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Timwi
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  1. I don't understand why this is downvoted. It contains the actual list, while the main submission does not.
  2. Using perfectly polite words does not mean your behavior is perfectly polite.
  3. My only experience with dependabot has been that GitHub spammed me with notifications from it. Now don't get me wrong, if I have a project with an outdated version of jQuery that has security vulnerabilities, it's useful to know about it. But it kept notifying me even after I committed a change to delete that jQuery file because the project no longer needed it. I couldn't find an easy way to get it to shut up about it.
  4. I have not really seen ChatGPT learn who I “am”, what I “like” etc. With memories enabled it seems to mostly remember random one-off things from one chat that are definitely irrelevant for all future chats. I much prefer writing a system prompt where I can decide what's relevant.
  5. It's possible that you got the recommendation because other people with similar interests to you were following the link posted on HN.
  6. Why do you continue to ask for examples if you're just going to downplay them or explain them away like you did here?
  7. You may think you're making some kind of point by repeatedly asking for examples of vitriol on SO, but all it shows is that you haven't looked, or haven't sincerely reflected on what you saw from the perspective of a regular user.
  8. Are you not going to remove that? That seems counter to the spirit of the puzzle.
  9. The website is from 2023.
  10. Homo peculiaris
  11. What incentivizes an ISP to become a member if it's not legally required and it pisses off (some) customers?
  12. There is a meetup-like platform called Spontacts here in Germany. I suspect that for the moment it is only available for meetups in Germany, but who knows, maybe it'll expand internationally if it's successful.
  13. Why would the dumb intelligence be less constrained than a human in making itself smarter?
  14. That's because it hasn't. You wrote this on Dec 26, the event starts on Dec 27, 9:30 UTC.
  15. Loading times surely is not a problem unique to Powershell. The more complex and advanced a software gets, the more it takes to load data into RAM that appears to the user redundant.

    This is the most noticable with startup times. My favorite software (Firefox) has this solved; it opens up in reasonable amounts of time, even if it takes a moment after to show the first website. My second favorite software (Inkscape), meanwhile, takes so long just to show the main UI that the developers didn't think anything of adding a splash screen: an overt acknowledgement that you're keeping the user waiting.

    I, too, wish that everything were more lean and snappy, but clearly this is still an unsolved problem.

  16. Not to mention ChatGPT-induced suicide ideation.
  17. I actually saw the “summarize this page” feature in the right-click menu today and clicked on it out of curiosity. The box that appeared had a “remove AI features” button which I accidentally clicked. Now the feature is completely gone and I don't know how to get it back. (Don't really care much, wasn't planning on using that feature anyway, just giving feedback on my first impression)
  18. When I had to implement a UI for reordering a list, I just had a “move” button on each item, and when you press it “move here” buttons would appear between every item (and at the top and bottom). These buttons are positioned absolutely, so there is no reflow from stretching the list. The location where you ‘place’ the item is where you click, not dependent on scroll position. Without even planning for use on mobile it ended up “just working” on mobile because you only need to tap buttons.
  19. I wouldn't be surprised if there's a correlation between people frequenting Wikimedia websites and people using Firefox. It would be nice to know.
  20. I'm confused by your comment. I'm one person giving one downvote. I downvoted when I saw the insult. I'm not speaking on behalf of any other downvoters.
  21. I'm downvoting because of the insulting addendum.
  22. I don't remember the last time I've clicked on a Firefox icon. I've pinned it to the taskbar and I press Win+1 to use it, which is 100 times faster. I've been doing that for >10 years now.
  23. No, it does not change the zoom behavior.
  24. I don't know anything about the browser internals or the development process/plans, but I've used requestAnimationFrame to animate SVG graphics from JavaScript and it has been super smooth for me even without a modern graphics card (only on-board graphics). The only time I've seen a performance degradation was with a complex filter involving blurs and specular reflection.
  25. That kind of Flash is still around and well. Many newer shows are animated in Flash (MLP: FiM, Bluey, the last season of Fairly OddParents, etc.). What was killed wasn't Flash itself, but Shockwave Flash (Flash in the browser).
  26. Can you describe what you think is sub-optimal? Is it just the performance or is there something else?

    I've been using SVG for years for various purposes (though, admittedly, mostly static graphics) and I can't complain.

  27. A lot of the behaviors should just have a toggle to turn them off. For example, there are many situations where margin collapsing is in the way and I keep wondering why there isn't simply a `margin-collapse: none`. It would also be nice to have something like `default-styles: none` that will remove all the default styling for h1/h2/etc. and em/strong/cite/etc. so I don't have to deal with browsers having differing defaults.
  28. This is true, but my feeling is that with CSS, a lot of the weird decisions are for backwards compatibility with way back when HTML was just tag soup and browser implementations were haphazard.
  29. Yet, for some reason, mobile browsers do not reflow when you zoom in, but instead insist on horizontal scrolling, unlike their desktop counterparts. I've never understood that.

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