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bamboleo··on Look Up Unknown Phone Numbers Using Facebook Reset Password
It depends on their settings. I usually can see photo and name as soon as I add them. For my own number however people can’t see either piece of information until I add the number to my contacts.
bamboleo··on Italy Will Rebuild Colosseum’s Floor
Pardon the jab at Egypt, I mentioned it because when I travelled across it it felt like history was the only thing it offered (except on the Red Sea) and everyone was keen on taking advantage of tourists. Wanna take a photo here? Tip please. You paid €60 for this tour? Tip please. You already paid to enter this museum? Pay more for this one special expo please.

One of the guides also mentioned how excavations and restorations always take forever so that they’re employed forever.

bamboleo··on Italy Will Rebuild Colosseum’s Floor
You got my point exactly, this is why I mentioned the colosseum entrance ticket.

The few friends who could afford an AirAsia ticket were annoyed by the high entrance fee that many South East Asian attractions charge to foreigners, regardless of whether you’re from Vietnam or Iceland.

When the price difference is preposterous I skip the attraction altogether as a matter of principle. The Yogyakarta attractions you mentioned are the perfect example with the 25 USD entrance fee for Prambanan vs 5 USD for locals.

bamboleo··on Italy Will Rebuild Colosseum’s Floor
Wait till you hear about Egypt.

Prices in Italy are balanced and not even that bad. The ticket to the colosseum is 16€ and includes the entire park nearby. 16€ for the main attraction in one of the most visited countries in the world is pretty reasonable.

bamboleo··on Italy Will Rebuild Colosseum’s Floor
One must note * across Europe. No bullfighting in Italy.
bamboleo··on A half-hour to learn Rust
I'm surprised AngularJS is on there but React isn't.
bamboleo··on Crossing 2000 Miles of Siberia to Reach One of the Most Isolated Cities on Earth
That’s still an awful lot of miles to travel for that. If I remember correctly Subway has the most locations so probably you can get better food by driving less.
bamboleo··on Crossing 2000 Miles of Siberia to Reach One of the Most Isolated Cities on Earth
That makes me think: How did they cover 2000 miles without anyone around? Did they carry enough gas for the whole trip or there actually is something along the way?
bamboleo··on The Great Software Stagnation
I feel the same for the browser environment. Other than a few new “exciting” APIs and canvas, developing for the browser is essentially still the same deal.

I’m tired of hacking documents into apps. I want the web to be split into Markdown-like web (i.e. pure content and some meta) and actual web apps that work like native apps.

I want Accept: application/web

bamboleo··on Google pilots a feature that aggregates short-form videos from TikTok, Instagram
I would assume Google isn’t just gonna try to start needless fights with Facebook’s lawyers, so it’s likely legal.
bamboleo··on Google pilots a feature that aggregates short-form videos from TikTok, Instagram
I don’t see why this is controversial. Video is content. Google has always shown content from other sites and sometimes it’ll embed a whole YouTube player. If anything, it’s good that they feature content from not-YouTube.

The “quality” of TikTok videos is not really important here because one might actually look for them.

bamboleo··on WebAssembly Studio
To move file around I use CopyWebpackPlugin or whatever other CLI tool called from npm scripts.

The promises of gulp (streams) fell short pretty quickly and we were just left with verbose spaghetti code that was no better than just a bash script. I went into gulp head first and honestly I’m glad that Webpack can deal with most of what I did back then, especially when paired with other reasonable CLI tools.

bamboleo··on Israeli startup claims Covid-19 likely originated in a lab, willing to bet on it
Codogno, the original Italian hotspot, has no airport. How do you explain that? The virus can travel without direct flights and, because you’re not infectious for a few days, you can meet plenty of people in the meanwhile without infecting them.
bamboleo··on Hospital employee fired for ‘intentionally’ ruining 500 doses of vaccine
Because they think they’re saving people from vaccines. The irony
bamboleo··on Hospital employee fired for ‘intentionally’ ruining 500 doses of vaccine
I don’t know for sure, but from what I read the cost per dose is under USD 40 since a lot of governments already invested billions into their research. If they asked 10k per vial after all of that money it’d be a huge slap in the face.
bamboleo··on Israeli startup claims Covid-19 likely originated in a lab, willing to bet on it
Given that apparently the virus was outside China in early December already, is it possible that Wuhan was simply the first fast-spreading location rather than the place where the transmission happened? If the virus was in Milan’s sewers in December, it feels that it might as swell have started spreading there first.

Likewise, Italy contained the virus from May to September, then it exploded again. Nothing particularly happened in September, yet by chance it spiked.

Just speculating though, I’d like to hear others’ opinion on this thought.

bamboleo··on Ask HN: What's a side project you built to make money that hasn't?
I don’t see why anyone would pay to have whatever hosted on a random unknown domain. Nobody would see 0xJonh and think “oh I better check that out on 0x.co”
bamboleo··on Google Maps changes a route after the drama of young people lost on a ghost road
Sorry to hear that always happens to your projects. Maybe you should change career.
bamboleo··on Google Maps changes a route after the drama of young people lost on a ghost road
Wow the stupidity of HN commenters. Do you really think that Yandex developers minutely picked the route between 2 points or PERHAPS the shorter road in question was marked as impassable by whoever punched its GPS coordinates in the database? Do you really think developers take care of the whole product from start to finish? I pity your coworkers.
bamboleo··on Visa Advertising Solutions (VAS) Opt Out
Does CloudFlare specifically matter? Most services you use are not SSL-terminated on own servers, so most of the time there’s a third party that can theoretically access your data.
bamboleo··on Google Maps' Moat Is Evaporating
I use the pills daily. One-tap access to gas stations and coffee shops is pretty useful when you’re on the road.

The AR button however is incredibly annoying as I seem to activate it by mistake a little too often.

bamboleo··on Google Maps changes a route after the drama of young people lost on a ghost road
It’s the data, not the developers.
bamboleo··on Why Is There a Bucatini Shortage in America?
De Cecco is an expensive brand in Italy. When I'm abroad I don't buy anything but. Barilla will do if De Cecco is missing though.
bamboleo··on Why Is There a Bucatini Shortage in America?
And awkward as hell too. Maccheroni is a shape of pasta, but apparently all pasta is "enriched macaroni" in the US?
bamboleo··on Why Is There a Bucatini Shortage in America?
If you’re looking for a TL;DR:

People are using bucatini as eco-friendly straws, but uncooked pasta isn’t safe so the FDA temporarily blocked it or something.

bamboleo··on Wordpress market share keeps growing
You can’t be serious. Jekyll blogs are pure text files you can download and view in a thousand ways. Good luck extracting sensible data from WordPress’ database without losing metadata. Which one has the worst lock-in? The former certainly isn’t locked to anything.

GitHub Pages with Jekyll don’t even need an explicit build step.

bamboleo··on Just Wanted to Say Thanks
Might thought exactly. I wonder if GitHub would change Star to Thanks.

Unstar however would become “No thanks”

bamboleo··on Lawyers automate this, so why don't airlines?
I had quite a few flights and trains booked in March and early April. They were all canceled of course.

Out of all of them, EasyJet was the only company that let me have an instant refund on their website. Most of the others made me call them (I was on the Alitalia line for 90 minutes, after hours of being flatout rejected from the call queue), some I had to issue a chargeback, and some refunded me in November. One I’m still waiting.

I also booked the Bernina Express and the only refund option is to show up at one of their stations in Switzerland I guess.

This is to say that most travel companies operate in a similar non-automated fashion because that’s what makes them the most money. EasyJet is far from the exception.

bamboleo··on Craft – A fresh take on documents
Apple logins are great, but they don’t save you from spam nor guarantee that they don’t also ask for more personal info right after.
bamboleo··on Craft – A fresh take on documents
I don’t get your comment. First you agree we don’t like to share our email and then you suggest going to a 4th party as a workaround. If requiring an email was ok, you wouldn’t having to use workarounds.

A comment like OP has 2 purposes: saves me from ever trying the app; suggests to the author that they made an unpopular choice.

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