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Another scary part is when people get convinced by the LLM arguments and convince other people. Being scared is human, we enjoy it, that's why 6 flags scary rides exist.

A youtube link? Why? I was surprised of the sound and volume. Didn't even look at the website before clicking. Quickly hit the back button, I like reading text, not being talked to by a voice post


As someone who also enjoys reading text, I tend to read the domain name before following a link, if only because some web site, like the NYT, aren't worth clicking on due to my lack of a subscription.

In any case, there have already been three links to text articles on the topic: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=pastWeek&page=0&prefix=fal...

https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=youtube.com shows about 24 YouTube links in the last 24 hours, so it's not like links to YT are incredibly rare.


I feel similarly, and the text links in a sister reply were helpful. This kind of story only really needs the two images of the bags side by side to make its point.

Regarding videos, within Firefox I simply have autoplay turned off entirely, using the following setting: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/block-autoplay

Youtube still works fine with this setting flipped, with one difference: on the first pageload, I must explicitly click play before a video starts. This is my strong preference anyway, so I don't mind one bit.


Because it get the message across. Within the first 15s one can see that Amazon do have some questions to answer.


This reminds me of an old post with a dice rolling machine for a gaming site capable of producing 1.3 million dice rolls per day, http://gamesbyemail.com/News/DiceOMatic


> Currently, GamesByEmail.com uses some 80,000+ die rolls for play in games like Backgammon, Gambit (a RISK clone), W.W.II (an Axis & Allies clone) and others. To generate the die rolls, I have used Math.random, Random.org and other sources, but have always received numerous complaints that the dice are not random enough.

That's a super cool machine, but the justification seems a bit silly. The randomization library in any programming language should be good enough for casual games, and random.org uses atmospheric noise which is almost certainly more random than dice: https://www.random.org/history/


This is to make players happy, not to provide better randomness. Many players will not trust any random data coming from a computer.


As a player, I'd be amused by using radioactivity-generated randomness!

https://www.fourmilab.ch/hotbits/


Or maybe it masks the misery of going to work? ;)


"Can't wait to get to work. Anywhere is better than this cold shower". Plausible...


3 books I read a couple of decades ago, they were talking about technology of a decade before that and felt outdated but were really helpful in raising my powers as a developer: 1. About face 2. Writing solid code 3. Code complete I still recommend them to young developers and bought a paper copy of them for myself. The ones I read were left at the company I worked at at the time. I had an expenses account and most of my expenses there were on books.


The OP says it's new in version 7.3 I also wish it was done earlier since I found myself trying to use commands like '5j' and giving up a long time ago.


Interesting, Seems like the Haskel benefits but implemented in mortal technologies.


Nice and fresh idea about API design, thank you fenniak. You almost answered my questions as they poped in my head, especially about DRY!


Awesome, I'm so glad to hear that. Thanks for your feedback. :-)


lol, yes, they do. I feel sometimes like big brother since I set up the web site to send me an email whenever someone buys and activates a dog tag. I get to see some funny dog pages where people display pictures of their dog and add some funny message to the page instead of the default message I provide.

Most of them are boring - people just fill in the form and are satisfied with the basic template which says something like:

Hello, If you're reading this, I'm probably lost. My name is <dog's name here> My owner's name is <owner's name> Please call them at <owner's cell phone> or send them a message <owner's email> Thanks!

The owner of the dog gets an email telling him someone scanned the qr code on its collar and a GPS location on a map (works only if the good soul that found the dog allows sharing of location data)


Virtual hug to you!

This is a great version of the ad, thank you thank you thank you!

Only rule violated in this version is that it refers too much to ME and too little to YOU the reader. I thought it's best to talk about 'what's in it for me' as the reader tends to be less interested in what I accomplished and more anout himself.

I will definitely use A/B testing using a version of the page based on your suggestion.


Only rule violated in this version is that it refers too much to ME and too little to YOU the reader.

I knew that would be your only criticism against it. But test it as I wrote it, please. Let's challenge your reader hypothesis.


I got your version up and ready for A/B testing today!

Can you please submit the site in a new post to HN? I'm too new here and don't want to post my own web site here.

I promise to write a blog post on the results, this will be fun! Perhaps we can finally debunk one rule about writing sales letters.


Sure, why not? But when you make it big you have to buy me a pina colada. :)

Edit

Won't work. HN wont allow for the same URL to be posted twice. Change the URL with a A/B identifier and let me know. Email me (in profile).


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