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> And, if I had to wager, you could bypass a lot of this "doesn't work on Firefox" by just changing your user agent. Indeed, even in the codebase at $JOB that I'm responsible fo…

Advertisements have been proven countless times to be a form of psychological manipulation, and a very potent one that works very well. After all, if it didn't work we wouldn't be seeing a…

I get what you mean and I think we align here, but I trust the uBlock team infinitely more than I trust Google to make my own extension decisions. I know there's a subset of regular users who fal…

> Firefox is different enough from Chrome that it's a big jump for people who are used to Chrome I find this notion completely baffling. I use Chrome, Firefox and Safari more or less daily cau…

> Apple isn’t selling my data Sorry to break it to you, but yes, they are. https://ads.apple.com/

> 1 product manager to 0.5 engineers I would love to have access to whatever this guy is smoking, cause that is some grade-A mind rotted insanity right there. I can count on half of 1 hand the numb…

Good lord I think I'd rather eat a shotgun than be forced to review a billion garbage PRs made by PMs and other non-technical colleagues. It's bad enough reviewing PRs backenders write for F…

Sounds like they're better off then, since they're not getting targeted?

How so? As of late, Android FCZC exploits pay out more than iOS ones do at the moment[1]. And anecdotally from what I hear from friends involved in security, Android is very well hardened at this po…

> this would be a surprise to the Astro team! That's my bad, seems my memory failed me here!

As the fullstacker with a roughly 65/35 split BE/FE on the team who has to review this kinda stuff on the daily, there's nothing I dread more than a backender writing FE tickets and vic…

In the Netherlands literally every single store has no questions asked refunds for up to a month. Not that I have to do it often, but for example Coolblue and Bol both offer free returns within a mont…

Vercel's playbook with Next so far has been to make convoluted features that exist solely to pad out how much people spend on hosting costs. They also make sure that hosting it anywhere but Verce…

That's nice in theory, but what happens when the inevitable comes and Vercel's grubby little VC hands start squeezing their yoke in order to extract money out of the ecosystem? They're …

Is this really where we're headed as an industry, pleading to our software to pretty please not leak any data? It's literally just saying magic incantations and hoping that it just magically…

Revolut has a disposable card feature. I'm sure there's some regular old school banks that have this as well, ING in the Netherlands does as far as I remember.

Man what the fuck is it with gyms? I'm not even in the US, but even in the Netherlands where these kind of things are generally super simple and hassle-free (by law) I've had some nightmaris…

Have you seen the YC batches since 2023? I think legitimately every single one mentions AI in one way or another, the hype is truly mind boggling once you start reading through them for a bit, so man…

Maybe it's different in the US, but I fly constantly and have ever since I was a kid, and overhead storage space has never been an issue in my experience. At worst you'll have to put your ba…

No? Everyone would get the same amount, and then the people working 40h would get more than the people not doing anything.

Slightly unrelated, but reading the "product" page is crazy to me. So much about lethal radii, kill zones and stuff like that. Wild, couldn't ever picture myself working on something li…

I guess you're the reason we get asked all those "Invert a binary tree" type questions these days! Jokes aside, could I get a layman's explanation of the graph theory stuff here? S…

Everyone discussing some AGI superbeing a la Skynet is falling for the hype pushed hard by AI companies hook, line and sinker. These things are dangerous not because of some sci-fi event that might or…

I get what you mean, but they also have vested interests in making it seem as if their chatbots are anything close to a T-800. All the talk from their CEO and other AI CEOs is doomerism about how th…

I don't pretend I have some moral high ground, I just don't want to see ads, and if I can do that and still not pay, I will do that. I don't care if it's unobtrusive, I don't …

> The real problem is public corruption. So the solution is private corruption where nameless corporations and CEOs get to take public money with 0 oversight instead? I'm not a yank myself, bu…

Yes? Cars are loud, they smell, take up a tremendous amount of space & are gigantic metal boxes that can cause serious injuries even at low speeds. In Amsterdam there's been countless examp…

Again, none of this is down to SPA frameworks (other than back/forward history APIs, lot of people break this unfortunately, though I've never understood how they manage to as I've neve…

> Microsoft https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44050152 Very impressive indeed, not a single line of any quality to be found despite them forcing it on people.…