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vhcr··on The /unblock API from Browserless: dodging bot detection as a service
That's a bad example, there's already the List-Unsubscribe header.
vhcr··on Peter Thiel's $100k offer to skip college is more popular than ever
GP probably meant Forbes' 30 under 30.
vhcr··on Ask HN: Easiest way to create a CRUD web app in 2024?
The one you have the most experience with.
vhcr··on Ask HN: 36 months of unemployment and depression. How to go back?
There's nothing arbitrary about doing exercise to deal with depression, it's about as effective as therapy or pharmacological treatment, the same cannot be said about dressing well.
vhcr··on Ask HN: Where's the .txt TLD?
Nobody thought it is worth the $200k it costs?
vhcr··on PostgreSQL is enough
Your experience with databases was probably clouded by having to use Oracle.
vhcr··on Let futures be futures
How could the language know when an operation is going to be cpu bound?
vhcr··on Ask HN: Managing Myopia as a Developer
I got PRK surgery.
vhcr··on You're Too Old for That: Age Discrimination in Japan Tech
Insurance?
vhcr··on Nightshade: An offensive tool for artists against AI art generators
The animation when you change images makes it harder to see the difference, I opened the three images each in its own tab and the differences are more apparent when you change between each other instantly.
vhcr··on He spent his life building a $1M stereo
Just use balanced audio.
vhcr··on Get rid of YouTube advertising without Adblocker
I know YTP is YouTube Premium, but I keep reading YouTube poop.
vhcr··on Get rid of YouTube advertising without Adblocker
SponsorBlock
vhcr··on Why do maps apps have essentially no caching?
Offline maps? That still exists.
vhcr··on How many lines of C it takes to execute a + b in Python
Don't use user-supplied integers on dicts or sets on Python:

>>> {i for i in range(10000)}

Takes 0.005s

>>> {i * sys.hash_info.modulus for i in range(10000)}

Takes 0.76s

vhcr··on Ask HN: How is your job search going?
I got an "offer" recently, but they expected a 2 weeks trial period, and 10-12 hour days.
vhcr··on Why I tend not to use content negotiation
That issue can be solved with service workers.
vhcr··on Simple streetlight hack could protect astronomy from urban light pollution
I don't understand why not just use a motion sensor, and turn the nearest 10 or so lights where the motion sensor was activated for a few minutes.
vhcr··on Appeals court denies judicial immunity to judge who personally searched home
The right civil rights attorney.
vhcr··on Ask HN: How is YouTube able to autoplay videos with volume?
It's not, Firefox works perfectly and blocks it from autoplaying.
vhcr··on 'It's quite soul-destroying': how we fell out of love with dating apps
Let me introduce you to the article 16 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights:

> Men and women of full age, without any limitation due to race, nationality or religion, have the right to marry and to found a family. They are entitled to equal rights as to marriage, during marriage and at its dissolution.

vhcr··on Ask HN: Which DNS service do you use for your computer's network settings?
The one the my DHCP gives me, that is my ISP's
vhcr··on The fake browser update scam gets a makeover
In an ideal world, native apps shouldn't be able to compromise your whole system.
vhcr··on Ishkur's Guide to Electronic Music
Shazam is awful for electronic music, it will identify any song with a four-on-the-floor bass drum as any other song.
vhcr··on Better HTTP server routing in Go 1.22
Getting an error instead of the incorrect data because the route that was actually ran was another one is pretty good for debugging. I have actually ran into this with Django, one route was missing the ending "$" regex.
vhcr··on Ask HN: Is it just me or is mobile web browsing awful?
You can block cookie banners with ad blockers too.
vhcr··on Argentina's Senate approves bill to eliminate income tax
Take in mind this is only for employees, independent workers that sell services earning more than $8M pesos (about $8700), or $11.3M for goods ($12300) will still have to pay the standard 35% rate.
vhcr··on Burkey Belser, designer of the nutrition facts label, has died
https://www.paho.org/en/news/29-9-2020-front-package-labelin...
vhcr··on Quantum Resistance and the Signal Protocol
> Team member Raphael Some of JPL explains: "One way to use faster, consumer CPUs in space is simply to have three times as many CPUs as you need: The three CPUs perform the same calculation and vote on the result. If one of the CPUs makes a radiation-induced error, the other two will still agree, thus winning the vote and giving the correct result."

https://science.nasa.gov/science-news/science-at-nasa/2005/1...

vhcr··on Carrefour puts ‘shrinkflation’ price warnings on food to shame brands
Or a graph of the price per unit over the last 1-3 years.

They would probably change the SKU so the comparison is harder.

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