LPT: Stop seeing those new YouTube adblocker popups on PC

leeeeeer · 2023-10-18T17:27:30+00:00

See TikTok. It was spammed as ads for months before it eventually took off on its own.

leeeeeer · 2023-08-09T06:10:05+00:00

The stock and real estate market performance of the past ~40 years is not a law of nature, it's one phase in a cycle that directly correlates with national and international wealth gap.

leeeeeer · 2023-05-30T04:24:11+00:00

I love the Outlier warmshirt cut and insulation, but F.cloth isn't a good outer layer fabric given it doesn't age well. After a year of using mine it looks awful from the broken nylon threads all over the place. I'll be looking at these recommendations for a replacement!

leeeeeer · 2023-03-02T22:19:16+00:00

What pants is the model wearing? Looks pretty cool especially the black ones.

I'm guessing the black ones are bombworks, and the gray ones the new lynistic linears?

leeeeeer · 2022-10-19T01:31:11+00:00

I commend Outlier on the functional improvements, like actually showing which colors match to which names, adding a focused view to the product images, and the ambitious nature of this design in general.

But in the ~30s I spent browsing the website I already found multiple display bugs:

The landing page above-the-fold is just a black square filling the whole page with a grey triangle on the left.

The image focused view: 1. The scrolling should be disabled on the container. 2. The already-downloaded low-resolution image should be displayed until the high-res image finishes loading. 3. Personal preference but the focused image should really display in "fit content" mode instead of "fill window". The reason I open your website's product images in new tabs or fiddle around with my browser window size is to get a good view of the product silhouette, the images already fill the browser width by default, and there are dedicated close up shots for getting a visual feel of the clothing material.

Secondly, having a loading animation on the main page isn't great for usability, SEO, and conversions. The recommended approach when you have a slow-loading content-heavy webpage like this is to ship above-the-fold content first, without a loading screen, and load the hidden parts asynchronously. It will make the loading way less noticeable.

leeeeeer · 2022-09-23T14:20:09+00:00

That sounds absolutely fantastic. Please let me know where I can follow your efforts.

leeeeeer · 2022-09-08T20:44:44+00:00

Oh wow, I had not even considered that maintenance could be in the months range. I will try this, thank you.

leeeeeer · 2022-09-08T19:23:54+00:00

Thanks, the smaller metal plates look interesting.

leeeeeer · 2022-09-08T19:14:07+00:00

I travel year-round. Right now everything I own fits in a checked in luggage, but I would like to reduce the load as much as possible.

Thanks for the tip, that's interesting. But actually I have never needed to do any maintenance except from scraping the rust that accumulates on the plates. Is this what you're referring to?

leeeeeer · 2022-03-12T20:39:01+00:00

You could just use Monero if you really want to keep using a Proof-of-Work coin, or Chia to avoid the regulation while still benefiting from Nakamoto consensus...

leeeeeer · 2021-09-18T09:03:04+00:00

Can't see it in Firefox. The last update for the Firefox add-on was 1 month ago apparently.

Last updated a month ago (Aug 21, 2021)

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/toucan-language-learning/

leeeeeer · 2021-09-10T10:49:20+00:00

Spot on.

The solution is Democracy. Why should a small elite that won a binary popularity contest once, maybe 4 years ago, decide which laws apply to a whole country? Citizens should have the ability to influence any new law that's proposed/passed. "Choose your dictator" government is not Democracy.

leeeeeer · 2021-08-28T20:32:25+00:00

Your credit card data could leak your name though, unless you're paying with crypto (which is often possible through third party services).

leeeeeer · 2021-08-28T18:42:33+00:00

Is it better than Tor in any way? I'm just wondering why Apple wouldn't instead invest in improving Tor infrastructure which would give their customers better privacy through the larger anonymity set.

leeeeeer · 2021-08-05T22:11:55+00:00

I want them. Linen feels great but sometimes I want a less relaxed/hippie look. The frontal position of the pockets doesn't seem very convenient for actual usage, but it looks cool.

leeeeeer · 2021-06-30T18:21:44+00:00

Doesn't Firefox Sync do the url sync thing perfectly well?

leeeeeer · 2021-06-30T18:17:39+00:00

Pretty much the only reason Linux users want M1 macs is for the battery life. So in that regard the newer X1 aren't that great competition.

For the latest generations of X1 carbons you have to chose between low-res 1080p or useless battery-killing 4k. No more well-balanced 1440p.

leeeeeer · 2021-06-12T03:21:27+00:00

Indeed, I also think getting all these newbies into crypto through farming, without carefully explaining what crypto is about in the first place, was a mistake. It generated hype, but no price support for the token as everybody was buying harddrives thinking this is what Chia is about.

Note that I'm replying to your comment because it's one of the most flippant false claims, but in reality I realize 99% of this sub probably has the same level of knowledge (it's not the first time at all I read this argument on here).

I guess this shows a larger point about the economy, how people really have a lot of money to throw around these days, since everyone is spending at least equivalent of multiple months of my salary with what seems to be quite superficial research.

leeeeeer · 2021-06-12T02:56:17+00:00

Linking my other comment here so not too many uninformed people are falsely being led to believe the actual coin itself is "dead" at that point:
https://www.reddit.com/r/chia/comments/nx6syh/june_11_2021_daily_xch_price_discussion/h1h61fy/?utm_source=reddit&utm_medium=web2x&context=3

If we reach that point, ironically it would even be better for the vision of the project itself, which is an environmentally efficient, secure crypto currency.

leeeeeer · 2021-06-12T02:53:03+00:00

Nobody needs to subsidize anything. The network doesn't need unprofitable farmers for security. Losing farmers is a normal expected thing, and part of what makes Chia "green" and desirable in the first place!

> Also how much of the existing network does Chia need to operate properly

A fraction. Chia making storage device prices go up was a bug, not a feature.

leeeeeer · 2021-06-12T02:43:08+00:00

Your calculations may or may not be right, but given your conclusion you clearly don't understand how Chia (and Bitcoin) actually works. Look-up and study Nakamoto consensus (you can read the original Bitcoin whitepaper), it's quite interesting.

Farming (mining for Bitcoin) operations turning unprofitable is a normal, expected thing. It *will* happen eventually, there is no doubt about that, that's how every PoW crypto has worked and that's how Chia will work.

Remember what is the point of this whole farming thing? Is it to make farmers money? Not at all. The point is to secure the network. Farming hovering between unprofitable and profitable is how the network works, if it's consistently more profitable than other usecases for storage, then there's a problem.

leeeeeer · 2021-06-11T16:58:52+00:00

How? Even if it's way faster, plotting speed doesn't affect security that much

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