AnAmericanPotato

joined 2 years ago

Lots of recommendations for groups, recommendations of random people to follow, and things like that. If these are paid ads, they are not clearly presented as such.

Though I just logged in (first time in a while) and I didn't see that, so...maybe it changed, or maybe my ad blocker is doing better than it used to? Not sure.

[–] AnAmericanPotato@programming.dev 11 points 8 months ago (5 children)

I honestly don't know how I could use Facebook that way. Seriously. I log in once in a blue moon, and half the stuff I see scrolling through the main feed has nothing to do with any of my friends as far as I can tell. And that's with an ad blocker.

I don't understand how anybody can stand it. Maybe it's a "boiling frog" situation, or maybe they've developed better counter-strategies than I am familiar with? I quit Facebook about 10 years ago and when I poke my head in now, it's completely different. It is terrible in ways I wouldn't have believed 10 years ago.

[–] AnAmericanPotato@programming.dev 0 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Oh! I knew European outlets operated at higher voltage, but I didn't know the standard circuits supported such high current. Jealous!

[–] AnAmericanPotato@programming.dev 0 points 8 months ago (4 children)

Almost has to be. 2400W would put it completely outside the consumer market. Consumer PSUs don't go that high. Home power outlets don't go that high unless you have special electrical work done. I can hardly imagine what a cooling system for a nearly 3KW system would look like.

[–] AnAmericanPotato@programming.dev 30 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Kind of the opposite. It takes more effort to make a filesystem case-insensitive. Binary comparison is the laziest approach. (Note that laziness is a virtue.)

I'm on the fence as to which is better. Putting backwards compatibility aside, there's a perfectly good case to be made for case-insensitivity being more intuitive to the human user.

Apple got into a strange position when marrying Mac OS (case-insensitive) and NeXTSTEP (case-sensitive). It used to be possible to install OS X on case-sensitive HFS+ but it was never very well supported and I think they axed it somewhere down the road.

[–] AnAmericanPotato@programming.dev 6 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I don't know OP's country or culture, but in most places I've seen, there's a pretty big gap between "technically legal" and "generally socially acceptable".

There's no way to do this entirely within HTML. What you need is some kind of HTML builder/compiler. You could potentially write a simple Python script to loop through your tags, check the size of the linked URL, and update the link text.

[–] AnAmericanPotato@programming.dev 33 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Thomas Nagel: "What is it like to be a bat?"

Colossal Biosciences: "lol who cares as long as it looks like a bat?"

[–] AnAmericanPotato@programming.dev 37 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Are you sure about that? The star over each icon indicates that both of them are bookmarked.

So either this is a bug or there is a second bookmark hiding somewhere. If you go to Bookmarks > Manage Bookmarks and search for "qb", what appears there?

Dating website: probably way too soon to share, just looks cringe

You might be right in this case, but I also want to point out that most dating profile fucking suck, and it's not because they are too "cringe" or immature; it's because they are all the same generic pictures. Wedding, gym, hiking, dead-fish, bar, dog.

This is the kind of thing I call a "loser filter". It stops the kind of people you don't want to deal with from entering your life in the first place.

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