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quitethelogic··on Tell HN: You can't add “no ads” in your Play Store app's title
I use TE Tuner and like it. I don't use all the features, but the tuner and metronome are pretty great.
quitethelogic··on Zrythm: A highly automated and intuitive digital audio workstation
I'll use it if you allow zed-rhythm as well
quitethelogic··on macOS Monterey
> feels like they've opted for a more frequent release cycle

Their OS releases have been yearly for about the past decade I think.

quitethelogic··on Launch YC S21: Meet the Batch, Thread #7
This hasn't been my experience. I worked with a man years ago that was relatively fluent in English, but whose thick accent made understanding him somewhat difficult. Listening intently was required to understand him and he would often need to repeat himself, even though he was using the correct words and grammar. It's something he ran into pretty often at the time and he worked to improve it. Something like this app may have helped him. Slight accents may be "just top dressing," but this is most definitely not always the case.
quitethelogic··on Many Americans not aware of being tracked with facial recognition while shopping
I know the bag check isn't the focus here, but I always just politely decline. After I've paid, I own whatever is in those bags and no, you can't look in them.
quitethelogic··on What's Inside the EU Green Pass QR Code?
I would be put off by it as well, but good memory and cameras are harder to spot, so the lack of a notebook doesn't offer much protection.
quitethelogic··on Show HN: I wrote a book about UI [pdf]
I am a native English speaker and they/them being used in this way has become more accepted and recommended over time. I was taught explicitly not to do this when I was in school, but that was a few decades ago. Using he/him when gender is unknown or unimportant is regarded as exclusionary. Usually, it'a not an issue, but I find it does sometimes make things more difficult to parse or understand without additional context. In this case, there aren't really any drawbacks.
quitethelogic··on Ad block shouldn't break your checkout
I do see it as a TeeSpring problem. This particular bug got in my way 2 weeks ago when I was attempting to buy some merch to support a youtube channel I frequent. I almost abandoned the purchase.

A shopping site breaking checkout when there's a google analytics problem is madness, IMO. uBlock Origin is hugely popular. With 10M (claimed) active users, you should probably be testing against uBlock Origin for your e-commerce site.

As an aside, buying from TeeSpring was a little... interesting. You add the items to your cart and pay like at any other site. Instead of being charged for the total, I got invoiced separately for each (including separate confirmation emails), along with 5 or 6 duplicate shipping notices for one of the items. My credit card was also charged separately for each item. I get that there are probably reasons for this purchase flow, but it's not implemented well.

I got my stuff and all is good, but the whole buying experience was janky.

quitethelogic··on Tauri: Rust-based Electron alternative releases beta
Like Electron, with Tauri you write your GUIs with HTML, CSS, and Javascript. Electron uses Node for the client-side non-GUI functionality, while Tauri instead uses Rust binaries to accomplish same. That's the alternative part. Node is not needed at all in the final build, although it may be used to create your app before bundling for release.
quitethelogic··on Signal's CEO Just Hacked the Cops' Favorite Phone Cracking Tool
The exploit targets Cellebrite, not Signal's own software. Cellebrite is running on the machine doing the extracting and not the device containing the original data.

It's entirely possible that I'm wrong and this will cause your phone to explode, but if you don't trust the Signal developers enough to assume they won't intentionally explode your phone, you probably shouldn't be using their product.

quitethelogic··on Tesla's EPA Driving Ranges Didn't Hold Up to Testing
I only approach EPA estimates when the tank nears empty and my right foot changes its behavior dramatically due to anxiety. I don't doubt that it is possible, but I find the kind of driving it requires to be unenjoyable. I don't have a lead foot and I enjoy spending less money to travel a given number of miles, but I do not often reach the optimal MPGs.
quitethelogic··on Only Google is really allowed to crawl the web
> Googlebot has a range of IP addresses that it publicly announces so websites can whitelist them.

Google says[1] they do not do this:

"Google doesn't post a public list of IP addresses for website owners to allowlist."

[1]https://developers.google.com/search/docs/advanced/crawling/...

quitethelogic··on Amazon still hasn’t fixed its problem with bait-and-switch reviews
That is certainly a suboptimal shopping experience. One page with variants wouldn't seem to work very well for this either, with nearly 10,000 variations.

Interestingly, they are all sold by amazon directly and are printed on demand so it doesn't seem to be a case of a 3rd party trying to game the site.

quitethelogic··on You download the app and it doesn’t work
Perhaps that's the one more thing at WWDC next week.
quitethelogic··on You download the app and it doesn’t work
> Hey's little mini site

There's a github link at the bottom. Doesn't look to me like there is any affiliation with Basecamp.

Edit: Your point still stands, however. DHH made it pretty clear when we said they'd burn it all down. (Don't remember the exact quote)

quitethelogic··on Supreme Court says state may enforce some restrictions on religious gatherings [pdf]
> Cannabis dispensaries are currently closed except for medical patients

This is not true for San Diego county.

You can't go and browse, but both medical and recreational users can order online and pick it up or have it delivered.

quitethelogic··on Signs that a business idea will probably fail
Directly after the line you quote, the author continues:

> Bullshit.

> Ideas matter a lot, and if yours is a shitty one, for you, at that time, with the resources you have, it will almost certainly fail.

I think your interpretation of the author's interpretation is flawed.

quitethelogic··on DOJ plans to strike against encryption while the Techlash iron is hot
The current administration came into power in January 2017.