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throwawaycuriou··on Ask HN: Has social media reached its saturation point?
My sense of plateau as a colloquialism is that it implies a flattened peak before a descent. Elvis plateau'd in the 50s.
throwawaycuriou··on Overgrowth: Open-Source Announcement
when game devs break out of games they can leave quite a mark. the glitch folks -> slack. or discord.
throwawaycuriou··on Ask HN: What laptop should I get for development?
I also am a very happy framework customer running Manjaro Sway. many years of MacBooks before that.

the trackpad feel will depend on how you or your distro configures it but for me it's been good enough I don't think about. i love the framework keyboard. by comparison I haven't tried whatever macs use after the butterfly keyboards which I really disliked.

agreed with previous poster that the battery doesn't last nearly as long. will pick up an extra one or two once they're available on the marketplace.

throwawaycuriou··on LibreTube: Alternative YouTube front end for Android built with Piped
Everyone likes different things. It's remarkable you've enumerated quite a long list of things none of which I want in my place-people-upload-video-to. Browser extensions exist to strip things like this out, and New Pipe follows a similar vein but as an app.
throwawaycuriou··on Why I Prefer Makefiles over Package.json Scripts
npx to the rescue
throwawaycuriou··on Poll: How do you browse Reddit without an excruciating experience?
Boost app on Android. RES on PC.
throwawaycuriou··on The Source of the Nile River: A Mystery That Spanned Three Millennia
other than fame it sounds exploration without much of a payout. seems comparable to finding what root of the tree is longest. what am I missing?
throwawaycuriou··on TikTok’s new Live Studio app allegedly violates OBS’ licensing policy
article doesn't cover any more than the headline. more meat on the bones in this discussion four days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29592103
throwawaycuriou··on Chrome users beware: Manifest v3 is deceitful and threatening
is there any alternative software yet that can reproduce the Chromecast, including masquerading as one to my phone?
throwawaycuriou··on Chrome users beware: Manifest v3 is deceitful and threatening
works about as well as taking a pair of scissors to your nightlamp's electrical cable to go to sleep
throwawaycuriou··on Chrome users beware: Manifest v3 is deceitful and threatening
wait, Stylish went rogue?
throwawaycuriou··on Volta vs. Nvm for JavaScript Tooling
this version check https://github.com/bdefore/dotfiles/blob/53a2e00c236a2d581ac... is much faster than the officially suggested https://github.com/nvm-sh/nvm#automatically-call-nvm-use (or at least used to be)
throwawaycuriou··on Can beavers make our cities better?
Pardon the diversion, but there is a popular new game that is sort of a SimCity/Factorio but populated by beavers after humans died off. https://store.steampowered.com/app/1062090/Timberborn/
throwawaycuriou··on IRCv3 Spec round-up
Same. I'm concerned that a leading IRC client that for its own growth reasons doesn't allow opting out of sending the beacon. Then you're left with an otherwise inferior client in order to participate. Or worse, a server that kicks you out if your client doesn't send the beacon.
throwawaycuriou··on IRCv3 Spec round-up
The innovation the author describes would look more like:

Phil: I'm just walking down a fine wee snicket.

Bob: What's the frequency Kenneth?

Phil: ■■■■■■■

Bob: ■■■

3 others typing...

throwawaycuriou··on IRCv3 Spec round-up
I'm normally opposed to typing notifications, but I really like this idea for certain channels. How did you handle the case where many people are typing at once? >5 might get noisy if they all had their own lines.
throwawaycuriou··on IRCv3 Spec round-up
So far, how well are clients supporting the disabling of sending the typing beacon?
throwawaycuriou··on IRCv3 Spec round-up
Official motivation/anti-motivation: 'Conversations can have an increased sense of immediacy when participants are aware that others are in the process of replying.' https://ircv3.net/specs/client-tags/typing#motivation ... I need less 'sense of immediacy' in my life.
throwawaycuriou··on IRCv3 Spec round-up
If I'm reading the spec right, it's up to the clients to offer the opt-out or opt-in. There is fortunately a section on privacy considerations.
throwawaycuriou··on Ivermectin: Much More Than You Wanted to Know
Quite the mental pretzel there. If no one is claiming it works, and you claim that I claim that it doesn't work, maybe that's reason at work? Unfortunately, I never claimed it didn't work.

Edit: I see you might have confused me for a parent post by lalaland1125 who did claim this.

throwawaycuriou··on Ivermectin: Much More Than You Wanted to Know
I'm not sure where you're reaching 'hundreds and hundreds of thousands', perhaps because there's a big range between zero and thirty percent.

In medical trials, statistical significance is the milestone to reach before broadly claiming something 'works'. Dozens of other treatments were put through trials. Some had promising initial results. Most didn't work.

throwawaycuriou··on Ivermectin: Much More Than You Wanted to Know
Happy opposite day. Aside from all the other words, it ends in summary with a first item of 'Ivermectin doesn’t reduce mortality in COVID a significant amount'.
throwawaycuriou··on “Click to subscribe, call to cancel” is illegal, FTC says
If you provided a pseudonym, how would they associate it with you?
throwawaycuriou··on Making the dislike count private across YouTube
I'd like to glean valuable context from voting ratios. It used to be possible. But my confidence in voting is dashed. There's too much money and power involved. Gaming the system is something I feel is (rightly or wrongly?) too easy to do. Facebook's introduction of a like button was a turning point in what the Internet is used for.
throwawaycuriou··on $ sudo rm -rf / === NPM install
I believe Apple forked rm to provide protection for this case?

Also, if you're willing to lean into npm a bit, there's tools that give a layer of protection over rm such as https://github.com/sindresorhus/trash-cli

throwawaycuriou··on WSL2 can now mount Linux ext4 disks directly
I don't have an HDR display, but the rest of the items you list are 'there' at least on Wayland.
throwawaycuriou··on Use forums rather than Slack/Discord to support developer community
If conversation threading were enforced adequately in a Slack/Discord, a bot could watch threads for a heuristic of usefulness and kick off the archival of some form of read-only SEO-happy forum-like store.
throwawaycuriou··on Maine voters reject Quebec hydropower transmission line
Good to know, can you link me to further explanation about this?
throwawaycuriou··on Maine voters reject Quebec hydropower transmission line
Video of the drawing. Everyone's super tame, knowing it's just a formality since a hand recount will likely determine the winner, and no recount is allowed until there is a 'loser'.

https://twitter.com/randybillings/status/1456263758834069512

throwawaycuriou··on Maine voters reject Quebec hydropower transmission line
The 'greenwashing' risk is real. They may provide their electricity via hdyrothermal, but could potentially resell energy from any other source connected to their grid.
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