benhurmarcel

In Gemini chat I find that you should avoid continuing a conversation if its answer was wrong or had a big shortcoming. It's better to edit the previous prompt so that it comes up with a better answer in the first place, instead of sending a new message.

I'm guessing he means actual time physically working, not the theoretical time in the contract.

It really depends on your bubble but a lot of people have "full time" contracts (meaning 40-ish hours) but real hours vary. You can come later, leave earlier, go do something else in the day, and don't have to report it to anyone. Just make sure you're not missing a meeting and deliver what's needed on time. So in practice you end up working fewer hours on average, as long as you can produce enough on average (which honestly isn't hard in many large organisations, and hard to measure).

La Liga is the national soccer organisation, which organizes the championship. They force the ISPs to block Cloudflare during games to block illegal streaming websites. But then it blocks a lot of websites that have nothing to do with it, and there are games fairly often.

Publishing personal data scrapped from internal (private) sources is also a pretty major reason to take it down

I was a bit annoyed when Somafm got blocked on our corporate proxy

Spotify did this for years in the beginning too. I remember this was the reason I didn’t use them until they proposed email logins.

Most probably it can’t connect to the server without running IT-mandated security software that runs only on Windows

In France it’s 500mL and it’s actually called a pint

I don't know if it's so universal. My opinion is rather that most jobs will make your passion become dull.

I knew some airline pilots who loved flying, but didn't feel so much like it after decades.

I got into aerospace engineering because I liked all aspects of it. A couple decades of end-to-end meetings and "TPS reports" later, I'm not as passionate anymore. Some time ago I was excited about solving a practical issue by coding some new tool myself, a year of exchanges with management and IT has made me look forward to move on.

By all measures my company is pretty good in my industry, but the corporate life just has a way of sucking away passion.

You would probably have sold early for a relatively small amount too.

I bought 10ish BTC at some point for almost nothing, sold them for a low 4-digit amount thinking they were stupid anyway. I still think they were stupid but it turns out they could have paid off my house easily. Oh well.

Honestly Whatsapp is nothing special. It works well, just like many other chat apps nowadays. The interest is that in some large parts of the world, everyone uses it already.

I routinely have websites force me to put my street number after the street name, when here it's written before.

A lot of people must schedule their day around school hours. You can't decide those.

I mainly use it to read HN

I just went through all accounts in my password manager, logged in and changed my email. It takes a little while but not that much.

Browsers are funded by ads

> I don't care about the history.

I've actually been using the Gemini app more because it auto-deletes old history. I like using LLMs without thinking this is going to stick around forever.

Models are relatively interchangeable for day-to-day use anyway.

I commute by bicycle so I choose my remote working times to avoid rain. So yes weather affects my day-to-day.

When somebody generates an app but doesn’t share it, does it make a noise?

> these people clearly aren't reading anything they're posting

I'm surprised they are able to care so little. Somebody actually published this and didn't care enough to even skim through it.

HN with invites is basically https://lobste.rs/

Right, at the same time the median salary for a full time job in the US is $5280/month, that €4450. In France it's €2183, half as much.

Exactly why I moved away from Linux on the desktop. I used for 10 years, dropped it after I got kids. I don't have the time and mental availability anymore to accept a low probablity of having to do PC maintenance any time I use it.

> version of explorer that's so fast

https://filepilot.tech/

This is a bad idea. We used a software that did this for a while, and everybody scheduled meetings 30 minutes longer than necessary and specified the real time in the description, just to avoid cutting people off mid sentence.

Roborock is 900 MB just to control a robot vacuum

That only works if those colleagues care about what you think of them

Some sites can be very simple and yet quite useful. For example https://rawdiary.com/ always impresses me with its speed.

One of them has that “scrambled visual keyboard” for an 8-digit password, and at the same time proposes a passkey as an alternative on desktop. Go figure.

Also datalist is nice but most the time we need a “select” (so users can’t submit anything not in the list), but select doesn’t have search/filtering like datalist has.