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ui4jd73bdj | 3 years ago | on: My Taipei Quarantine

Definitely hit harder. However, whiöe there was no official lockdown people in Taiwan voluntarily "lockdowned" last summer when they had an outbreak. It hit many local businesses hard and there was no support from the government unlike many western countries that supported businesses that were affected. The duration wasn't super long so the damage was bearable. This is anec data from my friends car repair shop that was affected(no customers for weeks)

ui4jd73bdj | 4 years ago | on: Oggify: Download Songs Directly from Spotify

Well it's been 30 years for some of my cds and new hardware with cd support is still being created today. But maybe in another 20 years I will be too busy enjoying my flying car to care about my cds.

ui4jd73bdj | 4 years ago | on: Deno Is Webby

Alert doesn't lock your browser. The developer can spend a lot of time and effort to make an even more intrusive and annoying custom alert.

Why should I as a user have to endure instagram and twitter blocking content with a delayed login prompt that cannot be canceled? Because they can. Browser APIs or not malicious developers will be malicious.

ui4jd73bdj | 4 years ago | on: Sunsetting the Bethesda.net launcher and migrating to Steam

It doesn't decouple them. The cdn still needs rights to share the content from the creator. Why would the creator give anyone else the right than say steam? So you would have a NFT of your game that only works in one platform since others cannot distribute it.

ui4jd73bdj | 4 years ago | on: Tell HN: Airbnb just stole me 5 minutes of my time adding dices

Sure you can, but it's not trivial to make the random seem like a human random at a large scale. What are the parameters of a human slide and what kind of distributions are they? And there might be things they do under the hood that affect those parameters like fingerprinting. You would need a lot of data to imitate a human, but the provider of the captcha has a lot more data than you to counter your effort.

Thats why it's usually just easier to pay some people pennies to solve them by hand.

ui4jd73bdj | 4 years ago | on: Tell HN: Airbnb just stole me 5 minutes of my time adding dices

Assuming the content is in Japanese this is probably the expected result though.

For international websites it would be good to follow the users chosen language. But if a website doesn't have a english version(or other alphabet based version), expecting alphabets in a captcha is not very reasonable.

ui4jd73bdj | 4 years ago | on: Dune: Spice Wars

It's scrolling too fast and very jittery on mobile as well. Very bad UX. But hey at least the title animation is smooth and cool, who cares about the actual content?

ui4jd73bdj | 4 years ago | on: EU Parliament pushes to ban ads targeting health, religion, sexual orientation

Of course nobody is immune to ads. We were talking about the ad being a net positive to ones life.

Yeah I might also buy a redbull but I don't think they need to or should track me online to increase that likelyhood. And I don't think that would be a netpositive to my life. They can do just fine by traditional advertisements(and they do afaik!).

ui4jd73bdj | 4 years ago | on: EU Parliament pushes to ban ads targeting health, religion, sexual orientation

I prefer random ads. If I plan to buy something I will never do it from an ad. At least with random ads there can be something I didn't even think about buying. Now you might try to argue that tracking can predict these awesome things I want but didn't know about, but in my experience it always leads to the most obvious predictable and boring ads.

ui4jd73bdj | 4 years ago | on: Rail Theft Soars in California

To me the comparison is very accurate. On both occasions there were mostly peaceful protests and some opportunist. The fact that you call one a protest and another a riot is quite telling of your bias.

ui4jd73bdj | 4 years ago | on: Toxic culture is driving the great resignation

Seems reasonable enough for a fresh grad. For example 50k->300k. I doubt every engineer could prove to be so valuable in the end spectrum but might work for some companies. Of course if the company fired people the model would lose it's appeal, since you are leaving money on the table on the early spectrum but have no security to reach the end.

Would you leave a company where you got a guaranteed 30% raise every year no questions asked(assuming work was interesting and you were happy with current comp)?

ui4jd73bdj | 4 years ago | on: You Feel Like Shit

I was annoyed by the limited answers. Why can I not skip the question with "No, and I don't need to eat right now".

ui4jd73bdj | 4 years ago | on: How to quit like a boss

Agreed. Even if you have a contract with x weeks notice period, breaching the contract is a legal move(penalty may vary).

I had a non-standard 1 month notice period in my contract(normal is 2 weeks). I let them know I'm leaving in two weeks. They mentioned the notice period but I held my ground. They folded and 2 weeks was plenty to handover my work.

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