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gpgn··on Show HN: YouTube banned adblockers so I built an extension to skip their ads
I saw the popup a month or so ago for the first time, and 10 days ago after that. Simply manually updating uBlockOrigin filters did it for me both times.
gpgn··on Life lessons from the death bed
I'm on the spectrum and whenever I think about possible regrets I might have on my deathbed, I always end up thinking “Who cares, I'm going to die anyway. Everything I have experienced will vanish with me, including the regrets I might possibly have.” It's nihilistic but I can’t help it.
gpgn··on Show HN: Firefox add-on to open YouTube videos in alternative front ends
I saw the popup just once, I updated most of the filters used by uBlockOrigin and I haven't seen it since.
gpgn··on ‘I just assumed it would happen’: the unspoken grief of childless men
A relevant documentary, although slightly more about women and the world in general, is Birthgap: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A6s8QlIGanA, where they talk about "unplanned childlessness"
gpgn··on Ask vs. Guess Culture
How does that work in dating? If you are afraid of making people uncomfortable by asking them out, escalating things and putting them in situations where they have to say no to you, you may just end up being single for life.
gpgn··on JWST spots giant black holes all over the early universe
These are somewhated dated but well worth watching; the professor does all kinds of approximations.

Frontiers/Controversies in Astrophysics with Charles Bailyn: https://youtu.be/ZiK4lg3Tzfs?t=1628

gpgn··on Toki Pona: an attempted universal language with only ~120 words
"Arm" and "hand" are two very different things (I guess?), but they are the same word (рука) in Russian.
gpgn··on The Fall of Stack Overflow
I have noticed that Wikipedia is often pushed to the bottom of the page compared to a few years ago where it would always be at the very top.
gpgn··on Growing from engineer to manager
Sounds a lot like the Peter principle

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_principle

gpgn··on AI won't steal your job, people leveraging AI will
yeah, no way "food will be handed out for free" when you can make a profit by selling it; they'd rather throw it away (as they do right now) than give it away for free
gpgn··on How to change the region on an HP OfficeJet printer in 57 easy steps
Obligatory Oatmeal reference https://theoatmeal.com/comics/printers
gpgn··on Italian privacy regulator bans ChatGPT
I'm too low-IQ to understand what this means.
gpgn··on Italian privacy regulator bans ChatGPT
Not for me :(
gpgn··on Italian privacy regulator bans ChatGPT
What pisses me off is that some legitimate websites like project goutenberg are all blocked by my Internet provider in Italy and I have to go through a VPN to access them. Same for scribd, vdoc, libgen and so on.
gpgn··on Hard truths I learned when I got laid off from my SWE job
> This is an area where I have to give tptacek lots of credit.

Any specific thread that might be particularly enlightening/interesting?

gpgn··on All I want for Christmas is these seven TypeScript improvements
"pure" in the context of functional programming often means "without side effects", so writing a log file, interacting with a database and so on would also make the function not pure
gpgn··on Looped Square Or ⌘
Italian keyboards as well.
gpgn··on Responding to recruiter emails with GPT-3
In some of the ones I get the filled data is all uppercase so they are very easy to spot.
gpgn··on The case for bad coffee (2015)
Relevant clip from The Sopranos: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OLyn_feOptg
gpgn··on Use of special characters in usernames on YouTube has been limited
> A combination of archived data from before the offical YouTube dislike API shut down, and extrapolated extension user behavior.

How reliable is this?

gpgn··on Low-code online store builder
Btw, in macOS Monetery 12.4 Apple also removed country flags for keyboard input.
gpgn··on Append Reddit – Chrome extension that redoes searches with Reddit appended
It always plays the video for a few seconds the first time, than goes back to the beginning and plays it correctly till the end. God forbid if you try to mute/unmute it. On Firefox at least.
gpgn··on The money I saved as a child would buy one picogram of gold today
"inflacion escondidA"
gpgn··on New on Reddit: Comment search, improved search results relevance, search design
I'm still going to use google to search to be honest.