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HTML was a mistake.

What if browsers just returned texts with links and auto-linked and auto-embedded them like markdown does? Only on request. A true user agent.

Well, I would have settled for HTML 1 for the forms.


Unfortunately some people want to have some semblance of social life and in some circles dropping Instagram means decimating your pool.


> in some circles dropping Instagram means decimating your pool

Rather: dropping Instagram means improving the (average) quality of the people in your pool. :-)


Not if you're under 25


Even then (or even particularly then). In this age, some persons rather have very "twisted" measures of quality for other people.


But that definitely isn't everyone and the more people who reject your normalisation of this, the less strength there will be to it. And social life certainly doesn't look like Instagram statistics monitoring to me.


That's a conflicting requirement. You can't want to be free of drugs and also keep doing heroin because all your friends do it.


This doesn’t get better by ignoring the problem.

This is the social equivalent of just throwing your hands up and saying “it can’t be helped”.

I cannot stress this enough: it _is not_ true. Deleting your IG will not cause your friends to stop being your friends.

Being on these platforms legitimizes their use. It makes the situation _worse_. It is a vote for surveillance and censorship of your most intimate personal connections.


Facebook could implement the feature that could tell you which of your friends is within walking distance, so you can grab a coffee, but nope. Also facebook = cancer, and unfortunately now we have more cancers (TikTok, etc.)


They actually did at some point, but people hate that. https://howfinity.com/how-to-use-facebook-nearby-friends/


Confirm. GitHub search is "search" not "excellent search"


It's such a wasted opportunity too. It would be so powerful to understand how a tool is used by searching for popular repositories that are already using it.


I do that all the time! What's GitHub search missing that prevents you from doing that?

Their code search supports regular expressions now, which I find pretty incredible. https://github.blog/engineering/architecture-optimization/th...


Maybe I have my search syntax wrong. Suppose I want to search for go projects with a flake.nix in the repo root. This finds nothing:

    language:Go path:/flake.nix 
I know they exist though, for instance here's one: github.com/joerdav/xc

Can you tell me where I've gone wrong?


That's searching for files that are in the Go language but are flake.nix files - which is 0 results because flake.nix files are not written in Go.

This seems to work;

    path:/flake.nix go
https://github.com/search?q=path%3A%2Fflake.nix%20go&type=co...


I see, I thought it would be matching the repo's contained languages, not the file's language. Thanks for clearing that up for me.

Searching for "go" as a substring turns up a lot of false positives, but at least now I know the search is not flat out broken.


The fact that you can’t even specify the branch or search across branches is anything but excellent


"Best" doesn't always win. We'd be sporting PalmOS if that were the case.


Im just now writing a MOBI parser, which are just Palm Database Format files effectively, and if that is any indication, I’m fairly sure PalmOS is very far from the best option available.


What has been the problem exactly? Just generic "fake news" or did the platform generate porn?


Recent legislative changes (further) increased the risk tier of generative AI when human beings could be reasonably considered to have grounds to sue the business, and the bank likely also sought and received regulatory advice directing them to classify such businesses as higher risk (than their tolerance threshold might have permitted previously). To quote the recent Debanking article:

> This particular bank did not, at the time, have a small business practice within its personal banking division. Very many banks do, but this particular bank did not. And thus this bank had not built out the higher degree of policies and procedures [required]

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42371476

Most likely, the payment processor does not wish to invest operational spending into the necessary banking and processing policies that continuing to transact with CivitAI without restrictions that reduce legal risk would have demanded of them. And then when CAI encouraged everyone to spend money rapidly and fast, it massively spiked their transaction volume, leading the bank to kill services a day early due to the additional risk flag that sort of processing behavior carries on an everyday basis.

(I am not your lawyer, this is not legal advice.)


You may be surprised to find out how many more things are happening today! It's definitely a conspiracy.


> huge ego and power hunger

Some people should probably be stopped before they get too hungry. Same with some bald guy in Eurasia right now.


I'm convinced that they specifically won't do that so that people won't use them to build competing products. Actions is one of the pieces that make GitHub money.


> Actions is one of the pieces that make GitHub money.

How do you figure that? I'd buy "lock people in the platform," but in that way GitHub Issues has been the moat for far longer than Actions has


I figure because they charge for minutes, I'm not saying that it actually turns a profit. My company also pays for certain "xl" machines.


Almost every company I know of is in love with self hosted, or 3rd party, runners because they can't reason about OIDC auth into their cloud, or it's more evil sibling VPN

I'm open to your suggestion but I struggle to get onboard that Microsoft thinks that CI compute billing is the future


> I don't want TypeScript to be a runtime checker

I do.

If the types are internally consistent, then they don't need runtime validation, it'd just be extra code to download and run.

If you accept external data, you may already opt in using something like Zod. I don't see why conflate the two things just because their quacks echo the same.


Do we have enough spaces in the ALL_NUMBERS array or do we want to group them by thousands?

ALL_NUMBERS_00001

ALL_NUMBERS_00002


Yeah, some of the bigger numbers were a problem, so we switched to using a horizontally scaling db cluster so that we could cover all of the (useful) numbers. When we encounter a new number, it gets routed to the appropriate db where the results of the function are cached after being calculated. We're thinking of spinning it off as an API service actually if there's any interest.


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