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peanut_wormon Ask HN: Why has quality of YouTube reduced drastically?

I have also noticed this. Seems like over the past 2 months or so the suggestions got much worse. My front page is 80% garbage with like 800 views that is barely relevant to my interests now. I am logged in. A few months ago every video was a decent suggestion.

peanut_wormon I still love PHP and JavaScript

I have grown to love JavaScript, especially in its modern form. PHP I hate more and more each day I use it.

peanut_wormon Ask HN: Do you ever use GPT-3 in anger?

I am not sure I would use it for math. Sometimes it gives the wrong answer on purpose.

peanut_wormon Microsoft Outlook is crashing when reading Uber receipt emails

Why!??? Doesn’t Microsoft have 10 other HTML renderers they could use?

peanut_wormon Google Timer is gone

Why does google do things like this

peanut_wormon Booting Linux in five seconds (2008)

On any SSD I have used, Ubuntu starts in like 5 seconds or so.

peanut_wormon I bought a cheap electric pickup truck from Alibaba (2021)

He says it cost 7k. Compared to the price of a new golf cart thats actually not bad at all. Might be useful in places where golf carts are street legal, which seems to be getting more popular in the US.

peanut_wormon Windows Start Menu not starting? You're not alone

Windows 11 has been very sloppy. I’ve never seen a version of Windows with so many easily reproducible bugs.

peanut_wormon How do other animals see the world?

Its amazing to me that something as small a jumping spider has the hardware in its head to process vision as well as humans.

peanut_wormon What’s the Biggest Bird in the World?

Oilbirds live in caves and I think they are a bit larger

peanut_wormon What’s the Biggest Bird in the World?

Wandering Albatross have a wider wingspan than Andean Condors on average if I am not mistaken

peanut_wormon ‘Stray’ – the videogame where you play as a cat – is breaking the internet

Is this an advertisement?

peanut_wormon Behold Your $20k Trash Cans Have Arrived in SF and Are Now at Your Disposal

Give me 20k and I will design you a trash can that you cannot dig around in.

peanut_wormon Behold Your $20k Trash Cans Have Arrived in SF and Are Now at Your Disposal

San Francisco is the filthiest city I have ever been to. I don’t understand the appeal at all. Why not just put in normal trash cans and hire someone to pick up the damn trash.

peanut_wormon Interview with Douglas Crockford

I am surprised he doesn’t like the more recent additions to JavaScript. I liked ES6 features quite a lot.

peanut_wormon FCC: TikTok is unacceptable security risk and should be removed from app stores

I would be more concerned that a country that does not like America now has a direct line of communication with virtually every American with a cell phone under 20 now.

peanut_wormon Blue Zones, where people reach age 100 at 10 times greater rates

I strongly doubt that. I am in Europe right now the meat is the exact same quality if not slightly worse than what I am used to in America barring fast food.

peanut_wormon To download from Google Drive, you must enable third party cookies?

I would prefer that an advertising company does not have majority control over the rendering engine

peanut_wormon UK set to have automated drone superhighway

I wonder what effects this would have on the local bird populations

peanut_wormon Banned from Google AdSense – 70k gone, no explanation

They took away my first 200 dollars I made on a website when I was in middle school

peanut_wormon Two Years and over 700 Websites Later

> Total size of all member websites combined: 169.4 MB

Apparently that is comparable to a single page load of digital ocean’s blog

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32076634

peanut_wormon JavaScript Obfuscation Techniques by Example

If you obfuscate client side javascript that is being served in a browser you should get banned from the internet

peanut_wormon Why am I excited about WebAssembly?

I am currently writing a typescript project with deno. I need to resize lots of very large images (20mb+) in a reasonable timeframe so I was considering using web assembly for it. Does that seem like a good fit? I have never used WASM before so I am wondering if its worth it.

peanut_wormon Ask HN: Do any of you “space out” when you are programming or cogitating?

It would probably happen when you aren’t programming if it were actually an absence seizure. It is totally normal to space out a bit when thinking. I cover my eyes and lay down sometimes if I need to think very hard when i’m coding. Im not a doctor or anything but what you described sounds very normal.

peanut_wormon Ask HN: Do any of you “space out” when you are programming or cogitating?

Thats just thinking. It is easy to think when you aren’t processing everything around you. I don’t think people are having coherent thoughts during an Absence Seizure. If it is happening like 50 times a day, then see a doctor but probably not worth worrying about. I would recommend you don’t look up any health related articles if you are having minor symptoms of anything or you will become a hypochondriac. I had a very bad year of constant health anxiety and it almost ruined my life.

peanut_wormon African kings on medieval and Renaissance maps

I think its just a title referring to whoever was the current king of Kongo

peanut_wormon Terrible Restrictions on Food Trucks Are Still a Thing

well the city has to make money somehow. normally businesses pay taxes and fees to operate. 3600 dollars a year to operate in 13 cities doesn’t sound bad all.

peanut_wormon JCOF: JSON-like Compact Object Format

JSON is supposed to be human readable this doesn’t even seem like it would address the same issues.

peanut_wormon Microsoft moves to new Windows development cycle with release every three years

I am sure this development cycle will continue for more than 3 years and will be the standard for the future just like how Windows 10 was the last version of Windows.

peanut_wormon Amazon issued 13,000 disciplinary notices at single U.S. warehouse

It seems like the working conditions for unskilled laborers across the country are plummeting