.

Source: Worked at CBT company.

exac··on What does the Delta variant mean for you?
We only have delta because people did not either take precautions (masks, distancing), get vaccinated, or both.
exac··on Verilog2Factorio: Web Demo
Look at the tabs on the top. It generates the blueprints, but you can also see a link to a browser-render of the blueprint.
exac··on Where Is the World’s Best Weather? (2020)
So the only 5 cities that score 11 are:

San Paulo, Brazil

Mzuzu, Malawi

Durban, South Africa

East London, South Africa

San Diego, USA

exac··on Don't Feed the Thought Leaders
Iron Ore - also Rust
exac··on The economics of movie production placements
Temporary "production" companies are setup by Producers for the creation usually a single film or series. When filming is complete, these companies are sunset, and cannot have recurring revenue.

The Producer gets funding for their project from distribution company (Paramount, Disney, etc). The distribution company is the long-lived company that recurring revenue has to go to.

The distribution companies work as a cartel, whereby they have an existing revenue stream from all the product placements in existing films/tv that they want to protect. So as part of the Producer's contract with the distribution company, they must get the permission of the distribution company to include branded products in their films.

exac··on The anti-pattern of responsive design
It would be interesting to find out what percentage of the population knows that their browser can zoom in, or pinch-to-zoom on mobile.
exac··on Why do long options start with two dashes? (2019)
And java -version
exac··on Firefox 87.0
> To prevent user data loss when filling out forms, we’ve disabled the Backspace key as a navigation shortcut for the back navigation button. To re-enable the Backspace keyboard shortcut, you can change the about:config preference browser.backspace_action to 0. You can also use the recommended Alt + Left arrow (Command + Left arrow on Mac) shortcut instead.
exac··on Ghost 4
The top comment on the original 2017 Ghost 1.0 thread on hn is complaining about the lack of the dashboard they finally added.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14864731

exac··on Facebook Execs Told Employees It Isn’t a “Root Cause” of Polarization in the US
Korean shop keepers that had to defend their shops with guns during the LA riots.
exac··on Speeding up Chrome's release cycle
Just because the release cycle is faster, doesn't mean that features spend less time in alpha/beta channels. Evergreen browsers release features behind flags, and those features can sit sometimes for years before they're turned on by default in the public release channel.
exac··on Noise pollution hurts the heart
Most cars have this if you look in the user manual. Even old cars with no graphical radio have konami-code-like sequences of button presses you can input to turn them off.
exac··on HashiCorp Raises $175M at $5.1B Valuation
I feel sorry for your employer.
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