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codersfocus··on Demographic decline: Greece faces alarming population collapse
People don't want to admit it's due to social change instead of economics.

Religious people even in the US have kids at a younger age and more of them. Even poor / middle class ones.

codersfocus··on The work you do, the person you are (2017)
It is not about about skin color or genetic origin. Whether we exploit a group or not simply depends on whether we can get away with it or not.

If humanity came across a group of purple aliens, how we would treat them would depend on how advanced they are.

If they were on the level of advanced animals, we might trap them and exhibit them. Keep them in cages and "study" them.

If they were much more advanced than us (maybe the can communicate with us, or zap one of us to death with lasers) we would submit and seek cooperation, and humble ourselves before them.

codersfocus··on Show HN: Typeform alternative, turns Markdown to forms
I was mistaken on their pricing, but making your customers pay 5-25% more even though you have no nexus in 99% of jurisdictions will still hurt sales to a significant degree.

And you think they’ll keep you as a customer if chargebacks are at all an issue for you?

codersfocus··on Show HN: Typeform alternative, turns Markdown to forms
Why are you using Paddle? Using a MoR for a product like this is really dumb.

MoRs are common in very shady areas (gambling, adult, etc.) where getting credit card processing approval is difficult.

Yet some marketing genius has decided he can hoodwink indiehackers into giving him 12% of his revenue, while also hurting the indiehacker's sales.

codersfocus··on Japan police: Nearly 4k who died alone at home not found for over a month
It has to do with you disassociating yourself from your biological being.

When the sperm and egg fused, thus you began, and you very much wanted to be alive: it is literally programmed into your genetic makeup. It was you who decided to divide and divide continually at that point.

My point is that when you use the word "I" you seem to imply only the little bit of yourself which exists in your prefrontal cortex is you, and the rest is !you.

If you regret being alive, that is different from claiming you didn't want to be alive at one point. Wasn't it you who suckled on milk? Who cried for care and love?

codersfocus··on AnandTech Farewell
Wow, lots of luddites here for what's supposed to be a tech community.

Get your head out of your asses guys. There's nothing inherently bad about blockchain or decentralization.

codersfocus··on AnandTech Farewell
web3 is that. Pay for content / services you use through micro transactions.
codersfocus··on Japan police: Nearly 4k who died alone at home not found for over a month
> the realization that ... it is not fair to the child if the parent does not make providing the best possible environment for that child a central focus of their life

Unwise of you to state "realization of" to a statement that is not broadly agreed upon. I bet you also believe "you didn't choose to be born"?

codersfocus··on Judges rule Big Tech's free ride on Section 230 is over
> law banning algorithmic political bias would be unconstitutional

Would it? The TV channels of old were heavily regulated well past 1st amendment limits.

codersfocus··on Can solar costs keep shrinking?
https://www.lightpollutionmap.info/

Anywhere not colored

codersfocus··on Wells Fargo employee found dead at desk after 4 days
I’m pretty sure most people work for money, not those things you mention.

And working for money to participate in organized society is objectively easier than going off grid.

codersfocus··on Blitzortung – real time lightning strikes around the world
Why do you use spoons, forks or knives? Just man up and use your hands wussy.
codersfocus··on Microsoft donates the Mono Project to the Wine team
White elephant has usually been the go to animal for this kind of idiom
codersfocus··on Why has Japan been hit with rice shortages despite normal crops?
This reminds me of restaurants a bit.

You can price your menu high, such that it's mostly empty but sustainable.

The other option is pricing things low, and having the tables always be full. But of course, the employees need to work more.

codersfocus··on A $10k stipend is available for anyone moving to Cumberland, MD
No sarcasm implied. There needs to be programs at medical schools (or ideally, new schools in the first place) that teach robotic surgery only.

Why would you think this is sarcasm? The availability of capable surgeons is already limited; when looking geographically, they are extremely limited.

You would have surgical assistants and nurses on the ground, but the actual expertise for surgery shouldn't be location dependent.

codersfocus··on Facebook Banned Me for Life Because I Help People Use It Less (2021)
U.S. law specifically allows programs like OPs to exist. Summary from gypty:

The statute you are referring to is likely the *Communications Decency Act (CDA) of 1996*, specifically *Section 230(c)(2)*.

Section 230(c)(2) provides immunity to providers and users of an "interactive computer service" for actions taken in good faith to restrict access to or availability of material that the provider or user considers to be obscene, lewd, lascivious, filthy, excessively violent, harassing, or otherwise objectionable, whether or not such material is constitutionally protected. This includes the development and deployment of programs intended to block or filter malicious software.

This section has been crucial in allowing companies to create and distribute tools designed to protect users from harmful or unwanted content, including spam filters, antivirus programs, and parental control software, without the risk of being held liable for the consequences of their actions.

codersfocus··on JavaScript dates are about to be fixed
If you read GitHub issues for datefns you’ll find examples where it doesn’t handle timezones correctly
codersfocus··on A $10k stipend is available for anyone moving to Cumberland, MD
Telemedicine / remote surgery should solve this.
codersfocus··on JavaScript dates are about to be fixed
Read the luxon.js docs (the timezone section.) It’s the successor to moment.js. They do a great job explaining the common footguns developers face.
codersfocus··on SnapDiagram – Instantly Convert Hand-Drawn Diagrams to Digital with AI
I have a need for something like this. I want to convert hand written / drawn stuff to SVG. Not to a defined diagram schema though, just freeform SVG.

Any suggestions on alternative tools? For pricing reference, I would be incorporating this into my app, and users might convert 1 page a day. For what I would earn, your pricing model would be completely unusable.

I will have to build either a CV pipeline or use NNs, I imagine. Not sure which is the better approach for my task.

codersfocus··on Show HN: InstantDB – A Modern Firebase
The docs for React Native. I had to piece together how to do stuff from the code examples and a YouTube video tutorial because they're pretty sparse with information, and missing a cohesive tutorial that could get me setup with CRUD locally. Plus the initial setup process from the npm page, which itself was notable for how much was required.

I haven't attempted to setup the backend yet, so that's my feedback so far.

codersfocus··on Show HN: InstantDB – A Modern Firebase
For those looking for alternatives to the offline first model, I settled on PowerSync. Runner up was WatermelonDB (don't let the name fool you.) ElectricSQL is still too immature, they announced a rewrite this month. CouchDB / PocketDB aren't really up to date anymore.

Unfortunately this area is still immature, and there aren't really great options but PowerSync was the least bad. I'll probably pair it with Supabase for the backend.

codersfocus··on Samsung delivers solid-state battery for EVs with 600-mile range
Biofuels are a thing
codersfocus··on Ryanair wins screen scraping case against Booking.com in US court ruling
Why are two European companies suing eachother in a US court? Ryanair doesn’t even serve the US, right?
codersfocus··on Rebooting (something like) early Triplebyte
Instead of a quiz, you could do a puzzle / clue hunt.
codersfocus··on Twilio confirms data breach after hackers leak 33M Authy user phone numbers
Why not get a second sim? Most phones can have 2 sims active, and a phone / text only plan is dirt cheap (3-6$/m).

Offer the second number with much greater discretion.

codersfocus··on I made a tool to index websites on Google in less than 48 hours
Google Cloud has an API to crawl a page, but it’s only meant to be used for job postings and live events, so they can add and remove the pages quicker than usual.
codersfocus··on Supershoes are reshaping distance running
This makes me wonder if when the 4 minute mile was broken, and thereafter broken by several more people in short order, was this due to improved shoes?

The example is frequently cited as a "mental shift" causing improved performance, but was it just better shoes?

codersfocus··on RuneLite – open-source RuneScape Client
Whelp, just logged in for the first time in 1687 days, 19 hours and 18 minutes
codersfocus··on High resolution logo for any domain or stock ticker
I thought this would be an AI app that would rely on the domain name and/or website crawl to infer an aesthetic, and then create a prompt that would be fed to a generative image transformer
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