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ShaneMcGowan

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ShaneMcGowan··on Angular v16
Computed properties, Stand alone components, “signals” already exist in Ember in some form to prevent constant recomputing of getters, route data being available in components directly
ShaneMcGowan··on Angular v16
Very interesting seeing Angular getting many of the features that EmberJS has had for a while such.
ShaneMcGowan··on Japan Has Millions of Empty Houses. Want to Buy One for $25,000?
Or move to Ireland and buy 20 already finished houses for that price
ShaneMcGowan··on Ask HN: Who has deployed commercial features using GPT4?
I work for Intercom.com, we are currently adding GPT 4 to the support bot

https://www.intercom.com/ai-bot

Looks pretty cool from what I’ve seen

ShaneMcGowan··on What is the minimal possible UK address?
In Ireland we have the Eircode system, where each building (even individual apartments) get their own code
ShaneMcGowan··on GitHub staff are required to use Teams by Sep 1, 2023
How is this news
ShaneMcGowan··on Watermark Remover (AI Powered)
This is basically like paying for piratebay premium
ShaneMcGowan··on De-Bloated Windows 11 Build Runs on 2GB of RAM
True but the products I build in this inefficient way solve other messes so you win some you lose some
ShaneMcGowan··on De-Bloated Windows 11 Build Runs on 2GB of RAM
We don’t need to worry about memory efficiency until we stop getting gains via hardware improvements. For now developers can just slap a web app into some chromium based wrapper, make sure their code doesn’t have any n^2 in it and you’re good to go.
ShaneMcGowan··on Epic is turning off online services and servers for some older games
Fortnite is the new money maker, UT doesn’t even come close unfortunately
ShaneMcGowan··on FX swap debt a $80T 'blind spot', global regulator says
At what point does one give up on this whole “global economy” thing and just move to the woods?
ShaneMcGowan··on Show HN: Pokemon Emerald Randomizer
Legally, be envious or pay $100 for a legit second hand copy

Illegally, just download it

ShaneMcGowan··on Waymo shows off its futuristic “transportation as a service” vehicle
What is the purpose of our lives currently?
ShaneMcGowan··on Ask HN: Does GDPR and CCPA Apply to Hacker News?
I’ve had all my submissions deleted when requested so not sure what the issue is
ShaneMcGowan··on Companies ran an experiment: Pay workers their full salary to work fewer days
From my personal experience Stress free 5 days > Fire fighting for 4 days
ShaneMcGowan··on Ask HN: Anyone else feels the commoditization of real estate is unethical?
I’m a huge proponent of banning all foreign entities and funds purchasing homes here in Ireland, and capping the number of properties nonforeign entities can purchase. (No cap on building their own property is still a grey area for me though)
ShaneMcGowan··on Ethereum Goerli testnet merge goes live before move to proof-of-stake
So is the price of Ethereum going to go up a load now since you don’t need to buy GPUs, you just buy Ethereum itself?
ShaneMcGowan··on GitHub suspends Tornado Cash developer account
Anonymising the purchase of hammers
ShaneMcGowan··on GitHub suspends Tornado Cash developer account
A tool that could be used for laundering money was used for laundering money. Developer is shocked that the US Government doesn’t like this
ShaneMcGowan··on Amazon to acquire maker of Roomba vacuum for roughly $1.7B
Can’t wait until I’m acquired by Amazon and integrated with Alexa
ShaneMcGowan··on EU lawmakers slam “radical proposal“ to let ISPs demand new fees from websites
"statements to the press indicate that a new provision would require payments from online service providers to broadband providers—ostensibly to fund the rollout of 5G and fiber to the home”

One could argue that the broadband provider should be the one paying for the infrastructure to …provide broadband

ShaneMcGowan··on Met Police UK Live Facial Recognition
Time to start wearing my PII protecting, GDPR respecting balaclava when I go outside
ShaneMcGowan··on UK four-day week pilot begins: employees get 100% of the pay for 80% of the time
Great question! 4 days of stress was definitely better than 5 days of stress as I felt more recharged after the 3 day weekend. Also my output didn’t drop as I was feel less burnt out.

My original comment still stands though, a stress free 5 days is much better overall than the stressful 4

ShaneMcGowan··on UK four-day week pilot begins: employees get 100% of the pay for 80% of the time
Having worked a 4 day work week for 100% pay for 6 months in my previous job, I would rather work a low stress job for 5 days than a stressful job for 4 days
ShaneMcGowan··on Instagram Account Hacked – Phishing
Literally this exact same thing happened to a close friend of mine 1 month ago. All links to recovery information didn’t solve the issue and support seemed unable to do anything due to the email and phone number being changed. My suggestion is to back up all your photos as quickly as possible, there are tools on GitHub for this. If your account was private you will need to get someone already follows you to help.

Unfortunately it is very unlikely you will get your account back

ShaneMcGowan··on Tether Withdrawals Top $10B
Exactly why I used the word "allegedly", lol
ShaneMcGowan··on Tether Withdrawals Top $10B
Since Tether is a stable coin™ allegedly backed by and pegged to the price of 1 USD.

So if the price is still $1 but the circulation has gone down by 10 billion, that means $10B worth of it has been cached out

ShaneMcGowan··on Google critiqued the practice of displaying ads above search results
This headline is misleading, the image in this tweet says you can't buy better search placement. Ads shown at Google are labelled as ads, the person is not buying a better search result placement. I do say this ignoring the fact that Google's labelling of ads has been getting more and more subtle over time but that is a separate unrelated issue. This seems to be another attempt of generating hype around "google bad"
ShaneMcGowan··on In MySQL, use “utf8mb4” instead of “utf8” (2016)
This one is very fun to debug in production when you're on MySQL 5.8
ShaneMcGowan··on Ask HN: Where are you getting your money's worth?
Rider IDE for C# development, my god is it a dream compared to using visual studio
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