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jordanregeron Caniemail.com – like caniuse but for email content

Pretty much the only credit I'll give to Amazon is that they give the option to get plaintext emails. Doesn't mask the larger problems, but still a nice thing I wish was the norm.

jordanregeron Tyson Foods Is Dumping Millions Of Pounds Of Pollutants Into American Waterways

I don't mean to detract from the point of the article but the phrase "according to Quora" made me wince. Even though it follows a relatively minor detail it still feels weird that people use it as a source of real information.

jordanregeron Package management on macOS with Nix-Darwin

Interesting. Good to know!

jordanregeron Package management on macOS with Nix-Darwin

Have you tried using the Determinate Systems installer? This (supposedly) helps to not break everything on system updates. As far as I can tell, it works.

jordanregeron Lolita: A tagless, dependently typed, self-aware programming language

Nah with a good SEO team it'll be the first result on Google

jordanregeron The case against caffeine

And chances are the roasters actually care about making it taste good. It's rare but you can find great decaf coffee if you look for it.

To me, it is weird that all coffee revolves around caffeine; I find the complex tastes way more rewarding than the milligrams of caffeine I get from it.

jordanregeron Ask HN: Why do computers/tablets/etc "freeze up" as they get older?

> we're also not allergic to complexity the way we should be.

Very well put. I think the majority of why performance isn't a goal anymore can be attributed to this. So much software today is written like it's running on a supercomputer (and in comparison to computers even just 10 years ago, it is). Libraries have become crutches rather than tools.

jordanregeron Ratatui

Extra points for the awesome demo GIF!

jordanregeron Google is embedding inaudible watermarks into its AI generated music

i've heard a ton of aphex twin and disasterpeace, one of my favorite songs being compass, and i've never even thought about this. cool to see it's hidden in such a beautiful song

jordanregeron Apple unveils M3, M3 Pro, and M3 Max

I proudly use an M1 Mac Mini but the fact that they're so full of themselves constantly makes me laugh(?)

jordanregeron Two photographers captured the same millisecond in time (2018)

This is a fascinating article that covers something I've thought about plenty of times! Genuinely how often do people take virtually the same photo at the same time? You'd think it'd be more often at places like Disney World but it's fascinating to hear it happened in a scenario like this.

jordanregeron It's okay to make something nobody wants

well said

jordanregeron 200k users abandon Netflix after crackdown backfires

As a US customer, it's the same way here.

P.S. I may be biased because I just watch Channel 4...

jordanregeron AI bots are now better than humans at decoding CAPTCHAs

I'm not surprised. I input a 2FA time-based code with a 30 second refresh on it and by the time I got through the captchas, my code had expired. By ~1.5 minutes...

jordanregeron US suicide deaths reached record high in 2022

It is both. They both absolutely contribute to our mental health crisis, and I'd argue it's worse in suburb-locked North America. I, as I'm sure others have as well, have identified these two individual problems as major offenders of my mental health. When I spend time away from both, I feel magnitudes of order happier. Mix that with the dystopian job culture of "the future" (today) and you've got yourself a nightmare only 80s writers would've thought of.

jordanregeron Depthboot – Your Chromebook, your way

yeah i watched this all go down - it was a nightmare lol

jordanregeron Depthboot – Your Chromebook, your way

just a note: the owner (?) of the project has gone on some sort of archiving spree, and has hacked (?) the discord and github accounts of the real owner...

jordanregeron Ask HN: Why hasn’t Apple created an ad-blocker in the system level for iOS?

i've only ever seen ads for apple music and the new devices. everything else is an exaggeration imo

jordanregeron Ask HN: Could you share your personal blog here?

https://futurist.city/~jr

all garbage, sometimes useful

jordanregeron I downloaded all 1.6M posts on Bluesky

+1 this. I'm very much hoping they'll stick to the protocol because it seems very well thought out and designed as a social protocol. I see this as a Deno situation where the runtime is free and open and will always be that way, but they build products upon it. That way everyone benefits from a good thing.

jordanregeron Safari Doesn't Get Enough Credit

I totally agree. I think that this is an element of the larger problem, which is trying to be solved by Interop and just general compatibility issues with Safari throughout the years. One of the biggest pain points in my web dev journey has been supporting Safari and for that I support Chromium and the accompanying devtools completely. This article is purely based on my usage experience, though, nothing other than that.

jordanregeron Starship Flight Test [video]

Weather is also poor for the rest of the week so I doubt launch will be within a couple days

jordanregeron Twitter disables likes or comments on Substack?

Good thing Substack is making their own Twitter... lol

jordanregeron Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (April 2023)

nice site.

jordanregeron Ask HN: Science fiction movies that are appropriate for 12 year olds?

even though i'm a massive blade runner fan, it is most certainly not appropriate for kids whatsoever

jordanregeron LOL Verifier

lol (LOL verified at 12:44:35 19/02/2023)

jordanregeron <3 Deno

i think the name is actually derived from 'node'.split('').sort().join('') but i like "destroy node" a lot better lol