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thatsnotmeplson Tell HN: uBlock Origin on Chrome is finally gone

Strange, still enabled and working for me.

Chrome 138.0.7204.101 uBlock Origin 1.65.0

thatsnotmeplson Sports supplement creatine makes no difference to muscle gains, trial finds

https://www.amazon.ca/s?k=creatine&crid=BTIA1WJE0EL&sprefix=...

I pretty much don't see any creatine supplements with caffeine.

thatsnotmeplson Google banned me from Google Voice

People forgetting to renew happens frequently too. Now what's more rare, Google banning someone for no reason or a person forgetting to renew and losing its domain?

thatsnotmeplson 12 Months of Mandarin

Use subtitles and the extension Language Reactor. You can translate any sentence or word on the fly.

thatsnotmeplson 12 Months of Mandarin

I have ChatGPT create 20 sentences for a new word I want to learn, works super well with Anki.

Front -> Word. Click button, shows random sentence out of 20.

Back -> Word and sentence translation.

thatsnotmeplson GPT-4o mini: advancing cost-efficient intelligence

Guess you missed the sarcasm.

thatsnotmeplson Paste without formatting on macOS

Any way to change that to Shift Command V? For some reason the blog post solution doesn't work on Notion.

thatsnotmeplson Radar Maps Platform

What does it mean for a map to be vector based?

thatsnotmeplson A video game where you are an operating system

You have to click on I/O at the top when it goes from (0) to (1).

thatsnotmeplson Had a call with Reddit to discuss pricing

What prevents people (and Apollo) from simply using the same open APIs the the official reddit site/app?

The requests would be all made from a client, so how would they even know it's not their client? Is it illegal? Because I can make any reddit request with a curl, no?

Please educate me.

thatsnotmeplson Bitwarden raises $100M

After lastpass announced you could only have 1 device in the free tier, I was gone too.

thatsnotmeplson Rufus: Microsoft is blocking Windows ISO downloads

Why you wouldn't trust that site?

thatsnotmeplson BMW heated seats subscription costs $18 per month in South Korea

What about your mobile data subscription? ISP subscription?

thatsnotmeplson Welcome to the M1 Windows project

Why not?

thatsnotmeplson Learnings from 5 years of tech startup code audits

You two might be colleagues lol

thatsnotmeplson Show HN: HN Avatars in 357 bytes

cool!

thatsnotmeplson Man found guilty of ‘grossly offensive’ tweet

I mean, not even comedians are safe: https://globalfreedomofexpression.columbia.edu/cases/camargo...

thatsnotmeplson Pinterest ruined photo search on the internet

I just opened bing and saw a bear on my homepage, what magic is this?

thatsnotmeplson Ask HN: Words of encouragement for someone lost in life?

Exactly how I feel, been through the loop at least 5 times now.

thatsnotmeplson GitHub – nushell/nushell: A new type of shell

I found it clear it wasn't a GitHub project.

thatsnotmeplson Ask HN: “Tank man” image search blocked on Bing and DuckDuckGo

What does it mean when a thread is flagged?

thatsnotmeplson Vue 3 drops IE11 support plan

But if that is the case, why simply not install a separate browser along with IE11?

thatsnotmeplson Chrome zero-day released on GitHub – fixed on V8 but still works on latest

How the heck people discover these kind of obscure bugs?

thatsnotmeplson Google will stop using Oracle’s finance software and adopt SAP instead

It does.

thatsnotmeplson jQuery 3.6.0

> If you're building something like Spotify/Slack, I can maybe see the need for virtual DOMs

Heck, even Slack was built with jQuery the first time. Only after a while they migrated to react.

thatsnotmeplson Monolith First (2015)

Never really got this "One error can bring down all "monolith services"".

Can you share one example where an error couldn't be handled gracefully in a monolith?

Say if my shipping service fails for some reason, I can still fallback to a default cost in a monolith.

thatsnotmeplson Reddit bans subreddit group “r/DonaldTrump”

Sure, making your own social media and inviting your friends to use it is gonna work out well bud, sure.

thatsnotmeplson 16-inch MBP 2x slower than M1 MacBook Air in a real-world Rust compile

And yet everything still feels slower after every year lol.

thatsnotmeplson Google Takeout: Export a copy of your data in Google services

> If you do not normally deal with data protection requests, please forward this email to your Data Protection Officer, or relevant member of staff. Please note that you have 30 days to comply with this request.

Google: "Listen here you little sh*t"

thatsnotmeplson I reverse engineered McDonalds’ internal API

> I'm currently placing an order worth $18,752 every minute

Do you have to have a cart in order query for broken machines? If not, why was it mentioned in the tweet?