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m1sta_··on How does it know I want CSV? – An HTTP trick
No
m1sta_··on Show HN: Otterkit – COBOL compiler for .NET
I can see a lot of people asking about intended use cases here. I can imagine this as part of a toolchain for making legacy COBOL code 'serverless'. There's a lot of value in that.
m1sta_··on Ask HN: Someone is proxy-mirroring my website, can I do anything?
Dynamically generate all the content in the browser to a canvas element. No HTML to steal.

More simply you could just make all the HTML links broken unless some obfusticated or server-backed algorithm is run on them. Think google search results.

m1sta_··on Delimiter-first code
Type statements first, in white-space significant languages, are great too. They allow for type based DSLs to be really cleanly included. Think gremlin, SQL, or jsx. Multiline strings are very neat too.
m1sta_··on Show HN: Run unsafe user generated JavaScript in the browser
Nobody has benchmarked postMessage vs QuickJS?
m1sta_··on Want quick answers? Ask questions well
> in a way where it can be resolved

I disagree. Whether the bug can be resolved is on you, not them. It's nice when they make it easy. It's smart to incentivise them to help more than just a basic report. It's stupid to ignore the existence of a bug just because you don't like the way that someone reported it. You might deprioritise it based on a time ROI consideration but you shouldn't ignore it.

m1sta_··on Want quick answers? Ask questions well
This is not the right approach. Your users finding issues in your system is your users doing a service for you. Help them do it better, don't put your head in the sand because they're not doing what you had hoped.
m1sta_··on Long Covid, Cognitive Impairment, and the Stalled Decline in Disability Rates
Education is about using intelligence not gaining it. That said, in practice knowledge can be more useful than intelligence if the circumstances presented fit the available knowledge well.
m1sta_··on My New Sony NW-A55 Walkman
The tidal recommendations didnt impress me. I used it for a few months. That's how I experienced 360.
m1sta_··on My New Sony NW-A55 Walkman
Sony phone and spotify. What's not to like other than a lack of Sony 360 content?
m1sta_··on Ask HN: Ignoring popularity and packages, which programming language is best?
You don't find it verbose?
m1sta_··on I want an iPhone Mini-sized Android phone
Sony dude. The screen ratio makes it feel small in the hand.
m1sta_··on I want an iPhone Mini-sized Android phone
Sony 5ii/iii
m1sta_··on BERTopic: The Future of Topic Modeling
I'm not going to contact sales. I have no problem paying though.

Part of your value proposition is saving people time, but your sales model is time expensive.

m1sta_··on Maestral – open-source Dropbox client
Why couldn't it support smart sync?
m1sta_··on Select, put and delete data from JSON, TOML, YAML, XML and CSV files
Excel can do this.
m1sta_··on Why is California wasting millions on hydrogen fuel pumps?
"storage solution for smoothing renewable production too"

This is underappreciated.

m1sta_··on Ryven – Flow-based visual scripting for Python
It's a bummer that it has a QT based UI instead of a web based one.
m1sta_··on No user accounts, by design
They still have the ability to see user content, but it would require them to make a change to their codebase. If they did such a change silently...
m1sta_··on PRQL – A proposal for a better SQL
I'd love for the next release of SQL to have optional alternative ordering of clauses
m1sta_··on Forced to sell chipless ink cartridges, Canon tells customers how to bypass DRM
I can buy an inject for $20 at the local post office. I can't buy a laser for the same ballpark price.
m1sta_··on Meta 'most reluctant' to work with government: Home Affairs
These discussions too often devolve into a simple privacy vs surveillance discussion. It's frustrating because it's so much more nuanced than that. Authenticity is super important. Controls and auditability of surveillance power usage are too.
m1sta_··on Novak Djokovic's Visa Cancelled by Australian Minister for Immigration
Responding to your rhetorical... Yes.

Covid is rampant at this point. An aggressive testing path and allowing him to play would absolutely be in the public's best interest.

It's clowns on both sides here but the risk of letting him in is definitely not high enough to balance the public benefit of him being allowed to play. Once he plays the special public benefit ends and so should his visa.

m1sta_··on Forced to sell chipless ink cartridges, Canon tells customers how to bypass DRM
The subsidisation model is great when you only print rarely. This is increasingly true.
m1sta_··on A New Coefficient of Correlation
How does this relate to Maximal Information Coefficient (MIC), MGC, PPS and the like?
m1sta_··on Show HN: Decentralized, Mutable, Serverless Torrent Swarm Websites
This is quickly devolving into a Facebook "conversation". I'm disappointed.

In any case, there is a very good argument for the first amendment changing in response to today's challenges, culture, and technology.

m1sta_··on Show HN: Decentralized, Mutable, Serverless Torrent Swarm Websites
It's an example, and a compelling one. That is not the same as cherry picking.
m1sta_··on “The NFT Bay” Shares Multi-Terabyte Archive of ‘Pirated’ NFTs
Ownership is managed through the chain of copyright. Not the blockchain.
m1sta_··on “The NFT Bay” Shares Multi-Terabyte Archive of ‘Pirated’ NFTs
"ownership" of a copy of something infinitely reproducable.
m1sta_··on Show HN: Pony – a messenger for mindful correspondence
Not working for new Facebook login via Android (Xperia 5ii)
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