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Or on macOS, to quickly format the contents of your clipboard:

    pbpaste | jq . | pbcopy

Pretty sure this is one of my most frequent commands.

> which is quite different to how that mark is used in a number of other languages that use the Latin alphabet, like German and Turkish

True, although there are other languages use the diaeresis to separate vowels that would otherwise be a diphthong, for example French in Noël or Spanish in vergüenza.

No need for Karabiner if that’s all you’re using it for, you can do it natively in System Preferences → Keyboard → Modifier Keys.

> does not turn me into a mechanical Turk training Google's AI

I’ve been wondering about that. Are you sure you’re not training their speech recognition AI?

Yes, and the author acknowledges that twice in the two very first paragraphs. This objection comes up every time any news outlet writes about ad tech or tracking, and it always comes down to the same thing: the people writing articles are not the ones making economic decisions and they can criticise a system even when they’re part of it.

Oh absolutely, I was referring only to native phone apps.

It’s the same reason many iPhone apps implement their own dialogues to ask about allowing notifications. If the user chooses ‘Deny’ in the system-provided one, the app can never ask again and the only way to turn notifications on later is to have the user go digging around in the Settings app, which few people will bother to do.

I take great pleasure in choosing ‘Allow’ in those custom dialogues and then ‘Deny’ when the native one pops up immediately afterwards.

Oh, is that why every recipe on the internet these days is prefixed by five paragraphs of waffling and photos taken from slightly different angles? Thanks, that makes sense, but somehow it never occurred to me that it was SEO. (It’s also reminded me that I’ve been meaning to order some cookbooks.)

Original blog post from the Internet Archive: https://blog.archive.org/2019/04/10/official-eu-agencies-fal...

Unless of course they live in a country that has tax-funded health care and useable public transport, of which there are quite a few.

> Denmark (and Greece) have the least favourable geography for land transport.

Norway would like a word with you there. Denmark’s got a lot of annoying coastline but at least it’s flat, small and relatively densely populated. One of the things I miss most here on the Norwegian west coast is the lack of useful rail connections.

A tent on a ship? Knowing how windy it can get at sea, that sounds terrifying, how do you secure it? Or are we talking indoors?

Although that seems like it would hopefully fix itself as demand for vegan substitutes increases. The Impossible Burger is a good example of a vegan substitute that tastes uncannily like the thing it imitates.

As for cost, it seems intuitive that turning soy into a milk substitute would be cheaper than feeding soy to a cow and milking it if both were done on the same scale. On top of that, some countries tax substitutes higher than the products they replace. In Germany, for example, non-dairy milk has a VAT rate of 19% while dairy milk gets the reduced 7% rate for staple foods.

What do you suggest in situations where you can’t do that? Last summer, I travelled on a sleeper train from Lisbon to Madrid, which are in different time zones. At the time that I set my alarm, my phone had no way of knowing that it would automatically jump an hour ahead in the middle of the night.

In that specific case, it woke me up according to local time, which is what I expected. But what if I had crossed the time zone boundary less than an hour before I wanted to be woken up?

> And note for several major publishers their print editions are nowadays typeset from HTML/CSS using Prince.

Interesting, having played around with wkhtmltopdf and Puppeteer, I had no idea any HTML-to-PDF renderers would be a viable option for publishers, but their examples are pretty impressive – definitely more than any e-readers manage!

> as fundamentally they don't believe there's a business case for it

And they’re probably right. I imagine very few people avoid e-books because of their typographical shortcomings. The arguments I hear against them tend to be on a more fundamental level (‘I prefer to be able to feel the paper’), and even people like me who do notice bad typography put up with e-readers. Publishers meanwhile may well care about their readers’ experience, but they can’t afford not to sell digital copies.

So I understand that typography probably doesn’t make much of a difference to the bottom line of e-reader manufacturers, I just wish the bottom line weren’t the only incentive for large companies.

It’s really not though, or at least not the only problem. <input type="number"> has some additional behaviour that makes it inappropriate for phone or account numbers or anything you wouldn’t store in a numeric data type: many browsers will strip leading zeroes; they may display stepper buttons; on-screen keyboards will offer a decimal point (and/or comma, depending on the locale); and something like 1.42e-60 is valid input as far as the browser is concerned.

On a slightly related note, I find it incredible that the Kindle (and presumably other e-readers) still fail to support typographic standards that printed books have had for hundreds of years. It took them years to support hyphenation at all, and now that they do, the number of times I’ve turned a page only to find it completely blank but for the very last syllable of the very last word of the chapter is infuriating. I know it’s a small thing, but it instantly rips me out of the story and reminds me of the imperfections of the thing. For a single-purpose device by one of the world’s largest tech companies, that’s just not good enough.

Yes, this is one of the great German mysteries. Flats are often rented with a completely empty kitchen. The expectation is that you bring not just your own appliances but also your own furniture and take them with you when you move out. This is exactly as inconvenient as it sounds.

> In addition, I vastly prefer Chrome's devtools. Nothing comes close, and I believe this is a huge part of why developers are so Chrome-loyal.

So do I (I’ve also heard good things about Firefox’s dev tools but never made the switch), which is why I use Chrome for web development and Safari for everyday browsing. It works really well for me and I like that my browsing history isn’t full of with localhost URLs, my form fill history isn’t spammed with entries like “testtest123”, and my dev tools are (nearly) unadulterated by extension scripts.

Yes, Facebook is blocked in Iran, but that doesn’t mean that it’s not being used. Just about everyone I met in Iran was on several supposedly blocked social media platforms, mostly through dodgy VPNs. Apple isn’t allowed to sell phones in Iran either, but I’ve never seen so many second-hand iPhones.

At least here in western Norway, Mapbox’s directions are incredibly buggy, to the point where they’ll send you on a 150-kilometre scenic drive (including two ferries) to avoid a tunnel instead of going 15 kilometres straight through the mountain. This is apparently because they’re rolling their own telemetrics-based data on top of the OSM road network.

Then again, Apple Maps (on DuckDuckGo) seems to think I that want my maps labelled in Indonesian, so you may still have a point.

I think Puttgarden–Rødby is more likely. It used to be served by diesel ICE trains and it was really fun to ride onto a big old ferry on one of these unusually short ultra-sleek trains, get off the train, walk a lap around it, then go up to the open-air deck and stretch your legs a bit.

There’s still a direct Hamburg–Copenhagen connection via that ferry, but it’s now a normal Eurocity.

Am I the only one who thinks that “Local Guides” is a needlessly misleading name? Before I looked up what it meant, I assumed that reviews tagged with “Local Guide” were actually written by locals, when in fact the author may just as well live on the other side of the world.

And it wouldn't need to. You're free to move around calls to useState() to your heart's content in your code, you just need to call them in the same order during the lifecycle of your component.

If the UI is your only concern, why not try one of the hundreds of native email clients available for whatever operating system you may be running? I haven’t used Google’s web interface in years.

Sure, I don’t expect to stop receiving invitations to enlarge my genitals in my spam folder because of GDPR, but I’ll be happy enough if it discourages dodgy online shops and growth-hacky startups from automatically signing me up to their mailing list because I made a one-off transaction and “consented” to receive their special offers for all eternity on page 25 of their terms and conditions.

Or, more accurately, iOS forced apps to support "Location while using", precisely because apps like Uber abused their permissions: https://www.engadget.com/2017/09/21/ios-11-uber-always-on-lo...

> (it just occurred to me that pin+tip might be a tall order, the pin protects the amount too)

Where I live, the card machines show you the total and ask you to type in the final amount (including tip) before you enter your pin.

I imagine that those are hard to beat with machine learning precisely because they stump Google's own algorithms. By answering them, you're helping train their neural networks (which is why I rather resent having to answer them).

When paying with a German bank card in Germany (especially in supermarkets), you’ll sometimes be asked for a signature instead of a PIN. This usually means that you give the merchant a mandate to debit your bank account directly rather than having the credit card networks process the payment, resulting in lower fees.