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New comment by graedus in "Accessible Palette: stop using HSL for color systems (2021)"

graedus — Tue, 29 Aug 2023 20:32:27 +0000

Interesting comment, thanks. Two questions out of curiosity:

> Even though I have top notch viewing gear properly configured and calibrated

Any chance you'd be willing to share a few details about this?

> While some pre-compressed streamed film content looks quite good when delivered via a streaming service willing to devote sufficient encoding time and delivery bitrate, it's still hit and miss.

Which streaming services are doing things right in your view?

New comment by graedus in "The American Dream convinces people loneliness is normal"

graedus — Thu, 18 May 2023 22:58:01 +0000

> Everyone in the big city is a transient, only there to make money and find love before it's time to head for the suburbs.

I might be taking this bit of hyperbole(?) too literally, but while this might be a common trajectory for young professionals, it obviously doesn't cover everyone.

New comment by graedus in "“How America took out the Nord Stream pipeline”"

graedus — Thu, 09 Feb 2023 00:29:52 +0000

Yes, he refers to his source throughout the piece. I believe it's just one anonymous source for the entire thing though.

New comment by graedus in "Fake Men on Hinge"

graedus — Mon, 03 Oct 2022 15:33:40 +0000

https://archive.ph/EOVNX

New comment by graedus in "One kitchen, hundreds of internet restaurants"

graedus — Sat, 27 Aug 2022 04:02:08 +0000

Related, from March 2021:

https://www.vice.com/en/article/qjpgd7/the-mystery-of-fcking...

New comment by graedus in "Meta slashes hiring plans, girds for 'fierce' headwinds"

graedus — Fri, 01 Jul 2022 18:02:00 +0000

From the article: "Zuckerberg indicated that Meta plans to slow its hiring plans for engineers by at least 30% this year – adding roughly 6,000 or 7,000 workers rather than the 10,000 it initially expected to hire."

So yes, still hiring quite a lot of people, just fewer than originally planned.

New comment by graedus in "Dolt is Git for Data"

graedus — Thu, 23 Jun 2022 13:36:10 +0000

I thought this was an odd name too, but I'm guessing it's intentional, as git also is a derogatory word with a similar meaning.

: a foolish or worthless person

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/git

New comment by graedus in "Ceephax Acid Crew"

graedus — Tue, 12 Apr 2022 05:25:16 +0000

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qyGw3U8JdFA

"friend track"

big fan of this one, reminds me of selected ambient works era aphex twin

New comment by graedus in "Evergrande has defaulted on its debt, Fitch Ratings says"

graedus — Thu, 09 Dec 2021 13:48:47 +0000

https://archive.md/MW0cN

New comment by graedus in "Advent of Code 2021"

graedus — Thu, 02 Dec 2021 03:41:35 +0000

twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/josevalim

New comment by graedus in "Key witness in Assange case jailed after admitting to lies and crime spree"

graedus — Sat, 09 Oct 2021 18:48:54 +0000

HN thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27710075

New comment by graedus in "Former eBay employee gets 18 months in prison for cyberstalking campaign"

graedus — Tue, 27 Jul 2021 20:22:16 +0000

Not a strawman at all, it's a very common attitude if you are not on HN or in a similar bubble. I heard it in person (verbatim, actually) about 5 days ago.

New comment by graedus in "Wayfinder – a relaxing 'art game' in the browser"

graedus — Wed, 16 Jun 2021 20:53:18 +0000

Delightful! Really challenging.

New comment by graedus in "Nicholas Taleb's Amazon Reviews"

graedus — Wed, 19 May 2021 19:32:59 +0000

That's what the one star reviews are for. (I read "unexceptional" to mean "neither exceptionally good nor exceptionally bad").

New comment by graedus in "HN was down"

graedus — Mon, 15 Mar 2021 21:32:46 +0000

it's per subdomain i think.

New comment by graedus in "Cover Your Tracks"

graedus — Sat, 21 Nov 2020 01:35:08 +0000

This is funny and relatable, but from my anecdotal experience it doesn't really matter whether you click boxes that contain a little corner of the object you're supposed to identify. I think those are weighted less, or the scoring mechanism isn't that simple/binary, or something like that.

New comment by graedus in "Big no on Big Sur: Mullvad disallows Apple apps to bypass firewall"

graedus — Mon, 16 Nov 2020 22:38:56 +0000

> Capital One used to offer different mortgage rates to IE users and Firefox users

That's amusing, I didn't know about it before. Looks like the story broke 10 years ago:

https://hothardware.com/news/at-capital-one-different-browse...

https://consumerist.com/2010/11/01/capital-one-made-me-diffe...

New comment by graedus in "Analysis of all YouTube trending videos in US for 2019"

graedus — Wed, 08 Jul 2020 01:39:48 +0000

> Similar things happen to the thumbnails, which start containing more and more exaggerated, sometimes creepily-so, faces, reacting to absurd images that last for a fraction of a second in the video.

There was a nice little examination of this phenomenon, dubbed YouTube Face, a couple of years ago.

Article: https://openspace.sfmoma.org/2018/04/your-pretty-face-is-goi...

HN thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16803937

New comment by graedus in "Elevator.js – A “back to top” button that behaves like a real elevator"

graedus — Wed, 24 Jun 2020 14:01:30 +0000

More generally Enter acts as a left-click on whatever element has focus in the browser. If you press tab, you cycle the focus to the next link/input/button/whatever. Shift+tab cycles through them in reverse order. If a normal hyperlink has focus, you can do things like CMD+Enter (MacOS) or CTRL+Enter (Windows) to open it in a new tab, etc

New comment by graedus in "I got my first $50/mo customer"

graedus — Wed, 06 May 2020 20:50:34 +0000

This is a concept that matches my lived experience, and I find it's very useful to keep in mind.