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tqkxzugoaupvwqr··on Deno KV internals: building a database for the modern web
Could you please elaborate on what happened?
tqkxzugoaupvwqr··on YouTube Cuts 100 Employees as Tech Layoffs Continue
I’ve noticed several YouTube channels that have hundreds of thousands or millions of subscribers but new videos are watched only by a fraction of a fraction of that subscriber number. iJustine has 7.1 M subscribers but her latest videos have between 0.05 M to 0.15 M views.

Either TikTok and Instagram pull all the viewers over to their platform or there is a problem with YouTube’s subscribtions feed. In any case, many YouTubers are frustrated by the few views.

tqkxzugoaupvwqr··on Reindeer sleep and eat simultaneously
I use the content blocker Ka-Block in Safari iOS and see no ads.
tqkxzugoaupvwqr··on Australian sea captain says he may have found missing Malaysian Airlines flight
In the beginning of the article it sounds like he saw the object they caught in the net (“What Olver’s net eventually brought to the surface”, “As soon as I saw it I knew what it was.”). In the end of the article where they cite an email he wrote in 2017, it sounds like he never saw the object but his gut instinct told him it was a wing, not a shipping container (“I am convinced this was an aircraft wing”). The wording of his email doesn’t help his case. Leave out all the irrelevant fluff and just say you caught a commercial plane’s wing or large part of it in your fishing net in 2014 and state the coordinates where you dropped the net.

Regarding the authorities’ response: It’s strange they did not start an investigation when he claimed he found plane debris.

tqkxzugoaupvwqr··on Joe Rogan Again Had Spotify's No. 1 Podcast in 2023
Do podcasts that could be played on iPods but started publishing in a newer audio format cease to be podcasts?

The iPod has been discontinued. Should the term podcast be discontinued?

tqkxzugoaupvwqr··on Apple unveils M3, M3 Pro, and M3 Max
It’s worse. The configurator is labeled with a relative price upgrade but an absolute RAM size. The actual deal is +$200 for +8 GB RAM which is outrageous.
tqkxzugoaupvwqr··on Trying to make sense of why Otis exploded en route to Acapulco
You confuse weather forecast with climate forecast. Climate is the weather averaged over 30 years.

The author certainly knows about climate change and the intensification of events due to warmer seas, landmasses and air.

This article is about a particular storm and how models failed to predict the outcome.

tqkxzugoaupvwqr··on macOS Sonoma is available today
Not having to install apps like Rectangle to snap windows into desired areas.

[1] https://rectangleapp.com

tqkxzugoaupvwqr··on Ancient 'Non-Human' Alien Bodies Found in Mines, UFO Expert Says
Pasting my comment from another post on this news:

Seems these Nazca aliens have already been debunked two years ago as a re-arrangement of human and animal bones. If you can ignore the comedy skits, the video below points out all the inconsistencies.

https://youtu.be/-DmDHF6jN9A

tqkxzugoaupvwqr··on A Mexican ufologist claims to show 2 alien corpses to Congress
Seems these Nazca aliens have already been debunked two years ago as a re-arrangement of human and animal bones. If you can ignore the comedy skits, the video below points out all the inconsistencies.

https://youtu.be/-DmDHF6jN9A

tqkxzugoaupvwqr··on iPhone 12 withdrawn from French market for non-compliance with EU regulation
Please elaborate on what you mean. How is this related to the iPhone 12?
tqkxzugoaupvwqr··on I wired up my bike's GPS to order me pizza during a gravel race
How does this work with a conversation? Did you ask them to press 1 if the item is in stock, or send you an email to a provided address?
tqkxzugoaupvwqr··on Things I wish I knew before moving 50K lines of code to React Server Components
Yet performance is abysmal. I clicked on “API reference” and nothing happened for a second. Then the submenu opened in the sidebar. Another second later the content view updated. There is no indication of anything loading, there are no network requests to await. Incredibly, it’s dog slow on an M1 Mac.

If the viewport is 800 px or narrower, click on the menu icon (horizontal bars, top right), then click on a sidebar link. Do that a few times, you’ll notice it’s incredibly slow to react. Same with resizing the viewport, very sluggish.

tqkxzugoaupvwqr··on AWS Icon Quiz
I got 2/20 after randomly guessing.
tqkxzugoaupvwqr··on CNET is deleting old articles to try to improve its Google Search ranking
Why do the articles have to be deleted? Is robots.txt or <meta name="robots" content="noindex,nofollow"> not sufficient? Deleting articles will break so many external links.
tqkxzugoaupvwqr··on Apple reports third quarter results
It’s a scam. You are required to pay Apple for a developer account. You are required to hand over 15%/30% of revenue for the lifetime of your app. You are bullied into paying Apple for App Store search ads or else someone else will take the number one spot even if the search query matches exactly your app name. Then you have to buy multiple generations of Apple hardware to test your app in different OS versions. And then Apple has the audacity to allow plain subscription scams in the App Store but bullies you in the app submission process for trivial things or rejects your app because the reviewer just didn’t read any provided instructions because they only have a few minutes per app review.
tqkxzugoaupvwqr··on Apple reports third quarter results
It’s been last edited in 2007.
tqkxzugoaupvwqr··on Former intel officer says 'non-human biologics’ found at alleged UFO crash sites
You are reading things into my comment I didn’t say. I said his programming capability allowed him to create a tool that lets anyone combine data into 3D space which makes it possible to verify hypotheses. Where others in the UFO community wave their hands and make bold claims about something supernatural, West checks if the observed phenomena can be explained in reality-based physical ways. Anyone can check the work he and many others did jointly. The data and simulations are free to download and assess. This process is much closer to science than anything I have seen from others in the UFO community.

If anything, your comment makes the impression of the quintessential HN poster that claims to know better / dismiss others without having checked the linked sources.

tqkxzugoaupvwqr··on Former intel officer says 'non-human biologics’ found at alleged UFO crash sites
If anyone is interested in seeing rigorously analyzed video material, I recommend the YouTube channel of Mick West[1]. He is an experienced programmer that has written a software to combine available data into a 3D space. This makes it possible to recreate situations and validate/invalidate hypotheses by stepping through time and looking from different camera angles. He also analyzed the famous gimbal and flir videos (Spoiler: There is a straight-forward explanation for what they show) and deconstructed some of David Grusch’s statements[2].

[1] https://www.youtube.com/@MickWest

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AvhMMhW-JN0

tqkxzugoaupvwqr··on Saudi company draws unlimited Arizona ground water amid drought
> This site not available in your country

Can you please summarize?

tqkxzugoaupvwqr··on Giant SpaceX Spiral Appears Amid the Aurora Lights in Alaska's Night Sky
In 6–7 minutes real time (see timestamp bottom right). The video is sped up.
tqkxzugoaupvwqr··on Artist refuses prize after his AI image wins at top photo contest
You can tell the image is AI generated by looking at the fingers resting on the shoulder. The woman’s right hand has no fingernails and a claw index finger, her left hand has a wobbly and twisted pinky, a bendy ring finger and a squashed middle finger.
tqkxzugoaupvwqr··on China: A genetic experiment that inserted tardigrade genes into human stem cells
“Positive traits” is subjective. What may be seen as a positive trait in the western world may be considered a negative trait by Chinese Communist Party. The CCP will not want critical thinkers and people rejecting authoritarian power. A positive trait in their eyes is NOT being a critical thinker and NOT rejecting authoritarian power.

Imagine an army of 10 million Chinese soldiers bred with “CCP positive traits” for the purpose of fighting, who follow orders without questioning and sacrifice themselves for any mission, no matter how small or inconsequential. You can squash enemies inside and outside of China. In a perverted sense this also creates a robust society: A robust dictatorship or even world power.

tqkxzugoaupvwqr··on [dead]
> I saw the spark in me fade away, and it was toxic, and it was unhealthy

What does it say about you when your boyfriend/friend with benefits/boytoy says the relationship is toxic yet you continue? Thiel basically snuffed the life out of a close person. If that is how much he cares about close people, he does not care the least bit about the American population and anything he does should be met with skepticism.

tqkxzugoaupvwqr··on Curl 8.0.1
If you read the first comment, you’ll see the API was documented as being experimental.

https://github.com/grpc/grpc-go/issues/3798#issuecomment-670...

tqkxzugoaupvwqr··on New React docs pretend SPAs don't exist anymore
MPAs can do the same trick. Use JavaScript to add a <link rel=prefetch> element to prefetch a URL. Or just serve your server-side rendered page with this element included to prefetch the next page. When the user navigates to the next page, it’s instantly shown.

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Attributes...

tqkxzugoaupvwqr··on Striking portraits, claimed to be original, were generated on Midjourney
Next week we’ll hear a story about how he used generative text AI to write the descriptions.
tqkxzugoaupvwqr··on Password protect a static HTML page
Logout is possible: The server has to send http status 401 if I recall correctly. The browser treats this as logout.
tqkxzugoaupvwqr··on Discovery of 3M-year-old stone tools sparks prehistoric whodunnit
Wouldn’t they have used up most of the energy dense liquid that we currently pump out of the ground? At least in some part of their civilization’s lifespan? That we still had superficial oil fields suggests to me no one extracted oil because no industrial civilization existed before us on this planet.
tqkxzugoaupvwqr··on Home Depot sent my email, details of stuff I bought to Meta, customer complains
If you feel adventurous, reset the account password and cancel the orders or close the account.
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