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dnpls··on Show HN: Wikipedia as a doomscrollable social media feed
Funny that I selected some subjects such as art, technology and human sexuality, and after a bit of scrolling, I get an article on Technosexuality. TIL.
dnpls··on ChatGPT conversations still lack timestamps after years of requests
That's brilliant. I have an injury for a while now, and I change my routine on the fly at the gym, depending on whether I still feel pain or not. Much better if I change it before the next time I go, so I don't waste time figuring out what to replace.
dnpls··on Shai-Hulud compromised a dev machine and raided GitHub org access: a post-mortem
AFAIK Shai-Hulud is the sandworm in Frank Herbert's Dune (but also an American metalcore band)
dnpls··on Incomplete list of mistakes in the design of CSS
There is no need for more priority levels, because precedence is already defined by inline > #ID > .class / [attribute=""] / :pseudo-classes / elements / ::pseudo-element / universal selector (*). And the order they're written, if both have the same priority. The !important just exists to override that order.
dnpls··on The problem with farmed seafood
Pigs are omnivores, so they can be fed vegetables or even food leftovers. Grandpa raised a couple of small pigs, they ate corn mixed with vegetable scraps from the kitchen. The pigs got slaughtered and the meat was delicious.
dnpls··on The problem with farmed seafood
Maybe because fish predators are still fish? So they still taste like fish. It seems fish-eating birds taste fishy, which is not really a desirable flavor in a bird. Maybe mammal predators are also not as tasty - then also what do you feed a farmed bear or a fox, they need to eat meat... So you'd feed them cows that we could eat ourselves? Or we raise rabbits just for them?
dnpls··on ChatGPT Atlas
Linkedin "content creators" are going to have a field day tomorrow
dnpls··on The zipper is getting its first major upgrade in 100 years
From the YKK Digital Showroom website:

> The AiryString® tapeless zipper is designed for elements to be sewn directly onto fabric by a special machine.

https://ykkdigitalshowroom.com/en/item/143/

dnpls··on Bots are getting good at mimicking engagement
OP is selling their own web analytics product, so take the article with a grain of salt.
dnpls··on Why do LLMs freak out over the seahorse emoji?
I could _swear_ that I saw this damn seahorse emoji myself... I guess I was also wrong!
dnpls··on Major rule about cooking meat turns out to be wrong
Surface moisture refers to water (moisture is water, not fat).
dnpls··on VisionOS 26 keeps pushing Apple's newest platform toward the future
I believe the folks at Bigscreen got that one right. Their headset seems to be small and light enough, and good enough image quality. Their Beyond 2 is 107g!
dnpls··on Being fat is a trap
Don't forget to add some form of exercise so you minimize muscle mass loss, to increase your chances of keeping the fat off.
dnpls··on Being fat is a trap
Also cooking. If you don't have your groceries sorted and a little planning for prepping some meals ahead, suddenly you have a fridge full of ingredients and nothing to eat.
dnpls··on Being fat is a trap
yuck - while the soylent diet might be efficient on short term, it's not sustainable. It's harder at first to eat better, healthier foods (more vegetables and fruits, meat and eggs, less fried foods and stuff with a zillion additives or refined sugars) but so much easier to maintain once the habit is formed. Stuff yourself with whole foods 80% of the time, it's going to be ok to eat a burger with fries or a pizza every now or then, and it doesn't feel like a sacrifice. Bonus: you'll feel the difference in energy levels.
dnpls··on The UI future is colourful and dimensional
So you believe it's easier to learn which combination of letters in the context of a given interface means "home" or "chat" than an icon? You don't understand how the human brain works, it's much quicker to discern an icon as you glance at a screen then find a word and get your brain to interpret their meaning. There are 26 letters in the English alphabet, an enormous amount of dictionary words, but it very unusual to have a single screen containing more than 10 different icons.
dnpls··on The Myth of Developer Obsolescence
Same thing for designers, "anyone can create a website now with squarespace/webflow/framer" - cue the template markets, where the templates are made by - you guessed - designers...
dnpls··on Why walking is the most underrated form of exercise (2017)
+1 for rucking. It's as easy as walking and you can progressively increase the weights if you want more effort - I need a better backpack for my weights!
dnpls··on Gene Hackman has died
What kind of psychopath commits murder-suicide and also kills their own dog??
dnpls··on Phind 2: AI search with visual answers and multi-step reasoning
I asked for a map of Paris with all the arrondissements (since there's no way to get that from google maps) and it showed me a diagram instead of a map. Chatgpt at least gives me a link to the wikipedia page with the map image.
dnpls··on People are bad at reporting what they eat. That's a problem for dietary research
A jar of mayonnaise?? you can measure by the spoonful (or better, by weight, since its nutritional value is in the package) whenever you eat.

A month is a long time and the measurement error will accumulate every day, especially with fats. Not so much problem if you do that with cucumber or spinach.

dnpls··on People are bad at reporting what they eat. That's a problem for dietary research
This is it. There will always going to be impossibly unpredictable errors even if you measure everything perfectly.

The point of measuring is to be * as accurate as possible *, not 100% error-free. It helps to better estimate portion sizes, calorie / macro amounts. This is enough precision to control weight gain / loss correctly.

A lot of people also get their maintenance calories estimation wrong, so it doesn't matter if you can measure your food down to the molecules but still eat too much / too little.

dnpls··on Canon wants us to pay for using our own camera as a webcam
I had a Panasonic GF1, which couldn't do timelapses as well (there was no such thing as apps for that camera, only firmware hacks). What I did was to buy a remote shutter release that had a timer and other functions, which allowed me to do so much more.
dnpls··on OpenStreetMap's New Vector Tiles
it looks like the selected font doesn't support arabic text, producing the disconnected characters.
dnpls··on Show HN: Stretch My Time Off – An Algorithm to Optimize Your Vacation Days
Also, it doesn't "stretch" my time off from 25 to 49 days: 6 are national holidays that fall on a weekday, so I would be off on those anyway. So the calculation is wrong.
dnpls··on Show HN: Stretch My Time Off – An Algorithm to Optimize Your Vacation Days
Same here. While it's great to have long holidays, it doesn't sound fun at all to have no days off between June and November.
dnpls··on Cooking with black plastic is particularly crucial to avoid
Side note: If you regularly and promptly clean your wooden utensils, bacteria and germs won't set in. Bacteria only becomes an issue when the wood splinters or is damaged in some way.

Also "capillary action" takes place in wood, meaning water and/or bacteria on the outside of the wooden surface essentially diffuses into the wood, "choking out" the surface bacteria and therefore not providing them with a good environment on which to grow. Additionally, wood has antimicrobial properties.

dnpls··on Show HN: Media Hoarder v1.4.0 Supporting TV Series, Introducing Episode Heatmaps
It would be interesting to integrate it with Trakt data so I can sync the watched / watchlist from my Trakt library and find new movies and series to watch.
dnpls··on Show HN: Repaint – a WebGL based website builder
Framer does the same thing regarding responsive layouts: desktop > tablet > mobile.
dnpls··on Zen, a Arc-like open-source browser based on the Firefox engine
The website is so bare, I'd like to see a list with all the major features and some screenshots before downloading anything.
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