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chuckhendoon Apple M4 MacBook Air review: I have no notes

FYI you can very easily disable that key in keyboard settings (and remap entirely using a 3rd party tool like BetterTouchTool)

chuckhendoon The Empty Adderall Factory

This right here. I'm prescribed Adderall off-label for excessive daytime sleepiness, and have been for over a decade. I have tried multiple times to come off of it because of my concerns with long term effects (especially with my heart).

Can I survive? Absolutely. But without it, I am a zombie; a complete shell of myself. Even with concerns over long term side effects, the tradeoff isn't worth it for me.

chuckhendoon Apple is officially no longer selling the newest Apple Watch in America

Oh I don't disagree with that! I should have specified that, at least in the mobile world, Apple is much better about supporting their hardware for the average person than the alternatives

chuckhendoon Apple is officially no longer selling the newest Apple Watch in America

Exactly. I don't know where people get this about Apple. There are so many things that one could criticize Apple about, but older hardware support is not one of them

chuckhendoon Arc browser launches its Windows client in beta

It helps to not just think of them as open tabs - personally I'd be overwhelmed with 40+ tabs as well, and that's exactly why a traditional browser frustrates me.

Think of them more as a combination tab/bookmark. Then tabs that are opened that aren't "bookmarked/pinned" are in a separate area; you can even set those to automatically close at the end of the day if you want

chuckhendoon Arc browser launches its Windows client in beta

It's a typical overblown marketing statement, agreed. But I have to say, I've been exclusively using Arc since it released and I'm a huge fan.

Vertical tabs for sure aren't revolutionary - but the way they treat tabs that are kind of a mix of a bookmark & pinned tab really clicks with the way my brain wants to use a browser. It really has fundamentally changed how I work on the Internet for the better

chuckhendoon Paris Syndrome

As an American, I had heard about this and also of course over the years the stories of how rude Parisians are. So when I was preparing for a trip to Paris last year, I had low expectations.

I honestly loved it. Absolutely my favorite city I've ever been to; but it's still a city, with all of the warts that come with that. Still, I can't wait to go back.

chuckhendoon Tell HN: DEI initiatives undermine the self esteem of PoC within a company

What are you trying to suggest with this? Are you saying that OP only has their job because of their skin color?

chuckhendoon Tell HN: DEI initiatives undermine the self esteem of PoC within a company

It's completely fair to look at the big picture, but it's dangerous to look at specific situations and make assumptions is the only point I was trying to make. Without DEI, OP may have still gotten the position he has. We have no way of knowing that. I wasn't fond of the original replier making it seem like he got the position over a white person only due to the color of his skin, which is an unfair assumption to make

chuckhendoon Tell HN: DEI initiatives undermine the self esteem of PoC within a company

OP never said he was hired due to the color of his skin though. Not once. Is it possible that's the case? Sure. But for all we know, he was hired on merit.

chuckhendoon Tell HN: DEI initiatives undermine the self esteem of PoC within a company

This take is radically wrong, and you're just reinforcing OP's insecurities. How do you know that OP has a job at the expense of a white person? How do you know that OP isn't in fact the best candidate for the job? You're making a whole lot of assumptions here that are bordering on outright racism

chuckhendoon Protonmail can delete the wrong email and nobody cares

Bridge is part of the Proton Mail paid service. They advertise it right here: https://proton.me/mail. It's not unreasonable to say that if you are paying for Proton Mail, you would expect the bridge to work considering they advertise it as a feature

chuckhendoon France is paying car drivers nearly $4k to switch to an electric bike

I definitely considered Rad, and may still eventually get one. I ended up going with a Lectric XP 2.0 (https://lectricebikes.com/collections/ebikes/products/xp-ste...) and I've been pleased with it. A bit of lag with the pedal assist kicking in, and there's an awful vibration noise that happens at times, but for the price I've been enjoying the hell out of it. I've put about 140 miles on it in the past month and a half

chuckhendoon Don’t Fully Spec Your M2 MacBook Air Out

The M1 Macbook Pros (not the 13") support up to 2 external displays for the M1 Pro and up to 4 for the M1 Max

chuckhendoon Show HN: Mostly inaccurate but dead honest 33 years of one man's life

Try doing justify-content: center; and text-align: center;

chuckhendoon The Nintendo Switch uses my open source code

One other thing I want to point out - when using OSS at a corporation, I have sometimes contributed back to the project as an individual. Sometimes that's because I've done it after hours, and sometimes it's because contributing back as a "representative" of the company would have required going through red tape

chuckhendoon The Nintendo Switch uses my open source code

It likely is being used server side. I seriously doubt Node is being used on device

chuckhendoon The Nintendo Switch uses my open source code

I think the controversy with this comment is that if people want to "GPL their shit," nothing is stopping them. Personally, anything I've open sourced is under MIT, because I don't care if it gets used. And that's my choice

chuckhendoon Beta users of Starlink get downloads of 11 to 60 Mbps

I mean, you're not wrong, VDSL in rural areas would be great! But it also hasn't happened.

chuckhendoon Magic Keyboard for iPad Pro review: Living the dream

When is the iPad Pro Civ6 port coming?

You mean this? https://apps.apple.com/us/app/sid-meiers-civilization-vi/id1...

chuckhendoon Electron 6.0

You understand that many Electron projects are FOSS, right? I understand what you're saying about optimizing for development rather than users, but if Electron didn't exist many of these projects wouldn't exist. If you see a project that you feel would be better as a native app, why don't you build it and release it as FOSS?

chuckhendoon Show HN: ReactCircle – Renders SVG circle and percentage

Is this Edge? I can confirm poor performance in Edge, but every other browse I've looked at seems to be ok.

chuckhendoon Show HN: ReactCircle – Renders SVG circle and percentage

Incredibly poor attitude. This is free, open source software. You did not pay for this. If you found a bug and you don't want to wait for the developer to fix it, then fix it and make a PR.

There is nothing wrong with making a post stating that you've found a bug. There is a problem with acting entitled like you are, and insulting the developer in the process.

chuckhendoon Celebrate the web by using another browser than Google’s Chrome

I literally just tried this in Safari 10.1.1: https://codepen.io/chuckhendo/pen/NgGZqg

Maybe it affects older versions of Safari, but I don't recall having run into it.

"backdrop-filter" is irrelevant - it's an entirely different feature.

chuckhendoon Celebrate the web by using another browser than Google’s Chrome

I have no idea what you are talking about regarding Safari ignoring "filter: blur()" - it's supported it since 2012, just a few months after Chrome added it. In fact - I think at the time Chrome was still using Webkit.

"backdrop-filter" is a completely different thing. Rather than filtering the element itself, it filters all elements behind it. This is especially useful with blur. While you are correct that Safari is the only browser currently supporting it, it is part of the standard, although it's not yet finalized. Chrome also supports it if you enabled "Experimental Web Features"