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open-paren··on ICANN's list of abandoned vanity TLDs
Agreed. I use .works and maybe 5% of places don't accept it (the biggest I can think of off the top of my head is Ubisoft). There are some, like my local groceries store chain, that accepts it for account registration but it fails somewhere in the sign-in process. This is not the first time it has happened either.
open-paren··on Many people don't pay full price, most don't want to pay at all for news
The stopper (or at least one) is probably credit card transaction fees. There is usually a minimum fee of like 15¢ which makes it less feasible to do transactions under a dollar.
open-paren··on Google CEO Sundar Pichai takes a look at a sample Google search [video]
Here's the clip from the video, but on YouTube https://youtu.be/lqikP9X9-ws?t=1503
open-paren··on The agony and ecstasy of Costco (2023)
My headcanon is that Walmart pay 1) avoids or circumnavigates traditional credit-card payment processing fees and 2) is accessible for lower income and unbanked/under banked customers.
open-paren··on N64 Emulator Can Get You Hacked [video]
Original technical write-up: https://gist.github.com/aglab2/6bb351c4bd0ac6e13c931e03aa8f9...
open-paren··on [dead]
Sorry. I didn't realize it was fake before I submitted. Title has been updated to reflect that reality.
open-paren··on Microsoft stole my Chrome tabs, and it wants yours, too
It's in super-beta right now and has hardly any of the features of the Mac Version. Only split view and spaces work. No little arc, no easels, no Arc Max, no popup, no search discovery stuff. I'm still a happy user, but don't go into it expecting the exact same thing today.
open-paren··on New GeForce RTX 4080 Super, RTX 4070 Ti Super, RTX 4070 Super
1080ti and 8700k still goin' strong
open-paren··on All code is technical debt
I prefer to say that "code is a liability, not an asset." Liabilities are useful and help achieve goals (want a house, get a mortgage), but the code is not the goal. Code is a mechanism that achieves that goal, but more code becomes a drag.
open-paren··on Homage to Strong Bad
Matt Chapman has a day job as animator/writer at Disney (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1480095/). I'm not sure what Mike Chapman is up to. They still manage to put out H*R content every so often. Usually it's just a yearly Halloween costume montage, but there have been a few small games like Marzipan Beef Reverser and the recent Dangeresque point and click adventure remaster that released a few weeks ago.
open-paren··on jQuery 4.0 99% Complete
Off the top of my head, jQuery has some unique selectors that aren't replicated in vanilla CSS, like :eq()
open-paren··on Ask HN: Which DNS service do you use for your computer's network settings?
All these people that are using pi-hole + unbound should switch to Adguard because it natively supports DNS-over-HTTPS, DNS-over-TLS, and DNS-over-QUIC
open-paren··on The Level1Techs KVM Switch [video]
If you actually watched the video, you would see Wendell actually knows what he is talking about.
open-paren··on The Level1Techs KVM Switch [video]
I thought that this was decent video on a product that I see much griping about here on HN: KVM switches. There are hundreds of bad KVM switches, but this one is created by a knowledgeable YouTuber who understands that (flawed) USB and DisplayPort specs, has put in the work to resolve them, and is going after companies like Samsung and Logitech to fix bugs in their display and device drivers.

The KVM switches can be purchased here: https://www.store.level1techs.com/products/hardware

I've submitted the Linus Tech Tips video because it is a better overview and it discusses the problems in the specs. The following videos from the Level1Techs are a little older, less comprehensive, and are more incremental ("here's an update to our KVM!") in nature.

- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z0C_8zM4DmI

- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wfJ1Hc96ZHo

open-paren··on Google Docs adds tracking to links in document exports
Those corporate phishing tests are often administered by KnowBe4, and KnowBe4 identifies their phishing emails with custom email headers (can't remember what it is off the top of my head). So if you view the source code of an email and look for the obvious KnowBe4 header, you can tell ahead of time.
open-paren··on Neopets is still around
Same. Learning HTML for Neopets sites directly led me to my current job as a programmer.
open-paren··on What happens to all the stuff we return?
Jet.com, before it was bought by Wal*Mart, used to do this.
open-paren··on JavaScript is weird
But even that isn't weird, since parseInt() takes two arguments (string and radix) and map expects a function value that receives three arguments (value, index, and the whole array). It's not so much "weird" as it is "I didn't read the docs“.
open-paren··on Former intel officer says 'non-human biologics’ found at alleged UFO crash sites
dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36877774
open-paren··on Show HN: Schnitzeljagd.dev tests your web dev skills
I think your clues are too vague. I (and all the people I've sent this to) are stuck on Step #6. Go down? Down to the third level of what?
open-paren··on HDR QR Code
Re: #1

It was Christopher Nolan. He said

"The only platform I’m interested in talking about is theatrical exhibition."

and

"“We made the decision a couple of films ago that we weren’t going to mix films for substandard theaters... We’re mixing for well-aligned, great theaters... At a certain point, you have to decide if you’ve made the best possible version of the film and you’re trying to account for inadequacies in presentation... That’s chasing the tail. It doesn’t work. I will say, with our sound mixes, we spent a lot of time and attention making sure that they work in as predictable a way possible."

https://www.indiewire.com/features/general/christopher-nolan...

https://www.indiewire.com/features/craft/dunkirk-too-loud-ch...

open-paren··on Reddit’s blackout protest is set to continue indefinitely
"It is too big and we can't deal with that many users".
open-paren··on “Clickless” iOS exploits infect Kaspersky iPhones with never-before-seen malware
https://securelist.com/operation-triangulation/109842/
open-paren··on Apple announces multibillion deal with Broadcom to make components in the USA
And Intel just chopped the size of the office in half. They don't use the upper floor anymore.
open-paren··on Disney and the Great Streaming Purge
Some of those are very recent titles, like The Mysterious Benedict Society, which finished it's 3rd season within the past few months.
open-paren··on Passage by 1Password: Add passkey support to your app or website
Bitwarden also just launched a similar offering: https://passwordless.dev
open-paren··on More Americans are using ‘buy now, pay later’ services to pay for groceries
It's probably related to a recent Dominos x Uber Eats x Zilch ad that went viral. https://twitter.com/MustelidFan69/status/1448973244434948125 https://www.ft.com/content/c4da9b2f-5187-4956-931d-0554d4268... (https://archive.is/ELFOk)
open-paren··on Adobe Firefly: AI Art Generator
Adobe employee, not in Creative Cloud.

We got access to this in beta a week ago and it was an instant hit across the whole company.

This is just the tip of the iceberg and there is a lot of really cool, in-house products around generative AI. The team is going to great lengths to make this ethical and fair (try and generate a photo of a copyrighted character like Hello Kitty or Darth Vader). I'm excited to see the final product of all the internal work that has been going on for so long.

open-paren··on The floppy disk just won’t die
Speaking of that... Why did that go away? Less 3g? Moore speakers with better insulation?
open-paren··on Banning words won’t make the world more just
It should obviously be pronounced "le-teh-quis gah-teh-quies", right?
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