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muli_don Chezmoi introduces ban on LLM-generated contributions

"Users posting unreviewed LLM-generated content with the admission that they do not understand the code"

Unreviewed is a key word here.

muli_don Show HN: I built a tool to manage and compare credit card rewards

1. The website looks sleek and has good design.

2. I wish I could get a little bit more of a sneak peek / preview before needing to create an account.

3. Unrelated to the core business of your website, there's a small "bug" in the light/dark theme switch -- the first mouse click doesn't do anything (at least when "system" = "dark"). This is happening because when you launch the site for the first time and the localStorage is "clean", the "theme" value is "system". But clicking the toggle changes the value to "dark", which keeps the current theme as it is.

muli_don Ask HN: Is NPM Having an Outage?

Yes, I'm having the same issue. Getting 404 for React 19 [0].

However, according to npm's status page [1], there's a scheduled maintenance occurring right now, so that's expected.

[0] https://www.npmjs.com/package/react/v/19.0.0

[1] https://status.npmjs.org

muli_don Avoiding if-else Hell: The Functional Style

You forgot to add `/blog`: https://gourav.io/blog/linear-code.

And thanks, I've been trying to get my team to get used to writing `else`-less code (i.e., without nesting as much as possible), I'll keep your link in my bookmarks and share it with them when appropriate.

muli_don MDN Blog

I find it amusing that even when you're on the MDN Blog URL (https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/blog/), it still shows you a banner on the top that says "Discover the latest web development insights on our new MDN Blog", which links to the exact same page. :)

muli_don Bill Gates tries to install Movie Maker (2003)

> He said "I restart every day" as if this were a normal condition.

To be fair, I think that 20 years ago most people shut down their computers when they weren't using them for more than a couple of hours, and most definitely at night. (Also, I believe that he meant that he "starts up" his computer every day, rather than "rebooting"/"restarting")

muli_don Ask HN: Why it is hard for US to move to metric system?

I think that the idea is "what it feels like in a scale of 0 to 100".

So, in Celsius, water are "very cold" (=freezing) at 0 degrees but "very hot" (=boiling) at 100 degrees. Same with Fahrenheit: 0 is extremely cold while 100 is very hot.

I get the logic but I am too used to Celsius at this point, just like you.

muli_don uBlock Origin Lite

They stated [1] that they are going support MV3 but keep maintaining the blocking WebRequest API.

[1] https://blog.mozilla.org/addons/2022/05/18/manifest-v3-in-fi...

muli_don Show HN: Sorted CSS Colors – Sort the named CSS colors in a nice way

This is very cool, I love it. Thanks for sharing.

muli_don Ask HN: What feature did you find after years of using macOS?

You can delete files immediately (i.e., skip moving to the trash) in Finder by holding the Option key in addition to Command + Delete (or Backspace).

muli_don Ask HN: What feature did you find after years of using macOS?

This is gold. Thanks!

muli_don Show HN: UnnaturalScrollWheels – Better scroll wheel settings for macOS

Thank you. I've been using Scroll Reverser[1], but it hasn't been updated to fully support Catalina (it works, but the installation process was not updated to request the permissions in Catalina). I'll check out UnnaturalScrollWheels to see if it's a good replacement.

[1] https://pilotmoon.com/scrollreverser/