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hackerbee··on Twitter's Recommendation Algorithm
You mean Jack Dorsey?
hackerbee··on When Good Codenames Go Bad (2006)
They should have gone with Android "Quark"...
hackerbee··on Show HN: BoxyHQ – open-source alternative to Auth0/WorkOS
Futurama
hackerbee··on When or If
The distinction between when ("wanneer") and if ("als") is there in Dutch, just like in English.
hackerbee··on Electric fields, not individual neurons, may hold information in memory: study
Your comment immediately reminded me of Marvin the paranoid android from The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.
hackerbee··on The Problem with Vanity TLDs (2011)
2MB would be 2 million characters - if using ASCII characters, a bit less for special characters in UTF-8
hackerbee··on How is bamboo lumber made? (2016)
"Lead through technology"
hackerbee··on Parler Tricks: Making Software Disappear
That won't be written for another 27 years.
hackerbee··on Another free CA as an alternative to Let's Encrypt
The patchwork of anti-phishing and anti-spamming measures like SPF and DKIM require DNS TXT records. Allowing mail from an IP address would likely be used almost exclusively for spamming.
hackerbee··on Electrified wingsuit from BMW reaches 186MPH on first flight
Congratulations, you are one of the less than 1 out of 10. AGM is great for stationary batteries, and has a place in vehicles but they will probably be replaced by lithium chemistry batteries in the coming decades as well as cost is coming down further.
hackerbee··on Nine in ten adults think buying latest smartphone is waste of money
Say you buy a $1200 iPhone. One third is $400. Works out to a little over a dollar per day. For a device you probably use for hours per day.
hackerbee··on New 13-inch MacBook Pro
Not in EU with a grounded plug.
hackerbee··on Sequoia Capital memo to their portfolio founders on Coronavirus
Although a ham certainly qualifies as a 'dead animal', this was not the image which came to mind when I read this comment.
hackerbee··on Designing the most performant row-level security schema in Postgres (2018)
Performant means time efficient. Efficient could mean time, memory or both. Fast can also refer to development time.