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thecatspaw··on In the belly of the MrBeast
personally I just open up these videos in private mode
thecatspaw··on Make It Yourself
also on a webpage you would be able to filter it by available tools/knowledge
thecatspaw··on How I animate 3Blue1Brown [video]
you might be interested in This Old Tony
thecatspaw··on Why Gov.uk's Exit this Page component doesn't use the Escape key
to fix the interrupt issue they could initially load a page with begnign information, and then load the help text afterwards
thecatspaw··on Why Gov.uk's Exit this Page component doesn't use the Escape key
can you expand on what honour based abuse means?
thecatspaw··on Why Gov.uk's Exit this Page component doesn't use the Escape key
I think the idea is that you can tell people "hey, if you're suffering from abuse, you can check a websites footer for this icon to get help"
thecatspaw··on I built an ROV to solve missing person cases
Thanks for giving it a second chance. I read all of it, and it was very interesting indeed
thecatspaw··on Regex character "$" doesn't mean "end-of-string"
what does gpt say how we should validate email addresses?
thecatspaw··on 'If anything happens, it's not suicide': Boeing whistleblower before death
You can still ask their hosting company to take down the content for example, or try to pay them off, or other things.

Or since it was in the US make up some bogus claim and take them to court and hope they cannot afford court proceedings and fold.

thecatspaw··on Show HN: A user-friendly UI for viewing and editing Markdown files
I just use the preview side-by-side with my document
thecatspaw··on Fixing a broken smart cat feeder with ESP32
You shouldnt leave a cat alone for that long anyway for that to become a concern. Indoor cats become bored very quickly if they dont get enough playtime
thecatspaw··on Starlink's laser system is beaming 42 petabytes of data per day
I mean I use youtube lets plays or twitch streams for that, but yes its still a thing.
thecatspaw··on A startup allegedly 'hacked the world', then came censorship, and now backlash
the better question is: why should a company be bound by laws outside of the areas they operate in?
thecatspaw··on Microsoft Edge ignores user wishes, slurps tabs from Chrome without permission
Well, it IS a UX Improvement. They just need to make sure that they are asking for consent properly and dont ignore the answer
thecatspaw··on Losing my son
When I lost my father almost exactly a year I go, I was reminded of a comment on reddit that helped me a lot. Here it is:

Alright, here goes. I'm old. What that means is that I've survived (so far) and a lot of people I've known and loved did not. I've lost friends, best friends, acquaintances, co-workers, grandparents, mom, relatives, teachers, mentors, students, neighbors, and a host of other folks. I have no children, and I can't imagine the pain it must be to lose a child. But here's my two cents.

I wish I could say you get used to people dying. I never did. I don't want to. It tears a hole through me whenever somebody I love dies, no matter the circumstances. But I don't want it to "not matter". I don't want it to be something that just passes. My scars are a testament to the love and the relationship that I had for and with that person. And if the scar is deep, so was the love. So be it. Scars are a testament to life. Scars are a testament that I can love deeply and live deeply and be cut, or even gouged, and that I can heal and continue to live and continue to love. And the scar tissue is stronger than the original flesh ever was. Scars are a testament to life. Scars are only ugly to people who can't see.

As for grief, you'll find it comes in waves. When the ship is first wrecked, you're drowning, with wreckage all around you. Everything floating around you reminds you of the beauty and the magnificence of the ship that was, and is no more. And all you can do is float. You find some piece of the wreckage and you hang on for a while. Maybe it's some physical thing. Maybe it's a happy memory or a photograph. Maybe it's a person who is also floating. For a while, all you can do is float. Stay alive.

In the beginning, the waves are 100 feet tall and crash over you without mercy. They come 10 seconds apart and don't even give you time to catch your breath. All you can do is hang on and float. After a while, maybe weeks, maybe months, you'll find the waves are still 100 feet tall, but they come further apart. When they come, they still crash all over you and wipe you out. But in between, you can breathe, you can function. You never know what's going to trigger the grief. It might be a song, a picture, a street intersection, the smell of a cup of coffee. It can be just about anything...and the wave comes crashing. But in between waves, there is life.

Somewhere down the line, and it's different for everybody, you find that the waves are only 80 feet tall. Or 50 feet tall. And while they still come, they come further apart. You can see them coming. An anniversary, a birthday, or Christmas, or landing at O'Hare. You can see it coming, for the most part, and prepare yourself. And when it washes over you, you know that somehow you will, again, come out the other side. Soaking wet, sputtering, still hanging on to some tiny piece of the wreckage, but you'll come out.

Take it from an old guy. The waves never stop coming, and somehow you don't really want them to. But you learn that you'll survive them. And other waves will come. And you'll survive them too. If you're lucky, you'll have lots of scars from lots of loves. And lots of shipwrecks.

From here: https://www.reddit.com/r/GriefSupport/comments/d9685e/grief_...

thecatspaw··on Unity's Open-Source Double Standard: The Ban of VLC
unity only does transpiling for C# to native code if you enable it in your project. it cannot transpile the (presumably) linked native library so this shouldnt be an issue here
thecatspaw··on Create Product Links in Seconds
There is no reason to trust this service. There is no about page, nothing explaining how it works (beyond the gif). This makes me think that the service is currently free, only to change it in the future so that either the seller pays, or the links get redirected to something of your own.

Basically what I'm saying is to add content to your site so its not _only_ a simple button and a gif

thecatspaw··on FindMyCat – Open-Source Pet Tracker
Of course safety first, I dont disagree in that. What I am saying is that I dont see a way to make this safe _and_ reliable at the same time
thecatspaw··on FindMyCat – Open-Source Pet Tracker
You're right, partially. Yes, you can track the tracker itself and go to that location. But that location might be inaccessible to humans, or the cat might drop the tracker somewhere where it gets unusable, say a bit of water for example.

Also, whats the point of a tracker if its not on the cat?

thecatspaw··on FindMyCat – Open-Source Pet Tracker
I agree.

Of course you could add a quick release/stretchy part to the collar so it is safe, but that also means that the tracker would easily get lost (especially if the cat isnt used to collars since kittenhood, they tend to be too annoyed by them and try to remove them)

thecatspaw··on Vaccine promises to reverse autoimmune diseases without shutting down imm.system
direct link to the study (paywalled): https://www.nature.com/articles/s41551-023-01086-2

sorry for the editorialized title, had to shorten it. full title was >“Inverse vaccine” shows promise to reverse autoimmune diseases without shutting down rest of the immune system

thecatspaw··on North Korean campaign targeting security researchers
they also link to this repository: https://github.com/BtbN/FFmpeg-Builds
thecatspaw··on Doom for 16-bit DOS computers
surprisingly smooth considering that its reading all the textures from disk every frame
thecatspaw··on How We Made MuseScore 4 [video]
Tantacrul's channel is exactly that, for music software. Thats how he got the job at musescore actually. He made a video critiquing the software, and the devs probably went "hey, that dude is right, how about we hire him?"
thecatspaw··on Mario Kart Tour Triggers You into Gambling Your Money
I am on desktop, and on a technical level, its well executed. But it was so much more exhausting to read than a simple text article with pictures.

I initially visited the site, saw how the navigation etc worked, figured it wasnt worth the read. Only after reading some comments here I figured I'd bear through it. Wasnt worth it in the end imho

thecatspaw··on Show HN: General Task, a free task manager for builders (beta)
I hate to be the first comment and be negative, but pleease dont hijack the backbutton.
thecatspaw··on The New Smoking (2021)
A new-to-me term I learned recently which I feel quite nicely relates to this post is Consumer neuroscience.

Wikipedia clinically describes the field as "The goal of the field is to find neural explanations for consumer behaviors in individuals both with or without disease." Personally I have a less favourable description of it. How to make people addicted to your product, and spend more money than they should.

thecatspaw··on Show HN: I built a goal-oriented task manager
for me the blog throws a german error page about having no content, and the Legal notice in the footer leads me to another error page with a Runtime Error.
thecatspaw··on Modern PHP features – PHP 8.0 and 8.1
from my experience from learning typescript this is really easy to pick up on your own
thecatspaw··on PHP is worth learning and using
You do not need an _external_ server for a lot of languages. If you use node for example you can use the express package to run a custom server, or embedded tomcat for java
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