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I've no idea if TFA is good or not, but it is very new and has only 4 upvotes. The HN front page is a mix of new and popular-despite-age. So it's not surprising to find some barely-vetted things on the front page. (AFAIK the idea is that we're all suppoed to vet them, and the survivors stay on the front page for longer)

Firefox 87.0 5 years ago

FINALLY. Kept having to re-disable this cursed anti-feature after updates turned it back on

R U OK? 6 years ago

There's no "easy" to the tech interview process

I'm definitely a fan of higher level tests that frequently survive refactorings.

I'm not arguing unit tests are useless.

The point was to change the code structure without changing the tests (possibly to enable a new feature or other change). The challenge being when the tests are at the wrong "level", probably by team policy IME. If you change the tests, how can you be sure the behavior really matches what it was before?

All this junk they've been doing to Windows lately is making me feel like a restricted guest in my own computer. I'll definitely be exploring alternatives next go around

This system has resulted in issues in the "host" and with an unresponsive control plane for me the few times I've tried to use it. Compared to no issues with type 2s.

To say nothing of the madness of using it on a laptop with several network adapters when the guest OS only wants to acknowledge one.

i would not look to dictionaries as the arbiters of what is a word or not. they seem to me to be convenient references at best. they frequently leave out common technical jargon.

The first sentence is important. It's not about the abstract idea of "interesting items of culture" existing. IME they have to be already interesting to the learner to be a motivating factor.

Some people likely find any items of culture interesting. I'm not one of those people, and I suspect most around me aren't either, or we'd all know a lot more languages.

No. Largely the dark pattern mobile "get the app" hassling. But also the sheer load time on desktop. And to a lesser extent the breaking of the "a bunch of mostly-static links with associated commentary" model. Using the site is quite unpleasant now.

And it's enough unpleasantness to keep me from going back to checking it regularly. I hope they keep it.

I've had really good luck with the tilted stand ones. If my phone is propped up on it, it's charging. I have had much worse luck with the lay-down pad ones.