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cnees··on Deleting and destroying finished movies
Destroying it should be legal. Writing that off as a loss should be considered fraud, especially when there's an offer for it.
cnees··on Show HN: Daily price tracking for Trader Joe's
As of right now, it costs $9,039.55 to buy one of everything on the list.
cnees··on Gmail and Yahoo’s 2024 inbox protections and what they mean for email programs
Gmail postmaster tools says, "This dashboard shows the percentage of user-reported spam vs emails that were sent to the inbox for active users. Emails delivered directly to the spam folder are not included in the spam rate calculation. Only emails authenticated by DKIM are eligible for spam-rate calculation."

The threshold for the number defined above is 0.3%; that's the point where Gmail starts penalizing the sender by putting their emails in spam folders.

cnees··on Niche Online Tournaments
Check out competitive Excel
cnees··on American workers are 'unhappier at work' than they have been in years
I would be pretty mad if I got a "remote first" job and they expected me to fly in twelve times a year.
cnees··on YouTube is now blocking ad blockers so I make ads run faster
UBlock can't fly under the radar, but maybe this can for a while.
cnees··on Neopets is still around
Where do you get the idea it's written in Perl? The pages end with .phtml, which is a clear marker of PHP.
cnees··on Neopets is still around
Neopets has a Ruffle integration as of very recently to make games run. Most of the non-game flash elements have now been replaced with SVG or HTML5. The site is very far from refurbished, but there's been a lot of progress.
cnees··on Neopets is still around
Me too. To this day, I love finding Neopets-compatible HTML and CSS tricks to use on petpages. For a while, I had a fully functional chess game running on a petpage. It would play against you using stockfish and everything. But then browsers stopped sending the full path in image request referer [sic] fields, and the jig was up.
cnees··on Neopets is still around
Oh I know. I never left.
cnees··on Procreate Dreams
$20 with no subscriptions is an astonishingly low price point!
cnees··on FDA Approves First Oral Treatment for Postpartum Depression
It would be amazing if this were safe to use while breastfeeding, but further research shows they haven't tested for it's presence in breastmilk yet.
cnees··on Levi’s to use AI-generated models to “Increase Diversity”
The point of a model putting on the clothes is being able to see the cut of it. What's the point of seeing it on someone my shape or size or skin tone if it's merely the AI's guess at how it would look?
cnees··on Ask HN: I'm 40 and feel my mental ability declining. Programming seems harder.
Seconded, and I'll add a regular sleep schedule to the list.
cnees··on Ask HN: I'm 40 and feel my mental ability declining. Programming seems harder.
I'm in my 20s still, and I wouldn't make much progress on this at all without diagramming or leaving annotations on almost every line of code. Go ahead and do those things. If you don't, you could alternatively invest a hefty chunk of time into reading and absorbing the code so well you don't need to. And if you don't do that either, you're setting yourself up for failure in a way your managers probably protected you from when you were younger and less experienced.
cnees··on Ask HN: Where can I discuss random ideas?
Seriously, though. And if friends aren't around enough, you may wish to upgrade to a deluxe perma-friend, that is, a spouse. :D
cnees··on Ask HN: How would I send 1 dollar to everyone on Earth?
I guess I make a thumbprint database. Anyone who submits a previously unseen thumbprint pair to the database gets a dollar sent to the account they specify. That way, each thumbprint set is effectively worth one dollar, minus the trouble of submitting it.

Aggregators emerge to pay other people a bit less than a dollar for their prints (upon confirmation of uniqueness), and they leech off some of the money, but they distribute a lot of it and reach people and places I couldn't.

Some new problems to solve are 1. Can I avoid hosting and comparing uniqueness of eight billion thumbprint sets? 2. How do I avoid accepting fake, computer-generated thumbprints? 3. Is there a better alternative to thumbprints?

cnees··on Meta lays off 11,000 people
"We’ve shifted more of our resources onto a smaller number of high priority growth areas [like] our long-term vision for the metaverse"

Imagine laying off eleven thousand people so you can keep clinging to the disintegrating corpse of the metaverse.

cnees··on Ask HN: What are you doing this weekend?
That sounds like a lovely weekend! And a book club is worth a shot for sure, especially if it's a book whose readers might make good company.
cnees··on American chestnut tree in Centreville is the 'holy grail' for conservationists
The "decline cookies" modal can't be closed. >:(
cnees··on Removal of Heroku free product plans
I'm looking forward to this! It'll make moving from Heroku a lot easier. The other thing I'm looking for is a way to put a hard cap on spend so it doesn't feel risky to enter my credit card.
cnees··on Removal of Heroku free product plans
Bummer. I’ve found it really convenient, and I’ll consider moving to a paid tier, but they had a DNS outage earlier this week that left my site down, and even though they said it was upstream, it makes me wonder whether I shouldn’t move to a more stable host. Guess I won’t be adding any user facing features for a while as I work out the transition in my spare time.
cnees··on The Best iPhone
If they next WWDC keynote announced double the battery life and half the weight, that would be great, but what would really inspire me would be a brand deal with Levi's. If they could put iPhone-compatible pockets in women's jeans… wow, what a future.

Even the SE is a tad too big for one hand for an average-height woman (that is, me) and sticks out of most of my pockets, but it's the best Apple has to offer me.

cnees··on Ask HN: How to keep my daughter busy while tickling her curiosity
11 is around the age I got into coding petpages on Neopets. They don't support JavaScriptor CSS3, and certain classes have to be inclined, but the contraints are what make it fun.
cnees··on Ask HN: What are your favorite examples of elegant software?
MindNode is a beautiful way to lay out your thoughts, and the graphs can be copied as bulleted lists. Alfred is an application launcher that also lets me enter shortcuts to quickly launch pages like my calendar and each of my team members' open PRs. I use it dozens, if not hundreds, of times a day. With the premium version, you also get a great clipboard manager.
cnees··on Open-access publishing fees deter researchers in the global south
It’s always sadly amusing when traditional publishers distribute pieces about flaws in open access publishing, preprints, SciHub, and other attempts to un-entrench them.
cnees··on Ask HN: How to stop thinking about work and software engineering on the weekend?
As a person, your value is intrinsic, not dependent on your output or ability. Work/school/capitalism/HN /etc. emphasize productivity, and you can invest in yourself and your output, but keep a broad view and remember to invest in others and their well-being. It’s far more important to be kind, humble, and loving than to be learned or impressive.
cnees··on Michigan DOT Snowplow Names
Never been more proud to be a Michigander
cnees··on Ask HN: Are most of us developers lying about how much work we do?
Failing to pass most tech screens is normal, but not working at work is not. I've heard of this kind of behavior before, but my coworkers and I work most of the day, with a few breaks, and sometimes stay late if we're really engaged in a problem. I'm not terribly surprised you can get away with it, but self-discipline is a critical part of your character and well-being, so don't lose it.
cnees··on The Problem of Marital Loneliness
Sometimes "ego" is used to refer to the self, but I think the distinction we're going for here is between "self" (soul) and "sense of self importance" (ego.) So you can feed your ego with praise and self-centered narratives, but it takes wholesome thoughts, good deeds, and self-giving love (both received and given) to nourish a soul.

"Whatever is true, whatever is noble, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is admirable—if anything is excellent or praiseworthy—think about such things." — Phillipians 4:8

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