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rbinv··on No Dislikes has officially ruined YouTube for me
It's not perfect, but works quite well: https://returnyoutubedislike.com/
rbinv··on FAA, do your damn job
Nuance like what? He's spot on imo.
rbinv··on Air-purifying headphones with active noise cancelling
Regular hand dryers (hot/dry airflow) literally make the water evaporate off your hands. How is the water not removed?
rbinv··on Air-purifying headphones with active noise cancelling
Your breath (what you exhale) always contains substantial amounts of moisture (and yes, potentially virions). It does not matter if you speak or not. It does not matter if the environment is cold or not. There is no "simple warm air" out of your lungs.

I agree with mtn_nerd, you must be trolling. Considering your choice of words, you're probably well aware of that.

rbinv··on Ask HN: Why do search engines not let you blacklist spam domains?
Google used to have that feature: https://www.ghacks.net/2011/03/10/google-adds-block-all-doma...

In my opinion, back then, they needed the data as a training set for spammy domain detection. Now that SERP spam is no longer a serious issue (in Google's eyes anyway), why bother. Google always knows what's best for you.

rbinv··on Ask HN: Google not completely indexing github.com issues?
They will crawl almost everything (where not explicitly prohibited), however, indexing is dependant on several factors and not guaranteed.

I would personally expect them to index all public GH issues, though.

rbinv··on Ask HN: Am I the only one baffled by the long term usage of Twitter?
>It is the ultimate self-validation: you actually don't care about dialog, just monologue.

Very true. Even Twitter replies are often like a "dialog" of monologues.

rbinv··on Make Front End Shit Again (2018)
I can see the alert() debugging already.
rbinv··on Staggering stat: 87% of U.S. teenagers have iPhones
This is true. Accordingly, "blue bubbles" (iOS to iOS) are also a thing, and Apple pushes them hard in product placements all the time. They're subtly recognizable from a distance, too. It's all very on purpose and quite clever.
rbinv··on Fastmail reminded me when I forgot an attachment
It's probably checked on the client.
rbinv··on To opt out of Google Analytics you have to install a browser extension
Here's the actual extension code for those interested:

  (function() {
    var a = document.createElement("script");
    a.type = "text/javascript";
    a.innerText = 'window["_gaUserPrefs"] = { ioo : function() { return true; } }';
    document.documentElement.insertBefore(a, document.documentElement.firstChild);
  })()
rbinv··on Ask HN: Am I the only “unlucky” software engineer?
That's Despair, Inc.: https://despair.com/products/dysfunction
rbinv··on YouTube deleting comments who criticize their hiding of the dislike count
Yes, first thing. Anything with >=10% dislikes is usually not worth the watch imo.
rbinv··on Only 90s web developers remember this (2014)
Fighting "right-clicker mentality" before NFTs were even a thing!
rbinv··on Why is Excalidraw so good?
Tampermonkey should be able to enforce typefaces across websites: https://www.tampermonkey.net/
rbinv··on Having SARS once confers greater immunity than vaccine:vaccination remains vital
Should have called it COVID instead, then. "SARS" is way too inaccurate.
rbinv··on I'm reading the FT and WSJ from 100 years ago each week leading to 1929
> Zimbabwe was just another victim of Marxism, to be more precise anti colonial Marxism.

What's the difference between Marxism and "anti-colonial Marxism"?

rbinv··on Fed balance sheet tops $8T for first time -data
Here's a chart of the Fed's total assets (since the article doesn't link it): https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/WALCL

(The chart does not yet reflect hitting the $8T due to update intervals.)

rbinv··on Why food inflation has skyrocketed out of control
FAO Food Price Index: http://www.fao.org/worldfoodsituation/foodpricesindex/en/

"It also marked the twelfth consecutive monthly rise in the value of the FFPI to its highest value since September 2011"

Chart: http://www.fao.org/fileadmin/templates/worldfood/images/home...

Historical chart: http://www.fao.org/fileadmin/templates/worldfood/images/home...

rbinv··on My site was disallowed from advertising on Google when using Matomo analytics
I don't think this is actually related to Matomo being a competitor. Malware is much more likely, making this a non-issue. Could be a false positive, too.
rbinv··on Google Suddenly Flips the Password Privacy Switch for Billions of Users
Clickbait title.

TLDR: Google will auto-enable two-factor authentication (this was announced a couple of weeks ago). Also, you can now "password-protect" myactivity.google.com. The end.

rbinv··on Atomic Gardening
Same thing happens naturally all the time.
rbinv··on Previews of software updates designed for people with disabilities
Wow, I did not expect the Apple Watch to be able to detect those gestures shown in the video. Impressive.
rbinv··on Facebook faces ‘devastating’ EU-to-US data transfer ban
>If I want a worldwide ad (is that even a thing?)

With regards to targeting: yes, you can target any country (and all of them).

With regards to reach: yes, because you'll reach the user on pretty much any site/app with ads, so it's virtually "running worldwide" (from the user's point of view).

rbinv··on "To our surprise"
Employee count, internal policies and (negative) brand perception are factors that come to mind.
rbinv··on $1 Unistroke Recognizer (2007)
Huh, TIL. Thanks for linking the comment!

> Every glyph had a unique sequence of quadrant traversals.

That's pretty clever.

rbinv··on $1 Unistroke Recognizer (2007)
Cool. Those examples remind me of Palm OS' Graffiti (which worked really well at the time): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graffiti_(Palm_OS)
rbinv··on Don't wait for the government to fix surveillance capitalism
Kind of, but there's only one archived version (the current one) and it's not consistently available for all pages. You can use cache:<URL> as a search query to get the cached page as it was received at crawl time. Or click the little arrow next to search results for the cache link.
rbinv··on Unemployment Is High. Why Are Businesses Struggling to Hire?
Sounds like you need to raise your prices so you can pay competitive wages. So... inflation?
rbinv··on Word usage guidance and alternative terms
So I once had an overweight, non-secondary client with a stuck process within the perimeter network. Initial coherence checks quickly foreshadowed that this would turn out to be quite an opaque-box thing to debug. Unfortunately, they had removed kill and killall for some reason.
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