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fakename11··on For a second straight year, school enrollment is dropping
I can't wait for more states to adopt school vouchers.
fakename11··on FirefoxPWA: Progressive Web Apps for Firefox
OP probably wants site to be to send notifications even though Firefox’s research on the topic has shown that they are 99+ percent spam. I find it very annoying when I visit a site and there's an annoying pop-up asking for notifications (even though chrome and firefox block most automatically). The Mozilla study showed that sites already try and show 100s of billion notifications to users a year "Notification prompts are very unpopular. On Release, about 99% of notification prompts go unaccepted, with 48% being actively denied by the user." https://blog.mozilla.org/futurereleases/2019/11/04/restricti... I also would bet that most acceptance clicks by users were accidental.
fakename11··on Microsoft president: Orwell’s 1984 could happen in 2024
They are more orthogonal than dictatorship and authoritarianism though
fakename11··on Microsoft president: Orwell’s 1984 could happen in 2024
> Because you couldn't trust anyone, not your friends or family. Everyone was part of a big network out to get you, so you were sort of locked in your own head. Have you seen Twitter?
fakename11··on Servers as they should be – shipping early 2022
They also provide equity in the company. Most people dont work in startups for instantaneous salary.
fakename11··on LA pays $2600 per homeless tent, per month
Comparing this to the cost of rent is very fair. Other states don't pay these exorbitant costs and are fine.
fakename11··on Belarus 'diverts Ryanair flight to arrest journalist', opposition says
Are you seriously describing this as a "bad accident"?
fakename11··on Dynamic Programming vs. Divide-and-Conquer (2018)
How does someone talking tell you if they can actually do basic programming... I think you would be surprised at the number of people that apply for software engineering jobs but barely know how to program.
fakename11··on Regulators urge safety recall of Peloton treadmill after child dies
Most houses are sold with outlets that can be extremely dangerous for kids. Do we need more regulation for this too?
fakename11··on Fairphone suggests Qualcomm is the biggest barrier to long-term Android support
It's somewhat pragmatic for the Linux developers. Support a stable kernel API probably wouldn't be that expensive. It's clearly a political decision against writing close source code that does anything low level.
fakename11··on New Bare Hash Map: 2X-3X Speedup over SOTA
They should throw the "Simple Example" through a code formatter. Would look more professional. Other than that, this is a nice project, congrats to the author.
fakename11··on Security.txt
I bet these "expired" security.txts will become more common than unexpired ones in the near future. Updating a date every year sounds annoying.
fakename11··on Tweeting “Memphis” autolocks your Twitter account
Follow better people? (Or at least don't follow their "personal" accounts)
fakename11··on Metakovan, the mystery Beeple art buyer, and his NFT/DeFi scheme
Exactly, also there was this bank that went bankrupt in the 1800s and everyone lost their money too!!!!! You can't trust the system!
fakename11··on California bill would decriminalize psychedelics
Sorry, but construction is a serious job. I don't want people that are high building bridges and homes.
fakename11··on Statement on New York Times Article
Is this really a useful post?
fakename11··on The FBI Is Breaking into Encrypted Devices – We’re Suing
What is next, suing for military secrets?
fakename11··on The Strange Case of Dr. Ho Man Kwok (2019)
Water is also naturally occurring in many food items. That didn't make it harmless - you can die from too much.
fakename11··on All problems stem from man's inability to sit quietly in a room alone (2014)
Why is this the top article on hackewnews without any comments?
fakename11··on Cyberpunk 2077 saves will become corrupted if they reach 8mb in size
Pretty sure this is just an anecdote. Not a real limit as others have reported opening larger save files/
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funny
fakename11··on An Economy of Godzillas: Salesforce, Slack, and Microsoft
Dozens of IT vendors sounds like a security risk.
fakename11··on InstaHide Disappointingly Wins Bell Labs Prize, 2nd Place
I think I agree with a idea that something that is fundamentally technically unsound probably shouldn't get an award.
fakename11··on Changes to our content policy, our board, and where we’re going from here
Not necessarily guaranteed, not every person with a certain skin color has experienced the same thing... but you can probably find someone that has if that is what you are selecting for.
fakename11··on Apple crushes one-man repair shop in Norway’s Supreme Court
Not my point.
fakename11··on Make LLVM Fast Again
I doubt this and the amount of effort this would take would be an huge waste.
fakename11··on Why is the latest Intel hardware unsupported in libreboot? (2017)
Then you have to accept all the bugs with the original...
fakename11··on Why is the latest Intel hardware unsupported in libreboot? (2017)
This is conspiracy theory level stuff
fakename11··on Top Paying Tech Companies by SWE Level
This isn't true.
fakename11··on Top Paying Tech Companies by SWE Level
You can get from 180k to 260k as a new grad at Google.
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