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dt2m commented on Evolving the ASF Brand   news.apache.org/foundatio... · Posted by u/Tomte
dt2m · a year ago
What a major victory for birds all across the globe. A feather is not ours to steal and parade around as if it’s our own culture. Maybe the ASF could replace this with a lock of human hair instead.
dt2m commented on Firefox has surpassed Chrome on Speedometer   treeherder.mozilla.org/pe... · Posted by u/akyuu
dt2m · 2 years ago
Anecdotally, Firefox has always been faster than Chrome on MacOS for me. Great to see it’s only getting even better.
dt2m commented on I asked ChatGPT to write a pf.conf to spec   nxdomain.no/~peter/chatgp... · Posted by u/cjg
dt2m · 2 years ago
Give LLMs five more years and this won't be an issue. The fact that it even gets close is seriously impressive.

For people like me who aren't sysadmins, but simply have to do maintenance tasks on VPSes from time to time, something like this would be a godsend.

dt2m commented on Apparently Ad Blockers are not allowed on YouTube. Is this a new thing?   old.reddit.com/r/youtube/... · Posted by u/josephcsible
dt2m · 2 years ago
Out of all the monthly subscriptions I have, YouTube Premium is by far my favourite. I don’t see an issue with paying for something I use so much everyday.

Let’s be real, at this point YouTube is too big to fail. Without Google’s capital it would be impossible to do this at scale. Also I would much rather support Google and independent creators rather than Netflix and the entertainment industry.

dt2m commented on Tell HN: iOS converts units for highlighted text    · Posted by u/hprotagonist
abhaynayar · 2 years ago
Yeah I totally understand that we don't need to clutter the interface with features.

But for example, when you want to go to certain position in a text paragraph, it is super intuitive in Android to click on the text wherever you want the cursor to be. If you try that in iOS, it does that, but the precision is really really bad, like unusable. To precisely place a cursor in iOS you need to hold the spacebar. I know that, but I doubt the average user does, how would they? Even after knowing that, the Android way is much less of a headache.

I prefer Android in many such things.

dt2m · 2 years ago
It used to work this way on iOS until they absolutely butchered the text cursor functionality with IIRC iOS 15.
dt2m commented on Blank turns your TV screen black until you press any button on a remote   furbo.org/2023/04/12/anno... · Posted by u/tambourine_man
dt2m · 2 years ago
This is a great example of how bad the UX has gotten for at-home music playback.
dt2m commented on Transmission v4.0   github.com/transmission/t... · Posted by u/sweetp
arkadiyt · 3 years ago
I wanted to evaluate it in the past but their downloads page has a giant warning, "The macOS version is not well supported", so I didn't bother downloading it.
dt2m · 3 years ago
The GUI is buggy to say the least, but the actual torrent transfers are faster in every step of the way compared to Transmission 3.x in my testing.
dt2m commented on Charts.css: CSS data visualization framework   chartscss.org/... · Posted by u/homarp
dt2m · 3 years ago
Nice proof of concept. Might be good enough for basic visualisations but once you det into labelling it becomes unwieldy.
dt2m commented on Firefox private mode blocked by T-Mobile   t-mobile.com/unsupported_... · Posted by u/katam
dt2m · 3 years ago
I think the developers at T-Mobile are equally pissed off about this. But with Firefox market share sitting at 3.5% in the US, it no longer makes business sense to spend the extra money required to make their site work in what is now a niche browser.

It's Google's world, we're just living in it.

dt2m commented on The link between August birthdays and ADHD (2018)   nytimes.com/2018/11/28/op... · Posted by u/dymk
corobo · 3 years ago
> All this raises the question of whether the disease is being overdiagnosed.

No chance of it not actually being a disease?

Maybe different brain types are as common as blood types. We'll never know while we label anything that doesn't play nicely with commercialism as diseased haha

dt2m · 3 years ago
Not a disease? That's down to semantics and personal opinion. What isn't opinion is the fact that the symptoms of ADHD have been objectively identified on a global scale, in people from very different cultures and social classes.

I agree that it isn't beneficial to label a very livable condition with the same word that we use for much harsher illnesses, and it doesn't help that it's not a visible condition. But as somebody with ADHD, it really hurts me to keep seeing this argument repeated ad nausea.

Maybe the issue isn't that it is being overdiagnosed, but rather the fact that the only treatment we consider worthwhile is prescribing amphetamines to children.

u/dt2m

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