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test1235··on The odd appeal of absurdly long YouTube videos
a good example of this is having a massive number (50+) of tabs open in your browser ... I think that's completely unusable, but I've worked with other techies who do this, and also seems to be a common thing here on HN. Another example is having tons of stuff all over your desktop.
test1235··on Let's make sure GitHub doesn't become the only option
>one big shared drive and shouting across the room to lock files

yes ... how did you know we used visual source safe?

test1235··on Microsoft plugging more ads into Windows 11 Start Menu
I think the original saying was longer, and something along the lines of, "the customer is always right when it comes to taste".
test1235··on Plain C API design, the real world Kobayashi Maru test
> A word of warning though – do you realise your name for your language is an anti-gay slur in several dialects of English?

I'd say 'poof' is worse. Jesse's a real name in some parts of the world.

https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Poof

test1235··on The art of auto engineering
This is just an advert, right?
test1235··on Rules for developers to design beautiful UIs without a designer
how is this not just an advert? I don't get it.
test1235··on Framework Laptop 16
my t480s thinkpad has middle 'mouse' button just above the trackpad which you can hold down to enable scroll control.
test1235··on Google Search Is Dying (2022)
along with pen island
test1235··on Amsterdam supermarket offers free groceries, life coach to struggling families
is that not to protect themselves against lawsuits? A better solution would be to have a big disclaimer about taking discards at your own risk.
test1235··on Ask HN: What is the best advice you got on any aspect of life?
I also started on stronglifts and moved onto greyskull lp shortly after my progression stalled and I stared to lose interest:

https://physiqz.com/workout-routines/powerbuilding-programs/...

test1235··on How to Paint Like Hayao Miyazaki
Did any of them stand out to you in particular? Which was your favourite(s)?

Any you didn't like?

test1235··on Venice’s lagoon of 2,000 lost boats
>Venice lacks the infrastructure to deal with unwanted boats

That seems unbelievable, given the nature of the place, especially when "To a Venetian, owning a boat is almost like owning a car".

test1235··on Worst interview questions for software developers
wow ... I didn't realise this was a common question. I got this once, and answered, 'tortoise' (and got the job).
test1235··on Ask HN: What Are You Doing?
Currently freezing my nads off 'cos it's -9 or whatever, outside
test1235··on Iranian man who lived in Paris’ Charles de Gaulle airport for 18 years dies
How did he afford to live there? Did he get a job in the airport?
test1235··on Ask HN: Where can one learn about boring web development?
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/javascript
test1235··on Pinboard vs. Raindrop
settings -> backup

you want to export as html, in netscape format

test1235··on Pinboard vs. Raindrop
I just created a new account and migrated my bookmarks from pinboard - worked great!
test1235··on Octopuses caught on camera throwing things at each other
"... although some of the time it seemed that they were just throwing away debris or food leftovers, it did sometimes appear that they were throwing things at each other."

That one instance is kinda hard to tell, but it sounds like they saw similar behaviour across observations.

test1235··on My full statement regarding DOOM Eternal
For the longest time, that GDC video was the most watched on their channel. Even now, it still appears to be a close second.

I've watched it through twice myself, despite not even working in the game or music industry.

test1235··on Using a framework will harm the maintenance of your software
you don't always need all the solutions a framework provides

e.g. your Tibetan users don't use IE11, so all your IE11-Tibetan code is just taking up disk space

You ain't gonna need it, and all that.

test1235··on Scotland ‘snow-free’ for fourth time in six years
>This is bad, humans, and human crops and animals rely on boring predictable weather that they evolved for.

As an example: a comment on reddit mentioned a documentary highlighting animals becoming easier prey as their naturally occuring winter/summer coats were no longer helping them hide from their predators in their natural environment. Quite the opposite in fact, if you happen to have a white winter coat when there's no snow.

test1235··on USB4 v2 is also 120 Gbps
Nobody would buy their old USB2 cables when they can get other faster cables, so the manufacturers of the old cables would actually rather pump money into politically pressuring the relevant standards committee into 'massaging' their latest technical definitions to include products which already exist.
test1235··on Ask HN: Is there a spiritual successor to del.icio.us?
Probably more for the superfluous 'this' comment.
test1235··on Ask HN: Is there a spiritual successor to del.icio.us?
Yep: https://blog.pinboard.in/2017/06/pinboard_acquires_delicious...
test1235··on Are we Blub programmers? (2006)
UK, with Sky

>Sky Broadband Shield

>weblog.raganwald.com has been blocked by Sky Broadband Shield, which lets you choose the websites that can be seen in your home.

>The site was blocked because it matched the following categories:

> Pornography and Adult

test1235··on Are we Blub programmers? (2006)
https://archive.ph/Ssoqr

Website is blocked by my ISP as pornography

Article's from 2006

test1235··on Tell HN: Unpaid home assignments are not ok
Weird - I had this exact scenario with a contract position working with Sony. I was even rushed to complete the take-home task, after which I was ghosted.
test1235··on Is this the end of social networking?
Not really care for, but the number of relationships you can keep track of:

"By using the average human brain size and extrapolating from the results of primates, he proposed that humans can comfortably maintain 150 stable relationships."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunbar%27s_number

test1235··on Git In Two Minutes (updated after 8 years)
If you do that a lot, look into `autostash` (as I do), which does that automatically for you

https://stackoverflow.com/a/30209750

https://leosiddle.com/posts/2020/07/git-config-pull-rebase-a...

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